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Please, public servants, resist the return to the office | Opinion

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17.02.2026

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Please, public servants, resist the return to the office | Opinion

Brigitte Pellerin: There is no reason to force people to get downtown, especially when OC Transpo is so unreliable.

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No responsible journalist should encourage civil disobedience but in the case of this colossally stupid and arbitrarily idiotic return to office mandate for the public service, I am going to make an exception. Don’t RTO, at least not until we have a fully functioning public transit system.

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