Setting a standard for workplace health and safety
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The National Voluntary Standard for psychological health and safety in the workplace sets the standard for maintaining psychologically healthy workplaces...
Canada post-2015: Confronting our own development challenges
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Deliberations and negotiations in the United Nations are intensifying on what the successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals should...
Leveraging the healthcare cloud
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The Canadian healthcare system is famously slow to adopt new technologies. The current shift toward cloud-based technologies is a recent...
Ontario and Alberta band together for innovation
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Ontario and Alberta have joined forces to encourage the development of research projects that will stimulate job growth, bring new...
Seeking the translators of IT, data and analysis
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The big issue on the table now is big data and analytics, with questions that should concern governments: do they...
Partnership between western provinces supports post-secondary education
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The government of Alberta has banded together with British Columbia and Saskatchewan to bring open resources to its post-secondary institutions....
There is no They – only You and We
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A few months back, I phoned Service Canada at their handy toll-free number. My goal: to find out why my......
Crowdsourcing takes flight
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The government of Canada’s 2013 budget pledged to reduce public service travel costs via digital infrastructure, notably telepresence capabilities for...
Post-2015 MDG framework: The world we want
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The UN consultations on the post-2015 development framework are focused on what the UN Millennium campaign aptly calls, "The World...
Collaboration works: A case study with social media
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It has long been recognized in the federal public service that the two cornerstones for how we approach our business...