291 results found for "basic income"
Intelligence Memos
To: Canadians Concerned About Growth
From: Parisa Mahboubi
Date: September 2, 2022
Re: Back to School: A Good Time to Examine Canada’s Digital Skill Deficit
Rapid digitalization across the economy and an aging population are feeding Canada’s digital and STEM skills shortages.
The COVID-19 pandemic has also intensified the need for digital skills across all sectors, and…
Media Release
August 23, 2022 – Canada faces a serious shortage in employees with digital and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills amid a tight labour market and rising demand for digital-oriented jobs.
To address this, Canada needs to increase its supply of people with digital skills by developing and attracting talent as well as investing in reskilling and upskilling its…
Intelligence Memos
From: Åke Blomqvist and Rosalie Wyonch
To: Merrilee Fullerton, Ontario Minister of Long-Term Care
Date: February 18, 2020
Re: A Voucher Model for Long-Term Care
Long-term care (LTC) for the frail elderly will be a critical question for Ontario and other provinces as the boomer generation enters further into seniority.
Addressing elderly care needs effectively is already a growing challenge, as…
Intelligence Memos
From: Glen Hodgson
To: Canadians interested in sustainable finance
Date: November 20, 2019
Re: Creating a policy framework for sustainable green finance
Action on green finance is taking place in many places and in many directions, but there are still many gaps, with no coherent policy framework in place. What would such a framework look like?
The expert panel on sustainable or…
Intelligence Memos
To: Ross Romano, Ontario Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities
From: Charles M. Beach and Frank Milne
Date: November 14, 2019
Re: Making Ontario’s Colleges and Universities Decide on their Mission
One of the strengths of the US post-secondary education (PSE) system is the great variation across different schools and the great range of opportunities available to students…
Op-Ed
For Canadians concerned about national finances, the 2019 federal election campaign has been a double whammy. Personal smears and social-media mobbing have mostly eclipsed substance. And the discussions of budgetary policy that have cut through the noise have been discouraging. Especially the commitments for more and bigger deficits: even more red ink in the next four years than was spilled in…
