The Canadian Government Executive Magazine has just released its December 2015 edition (in flash and html) dedicated to program evaluation "The New Generation". As CGEM Editor Patrice Dutil wrote: "I think it's fitting that we end the year with a focus on program evaluation and its future because it is about to be very exciting­turbulent, for sure, but I'm convinced, like Benoît Gauthier, the President of the Canadian Evaluation Society, that we are on the cusp of a transformation in this field. Creative researchers are changing the practice of evaluation."

The issue offers several important texts that will speak to evaluators and managers alike:

• Robert Lahey on "Evaluation and Results Based Management (RBM)
• Natalie Kishchuk and Linda Lee on "Community-Level Evaluation: The Party in the Basement"
• John Mayne on "Structuring Evaluations for Learning"
• an interview of Editor Patrice Dutil with Benoît Gauthier, CES' President "On the Future of Program Evaluation"
• Mark Schacter on "The Tyranny of Wrong Measures"

This is a fabulous issue. We expect to see more of this kind of profile for program evaluation in the Canadian Government Executive Magazine and elsewhere in the months to come.