BC Municipal election rules may be about to change – particularly in regards to candidates’ expenses, campaign contributions and election advertising. The Local Government Elections Task Force has just wrapped up and submitted its report to the BC Government. “The six-member Task Force was co-chaired by Bill Bennett, Minister of Community and Rural Development, […]
Library Journal has published their annual selection on the most pertinent government documents of the past year. Important issues included: Digitization – “Google launched a collaborative project to scan every U.S. government document held by the libraries of the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago. At the project’s end, the full text of […]
Since it’s launch a year ago, Data.gov, which has a mandate to globally democratize data, has undergone a makeover. There are new opportunities to interact with the data as well as new feature such as usage statistics and apps featuring crime statistics by neighborhood to the best towns to find a job to seeing the […]
Read the article Rise and Fall of the GDP in the New York Times Magazine. The author Jon Gertner attended a presentation on the Canadian Index of Well-Being presented by Alex Michalos, a former chancellor at the University of Northern British Columbia. The presentation on the Canadian Index of Well Being is available here. Michalos’ […]
The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources resumed it’s Hearing May 12th, 2010 to review current issues related to offshore oil and gas development – you can view the archived webcast of the Hearing. Take a look at the US government response timeline. Take a look at the Deepwater Horizon Response site, which gives […]
MPs and Senators study, debate and vote on a variety of issues and most of them wind up impacting most of us. Ever wondered how they do their research? As outlined in our entry of March 22, the Parliamentary Information and Research Service (PIRS) has researchers on staff who “obtain and analyze material, and write…research […]