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Workforce Shortages Drag on Productivity: Bridging the Divide in Healthcare, Trades, and Tech
Canada is short 64,000 skilled workers including engineers, tradespeople, nurses, and educators. This shortage cost the economy an estimated $2.6 billion in lost GDP in 2024,...
State of Skills
Supporting Indigenous and Northern Entrepreneurship and SMEs
Indigenous and Northern entrepreneurship and businesses play a crucial role in bolstering local economies by supporting economic diversification, job creation and community development.
Research
Leveraging Government Data
Unlocking the power of data is foundational to a future-state skills ecosystem where public services are navigable, supportive, targeted, integrated and transparent.
Podcast
FSC Executive Director Noel Baldwin on Leader Talks Podcast
Content from: ccdi.ca
September 18, 2025 by Anne-Marie Pham
What can shift when organizations look outside the box to fill gaps together? This discussion is part of our Inclusion Table Talks, a series of CCDI's Leader Talks with Anne-Marie Pham podcast which dives deeper into pressing issues in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
Joining us to explore these ideas are two guests: Noel Baldwin, Executive Director of the Future Skills Centre, an organization committed to preparing Canadians for the next chapter of work, and Zahra Ebrahim, the CEO and co-founder of Monumental, which is a social purpose business working to advance equitable city-building and urban development.
Project
Scale Learning Lab
The Scale Learning Lab was developed to address the hospitality sector’s ongoing talent shortages through an innovative, industry-led training model. By combining digital learning and hands-on training, the Learning Lab provides hospitality professionals with the skills needed to succeed in a rapidly evolving sector.
Research
Skills for Productivity, Prosperity and Well-Being in Canada: A Canadian PIAAC Research Agenda
Canada is in the midst of a productivity and growth challenge. Part of the issue is skills. New PIAAC data released at the end of 2024 provides Canada with an opportunity to improve understanding of relationships among skills, productivity, prosperity and well-being, and to use that knowledge to design better policies and programs.
Blog
Towards a Canadian PIAAC Research Agenda
Developed through a careful examination of what PIAAC data have to offer, what past research reveals and leaves unclear about adult skills, and what stakeholders in the skills community believe is important, the Research Agenda offers a plan to seize the opportunity presented by the second cycle of PIAAC to improve Canada’s skills landscape.
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Mind the Gap: How changes in PIAAC data collection limit what we can learn about skills, and what we can do to fix the gap in the future
The second cycle of PIAAC data has limitations that analysts and others will need to navigate as they ask and try to answer key questions about adult Canadians’ skills. What are those limitations and how might they affect the kinds of questions we can ask and the answers we uncover?
Project
Upskill and Certify Indigenous Child and Youth Practitioners
The Upskill and Certify Indigenous Child and Youth Practitioners project aimed to address the barriers that Indigenous child and youth workers face in accessing postsecondary opportunities to build skills and advance their careers.