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The Urgent Case for a Supply Rebuild
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...and TransCanada Pipeline. If Canada is going to confront today’s challenges and seize tomorrow’s opportunities, the report argues, we need to build things and nurture talent, increasing the supply of...
Date: Tuesday November 1, 2022
Gitane De Silva
Person
...relations. Gitane was CEO of the Canada Energy Regulator from 2020 to 2023, Canada’s national energy regulator responsible for regulating interprovincial and international pipelines and powerlines to ensure the safe...
Date: Friday January 1, 2016
Janice Stein – 2023 Testimonial Dinner Award Honouree
News
Janice Stein: “It’s a profoundly encouraging thing that so many people want to understand more than they currently do.”
Date: Thursday February 16, 2023
For inclusive policy, we need inclusive policymaking
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...for investment, productivity, training and education. Kent Aitken is the 2016–2017 Prime Ministers of Canada Fellow at Canada’s Public Policy Forum, studying and advising on governance in the digital age....
Date: Wednesday March 1, 2017
Different Paths of Pandemic Protection: A comparative case study on vaccine rollouts in Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario
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Getting Canadians immunized against COVID-19 has been a complicated process in a country that has neither the capabilities to produce its own vaccine nor a centralized healthcare system to administer it.
Date: Thursday October 28, 2021
Keeping Up With the Speed of Disruption
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Back by popular demand, the Public Policy Forum’s professional development seminar series Keeping Up With the Speed of Disruption is being offered for a third time, with the first of four sessions taking place on December 7, 2018. The aim of this series is to equip the participants to better understand disruptive technologies, how they can be used to enhance government services and the ways they are challenging policy and governance approaches.
Date: Wednesday November 15, 2017
Report 4: Do We Still Have a Consensus Around COVID-19
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News headlines emphasize non-compliance and dissatisfaction with the COVID-19 response. Yet a COVID-19 consensus has emerged, and Canadians are as supportive of governments’ response to the virus as they were 10 months ago. Examining data from the Media Ecosystem Observatory, Dr. Peter Loewen finds that Canadians broadly agree on the risks of the disease, what measures should be taken to fight it and how much income support individuals and businesses should receive.
Date: Tuesday April 20, 2021
The Deep, Blue Sink
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...in Atlantic Canada, predicting marine conditions and providing real-time location of endangered North Atlantic right whales for Transport Canada and the Fisheries Department. Now, OFI is looking at the agreement...
Date: Tuesday October 11, 2022
Innovation in Post-Secondary Education
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Canada’s post-secondary institutions are well positioned for the future, thanks to innovative approaches and a willingness to use technological advances in education. COVID-19 has challenged these institutions, but they have showed adaptability under pressure by accelerating their adoption of innovations. However, some challenges predate the pandemic such as better inclusion of equity-seeking groups in higher education. Better funding models and greater flexibility can build greater resilience and agility into the system while addressing long-standing challenges and inequities.
Date: Wednesday June 2, 2021
Keeping the Lights On: Did a wage subsidy in a time of crisis save Canadian businesses?
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As businesses saw their revenues plummet in early spring, the Department of Finance and the Canada Revenue Agency quickly hammered out the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy allowing employers to keep on staff. Did it achieve what it set out to do?
Date: Thursday December 3, 2020
Small and Medium-sized Employers (SMEs): Skills Gaps and Future Skills
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Canada’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for more than 90% of private-sector jobs in Canada. To be competitive in today’s market, they need the right people with the right skills, yet they are disproportionately threatened by labour shortages and skills gaps - a situation made worse by COVID-19. Unlike large corporations, SMEs possess limited resources, making it exponentially more challenging to support these human resources needs. There is a dire need for innovative research & solutions.
Date: Thursday October 15, 2020
Economic Equality in a Changing World: Removing Barriers to Employment for Women
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Action is needed to alleviate gender barriers: Good intentions are no longer enough. Despite efforts to improve diversity in the workplace, gender inequality remains both an issue of social justice and an equally compelling economic priority. Yet efforts to advance women’s economic inclusion continue to be hampered by the lack of access to information. This report summarizes existing research and prevailing issues surrounding gender inequality, including those exacerbated by COVID-19, and points to further research that needs to be done on initiatives to reduce gender inequalities.
Date: Friday September 25, 2020
Digital Infrastructure for the Post-Pandemic World
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The emergence of COVID-19 forced a shift away from workplaces and schools to online working and learning, but this digital transformation has not been evenly experienced by all Canadians. This report examines the key components of Canada's essential digital infrastructure system, highlights worrying inequalities that exist within this system, and offers recommendations on how to quickly reduce some of the most glaring obstacles that prevent many of those who would benefit the most from accessing training, education and employment opportunities digitally from doing so.
Date: Wednesday May 5, 2021
Governance in the Digital Age
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The digital transformation that governments are seeking and citizens are expecting is more than just 'a challenge,' says PPF's Prime Ministers of Canada Fellow Kent Aitken in this new report. After conducting almost 300 interviews over the course of a year, he concludes that governments are currently not set up for the complexities of the digital age and suggests four areas that they need to fundamentally change.
Date: Wednesday September 26, 2018
Premier Jason Kenney at the 2019 Peter Lougheed Awards Dinner
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On Nov. 13 in Calgary, Premier of Alberta Jason Kenney explored three forms of reconciliation for Alberta's provincial government: with Alberta’s Indigenous people, of energy growth and environmental stewardship, and of the provincial and federal fields within Canadian Confederation.
Date: Thursday November 21, 2019