Skills

We gathered about 60 industry and postsecondary leaders to help craft a game plan

Five imperatives for Canadian colleges and universities entering a critical year

Economic theory and evidence tell us that the more educated a society is, the more productive its economy will be.

The mismatch in immigrants' skills and the labour market’s long-term needs, along with pressure on the country’s infrastructure capacity is leading to negative economic outcomes.

Find out how a 160 year-old manufacturing company is teaching its workforce to integrate new technologies for a Net Zero economy.

Canada is on the cusp of a generational skills crisis. As a nation, we’ve set some of the most ambitious climate objectives in the world, led by an overarching goal to reach Net Zero emissions by 2050. This pursuit brings with it an abundance of opportunity: for Canadian innovation, for new green investment, and for economic growth.

Amid the struggle for workers, employers need to pay attention and reprioritize their talent strategies, or risk losing their most valuable asset–people.

Key Points 25% of Canada’s 4 million tradespeople will need to upgrade their skills within five years amid significant digital disruption.1 Canada will face a shortage of at least 10,000 workers in nationally recognized Red Seal trades over that period—a deficit that swells tenfold when 250 provincially regulated trades are included.2 The most severe shortages […]

Building Bandwidth was always intended as a conversation starter. Here are five ideas for moving forward, based on insights from Indigenous techies across Canada.

Tom Waller, of Lululemon, speaks about the importance of purpose and what he's learned as leader of Whitespace, the firm's in-house innovation and R&D team.

Ajay Agrawal, the founder of the Creative Destruction Lab, speaks about the importance of goal-setting, how to recognize success and more.

Brittany Forsyth, outgoing chief talent officer at Shopify, speaks about maintaining a creative startup culture in the face of explosive growth.