HR professionals hoping to help boost productivity at their organisations may want to turn their workers’ attention to microcredentials.

Canada has positioned itself as a global leader in artificial intelligence. We have the talent, the research infrastructure, and the institutional ambition. What we don’t yet have is a plan to ensure that the AI economy works for everyone building it.

At the 2026 Sustainable Workforce Summit held in Vancouver this week, advocates and industry experts discussed the state of Canada’s work force and where it risks falling behind.

Le Centre des Compétences futures (CCF) propulse la prochaine phase de développement de dix initiatives de formation professionnelle qui ont démontré un fort potentiel de développement à grande échelle et dont la validité a été clairement établie dans cinq provinces.

Toronto, 27 mars 2025 — La main-d’œuvre canadienne en milieu de carrière se trouve à un tournant décisif. Les mutations rapides des technologies, du commerce...

With Canada facing a pending labour shortage — particularly in construction and the skilled trades — a new national initiative aims to accelerate solutions by expanding programs that have already proven successful.

Alors que le Canada fait face à une pénurie critique de main-d’œuvre dans des secteurs clés, le Centre des Compétences futures (CCF) annonce un investissement de 5,5 millions de dollars pour constituer une main-d’œuvre solide et résiliente, capable de stimuler la productivité et la prospérité économique à long terme du Canada. Grâce à l’initiative Replicate, financée par le Programme des compétences futures du gouvernement du Canada, le CCF élargit l'accès à  des solutions de formation éprouvées afin que davantage de personnes au Canada, en particulier les jeunes, puissent trouver un emploi stable et s’adapter à une économie en pleine évolution. 

Work hard. Get a promotion. Work harder. Get another promotion. And climb that corporate ladder. That's the script a lot of us grew up with. But according to a 2025 study from Deloitte, that's not what some younger workers are interested in doing. The study found only 6 per cent of Gen Z workers want to move into a leadership position. Instead, they want things like more work/life balance. Flexibility. Mental health. We talk to Tricia Williams, the director of Research, Evaluation, and Knowledge Mobilization at TMU's Future Skills Centre, about how young professionals are redefining the way they work.

Amid a focus on large-scale, nation-building projects, the workforce needed to pull this strategy off is the topic of discussion at the ECO Impact Conference in Calgary tomorrow. For more, we spoke with Noel Baldwin, the Executive Director at the Future Skills Centre.