EthicScan, Canada’s oldest and largest corporate responsibility research and ethics consultancy, announces its extensive education program for next year. 14 faculty members, 15 courses, 10 webinars, and 4 learning circles on topics like complaint investigation, ethical partnering, end of life decision-making, managing sustainability, and corporate reporting. Most programs in Canada and the U.K. http://ethicscan.ca/events/
Slammed in 2011 by Transparency International (TI) for having “little or no enforcement,” Canada’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has stepped up its enforcement of the country’s anti-bribery laws, with 35 active investigations and several successful prosecutions now under their belt. Canadian businesses are taking note. In the opinion of CS Newsflash (April 12), peer
EthicScan associate Jane Garthson is preparing a Resources Library for public service and private sector social marketing professionals in Canada on successful experiences with partnerships, sponsorships, alliances and other collaboration strategies. The community of practice suffers from an absence of updated federal and provincial government corporate policies in this area. If you have experiences,
Haidt, Jonathan, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Pantheon; 2012) The full review, by David Nitkin at EthicScan, can be found in the Ethics in Integrity Webzine: At first glance a book on moral psychology would seem to be of limited interest to elected government officials, but first impressions
Read about a fledgling project, seemingly unprecedented in North America, to routinely involve ethics professionals in the moral conundrums of the emergency ward, health care’s most hectic, time-crunched environment.
“Canada needs to set ground rules for a new “moral contract” between ministers, public servants and Parliament because the existing rules are too weak to stop the partisan exploitation of the bureaucracy, says a former senior bureaucrat who helped write some of those rules.”
I suggest you read the transcript from this year’s Gordon Osbaldeston Lecture given by Allan Gregg Gregg’s thesis can be summed up as civil society (elected officials, public servants, and citizens) need to be more authentic.His lecture “On Authenticity: How the Truth can Restore Faith in Politics and Government” provides a perspective on the relationship
Ottawa Citizen’s Kate Heartfield’s piece on a Canada’s mining sort-of-ombudsman who’s had two cases in two years, one of which died when the mining company pulled out. “That’s what you get when you can only investigate parties who consent to be investigated.”
This piece appeared in today’s Edmonton Journal.They note that it is”encouraging to see David Suzuki, the godfather of Canada’s environmental left, is finally willing to start thinking about the ethical implications of our oil sources. It would be more encouraging if he were willing to acknowledge, as almost any reasonable Canadian will, that some oil-producing
National Post · Jun. 18, 2011 | Last Updated: Jun. 18, 2011 4:07 AM ET Former auditor-general Sheila Fraser’s final report on the budget for the G8-G20 summits revealed a severe lack of oversight on government spending. First, Ottawa grossly overestimated the costs of the summits, obtaining spending approvals far in excess of what was