A career boost for foreign trained professionals
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Anne Peters looked out her office window, glanced skyward, and said a silent “thank you.”
Mining for corporate social responsibility
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The Canadian mining industry is responsible for over 4.5 percent of the nation's GDP. It has contributed to opening up...
Merit and trust
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For the past one hundred years, democratic states have been moving steadily toward a merit-based society where advancement in the...
Keys to success: Talent, technology and tolerance
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Talent, technology and tolerance represent what I call the 3Ts of economic development. The 3Ts approach represents a comprehensive strategy...
Connecting systems for greater efficiency
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Our cities are growing at an unprecedented rate. In 1900, only 13 percent of the world's population lived in cities....
From austerity to agility
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With the federal public service in a state of budgetary retrenchment, for many managers the focus is understandably on the...
Collaboration key to environmental innovation
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Saskatchewan's Ministry of Environment is leading a new approach built on results-based regulations to enhance environmental protection while encouraging innovation.
The people management challenge
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The 2012 budget has come and gone but the huge challenge of implementing its key human resource and programming elements...
Let the information flow
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Web 2.0 is here and it's only going to get bigger. If anyone was still nursing the notion that Internet...
A national priority: Creating a science policy centre
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Science and technology have been major contributors to the economic prosperity and social well-being of our nation.