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Kick-start: How to ignite entrepreneurship among young Canadians 

Youth entrepreneurship, especially the building-companies-that-scale variety, is core to a dynamic economy and broad-based prosperity

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Articles

The Robots May be Coming to Healthcare — But so are the Jobs

As healthcare increasingly relies on technology, we are going to need more humans, not fewer, to provide the care people need. In fact, technology may…

Reskilling and Red Lines: Six Takeaways from Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit

The Fortune Most Powerful Women (MPW) International Summit touched upon the big business issues of our day: the opportunities and concerns posed by…

Less Class Time, Less Desk Time, More Face Time: What Students Told Us They Want

We’ve been traveling the country to talk about work-integrated learning (WIL) and preparing youth for the workforce of tomorrow. Here’s what some…

How Ottawa Can Move Like Jagger – And Innovate, Too

Five reasons Ottawa should have more swagger.

Happy Pride. And Not-So-Happy Pride

LGBT+ employees remain underrepresented in the workforce. We debated the problem at a recent Toronto roundtable with a group of community leaders, as…

The Cost of Credentials: The Shifting Burden of Post-Secondary Education in Canada

Families have stepped in to fill the tuition funding gap, but many students have had to turn to borrowing, leaving a subset of new graduates entering…

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