It’s been just over a month since my last message to you. It’s frankly hard to believe just how much has happened in our world in that time. Two days before a federal election was called, just as Canada’s chief…
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Clear searchIt’s been just over a month since my last message to you. It’s frankly hard to believe just how much has happened in our world in that time. Two days before a federal election was called, just as Canada’s chief…
Read the update →I’ve mentioned it before, this is going to be a busy fall for PAFSO. I’m about to set off for a few weeks of leave, but before I go, I just want to catch you up on everything that’s been…
Read the update →I’m writing to you a little early this week, since tomorrow is Canada Day and I know that many of you will be trying to take a break over the holiday. However, I wanted to take a moment to update…
Read the update →For over a year now, PAFSO, alongside the other bargaining agents of the National Joint Council, has been pushing the Employer to provide a hazard pay to recognize the dangerous and difficult work performed by our members who are working…
Read the update →As I came to the end of a short vacation last week, I was mentally preparing my next message to you. I imagined it would start off with some variation of “I can’t believe it’s already June,” and then go…
Read the update →Over the course of the past two weeks, our news cycle in Canada has been dominated by the stories of the mass vaccinations going on in Canada and around the globe. Although there is a lot of good news, including…
Read the update →It’s been three weeks since my last message. And here in the National Capital Region, spring has arrived, and the tulips are in full bloom. We’re finally starting to think about – perhaps not a return to normal – but…
Read the update →My last message to you was nearly a month ago. And, in that short time, it seems that spring has sprung here in the northern hemisphere. Though many places around the world, including here in Canada, are going through the…
Read the update →We’ve now officially passed the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic. There’s no question that our normal lives have been disrupted, and we can’t ignore the impact and the toll this virus has had on…
Read the update →We’re now coming up on a full year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. In my first email to you on the subject, I wrote that the work-from-home measures instituted at the PAFSO office would…
Read the update →Journalists: for comment from PAFSO or an interview with the President, contact Andrew Elliott, Advocacy and Stakeholder Relations Officer.