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Shortage of skilled tradespeople and apprentices requires range of supports

Canada needs skilled tradespeople. According to the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum (CAF-FCA), over the five-year period from 2022 to 2026, an estimated 122,380 new journeypersons will...
Research

Exploring the multiple dimensions of quality of work

Job quality has always been an important, yet often overlooked, element of the labour market. It encompasses factors that affect worker well-being and business productivity.
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COVID-19 and logistics: Changes and challenges in demand, business practices, and workforce management

This study aims to understand how the pandemic has altered the demand for supply chain and logistics services in Canada and how businesses within the industry have adapted to pandemic-related health and safety protocols.
Research

Beyond blue and white collar: a skills-based approach to Canadian job groupings

Canadian employers are increasingly thinking about work from a skills perspective. This issue briefing takes a new approach to defining job groupings.
Research

From Low-Mobility to Rapid-Growth Jobs: How Governments and Agencies Can Build the Bridge to Clean Economy Careers

This issue briefing looks at the retraining required to transition workers from occupations susceptible to automation to rapidly growing occupations in the clean economy.
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Planning When You Can’t Predict: Strategic Foresight and the Future of Work

This report introduces strategic foresight, a discipline that helps organizations and individuals think about and plan for the future in a context of radical uncertainty involving disruptive political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental changes.
July 7, 2022 26 minutes
Season 2 | Episode 5

Skills for the Clean Economy

In the face of the climate crisis, shifting to more carbon-neutral economic activities is a necessity. The growth of this clean economy can also be...

Featuring: Linda Nazareth, Darren Gresch, Jeanette Jackson, Yogendra Chaudhry

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Upskilling the labour force for the clean economy

If Canada is to avoid the dire climate change scenarios predicted by scientists, then our economic activity must become more sustainable.  Although Canada accounts for...