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The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical need for digital infrastructure and internet access across Canada, particularly in rural and remote communities. Despite advancements, approximately 1.4 million households in Canada still lack high-speed internet, widening the digital divide.

Despite its ability to positively transform healthcare, there is some reluctance among healthcare providers to adopt artificial intelligence within their practice. This project set out to tackle these challenges and capitalize on the potential of AI in healthcare.

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Many Canadian employers across sectors are becoming more conscious of the benefits of a diverse workforce, but often don’t have the knowledge or staff resources to attract and recruit diverse talent into entry-level jobs. Employers often cite an inability to find applicants.

Yukonstruct designed Lighting Up the North, a suite of partner-focused programs with tailored support, connections to resources, and activities that help entrepreneurs spanning multiple target groups to be better equipped to step into entrepreneurship, grow businesses, and access the right funding for their ventures.

The tool lets employers evaluate existing job postings’ structure and wording through an equity, diversity and inclusion lens, using artificial intelligence to identify underlying and implicit biases. The modified job postings are designed to be more accessible to equity-seeking groups, thus providing employers with a larger, more diverse pool of candidates.

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Key Insights The quality and intensity of employer engagement is critical to the overall success of interventions to support newcomers. Employer engagement needs to go...

Disability inclusion is driving the future of work in this country. You may not be aware of this, but it’s happening. And businesses that don’t...