Enid Slack

We live in a world of cities—half of the world’s population lives in cities today and the United Nations projects that the urban population will grow to 70 percent of the world population by 2050. Not only is the world experiencing rapid urbanization but the number of megacities (cities with more than 10 million people) is also on the…

Twenty years ago, Doug Hartle wrote about the expenditure budgetary process of the government of Canada and described it in theatrical terms as “an amalgam of a Greek tragedy, a medieval morality play, and a Hollywood western: the same story is re-enacted time after time; the players may differ but the basic roles are the…