Search Results for: Governance
Mark Podlasly
Person
...Coalition, a national 65+ Indigenous nation collective seeking ownership of major projects such as pipelines and electric infrastructure. He is also the Director of Governance at the First Nations Financial...
Date: Tuesday August 2, 2016
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...Technological Adoption and Transition Indigenous Growth and Governance Healthy Democracy and Good Governance Canada’s Place in a Changing Geopolitical Order How we choose our projects We determine our research agenda....
Date: Wednesday October 18, 2017
A New North Star
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Rapid and far-reaching changes to the global economy, driven by technology, demographics and geopolitics, are forcing us to rethink some of the core assumptions of what makes a nation competitive or not. Robert Asselin and Sean Speer offer a bi-partisan strategy for what Canada can do in a data-driven 'intangibles' economy.
Date: Thursday April 4, 2019
Indigenous Child Care Workforce Development Snapshot
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...Nations. (2017). National Meeting on Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care Framework. https://www.afn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/AFN-Summary-Report-July-2017-Nat-Mtg-on-Indigenous-Early-Learning-Child-Care-Framework_ENG.pdf#:~:text=The%20Assembly%20of%20First%20Nations%20%28AFN%29%20hosted%20a,a%20separate%20track%20from%20the%20Federal-Provincial%2FTerritorial%20ELCC%20Framework ↑ Alberta First Nations Information Governance Centre. (2021). Indigenous Early Learning & Child Care (IELCC): Environmental Scan...
Date: Friday May 6, 2022
Roundtable series on Enhancing First Nations Access to Capital
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...cheap loans is rare. These barriers discourage private investment and are the result of chronic underlying issues, including: · Socio-economic pathologies · Governance challenges · Institutional barriers and biases In...
Date: Tuesday December 23, 2014
New North Star III
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Canada’s prosperity has relied too heavily on the here and now of deficit spending, booming real estate and debt-financed household consumption. We must instead redirect investment to the wealth and well-being of the future, particularly our ability to invent and innovate, generate world-leading technologies and firms and ultimately capture global markets. The invention and adoption of new products, services and processes must be the foundation of rising productivity and long-term prosperity.
Date: Wednesday December 22, 2021
Trust must be earned and re-earned in climate change
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...of interests has been widened and the legitimacy of existing methodologies and governance structures are being challenged. Resource development today requires not just regulatory approval, but also public confidence, to...
Date: Sunday November 6, 2016
The Values Proposition: Building a Stronger Canada through Values-Based Sport
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This report summarizes what we heard during five roundtables held through spring 2018 and which explored actions and policies aimed at ensuring values-based sport is an intentional and fundamental part of the Canadian sport system, from playground to podium.
Date: Wednesday August 8, 2018
Harms Reduction: A Six-Step Program to Protect Democratic Expression Online
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The health of our democracy ultimately depends on citizens having the capacity, willingness and opportunity to participate in our public life. Following nine months of study and deliberations, the Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression has settled on a six-part, made-in-Canada plan to address hate speech and other online harms, while balancing freedom of speech.
Date: Wednesday January 27, 2021
Job Posting: Vice-President of Policy
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...to Canadians with a primary focus on the following five areas of inquiry The social and economic determinants of growth Good governance and healthy democracy Policy-making in an age of...
Date: Thursday March 22, 2018
A House Undivided: Making Senate Independence Work
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...of Commons. Today’s Senators have an historic opportunity to lift a weakened institution from its torpor and demonstrate its value to good governance in Canada. The current cohort of Senators...
Date: Thursday September 22, 2016
First Nations Finance Authority (Ernie Daniels, CEO): By fixing finance rules, First Nations can invest in themselves
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The First Nations Finance Authority is being honored as a Governor General Innovation Award recipient on May 23 for their ground-breaking innovative funding regime that reduces borrowing cuts and provides interest rate security for First Nations communities across the country.
Date: Wednesday May 23, 2018
PANEL 4—Build infrastructure for long term, not because it’s ‘shovel-ready’
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...expressed through things like central co-ordination, competent project management and proper governance. Jane Bird, a senior business advisor at Bennett Jones Vancouver who deals with public and private construction and...
Date: Wednesday October 19, 2016
Harold Calla – 2023 Testimonial Dinner Award Honouree
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“Providing the platform to move from managing poverty to managing wealth”
Date: Tuesday January 17, 2023
Old Gigs, New Gigs: Are Courts and Legislators Reinterpreting an Age-Old Debate for the New World of Work?
Publication
Courts and legislatures are deciding whether your Lyft driver is an independent contractor or an employee. The classification is a big deal, affecting workers' protections through to retirement. This paper surveys the current state of the gig economy and how courts, tribunals and legislatures in North America and the UK are tackling the issue of employment classification.
Date: Monday September 30, 2019