Message from the Chair 

Moe Desjardins
Executive Chair, IRGO

On behalf of our members, welcome to the OPS Interministerial Retiree Group of Ottawa (IRGO). The only local interministerial group dedicated solely to retired OPS employees within the Ottawa region. IRGO is dedicated to helping retired Ontario public servants by keeping them up to-date on the latest information and providing opportunities to continue to foster the camaraderie created by a career in public service. We'd be pleased if you would join us. Membership is free and open to all retired Ontario public servants.

If you want to join our group, simply click on the "Become a Member" link on the left-hand side of your screen, which will bring you directly to the IRGO E-membership application form.

Latest News

20 November 2009

The Quarter Century Club, in partnership with the Eastern Interministerial Council and the Ottawa Interministerial Council, is planning their annual OPS Employee Recognition and Retiree event. The event will be held in Ottawa on November 20th, 2009.

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28 April 2009

The Interministerial Retiree Group of Ottawa (IRGO) in partnership with the Ottawa Interministerial Council (OIC) and the Ontario Quarter Century Club (QCC) held another successful retiree event in Ottawa.

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19 November 2008

Two articles on IRGO appear on page three of the Ministry of the Attorney General, Court Services Division, Eastern Division's Newsletter “Oyez! Oyez!”, Volume 3 Issue 4 November 2008

14 November 2008 

Long Term Funding Study Reveals Increasing Cost of Pensions

The Ontario Pension Board, the administrator of the Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP), recently conducted a long term funding study of the plan and found that current contributions (including both member and matching employer contributions) are not sufficient to cover the cost of providing pension benefits over the long term by about 1.4% of salary.more >>>

23 October 2008

Web site development started with the appointment of our Webmaster, Bill Hall, who has volunteered to give us a hand. He's hard at work developing the pages that we need. The first thing was the development of a business card which announced the arrival of our presence on the World Wide Web. As you can see he’s working on the home page at this time.

Bill welcomes input and you may reach him via .

Fall 2008

A brief article appeared on page three in the Quarter Century Club, Fall 2008 edition of it’s newsletter “Trillium”.