Search Results for: Innovation
What the Saskatchewan Roughriders Can Teach Canadian Journalism
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Many different approaches to support journalism, locally and beyond, have emerged in recent years in the wake of the sharp decline of traditional industry players. Public policy will play a crucial role in shaping the rules for ownership innovation and protected space for Canadian journalism.
Date: Tuesday September 25, 2018
Debating the Right Balance(s) for Privacy Law in Canada
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In fall 2021, the Public Policy Forum convened a group of academics, lawyers, representatives from the private sector and members of civil society to revive discussions around modernizing privacy law in Canada under the Chatham House rule.
Date: Monday January 17, 2022
The Promise and Pitfalls of the Internet of Things in Canada
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...will not be as impactful as the possibilities from their use. The game-changer is tech-enabled and -augmented innovation, where it transforms the way we act, interact, live and work, enabling...
Date: Friday December 16, 2016
Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles and Precision Medicine
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As researchers and business leaders move quickly to explore and exploit an ever-growing field of artificial intelligence opportunities, policy-makers – recognizing AI’s far-reaching implications - seek frameworks to assess and regulate them. These reports examine issues and suggest frameworks for AI’s impact on transportation of people and goods, and on how we predict, identify and treat disease.
Date: Monday December 10, 2018
Digitization and the Digital Divide: COVID-19 and Beyond
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The digital age has arrived and it has exposed long-standing skills gaps and inequities throughout Canadians. As the future of work becomes present, Canada's labour force and employers, educators, leaders and learners have been asked to rapidly adjust to working from home with heavy integration of automation and technology. In his first blog for the Skills for the Post Pandemic World project, Daniel Munro examines the necessary technological upskilling that is imperative to Canadian success in this new wave of change in work, education and daily living.
Date: Monday June 29, 2020
Skills, Training and Lifelong Learning
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Training for working Canadians is scarce, and the people who most need it are the least able to get it. As global competition and technological change increase, Canada needs to create effective and inclusive systems of training, which are essential for innovation, growth, employment and good incomes. In this report, Daniel Munro looks at Canada's strengths and weaknesses, training models from around the world, and suggests improvements to lifelong learning systems.
Date: Friday March 29, 2019
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
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
Improving Public Services: A Strategic Approach to Digital Infrastructure
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By shifting its policies on technology procurement and embracing a more collaborative development approach with Canadian innovators; government could also enable Canada’s technology sector to compete more successfully in global markets.
Date: Thursday August 27, 2020
The Shattered Mirror: 5 Years On
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Our latest report discusses how to save local news in Canada, and how to best adapt the Australian model of negotiated compensation between Google/Meta and the news industry.
Date: Thursday March 3, 2022
McGrath & Lingley-Pottie: Applying science to delivering mental health programs
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...using research to improve healthcare at such facilities. “Innovation comes out of solving a need. Our public institutions, especially our research hospitals, are hotbeds of innovation. We have to liberate...
Date: Tuesday May 23, 2017
Dr. Kamran Khan: To fight global infectious diseases, he prescribes a dose of big data
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...ingredients for innovation but worries that they can be too cautious. “Innovation is not only a nice-to-have, it’s a need-to-have, and on the innovation pathway, a bit of risk-taking is...
Date: Wednesday May 23, 2018
Don Wright on why our kids will struggle to have a higher living standard than us: Hub Dialogue
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...a wrong prescription. Sean Speer In your last answer, you referred to Canada’s poor productivity and innovation performance. What’s interesting is that, although we’ve underperformed other jurisdictions in recent decades...
Date: Thursday September 2, 2021
A formula for turning ideas into products
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...we will see those innovations in the marketplace.” It’s important for such medical innovations to drive down the cost of delivering care, he comments. “If it can’t be made practically,...
Date: Wednesday May 24, 2017
From the classroom to the boardroom
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...involved a lot of sacrifice, but at the same time I never really questioned if it was worth it.” To learn more about the Governor General’s Innovation Awards, visit innovation.gg.ca....
Date: Wednesday May 24, 2017