Canada wants to build, but who will do the building?
Canada is pouring hundreds of billions into infrastructure, housing, and defence — but there's a catch: youth unemployment among 20–24 year-olds sits at 11.3%, and existing training programs are too fragmented to funnel young people into the jobs these investments will create. Alexander Zelenski argues that Canada doesn't need more youth programs; it needs better-connected pathways that tie young workers directly to the national projects already underway. Drawing on models fr
Alexander Zelenski
2 days ago
Purpose-driven innovation: Putting civil society at the centre of Canada’s innovation ecosystem
Put simply, Canada is facing a period of unprecedented challenges with a weak hand: declining productivity and erosion of our standard of living arising in large measure from the steady worsening of our innovation performance.
David B Watters
Mar 12
The economics of exclusion: Why Canada’s budget leaves its future behind
Originally published in Research Money: https://researchmoneyinc.com/article/the-economics-of-exclusion-why-canada-s-budget-leaves-its-future-behind- Budget 2025 offers a clear signal about Canada’s long-term priorities, and it also reveals a quiet but consequential gap. Only one percent of federal spending is directed toward Canadian youth, a group that today makes up 19 percent of Canada’s population. At first glance, this may seem like a narrow budgetary detail; however,
Alexander Zelenski
Mar 4
