Comptrollers aren’t just ‘bean counters,’ they’re forward-thinking, creative, managers and advisers, says CMA Canada

Fifth Annual Award of Excellence for Comptrollership in the Public Sector to be presented this week.

Fonberg moves to PCO, Fadden to leave CSIS for top job at DND

Robert Fonberg exits as DM at Defence and CSIS director Richard Fadden will take over on May 13.

Government streamlining websites to one or a handful

Government is looking at going to one website to make access to services easier for Canadians, has started identifying ‘trivial’ information online. Some departments now taking Access to Information Requests online.

Morale ‘rock bottom’ at CIDA, still reeling from feds’ budget cuts, policy direction

Details are sketchy on the government’s announcement that CIDA will be merged with Foreign Affairs and International Trade, creating the new Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development.

Former soldiers say depleted uranium has left them ill, but report, experts say there’s no link

Scientists and veterans square off over whether depleted uranium is causing ex-soldiers’ serious health issues.

Time to change management of Canada’s historical canals, say workers, MPs

Canada Post's pay equity dispute has been unresolved for 30 years

Union seeks lien against Canada Post’s headquarters to ensure mail carrier coughs up hundreds of millions owed to members

Male-oriented ‘warrior culture’ still exists in CF, but acceptance of women improving

Retired lieutenant commander Karen Davis says negative attitudes toward women in the military less prevalent.

Federal Integrity Office to expose more rule-breaking public servants in coming weeks

CIDA director general used departmental resources and staff to operate private consulting business, found in conflict of interest by integrity office.

Page says three stellar candidates up for PBO job right in his office

PBO Kevin Page says Mostafa Askari, Sahir Khan, Chris Matier are all interested in the high-pressure job.

Over last 30 years, public service has been ‘turned on its head’ by private-sector style management, loss of front-line workers: Savoie

Harper government spends ‘for partisan political reasons,’ retail politics, says How Ottawa Spends editor

Christopher Stoney says PM Stephen Harper’s government is focused on visible spending with a political payoff.

Statistics on harassment in Canadian Forces and National Defence leave ‘false impression’ of few incidents: DND Ombudsman’s Office

Budget cuts mean closure of dispute resolution centres for members.

Feds’ spending estimates down $1.6-billion over last year

PCO gets $1.4-million for its newly-established Business Transformation and Renewal Secretariat, led by deputy secretary to Cabinet Wilma Vreeswijk.

Meet the mandarin who quarterbacks the government’s legislative agenda: Yvan Roy

PCO’s Yvan Roy provides advice to the PM and holds three of most important roles in the civil service.

Feds trying to make it easier to access services online, says assistant deputy minister of Service Canada

‘As a citizen, I want to interact with the government from my living room, any time of the day or night,’ says Louis Beauséjour, assistant deputy minister Service Canada.

Sexual harassment in federal offices under-reported, say experts

In the 2011 Public Service Employee Survey, 29 per cent of the more than 200,000 respondents said they felt they had been harassed on the job.

A Japanese management system pioneered by Toyota could help feds become more efficient

Feds to close Kitsilano Coast Guard Base, despite inside pressure to keep it open

‘They’re going to move ahead with this until somebody gets killed. This is Russian Roulette they’re doing,' says retired Kitsilano commanding officer Fred Moxey.

Morale poor at HRSDC as 1,509 public servants told their jobs could be cut

‘These are anxious times for people, there’s a lot of uncertainty, and the workplace, the members are digging in admirably,’ says CEIU president Don Rogers.