Education

Education: Job-Ready Students and Entrepreneurs

• Industry-led curriculum for job-ready graduates
• Practical life skills: contracts, loans, leases, budgeting, taxes, investing, scams, managing risk, dealing with police, understanding your rights, claims, dispute resolution, effective communication and collaboration skills, empathy, and cooking healthy meals
• A coach for each student to help them get through tough times
• A career coach and 12 one-day internships to help students choose a career 
• Industry speakers, micro-internships, and virtual reality to promote high-demand jobs
• K-12: leadership, building a small team, first 10 hires, entrepreneurship, exporting, market-creating innovations, intellectual property (IP) strategies, digital skills, AI tools like Claude.AI, APIs, and robotics
• K-12: incredible progress of countries like China (Made in China 2025 initiative and Belt Road Initiative), Singapore, Korea, and Taiwan; and the economic opportunities from the dramatic population growth of Africa, projected to be 3.8 billion people or 40% of the world population by 2100
• Ontario Business Centres at Universities: resources, seminars (Canadian Export Academy with Trade Accelerator Program), export experts (leverage immigrants and retirees) to help Ontario businesses be more successful trading around the world. See great.gov.uk
• Livestream weekly "Shark Tank" events at Ontario universities and colleges to connect startup teams with local and international mentors, investors, and customers
• Modern workshops in high schools to promote careers in skilled trades
• Co-ops to promote industry-specific productivity investments in software, equipment, robotics, training, and IP strategies to increase Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita and wages
• Mandate (pass law) for Open API's for job search engines so third parties can provide tools and apps for relevant and in-demand skills and jobs to inform academia, students, and policy makers. Indeed is an American company (with about 80% of Canadian job posting market) that could promote American companies and deny or hide job postings from Canadian companies
• Civic action with high-impact real-life projects: For example, to improve the affordability of housing and the commute, build a dashboard to ensure new housing (market-priced and subsidized) and public transportation (roads and rail) targets are met to welcome 300,000 immigrants each year. To reduce taxes, identify ways to reduce the need and cost of public services  
• To help build the new Ontario Museum in the GTA and win cash prizes, students can make displays and tell the stories of penicillin, external pacemaker, pablum, telephone, electric wheelchair, football helmet, paint roller, Arrow jet, Canadarm, IMAX film, Ringuette, GM Oshawa, Nortel, Blackberry, OpenText, Shopify, Hudson's Bay Company, Apotex, Shoppers Drug Mart, Tim Hortons, TD bank, Brookfield, Hollywood North, Canada's Innovation Corridor, Canada-US Auto Pact, MaRS Discovery District, major military conflicts and rebellions, Trent-Severn Waterway, Rideau canal, Peterborough Lift Lock, Big Chute Marine Railway, St. Lawrence Seaway Locks, Niagara Peninsula and Prince Edward County wine country, northern mines, logging, and fur trades, agriculture, Dominion of Canada 1867, The Great Toronto Fire 1904, Enbridge Gas's Dawn Hub in Sarnia, rail system (CPR, CNR, TTC), Union Station,  major highways and bridges, Gordie Howe Bridge, Bloor Street Viaduct, CN Tower, Skydome, Ontario Place, Ontario Science Centre, Hockey Hall of Fame, Canada's Wonderland, Marineland, Casa Loma, Toronto Eaton Centre, PATH Toronto, Distillory District, Evergreen Brick Works, landfills south of Toronto Front Street and Port Lands, Deep Lake Water Cooling System, hydroelectric, nuclear, and water treatment plants and distribution systems, Inn on the Park, Four Seasons Hotel, Fairmont Hotel, Canadian Parliament, Ontario Legislature, Toronto City Halls, publicly funded libraries, schools, colleges, universities, and hospitals, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Greenbelt Protection Act, Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Summerhill LCBO, Summerhill, 2010 G20 summit protests in Toronto, Pride Toronto Parade, Caribana Festival, Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto Film Festival, famous entertainers, athletes, politicians, entrepreneurs, builders, activists, and scientists, history of immigration and emigration