Across Canada
State of Skills
Leveraging the Skills of Newcomers
Navigating career and training decisions is especially complex for newcomers given the challenges they face learning new systems and unfamiliar workplace cultures. Career development support for newcomers should come early and often.
State of Skills
Digital Tools in the Skills Ecosystem
There is considerable promise in the role digital tools and virtual career services can play in improving access to training and career development, particularly for those with geographic barriers or constraints such as family care or other work responsibilities.
Blog
Ten ways to embrace an innovation mindset: Lessons from the Fall 2022 FSC Accelerator cohort
As innovation advisors who offered guidance to projects across Canada in FSC’s most recent Accelerator program, we had the exciting opportunity to support 17 teams...
Research
Digital skills and the skills gap
For more than 20 years, industry has been decrying the skills gap and the need for digital skills. The problem of the so-called “digital skills...
In the Media
How the Big Strike Advanced Working from Home
The Public Service Alliance of Canada lost its bid to have the right to remote work enshrined in its new contract with the federal government.
Research
Quality of work of Canada's contingent workforce
To examine further the nature of gig work in Canada and understand the quality of work associated with this type of employment, this research presents survey data and analysis on the motivations for gig work and the working conditions involved.
Project
Laying Foundations: Technological maturity in Canada’s construction sector
In this research project, the Brookfield Institute conducted interviews and surveys with 14 industry leaders from 11 firms spanning three broad sub-sectors across the country. The objective was to improve understanding of what is contributing to the low uptick of technological innovation in the construction sector.
Blog
Skills training for net-zero economy boosts building workforce and helps reduce emissions
To achieve its net-zero goals, Canada needs a pipeline of workers equipped with the latest green building skills. Here’s how one unique training program is helping.
Blog
The Advanced Digital and Professional Training Program (ADaPT): Inclusive Digital Upskilling
Demand for digital skills has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic; it extends beyond the information and communications technology (ICT) sector to virtually every industry....