Public service job cuts loom as Ottawa misses spending and deficit …
Nov 12, 2024 · Kathryn is Policy Options’ public-service reporter, covering and analyzing the complex issues facing Canada’s federal public service. She writes The Functionary newsletter, an easy digest of public-service insider roundups. She is also the Accenture fellow on the Future of the Public Service.Her work has been recognized with a National Newspaper Award and a Canadian Online Publishing Award.
Making Greenland a full part of North America should be a priority …
Apr 2, 2024 · The U.S., the E.U. and Iceland are all increasing ties with Greenland, which wants to work strategically with Canada. It’s a critical opportunity.
Evaluating Canada’s pledge to triple nuclear capacity
Nov 18, 2024 · As we watch negotiations at the COP29 climate change conference and mark the one-year anniversary of Canada’s pledge to triple its nuclear capacity by 2050, the reality would appear to be clear: there is no feasible net-zero future without the deployment of new nuclear power.. This pledge signals a shift for a country that just three years ago excluded nuclear from its clean energy funding ...
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Trump’s tariff threats add to woes facing Canadian infrastructure projects They threaten to drive up costs and disrupt projects, creating a trial by fire for the new Canadian Infrastructure Council.
The federal government plans to expand the “25-and-out” pension
Kathryn is Policy Options’ public-service reporter, covering and analyzing the complex issues facing Canada’s federal public service. She writes The Functionary newsletter, an easy digest of public-service insider roundups. She is also the Accenture fellow on the Future of the Public Service.Her work has been recognized with a National Newspaper Award and a Canadian Online Publishing Award.
Here we go again? Making sense of the PQ’s rise in the polls
May 1, 2024 · (Version française disponible ici). The 2018 Quebec provincial election was notable not only because it brought to power a new political party – the Coalition avenir Québec – but because it was a historic defeat for the sovereigntist Parti Québécois, reduced at that time to only 10 seats in the National Assembly.The party suffered a …
Are Indigenous communities being set up to fail with the transfer …
Oct 18, 2024 · Members of the Sts'ailes Nation raise their arms while singing and drumming after the signing of an agreement with the federal and provincial governments to recognize the First Nation's jurisdiction over their own child and family services laws, …
Canada’s battlegroup in Latvia is too vulnerable to deter a Russian ...
Oct 29, 2024 · The demonstrated ability of the Russian military to sustain a high rate of dead and wounded – as well as its huge expenditure of material in Ukraine – poses a daunting challenge for the 1,000-strong Canadian battlegroup deployed in Latvia.
What to do with the public-service pension surplus?
Nov 19, 2024 · Kathryn is Policy Options’ public-service reporter, covering and analyzing the complex issues facing Canada’s federal public service. She writes The Functionary newsletter, an easy digest of public-service insider roundups. She is also the Accenture fellow on the Future of the Public Service.Her work has been recognized with a National Newspaper Award and a Canadian Online Publishing Award.
The differences between Canada and the U.S. remain significant
Dec 20, 2022 · This is another case where a majority of the supporters of each of the main political parties agrees in Canada, but not in the United States. When it comes to promoting racial equality, the gap between Canadian Conservatives and U.S. Republicans is as large as that between Conservatives and Liberals in Canada.