The Wicked Solutions Series
Canada is facing increasingly complex, interconnected challenges—and solving them will require bold collaboration, risk-taking, and a new mindset rooted in systems thinking and innovation.
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Video Interview
Wicked Problems, Wicked Solutions: How to Tackle Canada’s Toughest Challenges
Chad Park
VP, Sustainability & Citizenship
Co-operators
Tima Bansal
Founder & Lab Leader
Innovation North
David Hughes
President & CEO
Generate Canada
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Video Interview
From Waste to Wealth: Building Canada’s Circular Food Economy
Dr. Tammara Soma
Director
Research Food Systems Lab
Amr Addas
Senior Director, Sustainable Finance and Insights
Farm Credit Canada
Barbara Swartzentruber
Senior Advisor
Canadian Alliance for Net-Zero Agri-food
David Hughes
President & CEO
Generate Canada
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Op-Ed
Climate-Driven Financial Vulnerability is a Vicious Cycle. How Do We Reverse It?
Chad Park
VP, Sustainability & Citizenship
Co-operators
Eloise Duncan
Founder and CEO
Financial Resilience Institute
David Hughes
President & CEO
Generate Canada
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Video Interview
From Rubble to Resource: Building Canada’s Circular Construction Future
Meredith Moore
CEO
Ouroboros Deconstruction
Michelle Laidlaw
Associate VP of the Home Portfolio
Co-operators
Paul Shorthouse
Managing Director
Circular Economy Leadership Canada
David Hughes
President & CEO
Generate Canada
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Video Interview
Regenerating Agriculture: Tech, Data and the Future of Canadian Farming
Dan Lussier
Former Director
Canadian Agri-Food Data Initiative
Craig Klemmer
Principal Economist
Farm Credit Canada
Nick Betts
Managing Director
Canadian Alliance for Net-Zero Agri-Food
David Hughes
President & CEO
Generate Canada
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Op-Ed
Getting Sustainable Finance for Agri-food Right is How Canada Feeds the World
Amr Addas
Senior Director, Sustainable Finance and Insights
Farm Credit Canada
Barbara Swartzentruber
Senior Advisor
Canadian Alliance for Net-Zero Agri-food
David Hughes
President & CEO
Generate Canada
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Video Interview
From the Arctic to Ottawa: Investing in Climate Resilience Before It’s Too Late
Don Iveson
Executive Advisor, Climate Investing & Community Resilience
Co-operators
Hillary Thatcher
Managing Director, Investments
Canada Infrastructure Bank
Priya Bala-Miller
Managing Director
Nature Investment Hub
David Hughes
President & CEO
Generate Canada
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Video Interview
How to Build an Affordable, Sustainable Food System for Canada
Dana McCauley
CEO
Canadian Food Innovation Network
Marie-Claude Bourgie
VP Sustainability
Farm Credit Canada
Nick Betts
Managing Director
Canadian Alliance for Net Zero Agri-food
David Hughes
President & CEO
Generate Canada
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Op-Ed
Beyond Silver Bullets: How We Solve Canada’s Wicked Problems Matters
David Hughes
President & CEO
Generate Canada
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The Wicked Solutions Series
As Canada grapples with increasingly complex and interconnected social, economic, and environmental challenges, we need bold approaches that move beyond quick fixes. Wicked problems—like climate change, housing affordability, and systemic inequality—don’t have clear-cut solutions. They are shaped by competing priorities, fragmented systems, and evolving circumstances. Addressing them demands new thinking, cross-sector collaboration, and a willingness to embrace complexity and uncertainty.
The Wicked Solutions Series brings together changemakers, thinkers, and leaders from across disciplines to confront some of the toughest problems facing our society. Through candid conversations and fresh perspectives, this series explores how systems thinking, community-driven approaches, and creative policy design can unlock practical, lasting change. Each episode reveals how Canada can chart new pathways through complexity—by working collectively, thinking differently, and daring to tackle what others won’t.
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La série Solutions complexes
Alors que les soins de santé sont confrontés à des défis et des opportunités sans précédent, le Canada a besoin de solutions qui s’attaquent aux problèmes systémiques tels que les disparités d’accès, les pénuries de main-d’œuvre et l’intégration numérique. Face au vieillissement de la population, à la hausse des coûts et à l’augmentation des besoins en matière de santé mentale, le système de santé doit garantir un accès équitable, en particulier pour les communautés isolées et autochtones. En donnant la priorité à l’innovation, à la réforme des politiques et à la collaboration, le Canada peut construire un système de santé résilient et inclusif, prêt à répondre aux exigences d’aujourd’hui et aux complexités de demain.
La série L’avenir de la santé : Faire progresser les soins de santé au Canada réunit des dirigeants du secteur des soins de santé au Canada afin d’explorer des stratégies de transformation pour l’avenir. Ces conversations mettent en lumière les innovations en matière de soins centrés sur le patient, de santé numérique et de technologie médicale, en se concentrant sur des solutions qui donnent la priorité à l’accessibilité, à l’équité et à la résilience. Chaque épisode examine comment le Canada peut tirer parti de la technologie, de la politique et de la recherche pour créer un système de santé plus réactif et plus inclusif, en relevant les défis d’aujourd’hui et en mettant le cap sur un avenir plus sain.

