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Bad Habits in Government? Noooooo!

Bad Habits in Government? Noooooo!
A person walks along the sidewalk next to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Jan. 14, 2021. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
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Habits matter. Good ones can help us by standardizing useful behaviours, but others can hurt by entrenching practices we possibly shouldn’t be doing. And ask any nail-biter how easy it is to break a habit.

Brad Bird
Brad Bird
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Brad Bird began his career by freelancing in the 1970s. He worked for the Winnipeg Free Press in the 1980s and various smaller papers since, as well as abroad in conflict zones and for a Conservative MP in the Harper government. Also an author, he divides his time between Manitoba and B.C.
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