Canada is well known around the world for its vibrant cities and multicultural identity. Cities like Vancouver function as “gateways” to foreign countries, providing a cultural reference point for local-to-global engagements.
The key to optimizing Vancouver’s “locational advantage” as a global knowledge and innovation hub is developing a curator’s instinct for new sources of social and economic value as well as a strategist’s aptitude for combining different, but complementary perspectives, in an integrated manner.
Follow the conversation in Vancouver and learn more about VSIR’s growing contribution to the social, economic, and intellectual life of this exceptional city.
Unfinished Business: Securing Canada’s Post-Pandemic Transition
Amidst an unfinished COVID-19 pandemic recovery, Canada must strengthen its strategic alliances to deter militaristic threats while finding common purpose with its adversaries to build a more sustainable and resilient future.
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Revitalizing Canada’s Commitment to the Global Health Security Agenda
The global COVID-19 pandemic underscores that Canada faces an imperiled future unless it develops a more nuanced understanding of global health security and adopts forward-looking measures to recalibrate its foreign policy priorities.
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Innovating Canada’s Immigration Regime for the Post-Pandemic Era
The shortcomings of Canada’s managed migration system pose a strategic risk to the country’s future economic and social security, but they can be overcome with a more innovative policy framework that looks beyond the global pandemic.
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Shifting From the Pandemic to a Sustainable and Secure Future
Canada’s exit from the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic may not be risk-free but with proactive investments in sustainable urbanism coupled with a renewed federalism, the country’s future might be more secure.
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BUILDING CANADA’S STRATEGIC CAPABILITIES USING KNOWLEDGE MOBILIZATION
Canada’s social and economic future requires that it develop a multifaceted strategy for competing successfully in the global knowledge economy and strengthening its resilience to a bewildering set of global challenges.
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DESIGNING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
The COVID-19 pandemic is an ever-changing threat to global health security. Designing a global pandemic intelligence hub that actively promotes interdisciplinary risk analysis has never been more urgent.
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A PANDEMIC, AN ELECTION, AND THE FUTURE OF CANADIAN CITIES
A 2020 policy lesson is that the pandemic recovery strategy needs to help more people, in more places, and more often which is why the future of Canadian cities could be a “sleeper” campaign issue in 2021.
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THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL: IMPLICATIONS FOR CANADA
The ability to travel freely, both domestically and internationally, is crucial to Canada’s long-term recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. But transitioning to a more resilient future will require much more than technical quick fixes.
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SCALING-UP CITY-LEVEL ADAPTATION DURING A NATIONAL CRISIS
Canada is struggling with the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and a slow economy recovery. What is the adaptive capacity of today’s mission-critical infrastructure, governance institutions, business models, leadership practices, labour laws, and training regimes?
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KNOWLEDGE DIPLOMACY IN AN ERA OF ASIAN-LED GLOBALIZATION
We have entered a new era of globalization and adjusting to that reality will require a more sophisticated approach to knowledge diplomacy in Asia that effectively balances risk and opportunity.
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