Events
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Roundtable Lunch with Hon Nanaia Mahuta, New Zealand’s Minister of Māori Development and Local Government
The Public Policy Forum hosted Hon Nanaia Mahuta, the Aotearoa/New Zealand Minister for Māori Development and Local Government as part of its Indigenous Changemakers Initiative.
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Indigenous Innovators Breakfast
PPF highlighted Indigenous innovation at a breakfast event on the morning of Thursday April 11, 2019 prior to the Canada Growth Summit.
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Brave New Work Conference
Technology, demographics and other factors are transforming the world of work – and quickly. Push aside the dystopian scenarios and watch this discussion that helped shape policy pathways to enable Canadians to thrive in the jobs of the future.
PPF to honour Indigenous journalist Karyn Pugliese with 2019 Hyman Solomon Award
Karyn Pugliese of APTN will be honoured with the Hyman Solomon Award for Public Policy Journalism at PPF’s 2019 Testimonial Dinner and Awards on April 11 in Toronto.
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Action Canada 2018/2019 presents the Future of Food
Join us for the final task force report presentations from the 2018-2019 Action Canada cohort. After a 10-month study of the Future of Food that started last June in Ottawa and saw the group travel to from Laird, SK to St-Alexandre, QC and many places in between, the three Task Forces are nearly ready to present their final reports and recommendations.
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Action Canada Ottawa Study Tour
Action Canada’s 16 Fellows will gather in Ottawa where our first study tour took place. It’s the fifth and final study tour of the 10-month program and will provide opportunities to meet many of the experts that will inform the three research projects that are taking shape.
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Putting Reconciliation into Practice II: Session 4 – Building a nation-to-nation, government-to-government and Inuit-Crown relationship
The topic will cover Youth and next steps. Agenda to come.
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Public Policy Leadership Program: First Ottawa in-class session
This is the first three-day in-class session of the new Public Policy Leadership Program (PPLP) offered jointly by the Public Policy Forum and the Telfer School of Management.
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Public Policy Leadership Program: Bright Spots Visit
This is the two-day field visit as part of the new Public Policy Leadership Program (PPLP) offered jointly by the Public Policy Forum and the Telfer School of Management.
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Public Policy Leadership Program: Second Ottawa in-class session
This is the second three-day in-class session of the new Public Policy Leadership Program (PPLP) offered jointly by the Public Policy Forum (PPF) and the Telfer School of Management.
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Putting Reconciliation into Practice II: Session 3 – Working Together – Partnership and Co-development
Session 3: Working Together - Partnership and Co-development The program participants will hear from leading Indigenous voices on justice and economic development. Agenda to come.
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Digital Democracy 101: Understanding AI’s Effect on Canada’s Democracy
Discover how social media algorithms can prevent you from hearing the whole story. In this free lecture, Philippe Beaudoin, Co-Founder and Senior Vice-President of Research Group and Marc-Etienne Ouimette, Head of Public Policy & Government Relations at Element AI explain how algorithms can choose the content you see online and create ‘filter bubbles’. Join us March 14, at 5:30 p.m. at Concordia University.
Move over Oscars, we’re announcing our 2019 policy stars
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.
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Digital Democracy 101: Understanding Deepfakes and Synthetic Media’s Effect on Canada’s Democracy
Discover how you cannot always believe what you see on digital platforms - thanks to new technology that can create fake photos and videos that look very, very real - in this free lecture by Carl Miller, Research Director at Demos. He'll explain how synthetic media can harm democracy March 6 at 10:00 a.m. at Dalhousie University, MacDonald Building, University Hall.