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Canada’s Moonshot Expert Advisory Panel
News
...Health Zayna Khayat is Future Strategist with SE Health (formerly, Saint Elizabeth Health Care) a health and social impact enterprise with a major focus on creating a better future for...
Date: Tuesday May 18, 2021
How ‘Get Updates on COVID-19’ Got Up and Going
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PPF's new series chronicles how public servants throughout Canada responded in real-time to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). First up: A new email notification service, Get Updates on COVID-19, turns traditional methods of government communications on its ear. How did it come to be in weeks, not months?
Date: Friday August 7, 2020
Work After COVID-19
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Rebuilding the economy will require a sustained, thoughtful approach. Key to that approach will be improving both the quantity and quality of work to repair fractures and avoid disruption from future waves of infection.
Date: Tuesday July 21, 2020
Move over Oscars, we’re announcing our 2019 policy stars
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We're pleased to announce all five of our honourees for our 2019 Testimonial Dinner honourees, for their dedication to public service and strengthening our democracy and its institutions.
Date: Thursday January 31, 2019
Opioid Addiction Treatment in 2019
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Canada can stem the tide of the opioid crisis. Among Canadians, there is hope that hastening access to treatments that work, learning from and scaling up best practices, and continuing coordinated efforts between all stakeholders will positively impact the pathways to treatment services - beyond just overdose treatment. This report discusses opportunities for policy makers to engage on harm reduction, equitable access to treatment and support, and collaboration and coordination following a PPF roundtable on opioid misuse in December 2018.
Date: Thursday March 14, 2019
Searching for Innovation? Look North!
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A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada is looking for paths forward to build back better. After a year of invaluable lessons learned, what do we know? What do we want to strengthen? What are we willing to change? What are the assets and building blocks for a stronger future?
Date: Tuesday March 30, 2021
Atlantic Summit on Healthcare and Drug Cost Sustainability
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...and enhancing health access in the Atlantic region. Hosted in partnership with the Government of PEI’s Department of Health and Wellness and the governments of Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick,...
Date: Friday January 9, 2015
Coming Home: Global Affairs’ Quest to Repatriate Canadians
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For six months, Global Affairs morphed into a giant consular and travel service. As part of the Public Service Innovation and Leadership During COVID-19 series, we dive into this account of historic department-wide shifts to consular services to help Canadians abroad. With a volunteer workforce of more than 1,000 public servants pulled from their day jobs, this consular focus led to major rethinking of how the department responds to an emergency and underscored the need to communicate the way Canadians do.
Date: Wednesday September 23, 2020
Two Mountains To Climb: Canada’s Twin Deficits and How to Scale Them
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Canada must come to grips not just with a massive fiscal shortfall but also consecutive deficits in our current account, a broad measure of our trading and investment relationship with the rest of the world. A government plan must be growth oriented if we are to get the twin deficits under control without resorting to the drastic measures of 25 years ago.
Date: Monday September 14, 2020
Legitimacy in Reconciliation: A Path Forward
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Indigenous youth had clear ideas on how to find the legitimacy needed for reconciliation at the Public Policy Forum's (PPF) Nov. 29 unconference in Regina. This report highlights their six recommendations. In August 2017, the Centre for Public Impact approached PPF to be a part of a global project that explores What is legitimacy? How is it achieved and preserved? How does it manifest in different parts of the world? PPF brought together 21 young Indigenous people to discuss if the Government of Canada has the legitimacy to deliver on its commitment to Indigenous Peoples and how it can work to build the trust and transparency required.
Date: Tuesday May 15, 2018
Navigating the New World Disorder
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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated developing geopolitical shifts that are unlikely to dissipate even after the pandemic's economic shock wanes. As a country long used to a more benign international environment, the future prosperity, security and well-being of Canadians will depend in no small measure on how well we navigate this unfamiliar world.
Date: Thursday July 16, 2020
COVID-19 and Canada’s Border
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With COVID-19 raging out of control in the U.S., the last thing most Canadians want to contemplate is more entrants from abroad. But it could be a year before a vaccine arrives and much longer until it is administered globally. If COVID has taught us anything it is that, this time, we have to be ahead of the curve on border control.
Date: Tuesday July 28, 2020
Stephanie Nolen – 2023 Hyman Solomon Award Honouree
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Stephanie Nolen: “When you establish points of commonality with the people who are living through these experiences, then people start to be concerned”
Date: Thursday February 2, 2023
Averting a Double-whammy
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The COVID-19 pandemic has created a fiscal conundrum for governments: How can they dig themselves out of debt in a manner that protects the financial futures of younger generations? Governments should opt for a mix of fiscal strategies that favour smart tax increases.
Date: Thursday September 10, 2020
PPF Atlantic Summit 2018
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The Public Policy Forum’s 2018 Atlantic Summit is the first major initiative in a 3-year project. From 2018-2020 we will conduct research, engage communities and decision makers, and work to support the momentum building behind the Atlantic Growth Strategy. The focus of our first year has been on demographics and the role of immigration as one approach to attract, and keep, the talented people who make Atlantic Canada home.
Date: Thursday May 24, 2018