🪧 Federal Civil Servants Strike
Stats – Strike Edition
Weather: Chilly
Number: 65%. The per centage of the public that supports wage premiums for night shifts and overtime hours. 55 per cent support workers’ right to work from home. Only 48 per cent support a 4.5 per cent annual wage increase. (Survey by Angus Reid Institute)
Participant of the Day: Chantel Goldsmith. The employment lawyer speaks on a podcast about how a resolution with the Public Service Alliance of Canada on remote working will affect private employees’ rights.
Quote: ‘In a relatively tight labour market, I'd be kind of thinking about making a move’ – Kevin Page,head of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy at the University of Ottawa and former parliamentary budget officer. Page believes that Civil Service workers who joined during the pandemic are at risk of being the first to be laid off if the Federal government tightens its budget.
- Day 9, The Alliance says it has ‘shut down’ the building at Tunney’s Pasture and conducted a march across the Portage Bridge. (Josh Pringle at CTV)
💨 Wellington Street
💸 Ottawa House Prices
- Ottawa house prices are set to decline, says the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. After 30 years of increases, higher mortage rates are pushing prices the other way. The Corporation expects an average house price to be $640,000 in 2023, down from $691,727 in 2022 and $646,139 in 2021. (Josh Pringle at CTV)
🔥 Ottawa Fire Venturers
- The Ottawa Fire Venturers is looking for male and female youth aged 14-18 to fight fires. Created as a partnership between Scouts Canada and the Ottawa Fire Services, the Venturers learn about firefighting and develop skills. They probably don't get sent to fight actual house fires, but we're not positive about that. (Blair Crawford in the Ottawa Citizen) (Recruitment)
🛻 Convoy News
- A judge has ruled that convoy organizer Pat King and former Ontario MPP Randy Hillier can have fair trials in Ottawa. The two had argued that the media coverage of the Trucker Convoy would poison the jury pool and result in a biased verdict. The judge said he was bound by a previous ruling on a different Convoy organizer that determined that media coverage was national, the jury pool would be similar anywhere in Canada. (Glen McGregor at CTV)
🥤 Straw Ban
- The Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario has banned plastic straws in its schools. Starting next autumn, the French school board will cease buying plastic straws, water bottles and other single-use plastics in a bid to reduce waste. (Josh Pringle at CTV)
