CBC Ottawa news needs a new mandate: no more crime shorts
Crime crime crime crime crime and more crime.
Larry the target maker
A city manager comes up with a figure of 500 jobs to eliminate from the City of Ottawa’s workforce. Larry O’Brien one day intimates that it might not be do-able with hiring freezes and attrition alone. And the next day he says he’d like to go for 1,000. He’s a target maker, he says.
Larry O’Brien at the table: better for CUPE?
CBC Ottawa is reporting (love that headline – are they being sarcastic?) that Larry O’Brien is going to handle bargaining between the city and CUPE 503. For a minute there, I was very discouraged. But you know, it might be for the best.
Larry O’Brien: stupidity “going forward”
Some day soon one of these organizations that does an annual ritual denunciation of some bit of jargon, buzzwords or other ofuscatory language is going to add the phrase “going forward” to their list. They might choose to illustrate it with a picture of Ottawa mayor Larry O’Brien.
