Category: Focus

Ottawa’s fire services should stop sweating the small stuff and get on with business.

Ever since amalgamation, the City of Ottawa and the Canadian Union of Public Employees seem locked in an endless labour relations bout, with both sides hoping to score points with the ringside judges.

The people at the top are still squabbling, but Ottawa’s rank-and-file firefighters have made their peace.

The provincial government demanded Ottawa became a unified city, but two years later the province still hasn’t used its power to unify hydro service.