Small and medium sized businesses are grappling with the devastating economic impacts of the COVID19 pandemic. How are SMEs coping, what support mechanisms are available and what does the road to recovery look like?

Listen to a conversation featuring insight from Michael Denham, President and CEO of BDC, Dr. Sandip Lalli, President and CEO of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Rodney MacDonald, Head of Public Policy and Corporate Affairs, Intuit, Jean Paul (JP) Gladu, former President and CEO of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business and Susan Smith, Canada 2020 co-founder.

As countries, multinational corporations, and multilateral organizations look ahead to recovery, how will the experience of established and developing countries differ? While much needed focus will be on reigniting the lagging global economy, a country’s existing institutional and governance practices will shape its recovery.

Join us for a conversation on the governance gap with Mitch O’Brien, consultant working with the World Bank, and resident Research Fellow with the Democracy Coalition Project.

Responding to the COVID19 pandemic requires the collection, use and disclosure of personal information. As we consider the privacy and security risks involved with the treatment of this personal information, do people need to set aside their privacy and civil liberties in order for life to resume life as normal?

Listen to a conversation featuring Ben Scott, Executive Director of Reset.Tech, Dawn Nakagawa, Executive VP of the Berggruen Institute, and Co-Director of the Future of Democracy program, Adrian Abecassis, Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Co-founder of the Frontiers of Tech Governance Initiative. Hosted by Matt Browne, Senior Fellow at the Centre for American Progress, and Founder of Global Progress

Listen to a conversation featuring Jagmeet Singh, Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for the riding of Burnaby South, and IFSD’s Kevin Page, about Canada’s path to recovery from COVID-19.

Sub-national governments in the United States have been receiving increasing attention for their responses to COVID-19. How have states grappled with crisis management and response? What lies ahead as they focus on recovery in uncertain economic and fiscal contexts?

Scott Pattison and Dan White are experts in state affairs, and join us on this episode of The Recovery Project to help us understand the politics of money and crisis management.

As political leaders and policymakers begin to think about easing their populations out of social distancing, they will be faced with a number of challenges.

Listen to the recording of our livestream discussion featuring Ian Mulheirn, Executive Director and Chief Economist of Renewing the Centre, Tony Blair Institute and Sam Alvis, Special Advisor on UK Policy, Tony Blair Institute about the immediate health, data, privacy and economic concerns at play with relaxing social distancing practices.

The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the world’s economies into recession. As damage mounts, what can be done to mitigate the effects and set a course for long-term recovery?

Listen to a discussion featuring insight from: Marco Simoni, President of the Human Technopole Foundation, Heather Boushey, President & CEO, The Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Justin Wolfers, Visiting Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Kevin Page, President & CEO, Institute of Fiscal Studies & Democracy.

Canada’s social safety net programming and infrastructure are being stressed as the federal government intervenes with emergency measures to ease the immediate pain of the pandemic for citizens. Should COVID19 force a rethink of the current social safety net?

Listen to a conversation between former Senator Hugh Segal, current Matthews Fellow in Global Public Policy at Queen’s University, and Helaina Gaspard, Director of Governance and Institutions at the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy at the University of Ottawa

Listen to our first livestream discussion as we take a look at the Big Picture for Canada. As we start to think about the long tail of this pandemic, what macroeconomic forces are at play in Canada, and how will they shape the transition to recovery?

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