WINNIPEG – Winnipeg’s top bureaucrat will remain off the job. City councillors agreed Wednesday to extend Deepak Joshi’s suspension by 30 days.
City council Executive Policy Committee voted in a closed-door meeting to suspend Joshi for 30 days, after Mayor Brian Bowman suddenly suspended Joshi last week, saying he had “lost confidence” in the CAO.
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Michael Jacks will step in as acting CAO for now.
Bowman has not said why Joshi lost his confidence.
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Joshi stepped in as acting chief administrative officer after former CAO Phil Sheegl resigned in October 2013 following a scandal involving a land swap deal to build new fire halls.
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