Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jeremy Wallace examines China's massive - if messy - renewable energy revolution which stands to make fossil fuels obsolete in the very near future.…
public service
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jonathan Freedland discusses how the Trump regime is systematically corrupting law, government and morality alike, while A.R. Moxon discusses the challenges of trying to…
Much Ado About The Deep State, NOT
This post is written from a Canadian perspective. Deep state is a term used for (real or imagined) potential, unauthorized and often secret networks of power operating within a government…
Wednesday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Wednesday reading.- Dharna Noor discusses how Zohran Mamdani is rightly connecting climate ambition to an affordability agenda. And Vass Bednar looks to Mamdani's push for public…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Sarah Johnson reports on Unicef's warning that children will face far more extreme heatwaves and other dangerous weather events in the decades to…
Grandview Kids Gala
Omar Ha-Redeye attended the Grandview Kids Pure Imagination Gala on Oct. 4, 2019, at Deer Creek Banquet Facility in Ajax, Ontario. From Left: Omar Ha-Redeye and Lorne Coe, MPP
Guy Kerr can’t be blamed for the Alberta WCB’s troubles, but his resignation is an opportunity to get it back on track
Guy Kerr cannot be blamed for the tragic wrong turn the Alberta Workers Compensation Board took nearly 30 years ago under the Conservative governments of premiers Don Getty and Ralph…
A wacky idea for getting more value from university administrators: pay them less and never mind competitiveness
PHOTOS: Alberta Advanced Education Minister Marlin Schmidt serving pancakes at yesterday morning’s Premier’s K-Days Breakfast on the south lawn of the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton. Below: Just to stick with…
Fractured Fairy Tales: Jerry Earle edition #nlpoli
Via VOCM, the reaction of NAPE boss Jerry Earle to a study that showed the provincial government is overloaded with provincial public servants compared to the situation in other provinces:…
Updated NL Public Service Numbers, 2003-2016 #nlpoli
A couple of access to information requests - pdf 1 and pdf 2 - gave the world some new numbers on the growth in the core provincial public service from…
Updated NL Public Service Numbers, 2003-2016 #nlpoli
A couple of access to information requests - pdf 1 and pdf 2 - gave the world some new numbers on the growth in the core provincial public service from…
Canadian Tamil Congress 2014 Pongal Dinner
The Canadian Tamil Congress hosted its seventh annual Pongal Dinner at the Hilton Toronto / Markham Suites Conference Centre. Sponsors of the event included Himelfarb Proszanski LLP, Chapel Ridge, Money…
Harper Conservatives Nuked More Than 15,000 Public Service Jobs in 2012
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: A report tabled in the House of Commons last Friday reveals that the Harper Conservatives nuked more than 15,000 public service jobs last…
The 2013 Q1 Churn Appointments #nlpoli
One of the great things about having orders in council readily available is that people can find information. That’s exactly why the current administration has kept them as secret as…
Celebrating Public Service
Public servants celebrating the enrolment of 5 million citizens in the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan (1959, Archives of Ontario) Notes for talk at Public Policy Forum Dinner, April 11, 2013…
Celebrating Public Service
Public servants celebrating the enrolment of 5 million citizens in the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan (1959, Archives of Ontario) Notes for talk at Public Policy Forum Dinner, April 11, 2013…
Paging the Clerk
On this brouhaha of yesterday: “CIDA rapped for partisan letters from cabinet minister appearing on website.” The core question in this incident is how these letters came to be posted…
So, uh, the President of TB…
… doesn’t have anything better to do than to declare war on Santa-haters? Really, Uncle Tony? Really? The Government of Canada has no guidelines that restrict federal employees from putting…