Sectors

Automation, digital tools, and new work models continue to reshape jobs across every sector, and employees need access to high quality learning opportunities to keep pace.

Signal49 Research, in partnership with the Future Skills Centre, is developing a decision support tool to help SMEs explore potential use cases for adopting AI and its impact on their business outcomes.

This interactive dashboard visualizes where healthcare professionals working in various roles are staying, moving within provinces, relocating to other provinces, or leaving the country and workforce entirely.

Canada’s healthcare system is facing a human resource crisis. Despite investments in recruitment and training, provincial and territorial health systems are struggling to retain healthcare professionals as workers move to other provinces or leave Canada altogether.

Indigenous small and medium‑sized enterprises (SMEs) in Canada continue to be under‑represented in global trade due to long‑standing barriers that limit their access to global markets, financing, and export‑related support.

Indigenous-owned SMEs operating in export-engaged industries tend to be more resilient and achieve higher growth than those serving only domestic markets, yet the Indigenous export rate (7.2 per cent) remains well below the Canadian average (12.1 per cent).

Canada’s rapidly changing labour market is challenging both workers and employers to adapt. Automation, demographic shifts and evolving skill demands mean that many mid-career Canadians will need to retrain or transition into new roles, while small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) struggle to recruit and retain skilled staff.

Calgary’s economy is poised for significant growth in key sectors like energy transition, technology and health care. However, a critical misalignment threatens this progress: a major disconnect exists between the in-demand occupations, as identified by employers, and the local talent pool’s skills and perceptions.

This report references both Canadian and international examples of best practices to show how IEHPs can be supported in Canada’s health-care workforce.