Instead of returning $25,000 to her, the government, in a common act of legalized self-dealing, kept $25,000… Such predatory forfeiture is done by a dozen states and the District of Columbia, which took a $200,000 home from a man with dementia and a $133 tax debt. Fortunately, ...
This is probably expecting too much of contemporary politicians, who find it difficult to stop regulating and who find it difficult to admit to profound policy errors. Sadly, American politicians are just as feckless as British politicians. So the bad policies in the United States also seem ...
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Procurement– Governments can have hundreds of enterprise applications and initiatives. How government teams decide to work with contractors and vendors is a huge factor in their success. Although there has been a powerful movement in procurement reform across governments at all levels, moving to a m...
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Breaking ground: 150 years of federal infrastructure in British Columbia – Thompson–Okanagan Region: Summerland Experimental Farmby Caitlin Webster, Library and Archives Canada Blog Valentina Donato is an Archival Assistant in the Government Record Branch at Library and Archives Canada. ...
“The Lesser of Two Evils” In politics, as in life, sometimes we must choose the so-called “lesser of two evils.” So when both presidential candidates have high negatives, we must choose the one with fewer. A friend once described his dilemma to me as a choice between “a known dev...
contacting Health Canada and the relevant ministries in Ontario and British Columbia, it seems clear that Canadian policymakers are aware of many of these issues, but are either uninterested in addressing them or are actively trying to suppress public awareness of what a disaster safer supply has ...
Our age's increasingly voluminous opensource intelligence (OSINT) sheds light on issues of the day for allsource analysts, covert collectors, and policymakers, but have we done enough to exploit its potential? My short answer is "No," and here's why I think so. Collecting intelligen...
Opinion by Andy May I wrote my latest book, Politics and Climate Change: A History, because I recognized that government funding of scientific research was corrupting science. We were warned this might happen by President Eisenhower in his farewell addre