Government and private sector efforts to develop and regulate plastic recycling in Canada have largely been confined to the residential sector. However, Canada’s industrial, commercial, and institutional (ICI) sector is where most plastic waste is generated. It is also where collection and recycling rates are the lowest. Canada needs to broaden its focus beyond the residential sector and include ICI entities.

Impact paper  |  22-min read
August 12, 2022
Focus Area—Sustainability

Organizations planning to return to the office full-time need to understand that their employees may have a different agenda and that it may impact the organization’s ability to attract and retain talent. Overwhelming research shows that many employees who have been working from home for the past two years do not want, and are not willing, to return to the office full-time.

Issue briefing  |  7-min read
August 11, 2022
Focus Area—Human Resources

The pileup of events around the war in Ukraine, continuing supply chain difficulties, and a seemingly never-ending line of Omicron subvariants has pushed prices worldwide beyond central banks’ tolerance levels. Canada is not as far up the inflation ladder as the United States. Canada’s economy suffered the COVID waves more deeply and did not recover as robustly through 2021.

Online experience  |  8-min read
August 9, 2022
Focus Area—Canadian Economics

Value-based procurement of health technologies and services is an advanced approach to procurement at the system or organizational level. In contrast to the traditional focus on lowest acquisition price or short-term savings, VBP looks at the overall value of a product or solution in terms of its ability to improve patient outcomes and experiences from healthcare interactions.

Issue briefing  |  10-min read
August 5, 2022
Focus Area—Health