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Ivey School report on Strengthening Health Systems through Innovation
Anne Snowdon and Jason Cohen examine lessons from health systems around the world and assess their applicability to Canada.
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Jeffrey Simpson: Can Ottawa spark innovation?
Jeff Simpson writes in the Globe and Mail about federal efforts to promote innovation and productivity and questions whether these will have the desired impact.
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Alan Krueger: The Rise and Consequences of Inequality in the US
The Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers analyses the inequality problem facing the US in a speech at the Centre for American Progress.
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Eugene Lang: Six lessons from Canada’s path to fiscal virtuoso
Canada 2020′s Eugene Lang and EKOS’s Frank Graves present six lessons for centre-left parties gleaned from the Canadian Liberal Party’s experience of battling fiscal crises in the 1990s. Read the op-ed on the Policy Network.
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Shawn McCarthy: Labour shortage looms in NL
McCarthy reports on the enormous labour supply challenges facing NL and other provinces. Canada 2020′s Eugene Lang is featured in the discussion, warning that two major economic forces are on a “collision course” – an unprecedented slowing of labour market growth and unparalleled investment in energy projects.
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Barrie McKenna: Canada’s big problems need more than small thinking
Barrie McKenna agrees with Canada 2020′s analysis that “Canada’s big problems need more than small thinking.”
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Eugene Lang: Five challenges we can’t ignore
Canada 2020′s Eugene Lang launches the opening op-ed on our new project – The Canada we want in 2020 – on the role of the federal government in meeting five key areas. Read his op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen.
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Dominic Barton: China couldn’t find us on a map
Dominic Barton, global managing director at McKinsey, as part of The Canada we want in 2020, argues that China couldn’t find us on a map.
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Fareed Zakaria: The downward path of upward mobility
Fareed Zakaria on the income inequality and the “The downward path of upward mobility.”
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Eugene Lang: Shipbuilding Response — Canada changed for the better
Canada 2020′s Eugene Lang has an op-ed in iPolitics, arguing that the recent shipbuilding decision suggests Canada has changed for the better.
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FT: Memo to UK’s top civil servant: strategy please
James Purnell, a former cabinet minister, has some pointed advice to Britain’s new top mandarin: “strategy please!”
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Martin Wolf: Fear and loathing in the eurozone
Fresh from the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and his packed Canada 2020 lecture, the FT’s Martin Wolf says, “The costs of a [Euro] meltdown would be too grave to contemplate.”
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iPolitics: Forget recession, FT’s Martin Wolf says at Canada 2020 Lecture
iPolitics reports on our Canada 2020 Speakers Series event with the FT’s Martin Wolf. Wolf says the question is not whether we can avoid a recession. Instead, “the question is whether or not we can avoid a depression.”
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Canada-U.S. Youth Entrepreneur Innovation Competition
Canada 2020 and the Embassy of the United States in Ottawa held a contest for youth entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs.
The two winners have been chosen – one from the United States and one from Canada. Winning entries are announced here!
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Martin Wolf: Struggling with a great contraction
In today’s FT, Martin Wolf asks if we are at risk of a ‘double dip’ recession? His answer: no, because the first one did not end and might indeed become deeper and longer.
Remember that registration opens on September 26th, 2011 at 9:00AM for Canada 2020 and TD Bank Group’s public lecture with Martin Wolf: A Bridge Too Far? Averting another Recession in Europe and the US.
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Newman: Boehner’s Crying Shame
Over at iPolitics.ca, Don Newman, Senior Columnist with iPolitics.ca and Canada 2020 Advisory Chair, argues that US Republican House Leader John Boehner is running a spin machine and preoccupied with cheap political behaviour while the United States hovers on the brink of default.
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Bremmer: Don’t start wars you don’t know how to end
Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and author of The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? and The J-Curve, warns in the FT that NATO faces an “unsavoury choice” in its fight to oust Colonel Gaddafi.
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Podesta urges Ontario not to scrap renewable energy policy
John Podesta, a Canada 2020 speaker, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress and former White House Chief of Staff (full bio here), was recently in Toronto, urging the province not to scrap renewable energy policy. His speech can be read here.
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G&M Editorial: To get to a national energy plan, co-operate first
The Globe and Mail’s Editorial Board picks up on the Canadian Council of Chief Executives’ (CCCE) paper calling for a national energy strategy. Attendees at Canada 2020′s recent PowerTalk Symposium had a preview of this CCCE policy.
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TD’s Craig Alexander: Canadians must stop taking electricity for granted
Craig Alexander, senior vice-president and chief economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank, one of the panellists at Canada 2020′s recent PowerTalk Symposium, penned this op-ed on how Canadians must stop taking electricity for granted.
