New bureaucracy for city safety

The city has spawned a new category of bureaucracy to be called Direction générale adjointe (DGA) to oversee the police and fire services, plus the city clerk and its legal affairs department. This is supposed to be in response to the rise in violence throughout 2021 and into this year. There are some other reshufflings of bureaucracy described in the brief piece.

In other mild-mannered city news, the OCPM has a new chairperson.

I’ve been cringing away so much from the news out of Ottawa that, for the first time in the history of the blog, I haven’t wanted to look at the news in the morning.