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Solving for Shortages Series: Employer Experiences and the Labour Market Across Atlantic Provinces
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Explore the findings of PPF regional consultations in Atlantic Canada in a province-specific report on employers and communities experiences with skills and labour shortages in context to key provincial factors.
Date: Friday May 15, 2020
Toward a National Adaptation Strategy
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The Public Policy Forum convened a roundtable discussion on June 16, 2021, to look at the development of a national adaptation strategy in Canada that spans disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation domains. The participants represented a range of public- and private-sector perspectives on the key challenges that need to be addressed to push towards greater resilience and adaptation and confront the challenges of climate change. The conversation also looked at the need to set clear time-bound targets and performance measures and ensure these are grounded in Canada’s Emergency Management Strategy.
Date: Monday August 16, 2021
Using Foresight to Explore the Future of Work
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What happens when university students imagine how they would learn if universities and colleges no longer existed? As part of PPF’s Brave New Work project, we invited students from the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs at Carleton University to do a foresight exercise on the future of learning, skills and access. They had some fascinating ideas.
Date: Monday April 1, 2019
Building the Future: Strategic Infrastructure for Long-Term Growth (Interim Report)
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...planning and a greater focus nationally on innovative infrastructure investment. The release of the report,”Building the Future: Strategic Infrastructure for Long-Term Growth,” on Wednesday, Oct. 12, coincides with the PPF’s...
Date: Thursday October 13, 2016
Putting down roots: How community gardens help immigrant retention
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Cultural food security is key to how and whether immigrants take root in their new home. In Halifax, Common Roots Urban Farm was the only source of some traditional foods for newcomers, but the community garden was shut down and no one knows where – or if – it will rise again.
Date: Wednesday December 12, 2018
The Next One
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Another health security threat will certainly come, and it will defy expectations yet again. Here's how Canada can defend itself against the next emergency.
Date: Monday September 25, 2023
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Date: Wednesday February 28, 2024
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Date: Thursday September 21, 2023
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Date: Tuesday January 25, 2022
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
Governance in the digital age
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...on open and digital government with industry, academia, government and civil society, and a session on digital adoption among Canadian businesses as part of the PPF’s annual Testimonial Dinner. And...
Date: Tuesday May 23, 2017
Alishya Weiland
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...it impacts. Alishya comes to PPF with prior experience working in the non-profit sector in government relations and communications roles. Alishya holds a Bachelor of Arts from St. Thomas University...
Date: Tuesday June 3, 2014
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Date: Wednesday October 18, 2017