While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Matteo Cimellaro.
The federal government is targeting more than 8,000 job cuts through workforce adjustment. The federal government has released its clearest picture to date of efforts to cut back the size of the public service. Budget 2025 laid out a plan to reduce the public service by nearly 40,000 positions from a peak of around 368,000 in 2023-2024.
The federal government has released few details when it comes to which departments and agencies will be shedding the most jobs in the coming spending review. In Budget 2025, around 30,000 public service jobs were detailed to be shed over the next three years, which adds to the 10,000 jobs already cut last year. The cuts amount to around 1...
One think tank says no in this week's Public Service Notebook. Over the past week, pundits and pollsters have continued to wade into the debate about whether and how the public service should be shrunk, as the federal government looks to cut departmental budgets by up to 15 per cent over three years. Along with that news, here are four...
Corey Hogan has 10 lessons he learned from being a public servant who had to find savings in the Alberta government. Corey Hogan has some suggestions for his government on how to cut department spending. The new MP for the riding of Calgary Confederation was a deputy minister in the Alberta government from 2016-2020, working as the head of government...
A new analysis finds the government could cut the equivalent of more than 24,000 full-time jobs in the National Capital Region. Almost half of the job losses that could come from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s public service cuts would be in the National Capital Region, according to a new analysis from a left-leaning think tank. Article content In the analysis...
Public servants’ anxieties came true last week when Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne sent letters to ministers asking them to find savings of 15 per cent from their departments over three years. Article content There were a few federal organizations spared by the exercise, including the offices of the auditor general, parliamentary budget officer, and the Supreme Court of Canada. The...
The federal government is launching a “red tape review” with the hope of eliminating “outdated and overcomplicated regulations” to boost economic growth. Within the next 60 days, ministers will review regulations within their portfolios and take the steps to remove outdated or duplicated requirements, Shafqat Ali, president of the Treasury Board, announced Wednesday
Capping the public service will not be enough to pay for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s tax cut and defence spending promises, says Yves Giroux, Canada’s parliamentary budget officer. Carney has promised to pass a tax cut for the middle class by Canada Day, reducing the lowest marginal tax rate from 15 to 14 per cent. The cut is expected to...
For Ian Brodie, time is of the essence to reduce the federal budget. If Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives win the federal election, they could move at lightening speed to shrink the size of the public service. That’s according to Ian Brodie, a former chief of staff of prime minister Stephen Harper, who believes the most surefire way to usher in deregulation...
Legal challenges against a nuclear waste facility slated for construction near the Ottawa River continue to rise. On Wednesday, a coalition made up of a First Nation and environmental groups launched a legal challenge against the federal government and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) over the issuing of Species at Risk Act (SARA) permits to the company.
An Algonquin nation is asking the federal government to refuse to issue permits for a nuclear waste facility on the banks of the Ottawa River. Kebaowek First Nation said the request for permits under the Species at Risk Act should be turned down and the nuclear research company should have to do more to mitigate environmental risks associated with its...