Ontario’s new freedom of information restrictions ‘reduce transparency by half’: theijf.org/article/onta...

NCC reaches lease deal for first Ottawa property on affordable housing land bank ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Defence Minister David McGuinty now says he was briefed immediately after an Iranian strike hit a base in Kuwait where Canadian Forces members were stationed. Earlier in the day he said he learned about the strike when he read it in La Presse, 11 days after the strike.

Library and Archives Canada is planning deep cuts to its access-to-information division in a move "which may impact the ability to fully comply with legislated requirements under the Access to Information and Privacy Acts."

Preliminary data suggests that Ottawa is on track to rank first in the Western Hemisphere on the Uncorrected Claim Persistence Index, a measure of how long assertions remain online after they’ve been shown to be wrong. The mayor of Ottawa might want to check it out.

FACT-CHECK: A new ‘quality of life study’ celebrated by Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe is actually sourced from a dubious eastern European website While Sutcliffe claims the new 'study' proves Ottawa is the ‘most liveable’ city in North America, experts say the Serbian website’s data is unreliable

At least three federal departments are developing AI tools to help redact sensitive information from documents before they’re released to the public, reports Ben Andrews in his latest. Observers warn it could damage transparency in an already secretive access-to-information system.

Some donations collected for Ukraine by the Mriya Report were spent on pizzas, purchases at Home Depot, as well as unauthorized payments to a convicted felon linked to Donald Trump, a former top official with the nonprofit alleges.

Update: @ottawacitizen.com has confirmed Kìwekì Point was not damaged by a snow plow but by a "ROGUE SCHOOL BUS": "[The NCC] said that they are in contact with the police and have shared surveillance camera footage that shows 'a school bus illegally driving on the Kìwekì Point Pathway'.”

The CRA spent $18M on 'Charlie,' a new tax information chatbot that is wrong most of the time.

DND says 17 Ottawa soldiers have faced "remedial measures" for their involvement in the Blue Hackle Mafia Facebook group.

*clears throat* pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...

Internal messages between DND public servants show they were worried that a whistleblower’s appearance before a parliamentary committee in 2024 might reveal they had violated his privacy. "SHIITT," messaged one DND employee (in true Clay Davis fashion) while the hearing was happening.

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The federal public service is set to shed almost 30,000 jobs by 2028-29.

Introducing the Ottawa Citizen Best Public Service Workplaces 2025. We've ranked 84 federal departments and agencies from best to worst. Find out how they stack up here: ottawacitizen.com/tag/best-pub...

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Canada’s largest public sector union has put one of its component unions under trusteeship after complaints about its president.

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Coming public service cuts will disproportionately impact workers who are women, indigenous, racialized or live with disabilities, according to a new analysis by @policyalternatives.ca

The supervisor appointed by the provincial government to run Ottawa's public school board says it's not "in his mandate" to speak to the press.

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up the top two leaders of the federal measles response team, those working on Ebola and dozens of other infectious disease experts (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

The head of the federal government's new Major Projects Office will earn a salary between $577,000 and $679,000 a year, according to an order in council issued last week.

Look up: Military drones to be tested over downtown Ottawa ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

What moving from Montreal to Ottawa taught me about two very different cities ottawacitizen.com/life/moving-...

How public servants can use AI responsibly ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

I did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities: At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio

DND originally told us that its F-35 review would be done by the end of summer. According to the department, that meant Sept. 22. Well, as of 2:19 p.m. yesterday, it's fall. Still no word on what the review found or if it's even been finalized yet. Read more in @davidpugliese.bsky.social's latest:

U.S. warns Canada of potential negative consequences if it dumps F-35 fighter jet ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

When @fastlerner.bsky.social reported in April that the EPA was going to stop collecting greenhouse gas emissions data from most polluters, it wouldn't admit it was eliminating the requirements. Today it announced the change, saying it's "cutting unnecessary red tape" & "unleashing American energy."

"What the two major political parties share is the unwillingness to confront the unpleasant realities of involuntary layoffs. Both have been peddling the illusion that attrition will painlessly deliver the smaller workforce to which they aspire." - Michael Wernick in FP this morning

OpenAI is trying to ague that an Ontario court doesn't have jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit by Canadian media companies that accuse the firm of breaching copyright by scraping large amounts of content:

A new Nanos poll found 62% of Canadians were at least somewhat supportive of removing tariffs on Chinese EVs:

What the public service risks losing in a full return to the office ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Feds give CRA 100 days to fix call-centre debacle ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Feds to spend $71 billion on public servants' salaries, other costs this fiscal: PBO ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Could government watchdogs have to do more with less despite being exempt from spending review? ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

When the results of the latest Public Service Employment Survey landed on Dan Rogers’ desk earlier this year, the new head of Canada’s spy agency was angry. No matter how he looked at them, the results for CSIS were bleak and clear: there is a leadership trust crisis nationalpost.com/news/politic...

Meet the 24-year-old Ottawa software engineer who runs a MAGA bot ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

Deachman: The ByWard Market is both beautiful and broken ottawacitizen.com/news/byward-...

Hi, yes, g'morning. This is awkward. But targeting a reporter - hi! - with surreptitiously obtained photos and details of her tooling around town is an attack on the public's right to know. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Will the retirement age ever drop for new public servants? ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Late last year, the federal government banned public servants from accessing certain streaming services like Netflix on work devices. Internal documents show DND was the department with the highest volume of streaming in Sept. 2024 at over 3 terabytes. PSPC was second and the PCO was third:

A former Afghan interpreter detailed how she allegedly suffered sexual abuse by a Global Affairs employee shortly after she came to Canada at the age of 17.