Search Results for: Literacy
Mary Gordon: To grow a healthier society, she plants the seeds of empathy
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...and family literacy centres that Ms. Gordon set up, had been assaulted by her husband. With her two tiny, scared daughters wrapped around her legs, the woman pleaded to Ms....
Date: Wednesday May 23, 2018
Levelling the Playing Field: For First Nations and Financial Empowerment
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...First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities in developing financial literacy skills. The paper provides background that helped guide the discussion at the last in a series of roundtables convened in...
Date: Thursday May 7, 2015
Lessons in Resilience: Canada’s Digital Media Ecosystem and the 2019 Election
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Canada's 2019 federal election provided a unique opportunity to investigate mis/ disinformation. The Digital Democracy Project looked at 12 threats to citizens' online sources of information to uncover how resilient Canadians' are in the face of disinformation. Read the main findings to better understand polarization and about online media bubbles in which Canadians live.
Date: Thursday May 7, 2020
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
Jennifer Robson
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The Carleton University professor strengthens the new Public Policy Leadership Program with her stellar background in government, politics and academia.
Date: Thursday June 30, 2016
Roundtable series on Enhancing First Nations Access to Capital
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...and training · Foster and support regional cooperation to create a more attractive investment climate · Strengthen Aboriginal Financial Institutions · Improve financial literacy and education opportunities Download the report...
Date: Tuesday December 23, 2014
Learning to Change: Worker Resilience and Adaptability
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What does it mean to be adaptable and resilient as a worker, in the face of radical changes to work? With a focus on Alberta, emerging leaders from the Banff Forum and the City of Edmonton discussed policy lessons and policy solutions to prepare individuals and employers for workforce change.
Date: Monday September 23, 2019
Stewarding AI and cultural change: It’s everybody’s business
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What will it take to steward digital development and support workers and the broader public as we transition to a more automated future? Emerging leaders from the Banff Forum say the underlying principles we follow – and insist on – may make all the difference.
Date: Wednesday November 27, 2019
More than Just a Rebuild: Creating a better future for Canada
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The country has been held back by lagging productivity and competitiveness, leading to a stagnant growth rate incapable of lifting Canadians’ standards of living. As we rebuild, simply going back to ‘normal’ is not an option.
Date: Thursday July 30, 2020
Pandemic Learning: Paid Micro-Training Opportunities for Post-Pandemic Recovery
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Broad, rapid government support received widespread support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on their public opinion research, Peter Loewen and Blake Lee-Whiting argue that Canadians, especially those who lost income or jobs during the pandemic, would be eager to receive government-assisted skills training as part of that support.
Date: Monday June 28, 2021
Canada’s Moonshot Expert Advisory Panel
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...to create the first Canadian literacy guide for Autism and mental health. Fluently bilingual, Pari has an M.A. in International Affairs from Carleton University and a B.A. in French Literature...
Date: Tuesday May 18, 2021
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
Canada as an Agri-Food Powerhouse
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...trust, more restrictive policies could be introduced that inhibit competitiveness. Educating consumers and improving their “food literacy” — from fork back to farm, including trust in science — is an...
Date: Thursday April 20, 2017
The internet is transforming the world, but not for everybody
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...access and skills to benefit from digital technologies in their lives. ACCESS: Availability, Affordability, Inclusive design, Public access. ADOPTION: Uptake and relevance, Digital literacy, Safety and privacy. APPLICATION: Education, Employment,...
Date: Friday October 13, 2017
Unlocking Health Care: How to Free the Flow of Life-Saving Health Data in Canada
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A system that still uses faxes needs to shift into the smartphone era. It's time for an urgent modernization of the health-care system.
Date: Monday January 29, 2024