Civil Service

The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil servant is a person employed in the public sector by a government department or agency. Civil servants work for government departments, and answer to the government, not a political party. The extent of civil servants of a state as part of the "civil service" varies from country to country. In the United Kingdom, for instance, only Crown (national government) employees are referred …

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CLD: Centre for Law and Democracy · 10 December 2024 English

Local organizations represent This inclusion of and partnership with the interests of their communities in crucial civil society is not unheard of in the areas such as land rights and …

richer countries tend to be separation of the civil service from the less corrupt. The UN report highlights


FCPP: Frontier Centre for Public Policy · 29 November 2024 English

The result was the fiscal crisis of the mid-1990s, in which the federal government had to cut social benefits to avoid devaluation of the Canadian dollar, and the run-away inflation …

Privy Council, who is the permanent head of the civil service, and the prime minister’s chief of staff and the Prime Minister and Cabinet, to whom the civil service and military answer. They are responsible for


New Brunswick Department of Health · 25 November 2024 English

The branch prepares responses to requests under the Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act and coordinates appointments to the agencies, boards and commissions within the responsibility of the …

STAFFING ACTIVITY Pursuant to section 4 of the Civil Service Act, the Secretary to Treasury Board delegates competitions. Pursuant to sections 15 and 16 of the Civil Service Act, the department made the following appointments APPOINTMENT TYPE APPOINTMENT DESCRIPTION NUMBER CIVIL SERVICE ACT Specialized An appointment may be made without THE APPOINTMENT TYPE APPOINTMENT DESCRIPTION CIVIL SERVICE ACT NUMBER Lateral transfer The GNB transfer regular properly classified position within the Civil Service. Regular appointment Summer students, university


School of Public Policy, University of Calgary · 19 November 2024 English

.35 The Lay of the Land: Prospects for Improving Financial Competitiveness1 Mark Huson and Randall Morck EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Alberta’s financial sector has not grown to match the province’s overall rise …

politicized civil service can magnify this cycle, and Canada’s relatively independent civil service may also reassert the supremacy of the legislature and civil service by emphasizing that long-term net wealth creation


Fraser Institute · 19 November 2024 English

Since 2015, the federal government has significantly increased spending on Indigenous Peoples. The annual Indigenous budget has almost tripled from 2015 to 2025, growing (in nominal dollars) from roughly $11 …

extent by the increase in federal spend- ing and civil-service hiring from 2016 to 2021, because an unmeasured


C.D. Howe Institute · 13 November 2024 English

What are the costs of these interprovincial barriers to the Canadian economy? While complex to estimate, given how interrelated economic activity is in any given country, studies by the Bank …

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DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 November 2024 English

The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. For …

street. Oddly enough it was popular in the civil service, a target of the satire. Maybe, Georges thought


PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 12 November 2024 English

This despite the fact that the Soviet Union bore the brunt of the losses and damage caused during World War II in Europe, along with the working people of Europe, …

Conscription and Defend Conscientious Objectors • Civil Service and Non-Combat Roles in the Military for Objectors Tribunal continued to publish. (menwhosaidno.org) Civil Service and Non-Combat Roles in the Military for Objectors conscientious objectors in Dartmoor in 1917. form of civil service in Britain in lieu of taking part in combat


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 12 November 2024 English

1 The Role of Governance in Unleashing the Value of Data The Current State of Global Data Governance Establishing country-level data governance frameworks is an ongoing and complex undertaking. [...] …

conversations came about when the regulator and civil service members in the transparency working group nearly


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

rehabilitative penal reformism in the Irish civil service since the 1950s, but it had been largely restrained


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