Preville on Politics

A different kind of review

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Philip Preville

A task force found that staffers have “deep pride” but also face “despair, disillusionment and anger with an organization that is failing them.”

It’s the RCMP, but it sure sounds like what I’m hearing from staff at city hall. An independent panel is currently reviewing the city’s finances. Maybe that panel should be reviewing more than just the money.

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Anonymous December 19, 2007 at 11:01 a.m.

The RCMP civilian side may be bad, try working for the Toronto Police. WORSE...


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Philip Preville

Veteran freelance writer Philip Preville lived much of his life in Montreal and Edmonton before he was lured, like so many Torontonians before him, by the promise of more work and a better living. A National Magazine Award winner and former Canadian Journalism Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College, Preville writes Toronto Life’s politics column. He lives with his wife and one-year-old son in Riverdale, just close enough to the Don Valley Parkway that he can hear it when he steps outside his house—but just far enough away that it doesn’t keep him awake at night. On his office wall hangs a 1938–39 press pass belonging to his grandfather, Elias Gannon, who wrote for the Montreal Star.


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