Learning catalogue

This conversation features Melissa Hathaway, President of Hathaway Global Strategies LLC and former advisor on cyber security to both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, and Scott Jones, the first Head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.

This video describes how Esther Duflo, world-renowned author, MIT professor and co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics and her peers transformed developmental economics and became global change agents.

Dr. Lafontaine talks about what it was like to be appointed the first Indigenous President of the Canadian Medical Association, how his background and upbringing shaped his professional aspirations and the critical health challenges facing Indigenous Peoples in Canada today.

This video highlights how countries across the globe are now competing in a zero-sum game for global market share in advanced technology industries, such as computer manufacturing, electronics, pharmaceuticals and automobiles.

Experts in this video consider questions such as: "What does setting our society on a sustainable climate trajectory look like?" and "Has the COVID-19 pandemic helped or hindered action on climate change?

This conversation with Blair Sheppard and Jessica Shannon from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is about the broad challenges confronting us today and some of the potential strategies to address them.

This video provides an overview and demonstration of the e-Estonia journey followed by a conversation with Anett Numa, Digital Transformation Adviser at the e-Estonia Briefing Centre.

Ailish Campbell, Ambassador for Canada and the European Union, Stefanie Beck, Deputy High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom, and Michelle d'Auray, Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the OECD discuss economic, security and societal forces shaping current events in the EU.

This conversation with Anil Arora, Chief Statistician at Statistics Canada, Claire Durand, Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Montreal, and Nik Nanos, Chief Data Scientist and Founder of Nanos Polling is about exploring such issues as how the media affects polling consumption and quality, whether polls are suffering from fewer and less diverse participants, and what intelligent consumers should look for when trying to figure out the quality of a poll.

This event features Wingham Rowan, British entrepreneur and President of Modern Markets for All, who discuss the challenges facing irregular workers in today's economy, steps taken by governments to correct market inefficiencies and ways in which policy could help reshape the relationship between irregular workers and their employers.

Dr. Deep Saini, President of Dalhousie University, and Dr. Suzanne Fortier, Principal of McGill University discuss the future of higher education.

This conversation between Dori Tunstall, Dean of the Faculty of Design at OCAD University, and Adrian Harewood, co-host of CBC News Ottawa, is about their memorable achievements, letdowns, and hopes for the future, what the Black Lives Matter movement and the pandemic have taught us about working towards a better and more consciously inclusive society, what lessons they take from their careers in design and journalism that might inform a better path forward for the public service and what they believe organizations like the public service can do to achieve a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace.