Uncharted territory for intelligence agencies
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Intelligence agencies have had widespread and long-running programs to gather, analyze and share electronic data for defence and security purposes....
Thank you
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In this last week before Christmas and the holidays, this is a good time for managers to think about how...
A Breath of Fresh Air
4 min read
I believe that the most important things in life should be able to exist without me. I just returned from...
An action plan for self-sustainment
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The Comprehensive Community Plan...was a community-driven project, where we talked about our wishes, our dreams and our needs, and we...
Putting the weight in the right place
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A procurement is designed to deliver specified results to a client. If those results are poorly understood or defined, there...
Effective social media requires change in the communications paradigm
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It’s no secret that governments are trying to make social media work: check out the government of Canada’s guidelines. The...
Big data’s disruptive impact on future policy analysis
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As part of the Public Policy Forum’s university lecture series, Mel Cappe, the former Cabinet Secretary to Jean Chretien (1999...
A different resource sector dialogue with First Nations
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In the spirit of nation building, Treaty 7 Management Corporation and the Institute on Governance held a symposium in Calgary...
Analytics and water supply management
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Water is essential to life, yet this resource is not being managed in a way that is sustainable. Cities are...
OAG off the mark?
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Chapter 2 of the Auditor General’s fall 2013 report looks at access to online services. Examining four federal government departments,...