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The (lost?) art of reading fiction
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Do we read books anymore? Travel on airplanes or trains these days and the evidence is mixed. While books are...
Continental security and Canadian secrecy
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In February, President Obama and Prime Minister Harper announced the formation of a bilateral working group to explore ways to...
Making politics matter
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As this column goes to print (literally or online as the case may be), most readers are hopefully captivated by...
The power and peril of proximity
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One of the peculiarities of the 21st century is the correlation between virtualization and urbanization: more people online on the...
Stimulus spending and online oversight: How the U.S. trumps Canada
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Full disclosure - the Conservative government has serious problems with the Parliamentary Budgetary Officer, Kevin Page, and so do I.
New mechanisms for the e-health quagmire
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When President Barack Obama campaigns during the coming months for re-election, odds are he will not be reviving one of...
Case of the disappearing data
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Students of public administration struggle with an important contradiction of Westminster governance.
The cloudy state of mobile security
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As the iCloud takes hold - along with numerous other private, public and hybrid clouds - openness, interoperability and interdependence...
Conflit de communications
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L'opération de promotion à laquelle l'Alberta s'est récemment livrée souligne les tensions et les risques inhérents aux communications gouvernementales aujourd'hui...
Life in the fast lane of public life
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A new year is a good time to reflect on the relentless march of time and its close ally, our...