Canada Post shouldn’t distribute Your Ward News, Foote needs to step up
TORONTO—Does Judy Foote care about racism and Holocaust denial? She must. She’s a veteran of politics and has been in the game for a couple decades, both in Ottawa and in her home province of Newfoundland. She won re-election in 2015 with 82 per cent of the vote. She has clearly been effective, or she wouldn’t […]
Short-term work assignments stymie federal public service renewal: union leaders
Union leaders are calling on the federal government to provide younger employees with clearer paths to long-term careers as a way of making the public service a more attractive place to work for millennials. As government officials, such as Treasury Board President Scott Brison (Kings-Hants, N.S.), wrestle with the problem of large cohorts of public […]
Survey shows 58.3% among government departments unsatisfied with Shared Services Canada
A Shared Services Canada internal survey of 42 federal departments reveals that 58.3 per cent of respondents are unsatisfied with the embattled department’s services, according to a recent internal survey obtained by The Hill Times. The results of the “customer satisfaction questionnaire” were included in an internal newsletter to Shared Services Canada employees and sent to staff the […]
Foote has to fix major problems at Shared Services Canada
No wonder morale at Shared Services Canada is in the toilet. In his audit released on Feb. 2, Auditor General Michael Ferguson found that Shared Services Canada, which has an annual budget of more than $1.4-billion and more than 6,100 employees, is running late on implementing its major projects, lacks a clear understanding of what […]
Government to repeal controversial sick leave measures
The Liberal government will repeal the controversial sick leave and disability measures snuck into the previous government’s final budget implementation bill, Bill C-59. The government gave notice of the bill, “An Act to repeal Division 20 of Part 3 of the Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1,” today and Treasury Board President Scott Brison […]
Morale ‘very poor’ at Shared Services Canada, say sources
Morale at the Department of Shared Services Canada is “very, very poor right now,” as its consolidation of the entire government’s IT systems continues to be plagued with problems and delays, sources say. Shared Services Canada employs 6,100. One source within the operations section of the Shares Services Canada department, who talked to The Hill […]
Nicholson to oversee major defence cuts, define post-Afghanistan priorities
Rob Nicholson has taken on the Defence file at a pivotal time that will require overseeing major cuts to planned military spending, and redefining Canada’s defence priorities after more than a decade of war and a glaring series of bungled procurements at National Defence. Mr. Nicholson (Niagara Falls, Ont.) took on the Defence portfolio in […]
