Managing in a new frontier
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Canada’s North is at the forefront of unprecedented change and the focus of increasing global attention. Managing a government office...
Back from the brink: Refocusing Ornge
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Even before controversy shook the organization to its foundation, Ornge was always an anomaly in the Ontario world of ABCs...
A new message for government
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Minister Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board, was preaching to the choir, a group of leading-edge public service thinkers...
Tony Clement: Rethinking government
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Countries, particularly in the western industrialized world, are coming under increasing pressure to balance budgets and get their debt and...
Employee satisfaction trending downward
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The U.S. government 2012 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) results have been released. Like the government of Canada’s Public Service...
Independent policy analysis for Northern Ontario
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We are entering what Neil Bradford calls the third wave of Canadian regional development policy, which recognizes the importance of...
Tomorrow’s data centres today
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Gone are the days when managing a data centre meant focusing on how much capacity the computers could handle.
The rise of the user fee
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For the last few years, governments around the world have been preoccupied with cutting costs to strike a better balance...
Breaking new ground
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Ontario and jurisdictions across Canada are entering a new golden era of mining. Massive mineral deposit discoveries are spurring enormous...
Moving beyond political expediency
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The U.K. deliberations decided real change will come when politicians see the value of evidence and evaluation in helping them...