How Canada is building a nation of innovators
The winds of change are powerful and persistent in the global economy. New technologies and new applications of data and digital tools are driving a fourth industrial revolution in economies and societies around the world. We can either put our heads in the sand and lose our opportunity for leadership, or we can take charge […]
We’ve got all the ingredients to make Canada an innovation leader. So why aren’t we?
If a Canadian innovates but no users benefit, did the innovation ever really happen? This “tree falling in the woods” analogy focuses on an important question: if we cannot reliably generate social benefits and economic opportunities (jobs and wealth, in other words) from our exceptional research capacity, are we putting our future investments in discovery […]
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Canada’s economy needs workers with global learning experiences
In a column published recently in The Hill Times, Perrin Beatty and Paul Davidson argued that Canada has to up its game when it comes to connecting post-secondary students with international learning experiences. “In our rapidly changing world,” they wrote, “Canadian employers need workers who are culturally aware, resilient, and adaptable—skilled in problem solving, communication, […]
Fiscal con game lives on while poor suffer
OTTAWA—In the next nine months, we’ll be hearing a lot about the current federal government’s budget deficit and alleged wasteful spending. So far, the deficit issue appears to pass for most of what the Conservatives would call a campaign platform, with leader Andrew Scheer suggesting, like United States President Donald Trump, that he alone can […]
Why Canada leads in global fight against exploitation of marine workers
While many of us returned to stable employment after the holiday break, 80 hard-working Australian seafarers returned to work only to find their employment contracts terminated. How could this happen? Why did it happen? Unfortunately, the Australian government has failed to protect the domestic maritime workers who dedicate their lives to this demanding work. Despite […]
Polytechnics and colleges, natural allies to businesses, deserve more access to government funding
Canada is at an innovation crossroads. Productivity measures have long lagged behind our international counterparts and, as a country of small businesses, our firms often lack the internal resources to fulfill their potential. Developing new prototypes, adopting new technologies, and designing new processes takes time, money, and human resources. As Canada’s economic engines, small- […]
Feds hit the road to seek user feedback for Phoenix replacement
The team behind the replacement for the troubled Phoenix pay system is kicking off a round of informal consultations with public servants across the country in an effort to learn what features the bureaucracy wants in a new human resources and pay system. The Next Generation pay system team, or NextGen for short, is starting […]
Bob Rae should apologize for tweet against Yellow Vests, says reader
Bob Rae, a former Liberal MP and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s appointed special envoy to Myanmar, demonized the Canadian Yellow Vest protesters by characterizing them as the “new Brownshirts, Blackshirts, and Whitehoods, vigilantes” in a Jan. 12 tweet. The misinformation and outright false information being disseminated by this once-prominent Canadian politician is insulting to the tens of thousands of working-class, patriotic, peaceful, law-abiding Canadian citizens in the Yellow […]
‘We’re going to be every bit as active in this federal election’: Dias says unions undeterred by new pre-election ad spending limits
New limits on pre-election political advertising are unlikely to force a change of approach from Canada’s unions and other high-spending advertisers from the last election, say executives and spokespeople for some of those groups. “The short answer is ‘no.’ We’re going to be every bit as active in this federal election as we were in […]
