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Two stats from the survey: 61 per cent lack confidence in the ability of public servants to plan for the future. And: 67 per cent: Lack confidence in the ability of public servants to spend taxpayers’ money wisely.

Canadians not confident public service is prepared for the future

A tent, trash, and personal belongings at a homeless encampment on Notre-Dame Street in East Montreal.

Cities are managing the visible signs of social failure with homelessness

Champagne raises a hand to the robot, which is made of metal but has a human form, while Desmarais looks on.

Canada doesn’t need AI independence. It needs exit plans for critical sectors

Cyclists ride along a bike lane in downtown Toronto.

Canada needs a deeper municipal bond market

Pothole in a Montreal's street.

Cities are closer to Canada’s problems than they are to the money

A worker in a white helmet stands on scaffolding near the support beams for a roof.

How Build Canada Homes can build affordable housing fast

A medical practitioner going over medical information with a patient in an examination room.

Renewal in Canada’s primary health-care system needs a North Star

Silhouette of a head filled with and surrounded by symbols.

The Carney government’s embrace of AI will put lives at risk

Mulroney’s “pink slips and running shoes” yielded to a trust of the public service

Reassert core ethical values in the public service

ArriveCAN should drive deeper reforms, not just contracting oversight

Illustration of a single wolf standing on a wide-open city street at night, looking at the towers twinkling in the distance. Part of the sky is bright yellow-orange.

The particularly Canadian “lone-wolf” tradition of studying the public service

Black public servants locked in three-year legal battle with Ottawa with no end in sight

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

Blue-tinted illustration showing a laptop surrounded by icons depicting the cloud, bar charts, and a notepad and pen.

Catherine Luelo named clerk’s adviser on digital transformation

A person in dark silhouette makes a phonecall.

Snitching is both ineffective and morally wrong

Two hands holding an electronic device with the opening screen of the ArriveCAN app.

Allegations of threats and lying perturb the federal public service

A boring closeup of a computer server, with yellow and blue cables coming out of it.

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

A digital image with a Canadian flag disintegrating into a blue matrix symbolizing technology.

Chief information officer Catherine Luelo resigns from job revamping federal tech

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

In this illustration, small human silhouettes are shown standing on an oversized keyboard. They appear to be waiting for something.

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

Images of the flags of India, the United States, China and the EU are painted onto weathered concrete blocks and divided by cracks.

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

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