Labour Market Partners Inc.

02/16/2022

Celebrating LMP's 25th anniversary this week. It's been quite a journey! Thanks to our many clients, supporters and especially colleagues who have made a quarter-century of work meaningful and enjoyable. A shout-out to Marianne Seaton, whose partnership made excellence a trademark in our work together. I also gained a lifelong close friend!

04/27/2021

A thoughtful, insightful, forward-looking, human-centric analysis and recommendations for post-pandemic labour force development.

As COVID-19 widens the gap between supply and demand, countries cannot stop at short-term measures—they must plan strategically for skills in a recovering economy.

12/01/2020

Excited to announce a new partnership (with a valued partner from my earliest days of consulting) with the Ontario Municipal Social Services Association (OMSSA). My business partner, Marianne Seaton, and I will be working closely with OMSSA to deliver our newest program, Client-Centric Strategies©. CCS is a virtual education program that addresses modern coaching and problem-solving practices in human services for working with people who may present multiple service challenges. It's competency-based, providing workplace tools for normalizing essential knowledge, skills and supporting behaviours and emphasizes evidence-based strategies for building relationships and working collaboratively to achieve desired results. Here is a link to a more detailed description:

01/13/2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/food-stamps-work-west-virginia.html

In West Virginia, tougher work requirements for receiving food stamps complicated life for poor people but did not result in increased employment.

06/05/2019

Interesting developments in Cali regarding what constitutes an independent contractor for precariously employed workers.

The state Assembly just passed a bill that could give Uber and Lyft drivers basic labor protections for the first time.

03/15/2019

This article reminds me of my experiences in the Canadian Arctic, where so many things were novel to my southern perspective.

At the top of the world, the Inuit culture has developed a sophisticated way to sculpt kids' behavior without yelling or scolding. Could discipline actually be playful?

03/04/2019

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/03/04/basic-income-project-improved-lives-but-now-its-back-to-the-food-bank.html

Lives of those in soon-to-end basic income pilot significantly better, report says.

01/23/2019

In reverse chronological order, you may note.

Lawyers in Lindsay ask courts to overturn decision to end research project, throwing participants into limbo.

01/23/2019

https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2018/09/14/cancellation-of-ontarios-basic-income-project-sparks-global-outrage.html

Researchers from around the world question ethics of premature killing of pilot in open letter to Ford government.

01/23/2019

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2019/01/22/humans-are-suffering-axing-of-basic-income-pilot-project-leaves-trail-of-broken-dreams.html

Survey of 6,500 participants reveals struggles of those who embraced chance at a better life.

01/09/2019

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/12/affordable-daycare-subsidized-child-care-working-mom-quebec/579193/?fbclid=IwAR3LRQ2fGqHuunZu0uiyZAFQf_5g66Ypsan9TzVY5XO4RsN3mAMuZKlUlWw

Moms went back to work.

09/21/2018

The moral and ethical failings of cancelling the Basic Income Project, a "social experiment involving humans."

Researchers from around the world question ethics of premature killing of pilot in open letter to Ford government.