Note Details
- Stage: seed 🌱
- Type: note
- Topics: canada governance politics
A running log of notable articles on Canadian governance, policy, and institutional developments.
Maintaining a personal governance watch serves as a form of civic intelligence — a deliberate practice of tracking how institutions evolve, where accountability gaps emerge, and what structural forces shape public life. Rather than consuming political news reactively, a curated log allows patterns to surface over time: recurring themes, escalating crises, or slow-moving policy shifts that daily news cycles tend to obscure.
The two articles below both appeared in late 2022 and touch on distinct but related concerns: the use of legal instruments to combat organized crime in British Columbia, and the structural deterioration of Canada’s military capacity. Together they illustrate how governance challenges span both domestic law enforcement and national defense — two domains that rarely appear in the same conversation but share underlying questions about state capacity, resource allocation, and political will.
This note could grow into a more structured civic tracking system, with entries organized by date, topic, or institution.
Articles
- Nov 23 2022 — Unexplained Wealth Order in BC / Globe and Mail
- Dec 2 2022 — Collapse of Canadian Armed Forces