Talk:Larry O'Brien (Canadian politician)

Charged
He's just been charged under section 121 and 125 of the criminal code of Canada and is expected to be fingerprinted and photographed today. wjserson December 10, 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.103.249.251 (talk) 14:32, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Mayor
I dont think O'Brien is the 58th Mayor of Ottawa, cause I think we are talking about the OLD city of Ottawa. --Deenoe 03:47, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * New Ottawa IS a different city than OLD Ottawa. New flag, new logos etc.  Larry is the second mayor. cmacd 16:03, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * We had this debate before. Ottawa just celebrated it 150th anniversary, not it 4th anniversary. Note the words "Mayor of Ottawa". Are we saying Jacquelin Holzman, Marion Dewar and Jim Watson were never mayors of Ottawa? O'Brien is the 58th person to be called a "mayor of Ottawa". I don't see the problem. -- Earl Andrew - talk 16:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * No... O'Brien is the 2nd person to be called Mayor of the new amalgated City of Ottawa which is now shorten to Mayor of Ottawa.. But anyways, if we follow your statement, he's 59th, not 58th. --Deenoe 23:23, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

GCC
Should'nt is be said on here that he is on the grenville christian college board of directors? His son used to go to the school.

Huge copyright violation
All the first section is a Copyright Violation of O'Brien's website. Come on people! We should know better! Deenoe 00:26, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
 * To admins : Article should not be deleted but rather rewritten. --Deenoe 00:26, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Because it was only the first part that was problematic, I rewritten it on the temp sub-page. --Deenoe 00:55, 15 November 2006 (UTC)


 * For the record, when the O'Brien people sent me an image, they also sent me some text, presumably for the article. Therefore, it is in the public domain.

The text sent to me is as follows:

Larry O’Brien was born in Grace Hospital and grew up on Holland Avenue. He Graduated Algonquin College in 1972 and after working for a number of technology ventures, started Calian Technologies Ltd (CTY:TSE) which he built into an Ottawa-based internationally competitive business that has reached annual sales of over $170 million. Calian was recently recognized by the National Quality Institute (NQI) with the Canada Award of Excellence -Gold Trophy for Quality and the Canada Award of Excellence -Silver Level for Healthy Workplace.

Larry raised his two sons, Michael and Matthew in Ottawa. He has been active in community projects including the Saint Vincent’s Hospital Foundation and was named in 2006, along with his wife Debbie O’Brien, United Way Community builder of the year. He has also been very active in the business community:

·        past member of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council on Science and Technology (ACST)

·        past chairman of the Sectoral Advisory Group on International Trade (SAGIT) on Information Technologies and Telecommunications (IT&T),

·        co-chair’ of the Regional Economic Diversification Opportunities (REDO) committee

·        Chairman of the Canadian Advanced Technology Association (CATA) from 1994 until 1996.

·        1996 Ottawa Carleton Board of Trade’s Business Person of the 1997 recipient of the Premier’s Award for Technology.

Larry O’Brien is running for Mayor of Ottawa because he believes that with real leadership at city hall Ottawa can be the best city in Canada, to live, work and invest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Earl Andrew (talk • contribs)


 * Oh I didn't know that.. but anyways, did he clearly say : you can also use this text on the article? Maybe he was just trying to brainwash you :p

Irish Cat?
I don't know who put that category there (probably Alm93 who is blocked for six months and which there are still category vandalism that I've reverted from him) but please provide a source on that, then you can put it back, if it's true.--JForget 11:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * It was, I. I read it in either the Citizen or the Sun. I can't remember when it was, but I added it as soon as I saw it. -- Earl Andrew - talk 04:50, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * After doing a websearch, I found reference to the article in this blog: -- Earl Andrew - talk 04:55, 17 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I've just made a research through the history and discovered that you're the one who've made that addition. Okay, even if I'm not a fan of blogs (often source of factual inaccuracies or false info) I've left a hidden note beside the category, so to show that this is not a Alm93 edit. It seems that this blog seems more credible than many others. However, I'm a bit disappointed of the lack of info on the web about his Irish background.--JForget 15:59, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Template
My God, can someone please get rid of that template or do what needs to be done to get rid of it? Because this thing is seriously obtrusive. SanguineX 18:56, 17 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I think we have to wait for an admin to deal with it... there was a rewritten version which is somewhat of better but meh. --Deenoe 17:39, 19 November 2006 (UTC)


 * The temp version has been moved into place and the copyvio deleted - thanks for your patience. -- Ars Scriptor  15:34, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Political Party?
Is there a source for the article's claim that O'Brien is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada? I heard it said several times through the campaign that he was not affiliated with any party. 209.217.82.98 19:29, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I second this. I explicitly remember him saying he was a former member of the CPC (or maybe PC) but wasn't during the campaign and presumably still isn't. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.1.202.4 (talk) 19:33, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Formally affiliated to the Liberals
Check this out There is no writting mention of the Liberals and his link to them (although the article and the webpage does says he work in a Council Advisor under the Jean Chretien admin (Chretien not mentionned here).

Although the guy misspelled Chretien for Cretien.

However, we need a source here for his link to the Conservative Party, seem to have heard it. the ex-Conservative member for the chief of staff position or his letter to John Baird about the LRT or deal with Terry Kilrea would not be enough. Unfortunately, the former Larry O'Brien article has been due to that copyright violation issue, which means I do not know who put that in the first place.--JForget 19:51, 30 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, he is a former Liberal. He also was affiliated with the Canadian Alliance, and is now affiliated with the Conservatives. He was interviewed on CBC radio shortly after the election, and he stated this himself. -- Earl Andrew - talk 20:24, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Chair of Calian
Is this still true? Does he still have the time to be the chair? --Deenoe 22:09, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Wife's name
Was Debbie's maiden name O'Brien? I suspect not. Typical style is to say "John Smith married Jane Doe", not "John Smith married Jane Smith". If Debbie's maiden name is unknown, we could say "O'Brien had two sons with his wife, Debbie, who kept O'Brien's name following their divorce. The two were married in 1983." (though this is also awkward. Might be easier to find her maiden name :P) --RealGrouchy 06:22, 16 January 2007 (UTC

Conflict of Interest
Why is SimonP (Simon Pulsifer) editing this page when he worked on the election campaing of one of O'Brien's opponnents, Alex Munter? 209.217.83.175
 * Maybe because it's actually hard to find any Wikipedian who doesn't prefer Munter to O'Brien ;-) -- Earl Andrew - talk 18:23, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Only edit he made here was the map and that's it I don't see any problems.--JForget 19:13, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Did he add any unreferenced information? --RealGrouchy 21:23, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Nope, and I guess he did the map possibly with a map or graphic software (not sure if Power Point has features to build up maps like that since you can built graphics for slide shows).--JForget 02:50, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * This is a pathetic and false accusation to a great Wikipedian. Simon Pulsifer has been working on Wikipedia for YEARS, and he perfectly knows the principles of neutral point-of-view, etc. Since he campaigned for Munter, should he albeit from editing any articles related to his opponents or to the election in general? No! If there's a problem with a POV edit Simon did, by all means, revert it, but accusing him in a conflict of interest while providing absolutely NO evidence is really insulting. --Deenoe 11:18, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Also, all the edits from this IP are only in regards of this, so that's even less a concern.--JForget 17:03, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Old Ottawa Flag.png
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BetacommandBot (talk) 15:40, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Lex Luthor
So like I don't do the wikipedia edit thing much, so I don't know how to best go about this but stop removing my section on Lex Luthor. This is basically his nickname, virtually everyone of my friends and family members refer to him this way. "Mayor Luthor did this", "Did you hear what Lex did now", etc... May bloggers refer to him this way also.

I think it should be in there and it is not ridiculous.

You want to improve it fine, maybe we rename it to "derogatory nickname" or something, like this, but for now I am going to restore it.

But it is the truth that many many people in Ottawa call him this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.48.240.201 (talk) 05:22, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

I put the reference back, think it deserves a short mention, but not the full similarities section. Pnels081 (talk) 09:41, 27 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Nobody in Ottawa calls him Lex Luthor, except it sounds like 1 family - and as it's never been printed in a newspaper, it's WP:OR and therefore not permitted. ( talk→  BWilkins   ←track ) 23:28, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

every one calls him Lex Luthor do you not listen to the radio? Birtch11 (talk) 01:56, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

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Should religion be included in the infobox?
I have added a Religion item to Jacquelin Holzman’s Infobox and had my edit reverted by user: Jonesey95  citing RfC: Religion in biographical infoboxes. For consistency, I am removing Religion from the Infobox of this artiucle. See also Lorry Greenberg’s wp:Infobox. Opinions? Ottawahitech (talk) 14:00, 31 October 2016 (UTC)please ping me