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Carney’s 15-per-cent challenge: Cutting and rewiring Canada’s public service

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The public service’s RTO policy needs to balance employees’ needs, too

What will be the fate of the budget watchdog? “I think I would know by now”

What will be the fate of the budget watchdog? “I think I would know by now”

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Carney’s quiet public service revolution

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The public service needs to get better at firing its underperformers

Jocelyne Bourgon tient le texte du serment devant le ministre, qui tient la Bible. Le gouverneur général Roméo LeBlanc et le premier ministre Jean Chrétien observent la scène, sous un portrait de la reine Elizabeth.

Former top bureaucrat Jocelyne Bourgon calls for bold public service reform to match Carney’s economic plan

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Could ‘mission government’ solve Ottawa’s delivery problems?

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Public servants running in record numbers flip partisan assumptions

Graham Flack leaves the public service after three decades at the centre of Canadian history

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Catherine Luelo named clerk’s adviser on digital transformation

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Snitching is both ineffective and morally wrong

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Allegations of threats and lying perturb the federal public service

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The federal government needs a digital transformation

Pierre Poilievre, wearing a blue suit jacket and blue shirt without a tie, gestures with four fingers as he answers questions from reporters. The background is in soft focus but the event took place at a Shaarei Shomayim Congregation synagogue in Toronto.

The pay-as-you-go proposal on cutting federal spending not as simple as advocates say

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Chief information officer Catherine Luelo resigns from job revamping federal tech

Generation X takes the helm of the public service with John Hannaford

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Governments must act more urgently to attract needed digital talent

Clerk of the Privy Council John Hannaford relaunches ethics and values discussion in the public service

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Lessons from Superstates on a shared ‘creed’ for public administration

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If spending is out of control, why are important federal services underfunded?

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Cutting $15 billion from the public service won’t be that hard. But what’s next?

Terry Beech’s tall order: revamping service delivery

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Who’s going to finally fix federal public service management?

What was different about Ontario’s COVID-19 response

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