While the rush to develop vaccines and treatments dominates media headlines, the core tools that public health officials and governments are using today to deal with the pandemic are behaviour- and policy-based, and will continue to be critical even as medical solutions are introduced.
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains oversees efforts to help mobilize the industry in the fight against the pandemic. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Canada’s Innovation and Skills Plan, launched three years ago, seeks to establish Canada as one of the most innovative countries in the world, to make us a nation of innovators.
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Campaign Life Coalition claims that its endorsed candidates’ performance played a key role in the defeat of the four prominent Conservatives in the delegate elections.
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Canada’s Auditor General Karen Hogan looked into how departments are better planning procurements for complex IT solutions, including lessons learned from the problem-plagued Phoenix payroll system.
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It will ultimately be up to the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and other policing partners to get buy-in from their colleagues to implement the initiative on the ground.
Former Canadian ambassador Ferry de Kerckhove says the declaration is a recouping of the 'past glory' of Canada's multilateral work on the international stage.