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Federal Government & Union spar over returning to office

Yep. I worked there at Carling just before the final curtain. I was with the IT security group at the time. We told our bosses it was a bad idea having tons of Chinese students working there, and all of the Chinese "delegations" touring, but the Chinese were throwing $ around like they were at a stipper pole and Nortel Executives ate it up.

Outsourcing production to China was also not the smartest choice (made by other companies as well - right, JDS?)
 
RTO3s in Shopify
Well last time I did some co-work at TCC (all the empty no-longer-Shopify floors on 8-9-10) there was lots of free space at 150 Elgin…
 
So much for breaking the Ottawa bubble. Those unwashed masses in the regions don't know anything anyways ...
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?
This from PSAC's Instagram feed ...
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PSAC is making a mistaking by targeting the wrong people. But unions generally do that…
Yes and no. Pressure from downtown business wanting PS lunch bucks leads to pressure from City Hall, which leads to pressure of the government located in that city.

When downtown businesses started pushing that a couple of years back I started spending less downtown.
 
Yes and no. Pressure from downtown business wanting PS lunch bucks leads to pressure from City Hall, which leads to pressure of the government located in that city.

When downtown businesses started pushing that a couple of years back I started spending less downtown.
The other factor is some of the same businesses are only open from 11-3, and charge $25 for a shitty sandwich or subpar quick lunch. I don't know many people that can afford $30 a day for lunch, but when the same people are complaining about the PS aren't even putting in a full workday it's hard to care about their business failing.

I deliberately went out and got takeout from a place down the street from my house in the burbs on Tuesday though after getting home though as an extra screw you, but plenty of places that I won't shadow their doors anymore because of their complaining. Free market is a bitch I guess.
 
Yes and no. Pressure from downtown business wanting PS lunch bucks leads to pressure from City Hall, which leads to pressure of the government located in that city.

When downtown businesses started pushing that a couple of years back I started spending less downtown.

Meanwhile, in Scotland...

Town centres are left struggling as more Scots now work from home​


‘The dearth of shopper footfall has affected stores of all sizes and has left many gap-toothed high streets. The shift to hybrid working makes it trickier for store vacancy rates to fully recover.’

‘Fresh action is needed to deliver vibrant and attractive town and city centres with compelling reasons for people to visit and spend money.

'Coherent policymaking, lower business rates, and an honest acceptance of the role of private transport in helping access our retail destinations would help.’

New figures from Scotland’s Census 2022 showed that 800,500 Scots said they worked from home, which is 31.6 per cent of all workers.

This has soared from 259,600 at the time of the last census in 2011.

As Scotland came out of lockdown restrictions, the Scottish Government told businesses that embedding home working habits which have been developed during lockdowns and cutting car use could have a real impact on reducing emissions.

Scottish Conservative business spokesman Murdo Fraser said: ‘It’s clear that some of the changes to working practices adopted during the pandemic are here to stay.

‘But it’s concerning that the SNP government seems to have given very little thought to the impact on our city centres, or the wider economy.

‘The SNP must urgently start thinking about how we achieve the growth Scotland desperately needs against this new background.’

 
Meanwhile, in Scotland...

Town centres are left struggling as more Scots now work from home​


‘The dearth of shopper footfall has affected stores of all sizes and has left many gap-toothed high streets. The shift to hybrid working makes it trickier for store vacancy rates to fully recover.’

‘Fresh action is needed to deliver vibrant and attractive town and city centres with compelling reasons for people to visit and spend money.

'Coherent policymaking, lower business rates, and an honest acceptance of the role of private transport in helping access our retail destinations would help.’

New figures from Scotland’s Census 2022 showed that 800,500 Scots said they worked from home, which is 31.6 per cent of all workers.

This has soared from 259,600 at the time of the last census in 2011.

As Scotland came out of lockdown restrictions, the Scottish Government told businesses that embedding home working habits which have been developed during lockdowns and cutting car use could have a real impact on reducing emissions.

Scottish Conservative business spokesman Murdo Fraser said: ‘It’s clear that some of the changes to working practices adopted during the pandemic are here to stay.

‘But it’s concerning that the SNP government seems to have given very little thought to the impact on our city centres, or the wider economy.

‘The SNP must urgently start thinking about how we achieve the growth Scotland desperately needs against this new background.’

Downtowns adapted before, they can adapt again.

Maybe they need to make downtowns places people actually want to live, rather than places people have to go to pay for the place they want to live.
 
My wife and I never go down town anymore. Everything we need is in Bayers Lake or Dartmouth Crossing. Big roads, ample parking, not congested. And if its a night out, we both prefer drinks with friends Freemans in Fairview or at someone's back yard.

I did love working at RA Park with 36 CBG, but I would have been just as happy if it was instead at Willow Park or Bayers Lake, like 1 Fd.
 
Yep. I worked there at Carling just before the final curtain. I was with the IT security group at the time. We told our bosses it was a bad idea having tons of Chinese students working there, and all of the Chinese "delegations" touring, but the Chinese were throwing $ around like they were at a stipper pole and Nortel Executives ate it up.
Back in the 1970s and again in the 1990s CSE issued formal warnings to DND and Industry Canada, at least, about a NATO ally, with its own Canadian subsidiary out in Kanata, who was actively spying on Nortel's BNR facilities. I know with 100% certainty that warning was passed, unredacted, at a very senior level, to NorTel.
 
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