A surplus in the federal public-service pension plan presents the government with many options
Treasury Board President Anita Anand is poised to table a report revealing a multi-billion-dollar surplus in the public-service pension plan...
Kathryn May
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Public service job cuts loom as Ottawa misses spending and deficit targets
Canada’s ballooning public service has been bracing for spending and job cuts, and now unions are sounding the alarm that...
Acting pay is a complication that runs deep in the public service
The pay bump that comes from temporarily filling in for senior colleagues is deeply rooted in the culture of Canada’s...
Mulroney’s “pink slips and running shoes” yielded to a trust of the public service
Brian Mulroney was elected prime minister promising to give public servants “pink slips and running shoes.” He didn’t follow through...
Graham Flack leaves the public service after three decades at the centre of Canadian history
Graham Flack, a senior federal public servant who held jobs at the centre of crises ranging from the threat of...
John Hannaford sets up public service teams to think about future problems
Canada’s top bureaucrat has assembled a dozen teams of deputy ministers to shake conventional thinking on policymaking and develop fresh...
Allegations of threats and lying perturb the federal public service
So far, the buck stops nowhere. MPs on the government operations committee have spent a year trying to untangle contracting...
Chief information officer Catherine Luelo resigns from job revamping federal tech
The federal government’s chief information officer is leaving the job as the bureaucracy struggles to modernize aging technology systems and...