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		<title>Public Accountability Requirements In Provincial Contracts With the RCMP</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry McCandless</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authorities' Accountabilities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media portray accountability as a main issue in BC citizens’ lack of trust in the RCMP, and it is. But money accountability is not the most important issue. It is the performance standards to be met by RCMP officers on the ground . The BC Solicitor General, as the responsible Minister of the Crown, owes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Public Accountability of Governments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gord Hooker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Accountability Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ursula Franklin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Responsibility creates accountability, but public accountability drives the performance. Our current laws state people’s duties and powers but don’t require the directing minds of governments and their agencies to fully and fairly explain their intentions and reasons before they act.
It took a Qatar student, in a May 2011 BBC Doha debate on whether the Wikileaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Municipal Accountability: a city council’s refusal to account</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry McCandless</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accountability of Public Administration Academics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authorities' Accountabilities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the August 19 2009 edition of a Victoria BC local newspaper, the Oak Bay News, I had set out the problem of the mushrooming and unfettered deer population in Victoria and what I saw as the Oak Bay municipal council’s responsibility. In that op-ed I stated:
“If Council members say they can do nothing because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Public Accountability of Governing Boards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry McCandless</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Accountability]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hospitals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boards of governors are responsible for running their organizations. Yet they are not taught what public accountability means and what the board’s own public accountability is.
A board’s public accountability means the obligation of board members to

state publicly before the fact what they intend the organization to bring about, for whom, and why they intend it
what [...]]]></description>
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