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Canada needs to rethink how to prepare Canadians for the workforce. (Shutterstock)

May 22, 2025

Canada’s skills crisis is growing — here’s how we can fix it

Stephen Murgatroyd, University of Alberta

As labour shortages deepen across sectors, the disconnect between formal education and real-world job requirements is becoming harder to ignore.

Voters arrive to cast their ballots in advance polls for the 2025 federal election in Carstairs, Alta., Friday, April 18, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

April 23, 2025

Forgotten futures? Canada urgently needs a national discussion about young people’s futures

J-C Couture, University of Alberta and Stephen Murgatroyd, University of Alberta

The threat to Canada by Donald Trump should mobilize not just ‘elbows up’ but also ‘heads up’ around the need for co-ordinated, pan-Canadian support for public education.

Many provinces are focused on constraining the growth of teaching and staffing costs in education. Here, Ontario Premier Doug Ford with United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney, in Calgary, Oct. 5, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

April 4, 2019

Alberta election shows the threat to public education in Canada

Stephen Murgatroyd, University of Alberta

In calls for dramatic action to overhaul education in the name of improvement and efficiencies, we see the impact of global trends in privatization.

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