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OC Transpo manager defends transit service in aftermath of storm Jennifer McIntosh

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Despite the long waits, city buses adrift in the snow and crowded transit stations, everyone got home safely during the storm that walloped the city on Feb. 16, says OC Transpo general manager John Manconi.

While Ottawans took to Twitter and other social media in the day following the storm, complaining of long

waits and stuck buses blocking roadways, Manconi said he’s pleased with the city’s response.

Manconi said he holds a subscription to the Ottawa Citizen and the paper wasn’t in his mailbox today.

“The person who delivers the paper couldn’t get to my house,” he said. “It’s all about understanding the context.”

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Manconi said that a number did get stuck.

“A lot of buses were stuck on access ramps or stuck behind cars that were stuck,” he said. “But those buses are the workhorses of the fleet.”

An added complication was the influx of federal public service employees, who were let out of work early, and flooded the downtown core just after 1 p.m. seeking to get home by bus.

Manconi said that emergency protocol would be for the feds to notify the city of a large-scale closure of any departments.

But Manconi said he only heard about the employees being sent home via Twitter.

Had the city been notified it could have helped manage commuter expectations, Manconi said, adding OC Transpo would have also reallocated routes to deal with the increased volume and would have suggested the federal departments stagger employee departure times.

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Warm embrace A bird mascot puts his wings around Stittsville’s Paul Bernhardt and his son, Jayden, 7, on Feb. 13, during the final weekend for Winterlude in Confederation Park. Despite the bitterly cold temperatures and a frostbite warning in effect, the father-son pair insisted on embracing the sub-zero day by taking in some of the downtown Winterlude activities.

Para Transpo standards review shows support for expanded eligibility criteria by users New deal with taxi services to add 12,000 trips per year Jennifer McIntosh

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A review of Para Transpo services has shown that users are overwhelmingly in support of expanded eligibility criteria to allow those with developmental disabilities and mental health issues to access the service.

The results of the review were reported to the city’s transit commission on Feb. 17.

Staff carried out a series of public consultations, which included eight ses-

sions on expanded eligibility criteria and eight on the Para Transpo booking policy – including penalties for late cancellations and no shows.

There were also 666 responses to the questionnaires the city sent out and seven emails, and/or letters.

The commission directed the standards review of booking and eligibility criteria at the May 20, 2015 meeting.

The report included the results of the questionnaire, consultations and the findings of a working group that included the commissions vice chair Michael Qaqish, Coun. Marianne Wilkinson and citizen commissioner Graham Milner.

Troy Charter, the assistant general manager for transit operations, said 72 per cent of respondents said

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“In Calgary (AB) they found that it increased ridership for the first few years, then the numbers kind of flattened back to original levels.”

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they agreed with the idea of expanding the eligibility criteria to include those with mental health and developmental disabilities.

Charter said the city has talked with other municipalities about the practicalities of rolling out the new guidelines.

“In Calgary (AB) they found that it increased ridership for the first few years,

then the numbers kind of flattened back to original levels,” he said.

“We will be keeping a close eye on it.”

Charter said the change could mean 2,000 additional trips annually.

He added some respondents were concerned about the capacity of the system to handle the additional trips, but still supported the move.

A new contract with accessible taxis could shoulder some of the burden.

A new deal the city struck with the taxi companies will mean less dollars being spent on administrative duties – and an additional 12,000 Para Transpo rides per year.

Another key component of the review is booking.

Right now, the process for on-demand booking is a phone call to reserve a space at 7 a.m. the day before the

trip is needed.

Charter said the city is looking at electronic booking online and integrate voice recognition over the phone, so customers don’t have to speak with an agent.

Charter said a move to an electronic system would ease the burden of customers looking for a ride.

Knoxdale-Merivale Coun. Keith Egli said the biggest complaint he receives is the requirement for clients to call in so far in advance.

Charter said the city hoped to have the electronic system in place by the end of the year, but couldn’t say how soon customers would be able to use it to make bookings.

OC Transpo general manager John Manconi said the review is part of an overhaul of the system that has been years in the making and

started with the new mini buses, rolled out in September 2014.

He called it “reconstructive surgery” for Para Transpo.

The city will also pilot electronic fare options – like the Presto Pass. Manconi said the city is “field testing” the electronic card payment option.

He said the city had wanted to work on the electronic upgrades, but customers said it was better to get the guidelines on booking and eligibility updated before the changes take place.

“The important thing is, we are listening,” he said.

Para Transpo currently has 13,000 riders and costs $33 million to operate.

Staff will report back to the commission in the spring – likely in May, said chair Stephen Blais.

Dickinson Square properties change ownership again Staff

Despite his former financial partner backing out, local developer Joe Princiotta will be able to move forward with plans to develop property on Clapp Lane after transferring the property to a new corporate partnership.

Princiotta’s Manotick Heritage Development Inc. purchased 1125 Clapp Lane from the city in 2013. He and a partner with the corporation already owned 1129 Clapp Lane at the time, and once in possession of both properties, Princiotta revealed plans to build 32-unit independent living facility for seniors there.

The proposed development would run the length of the property on the corner of Clapp and Dickinson Street, offering between 30 and 32 seniors’ apartments that would include catered meals and onsite services.

The announcement at a public meeting in December 2013 was greeted by applause, with the plans well received by the 60 residents who attended the meeting.

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Recently, Princiotta appealed to the Manotick Mill Quarter Community Development to transfer ownership of the properties from Manotick Heritage Development Inc. to RSH OVD Facility Inc. after

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Provincial investments intended to help spark electric car use Staff

Week In Review

Our Ward experienced the most snow volume in 24 hours since the early 1900’s! The single day event was the equivalent of 26% of last years’ snowfall in a 16 hour period. With over 50cm of white stuff coming down nonstop until late evening, the plow drivers were out doing their best to keep up with the fast accumulation. Most residents woke up to at least a cleared path to travel to get out to work. I would like to send out a special thank you to the Benson family and the many other Snow Angels who took the time to help out their neighbours during the storm. There were areas that had some difficulty navigating around stranded cars from the night before, but for the most part areas were cleared throughout the night.

Some people were not so lucky to be able to drive home from work on Monday and came back to find their cars buried under snow on Tuesday morning! Thank you to our residents for their patience and understanding during this storm. Our plow drivers spend countless hours out clearing and salting the roads. We understand it’s not an easy job. Thank you all!

Buyers looking to get behind the wheel of an electric car could receive a bigger jolt of provincial cash to do so.

The Ontario government announced changes to its sixyear-old electric vehicle incentive program on Feb. 10 that would help make some EVs more affordable.

The aim of the revised program is to meet a pollution reduction target of 80 per cent below 1990 levels by the year 2050.

Starting this year, EV buyers would see the range of government subsidies grow to a range of $6,000 to $10,000 (up from $5,000 to $8,000) with an additional $3,000 incentive for EVs with “larger battery capacities” and a further $1,000 for EVs with five seats or more.

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The Ontario government will hand electric car buyers up to $14,000 in incentives under a revised provincial program aimed at reducing emissions. els. Luxury car buyers who choose models costing more than $75,000 would have the subsidy capped at $3,000.

“With a growing population and expanding urban regions, transportation emissions pose one of our province’s greatest challenges in achieving our ambitious greenhouse gas pollution reduction targets,” said Premier Kathleen Wynne in a news release.

Exhaust from trucks, cars and other vehicles make up about 35 per cent of Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions, making this sector a ripe target for emissions-lowering incentives. The $325-million Green Investment Fund behind the electric vehicle program is being used by the province as a down-payment on Ontario’s future cap-andtrade program.

“We are working hard to continue our support for green technology because the benefits of doing this are clear,” stated Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca.

“Providing better incentives for electric vehicles will help consumers and businesses make the transition to more sustainable vehicles, and keep Ontario at the forefront of the clean, green economy.”

Del Duca has said the province will now allow EV drivers to use high-occupancy vehicle lanes on 400-series highways, even if there is only one occupant in the car.

Once high-occupancy toll lanes become operational in the province, EV drivers will be able to use those lanes for free. The incentives also address the need for better infrastructure to power the province’s growing EV fleet. Home and business owners can receive a $1,000 incentive for the installation of EV charging stations.

Last December, the province withdrew $20 million from the same fund to boost the number of public charging stations.

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Despite the wicked snow storm that we experienced on Tuesday, there were a few people that came out to our Metcalfe office for the drop in hours. I’m always happy to see residents and have even been surprised when they take the time to drop in during a snowstorm just to say hello.

Thank you to all donors and guests for making this 4th Annual Busting Out the Brews another successful year raising, $35,740 for the Osgoode Care Centre. Organizers were truly overwhelmed by the tremendous support of the community. Well done!

**OPEN DOOR - NOTICE FEB.23** Please be aware that I will be unavailable for Open Door on Tuesday, February 23. I am attending the Rural Ontario Municipalities Association and Ontario Good Roads Association combined conference as a delegate of the City. My office will be open as usual and staffed with my Ward Assistant, Jane, should you need anything in my absence. My Open Door will resume as usual the following Tuesday, March 1 from 1:00-5:00 p.m. Hope to see you then!

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The capital was blanketed with more than 50 centimetres of snow, breaking a record set in 1947 for snowfall in one day, said transportation committee chair Keith Egli.

“Not only did we break a record, but we got a quarter of the snow we received all last winter in one day,” he said.

The snow fell for 16 hours straight on Feb. 16, and once the snow stopped, the winds kicked in.

Egli said the city hoped to clear residential roads by noon on Feb. 17 and was working on triaging sidewalks and pedestrian and cycling paths.

Just like the Dec. 29 storm that covered the city with 25 cm of snow, Egli said the city had to use snow blowers, which are more effective at removing snow than using traditional blades on plows. Unfortunately, the blowers move at about a quarter the speed, he said.

Egli said he was pleased to hear fewer reports of illegal snow dumping on Feb. 16 by private snow removal companies than there were at the end of 2015.

“Hopefully, they got the message the city is serious,” he said While the city learned some lessons from the first major snowfall this winter, there’s still some work to be done, said transit committee chair Stephen Blais. He said OC Transpo and city public works staff will meet to review the response to the storm.

“It’s hard to understand or know what to expect, we haven’t seen this level of snow since the ‘40s,” Blais said.

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Our City Council has made great efforts to ensure that Ottawa is accessible to as many residents as possible. Ottawa consistently ranks among the best cycling and pedestrian communities in Ontario.

With more than 5,400 km of roadways and 1,580 km of sidewalks, the City of Ottawa is very familiar with the unique challenges residents can face on their commute. In fact, Ottawa even has approximately 40 km of cycling networks maintained throughout the winter.

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That is why Council introduced the innovative Safer Roads Ottawa Program. Safer Roads Ottawa is collaboration between Ottawa Fire Services, Ottawa Paramedic Service, Ottawa Police Service, Ottawa Public Health and the Public Works Department.

Rideau River ice breaking begins February 22, 2016

The program was developed to prevent or eliminate road deaths and serious injuries for all residents, including the most vulnerable users of our roads and pathways.

Rideau River flood control operations begin the week of February 22, 2016 with the cutting of the keys, weather permitting. Ice breaking operations, including blasting, are set to begin the week of March 12, weather and ice conditions permitting, on the Rideau River between Rideau Falls and Hog’s Back.

Through changing road safety culture, community engagement and the development of sustainable safe transportation environments; SRO initiatives take a comprehensive approach to eliminating collision incidents.

A Reminder to Parents and Teachers

Ottawa’s comprehensive approach to road safety has produced encouraging results so far. Reviewing traffic collision data from 2013 compared to 2014 reflects this progress. Ottawa has seen:

Ice breaking operations will create open water. Children should be supervised at all times around water and should be warned of the dangers of open water.

The City, in partnership with the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority, undertakes ice breaking operations each year to alleviate possible spring flooding in flood-prone areas. Once started, these operations will be carried out daily, weather and ice conditions permitting.

All residents are asked to keep away from the river until operations are completed.

For instance, the “Stay Safe, Stay Back” campaign focuses the issue of cycling and driver safety, specifically when it involves large trucks.

The campaign educates cyclists and heavy truck operators about the unique dangers of sharing a roadway, such as blind spots.

• Injuries relating to collisions decrease by 7% • Total number of reportable collisions decrease by 2.5% • Pedestrian collisions decrease by 13% • Cycling collisions decrease by 21% • Motorcycle collisions decrease by 8% • A new annual fund for Councillors to invest in traffic calming initiatives at the neighbourhood level.

Although we have made great progress so far, until we have eliminated road deaths and serious injuries, we still have much work to do.

If you would like to learn more about the Safer Roads Ottawa Program, please visit www.ottawa.ca.

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Freezin’ for a reason: Special Olympics polar plunge coming to Algonquin Hosted by Ottawa police, event at Algonquin College will raise funds for Special Olympics Megan DeLaire

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Ottawa police want you to “freeze!”

That’s why they’re partnering with Algonquin College and the Ontario Law Enforcement Torch Run to host Ottawa’s second Polar Plunge for the Special Olympics on Feb. 27.

Brave participants will have a chance to jump, slip or tip-toe into a pool of ice cold water at the college starting at 9 a.m. that day to raise funds and awareness for the athletes and families of Special Olympics Ontario.

Special Olympics Ontario is part of a global move-

ment that aims to empower children and adults with intellectual disabilities, using sport as a catalyst. It provides opportunities for athletes to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage and socialize with other Special Olympics athletes through year-round sports training and athletic competitions.

The polar plunge is one of numerous activities police across Ontario organize to support the sports organization, and funds raised at events such as the Feb. 27 polar plunge help make Special Olympics Ontario’s programming sustainable.

“We work very closely with law enforcement and policing across the province, because Special Olympics is actually their charity of choice,” said Special Olympics Ontario spokeswoman Jasmina Vranesevic.

She added that police across Ontario raise more than $1 million annually for the organization, bringing in almost $1.8 million in 2015. “We have a very

strong connection with them,” Vranesevic said of the relationship between Special Olympics Ontario and law enforcement agencies.

Although this year’s plunge will be the second organized by police in Ottawa, it’s the most recent in a long list of events planned in partnership with the Ontario Law Enforcement Torch Run to support the sport organization.

“We do the torch run – that’s our big one – every year,” said Ottawa Insp.

John McGetrick, a polar plunge organizer. He said local police also collect donations at Ottawa 67’s games and through their Cops and Cowboys events at Lone Star Texas Grill.

“The money we raise goes to the athletes and if the police don’t raise it they don’t participate in sport, and it’s basically that simple.”

Last year’s polar plunge attracted 75 participants and raised $27,500 through entry fees and donations.

This year, McGetrick has

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Ottawa polar plunge organizer Insp. John McGetrick climbs out of icy water during the 2015 polar plunge at TD Place, with help from some fellow officers. The Polar Plunge for the Special Olympics will take place again this year, hosted by Algonquin College on Feb. 27. decided to waive the entry fee, but he hopes the event will raise even more than the first time around.

“We did that with the intention of encouraging participants to try and get sponsorship,” McGetrick

said. “We’re encouraging people who are plunging to make a donation on the day of and generate as much sponsorship as they can.

But there’s no fee. If you want to go, you can sign up and go.”For more informa-

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Residents have until Feb. 29 to submit their feedback on the city’s draft proposal on coach houses – backyard dwellings, more commonly referred to as granny flats.

The proposal is part of 2011 provincial legislation that said all municipalities must include the dwellings in their official plan.

The city posted a questionnaire last summer, asking residents a variety of questions in an attempt to gauge public interest. But Alta Vista Community Association president Clinton Cowan said he wants to see the city take a pause.

If a new zoning bylaw is passed, Ottawa will be the first large municipality to allow them.

“I don’t know why we have to be the first one to do it,” Cowan said, adding Ottawa could benefit from seeing how the structures are implemented in other cities.

City planner Emily Davies said based on the comments from residents, most seemed concerned with privacy – including concerns regarding height and windows.

“They didn’t want windows overlooking the neighbouring property,”

who worked with staff on a bylaw to better control rooming houses around Algonquin College, said he thinks coach houses could complement the existing rules.

He said it would give homeowners an additional option – rather than carving up existing homes to rent out rooms.

Chiarelli said he has some concerns; for example the number of responses. There were 436 questionnaires filled out, and he didn’t feel it was representative.

“The people that filled them out seemed to have a vested interest,” he said.

The figures do seem to bear that out, with 60 per cent of respondents saying they would be interested in building a coach house File and another 21 per cent answering The city is debating coach houses this month. Residents have until Feb. maybe.

Davies said the number of ques29 to submit their feedback on the city’s draft proposal. tionnaires were not “statistically significant.” square metres.

Davies said.

“It was a tool to get public feedWater and sewer servicing would Coach houses will be allowed on back,” she said. lots with detached, semi-detached come from the main house.

While Davies said the city hasn’t and linked homes – except in rural areas where properties are on well set a minimum lot size, there are OLDER GENERATION rules about setbacks that prohibit water and septic tanks.

The house can’t be bigger than the use of a townhouse lot for a Chiarelli said the idea will support 40 per cent of the size of the main coach house. the older generation, many of whom College Coun. Rick Chiarelli, are looking to downsize but want house, up to a maximum of 95

to stay in the same neighbourhood.

But he wants to work out some rules around occupancy and parking.

“You wouldn’t want the whole team living there, thinking it is the coach’s house,” he said in jest.

Cowan also said there’s more he would like to see in the proposal – namely maximum heights, rather than storeys.

Right now the structures would be limited to one storey, either on the ground, or a storey over the garage.

“You can get pretty creative with one storey if you’re building a loft,” he said.

There are also no locational limitations to the structures, meaning an area like Pleasant Park – with lots that are 30 meters deep – may be targeted for construction.

Cowan said Alta Vista is a community where the front doors are on the street and people know their neighbours, and he worries that dynamic might change if new units in the back of houses are built.

Davies said she will meet with community associations throughout the city as part of the process.

Based on comments, staff will compile a final proposal that will be open for comment for 30 days, from the end of March into April.

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Storm planning adrift in Ottawa

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o one can be blamed when we get 51 centimetres of snow in a day.

But every Ottawan should have some faith that our governments have given the possibility of heavy snow some thought, and have a plan to deal with it.

On Feb. 16 we were slammed by Mother Nature. And at the same time, poor decisions were made, decisions that suggest little thought had gone into how a massive snowstorm might affect travel, and what should be done about it.

First off, our city owns buses that don’t work when there’s a lot of snow.

Articulated buses get stuck, which leaves passengers stranded and motorists left to negotiate intersections strewn with bendy buses.

If there is a solution, it’s up to the city to find it. A suggestion?: buy buses that work in snow.

This is not Miami.

Secondly, communications failed when the federal government shut down offices, sending a rush hour’s-worth of commuters to bus stops being served by mid-afternoon volume of buses.

Had the federal government staggered the closures, and told the city their plans, thousands of people would have had a more comfortable day.

No one died on Feb. 16, we are told, so we should be satisfied with the response of the city and federal government.

On the provincial front, Ontario doesn’t mandate the use of snow tires, so some people on the road were ill equipped to handle the roads. Quebec has made snow tires mandatory and early stats show accident rates have dropped.

It’s time for Ontario to adopt the same law, possibly only for cars registered in eastern and northern Ontario.

The only kudos worth dishing out are reserved for the snowplow operators who managed to keep our roads passable, and for the bus drivers who have to put up with substandard equipment.

Stuck buses and slow cars are not a recipe for smooth travel.

All levels of government have a part to play in finding solutions, because it’s likely it will snow again one day.

Things we learn when the snow piles up

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mazingly, after all these years, we keep learning new things about winter, and about ourselves in winter. To take only the most obvious, we can look out the window on a sunny Wednesday and enjoy the beauty of the new snow that was our bitter enemy on a hellish Tuesday last week.

What weird people we Canadians are.

We learn that sometimes wiper blades don’t work very well when the snow is thick. That’s a scary thing to learn. We leap out of the car when the light is red and do what we can. Others do the same.

One guy was doing it when the light was green. He got back into the car, then got out and did it again. Nobody honked at him.

That’s another thing we learn:

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There was a certain amount of yelling at OC Transpo on social media, as if somehow buses operated on different streets from the rest of us and didn’t have to wait, like the rest of us, for people who had to clean their windshields or people who had just discovered, on hills, that all-weather tires don’t work in all weather.

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are helpful; there would have been hundreds of people out there pushing the cars of people they had never met.

We didn’t need to learn, but it was good to be reminded of the good job the city does in getting snow out of the way. Despite a record snowfall, most of the arterials and a lot of the side streets were clear by late Tuesday night.

By the next day you could even walk on the sidewalks, in most places.

We learn what a twisted sense of humour winter has, enjoying the twisted prank of cancelling some Winterlude events because it’s too warm and cancelling other Winterlude events because it’s too cold.

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The list was long of institutions that were closed, events that were cancelled. But the show did go on in many places.

Watching the Senators game on TV, you had to admire the 15,000 or so intrepid souls who made the trek out to the Canadian Tire Centre, an ordeal at the best of times. I bet they were happy when they got there, and not a little proud of themselves.

Some of us celebrate being able to brave the elements. Others just curse the elements. Still others go south and send gloating postcards.

Think what they’re missing.

Winter brings out the grouch in some, to be sure. Some people wanted their little crescent cleared immediately. Some groups that didn’t postpone events got critical emails and tweets. That’s the thanks they got. Many years ago I was working at a paper in Manitoba on the day of the worst blizzard in decades. We heroically EDITORIAL: MANAGING EDITOR: Theresa Fritz, 613-221-6261 theresa.fritz@metroland.com NEWS EDITOR: Joe Morin joe.morin@metroland.com 613-221-6240 REPORTER: Kelly Kent kkent@metroland.com, 613.221.6175

got in to work, heroically put the paper out and heroically got it delivered. Then, while we were congratulating ourselves for a job well done, we turned on the radio and heard people on the open-line shows attacking us for sending paperboys out into the snow.

Some people don’t deserve winter.

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Ottawa figure skater comes home with Disney on Ice show on the road with her Disney on Ice cast mates since the show’s current tour started in September, 2015.

While touring, the show’s 49 performers travel from one city to the next in a convoy of four tour busses, covering an average distance of 600 kilometres between each tour stop. By the end of their 2015-16 tour, the cast and 20 staff and crew members will have covered about 20,000 km travelling to 33 cities in Canada and the United States, mostly by bus.

Despite the near-constant travel, Nasu-Yu said she’s adjusting to her new lifestyle, and is even learning to enjoy it.

“It definitely took a while to get used to the travelling and everything, just figuring out how to pack your suitcases for every city,” she said.

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Lisa Nasu-Yu left Ottawa last August to start a new job.

Now she’s excited to come back home this month to show her friends and family what she’s been up to.

She’s coming home from Feb. 24 to 28 to perform daily at the Canadian Tire Centre with the cast of the travelling ice show Disney on Ice Celebrates 100 Years of Magic.

“I’m really excited to be able to show my friends and family what I’m actually doing,” said Nasu-Yu, a figure skater who has trained with two Ottawa clubs. “I’ve had so much support from them to get here, so to be able to let them see my work and the show is really exciting.”

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“But everyone’s been really helpful. I’ve learned a lot and I think I’ve found my place. It’s great that we get to explore all the different cities with our tour family.”

The show begins with a parade of 50 classic and modern characters – including Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and an ensemble of Disney princesses – led by Mickey Mouse.

Then, in two acts, it celebrates Disney’s legacy with high-energy musical tributes to 14 classic and new stories.

Its team of international figure skaters glides, spins and dances its way through more than 30 choreographed song, including Let it Go, You’ve Got A Friend in Me and Hakuna Matata.

During each show, NasuYu undergoes three transformations as an ensemble skater, becoming a green

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army man for the Toy Story song You’ve Got a Friend in Me, a turtle for the Finding Nemo song Turtle Rock, and a bride for the Mulan song Honor to Us All. “My favourite part of the show would have to be the Mulan production,” she said. “It’s really great to see Mulan out there. She’s beautiful and graceful but powerful at the same time.”

Before joining the cast of Disney on Ice in 2015, Nasu-Yu trained at the Nepean Skating Club and the south Ottawa Minto Skating Club, and skated competitively with Skate Canada.

Despite breaking her leg in 2009, in 2011 she was named the Canada Winter Games pre-novice champion and earned a silver medal at the Pre-Novice Canadian Figure Skating Championships that year.

With her latest, more theatrical venture, she said she feels like she can enjoy the best of both worlds.

“It’s really different from competitive (skating) I

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Lisa Nasu-Yu joined the cast of the travelling ice show Disney on Ice Celebrates 100 Years of Magic in August, but she’ll be back in her home town for daily performances at the Canadian Tire Centre from Feb. 24 to 28 when the show comes to Ottawa. about the show, or to purchase tickets, go to capitaltickets.ca. Tickets are also available by phone at 613599-3267 or in person at the Canadian Tire Centre box office.

guess,” she said. “It’s professional but we’re not fighting for things, it’s just more fun.

You get to skate while having fun and exploring, so it’s perfect.”

For more information

The Council of the City of Ottawa passed By-law 2016-65 on February 10, 2016, under Section 34 of The PLANNING ACT. Any person or public body who, before the by-law was passed, made oral submissions at a public meeting or written submissions to City Council, may appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board with respect to the by-law, by filing with the Clerk of the City of Ottawa, a notice of appeal setting out the objection to the by-law and the reasons in support of the objection. An appeal must be accompanied by the Ontario Municipal Board’s prescribed fee of $125.00, which may be made in the form of a cheque payable to the Minister of Finance.

A notice of appeal can be mailed to the City Clerk at 110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 1J1, or by delivering the notice in person, to Ottawa City Hall, at the Information Desk in the Rotunda on the 1st floor, 110 Laurier Avenue West.

A notice of appeal must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. on March 16, 2016.

Only individuals, corporations and public bodies may appeal a zoning by-law to the Ontario Municipal Board. A notice of appeal may not be filed by an unincorporated association or group. However, a notice of appeal may be filed in the name of an individual who is a member of the association or the group on its behalf.

No person or public body shall be added as a party to the hearing of the appeal unless, before the by-law was passed, the person or public body made oral submissions at a public meeting or written submissions to the council or, in the opinion of the Ontario Municipal Board, there are reasonable grounds to add the person or public body as a party.

Should the by-law be appealed, persons or public bodies who wish to receive notice of the Ontario Municipal Board hearing can receive such notice by submitting a written request to the planner identified below.

An explanation of the purpose and effect of the by-law and a description of the lands to which the by-law applies are included.

Dated at the City of Ottawa on February 25, 2016.

Clerk of the City of Ottawa City Hall 110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1

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THE WineDown is designed for businesswomen who want to take their business/career to the next level, and for those that want to help them get there.

Join us to experience interactive networking, benefit from a solid referral exchange, shared experiences, expertise and support within a format WBN calls Business Brilliance Circles.

The goal of the Business Brilliance Circles is to provide practical ideas, advice and actions in support of the business challenge presented in a comfortable and confidential environment.

Businesswomen bring your business challenges and join us to network, collaborate & make a difference in the lives of women in the Ottawa business community!

Date: March 9th, 2016 Time: 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm Location: Empire Restaurant & Bar 47 Clarence Street, Ottawa, ON K1N 9K1

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EXPLANATORY NOTE TO BY-LAW 2016-65 By-law 2016-65 amends the City of Ottawa Zoning By-law 2008-250. The amendments correct errors in the zoning by-law and will affect zoning provisions and properties as follows: to correct a drive aisle width provision affecting 2940, 2946 Baseline Road; to correct landscape buffer and building height provisions affecting 5705 Hazeldean Road, and; to add a lot width provision for 6801 Hazeldean Road.

For further information, please contact: Carol Ruddy, Planner Tel: 613-580-2424, ext. 28457 E-mail: carol.ruddy@ottawa.ca.

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Snowmobile club cancels drag races The Ottawa Carleton Snowmobile Trail Club, (OCSTC) held their raffle on Feb. 14 as planned.

Saturday, club members counted all tickets sold and accounted for all unsold.

They then headed over to the field on Rideau Carleton Raceway property at the corner of Albion and Rideau Road where they had originally planned to have the drag races and lottery draw.

At 5 p.m. 485 tickets were loaded into the drum and the draw began. Winning tickets were pulled in order of 1st place prize to 3rd place prize. The Governor of District One filmed the draw. The video is posted on their

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•1st prize winner is Murray Baker •2nd place prize winner is Mike Lamesse •3rd prize winner is Christian Jennings The club apologizes for any confusion created by the cancellation of the drag races. It was their original intent to make the draw part of the drag race day that was unfortunately cancelled due to the lack of snow.

The OCSTC is pleased with support they received. They feel that this was their best groomer fundraiser to date. They will be looking to continue this on an annual basis.

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Toy from the past fun in the present Elaine Eagan of Watson’s Mill’s visitor services, demonstrates a wooden toy from the Manotick Mill for a young boy during Heritage Day celebrations at city hall on Feb. 16.

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t least it was a mild day when the first cow went into labour. The Farmer did his morning head count and when one cow was missing it took a moment for him to find her.

We could barely make out her dark form in the shadows under some cedar trees, along the fence line.

“Great. She’s way the hell down there,” he muttered.

I pulled my boots on and prepared to join him on the ATV. We might have to taxi a calf back up to the barn.

When we approached, Gina stuck her curly black head out from under the cedar boughs.

“What are you doing, Gina?” I questioned her.

“Do you think this is a good spot to have your baby?”

Apparently she did. She was carefully tramping fallen cedar boughs in a circle and, I had to admit, it did look pretty comfy. But there was very little wind

DIANA FISHER The Accidental Farmwife block, and we needed to get both her and her calf up to the barn, where they would be kept inside for a week or so.

The coaxing and encouraging began.

“Come on, Gina. Up to the barn. Let’s go. Giddyup.”

She just looked at us and blinked with her long eyelashes.

Then the Farmer got off his 4-wheeler and started in her direction. She leapt out of the bushes and started up the well-beaten cow path up to the barnyard, stopping every few feet to turn around and look at her prospective birthing spot.

She mooed her intermittent complaints. The other cattle gathered around to see what excitement had her bawling.

“She’s going to have her calf today,” the Farmer announced.

Well I could have told you that.

It would likely be a few hours, so we went back up to the house to make lunch.

And then, about two hours later, the Farmer went to check on his herd.

He popped his head back into the house. “Come see this. And don’t wear your best clothes. You’re gonna get dirty.”

A man of mystery, my husband is. But I appreci-

ated the warning when I saw what he was talking about.

Hurried out of her preferred birthing location, Gina had chosen what she considered the next best thing. She gave birth to her calf on the soft, matted hay that circles the feeder in the middle of the barnyard. In a warm, wet pile of manure.

Remembering last year’s disaster, where we arrived to find her big, beautiful calf dead, we hurried to pull this one into the dry warmth of the barn.

Now, you’re not supposed to get between a cow and her calf, unless you absolutely have to. Depending on the nature and mood of the mama, you could get yourself killed. Or at least kicked really hard. I’ve seen big, fat Betty send a hoof out at a perfect 90-degree angle from her body, like a whip. Lucky for us, this cow was not aggressive. In fact the look in her eyes was pretty terrified.

The Farmer had lined the stall with soft, dry hay, and filled the feeders and water buckets. Gina mooed a bit as we stole her calf, then followed closely behind. Good girl. That makes it much easier.

The rest of the herd crowded around to see what was going on. Some of them tried to get in the stall with the new little family.

It was a bit chaotic, trying to sort them out, Gina all wild-eyed and panicked.

Finally Gina and her calf were safely locked in, and she set to work at cleaning him off. A mother’s work is never done. He was born on Superbowl Sunday, so we are calling him Touchdown.

One down, eleven to go. Let the games begin.

The calf was already standing, and attempting to walk around its mother. The Farmer took a long rope and looped it into a lasso.

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hey hung from a nail on the doorframe just beside the Findlay Oval.

They were much larger than work socks, but were the same shape, made of thin wood and with two perfectly round holes in the centre.

Worn smooth from many years of usage, Father said his great-grandfather had made them, and they came from Germany with the few belongings they brought when they arrived in Canada. I knew them only as stocking stretchers.

Father’s work socks came in a bundle from Briscoe’s General Store, and every once in a while, Mother would have to take one or two, after washing, worn beyond wear, and chuck them into the rag bag. Eventually, they would end up in a braided rug.

The socks were made of wool, and Father would

MARY COOK Mary Cook’s Memories wear the same pair for a solid week, and by the time Monday wash day rolled around, my sister Audrey would say, “Father’s socks could stand up on their own.”

They would be washed with what Mother called the ‘dark clothes,’ and then the socks would be worked onto the wood frames and hung to dry beside the stove. Mother said if she didn’t use the frames, the stockings would shrink to the size of a pair of babies’ booties!

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these wood frames, and once tried to force a pair of my hateful beige cotton stockings onto them, hoping beyond hope, they would stretch beyond repair. But Mother caught me in the act, and grabbed the stockings before I did them irreparable damage.

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At any rate, practicing shooting the .22 was a regular exercise for the brothers. And so, one day Emerson decided the wood stocking stretchers would be a perfect target. He figured if you could practice by putting a bullet through one of the two holes in the wood frames, you would become a better shot. Of course, he had to sneak out the stretchers when Mother wasn’t looking, and so one Saturday I noticed they were gone from the nail behind the Findlay Oval.

I watched from the kitchen window as Emerson propped the stretchers on a fence post, tying them

securely with a piece of binder-twine. Then he stepped back many paces, put the gun to his shoulder and let fly. He missed by a country mile.

He took another aim, I saw the stretcher shake, and knew Emerson had made a hit.

He slapped his leg. He let go another few shots, but only a few more hit the target. Why the shots didn’t rip the stretchers clear off the post is beyond me.

At any rate, Emerson was satisfied, and he plowed through the snow, untied them, and walked back in the house, making sure Mother wasn’t around, and hung them back on the nail behind the stove.

It was most unfortunate for Emerson that Mother had a keen eye for anything amiss in her kitchen, and it didn’t take long for her to see the stretchers had a lot more than two holes in them. And it didn’t take her all day to figure out how they got there. Brothers

Earl and Everett were much too meek to pull a trick like that.

Emerson was dealt with in the usual fashion, a few cuffs on the ear, and sent to bed without his supper. The stretchers were far from ruined, but in due course a new pair of stocking forms appeared beside the mutilated ones. These came from Scott’s hardware, and were molded from steel into the shape of a pair of stockings.

I would sit and look at the new stretchers, and I knew without a doubt, as I saw him look at them, and even taking to his note pads to draw out plans, Emerson would be thinking up another use for the forms, other than keeping Father’s wool socks from shrinking.

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Brendan Gillanders will be right at home with his new CFL football team.

The fullback who signed with the Ottawa RedBlacks on Feb. 9 is a homegrown local talent, who grew up in Orléans playing football for the Cumberland Panthers and Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

He went on to play for the University of Ottawa and most recently the Toronto Argonauts, so signing with the RedBlacks is definitely bringing Gillanders back home.

“The response from my family and friends has been absolutely crazy,” he said.

“My phone’s been blowing up.” Gillanders, who grew up in the Fallingbrook-area, still currently lives in Orléans. But he has purchased a house in Riverside South

that he’s due to move into soon.

“The plan was to live in Ottawa regardless, because I love the city in the offseason,” he said. “I already was in Ottawa for the offseason, now I don’t have to leave. I’m here 12 months a year now.”

He said he’s been working out at the same gym in the off-season as several players, including RedBlacks quarterback Henry Burris, so there will be some familiar faces in the locker room.

There will be a familiar face on the coaching staff, too, as the RedBlacks’ new offensive coordinator Jaime Elizondo served as the receivers coach in Toronto last year. RedBlacks GM Marcel Desjardins said when a signed player also happens to be local, it’s a added bonus.

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Two other CFL players were introduced to the RedBlacks fan base at the press conference, Arnaud Gascon-Nadon from the Hamilton Tigercats and Gillanders’ former teammate with the Argos, quarterback Trevor Harris.

“I think he’s does some things that you guys haven’t even seen yet,” Harris said of his teammate in Toronto and now Ottawa.

“He can run the football out of the backfield really well too, and he catches passes really well. He’s one of those guys you never need to give a kick in the rear for effort.”

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All three players that were signed were free agents with CFL experience. GasconNadon, a defensive end, has been signed to a two year contract. “The main reason I play football is to win championships,” the Montreal-native said, speaking in both French and English at the press conference.

“I feel like this is a place that’s going to be able to do that in the near future, and I want to be a part of it.”

Desjardins said that Harris was the team’s No. 1 target in terms of players to sign this year.

The American player took over for injured Argonaut’s quarterback Ricky Ray last year, and made an impression. He met with the RedBlacks starting quarterback, Burris, earlier in the morning on Feb. 12.

“I think we both realize that it’s not about him, it’s not about me, it’s about the mission that we’re on and I think that mindset will help drive everything,” Harris said of joining the RedBlacks.

Ontario launches new plan for police and public interaction Steph Willems

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They way police forces interact with members of the public could change following a planned update of the province’s Police Services Act. That was the message delivered by Yasir Naqvi, minister of community safety and correctional services, on Feb. 12.

Reducing encounters that result in incarceration or hospitalization is at the heart of the Strategy for a Safer Ontario.

The proposal foresees collaborative partnerships with health and social services, as well as modernized training, as keys to the improvements.

Province-wide consultations kick off on Feb. 18 for what would be the first update to the act since it was written in 1990.

Naqvi said crucial lessons were learned during the Ottawa Police Service’s one-year Multiagency Early Risk Intervention Tables initiative, which sought better outcomes for vulnerable people when they interact with police.

“What we’re seeing in Ottawa with MERIT is a pilot, and what we’re talking about is making a practice across the province,” said Naqvi.

“This is a great example of creating a co-ordinated approach of early intervention – looking at chronic circumstances and instead of treating it individually, we’d work collectively to provide better services.”

The plan would create a model – backed by legislation – that would require communities to develop community safety and well-being plans, as well as create situation tables like those used in MERIT. Naqvi’s ministry has funded numerous policing pilot projects over the past two years to gauge results and develop best practices.

“The results have been very compelling – very similar to (Ottawa’s pilot),” said Naqvi.

A framework for policing in First Nations communities would also be part of the changes.

The province’s policing initiative doesn’t exist in a vac-

uum, however. Recent highprofile media coverage of policing troubles – including the Sammy Yatim case in Toronto – has illustrated a need for a different approach in dealing with the public.

As well, horror stories about the continued lack of mental health resources for young people abound.

All of these factors can conspire to create an extra burden on already-overworked jails and medical facilities.

“We’re looking at many different factors in our development of a strategy,” said Naqvi.

“In order for us to continue to have effective communitybased policing, there needs to be a strong level of trust and respect between (police and public) … Some of the pillars we’ll be consulting on are around how can we better use technology in the way polic-

ing is provided?

What changes do we need to do for training? How can we put more emphasis on deescalation before any kind of use of force?

“All of those elements are being considered as part of our consultation, to ensure that we really are putting forward a policing model … that is rooted in evidence we have now.”

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When pressed on what form the police response would take in the event of a call involving a distressed individual, Naqvi referenced a now-permanent project in Hamilton that saw officers paired with social workers as an example.

“Whenever a call came in for a mental health crisis, that particular mobile crisis re-

sponse unit … (was) able to use their respective expertise to help deal with the situation,” said Naqvi, adding that in the majority of situations the team encountered, the distressed individual didn’t need to go to the hospital.

“The challenge upon us now is how do we encapsulate all that information? What kind of legislative changes do we need to make to move forward with those changes, so that it becomes part of the way we do policing?”

Public meetings will be held in eight Ontario cities to introduce the initiative, with feedback accepted through the www.ontario.ca website.

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“The first step to solving a problem is admitting you have one.”

That’s a phrase many people who are dealing with mental health issues or addiction will have heard.

When people with those problems arrive at the Queensway Carleton Hospital’s emergency department and become patients, it’s either because they have overcome the stigma surrounding those issues and admitted they have them, or they had no other choice.

Either way, they look to the hospital for help.

But staff at the Queensway Carleton have admitted they’ve got a problem too, said Dr. Andrew Falconer, chief of staff at the hospital.

They can do more to help the growing number of mental health patients that come through their doors.

That’s why the Queensway Carleton Hospital Foundation kicked off a $5-million campaign at the Holiday Inn & Suites in Kanata on Feb. 17.

With the $5 million the foundation hopes to raise, it plans a large scale renovation of its mental health unit facilities – built and untouched since 1976 – as well as enhanced emergency programs and services, and stronger connections to community mental health support services.

On its first day, president and CEO of the foundation, Melanie Adams, an-

nounced the campaign’s first major step forward – a $1-million donation from mental health advocate Barbara Crook and her husband Dan Greenberg.

Crook said she was supportive of the campaign from the beginning, even helping to get it started by showing Adams the problems the Queensway Carleton has.

Just a few years ago, Crook witnessed a family member suddenly develop bipolar disorder. Taking her family member to the Queensway Carleton Hospital, they were an inpatient there for more than three weeks.

Having to leave a loved one who is unwell behind a locked door was a very difficult experience, said Crook. She watched her family member receive treatment over the weeks and saw what the hospital was doing right, and what it was lacking.

“While the care was ex-

in crisis who arrive late at night or with a police escort, said Crook.

For a place meant to help people find mental stability again, the facility is “depressing,” she said.

Over 700 mental health patients spend more than one night at the Queensway Carleton every year, said Adams.

The demand for mental health services at the hospital continues to grow, with a 28 per cent increase in mental health admissions since 2012, and a 25 per cent increase in patients with mental diagnosis through the emergency department in that same period.

Some of those are people like Matthew Cinq-Mars, who along with his parents, told his story of dealing with depression with the help of the hospital at the campaign launch.

Denis Daoust, along with his wife, told his story of attempted suicide after their daughter died.

cellent, the facility was out of date and not conducive to healing, particularly for patients who were already experiencing confusion, despair and a loss of dignity,” she said.

Emergency mental health patients are severely lacking in privacy when they first arrive, as well as after, said Falconer.

When mental health patients arrive, often in crisis, they await their turn right next to other emergency patients, and when they do explain their problems to a doctor or other staff, they are separated from other patients only by a sheet, and may be speaking with someone without mental health training, said Falconer and chief of psychiatry, Dr. Gerry McNestry.

The in-patient facility has similar privacy issues.

With 22 in-patient mental health beds, the facility itself is shabby and cannot separate patients from other mental health patients

Daoust said that, though he is a gregarious fellow, baring his soul to strangers is very difficult. But he said it is worth it to help others who go through the Queensway Carleton.

Campaigns like Do It For Daron and Bell Let’s Talk were lauded at the launch for their work destigmatizing mental health problems.

But as more people come forward, the deficiencies in mental health care facilities are becoming more apparent.

The goal of this campaign is to address that by creating a bright, welcoming space that makes patients feel safe and secure, said Crook.

There are no government funds for the campaign currently and none are expected, said Adams.

“Our hope is that our community will rally together,” she said.

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No easy answer to city’s obesity problem: public health dept.

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There’s still a lot of work to be done to deal with the obesity problem in Canada, said Sherry Nigro, who’s in charge of health promotion and disease prevention for Ottawa Public Health.

Nigro, who presented the department’s Healthy Eating, Active Living initiative to the Ottawa Board of Health on Feb. 8, said obesity costs Canadians $5.8 billion in direct and indirect health care costs annually.

The public health plan to engage the public and encourage healthy eating and active living includes com-

munity partnerships and addressing people’s physical and social environments to make exercise fun and convenient.

Nigro said one of the key areas where public health can work on improvements is with food retailers.

The province passed Bill 45 – the Making Healthier Choices Act – in 2015, and part of the work of OPH will be to work with food retailers with more than 20 outlets to help them get ready for the requirements of the new legislation, which addresses things like food labelling.

Nigro said it’s also important that OPH work with

corner stores.

“We can help with labelling of foods and encouraging more produce and healthier options.”

Sherry Nigro

“Traditionally corner stores have more processed foods with higher sugar counts,” Nigro said, adding that about a third of the city’s neighbourhoods would be considered low on the socio-economic scale.

Not surprisingly, these neighbourhoods are home

to half of the city’s corner stores, Nigro said.

“We can help with labelling of foods and encouraging more produce and healthier options,” Nigro said. Another part of the initiative is working with organizations like Just Food.

Nigro said organizers are also working with the city’s planning and growth department, and public works, to advance the city’s natural and built environments to encourage walking and cycling.

“Studies show spending time in nature has health benefits,” she said.

Obesity rates in the capital remain largely unchanged

ity are multi-generational,” he said. “It’s hard changing the culture – behaviours are ingrained and even when we do, change is slow to come and the impact is slow to be measured.”

Nigro said health promotion will get us there, but in some cases we have to start from scratch.

“It’s a bit like reverse engineering,” she said.

She said that the guidelines to child care centres that include things like, there don’t have to be birthday cakes for every child’s birthday were met with scepticism, but it’s the younger generation we want to impact.

from 2011 to 2015, dipping from 52 to 47 per cent, said Nigro.

“Is that statically significant? No,” she said, adding it will take time to change people’s habits.

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Mathieu Fleury worried the city’s plan encompassed too many elements.

“It’s all important, but that’s a lot to focus on and something may get lost,” he said.

But the city’s chief officer of health, Dr. Isra Levy, said there’s a smorgasbord of issues to be dealt with.

“The answers are not easy.

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Parents are sounding the alarm over the uncertain future of a citywide summer learning program attended by hundreds of Ottawa’s most vulnerable children, teens and young adults.

“There’s no other option for these kids,” said Françoise Slaunwhite, whose six-year-old daughter, Nathalie, is a Clifford Bowey Public School student who has attended the specialized program there for the past two summers. “I understand they have to make cuts, that they’re dealing with a deficit and it’s really hard.

“But in the case of these kids they have no other options,” the Orléans resident said. “There is no other (summer) educational program for them at all.”

The 17-day program, offered at Clifford Bowey Public School in the Ledbury-Banff community, the Crystal Bay Centre for Special Education in Nepean, as well as at Roberta Bon-

dar Public School in Greenboro, is up for review as the English public school board looks for ways it can offset a $14.4-million budget shortfall projected for the next academic year.

More than 300 students, ages four to 21, attend the program every summer.

Clifford Bowey and Crystal Bay specialize in educating developmentally delayed students, while the summer program at Roberta Bondar is for autistic students. The regional program has been offered for more than 30 years.

“It continues the school year longer. It closes the gap between finishing school in June and then starting again in September so she’s able to continue learning,” Slaunwhite said of her daughter.

Nathalie is non-verbal but is able to benefit from the routine the program offers and from the summer lessons that reinforce her use of picture cards to communicate.

“We do use them at home

as well, but we’re not qualified teachers. We do our best,” said Slaunwhite, who was among a delegation of Clifford Bowey parents that appealed to the school board committee-of-the-whole meeting on Feb. 9. A group from Crystal Bay also made a presentation.

“If she didn’t have that program she’d be going over two months with no instruction on that,” said Slaunwhite. “She’d have to start fresh in September.”

The program will go ahead this coming summer, but is now included in a list of areas where the board could save money in the future, confirmed Shirley Seward, chair of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.

The citywide program costs the board about $600,000 every summer, which is partly offset by a $100,000 provincial contribution, as well as by payments from the Ottawa Catholic School Board, which enrols some of its students in the program annu-

ally.

Half of the board’s projected deficit is due to the province’s plans to reduce its grant to the board by about $7.5 million, said Seward.

“They have not, at this point, specified what we should be cutting or not cutting,” she said of the province. “What staff are saying is we’re going to have a large deficit this year and here are some possibilities of savings.”

As trustee for River Zone, which includes Clifford Bowey, Seward said the summer program is “very essential. I think it’s very important for those children to not have a very long break.”

She also said she considers the $600,000 used to fund the program an important investment.

Trustees have asked staff to identify whether other school districts in the province are doing any “innovative practices” the Ottawa board could look to as a model.

Their request also includes identifying any year-

round learning programs for developmentally delayed students that feature shorter breaks through the year, and the associated costs.

“We want to see what other districts are doing to see what our options are,” Seward said.

The summer learning program first came up for review in 2008 and 2012. It was in 2008 that the program was scaled back from 21 to 17 days due to budgetary constraints, Slaunwhite said.

Over the years, there has

been a misconception that the program functions like a summer camp.

“But it’s not a camp. It’s summer school,” she said.

There has also been talk over the years about outsourcing the program to external service providers, but Slaunwhite said the schools that currently offer the service best meet the needs of students given the expertise of educators and the specially designed facilities.

“You’re not going to get that anywhere else,” she said.

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Spaying and Neutering and the Keys to a Better Future for Animals People are often surprised by the number, range and depth of the programs and activities offered by the OHS. The OHS does a lot for our community and the animals with the hope that the investment will improve the welfare of the animals and change the future. Out of these, the OHS believe there are three things that will lead to the biggest and fastest positive changes: legislation, education and sterilization. Legislation is a reflection

of community norms and when legislation changes, communities follow.

Education, particularly with children and youth, creates better future pet owners.

Sterilization is also an effective means to change. This has been one of the main OHS messages for decades. Too many animals will suffer as long as there are too many animals. And too many animals will end up needing a refuge as a result of remaining unsterilized.

In 2005, the OHS opened an internal clinic, allowing us to ensure that every animal adopted from our care was spayed or neutered before the adoption.

No more would we run the risk of contributing to pet overpopulation, through our imperfect voucher system.

In the last decade, our clinic has grown and allows us to perform a whole range of life-saving surgeries. But the core need, and so the core purpose, remains the same: sterilize every animal before adoption. And sterilizing them quickly means they don’t languish in our shelter, maxing out our space and running the risk of stress and illness.

Spaying and neutering helps not only that dog or cat, but ultimately all dogs and cats. It is one of the most important keys to a better future for our animal companions.

Pet of the Week: Bear (ID# A186289) Meet Bear (ID# A186289), a playful and loyal boy looking for his new best friend.

Bear is a smart black and white Collie mix who knows lots of neat tricks – he can sit, stay and give a paw. He loves going on long walks and enjoys playing outside in the snow.

Bear is a strong dog, who would prefer to live with adults. He can be a little shy when meeting new people, so he’d like a patient owner who will help him open up in new situations. He can’t wait to have lots of great adventures with his new human companion.Are you the one Bear has been waiting for?

For more information on Bear and all the adoptable animals, stop by the OHS at 245 West Hunt Club Rd Check out our website at www.ottawahumane. ca to see photos and descriptions of the animals available for adoption.

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Public health boards at risk under proposed change: consultant Province plans regional health-care model Jennifer McIntosh

LHINs plan and fund local health care.

Ottawa is part of the Champlain LHIN, which covers much of eastern Ontario. There are 14 LHINs across the province.

Critics say the LHINs never lived up to their names because they didn’t truly integrate health-

across the country, though there are examples of the public health boards being stripped and a loss of funding to public health.

“Public health focus can shift to delivery of services, which can include a net reduction in public health capacity,” he said.

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Local public health capacity could be at risk, Dr. Brent Moloughney told the Ottawa Board of Health on Feb. 8.

Provincial Minister of Health and Long-Term Care Eric Hoskins released a discussion paper in December, entitled Patients First: A Proposal to Strengthen PatientCentred Health Care in Ontario.

The proposal would see medical officers of health and public health services funded and integrated under the control of Local Health Integration Networks. Right now

“Public health focus can shift to delivery of services, which can include a net reduction in public health capacity.”

Dr. Brent Moloughney, consultant

care services.

Moloughney, who works as a public health consultant, said it’s difficult to give specifics on the situation because the discussion paper is so high level.

He said the context is different than regional health authorities

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The discussion paper attempts to deal with gaps in patient care and access to primary care.

In addition to dealing with public health, the discussion paper puts community care access centres –

which deal with in-home care and other support services – under the purview of the LHINS. The idea is to make the expanded regional health networks accountable directly to the ministry.

The Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario made a statement in December calling for public health departments to be connected to LHINs. The statement said the proposal is the next phase of the health system and evolution and lauds the idea of bringing all parts of the health system under a single jurisdiction for planning and performance reporting. “The organizations (public health boards) are focused on understanding whole communities to prevent sickness and the spread of communicable diseases,” the Dec. 18 statement reads.

“Public health professionals analyze communities to identify and monitor health risks, and tar-

get public education and other programs to promote health wellness and illness prevention within a population.” Moloughney said the best example of the regional health authority practice is in Saskatoon.

“They have to have the epidemiological capacity,” he said.

In light of Moloughney’s presentation, the board opted to write a letter to the minister making recommendations about any health system transformation.

The letter will include a direction to maintain independent governance and authority for public health boards, protect public health funding, enhance public health capacity and integrate population health priorities, assessment and surveillance. Dr. Atul Kapur, a member of the Ottawa Public Health board, said there should be a whole government approach to health. “Social determinants of health are determined at a municipal level,” he said.

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Want to meet new friends and have a great workout? Come to the MET (Metropolitan Bible Church) every Wednesday from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. for a free women’s fitness class with a certified fitness instructor. The sessions include a five minute inspirational fit tip. Contact the church office at 613-238-8182.

Thursday

Every Thursday starting at 6:30 p.m. enjoy bingo at the Osgoode Legion, 3284 Sunstrum St. in Osgoode. All money raised at these weekly events goes back to the community. Bring your “dabbers” and come out to support your local legion bingo.

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animal shelter, 245 West Hunt Club Rd behind Hunt Club Nissan. Refreshments are served and all are welcome. For more information call Linda 613-823-6770 or go to facebook.com/OttawaHumaneSocietyAuxiliary.

The Greely East Osgoode & District Association invites you to its Old Time Fiddle and Country Dance, Greely Community Centre, 1448 Meadow Dr. the first Friday of each month, 7:30 to 11 p.m. We welcome all musicians and singers. Admission $5. For additional information, call 613489-2697.

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ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Excitement surrounds any get-together you are involved in this week, Aries. This puts you in a good mood for some time, and the positive energy can bring about change.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, this week you may find yourself in the right mood to organize your home or office. If high-tech equipment will be part of the project, enlist a friend to help out.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, if you’re feeling particularly amorous this week, schedule a few date nights or even cuddle time with that special someone. A new person may come into your life as well.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Plenty of projects around the house need your attention this week, Cancer.

Take advantage of some slower days to devote time to repairs and other tasks on your to-do list.

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, important new information may come your way this week. This could be the catalyst for new professional ventures or even provide new ways to network.

VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, a job you have put a lot of effort and time into is completed successfully this week. You now can enjoy the fruits of your labor and the praise coming your way.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Communication improvements with your romantic partner have you feeling optimistic about the future, Libra. Don’t make any definitive plans, but start thinking ahead.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, an unexpected raise has you spreading the wealth to others. You tend to be good about sharing your good fortune, and that is why so many people look up to you.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 A sense of adventure may find you booking a vacation, Sagittarius.

Otherwise, you may be looking to dive into an exciting new relationship.

Be impulsive because you deserve it.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, you may be drawn to flashy colors and high energy this week.

Plan a fun and energetic date or take in a movie with a lot of special effects.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, you’ve adopted the attitude that life is an adventure and you’re ready to face any challenge that comes your way with an open mind. This may prove to be a busy week.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Do not be surprised if big changes lie in store for you this week, Pisces.

You may end up with a new job or begin thinking about relocation.

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