All posts tagged "Canadian Public service"
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AccelerateGOV conference returns to spur digital transformation in government
AccelerateGOV is back for its second year, bringing together civil and public servants from around the world to Ottawa, Canada, on 3 October for an agenda packed with sessions on
- Posted August 30, 2023
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From AI to net zero: what governments are focusing on around the world
Government are dealing with major trends influencing the work of public services around the world. This article examines issues from artificial intelligence and building citizen trust and engagement, to the
- Posted July 13, 2023
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Letter from Ottawa: transitions and reboots for the public service
A new clerk takes the top job at a period of unusual attention and angst in the Canadian government. Political tumult is ever-present, even two years from an election, and
- Posted June 12, 2023
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Canadian PM Trudeau names new clerk of privy council as Janice Charette announces retirement
Canada’s most senior public servant, Janice Charette, is to retire as clerk of the privy council and secretary to the cabinet and will be replaced by John Hannaford, the country’s
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Canadian public service will not return to pre-COVID headcount; IRS to develop more diverse workforce: management & workforce news in brief
Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Canadian public service will not return to pre-pandemic size under departmental plans The size of
- Posted April 13, 2023
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Canadian government becoming ‘hybrid by design’ says minister in challenge to back-to-office calls
Treasury Board president Mona Fortier has insisted that the Government of Canada is working to harness the best of office and remote working as she responded to calls for business
- Posted November 14, 2022
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Letter from Ottawa: the changing of the seasons – and eras
Politics is gearing up again in Canada as summer turns to autumn. Michael Wernick, the former clerk of the privy council and secretary to cabinet, sets out the stakes in
- Posted September 20, 2022
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‘If we’re not representative, why would people trust us?’: GGF’s latest Leading Questions podcast with Canada’s recently retired head of public service accessibility, Yazmine Laroche
Global Government Forum’s new podcast is out, featuring Yazmine Laroche who retired from the Canadian Public Service after three decades in a wide variety of roles – latterly as deputy
- Posted September 2, 2022
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Canada’s hybrid work plan stokes discontent among public servants
The Canadian federal government has continued to face backlash for its bid to bring public servants back into shared workspaces, with employees swapping views and information online in shared opposition
- Posted August 9, 2022
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‘Ask yourself where you want to be three jobs from now’: five minutes with… Ontario’s deputy minister of finance, Greg Orencsak
Orencsak, who also chairs the Ontario Financing Authority, tells Global Government Forum about solving wicked problems through collaboration, giving yourself permission to take a sideways career move, and the instant
- Posted April 10, 2022