Omar Ha-Redeye attended the Grandview Kids Pure Imagination Gala on Oct. 4, 2019, at Deer Creek Banquet Facility in Ajax, Ontario. From Left: Omar Ha-Redeye and Lorne Coe, MPP
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Alberta Politics: Guy Kerr can’t be blamed for the Alberta WCB’s troubles, but his resignation is an opportunity to get it back on track
Guy Kerr cannot be blamed for the tragic wrong turn the Alberta Workers Compensation Board took nearly 30 years ago under the Conservative governments of premiers Don Getty and Ralph Klein. Under those premiers, Alberta’s effective workers’ compensation system was subverted and undermined. The victims have been injured workers. By
Continue readingAlberta Politics: A wacky idea for getting more value from university administrators: pay them less and never mind competitiveness
PHOTOS: Alberta Advanced Education Minister Marlin Schmidt serving pancakes at yesterday morning’s Premier’s K-Days Breakfast on the south lawn of the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton. Below: Just to stick with the photographic theme, even though it has nothing to do with the story, Premier Rachel Notley cooking up the flapjacks
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Fractured Fairy Tales: Jerry Earle edition #nlpoli
Via VOCM, the reaction of NAPE boss Jerry Earle to a study that showed the provincial government is overloaded with provincial public servants compared to the situation in other provinces: Earle says while that might be true, there are good reasons, given the province’s geography and demographics. He says even
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Updated NL Public Service Numbers, 2003-2016 #nlpoli
A couple of access to information requests – pdf 1 and pdf 2 – gave the world some new numbers on the growth in the core provincial public service from 2003 onward.Here are the grand totals in a nice chart. Each year is the total as o…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Updated NL Public Service Numbers, 2003-2016 #nlpoli
A couple of access to information requests – pdf 1 and pdf 2 – gave the world some new numbers on the growth in the core provincial public service from 2003 onward.Here are the grand totals in a nice chart. Each year is the total as o…
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Advice for the next Premier of Alberta: Be Bold by being Boring
TweetSo you’re a new Premier, looking for a way to make a splash – to make the public forget about the previous regime. You could do something simple like reduce Cabinet to 20, which is essentially the size of Cabinet (Associate Ministers are not actually Cabinet ministers). But that’s not
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Alberta’s ‘Sunshine List’ – let a little light shine in … but only a little, and only where we want it
Alberta’s ‘Sunshine List’ – mostly moonshine? Below: Premier Alison Redford. Today’s the day the government of Alberta is supposed to publish its “Sunshine List” of its supposedly most highly paid civil servants. It’s not appeared yet – so, it being a Friday and all, it’ll probably show up at about
Continue readingToronto Lawyer | Omar Ha-Redeye, J.D. » Politics: Canadian Tamil Congress 2014 Pongal Dinner
The Canadian Tamil Congress hosted its seventh annual Pongal Dinner at the Hilton Toronto / Markham Suites Conference Centre. Sponsors of the event included Himelfarb Proszanski LLP, Chapel Ridge, Money Gram, Sujan Shan, Dynevor Express, Abi Singam, Ideal Developments, Jaff Networks and Central City. Congratulations to the Canadian Tamil Congress
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Harper Conservatives Nuked More Than 15,000 Public Service Jobs in 2012
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: A report tabled in the House of Commons last Friday reveals that the Harper Conservatives nuked more than 15,000 public service jobs last year, 8,000 of them fulltime positions. Strangely, the cuts seem to be waging a war against Canadian women and the future. 7,000 of the gutted positions benefited
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The 2013 Q1 Churn Appointments #nlpoli
One of the great things about having orders in council readily available is that people can find information. That’s exactly why the current administration has kept them as secret as possible since 2003 and continue to censor them, even though orders in council are entirely public documents. But at least
Continue readingAlex's Blog: Celebrating Public Service
Public servants celebrating the enrolment of 5 million citizens in the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan (1959, Archives of Ontario) Notes for talk at Public Policy Forum Dinner, April 11, 2013 I am delighted to be here with family, friends and colleagues this evening – an evening that can only be
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Public servants celebrating the enrolment of 5 million citizens in the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan (1959, Archives of Ontario) Notes for talk at Public Policy Forum Dinner, April 11, 2013 I am delighted to be here with family, friends and colleagues this evening – an evening that can only be
Continue readingImpolitical: Paging the Clerk
On this brouhaha of yesterday: “CIDA rapped for partisan letters from cabinet minister appearing on website.” The core question in this incident is how these letters came to be posted on a government department’s website. And to answer that question, the protocols for posting material, with all that’s involved including
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… doesn’t have anything better to do than to declare war on Santa-haters? Really, Uncle Tony? Really? The Government of Canada has no guidelines that restrict federal employees from putting up Christmas or other holiday decorations in their workspace. “There are those who would like to snuff out the holiday
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Atlantic Canada to suffer disproportionately from federal austerity: Report
by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | November 27, 2012 A new CCPA-NS report released today makes projections for federal public sector job loss in Atlantic Canada and discusses the breadth and depth of its impact in the region. CCPA-NS pu…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: 38! #nlpoli
This will be a record year fort changes in the senior ranks of the provincial public service. On Friday, Premier Kathy Dunderdale announced change number 38 for 2012. That puts her one off last year’s record total. And as we told you a couple of weeks ago, she’s on track
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Swirl Continues #nlpoli
As it appears, all the talk last week in the Telegram editorial about the unusually large churn in the senior ranks of the provincial public service caused a bit of a churn in the stomachs of some people around St. John’s. Some of them – including one curious series of
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: As the Public Service World Churns #nlpoli
The Telegram editorial on Wednesday noted the most recent changes to the senior executive at the natural resources department and put it in the wider context of changes during the past 20 months. The editorial notes that in the budget document for 2011 called Departmental Salary Details show that the
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Disappeared Deputy? #nlpoli
Last summer, the provincial government proudly announced the appointment of a new deputy minister of natural resources. The release included Diana Dalton’s biography. She’s a lawyer who graduated from Dalhousie in 1979: … Throughout the course of her career, Ms. Dalton has worked with the Governments of Nova Scotia and
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