Federal Government & Union spar over returning to office

[PrairieFella]

Winnipeg enters the chat -

lets make it safe to go downtown to start. That is a stumbling block here.

The Portage Place development is proceeding as of yesterday. I truly think that'll help a lot.

 

[PrairieFella]

And that's during the day time...

Downtown Winnipeg is fine most times of the day in most areas. Avoid Higgins and Princess while wearing gang colours at 2 AM and statistically you're completely fine. Almost all violent crime in Winnipeg is gang on gang or (unfortunately) intimate partner crime, particularly in the lower income areas, which starts a whole new website about income inequality, lack of opportunity for poor youth, etc.

 

[OldSolduer]

Vancouver says hold my beer:

Victim of Vancouver stranger attacks had surgery to reattach severed hand: police

Machete attack?

 

[dimsum]

I’d say “US cities say hold my beer” but it just got sad…

 

[PrairieFella]

One course on how government works I took (in Ottawa, of course) had one instructor (who'd worked in both HQ and regional offices of a department) saying HQ liked to call regional office bosses "warlords," so I'm not surprised at Head Shed hesitancy about encouraging teams whose members come from different parts of the federation. #CentreKnowsBest

In other news, how not to make friends with the neighbours?

'Buy nothing': PSAC wants federal workers to boycott downtown Ottawa businesses

A union representing federal employees is asking its members to bring their own lunch to work, in an apparent retaliation against downtown Ottawa businesses as new return-to-office protocols begin.

ottawa.ctvnews.ca

This from PSAC's Instagram feed ...
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Good ole fashioned arrogance. I surely didn't expect that from Ottawa PS haha.

 

[dimsum]

Good ole fashioned arrogance. I surely didn't expect that from Ottawa PS haha.

Ah yes - the “Ottawa Public Service” monolith…

 

[daftandbarmy]

Machete attack?

Yup. Killed one, maimed another. The suspect had 60 prior convictions and was on probation at the time.

This is not going down well in the immediate pre-election period for the BC NDP, nor should it. They've destroyed the cities, pretty much.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Yup. Killed one, maimed another. The suspect had 60 prior convictions and was on probation at the time.

This is not going down well in the immediate pre-election period for the BC NDP, nor should it. They've destroyed the cities, pretty much.

I read it was more like 60 prior police interactions, but yeah- a significant number of those were for violence that put him in front of a judge a number of times, where he would either get released with conditions or sentenced to probation.

It is not great.

 

[PrairieFella]

Ah yes - the “Ottawa Public Service” monolith…

I am one lol. It's tongue in cheek.

 

[Brad Sallows]

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Yup. Killed one, maimed another. The suspect had 60 prior convictions and was on probation at the time.

This is not going down well in the immediate pre-election period for the BC NDP, nor should it. They've destroyed the cities, pretty much.

No cities are destroyed, but there are places I used to go without apprehension in Victoria and Vancouver where I cannot do that today. It's not that there are people wandering about with knives looking for confrontations, but there is simply the increased potential for a chance meeting to go sideways or to irritate someone who is having a bad day. If I feel like I have to walk through an area scrupulously avoiding eye contact, I have to admit I'm not wholly without concern. And the few such areas that exist have increased in size and number over four decades.

 

[RangerRay]

I read it was more like 60 prior police interactions, but yeah- a significant number of those were for violence that put him in front of a judge a number of times, where he would either get released with conditions or sentenced to probation.

It is not great.

Not to mention a history of mental health issues that in earlier times would have led to institutionalization.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

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No cities are destroyed, but there are places I used to go without apprehension in Victoria and Vancouver where I cannot do that today. It's not that there are people wandering about with knives looking for confrontations, but there is simply the increased potential for a chance meeting to go sideways or to irritate someone who is having a bad day. If I feel like I have to walk through an area scrupulously avoiding eye contact, I have to admit I'm not wholly without concern. And the few such areas that exist have increased in size and number over four decades.

Yea I am limiting my daughters trips to downtown and now we get a gang related shooting 2 blocks from my house. Of course it's mostly the successful criminals that live here. He must of mucked up a deal or something.