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The RCMP and St. Stephen
Civil Thoughts Series, No. 17 Courier Weekend (St. Stephen, NB), 31/32, A-5, 26 September 2008 One late summer’s day in the mid 1980s I arrived at Depot, the RCMP training academy in Regina,...
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Municipal Zoning
Civil Thoughts Series, No. 18 The Saint Croix Courier (St. Stephen, NB), 144/2, A-5, 14 October 2008 Zoning is a requirement of the province. It is not particularly straight-forward. This can make...
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Alberta and Municipal Reform
Canada has three orders of government: federal, provincial, and local; and the allocation of powers amongst them is rather unequal. The 1982 Constitution Act of Canada, which incorporates the Charter...
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2,200 Evacuees of the Slave Lake Firestorm, May 2011, at Peace River, AB
In the middle of the spring of 2011, the Town of Slave Lake was decimated by sudden fire. The Town of Peace River, where I was chief administrative officer, temporarily housed and attended to some...
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Traditional and New Public Management Conflicts
Civil Thoughts Series, No. 32 Civil Thoughts Series, Bowen Island Times (Bowen Island, BC), 2/5, 7, 2 April 2010 . New public management’s stated values, which I described in my previous column, are...
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