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Management Zone

Rebuilding of Trust

Peter de Jager

My recent Municipal World column on trust, and a recent webinar on the same topic, generated some interesting email exchanges. The most common follow-up question was, “How does one rebuild trust, once it’s been lost?”

It’s a good question. Knowing the answer would be useful to managers, organizations in general, and government at all levels. (Not to mention teenagers, wayward spouses, and those who run Ponzi schemes.)

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Insights

With municipal authorities increasingly viewing such waste-to-energy conversion systems as potentially profitable alternatives to direct incineration or the use of landfills, it is clear that local governments will have an important role in helping to determine the place for these technologies in the cities of tomorrow. – Frank Came, Senior Advisor, Globe Foundation.

Read this article in January 2012 issue of Municipal World.

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Meet Jon Linton – in The Reading Room

JON LINTON is a management consultant specializing in strategic planning and community economic and tourism development. He has worked in this field for nearly 30 years and his clients have been municipalities, economic development organizations, chambers of commerce, destination marketing organizations, provincial and federal government departments and agencies, downtown revitalization organizations, social service agencies, and many other not-for-profit associations with varied mandates and responsibilities, some too bizarre to mention.

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Feature Book

Municipal Ethics Regimes [Item 0045]

Authored by Gregory J. Levine, a lawyer who practices municipal and administrative law in Ontario and a member of the Law Societies of Upper Canada and British Columbia.

Canadian municipalities faced with ethical challenges, as well as the ethically challenged, are at an important juncture. Increased public concern with the conduct of municipal government and administration have led several provinces to change municipal legislation to either reflect new concerns or to allow for the creation of new ethics mechanisms. Ethics regimes encompass different philosophical and social concerns, as well as different practical mechanisms for dealing with ethics problems. This book explores three areas of concern and their associated mechanisms at the local level: integrity, codes of conduct, and ethics and integrity commissioners; lobbying, lobbyist registration and lobbyist registrars; and, administrative justice, administrative justice codes and ombudsmen. Taking a pan-Canadian approach, while being sensitive to varying municipal and local government legislation and frameworks across Canada, this book outlines key features of these regimes and offers practical information for and insight into designing and implementing effective ethics mechanisms at the municipal level.

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