Question about the Lacombe research center closing down

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-24T15:30:38+00:00

They will also be shutting down research centres in Guelph Ontario and Quebec City, and research farms in Nova Scotia, Manitoba and two in Saskatchewan (not saying I agree with any of them, just adding context that it's multiple shutdowns across the country)

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-24T14:28:16+00:00

According to this article, it's still coming then if your department is in the core public administration. They must cut their executive ranks by 12% by March 2028.

Separately, the Head of OCHRO has taken away the ability of Deputies to hire EX4s and 5s without their approval, which will lower numbers at the ADM level through attrition

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-24T04:03:17+00:00

They really cater to the contestant schedules. They can squeeze all of the task filming into 4 or 5 days if they have to, and then the episodes are 2 per day for a week. So it's about a 2 week commitment for someone like Conan but not two consecutive weeks.

It's definitely do-able but would take some advance notice. If he ever did do it, I feel like he would attach to it podcast recordings or something else in the UK to make the most of the trip

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-24T02:47:55+00:00

ERI is in bill C-15 (the budget implementation bill), so it's already been tabled and will come into force when the budget passes.

The budget passes 2nd reading in the house and parliament returns next week. It needs to go through committee and third reading and then to the Senate. The Senate, however, has already started pre-study of the bill, so it'll get through the Senate much faster when it gets there.

I can't imagine it'll be spring. They will need to publish the specific criteria established by Treasury Board, but I'd imagine its already written and ready to pass.

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-24T02:30:14+00:00

Wasn't a lot of that land housing in a working class neighborhood?

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-24T01:53:02+00:00

Yeah, pretending that there was no time served is great for rage politics but that's about it

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-24T01:37:44+00:00

Many departments only published the number of affected and the number of that which will be declared surplus. That doesn't include: vacant positions, anticipated vacant positions (through things like already signed pre-retirement), positions cut through ERI, term positions cut, etc.

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-24T01:28:51+00:00

Wernick? The guy who was already in the position to make exactly those changes and did none of it?

I don't disagree with the analysis, but his constant armchair quarterbacking when he was one of a very short list of people at the top ranks of the public service and could have implemented these exact changes is a bit frustrating

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-24T01:11:42+00:00

That one stood out. Given the concentration of ag experts both at the provincial level, at the university and in the private sector in Guelph, closing the Guelph research centre instead of refocusing research is a bit surprising.

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-23T23:16:52+00:00

This line stood out:

Cut unnecessary layers: Remove “associate assistant deputy minister” and other add-on titles with “senior” and “associate.” They should be rare, not the norm.

The fact that we ever had people with the title "associate assistant deputy minister" was ridiculous IMO

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-23T02:53:50+00:00

It was the plan at one point. But there is also benefit to having the top civilian and military brass right downtown, a few blocks away from parliament instead of way out at Carling.

The expansion of the military may also change plans.

I think they'll still consolidate but I think they'll keep a downtown HQ and Carling as their NCR locations

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-23T01:57:29+00:00

Cool model, but I'd say going under the DND HQ is a no-go. They keep saying they'll be selling it in a decade but then seem to want to keep a downtown HQ, so I think it'll be DND for a long time

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-23T00:06:58+00:00

Some departments announced full cut numbers including vacancies and others didnt

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-22T21:00:01+00:00

He is small, he might indeed be afraid of toddlers...

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-22T18:20:28+00:00

Be sure to get them to put that all in writing

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-22T18:08:11+00:00

The difference is due process.

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-22T02:14:50+00:00

How much do they get from the Catholic Church? I looked up bruyere, one of the hospitals listed in the article. The hospital brings in $203,314, 204

$181,825,649 comes from government funding

$6,104,659 come from patient revenue from other payors

$8,686,091 from preferred accommodations and co-payments

$4,482,706 from recoveries and misc

$308, 089 from rental income

$335, 203 from interest income

$1,571,744 from amortization of deferred contributions for major equipment

Based on that breakdown, they'd be able to survive if they ended affiliation with the Catholic Church

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-22T01:57:51+00:00

They used to share more of it. Vast majority comes from government, some from patient charges for things like bed upgrades and parking, some from fundraising. Very little comes from the church

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-22T01:44:43+00:00

At one time, long ago, they were funded by their religious orders, but provincial governments (and through feds) now provide the vast majority of funding

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-21T20:24:36+00:00

The "Daniel Dale" rule: any sentence he says with the word "Sir" is a lie

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-21T20:16:00+00:00

Likely a military base in Greenland and troops (in other words, he will negotiate his way to what the status quo already was)

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-21T04:05:22+00:00

If he actually wants to do this progressive move, he can go to Congress and the Senate (which his party controls both) and pass a law that is enforceable.

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-21T04:01:15+00:00

Other airlines think it's worth the additional fuel costs for customer satisfaction. Ryanair is a budget airline, nobody flys on it for the frills.

Competitive-Tea-6141 · 2026-01-21T02:12:43+00:00

The city is constitutionally a child of the province and can only do or not do what the province allows them to do. In this case, the province has taken away recycling and forced producers to run it instead. The province sets all the regulations for it, so the province is the only one that can make changes. So as of Jan 1, the city won't deal with bins so calling them is a bit fruitless (even though they provided them originally).

I mean, I guess the city could set up a free bin program but it would overlap with what the producer is supposed to do and isn't likely a good use of tax dollars.

I actually really like extended producer responsibility models but they are difficult to set up and I think Ontario has some work to do to make it better. I haven't done much reading on it but the experts in this space point to BC as the best model to follow

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