Welcome back to The Political Trenches: Local Government at Work. I'm glad you've joined us because today we're doing something a little different. Over the past six and a half months, local governments across Canada have been dealing with no shortage of challenges—from housing and infrastructure to public safety, governance, budgets, and the changing relationship between municipalities, provinces, and the communities they serve. Rather than choosing this episode's topics ourselves, we turned...

Welcome to The Political Trenches Local Government At Work. Gordon McIntosh has 40 years of experience in local government management, education, and consultancy roles, providing governance, strategic, and leadership services across Canada and internationally He has delivered over 1,300 workshops to approximately 140,000 participants on a wide range of topics, including cost containment and revenue options, council–staff relations, personal and interpersonal leadership, respectful leadership...

Welcome back to another edition of The Political Trenches: Local Government at Work. After a longer-than-expected break, we’re back with two episodes before we head into our summer hiatus in July. Today, we’re bringing you three stories making headlines across Canada. First, we head to Newfoundland and Labrador, where a man with a prior breaking-and-entering conviction ran for council earlier this year. Then we move to British Columbia, where a brand-new municipality is gearing up to...