The mandate of municipal government is to provide access to civic amenities and to ensure that residents follow the local laws and ordinances adopted by City Council. In general, there are operating processes in place to monitor and enforce these …

Municipal Employer Update – State of Emergency Returns Further to Premier Ford’s announcement January 12th, the Province is returning to a State of Emergency, effective Thursday, January 14th. Though public health measures and restrictions have been in place throughout the pandemic, Ontario …

  The Covid-19 economy has reduced quality of life for many impacted by the pandemic. Individuals struggling with food security and mental health will increase. Innovative digital solutions can help collect data and apply data science to provide guidance on how best …

A Challenging Year Ahead While Canadian and global stock markets reach new records week, after week (at least at the time of this writing!), employment, inflation and interest rates tell a very different story. Employment insurance claims at of the …

What is the most important HR training topic for 2021? If you are an HR Leader or CAO, how will you invest your Learning and Development budget to get the maximum benefit for your team? Read on to see how …

  Many small to medium sized business (and even large enterprise businesses)  and government, have limited budgets, let alone spending a lot on risk and security. Before you do go and spend a lot of capital on risk and security …

Communities across Canada were excited to hear the news that shipments of vaccine arrived and front-line workers and seniors were first in line to receive the vaccinations that will eventually make its way across Canada to every citizen in a …

Interpreting the Province’s Covid-19 Safety Zones Everyone is becoming more familiar with the Ontario government’s colour-coded system to illustrate the level of restrictions being implemented in each region’s public health unit to limit the spread of Covid-19. The province and …

This cloud-based Human Resources Information System (HRIS) platform is two dimensional.  Specifically, the municipality’s Performance Expectations and also the municipality’s Cultural, Behavioural, and Values Expectations. This HRIS platform measures and focuses on an employee and/or manager successfully achieving the municipality’s …

How much Space is enough? It was hot and humid day in Bujumbura, Burundi. The mini-bus was loaded and we were ready to drive to our destination in Ijenda.  To our surprise the bus stopped to pick up some more …