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Mike Blanchfield
Person
...organizations based on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Mike has covered a range of issues from trade, defence, the environment, legal affairs, politics, diplomacy, climate change, and armed conflict. His reporting...
Date: Saturday December 28, 2019
Edward Greenspon: Oil Chaos and the M.I.A. Strategy
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Whatever one’s view of the oil industry, we will all be better served by an orderly transition over the current chaos. Oil's implosion in provinces such as Newfoundland, Saskatchewan & Alberta is forcing a 30 year transition in 30 days, and PPF President & CEO Edward Greenspon says we need to be strategic in leveraging the current crisis to stimulate economic activity while addressing climate change.
Date: Thursday April 2, 2020
The Data Talks: How Statistics Canada Measured a Pandemic
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Canada’s economy has had its ups and downs, crashes, failures and recessions, but how do you measure the business impact of a country that simply stopped working and intentionally shut down its economy to halt the spread of COVID-19?
Date: Tuesday November 3, 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
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
Canada strives to position itself as an agri-food powerhouse
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...as Canadians, we’d better recognize what we’ve got. He noted free-trade agreements — not just with the increasingly protectionist United States but especially with China, India and Japan — are...
Date: Tuesday April 25, 2017
Atlantic Immigration Pilot by the numbers
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More than 3,000 job offers had been made through the program by the end of October 2018, but only 1,202 workers, spouses and children were granted permanent residency through the program in the same period. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is trying to speed up the pace of permanent residency admissions.
Date: Thursday December 13, 2018
Rebuilding Canada Demands Confronting Uncertainty
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Our institutions must build uncertainty into policy-making and program design. This “uncertainty screen” will help ensure a vision of the future that reflects today’s uniquely complex environment.
Date: Friday October 30, 2020
A Leadership Blueprint for Canada’s High-ESG Gas
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...Now, the trade-offs have become impossible to ignore. Europe is scrambling to rectify its inattention to energy transition complexity through a two-track strategy: an attempt to further accelerate the growth...
Date: Thursday August 18, 2022
Independent and Accountable: Modernizing the Role of Agents of Parliament and Legislatures
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In this report, the Public Policy Forum (PPF) analyzes the current and evolving role of agents at the federal and provincial levels to provide recommendations on how oversight and guidance in the administration of policies can be improved while maintaining their autonomy within Canada’s Westminster system.
Date: Thursday April 26, 2018
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
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
Public Policy Forum honours four Western Canadians with Peter Lougheed Awards
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Sue Paish will be one of four recipients of the Peter Lougheed Award at PPF’s Annual Western Dinner on Sept. 19 at the downtown Vancouver Marriott. Sue will be joined by three other distinguished recipients of the award. Fellow award recipient Andrew Petter, the president of Simon Fraser University, said he was humbled and pleased about the award. “Public policy is such an important instrument of democracy,” Petter said.
Date: Wednesday September 5, 2018
Glen Hodgson
Person
...economic policy and growth related to recent work on energy and climate policy. He has accumulated 35 years of experience in global and Canadian macro-economics, international trade and finance, fiscal...
Date: Thursday January 12, 2017
Together or Apart? Seven Ways for Canada to Pivot to a Sustainable Recovery
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...together with the expansion of trade, voluntary migration, and digital networks connecting us more closely than ever before. And the results are inspiring: since the early 1990s, more than one...
Date: Thursday November 12, 2020