Leadership and Local Government
Issue 3 - June 2018

From the Editor's Desk

By Gord Hume

First, thank you to the many municipal leaders who came by the Municipal Information Network booth at the FCM Conference in Halifax. It was great to meet so many old and new friends, to hear your feedback on our new PERSPECTIVES e-magazine (thank you for the many nice comments!), and to chat about the important issues facing towns and cities across Canada. We value your ideas and hope some of you will share them with our readers in the magazine.
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Leadership Is Hard Work

By Carol Stephenson, O.C.

Leadership is hard work. It is not easy. When I was Dean at the Ivey Business School at Western University we conducted many interviews around the world after the financial crisis in 2008. Much of the crisis was being blamed on lack of regulatory oversight, executive compensation, and other factors. We wanted to explore if good leadership made a difference. In fact, we found there was a correlation between leaders with consistent and admirable character traits and companies that did well.
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Reflections on Local Leadership and Life

By Christina Benty

There is a rule of thumb for comedians: "Get off the stage while they are still laughing". For politicians, maybe it should be "Get off the stage while you are still laughing"! After twelve years in local government, including two terms as mayor, I retired while I still loved what I did. I learned plenty over my tenure, not only about public leadership but also about personal leadership. How one leads their life in the small moments is how one will lead them in the big ones. How you are in your private life is how you show up in your public life. The two are inseparably intertwined.
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Higher Level Strategic Thinking for Municipalities

By Dan Mathieson

It seems everything is changing at a breakneck speed these days. Two-year-old cell phones are outdated. You can turn on the television or turn off the lights with Alexa. Autonomous cars are already being tested on city streets in Canadian cities. The one constant is change, and hardly a sector of our society is untouched – except for municipal governments, some pundits would claim. Not so fast.
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Smart Cities Hoping to Cash Big Cheques

By Perspectives Staff

20 Canadian communities are happily looking ahead to cashing big federal government cheques, as they have been short-listed as the finalists for Canada's "Smart Cities Challenge". The new, competition-based approach encouraged villages, towns and cities to come up with local, innovative solutions to their most pressing issues. More than 200 communities from across Canada responded.
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Civic Comment
Tariffs and Trade Trump Talks at FCM

By Gord Hume

The Halifax FCM conference was an interesting one, and comes at a terribly important time in Canadian politics. The Ontario provincial election saw a dramatic change in government. What that might mean for the province's 444 municipalities is yet to be determined. Alberta has an election soon. Canada goes to the polls next year. Several provinces have municipal elections in the next two years. It is a time of momentous change in Canadian politics, and those two years will be tumultuous.
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