Kathryn May

Kathryn May is a parliamentary reporter who has covered the federal public service for more than two decades. She has worked at various Canadian newspapers, including the Ottawa Citizen and iPolitics.

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Federal union members reject new organization for gig workers

One of Canada’s largest public service unions spent two years developing a proposal for a pioneering guild-style organization to represent professionals in precarious work, only to have the idea defeated by members in a recent …

Feds using predictive analytics to craft youth policy

The federal government is wading into the area of predictive analytics to try to help build more effective programs and policies before they are approved and funded. The Chicago-based data firm Mission Measurement, home of the …

Five game changers that could shape the future of work

The head of the federal government’s foresight agency says identifying the skills that workers will need in the future, as jobs rapidly change or disappear completely, is one of the toughest challenges policy-makers have in …

The case for having a federal evaluator general

A decade ago, a group of policy wonks obsessed with gathering hard evidence for decision-making began meeting regularly over beers in Ottawa. They put together a campaign for the creation of an independent evaluation watchdog …

The renegade team trying to disrupt government hiring

A renegade group of Ottawa-based federal public servants are building the world’s first recruitment engine for gig workers who want to work in government. GC Talent Cloud is already attracting international attention for trying to …

What ever happened to deliverology?

Mention “deliverology” to a public servant working on the policy frontlines, and you’ll get either a shrug or a grumble. The trendy management theory that took the federal bureaucracy by storm three years ago has …