Civil Circles

Harper’s changes to senior bureaucrats not ideologically motivated, say experts

There's no pattern to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's mandarin appointments, most driven by retirements, says David Zussman.

By the time Prime Minister Stephen Harper's first term as the leader of a majority is over in 2015, he will have very likely appointed a new deputy minister or senior executive to every one of the government's more than 60 departments and agencies, but that doesn't mean the civil service w...

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