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Author: Christina Spencer, Ottawa Citizen
Publication Date: May 20, 2025 - 04:00
Salgo: Is the federal government treating its term workers fairly?
May 20, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s promised program review hasn’t even begun but the public service is already shedding staff, mostly contract employees with terms of up to two years. The axe has fallen particularly hard at the Canada Revenue Agency, which relies on term workers for around 20 per cent of its 60,000-strong workforce and is eliminating more than 1,000 of them. That’s in addition to not extending the contracts of about 2,000 contact centre workers, despite complaints about inadequate service levels. Read More
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One an athlete
since way back when
who understands
the exact speed
of the uniformed self
circling the track
in the lined pages
of the log
that preserves his every mile
and pulling away
stride by spiked stride—
the other late
to the game, brimful
of wonder at what might
have been achieved.
At the all-comers’
meet, whittled old timers
make up the stagger
chasing fit, neon
young men, just kids, quick
and yet to arrive.
After, they are hoarse
and slow. They jog
but soon stand staring
at the sheet of seconds and tenths
taped to the stadium
wall. They are speechless
and from the...
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