Is technological change a huge, dark cloud threatening to create a jobless society?

There is much focus these days on an innovation agenda for Canada. But innovation must apply as well to the workplace and how we ensure that all Canadians have the skills they will need to be active members of society, not marginalized and passive bystanders.

Canada under-performs when it comes to investing in programs to provide skills training and to help unemployed workers pursue new jobs, according to the OECD.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

June 26, 2017

TORONTO—Is technological change—the digital world of robots, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things—a huge dark cloud threatening to create a jobless society? Or at least an uneven world where a small percentage of highly paid, high-skilled workers and a similar percentage of low-paid...

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