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Is A University Education Worth the Cost? Canadian and U.S. Perspectives
Is a university education worth the cost? Is it worth it, even if you have to borrow money to pay for it? What do Canadians think? To find out, we decided to ask the same question that Pew Research posed in the U.S., which we did in the latest wave of the Survey on Employment and Skills.
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A Tough Job Market for Young People, and a Chance to Rethink the Path Forward
For many young people entering the workforce today, landing that first job feels harder than ever. W
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It’s Going to Take More than Doctors and Nurses to Fix our Healthcare Problems
When we talk about Canada's healthcare challenges, the conversation often begins and ends with one question: How do we hire more people?
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AI Isn't Just Changing Technology. It's Changing Work.
When we talk about AI, the conversation often jumps to one big question: Will it replace jobs?
From what we're seeing across Canada's labour market, the more relevant question is: How will AI change the way we work?
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Preparing Young People for the Future of Work
When people talk about the future of work, the conversation almost always starts with artificial intelligence. And that's understandable. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries, reshaping jobs, and changing the way we work at an unprecedented pace.
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The 'missing work' of coordination in Canada's skills ecosystem
Canada is intent on building things: more roads, pipelines, homes, and large infrastructure projects. To do so, we require coordinated investments from government and private capital in critical drivers such as technology and infrastructure.
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Building a Stronger Evidence Base for Skills: Using Linked Data to Measure Long-Term Outcomes
Most program evaluations capture short-term results, leaving long-term benefits and the return on public investment unclear. A new partnership links administrative data to track long-term outcomes, value for money, and returns to Canadians.
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Why Replication Matters: Expanding What Works Across Canada
Canada has no shortage of innovation in skills training; it has a shortage of adoption. Promising skills interventions often remain confined to a single organization, creating a landscape of siloed programs competing for the same resources. Replication offers another option.
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Building Big: Aligning Ambition and Action for Canada’s Future
There’s a question that keeps coming up in the conversations I’ve had lately with business leaders, policymakers, labour unions, educators, and community builders: how can we join forces to build the big things Canada needs?








