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Deachman: Ottawa's night mayor spotted — in the daytime ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

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Five ways the government could hold public servants accountable ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

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What happens when a public servant can’t learn French? ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

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This was maybe the most sobering moment in my reporting this week – a scientist doing the tabulation of how long the tail of this would be, even if funding resumed shortly.

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Ontario election 2025: What you need to know to vote in the provincial election ottawacitizen.com/news/how-to-...

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An internal briefing shared with the Ottawa Citizen says 72 per cent of Canadian troops are considered overweight or obese.

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Today, we published our very first column of the Public Service Confidential series. Chris Aylward tackles a question from an immunocompromised public servant looking for guidance on what they can do if the government tries to send employees back to the office for five days a week.

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Finding my village: How I retraced my ancestors' journey from Ottawa to China and back ottawacitizen.com/feature/from...

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Want to see a copy of a speech by Canada's top general? Then you’ll have to pay. Internal documents reveal why the Canadian military refused to share copies of a 2024 speech by Gen. Wayne Eyre with the Ottawa Citizen.

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Watchdog slams Canadian military police for failing to review sexual assault investigation ottawacitizen.com/news/nationa...

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Quan-Watson: How to rethink success in public service ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

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Citizen editor @nferiancek.bsky.social on the paper's new project looking at the ByWard Market ottawacitizen.com/news/letter-...

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Public servants, this new advice column has all the answers you need ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

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Are you a public servant with questions about your workplace? Write to us anonymously at [email protected] and we’ll pick our favourites to send to an expert columnist. No gripe is too small. No topic is too big.

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Come work with me! We're looking for a reporter to cover the 150,000-ish federal public servants who live, work and play in the Ottawa area.

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I had a ton of fun mostly just talking books and reading with Bruce Deachman for this article. I'm driving into TO and back today so will lose a day in my and Matt's decidedly friendly competition, but there's three solid days to catch up starting tomorrow... ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

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OC Transpo service cuts, another fare increase, and pulling money from the City of Ottawa’s rainy-day reserves are all on the table if the city doesn’t get the $36 million from “higher levels of government” it’s counting on.

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Embargoed copies of the Fall Economic Statement were supposed to be released to journalists at 10 AM (Chrystia Freeland announced her resignation at 9:07 AM) It is now 12 noon and confused Finance Canada officials say they still don’t know when the FES (hidden under this cloth) will be released

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The NCC has been in active discussions with Parks Canada for months about creating a national urban park in Ottawa, writes Ken Rubin. While the NCC has been secretive about those discussions, docs obtained through an ATIP reveal the land in question: The National Capital Greenbelt.

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Treasury Board President Anita Anand is accusing Canada’s largest federal public sector union of spreading misinformation about the government’s pension surplus. ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

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The long saga of the Victims of Communism memorial may be coming close to an end on Thursday when it's set to be unveiled in Ottawa. @davidpugliese.bsky.social reports the federal government commissioned a report that recommended changing the monument's name only to ignore it in the end.

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@cathmorrison.bsky.social asked every Ottawa-area MP if they supported the federal government's return-to-office rules. None gave a straight answer.

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The Trillium Line is finally set to open in January reports @getbac.bsky.social.

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The federal government is looking for ways to tighten its budget and curb the size of the public service. Here’s what you need to know about how the multi-billion dollar spending review could impact federal employees. ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

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We have included a map of sites that DND is assessing in the Ottawa area for unexploded munitions and related debris. DND says they believe the risk is low in most places.

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The 3rd piece in a series by David Pugliese about a DND campaign to strip a veteran of his ATIP rights. Records show that even though DND staff were keen to block him from requesting government documents, they were concerned the plan could backfire with "significant negative media attention.”

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Court on another break but: Freedom Convoy figure Pat King has been found guilty on five of nine charges, including mischief and disobeying a court order.

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An internal document we obtained through an ATIP request shows return-to-office rules were broken by almost a third of Treasury Board staff in the early weeks of the new mandate.

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