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The Municipal Information Systems Association has introduced an online learning portal for municipal IT staff and end-users, which offer both technical and business skills development programs. Proponents say the portal provides big benefits for municipalities in remote areas by taking the traveling part out of training.

Canada's public sector and ICT vendors are working together to address the challenges of doing business with government. Public Sector Research's Chris Bishop details some of these procurement issues and what's being done about them.

The Canadian government is now in competition with the private sector to recruit in an increasingly tightening labour market for IT professionals. A panel at this week's GTEC 2007 conference discusses what the feds are doing do to keep the talent coming.

The Defence Department has taken on the challenge of transforming its IT organization into a service-oriented entity for delivering information management services to the entire organization. The initiative's director, Len Bastien, provides the rationale behind this IM rationalization.

Turning social networking into public service collaboration, the Government of Canada will set up an online tool through which federal agencies can share knowledge and best practices. CIO Ken Cochrane says it's but one of the many steps towards attaining Government 2.0 status.

The new Brampton Civic Hospital will open its doors on October 28, with an integrated information and communications system at the core of the new facility. Hospital officials are emphasizing improvements to patient safety and service delivery as the rationale behind this massive technology upgrade.

A local hospital goes through a physical and technology upgrade that includes an integrated communications network and patient information system which allows staff to do performance measurement

Canadian ports are turning to biometrics to increase security at various access points. From fingers to faces, how the technology is leveraging the human anatomy