Lisa Williams

If you've defaulted on your child support payments in Ontario, chances are you'll find yourself on goodparentspay.com - and millions will have read all the gory details. Since the Ministry of Community and Social Services launched goodparentspay.com over a week ago, the site has received over 10 million hits, and 150 tips from the public.

Company intranets can be an effective way to communicate with your employees, but the plethora of information placed on them can detract from user-friendliness and usefulness. Streamlining your intranet may be easier than you think. In fact, it could be only 10 steps away.

Saskatchewan is set to offer free access to the province's wireless Internet network starting this spring. As part of the Saskatchewan Connected initiative, basic Internet service will be offered in the province's four largest centres: Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Regina and Moose Jaw.

Deloitte and Touche's operational review of Ontario's e-health agency, Smart Systems for Health, was anything but rosy, but the agency's new CEO, William Albino, seems optimistic about his future.

Ontario's e-health agency Smart Systems for Health has announced William Albino as its new CEO. Albino's appointment follows a highly critical review by Deloitte and Touche that cites a long list of challenges and shortcomings facing SSHA.

In Part 2 of InterGovWorld's Spotlight on Maxime Bernier, the federal Industry Minister talks about nuclear energy and fuel cells, trucking plants and tricky telecom laws. Bernier steps back to assess industry and consumer reaction to his proposed reversal of a controversial CRTC decision; he tells us what he learned from a technology institute; and how he believes an online initiative dubbed BizPaL is helping the growth of Canadian business.

Canada's federal government just doesn't seem to have the knack for numbers. Eight years of wrappings on the knuckles by the Auditor General still hasn't fixed this country's Social Insurance Number (SIN) management system, according to the latest audit.

Michael Hurst, the Industry Canada employee at the centre of an e-mail controversy in Yellowknife, may get to keep his government job for the price of 75 hours' community service.