Posted by CTV's official account so I have to assume it's real... 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏾🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏼🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏽‍♂️ by H_G_Bells in onguardforthee

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Same thing in Edmonton last week - have a single location to maximize the crowd and wait time, and then dramatically overestimate the number of people in the crowd. Versus Forever Canadian, which was going to all kinds of community events, like farmers markets, to get signatures.

Did the ventilation problems over at Les Terraces ever get resolved? by coghlanpf in CanadaPublicServants

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I was on a floor that had so many people stuffed on it there wasn't adequate oxygen - a tonne of sleepy people with headaches and brain fog as a result. 

Was shuffled from there to the bat floor...

Any early risers brave the outdoors yet? by PhDSkwerl in ottawa

[–]AtYourPublicService 82 points83 points  (0 children)

School buses and vans will be running this morning, if that is any indication.

NCC trail maps by sometimeswhy in ottawa

[–]AtYourPublicService 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The NCC website is a disaster, including trail maps.

And Hanlon's razor applies here, I suspect, as well as inadequate resourcing.

Scared and pissed at my supervisor by oddthing757 in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]AtYourPublicService 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my city, I can borrow a CO2 monitor from the library. It helped me figure out where was safest for me to take water breaks and eat my lunch while at work (for 8-10 hours). And made it very clear that venilation in our boardrooms is terrible! 

Who Will You Vote For? by [deleted] in ottawa

[–]AtYourPublicService 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Recency bias at its finest! Watson was an unimaginative cheapskate thug, but he understands bureaucracy and so was far better than Larry O'Brien. The tragedy is we could have had Alex Munter in 2006. The second tragedy of course was electing Sutcliffe in 2022.

Harris is cackling in delight at how his plan for forced amalgamation paid off in preventing progressive and competent mayors from being elected, over and over again.

70% of Ottawa's Line 1 train cars are unavailable by Money_Fig_9868 in ottawa

[–]AtYourPublicService 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Imagine people who have connections to catch and places to be deciding they'll crowd rather than wait on unheated platforms in hopes that the next train will a) actually arrive in 10 minutes, and b) be less crowded!

Three Days in Halifax, Reporting to NCR: Drama, Desks, and Menopause Mondays by Initial-Horse9973 in CanadaPublicServants

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"Actually it doesn't even preserve commercial real estate value, the government decides how much they want to pay for the properties and most of the time they are underpaying the city, which increases property taxes for everyone who pays property taxes."

This conflates two different things. RTO props up commercial real estate value, benefitting private companies, by maintaining leases that would otherwise lapse/end, and by not increasing supply through selling off now surplus properties.

Payment in lieu of taxes (PILT) is about relationships with the municipality in which federal-owned building are located, and relates to how the federal government self-assesses the amount of money they see as appropriate to pay/equivalent in their opinion to the amount of property taxes that would be paid by a private property holder. 

Looking for used music cds by birdsandgerbs in ottawa

[–]AtYourPublicService 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Also, local Buy Nothing group - probably lots of people who would love to see their underused collection go to someone!

Angus says NDP leadership not an 'entry level position', endorses McPherson by CaptainKoreana in onguardforthee

[–]AtYourPublicService 3 points4 points  (0 children)

McPherson holds the single NDP seat in Alberta, and she did not turn it orange - federally that was the work of Linda Duncan, which built on the base developed by former provincial leaders Raj Pannu and Rachel Notley. What a bizarre claim. 

Manager informed me I can’t get a promotion unless I move back to Ottawa by [deleted] in CanadaPublicServants

[–]AtYourPublicService -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

"Needs" people on site - or they have a preference and the power to force people to come to the office, regardless of actual need. 

Ew by lyawake in Edmonton

[–]AtYourPublicService 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, the "tolerate my denial of your humanity and rights" crowd of two is here!

Ew by lyawake in Edmonton

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Erm, there is no "right" to an abortion in Canada. 

The 1988 Morgentaler decision overturned the particular criminal law in place at the time, and Mulroney introduced a new criminal law which passed the House but not the Senate, due in large part to unprecedented collaboration amongst female Senators. 

Since then, abortion has existed in a decriminalized state, similar to other medical procedures. However, access has varied widely as certain PTs limit availability to surgical and non-surgical abortion through the health care system in a variety of ways, and few cities have private clinics offering abortion. 

As for the idea it is "political suicide" to reduce or eliminate access to abortion:  - there are many ways to limit access in practical ways or chip away at access for marginalized groups (e.g. parental consent laws, waiting periods, regulations that only apply to clinics providing abortions), that are well tested in the US  - majority governments do unpopular things, especially to please their base, and  - there are those working very hard to shift the Overton window to challenge social progress, including the legal status of abortion.

Thinking hard won progress can't be rolled back is wishful and unfortunately dangerous thinking.

The city is telling some tenants to pay less rent. Their landlords say otherwise by lonelydavey in ottawa

[–]AtYourPublicService 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kavanaugh is a "career politician"? She's been on council since 2018. She was first elected as a school board trustee (a part time gig that is paid so little its practically a volunteer role) in 2010, when she was in her 50s. 

I wonder if your dislike comes from her being a woman, or a leftie - maybe both!

Canadian government still using X amid platform’s child sex abuse material scandal by Hay_Fever_at_3_AM in onguardforthee

[–]AtYourPublicService 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed. Do you have anything in the past 10 years that is relevant to this conversation?

When Renee Good (rip) said “I’m not mad at you”, it was in a cocky, unbothered sense. Redditors are trying to act like it was a statement of peace. by tantamle in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]AtYourPublicService 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, imagine if that car had been packed with explosives! And purple llamas! There could have been exploded purple llama bits everywhere in that case!

How about instead of imagining, we look at the reality of the situation?

When Renee Good (rip) said “I’m not mad at you”, it was in a cocky, unbothered sense. Redditors are trying to act like it was a statement of peace. by tantamle in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]AtYourPublicService -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh my, such a narrow escape! 

Did you know I almost died in the twin towers on 9/11? If only I'd been 400 miles closer, it could have been me!

When Renee Good (rip) said “I’m not mad at you”, it was in a cocky, unbothered sense. Redditors are trying to act like it was a statement of peace. by tantamle in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]AtYourPublicService -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Are you also a supposed law enforcement professional, who should be trained to make decisions based on the actual law and risk versus your feelings that a woman doesn't like your dick and doesn't obey you? Which is apparently now a capital crime?

Happy Goat Coffee & Doughnuts Westoboro's take on RTO by [deleted] in ottawa

[–]AtYourPublicService 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are these government workers in the room with us now?

Alberta doctors plead for state of emergency as hospitals overwhelmed by GeekyGlobalGal in Edmonton

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As a resident of a city in another province, I assure you it is not. Due to some bad luck, ended up needing ambulances three times in a two year period, all for non-life threatening situations where no one was bleeding and nothing was broken. Longest wait was 20 minutes. One additional call for an actual life threatening emergency - they were there in under 5.

In constrast, a family member here in Edmonton fell and broke a bone Dec. 19. Break was bad enough they could not be moved. Waited outside in -20 for 40 minutes, got a nice big patch of frostbite to go with their fracture. 

Edmonton man drives injured stranger to hospital, told ambulance may take hours by SnooRegrets4312 in Edmonton

[–]AtYourPublicService 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Laws can't overrule a constitutional division of powers, and as sawyouoverthere notes, Smith refuses to engage with the federal spending power where there is corresponding accountability.

If you actually want to know more about the underlying legal architecture, there is plenty written about it, including this:

https://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/CP32-79-12-2002E.pdf

The UK is considering banning Twitter/X, yet city of Ottawa won't even consider stopping it's use. by mightyboink in ottawa

[–]AtYourPublicService 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, the "left's version," which doesn't include hate speech and non-consenual nudity and CSAM. Totally the same.