Policy Options

This week’s federal budget proposed the creation of a new benefit for working-age adults to encourage us all to keep learning and reskilling. Here’s how the budget says this...

In its 2018 budget, the government of Canada reinvested significantly in science, increasing funding for research to be distributed by the three granting councils, known as the tri-council: the...

Le Canada est à la croisée des chemins de l’innovation. La productivité au pays a longtemps tiré de l’arrière par rapport à celle de nos homologues internationaux, car les...

The changing world of work is also a changing world of pay, a world that will likely lean toward greater wage-rate inequalities, stagnating incomes for the bottom 40 percent,...

Good literacy and numeracy skills will help everyone prepare for the rapidly evolving needs of the modern workplace. These information processing skills are essential to allow workers to perform...

The question of how we can best deal with the swiftly changing face of the workforce is a challenge for policy-makers, chief executives, educators — and, of course, workers....

If the idea of artificial intelligence (AI) conjures visions of robots taking over human jobs, this is not surprising. It is a widespread image. Countless media stories paint a...

Le 24 octobre 2018, le Protecteur du citoyen du Québec publiait un rapport faisant état d’importantes lacunes dans les services éducatifs reçus par les Inuits du Nunavik. Afin d’assurer...

Headlines about the changing nature of work, automation, and the threat of worker displacement have become hackneyed, and the underlying challenges they point to risk being buried in hype....

Decades of research and millions of dollars spent examining the relationship between post-secondary education and the future of work have taught us two important lessons. First, aside from identifying...