Seminar Papers 2024
November 2024
2024
The Provincial Housing Agenda: A Year In Review
OVERVIEW: provincial housing legislation introduced over the past year has largely been viewed as trenching on an area of jurisdiction –...
2024
Internal Investigations: Code Of Conduct And Workplace Complaints
In recent years there has been increased attention on investigations for various forms of misconduct within local governments. This paper...
2024
Governance: Common Issues
Despite the decades long history of the governance rules relating to open meetings, conflict of interest, and public participation in...
2024
Local Government Finance: Selected Topics
Financing for local governments in British Columbia is an important aspect of ensuring that municipalities and regional districts can...
2024
Human Rights Update
In this paper, we provide an update on the operations of the Human Rights Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) and its attempts to address a...
2024
FOI: From Start To Finish
One of the realities of being part of a local government is that your communications and work products, from the reports you read and write...
2024
Procurement: A Refresher And More
This paper will consider the sources of liability in tendering: contractual claims arising from “Contract A”, the trade agreements, and...
2024
Enforcing Bylaws: What You Need To Know
Local governments routinely deal with individuals and businesses that do not comply with their bylaws. Sometimes, local governments receive...
2024
Caselaw Update
This paper examines seven court decisions over the past year that would be of particular interest to local governments: (i) the Court of...