On February 25th Paul Tellier and David Emerson – two men whose understanding of Ottawa I have a tremendous amount of respect for – released The Fourth Report of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee on the Public Service. It is a document that is worth diving into as these reports will likely serve as reference [...]
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A public purpose: An experience of Liberal opposition and Canadian government by Tom Kent
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A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber
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Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice by Daniel Lathrop, Laurel Ruma
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- Distributed Work by Pamela Hinds and Sara Kiesler (editors)
- The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back by Andrew Sullivan
- God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Audiobook) by Christopher Hitchens
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Canadian Foreign Policy: The War on Independent Thought
Two stories this week highlight Canada’s rapidly decaying capacity to think, engage and act on foreign policy issues. The first was the Globe’s story Canadian Aid Groups Told to Keep Quiet on Policy Issues, the second is Paul Well’s detailed and devastating account of the implosion of Rights and Democracy, an NGO run by the [...]