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.
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.
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.
What does Alberta’s Provincial Priorities Act signal for Canadian …
Oct 10, 2024 · The Alberta government passed legislation in May that has fuelled growing anxiety within Canada’s research sector. The Provincial Priorities Act (formerly Bill 18) requires all provincial entities — including universities and researchers — to receive the province’s approval before entering into federal funding agreements.. The provincial government has framed the new legislation as ...
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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.
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, …
The Bloc’s ultimatum on seniors’ benefits
Oct 10, 2024 · Thanks to a more precarious minority Parliament, the Bloc Québécois is flexing more policy muscle than it has in a while. It has laid out the conditions for its temporary willingness to support the minority Liberals, one of which would significantly increase key cash benefits paid to Canadian seniors.. The Bloc would like to see its draft bill C-319 become law, and it now has the symbolic ...
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 ...
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 …