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Future-proofing Canada’s labour market means investing in ongoing skills development. Too often, successful pilot projects remain local, and evidence sharing, on its own, takes too long to impact real-world policy and practice.

Les travailleurs qui ne se sentent pas écoutés « sont généralement plus nerveux à l’idée d’utiliser l’IA au travail; plus mal à l’aise si l’IA doit être utilisée dans leur poste; plus prompts à se sentir paranoïaques à l’idée d’utiliser l’IA au travail; et plus craintifs que l’IA ne remplace leurs compétences »

Amanda Lang discusses trends in Canada’s labour market with Noel Baldwin, executive director of the Future Skills Centre.

Future Skills Centre recommends defining skills required for role rather than relying on degrees or job titles

When Laura Tyrrell was a teenager in Alberta, she sometimes accompanied her father on jobs wiring condos. "I loved it," she recalled. "Going to work with him was fun."

On Saturday, September 12, new businesses created by graduates of Street Entrepreneurs 3.0 will open their doors to the public at the University of Toronto Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus, 108 College Street. The founders are graduates of a sixteen-week business incubator run by Toronto’s Urban Rez Solutions Social Enterprise for formerly incarcerated and justice-impacted persons and their families. Every founder is now open for business.

When Jaiya Varshney graduated with a commerce degree from the University of British Columbia in 2023, she dutifully sent out resumes, hoping to land a job working in sustainability.

The Indigenous Peoples in the Workplace: Examining Employment, Discrimination, Training and Artificial Intelligence Use Report builds on previous Diversity Institute research by using data from Wave 8 of the Survey on Employment and Skills, which was conducted by the Environics Institute for Survey Research, in partnership with the Future Skills Centre and the Diversity Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Every other Canadian province and two of the three territories select their own economic immigrants. Nunavut doesn't — and the reasons have more to do with Inuit employment and a small, strained labour market.