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For all media inquiries contact Ilona Dougherty, managing director, Youth & Innovation Project at ilona.dougherty@uwaterloo.ca.
2024
- Why work-integrated learning is key to building the future workforce (Canadian HR Canada - July 18th 2024)
- More young people prefer to work in-person, hybrid work: UW study (CityNews Kitchener - July 17th 2024)
- Canadian youth face the toughest summer job market in decades. Why? (Global News - July 10th 2024)
- Why do younger Canadians prefer hybrid work? (Globalnews 980 CKNW Vancouver - July 5th 2025)
- Canada's youngest workers don't want remote: report (HRD Canada - July 5th 2024)
- Young Canadians prefer in-person and hybrid work, according to a new report (The Conversation - July 2nd 2024)
- For teens, everything old is cool again (CBC Radio Spark - May 31st 2024)
- New employment reality: Young Canadians struggle with economy and focus on remote work (Money.ca - May 30th 2024)
- Youth & Innovation Project : New report reveals insights on how Canadian youth are navigating a new employment reality (Financial Post - May 29th 2024)
- Are you feeling lonely and disconnected at work? (CBC Radio One - March 26th 2024)
2023
- For Gen-Z, remote work isn’t the ‘new normal,’ it’s the norm. Can the generational divide be overcome? (Toronto Star - November 17th 2023)
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How are employers supporting Gen Z at work? (The Globe and Mail - October 18th 2023)
2022
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How young people are transforming the office (Financial Post - September 28th 2022)
2021
- Youth are 'wired' to push for change, researcher says about why they're climate choice influencers (Cbc.ca - October 30th 2021)
2020
- Sixteen year olds are ready to vote (The Guardian - November 25th 2020)
- Researcher backs up P.E.I. student's opinion on teen voting (CBC - November 19th 2020)
- Helping others or helping yourself? The COVID-19 pandemic and WE Charity scandal have forced a long overdue discussion about volunteering in Canada (The Philanthropist - September 15th 2020)
- Scrap troubled student service grant, funnel money into existing relief programs, says student advocate (The Hill Times - July 16th 2020)
- Evidence should guide the design of any student service program (Policy Options - July 15th 2020)
- Exclusive: WE Charity offered camps up to $25K each to recruit volunteers for Liberal grants (National Post - July 4th 2020)
- Teachers to be paid $12K to recruit and manage students under government program with WE Charity (CBC - June 30th 2020)
2019
- Is your event ready for Gen Z? (Ignite Magazine - November-December 2019)
- The kids of 9/11 era set for first vote in federal election (Edmonton Journal - October 4th 2019)
- 3 ways to integrate meaningful youth engagement into your organization (Future of Good - June 19th 2019)
- Three ways young changemakers can have a greater impact globally (Open Canada - April 11th 2019)
2018
- Generation Z: What will be the legacy they leave behind? (Global News - June 24th 2018)
- University of Regina Change Markers forum (Global News Regina Morning Show - March 22nd 2018)
- U of R Change Makers forum aimed at empowering, inspiring young leaders (Regina Leader-Post - March 18th 2018)
- Liberals aim to 'instil culture of service' with new national youth initiative (Cbc.ca - January 16th 2018)
2017
- How to survive (and thrive!) in the first 100 days of your first nonprofit job (Charity Village - July 5th 2017)
- Precarious work and the passage to adulthood (Policy Options - March 31st 2017)
- Equipping our kids for the new labour market (Policy Options - March 13th 2017)
- Our kids can save democracy - if we act now (Ipolitics.ca - March 7th 2017)
- Lowering the voting age to 16 (Toronto's Talk Radio AM640 - March 3rd 2017)
- Trump vs. Zuckerberg and the changing nature of politics (Ipolitics.ca - February 24th 2017)
- O'Leary's right: Stop assuming all young Canadians lean left (Ipolitics.ca - January 19th 2017)
2016
- Our politicians are too old (Ipolitics.ca - December 2nd 2016)
- A longer road to adulthood (The Globe and Mail - October 18th 2016)
- University graduates juggle jobs of varying certainty (The Globe and Mail - October 18th 2016)
- Why Canada needs a national youth policy (Policy Options - September 29th 2016)
- To enhance innovation we need “intrapreneurship” instead of “heropreneurship” (Policy Options - April 5th 2016)
- Is Budget 2016 leaving young Canadians stuck in the past? (Policy Options - April 5th 2016)