2021 Environmental Scan
UNMASKING THE FUTURE 2021 Environmental Scan Prepared for Calgary Foundation • January, 2021 • By James Stauch Institute for Community Prosperity, Mount Royal University 1 UNMASKING THE FUTURE TABLE OF Contents 3 Introduction 6 Scanning the Horizon 8 A Roaring, but Shackled, Twenties 11 A Political Forecast: Shifting Polarities 15 A Civil Society Forecast: Stepping Up and Stepping Out 19 Feminizing Finance: The Age of She-conomics 21 The Business of Government? Whatever We Want it to Be 24 Toward Universal Child Care: The Key to a She-covery 26 Flattening the Carbon Curve, Flattening the Rockies 28 Exorcising the Resource Curse: The Emerging Post-Carbon Alberta Powerhouse 31 Clocking in to the 21st Century: A Workplace Revolution 34 A New (Digital) Deal 37 From Pity to Parity: Revisiting Income and Social Supports 39 Old Canada: Do We Stand on Guard for Thee? 42 The Experience(d) City: From a Place to Work to a Place to Live 44 Full Speed Ahead: The Electric, Eclectic Future of Transportation 46 There and Back Again: Rediscovering the Community Policing Paradigm 48 Not OK, Boomer: Polarization or an Epidemic of Gullibility? 2 UNMASKING THE FUTURE Introduction “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities “While the COVID-19 pandemic affects us all, the health impacts have been worse for seniors, essential workers, racialized populations, people living with disabilities and women.
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