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David Johnston on innovation culture
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...innovation going on in the country, and what he considered to be an absent business culture. “While Canadians are innovative, we lack a culture of innovation in Canada.” He said...
Date: Wednesday October 19, 2016
How Canada can create a culture of innovation
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...Public Policy Forum Growth Summit in Ottawa agreed that Canada lacks a culture of innovation, and that it’s seriously hampering our economic growth. Marty Reed, President and CEO of Evok...
Date: Thursday October 20, 2016
Internet giants should support local news, culture, Melanie Joly says
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Internet giants like Facebook and Google should play a direct role in investing in “trusted local journalism” and Canadian culture, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly said
Date: Wednesday March 14, 2018
PANEL 2—Canada’s emerging innovators face funding, talent and culture gaps
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...funding, culture and migration to make its innovation ecosystem competitive and reduce the number of growing companies that are sold to U.S. interests, industry experts told the Canada Growth Summit...
Date: Wednesday October 19, 2016
Online Culture Shift
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Women engaged in political life benefit from using social media. But characteristics of these platforms—specifically ease of communication, high volume of interactions, and anonymity—can lead to negative outcomes including cyber-harassment and the spread of misinformation, disinformation and harmful gender tropes.
Date: Thursday August 29, 2019
Towards a 21st Century Success Story with the United States
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Relations with the United States have been challenging for Canada in recent years. It’s become clear that Canada needs to move beyond its traditional trade-of-goods narrative with the U.S. and focus on factors that will be most important for its diplomatic assets in the coming years, namely culture and technology.
Date: Thursday October 29, 2020
Building a Dynamic Future: The Next Generation of Public Service Talent
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...to engage with colleagues and consider mentoring to help them adapt to a new workplace culture. Employee Engagement: Instilling Pride in the Workplace While organizational culture can shape the workplace...
Date: Wednesday June 7, 2017
Developing Canada’s Digital-Ready Public Service
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Canada’s public service has charted an ambitious information management and technology strategy, and talent is one of its pillars. Finding innovative approaches to attracting, developing, and retaining the best and brightest requires rethinking many traditional assumptions and harnessing new approaches. What can be done to attract a skilled and diverse workforce?
Date: Friday March 8, 2019
For Acadians, newcomers are economic saviours but linguistic threats
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The Acadian shore of Nova Scotia is one of many rural areas of Atlantic Canada betting its future on immigration. But even French-speaking newcomers aren’t a solution to preserving the area’s Francophone heart.
Date: Thursday June 6, 2019
Bringing New Voices to the Table: Re-thinking On-reserve Housing in Canada
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...eight categories: 1. Employment/skilled labour; 2. Funding; 3. Culture and spirituality; 4. Infrastructure; 5. Structure and materials; 6. Education and training; 7. Politics; and 8. Social and emotional. Upon completion...
Date: Monday February 27, 2017
Frontiers and Borders: The Internet and the Amplification of Illiberalism
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"Truth is an inescapable foundation of the liberal order and is in a precarious state in today’s liberal democracy. Our ability to address difficult issues such as climate change or electoral integrity is compromised if truth and public opinion become confused.” Edward Greenspon’s recent essay examines liberalism’s complex state of flux in an age of internet dominance. Greenspon draws on his firsthand experiences as a journalist covering the ascent of liberalism in the late 1980s and early 1990s, using it as a jump-off point for considering the ongoing struggle between the frontiers of change and social progress versus the borders of insecurity and social stability.
Date: Wednesday July 21, 2021
Northwest Territories Child Care Workforce Development Snapshot
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Written by YWCA NWT staff Child care services in the Northwest Territories (NWT) are legislated by the Northwest Territories Daycare Act and regulated through the department of Education, Culture and...
Date: Thursday May 5, 2022
Frontiers and Borders:
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...third decade of the twenty-first century began, this had become the “medium is the message” culture of the digital information system. As early as 2010, Columbia University anti-trust scholar Tim...
Date: Friday June 18, 2021
The Risk of the Digital Status Quo
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Digital transformation can be risky — but the status quo is riskier. Drawing on insights of CIOs and senior public servants, this report identifies strategies for dealing with the risks of not embracing digital technology for public services, including: legacy systems costs, cyber security, culture and people, and service failure.
Date: Thursday October 17, 2019
Opinion: The corrosive power of “Where are you from?”
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Opinion: If Atlantic Canadians are serious about boosting immigration and making newcomers feel welcome, writes Kelly Toughill, we need to find a way to have real conversations about regional culture and the come-from-away phenomenon.
Date: Thursday June 6, 2019