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Mushroom farm spawned healthy community spirit Emma Jackson emma.jackson@metroland.com

News - As a family mushroom farm closes its doors, community groups are reeling at the prospect of filling the void.

Continental Mushroom closed Aug. 19 after 42 years in business on 9th line Road near Metcalfe, leaving a legacy of community involvement that

residents fear cannot be replaced.

“Growing up, Continental Mushroom has always been part of pretty much any activity that’s gone on in the community,” said Shari Rowan, president of the Metcalfe Community Association.

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“Anybody who asked we gave some assistance to,” said general manager Lyle Whitham.

“We liked to support things that were community focused, youth focused and for the elderly as well. Those were areas we thought needed some support.”

Whitham is the son-inlaw of Continental founder Nicholas Pora, whose three children owned the farm until it went into receivership this summer.

An aggressive mold took hold at the farm two years ago, leaching the soil of nutrients needed to grow the farm’s usually bumper crops.

Whitham said they had dealt with the pest before, but this time it proved resistant to the farmers’ normal eradication methods.

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A family affair Manotick’s Kyle Narducci, Ava Falsetto of Ottawa South, and sisters Diana and Stephanie Cuffari, also of Manotick, participate in the Dravet Walk for the Kids on Sept. 20. The fundraiser collected more than $50,000 for the rare form of epilepsy. For the complete story, see page 43.

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As yields dropped, so did revenue – until Whitham said “money was just leaving like water.�

Although the farm got the mold under control this January, it was too little, too late, he said: they were just in too much debt.

The family is devastated to close the farm that has been the village’s largest business for decades, he said.

Employing more than 200 people, Whitham said the family took seriously the business’s responsibility to support the residents nearby. “There’s not many rural businesses in this area, so we certainly felt an obligation to support the community as much as we could,� he said.

“I don’t think there’s many things we haven’t been involved in over the years.�

The owners donated to the Ottawa Food Bank and supported breast cancer fundraising initiatives.

Their green and yellow sports jerseys could be seen on soccer fields across the ward. And up until this May the Metcalfe co-operative nursery school relied on the farm’s conspicuous green and yellow school bus to take their pre-school class on special field trips to museums downtown. “They donated that bus and driver every single year for over 20 years,� said Rural Family Connections director Maria Crosby, who said the school used the bus about three times a year. “And all I had to do was call up Lyle and it would be outside the school waiting.�

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She said the school will likely have to cut back on field trips now; with no money to rent a school bus, parents may not be able to make up for the trusty green and yellow shuttle.

For the better part of the past decade, volunteers have hosted

an annual men’s night called Shroomfest – a homage to the area’s reputation as the mushroom capital of Eastern Ontario – that raised funds for dozens of local charities and organizations.

Organizer Al Graham said

Continental Mushroom, along with its neighbouring competition Carleton Mushroom Farm, have been supportive from the start. “(The first year) we asked for their blessing but we didn’t go after them for sponsorship,�

Graham said. “But after the second year Lyle came to us and said how can we get on board with you.

They came forward and volunteered for us to secure our major auction prizes.�

The farm is up for sale and open to bids until Oct. 6, but Whitham said it’s out of his hands whether the new owner will share the Pora family’s philosophy. “If it’s a venture capitalist from out of Texas I don’t think they’ll have the same sense of community involvement,� he said. “But if it’s someone else

who’s coming from a small town in Ontario, they already have that sense.�

Whitman said some local farmers have toured the property, but it won’t be clear who will take over until later in October.

Graham said the community is already working to replace Continental, as the farm’s ability to support community activities has waned in the past few years. “Carleton Mushroom is coming forward and filling in the void,� Graham said, noting that other local businesses are committed to the community as well. “As a business person ... there’s always been an evolution of corporations that have been active and involved. Unfortunately this is a big part of that evolution, that we’ve lost someone of that calibre of community support.�

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Fuel spill clean-up continues into fall emma.jackson@metroland.com

News - Traffic is back to two lanes on River Road north of Osgoode, but residents still face a few months of construction before a fuel spill is completely cleaned up.

A truck belonging to Drummond Fuels Ottawa spilled about 2,000 litres of gasoline on a cityowned right of way on March 7, according to the provincial Ministry of Environment.

The spilled gasoline was removed from the scene, and didn’t impact the nearby Rideau River or private well users, said ministry spokesperson Kate Jordan.

Now, nearly seven months later, remediation is still ongoing – and will continue well into the fall.

Basil Plebon, environmental supervisor for Triangle Pump Services in charge of the on-site work, said his team started digging up the ground across from Kelly’s Landing restaurant on Aug. 29. “I’m figuring about eight to 10 weeks more,�

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River Road was down to one lane for several weeks this summer, but mid-September it was opened up to two lanes again.

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If there’s something we have to do and we have to do it safe, that’s our problem,� Plebon said.

Drummond Fuels staffer Russell Drummond, who identifies himself simply as “one of the workers at the company,� was mum on the specifics of the spill, but he said the company is well on its way to mopping up the mess. “It’s being cleaned up by professionals and we’re hopefully going to get things done up in the next little while,� Drummond said. “We’re doing our best.�

Drummond is required to report its progress to the Ministry of the Environment and the city.

Rich Barker with the city’s environmental remediation team said spills like this can take time to clean up because a public roadway is affected. “It can be fast for residential (properties), but when you’re trying to fix underneath the road with cars on it, it can be difficult,� Barker said.

Jordan said monitoring wells have been installed in the area as a precaution to help identify potential groundwater issues. The ministry “expect(s) to see the first results from the monitoring work in the coming months as well as a final remediation report from the company,� she said.

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News - Ten of Osgoode ward’s 11 candidates running for city council faced a packed hall at the Metcalfe community centre for the first official allcandidates debate on Sept. 24.

An estimated 220 people squeezed themselves into all corners of the community hall – some even bringing their own folding lawn chairs – to hear what their councillor hopefuls had to say.

Fiscal mismanagement, the need for roads and the sense that rural wards need a louder voice at the council table came up again and again at the question-and-answer meeting, which did not have room for a proper debate with so many candidates on the ballot.

Moderator Dal Broadhead opened the session with an appeal to all residents to look for candidates that can represent the rural ward to its fullest potential. “Rural councillors are in a minority at city council,� Broadhead said. “They have much less collective power than urban councillors. We need to have a voice. Our representative needs to be skilled and get a message across.�

Every candidate except for Paul St. Jean showed up, and

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Osgoode ward candidates face a huge crowd at the ward’s first official all-candidates debate in Metcalfe on Sept. 24. each had five minutes to present their platform and experience before delving into a moderated question period.

Local policy was fairly consistent: candidates called for better road infrastructure, more recreational facilities, increased access to affordable seniors housing and, in general, a return to weekly garbage pick-up – at the very least in the summer months.

Big city issues barely registered; no one tackled usually divisive issues like the light rail project downtown or excessive development, although there was a general distaste for the current council’s fiscal management skills, exemplified by the bungled Orgaworld

green bin contract.

Personality reigned supreme; some candidates appealed to locals with tales of growing up in the ward while others shot thinly-veiled barbs at their opponents.

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The biggest thorn in nearly every candidate’s side was the current council’s mishandling of the Orgaworld green bin contract.

Mark Scharfe, one of only a few candidates with experience on the municipal campaign trail, was particularly bent on undoing the damage, promising to scrap the green bin program, bring back weekly garbage pick-up

year-round and even cancel the Orgaworld contract completely. “(The first time I ran) I was very concerned the taxpayer was going to be taken advantage of through the inefficient and dangerous green bin program,�

Scharfe said. “Four years later we find ourselves in a situation where our garbage services have been reduced to every two weeks; we paid millions for this Orgaworld contract for services we never see.�

But his promises are much easier said than done. A resident in the audience pointed out that “a contract is a contract� and would cost even more to cancel.

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Bring back services, protect rural life: candidates Liam Maguire seemed to agree, opting to avoid the cancellation fees by renegotiating the problematic parts of the contract instead. “Let’s reopen the collections part of the contract, see what we can get back,� he said. “Let’s at least investigate giving something back to the ward for a change.�

Jean Johnston-McKitterick was careful not to promise the return to weekly garbage pick-up, “because there’s no appetite at council right now,� but did promise to push for weekly pick-up at least in the summer.

She would also like to see compostable plastic bags allowed in the green bin to help cut down on maggots.

Bob Masaro took a big picture approach, calling to bring an incineration plant to the city once and for all – with or without Plasco, which has been delayed for years. He also said he supports ‘dumping the dump’ in Edwards.

“We need to do something about the dump going on in the Edwards area,� he said. “The fact that it’s a high risk area and a high water table, I can see why they’re so concerned.�

RURAL LIFE

Protecting “the good life� in the country and making sure the ward gets its fair share of the loot come budget season was a big priority for most candidates.

Rural councillors have only four votes out of 24. With that in mind, Davis Jermacans touted a ‘you scratch my back’ philosophy. “Only by seeing the big picture and working effectively with councillors on issues that are near and dear to their wards are we going to have them listen to issues that are near and dear to our ward,� Jermacans said.

Tom Dawson, George Darouze and Kim Sheldrick were also vocal supporters of making rural life better: all

voiced strong support for improving recreational facilities, expanding youth programs and increasing the amount of affordable seniors’ housing in the ward.

George Wright, a former Osgoode Township councillor, said he would like to see development contained inside the village boundaries and in the subdivisions. “Our farm land must be protected,� said the Castor River Farm operator.

Allen Scantland took a different approach to improving rural life: encouraging more business. The accountant said his biggest priority is reducing the red tape, fees and taxes that businesses pay to set up shop. He said rural businesses should not be paying the same rates as urban companies. “This one size fits all hasn’t been working for me, and I don’t think it’s been working for you,� Scantland told the audience. “The emphasis has to be more and better in terms of getting people to live and work in the area. People have

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The first all-candidates meeting in Metcalfe had a healthy crowd on Sept. 24. to stop paying high fees just to do the simplest things in their back yards.�

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Organizers from the Metcalfe Community Association said they were happy with the huge turnout, as well as how smoothly the event went; with 11 candidates, there was some expectation that is was going

to be chaotic.

While most of the time was eaten up with prepared statements, the debate had its moments of candour, brought on by fussy microphones, awkwardly-worded questions and some palpable tension between candidates over how they’re conducting their campaigns.

And of course, no modern municipal debate is complete without reference to Toronto’s

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much-maligned mayor. “To quote Rob Ford, we need to put the brakes on this gravy train,� said Scharfe in his closing statement.

The next all-candidates debate will be held Oct. 1 at the Stuart Holmes arena in Osgoode, starting at 6 p.m. The Greely Community Association will host a third debate on Oct. 8 at the Greely Community Centre.

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OPINION EDITORIAL

Local elections matter

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igns, signs everywhere are signs‌ They are popping up all over the landscape like dandelions in the spring.

The 2014 municipal election is in full swing if you haven’t already guessed by candidates’ signs jockeying for positions on every corner of the map.

Some signs are vibrant in colour, design and message, not to mention in size; others are plain and simple on a much smaller scale.

No matter the size, or message, colour or noncolour, one thing is the same – keep it legal if you are campaigning.

Many do not know there are legal ramifications about erecting election signs – the biggest infraction being permission.

According to law enforcement agencies, as well as the Elections Act, there are several laws, rules and regulations to which to adhere.

So before candidates go off on a whim, wielding a mallet and a truckload of signs, please make sure you have permission to do so.

This will be an exciting year for voting and changes in the municipalities that this newspaper covers. There are several newcomers and veteran politicians out in full force soliciting your vote.

In the next few weeks leading up to Election Day, Oct. 27, we will fill our pages with even more candidate profiles when space allows, then we will recap before voters go to the polls, just who is up for election or re-election in some cases.

Being prepared to vote is also an important issue. If you are 18 or older, a Canadian citizen, and you reside in Ottawa (and you’re not prohibited from voting under the Municipal Elections Act, or otherwise by law) then it’s your given right to cast a ballot.

Ensure you’re on the voters’ list by calling your municipal office. Visit www.ottawa.ca for details to make sure you can vote on Oct. 27.

No matter what your opinion or stance on the issues that matter most in your community, exercise your right to vote and make your voice heard.

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lections have a way of creeping up on us. For years we think of the thing as four years away and all of a sudden it’s a month away. Why weren’t we warned?

Now, this isn’t true everywhere.

Toronto has been, in a bizarre way, in an election campaign for at least a couple of years. But Ottawa, thank heaven, is a quieter place. Our mayor and councillors generally avoid the outrageous. Which means that we might be thinking about issues instead of personalities when we go to the polls on Oct. 27.

Now the trick is to find some. The first public opinion polls on the subject, described in an article published last week, are not encouraging. They show property taxes topping the list

of things people consider important, followed by transit.

No surprise there: efforts to upgrade transit have got half the city dug up, it sometimes seems. As for property taxes, duh. If you ask people if taxes are important to them, no one is going to say no.

The big question is how important.

Is the level of property taxes so important that voters will tolerate no increase even for the worthiest of initiatives? If that’s true, then none of

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the other issues really matter because no politician will dare propose action on them.

That means nothing on homelessness, no new library, no progress on making our waterfront a more interesting place. We’ll have a city that holds the line on taxes and does nothing else.

Now, there are those for whom this is an exciting concept, doing nothing. From time to time they pop up in various places, promising never to increase taxes, promising perhaps even cut them. They never succeed (see: Larry O’Brien) although they sometimes claim that they have (see: Rob Ford). Most people, you would hope, want more from their city than just a tidy balance sheet. When you look at the great cities of the world DISTRIBUTION INQUIRIES Richard Burns ADMINISTRATION: $ONNA 4HERIEN DISPLAY ADVERTISING: 'ISELE 'ODIN +ANATA $AVE 0ENNETT /TTAWA 7EST 3HARON (OLDEN /RLEANS #INDY 'ILBERT /TTAWA 3OUTH 'EOFF (AMILTON /TTAWA %AST 6ALERIE 2OCHON "ARRHAVEN *ILL -ARTIN .EPEAN -IKE 3TOODLEY 3TITTSVILLE *ANINE +IVELL /TTAWA 7EST 2ICO #ORSI !UTOMOTIVE #ONSULTANT 'REG 3TIMPSON !UTOMOTIVE #ONSULTANT

you respect them for what they accomplished and you probably don’t even know if they were able to balance the books while doing it. How much did the Eiffel Tower increase the mill rate? Do you even care?

Still, no one, not even me, wants to encourage crazy spending on lavish mega-projects. But it would be nice if our candidates for mayor and council could propose some imaginative things for the city to do.

The point is, they shouldn’t be afraid to do so.

It could be as boring as fixing up infrastructure, making sure bridges don’t fall down or sinkholes don’t open up; it could be as exciting as a plan to end homelessness. It could be a suggestion for breaking the impasse with the National Capital Commission on transit and other matters. It could involve a new library, a new baseball team, a new concert hall (again), new recreational opportuniEDITORIAL: MANAGING EDITOR: 4HERESA &RITZ

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ties for young people, new initiatives to encourage the arts in Ottawa.

There is no shortage of things to do. There may not even be a shortage of the will to do them. Polls notwithstanding, my bet is that voters are more ready than the politicians are.

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MacLeod eyes leadership bid as she works to grow Conservative base Jennifer McIntosh jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com

News - Nepean-Carleton MPP is growing her team in an effort to campaign to lead Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives.

While MacLeod hasn’t officially kicked off her campaign, she said it’s no secret she’s got her sights on the party’s top spot.

In preparation for what she said is likely to be a $1.5-million campaign, MacLeod has been touring the province talking to PC stakeholders and concentrating on rebuilding the party in the wake of a devastating loss in the June 12 election.

MacLeod said the difference between what she is doing now and her normal campaigning during election time is the accessibility of the people she’s trying to talk to.

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ple by knocking on doors,” she said, adding she has been to the GTA and Windsor and plans to head north soon.

It’s the first time there’s been two women campaigning to run the PC’s in Ontario, and while she realizes she faces competition, MacLeod said the leadership bid may help grow the conservative base and bring the

conversation around to the party’s roots.

MacLeod said the party needs to get back to its roots and stay away from the “wedge” politics that didn’t resonate with Ontario’s voters.

“I don’t think I have made it a secret the passion I feel for mental health issues, or my work with autism and education,” MacLeod said.

“But traditionally conservatives have stayed away from talking about what we do in healthcare and education.

But people want to know what ideas we have for delivering the core public services.”

MacLeod said she had hoped to be a cabinet minister by now, but the party needs to work on policy that candidates can defend while knocking on the door.

MacLeod said a leadership campaign team would need two co-chairs from the party’s executive and members of caucus.

“In the past we have not spoken to Ontario as a whole,” she said.

“We need to address Ontario as a whole, both through the caucus and at the grassroots level.”

MacLeod said her experience in her riding – which has urban, rural and suburban elements – helps her to understand the issues facing many Ontario residents.

“I worked with (the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre) on the fentanyl addictions in Manotick,” she said.

“I have also advocated for the Rideau Carleton Raceway Centre, which was the livelihood for a lot of rural Ottawa residents.”

MacLeod also said she addressed the need for schools in the growing suburb of Barrhaven and aging schools in some urban areas.

“Schools really are community centres, so they’re very important,” she said.

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News - Ramsayville resident Mark Scharfe wants to see big changes at city hall if he is elected on Oct. 27.

The Osgoode ward candidate was born and raised on his family’s farm, which has been in his family’s hands since 1911.

He was a police officer in Ottawa for 26 years, including several years as the community police officer in the Osgoode area.

He’s now retired and focusing on his family’s small beef farm – and city politics.

The founder of the Ramsayville Community Association ran unsuccessfully in Osgoode ward in the 2010 election, and this year is looking for even more traction.

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Osgoode ward candidate Mark Scharfe wants to cancel the green bin program and bring back weekly garbage pick-up. dangerous program. ... I knew you can’t stop something like this unless you’re at the council table.

Q: Detail your past political experience or activism (volunteering, campaigning, donations, employment) at any level of government or political party. Also, do you have any

Q: Do you have any potential pecuniary interests (declared conflict of interest) ie. ties (financial, family, otherwise) with builders, developers, construction companies, etc. Any boards or associations you will have to step down from?

A: Not that I know of. I already stepped down from the Ramsayville Community Association.

Q: What do they think was the biggest issue in the ward last term and how was it handled?

A: There were four, and they

Q: What will be the biggest issue/ s next term?

A: Garbage, and the sewage, and the hydro. I’m going to pound away at all them all. If they elect me, they’re not electing a sheep.

Other candidates in Osgoode Ward include: Kim Sheldrick, Tom Dawson, Davis Jermacans, George Darouze, Liam Maguire, Jean Johnston-McKitterick, Mark Scharfe, Allan Scantland, George Wright, and Paul St. Jean.

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A: I was chair of the Ramsayville Community Association, and I challenged the building permit, zoning, the certification and the amendment to the certification for the Orgaworld green bin program. Through the process I received the contract, and when I read it I could not believe our city council would subject the property owners to such an inefficient and

Q: How will you fundraise?

A: I’m doing it all myself. (If elected) the taxpayer is paying me to serve the community. With the police everyone was the same under the law; this is the same, I don’t want to be in anyone’s pocket.

were all equally as concerning. The weekly garbage pick-up is an essential municipal service that should be available to every resident in Osgoode ward. The green bin is a dangerous and inefficient recycling program. The dividends for Ottawa Hydro should go back to the customer, not to city hall. This was approximately $20 million dollars this year. The customer owns Ottawa Hydro, and you should receive the dividends back as rebates. Suspend the spreading of sewage sludge on the farm land. This is a very dangerous and expensive program that creates a very serious threat to the water quality in our wells and drainage ditches.

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Meet the Candidate: Bob Masaro News - Osgoode candidate Bob Masaro wants to bring his keen interest in politics to represent the citizens of Osgoode Ward at Ottawa City Council.

The Osgoode resident and St. Mark High School teacher was one of only two people that ran against Coun.

Doug Thompson in the 2010 election.

Masaro grew up near Toronto, and earned a teaching degree from the University of Toronto in 1980. His educational background includes urban geography, history, political science and law.

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Q: Detail your past political experience or activism (volunteering, campaigning, donations, employment) at any level of government or political party. Also, do you have any experience as a lobbyist or for a lobbying non-profit organization?

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Q: How will you fundraise?

A: I am funding my entire campaign myself. I am not a wealthy man but feel very strongly that to serve your citizens properly, you must have no financial influence from any corporation or individual.

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Q: What will be the big issue next term?

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Keeping the hope alive Osgoode ward schools ran their annual Terry Fox events on Sept. 24, raising hundreds of dollars for cancer research in memory of the Canadian teen who attempted to run across Canada in search of a cure. Left, Grade 4 Greely Elementary School friends Sophia Corrigan, Jasmeena Sumra, Erin Kyte, Kiana Marcotte and Lindsey Paul take a break during their final few laps around the 1.6-km course in Greely. Below, Osgoode Public School students Kate Osborne and Robyn Borshewski join parent volunteer Margo Borshewski to finish their walk down Osgoode Main Street.

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James Webb is our fourth weekly winner for the September 19th prize draw of a new Napoleon Barbeque from Capital Appliance & BBQ. Melissa Hudgin, Sales Manager Belleville, presented James with the prize.

All Weekly entries will go into the Grand Prize draw for a new 2014 Hyundai Elantra GL 4 door sedan from Myers Hyundai so enter each week for more chances to win!

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Run for Terry Above, Grade 8 Metcalfe Public School student Nathan Turcotte participates in the school’s Terry Fox Run on Sept. 24. The school raised more than $1,300 for cancer research. Below, Greely Public School students watch a video about Fox’s Marathon of Hope before heading out for their own run for cancer research the same day.

By David Johnston State-of-the-art German engineering in a world class design. That’s what sets MercedesBenz above other car manufacturers. And now they have raised the bar again with the introduction of the new C-Class sedan and GLA sport utility vehicle (SUV).

A special unveiling at Ogilvie MercedesBenz Sept. 17 introduced Ottawa to the C 300, C 400 and GLA SUV. Reimagined from every angle, the next generation of the world’s bestselling Mercedes-Benz family emerges as more sophisticated, more powerful and more luxurious than ever before. An all-new exterior artfully merges elegant proportions with aggressive bodywork, while a roomier -- and completely redesigned -- cabin delivers an even higher level of luxury and craftsmanship.

“To accompany our legendary 4MATIC allwheel drive, the all-new C-Class also receives a major upgrade in the performance department, thanks to mightier and more efficient engines, reengineered suspensions, and for the first time, an available AIRMATIC suspension,” says Sales Manager Leslie Mise. Classleading innovation comes courtesy of not only Mercedes-Benz “Intelligent Drive” safety and assistance technology --such as standard PRESAFE® -- but also an advanced suite of in-vehicle systems that include an all-new touchpad interface and next-generation ‘infotainment‘.

The C-Class features newly designed four and six cylinder turbocharged engines in a vehicle that is larger in every dimension than its predecessor. The C-Class retains its sporty demeanor with lightweight body construction with 20 per cent more aluminum parts and electromechanical Direct Steering with ‘Steer Control’.

The Intelligent Drive system, optional for the C 400 4Matic, uses the information from a 3D stereo camera in combination with radar sensors fitted all around the vehicle to create intelligent automatic cruise control with lane guidance. Steer Assist automatically keeps the vehicle in the middle of its lane on straight roads and slight bends, if the lane markings on both sides are clearly visible.

“If the driver removes their hands from the steering wheel, a warning is emitted and Steer Control is deactivated only if the situation requires it. Slow, hands-off stop-and-go driving in traffic is possible,” says Mise. “That can really reduce fatigue in gridlock circumstances.”

Intelligent Drive also includes Brake Assist Plus with Cross-Traffic Assist, which can significantly reduce the risk of rear-end collisions and accidents at intersections. This is accomplished by continuous monitoring of the traffic situation ahead of the vehicle by means of radar sensors and the 3D camera.

“When the danger of a collision is recognized, the system gives a visual warning in the instrument cluster as well as an audible warning,” points out Mise. “If the driver firmly applies the brakes, the system calculates the brake pressure required to prevent a collision.”

Sensors in the rear bumper monitor traffic behind the vehicle to initiate the Pre-Safe Plus protection system for potential rear-end crashes. Occupant protection measures include features such as reversible belt tensioning.

And to prevent mishaps with pedestrians and slow-moving objects such as bicycles, the system is capable of initiating autonomous

braking should the driver fail to react.

But the new C-Class is not just about optimal safety, it’s also fun to drive. With comfortable and durable Artico leather upholstery, the C-Class features an Agility Select switch with up to five driving modes. The optional sport package features AMG sport body styling, 18-inch AMG wheels and front sport braking system. When combined with the 3.0L Biturbo V6 engine in the C 400 4 Matic, delivering 329 horsepower and 354 lb-ft of torque, the C-Class is as powerful as it is agile.

The next generation ‘infotainment’ system keeps occupants connected while on the go. With the ease of Touchpad, integrated Media Interface and Mercedes Benze apps, plus available Burmester surround-sound system, SiriusXM Satellite Radio and Command Online with voice control, passengers are never far from what matters.

“The touchpad has both single and multifinger gesture recognition, wiping movements, zoom and even user handwriting,” adds Mise.

All C-Class sedans are equipped with Front Bass audio systems that utilize the vehicle frame as a resonating chamber to provide ultra-precise low notes with extremely little distortion regardless of volume level.

The standard audio system has five speakers and 100 watts of power while the optional Burmester system features a whopping 13 speakers and 590 watts of power.

And for added versatility, the rear seat in the C-Class has a 3-way split. The middle seat folds down to allow large objects to pass through while keeping rear outboard seats up.

GLA SUV - For those who need more room and greater interior versatility, the new Mercedes-Benz GLA SUV has all the space and features anyone could ask for.

“The GLA is the first compact premium sports utility vehicle from Mercedes-Benz,” says Mise. “Nimble on the road and capable off it, the all-new 2015 GLA is ready for every turn life takes. A true premium compact SUV with responsive handling and dramatic styling to match, the GLA also offers a thoughtful and innovative interior immersed in signature Mercedes-Benz quality.”

Features on the GLA include MercedesBenz, 7-speed dual clutch automatic transmission, 208 hp Turbocharged 4-cylinder engine and Electromechanical power steering coupled with Collision Prevention Assist Plus and Attention Assist.

Heated,powered front seats with 12-way memory and Articoleather upholstery make the interior comfortable in any conditions coupled with Advanced Bluetooth connectivity for music streaming and hands- free calling for safety and convenience while motoring. As with the C-Class, the GLA has available Command Online navigation with MB Apps and internet browser.

At speeds below 36 km/h, Mercedes exclusivePARKTRONIC with Active Parking As-

sist automatically searches for suitable parking spaces (perpendicular and parallel) using ultrasonic sensors. Active Parking Assist takes over control of the steering wheel if the driver selects reverse gear and confirms the intention to park in the suggested space via the multifunction steering wheel.

“The driver merely has to operate the gear selector, accelerator and brake pedals while PARKTRONIC with Active Parking Assist smoothly steers the car into the parking space –as quickly and accurately as an experienced driver,” points out Mise.

To improve handling, the ESP® Dynamic Cornering Assist system expands the functionalities of ESP® and enables particularly agile cornering. The system improves traction at the front axle and reduces steering requirement when cornering by slightly braking the inside drive wheel.

And the GLA is built to take a load. With available EASY- PACK power tailgate and up to 1,235L of cargo capacity with both rear seats folded, the standard load compartment package includes cargo nets, collapsible box, and 12 V socket in the luggage compartment.

OGILVIE HAS IT ALL The all new C-Class and GLA are only two of the many outstanding Mercedes-Benz models available at the newly-expanded and renovated Ogilvie Motors.

Renovations recently completed help maintain the dealership’s high standing on the Customer Satisfaction Index which helped the dealership become Number One in Canada in 2013 out of 58 dealers.

“We are proud of our experienced, knowledgeable and mature sales team with more than 125 years combined experience,” says Mise.

The service department has expanded to 15 bays from six, almost eliminating wait time.

And customers enjoy the comfort of an indoor, climate controlled drive-in drop off area where attentive service writers are ready to take care of the problem.

“Ogilvie is number one for the right reasons,” says Mise. “We have the best cars backed by the best sales and service team in the business.”

Ogilvie Mercedes-Benz is at 1110 St. Laurent Blvd. in Ottawa’s east end. Call 613-745-9000 or find it online at ogilvie.mercedes-benz.ca.

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Past Greely Lions president Leo Noiles, left, helps donate $2,500 to Osgoode Care Centre community outreach manager Wendy Hill and executive director Lori Dudley, along with fellow Lions David Eggett and Ellen Boisvenue on Sept. 22. The Lions usually present $2,000 to the not-for-profit long-term care facility every year, but the group raised an extra $500 this year during a dinner out at Tosca Ristorante.

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News - A church in Old Ottawa South will celebrate Gaelic-style this October.

The Southminster Church will celebrate both Scottish and Irish traditions on Oct. 4 with a special Music and Beyond concert, kicking off the organization’s fall season.

The concert begins at 7 p.m. with Canadian soprano Meredith Hall.

Hall will be accompanied by guitarist Bernard Farley and six other Canadian musicians: violinists Jeremy Mastrolangelo and Alexander Read, violist Guylaine Lemaire, cellist Julian Armour, harpist Lucile Hildesheim and pianist Frédéric Lacroix.

The group will perform music by Holst, Beethoven,

Hayden, Robbie Burns, Howard Ferguson, John Field, Eldon Rathburn and Alexander Mackenzie.

After the one-hour concert, there will be the opportunity to attend one or both of the Gaelic-themed receptions in the church.

In the parlour room, Celtic harpist Lucile Hildesheim will perform, while people can enjoy participating in a scotch tasting.

In the downstairs reception room, a Ceilidh featuring Gaelic music, performances by Sarah Burnell Band, Katharine Robinson’s School of Highland Dance, Bethany Bisaillion and the Sons of Scotland Pipe Band, the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society and singer Ellen MacIsaac.

Tickets for the concert and

reception parties are $30 for adults, $20 for students, and $20 for children 12 and under.

There are also reserved seating tickets available for $50 and special fundraising tickets for $100 which includes reserved seating and a $50 charitable tax receipt.

Music and Beyond 2015 pass holders receive a $5 savings on all tickets.

Tickets are available online musicandbeyond.ca, at Music and Beyond, 51 William St., or by calling 613241-0777.

The following outlets, Ottawa Folklore Centre, Perfect Books, CD Warehouse, Compact Music, Books on Beechwood, Librairie du Soleil and the Book Bazaar also have tickets available for sale.

Connaught range competition crowns best shots in Canadian military Adam Kveton adam.kveton@metroland.com

Community - After two weeks of training and competition at the Connaught Range in Kanata, the Canadian military crowned its top shooters on Sept. 20.

The yearly Canadian Armed Forces Small Arms Concentration marksmanship event, held annually at the Connaught Range and Primary Training Centre since 1921, put 550 soldiers, rangers and police forces from Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United States through a series of training exercises designed to improve their shooting skills through information-sharing and competition.

Participation in the twoweek event is highly soughtafter, with soldiers having to go through tryouts to win a spot, said Master Cpl. J.D. Hackett with the 5th Canadian Division out of Gagetown, N.B. “This is probably the hardest competition that we do in

Canada, in all honesty,” he said moments before beginning a portion of the team competition on Sept. 19.

The majority of the event is a solo competition, culminating in the awarding of the Queen’s Medal, which goes to two Canadian soldiers (one reservist and one regular forces member) with the highest shooting score.

This year, the awards went to reservist Cpl. Johnathan Palmer from 5th Canadian Division out of Gagetown, and regular forces member Cpl. Jean Christophe Boivin-Couillard from 2nd Canadian Division from Quebec.

In accordance with the tradition of the competition, dating back to 1868, both Queen’s Medal winners were transported from the range in specially made chairs, atop the shoulders of their comrades.

Hackett participated in the team portion of CAFSAC, taking part in four separate drills made to test participants’ soldier skills, combat fitness and marksmanship.

This included:

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Haisell has a blind spot in his right eye, he said, so he knew he couldn’t shoot with his dominant right hand.

After lots of training, Haisell learned to shoot with his left hand, and can know make that 500-metre shot.

“We are all rifleman first,” said Lt. Erin Neate, an operations officer with CAFSAC. While the drills mimic army disciplines, they are considered essential knowledge for all Canadian soldiers.

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While the competition attracts top shooters, soldiers from any branch of Canada’s military can participate. Hackett is not a marksman by trade, but a weapons tech, and has engineers and a truck driver on his squad.

Nonetheless, Hackett said he was eager to see how his team performed.

“There are also groups that are all infantry, so they might have a leg up, but we will see,” he said.

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A quiet tribute to Ottawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tragedy Laura Mueller laura.mueller@metroland.com

News - Sept. 18, 2013 was one of the darkest days of her life, transit commission chairwoman Diane Deans said as the city marked one year since a bus-train collision that killed six people.

City officials shared remarks in honour of the six deceased during a transit commission meeting on Sept.

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The fatal crash happened at 8:48 a.m. on Sept. 18 last year, when more than 90 people were riding the Route 76 bus from Barrhaven heading into Ottawa.

The Transportation Safety Board is still investigating the cause of the crash, which saw the double-decker bus plow through a flashing level crossing at a level rail crossing near Woodroffe Road and the Fallowfield Transitway station and collide with a westbound Via Rail passenger train Number 51 headed to Toronto. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On that fatal day, six of our neighbours left their homes as they did every day,

never to return,â&#x20AC;? said Mayor Jim Watson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is nothing we can ever do to make up for what happened.â&#x20AC;?

The mayor read the names of the deceased: Public Works engineer Michael Bleakney, 57; Library and Archives Canada employee Karen Krzyzewski, 53; IBM employee Rob More, 35; Carleton University students Kyle Nash and Connor Boyd, both 21; and Dave Woodard, 45, the bus driver.

Another 33 people were injured.

Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder said the crash was â&#x20AC;&#x153;deeply personalâ&#x20AC;? to her community, as all but one of the almost 100 passengers on board the bus that day were from Barrhaven. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There has never been, to my recollection ... anything that has ever made the community come together and grieve every,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anyone I talk to, wherever I go, people know someone who was on the 76.â&#x20AC;?

Deansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; voice trembled as she delivered remarks to the transit commission. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will never forget the

sadness and grief that swept through the city,â&#x20AC;? she said.

The councillors and mayor remarked on how the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s citizens showed compassion and resilience in the wake of last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tragedy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My hope is that the most prominent memories are not of grief, but of kindness and strength,â&#x20AC;? Deans said.

After consultation with the victimsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; families, the city decided on a low-key recognition of the fateful anniversary. No event was held, but the flags at city hall were lowered to half mast. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are doing what the families want,â&#x20AC;? Harder said.

Craig Watson, president of the local transit workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; union, said some OC Transpo employees wore shorts and Woodardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favourite colour, green, to honour their fallen colleague on Sept. 18.

Drivers also marked a moment of silence at 8:48 a.m. by pulling their buses to the side of the road if it was safe to do so, Watson said.

Deans is also working with the families to decide on a permanent memorial.

OC Transpo retired Route 76â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s number on Aug. 29 and replaced it with Route 72.

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OC Transpo operators pulled over their buses at 8:48 a.m. on Sept. 18 if it was safe to do so to observe a moment of silence to mark one year since the bus-train collision that killed six people, including a bus driver. hour through the rail crossing.

Sign clutter and trees and shrubs were cleared away from the area around the crossing and a flashing warning light was added to remind bus drivers of the crossing 210 metres in advance in the northbound direction.

Throughout the year since the crash, residents had been reporting an increase in railcrossing signal malfunctions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; something Harder has said has been ongoing since the signal upgrades were ap-

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The Crown Corporation apologized for the issues earlier this year and set out to spend $3.5 million to fix the issues, which include hydro-line interference, salt contamination in the tracks, electrical and mechanical issues and operational prob-

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All the upgrades are expected to be completed by next spring.

Rail signal issues have not been identified as a potential contributor to the bus-train crash, according to the Transportation Safety Board. The signal at the Transitway level crossing was functioning on Sept. 18 last year.

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Arts - The winners from this summer’s Osgoode’s Got Talent competition performed at an Osgoode Lions meeting before receiving their wellearned trophies on Sept. 22.

Leah Desroches, Isabella Munevar-Pelton, Oliver Munevar-Pelton and Kayleigh Styles all belted out ballads, Broadway tunes and Bruno Mars songs in the community hall of the Stuart Holmes arena before Lions president Bob Cooper presented the young artists with trophies they earned during Osgoode’s Canada Day celebration in July.

The second Osgoode’s Got Talent competition began with spring auditions at the Osgoode Youth Association, and the finalists competed for the crown in front of an excited audience on July 1.

Kayleigh Styles, 10, took first place with a window-rattling rendition of Les Miserables’ I Dreamed a Dream and Bette Midler’s The Rose.

“I was so happy,” said Styles, who has also taken the stage by storm at the Russell and Spencerville fairs this sea-

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Osgoode Township High School student Isabella Munevar-Pelton, right, and her brother Oliver Munevar-Pelton sing Count on Me by Bruno Mars during an Osgoode Lions meeting at the Stuart Holmes arena on Sept. 22. The Greely siblings placed second at the second-annual Osgoode’s Got Talent competition during the local Canada Day celebration this summer. son.

The St. Leonard Catholic School student said she has been singing “since I could talk” and dreams of making it big someday.

Greely siblings Isabella and Oliver Munevar-Pelton only started singing together within the past year, but they took

second place on Canada Day with their version of Count on Me by Bruno Mars, an upbeat and positive song about friendship.

On Sept. 22 Isabella began with a solo performance of Celine Dion’s The Prayer before Oliver joined her on stage for their signature act.

Leah DesRoches, a Grade 5 student at Osgoode Public School, perhaps took on the biggest challenge, singing Judy Garland’s Over the Rainbow without any musical accompaniment – something organizer Debbie Gallagher said is one of the hardest things a singer can do.

DesRoches, 10, has already been cast in two Greely Players musicals, and she sang in the group’s Christmas choir last year.

Gallagher said a talent show like the one she created with her husband Alan is important in a rural area like Osgoode.

“I am passionate about arts being available,” she said.

“They keep getting cut back in our school systems, and because of where we are there aren’t as many opportunities for training.”

Gallagher said taking part in the talent show auditions at least gives kids some feedback from the judges and adjudicators.

It also shows the community just how much talent is hidden around the ward.

“We just have so many talented kids, so it’s nice for the community to see that,” Gallagher said.

“On Canada Day we’re celebrating Canada, and that means celebrating our neighbours.”

The Lions are working on a ‘keeper trophy’ that will list the names of all the talent show winners, which would remain on display in the upstairs hall of the Stuart Holmes arena.

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Osgoode Public School student Leah DesRoches sings an a cappella version of Over The Rainbow on Sept. 22 during an Osgoode Lions meeting at the Stuart Holmes arena.

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Barring treatment for the mentally ill Prisons are the new institutions for people with mental-health issues say critics of Canada’s penal policies Blair Edwards blair.edwards@metroland.com

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he day she learned her son was laying in a catatonic state in his prison cell, Farhat Rehman became an advocate for the rights of prisoners with mentalhealth problems.

Rehman remembers sitting nervously in the waiting room of Millhaven Institution, a federal maximumsecurity prison in Bath, Ont., near Kingston, last February.

Rehan Kurd had been convicted of second-degree murder and given a life sentence in 2005 with no possibility of parole for 15 years. While suffering from delusions, caused by his schizophrenia, Kurd had stabbed to death his friend and mentor Mohammed Khalil in Ottawa on Feb. 27, 2001.

It had only been a few months since Kurd had been transferred to Millhaven from Kingston Penitentiary, which shut down in November 2013.

The 42-year-old Ottawa man had served eight years at the Kingston Penitentiary’s regional treatment centre, which provided psychiatric care.

When the penitentiary closed in the fall of 2013, Kurd was moved to Millhaven, where his physical and mental health rapidly deteriorated, said his mother.

Doped up on risperidone, an antipsychotic used to treat his schizophrenia, he spent up to 24 hours a day laying on his bed in his prison cell.

Kurd had been placed in solitary confinement several times over the years – for as long as two to three months at a time, said Rehman.

In the past, Kurd had occasionally suffered bouts of illness during which he would sometimes “get loud,” said his mother, resulting in his transfer to the acute-care centre in the Kingston Penitentiary, where he was put in solitary confinement and kept under 24hour observation by a video camera.

The last time she had visited her son, in January 2014, Kurd was so groggy from the side effects of his medication, he could barely speak,

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Rehan Kurd’s health rapidly deteriorated when he was transferred last year from the regional treatment centre at Kinston Pentitentiary to Millhaven Institution, a maximum-security jail, says his mother and Ottawa resident, Farhat Rehman, who has since begun advocating for his transfer to a hospital.

JAIL BREAK A four-part series about recidivism in Ontario

Part 3: The press for changes to Canada’s prison system and how it treats prisoners with mental-health issues. said Rehman.

“He was falling asleep on his stool,” she said. “He couldn’t talk to me.”

Rehman had arranged an open visit with her son on Feb. 20, so they could sit together not separated by a glass partition and speak without the need for a telephone.

While she waited, a correctional officer appeared, asking her to follow him to his office.

“I’m sorry, but I went to get your son and he’s not responding,” the officer said, according to Rehman. “I think he’s comatose or something.

He’s not responding.”

A doctor came into the room and explained that her son refused to take his medication, clozaril, an antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia in adults, so he was put back on risperidone, which caused drowsiness.

She begged the doctor to let her see her son and tell him she was there.

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peared in a closed visiting room.

“So I was put back into the enclosed (area) behind the glass, but at least I saw him,” said Rehman. “I talked to him and he was feeling groggy.”

During the three-hour drive home to Ottawa from the prison, Rehman heard a radio report that the federal government was funding two psychiatric beds for female prisoners at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre in Brockville.

“That was so hopeful for me,” said Rehman. “This is the time I can (start advocating) for my son.”

Rehman soon started writing letters to the Office of the Correctional Investigator of Canada, the federal and provincial ministries of correctional services, anyone who might be able to help her son.

The Office of the Correctional Investigator of Canada has since recommended Kurd receive care in a hospital, said his mother.

Kurd is just one of approximately three-dozen inmates serving time in Canada’s federal prisons who should receive care at a hospital, said Howard Sapers, the Correctional Investigator of Canada.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that we have individuals who will not benefit from a period of incarceration in any way,” he said. “Their mental illness will prevent them from being able to participate in any programming that would address their criminogenic needs and these are people who are profoundly mentally ill and diagnosed with significant psychiatric disorders and they need to be hospitalized.”

Sapers has also recommended federal jails stop the use of long solitary confinements of offenders with acute mental-health needs.

LACK OF BEDS

With a population of approximately 15,244 inmates, about 12 per cent, or 1,829 inmates, will be diagnosed with a significant mental illness, such as schizophrenia or major depressive disorder, said Sapers.

This translates into the need for a corresponding number of psychiatric inpatient beds, however the five regional treatment centres in Canada’s federal prison system only have approximately 675 beds – less than half what is needed.

To make matters worse, Correction-

al Service Canada is in the process of decommissioning some of those beds.

“We’ve already identified that the CSC doesn’t have enough treatment beds to meet demand, but they’re actually closing some anyway,” said Sapers. “And it’s not because they’re empty right now, it’s just for other operational reasons, which only the Correctional Service Canada could explain.”

The CSC has come to the conclusion it has too many psychiatric beds based on the ratio of beds to the general population of Canada. The problem is you’re comparing apples to oranges, he said.

“They are actually quite candid in saying this is a work in process, that they’re trying to get the balance right.” said Sapers. “But my caution to them is, ‘Don’t experiment with people’s lives. If you’re trying to get the balance right, do your homework and then make your changes. Don’t make them running changes and put people at risk.’”

STAFF SHORTAGE

Correctional Service Canada is also struggling to hire the needed psychiatrists and psychologists.

“We’re seeing some big vacancies in some occupational groups,” said Sapers.

Last year, 10 per cent of the correctional services’ psychologist positions were left vacant, and the vacancy rate of other health-care workers – from nurses and pharmacists to doctors and social workers – hovered between five and 10 per cent.

Not only are these rates high, they don’t show the reality of the staffing gap, said Sapers.

“Some of the positions, which have been vacant for a long time have simply been eliminated,” said Sapers.

“So it makes your vacancy rate look smaller if you just stop trying to fill the position.”

Meanwhile, some of the positions have been underfilled, he said, meaning the correctional service has hired people with psychology degrees but who are not licensed by the provincial governing body for psychologists.

“And it’s not just psychologists,” said Sapers.

In the past, the correctional service has hired people with lesser credentials than required to do a job, which means they must fall under the supervision of someone who is qualified.

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During the past decade, Canadian jails have seen an alarming increase in the number of inmates with mental illnesses.

Nearly half of all incarcerated federal offenders receive a mentalhealth service, according to statistics provided by the federal prisons’ ombudsman.

Correctional Service Canada estimates 13 per cent of male offenders and 29 per cent of female offenders in federal custody have mental-health problems when they are admitted to prison. These rates have doubled since 1996.

Meanwhile, one in four inmates in Ontario’s provincial jails have been identified as having a possible mental-health issue, according to the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.

Over the last decade, Correctional Service Canada has received approximately $50 million in shortterm funding to improve mentalhealth care delivered in federal prisons – $30 million for community mental-health funding and $21.5 million to fund key elements of its strategy, such as computer mentalscreening and training of front-line staff.

The correctional department received a further $16.6 million a year, this time in permanent funding, for institutional mental-health services in 2009.

But the federal government has a lot of catching up to do, according to a 2010 review of the CSC’s mental-health strategy commissioned by the federal prisons’ ombudsman.

“The government will need to invest significant amounts of money in mental health to make up for the decades of neglect to bring the (CSC) to a level of best practices and professional standards,” said John Service, in his report, Under Warrant, A Review of the Correctional Service of Canada’s Mental Health Strategy. “These investments will have to be made quickly and continue over the next decade or two.”

Too often, security trumped treatment, stated the report.

“CSC mental-health staff members were clear that too often security issues impede or prevent offenders from accessing programs and treatment, often for days and weeks at a time,” states the report.

The federal prisons’ ombudsman has recommended the CSC consider offering alternative forms of treatment, such as external healthcare providers, in some instances.

The CSC has rejected the recommendation.

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HEATHER STUART

In 2011, a CSC consultant’s report concluded that a full transfer of CSC health services to other health-care authorities was impractical because Canada doesn’t have a national health-delivery authority.

Instead, Correctional Service Canada is always looking to develop partnerships with other agencies that provide mental health-care services, stated the CSC in response to the federal prisons’ ombudsman’s 2011-12 report.

For instance, Institut Philippe-Pinel, a forensic hospital in Montreal, provides inpatient psychiatric care to female offenders.

In federal prisons, most mentalhealth care is provided at one of the five regional treatment centres, where inmates receive treatment before being returned to the general prison population.

But services are in such high demand, the offenders are often released too early, according to a 2013 report by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

“The high demand on (regional treatment centre) services also means that they are only available to those with the most acute mental illnesses and other inmates are left untreated or with a limited clinical ottawacommuniattention,” states the report. “These tynews.com offenders receive very little mental-health services and are instead placed in segregation as a security measure.”

On the provincial side, all inmates in Ontario jails have access to a variety of mental-health supports, including psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers, said Andrew Morrison, a spokesman for the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.

Corrections officers are also trained to detect possible signs of mental illness, he added.

Ontario jails have access to four specialized treatment centres for inmates with mental-health needs, he said, and the ministry partners with various social service agencies to provide the necessary programs and services when they are in custody and to assist them when they are discharged.

The province has invested $50 million since 2004 to expand community services such as crisis teams, dedicated beds, mental-health court workers, case managers and supportive housing.

But services provided in provincial jails are inconsistent at best, according to a 2012 study by the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario.

“Offenders with mental illness are extremely vulnerable in the federal and provincial corrections systems,” concluded the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health report. “Inmates with mental illness do not manage well in prison as demonstrated through disruptive behaviour, aggression, violence, withdrawal and refusal or inability to follow orders and rules.”

FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS

The influx of prisoners identified as needing mental-health services isn’t a recent issue, according to Service, a former executive director of the Canadian Psychological Association.

This is a problem that has been decades in the making, starting in the 1960s with the deinstitutionalization of people with mental-health disorders across Canada, he states in his Under Warrant report.

With the advent of improved psychological care and pharmaceuticals, patients could receive treatment within their communities.

This worked for some, states the report, but “at the same time, many people with mental-health problems and disorders were left languishing, not receiving the treatment they needed and consequently coming to the attention of police and the courts.”

Critics of the federal government’s tough-on-crime legislation say a large percentage of offenders with mental-health issues are falling through the cracks of a system lacking necessary treatment and support.

Mental-health factors do not provide a strong indication of whether an inmate will reoffend, according to Public Safety Canada’s analysis

of a collection of international studies on risk factors for recidivism among “mentally disordered offenders,” carried out between 1959 and 2011.

Some people with mental illnesses may commit a crime or “behave in ways that draw police attention,” according to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

“How police respond to these interactions is an early predictor of one’s likelihood to be further involved in the justice system,” the centre’s report stated.

Heather Stuart, a professor of community health and epidemiology at Queen’s University, who holds the Bell Canada mental health and anti-stigma research chair, said that 60 to 80 per cent of people in jails and prisons would meet the criteria for having a mental disorder.

“That suggests to me that there is a high recidivism,” she said.

“It used to be that people would be in hospitals in the past, a lot of them, and so the theory goes – it’s called a balloon theory – and if you squeeze the balloon at one end the air goes out the other end, so there’s a certain number of people that may need institutional supports,” she said.

“When we closed the hospitals, we took those institutional supports away from them and we didn’t put any supports in the community to help them out to replace the hospitals,” said Stuart.

“A lot of them end up in jails, just because they’re out in the community.”

Farhat Rehman tried to find help in the community for her son – as a child he was referred to a family psychiatrist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, and as an adult he was later diagnosed with depression and obsessive compulsive disorder.

“My son’s diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder was only confirmed in the assessment after he was apprehended in February 2001,” said Rehman.

Prisoners with mental-health issues who are judged not criminally responsible receive treatment in prisons and the possibility of leading a productive life, she said.

“But for those like my son, there seems to be nothing available except for a punishment model that results in lasting damage and no end to their incarceration.”

With files from Erin McCracken

Next week Part four offers a prescription to help reduce recidivism in Canada.

BY THE NUMBERS 50%

The percentage of all incarcerated federal offenders who received a mental-health service in 2012-13.

50% Correctional Service Canada has less than half the number of psychiatric inpatient beds needed to treat prisoners with severe mental health problems

25% Nearly one in four offenders admitted to provincial jails are identified as potentially having a mental-health need.

10% The vacancy rate for psychologist positions at federal jails in 2012.

$50M How much the federal government has spent over the past decade in short-term funding to improve mental health care in federal prisons.

$192K The annual cost to treat a federal inmate with mental-health problems at one of its five regional treatment centres.

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Science first: German president visits OttawaU On his state visit to Canada, the president of the Federal Republic Germany Joachim Gauck, below, stopped at the University of Ottawa’s Advanced Research Complex before heading to Parliament on Sept. 25. Left, geology professor Ian Clark and lab director Liam Kieser show off the unique floor in the new university’s accelerator mass spectrometer lab – the only lab of its kind in Canada. The decor shows all the element and their isotopes. The new building was scheduled to officially open on Sept. 30.

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TVOKids star coming to Ben Franklin Place Anthony Duffy

Community - TVOKids star Ranger Kara is coming to Ottawa on Oct. 4 for a live reading event at Ben Franklin Place.

Read With Ranger Kara is an event aimed at kids aged four to 11 and features a live reading of the book Doors in the Sky with Kara herself.

In addition to reading, TVO’s Nicole Morrison says that “kids can enjoy a Reading Rangers colouring mural and test out various educational apps on iPads.”

Admission is free, though space is limited. Registration is required for parents and children and can be done online at biblioottawalibrary.ca with your library card.

All children in attendance will be given a copy of the book that Ranger Kara is read-

ing, and Morrison said they’ll also receive a Reading Rangers activity booklet, Reading Rangers bandana, TVOKids pencil and eraser, a TVOKids tattoo, a children’s book and two Ministry of Education resource guides for parents.

One child in attendance will win a prize pack including a TVOKids T-shirt, water bottle, beach ball and a selection of children’s books.

“We are expecting the event to be wellattended – capacity is approximately 240 people,” Morrison said.

Doors open at 1 p.m. so kids can do activities leading up to the big event, which starts at 2 p.m. and runs for about 90 minutes.

You can see Kara on TVO’s program The Space. Check TV listings for show times.

Ben Franklin Place is located at 101 Centrepointe Dr.

Notice of Study Commencement Lemieux Island WPP Intake Improvements Environmental Assessment The City of Ottawa (the City) has initiated a Class Environmental Assessment (EA) for improvements to the Lemieux Island Water Purification Plant (WPP) intake.

The City operates two WPPs to supply drinking water to the city—the Lemieux Island WPP (capacity of 400 ML/d; built in 1931) and the Britannia WPP (capacity of 360 ML/d; built in 1961). The source water for both plants is the Ottawa River. The two plants serve 825,000 people, with the Lemieux Island WPP supplying roughly half of the water consumed.

In the past, the City has had issues at the Lemieux Island WPP, with frazil ice buildup at the intake piping. Frazil ice forms in open, turbulent, supercooled water which is typical of the river conditions near the plant intake. Because of the relatively shallow depth of water above the intake piping, frazil ice builds up below the ice surface and interferes with the flow entering the plant. This frazil ice can block the intake pipe and associated screening, resulting in unplanned WPP shutdowns or significantly restricted plant flows, which puts the water supply at risk.

The City is currently investigating solutions for improving the intake to mitigate the impacts of frazil ice on the WPP. This could involve the extension of the existing intake further into the river to locate the piping in deeper water.

This study is being conducted in accordance with the requirements for Phases 1 and 2 of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (2000, amended 2004, 2007 and 2011). Phase 1 involves identification of the problem or opportunity to be addressed by the project. Phase 2 involves development and evaluation of alternatives to address the problem or opportunity. The final deliverable for this project will be an environmental assessment report outlining the preferred alternative for modifying the inlet structure to prevent restrictions to the plant intake due to frazil ice. This report will be filed and available for public review for a period of 30 days upon completion.

Stakeholder (public and agency) consultation is a key element of the Class EA process. One Public Information Centre (PIC) is planned for this project (with an advertised notice also provided prior to the session), and project information will be available on the City of Ottawa website, ottawa.ca. A notice of completion will be issued upon close of the project.

A mailing list for notification of project activities and the PIC is now being compiled.

If you wish to receive notification of the EA activities (PIC), or if you have any questions regarding the project, please contact one of the people listed below.

Comments are welcome at any time during the study.

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he old maple tree in the front yard had turned crimson, and all around the farm that year I could tell that soon we would be settling in for the cold days of fall, and then winter would be upon us.

The season’s change had come as a great relief to me, although I still waited for signs from Father that all was well.

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MARY COOK Mary Cook’s Memories days of worry about a drought that could wipe out the fields of grain, or endless rain equally as damaging. Winter would be a time of catching up on fixing broken-down stalls in the cow byre, hauling in wood from the bush, and fixing harnesses, and mending aging machinery.

But by the time the end of summer was upon us, I could see a change in Father. Although he talked little about it, I knew just by looking at him that his mind, for months, had been on survival. The summer

months could make or break us, and I was old enough to sense uneasiness in Father at the end of each day.

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we were going through a dry spell that threatened to rob us of the grain that would see us through another winter.

It seemed to me, back then, that once the trees had turned, Father looked different, and he acted differently than he did on the days that had gone before us.

He still went to the barns every night to check on the animals, but he no longer looked anxiously out at the night sky, trying to read what the next day would bring.

I thought, back then, by the time the fall weather was ready to settle in, that his face didn’t show the weariness I saw nightly during the summer. He ate his supper more slowly, and I was quick to notice every page of the Ottawa Farm Journal was read, and he stayed longer in the old rocking chair by the Findlay Oval, as the darkness of the fall night closed in around us.

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last trip out to the barns, instead of heading right for his bed, he lingered in the kitchen, lighting his pipe, and taking one last cup of green tea.

And I would know. I would know without asking why this change in Father from one season to the next was taking place. The hay mow would be full, and there was no worry that we would not have enough hay to feed our animals over the long winter.

Grain would be plentiful.

The cows would be healthy and ready to give us milk for our own use, and to take to the creamery.

That year, it had been a good season, one amongst few in those Depression years.

With enough feed to care for our livestock until the next crop was ready, the cellar full of vegetables and preserves, the meat house full, and barrels of salt pork and sauerkraut at the ready -- we had survived another year.

And when I sat at the old pine table, as darkness came to the kitchen, I would look over at Father in the rocking chair, and I would say my silent thanks, and I would know why his face no longer had that weary look, nor would his eyes be heavy from the lack of sleep.

The time to worry was over.

All that could be done to survive had been done. There was nothing left to do, but cherish the warmth of home, and give grateful thanks. That one year in those lean 1930’s, I knew in my very young heart, just looking at the change in Father, we had been blessed beyond measure.

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GALETTA LIVESTOCK HORSE SALE

Firewood- Cut, split and delivered or picked up. Dry seasoned hardwood or softwood from $60/face cord. Phone Greg Knops (613)658-3358, cell (613)340-1045.

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Estate Farm Auction Sale Tractors, Combine, Farm Machinery, Trucks and Some Miscellaneous Items Situated just south of the corner of Hawthorne Road and Hunt Club Road, Ottawa, Ontario. Travelling from HWY 417, exit Hunt Club Road, turn left onto Hawthorne Road. Watch For Auction Signs.

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HUNTING SUPPLIES 613-821-6161 Hunter Safety/Canadian Fire-arms Courses and exFOR SALE ams held once a month at Carp. Call Wenda Cochran Butcher Supplies, Leather 613-256-2409. + Craft Supplies and Animal Control Products. Get your Halfords 134 page LIVESTOCK FREE CATALOG .

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Visit our Web Store 6th Annual Toledo w w w . h a l f o r d s m a i l o r - Ride-A-Thon, Saturday, October 18. Registration der.com.

10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Info: www.saddleupintoledo SOLD....Have unwanted .com (see website for items around to sell? Deentry fee).

Lunch Clutter through your local included. Approx 25 km community paper. Call ride through scenic Metroland Media Today to country side trails in the place an ad.

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To settle the estate of the late Ivor Mallows, the following will be sold: Tractors - MF 1135; MF 595, 2WD; MF 595, 4WD (parts only); JD 5400, 2WD; MF 1200 (needs clutch); MF 178 (parts only); Combine- MF 860 w/20â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ďŹ&#x201A;ex grain head Farm Machinery - Ezee-On 17â&#x20AC;&#x2122; discs; Case IH 5700 chisel plow; MF 14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 3pth chisel plow; MF 37, 3pth cultivator; 2 IH hyd. cultivators, 1- 17â&#x20AC;&#x2122; & 1- 13â&#x20AC;&#x2122;; Vicon 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 3pth cultivator w/harrows; 17â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pony harrows; JD culti-packer; 2 Gull tandem vegetable dump trailers; 2- 12 ton tandem dump trailers; 3pth ďŹ&#x201A;ail mower; Elmira hay wagon; 4 row 3pth rotary hoe; Meteor 3 furrow plow; 3 pth sprayer; MF 3pth sub-soiler (parts only); 2 IH 6 row corn planters (parts only); 4 row corn planter (parts only); 1000 gallon steel water tank on tandem axles; vegetable sales stand on wagon Trucks and Trailer - 2013 Dodge Ram1500, 2WD 2 door pick up w/ 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122; box, 19,300kms, safetied; 1999 Dodge Ram 2500 V-10 4x4, 181,000kms; 2001 Dodge Ram 2500 pickup (parts only); 1992 Award Classic 34â&#x20AC;&#x2122; camper trailer, bumper hitch Auctioneerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Note: Plan to attend on time as this is a 2 hour sale and there are no small items. Some of the equipment in this auction needs repairs or sold for parts.

All verbal announcements auction day take precedent over printed material.

Terms- Cash or Cheque with Proper ID Auctioneers James and Hill Auction Service Ltd. Carson Hill Stewart James 613) 821-2946 (613) 445-3269 Owners and Auctioneers are not responsible for accidents. Refreshments available.

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6th Annual Toledo Ride-A-Thon, Saturday, October 18. Registration 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Info: www.saddleupintoledo .com (see website for entry fee).

Lunch included. Approx 25 km ride through scenic country side trails in the Toledo area. Bring your horse for a fun filled day. Proceeds to St Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School in Toledo and St Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s United Church.

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SHALOM CHRISTIAN CHURCH A vibrant mul -cultural, full gospel fellowship. Come worship and fellowship with us Sundays, 1:30PM at Calvin Reformed 1475 Merivale Rd. O awa Church. Rev. Elvis Henry, (613) 435-0420 Pastor Paul Gopal, www.shalomchurch.ca (613) 744-7425 R0012827577

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Minister: James T. Hurd Everyone Welcome

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Dominion-Chalmers United Church Sunday Services Worship Service10:30am Sundays Prayer Circle Tuesday at 11:30 Rev.10:30 Jamesa.m.

Murray 355 Cooper Street at Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor 613-235-5143 www.dc-church.org

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INGREDIENTS

• 4 large carrots • 250 ml (1 cup) golden raisins • 50 ml (1/4 cup) rum or water • 625 ml (2-1/2 cups) all-purpose flour • 15 ml (1 tbsp) baking powder • 10 ml (2 tsp) cinnamon • 5 ml (1 tsp) baking soda • 5 ml (1 tsp) each ground ginger, nutmeg and salt • 2 ml (1/2 tsp) allspice • 250 ml (1 cup) vegetable oil • 4 eggs

• 10 ml (2 tsp) vanilla • 300 ml (1-1/4 cups) lightly packed light brown sugar • 125 ml (1/2 cup) finely chopped glacé cherries (optional) • 250 ml (1 cup) toasted chopped almonds with skins on maple glaze (below)

sins with any liquid, the cherries (if using) and nuts.

Scrape the mixture into a prepared pan. Smooth the top.

Bake in a 180 C (350 F) oven for one hour and 10 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool the pan on a rack for 15 minutes.

Run the knife around the edge then turn out the cake onto a rack to cool completely before icing.

The cake will keep well at room temperature for several days or freeze up to two months.

Maple glaze: Place 125 ml (1/2 cup) of maple syrup in a medium bowl. Sift 625 ml (2-1/2 cups) of icing sugar. With an electric mixer, gradually beat the icing sugar into the maple syrup to make a thick, but pourable glaze.

If it’s too thick, beat in 15 ml (1 tbsp) of milk.

If it’s too thin, beat in more icing sugar. Drizzle the glaze over the top of cool cake and garnish with chopped nuts; if desired.

PREPARATION

Generously spray or oil a threelitre (10-inch) Bundt pan.

Grate the carrots, measuring out one litre (4 cups). Combine the raisins and rum in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave on high for one minute, stir and microwave again for 30 seconds. Stir and set aside. In a large bowl, whisk the flour with the baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, ginger, nutmeg, salt and allspice.

In a separate large bowl, with an electric mixer, beat together the oil, eggs and vanilla. Gradually beat in the sugar, then beat for two minutes. Gradually beat in the flour mixture. (It will be very thick.)

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Nepean Chamber bids adieu to Desroches Jennifer McIntosh jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com

News - The Greater Nepean Chamber of Commerce honoured Gloucester-South Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches with a farewell breakfast on Sept. 23.

Desroches, who pledged to only serve two terms when he was first elected in the newlycreated ward in 2006, said he thinks being a councillor is a calling, not a career.

The father of four, who’s originally from Midland, Ont., said when he worked as a page in the House of Commons in 1988 he never pictured 20 years later he’d be serving as deputy mayor for the City of Ottawa.

“I joke with Mayor (Jim)

Watson that he holds the chain of office and I hold the keychain of office,” Desroches said.

Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder said it was a pleasure working with the rookie councillor, who has seen his ward’s population grow by 50 per cent since he took office and who shared the bulk of the city’s new development with his neighbouring South Nepean ward.

Harder also called Desroches a champion for veteran’s affairs.

“If there was an event that had to do with the legion or veterans at city hall, you can be sure Steve was involved,” she said.

Desroches said he is very proud of the work he has done, namely pulling the Strandherd-

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“It went from a worst class road to a first class road,” he said.

He also said he was happy with the expansion of the transit system into the ward, with new Longfields and Leitrim parkand-rides.

“We are currently working on the environmental assessment to get the O-Train out to Riverside South,” he said.

While it was important to improve the infrastructure for the growing community, Desroches said he also worked to preserve.

He said he’s happily supporting a motion to name the

Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge the Vimy Memorial Bridge in honour of the centennial anniversary of the taking of the Ridge during the First World War. He also said he was happy to honour philanthropist Dave Smith with a road named for him in his ward, as well as Olympians Sue Holloway and Glenroy Gilbert.

To the candidates vying for his seat around the council table, Desroches said he hoped to see a Sensplex-style recreation centre in the city’s south end, adding he also wants to see a strong safety net for the city’s veterans and a continued concentration on economic development within the city.

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Gloucester-South Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches addresses a packed crowd at the Greater Nepean Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Sept. 23.

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Giving butterflies a hand Leslie-Ann Rowland, a Grade 8 student in Glen Cairn Public School’s monarch butterfly program, holds a butterfly up into the sun to warm its wings before it flies off on a nearly 4,000 kilometre journey to Mexico. Students at the school came together to release the butterflies and wish them a safe journey on Sept. 19.

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News - The Transportation Safety Board is sounding the alarm, offering new information about a video screen that may have distracted the driver of a bus that collided with a train, killing six people in Barrhaven last year.

The investigation into the Sept. 18, 2013 crash isn’t complete, said lead investigator Robert Johnston on Sept.

24, but the safety board is suggesting OC Transpo review whether the video displays on Ottawa’s 75 double-decker buses – which can be viewed by the bus driver while the bus is in motion – can be locked so they do not display video when the bus is moving.

The TSB also said OC Transpo should look at whether video screens can be located “as close as practicable to the driver’s forward line of sight,” instead of above and to the left of the operator, as they are currently positioned.

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A bus driver was looking at the monitor, far left, seconds before a deadly Barrhaven collision last September. certain in-vehicle systems be disabled unless the bus is parked.

Later that day, OC Transpo general manager John Manconi told reporters it’s too soon for the city to react in a “knee-jerk manner,” to the

TSB’s suggestions, but calls have already been made to the bus manufacturer to begin discussions on options for altering the video monitors.

The recommendations come after the TSB’s analysis of various sources of informa-

tion, including interview with 60 passengers who were on the bus, revealed the driver, Dave Woodard, was glancing up at the video monitor five seconds before the crash.

OC Transpo instructs drivers not to stare at the screens

while driving, as the monitors are supposed to be used for the driver to ensure all passengers on the upper floor are seated before the bus starts moving.

But witnesses said one passenger was still standing upstairs just before the crash, Johnston said.

The upper deck was close to full, he said.

“We’ve correlated a sequence of events from various sources,” Johnston said.

“We’ve done this through painstaking analysis and we’ve gone over and over and over it.”

He said a team of 15 investigators looked at when braking was initiated and used data from the locomotive event recorder, crossing signal downloads, closed-circuit video from Fallowfield Station, the bus engine control module and interviews with around 60 bus passengers, next-of-kin and witnesses to work backwards and construct the 39-second timeline leading up to the crash.

“Based on sorting through all that information, that is a relatively accurate timeline to the best of our ability,” Johnston said.

The bus – a one-year-old Enviro 500 double-decker designed and manufactured by Alexander Dennis Limited in the United Kingdom – met all safety standards and nothing was mechanically wrong with it or its brakes, the TSB said.

Woodard did not have a medical illness at the time of the crash and a toxicology report showed no drugs or alcohol in his system.

The TSB is also recommending the city look at adding more measures to monitor and control bus speeds, since the bus was travelling at 67.6 kilometres per hour in a 60 km/h zone before the crash, based on data from the bus engine module and braking charts from the certification tests for a loaded bus, as well as charts provided by the bus manufacturer.

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Legacy Gift will generate $42.2 MILLION for CHEO over next 100 years Weldon Cochrane was an Ottawa chartered accountant and partner with the accounting firm of Coopers and Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) and was also the Treasurer on the CHEO Foundation Board. Mr. Cochrane had an appreciation for the importance of leaving a legacy and understood how to make an impact when he decided to made a gift in his Will to CHEO. He left the residual of his estate with instructions for it to be endowed; meaning that the capital would be preserved in perpetuity and the annual interest would be used to fund the important work at CHEO. When Mr. Cochrane died in 1985 the CHEO Foundation received $540,000

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(20%) will be reinvested bringing the total value of the fund to $6.2 million. In 50 years $15 million (80%) will go to the hospital and $3.8 million (20%) will be reinvested bringing the total value of the fund to $8.4

As CHEO marks its 40th anniversary this year, we look back and honour not only those in our community who made our local children’s hospital a reality, but also donors like Mr. Cochrane who made children a priority. Why not honour what is most important to you during your lifetime The impact of Mr. Cochrane’s generous gift is probably beyond what by considering a gift in Will to CHEO. Our he could have even imagined when he made it over 30 years ago. children, youth and families deserve to Moving forward 80 percent of the interest million. In 100 years $42.2 million (80%) will always have excellent health care, to benefit generated from this fund will be invested in go to the hospital and $10.6 million (20%) from lifesaving research and be provided medical equipment, research and hospital will be reinvested bringing the total value with the support programs to live happy programs at CHEO. The remaining 20 of the fund to $15.2 million. and healthy lives now and forever. percent will be reinvested to allow the fund His legacy lives on and continues to make to continue to grow. In 25 years $6.4 million a difference in the lives of young patients (80%) will go to the hospital and $1.6 million at CHEO today, and for future generations.

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OC Transpo to make changes in wake of TSB findings Continued from page 38

When it collided with the Via Rail train, the bus was travelling between 6.4 and 7.7 km/h, the TSB said. If the bus had been travelling at the 60 km/h speed limit and all other factors were the same, it would have stopped 6.1 metres before the point of collision, Johnston said.

The city has since lowered the bus speed limit to 50 km/h on that section of the Transitway.

Johnston said determining how much force the bus driver was applying to the brakes will be one of the next steps in the investigation.

CITY RESPONDS

Deputy city manager Steve Kanellakos said changes to the video monitors are just one of the items OC Transpo will review after receiving the two

new safety advisory letters from the TSB on Sept. 24.

The transit agency will also look at: • Operating procedures and training related to ensuring passengers are seated on double-decker buses.

• Ergonomic factors and driver workload, especially at rail crossings.

• Transitway speed enforcement.

• Better signs alerting passengers to sit down on the upper level of the buses.

The signs should be in place shortly, Manconi said. Currently, double-decker buses feature two stickers at the base and top of the stairwell alerting passengers to sit down when they reach the upper deck, but there are no signs on the second level reminding them of the requirement to sit.

Changes to speed enforcement are also already underway, Manconi said. OC

Transpo special constables conduct traffic enforcement on the Transitway because it is a private road, Manconi said.

A two-person dedicated radar speed enforcement unit will patrol the Transitway, focusing on the area near the rail tracks at Fallowfield.

A number of operators have been disciplined for speeding since the crash, Manconi said.

The approach is one of “progressive discipline,” he said, including suspensions, coaching and other measures.

“It’s not permitted to speed,” Manconi said.

“That’s the clear message.”

There is a form operators can fill out if they feel the schedule doesn’t allow enough time for the driver to navigate the route at the posted speed limit, or if the schedule provides too much time, Manconi said.

Kanellakos said he is not

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OC Transpo General Manager John Manconi reacts Wednesday, Sept 24 to a TSB report on a 2013 bus-train collision. considering further reductions in the bus speed limit on the Transitway approaching the crash site as a past review showed that 50 km/h is the optimal limit to balance safety with driver experience and conditions on a section of roadway that’s designed to handle traffic

travelling at 90 km/h.

CRASH TIMELINE

The Transportation Safety Board outlined a timeline of what occurred just before the Sept. 18, 2013 bus-train collision: • 8:47:23 – A passenger

accessed the upper deck of the double-decker bus and remained standing while holding onto a pole at the top of the stairs.

• 8:47:27 – The bus departed Fallowfield Station.

• 8:47:57 – While the bus was travelling towards the rail crossing, the driver looked upwards and to the left towards the video monitor, likely noticing the passenger standing on the upper deck.

• 8:47:59 – The bus passed the point at which the red flashing lights at the Transitway rail crossing come into full view, 121 metres south of the stop line.

• 8:48:01 – The driver continued to monitor the video screen, glancing towards it intermittently while looking towards the road ahead.

• 8:48:02 – Passengers began to yell at the driver to stop the bus, with the bus travelling 67.7 km/h and the gas pedal applied.

• 8:48:03 – The bus driver began to apply the brakes.

• 8:48:06 – Continuing to brake, the bus collided with the south side of the train at 7.7 km/h. The train was also braking and was travelling 75.6 km/h.

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So far, 350 people have signed Ottawa123â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s petition in support of Ottawa switching to a rankedchoice ballot system.

The system is already used in different places in Canada and internationally and it could soon be coming to municipal elections in Ontario.

The Ontario Liberal government was elected in June on a platform that included a commitment to change the Municipal Elections Act to enable cities and towns to use ranked-choice voting if they chose to do so.

Grove-White said Ontario Liberal officials he has spoken with

assured him the legislation is coming and will likely be introduced after the Oct. 27 municipal elections to avoid confusion.

Ottawa123â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign is getting some political support from both incumbent councillors and new city council candidates alike.

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the ability to list a second, third, fourth, etc. choice if they chose to do so.

If no candidate has more than 50 per cent support in the first choice, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and then votersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; second choices are counted instead of the first. The process is repeated until one candidate wins with at least 50 per cent of the vote.

Although there are a number of different electoral system models, Grove-White said ranked-choice balloting is the only one that makes sense in municipal elections because it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rely on a political party structure, like proportional representation option.

The system encourages a broader range of candidates to throw their hats into the ring and results in a more productive and nuanced discussion of municipal issues, since candidates donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to pit themselves against each other with starkly contrasting platforms in order to appeal to different segments of voters who vote strategically, Grove-White said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no fear of vote-splitting,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Ottawa123 believes rankedchoice voting would make people feel like their ballot really counts, Grove-White said, which he hopes could increase voter turnout in populations that are statistically disengaged from municipal politics.

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electoral reform.

Ottawa123 spokesman Colum Grove-White said ditching the traditional first-past-the-post system used in most elections in Canada in favour of a new ranked-choice voting system would bring more fairness and political engagement to elections.

The system would allow voters to pick their first choice candidate in the race, the same as they do now, but would also give electors

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Starting in the next few weeks, OHS presentations will all be available in French. Whether teaching JK/SK and Grade 1 students about responsible pet care for cats and dogs or inspiring high school students to explore animal related careers — all will be available in French. This will help reach the 45 to 65 per cent of students taking all or part of their studies in French in Ottawa.

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From left, Madison Anderson, Rylan Anderson, Bailey Belanger and Olivia Wilson make up a portion of Rylan’s Warriors. The team took part in the Dravet Walk for the Kids event on Sept. 20.

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News - It was a record-breaking weekend for the McKnight family.

The third-annual Dravet Walk for the Kids in Constance Bay raised more than $50,000 and donations are still coming in, said Mandy McKnight.

The McKnights have been a face for Dravet syndrome since local and national media outlets began reporting on Liam McKnight’s rare form of epilepsy that causes dozens of seizures per day.

His parents, Mandy and Dave, developed a novel way of administering medicinal marijuana to treat his seizures; they use oil in order to control dosage, rather than have the sixyear-old smoke it. Media outlets picked up the story after news that the federal government restrictions rule out any methodology except smoking.

The increased attention saw more than 400 participants walk the field at the Constance and Buckham’s Bay Community Centre on Saturday, Sept. 20. One hundred and ninetysix of those walkers allied themselves with Liam’s Army.

“It was so amazing to meet you all and your friends and families. I would like to thank everyone who helped pull off such an amazing event for our kids, you are too many to list but we couldn’t have done it without each and every one of you,” wrote Mandy in a Facebook post she emailed to the Review. “On a Liam’s Army personal note I want to say you guys are amazing and I am emotional even writing the words … All I can say is ‘we can feel the love.’ Thank you so much for supporting us always.”

Eleven other teams and families took part in the event, walking for someone close to them.

Eight-year-old Ava Falsetto of Ottawa South was surrounded by her family and friends, all holding signs reading “Go Ava Go.” Sean Bellefeuille, of Orléans, had a team of family supporters wearing Sean s Hope T-shirts.

Six-year-old Rylan Anderson, in a purple Hero for Hope cape, was the face behind “Rylan’s Warriors.” The team travelled to the west end from Bourget, Ont. to take part in the Dravet Walk for the Kids event.

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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-224-3330, E-mail: manotick@metroland.com Join us at Manotick United Church for our annual harvest dinner on Friday, Oct. 3 from 5 to 8 p.m. Take-out available. Tickets are $20 each and at 613-692-4576 or at Manotick Office Pro.

Oct. 5 In celebration of the completion of an 800-km walk on the Camino Frances, join Aileen Lamont for a presentation on Aileen’s Way: Tales

and Tips from Il Camino de Santiago. All Saints Anglican Church, 7103 Parkway Road in Greely. Tuesday, Sept. 16 and Sunday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m.

Oct. 7 Jewelry workshop with Violeta Borisonik at the Manotick library. Learn basic wire and copper stamp wrapping techniques on October 7 between 2 and 4 p.m. Registration is required at BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca or

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Join photographer Carole Gobeil at the Manotick library to see her photos of Tuscany and Holland’s Floriade festival between 7 and 8 p.m. Registration is required at BiblioOttawaLibrary.ca or call 613-692-3854. for more info.

Oct. 10 Witches and wizards PD Day party at the Osgoode museum, Oct. 10 from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Kids ages six to 12 are invited to join us for an exciting day learning all about witches and wizards through games, crafts, and fun activities. Cost: $25 per child.

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Discover how to make your own amazing medieval-style cloak using a simple curtain.

Cost: $25 per participant.

Call 613-821-4062 to register. The museum is located at 7814 Lawrence St. in Vernon.

Kindermusik program for infants and toddlers and their parent(s)/guardian(s) every Tuesday morning from 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. Cost is $40 per month, and $20 for each additional sibling. Please register by calling 613-8214062 or visit kindermusik. com/taraheft to enroll online.

Come out and enjoy a Saturday morning at the Metcalfe farmers’ market. The market opens at 8 a.m. and runs until noon every Saturday until Oct. 18. We are located at the Metcalfe fairgrounds, 2821 8th Line Rd. Find fresh local produce, eggs, meat, cheese, baked goods and local handmade crafts. Hot, home style breakfast is available every market. For more information contact info@metcalfefm. com.

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Come to the Osgoode legion for darts on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday evenings starting at 7:30 p.m.

Experience not required. The bar is open Tuesdays through Saturday from 6 to 11 p.m. unless otherwise posted.

The Gloucester South Seniors meet at 4550 Bank St., Leitrim for a full schedule of activities every week including contract bridge, carpet bowling, euchre, five hundred, shuffleboard and chess.

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by OC Transpo 144 and free parking. Call 613-821-0414 for info.

Do you need to know how to send emails with attachments, how to forward emails, blind copy to a list, organize your desktop or create documents? Volunteers at the Osgoode legion can help seniors better understand their computers. We will help them in their own homes.

Call Gail Burgess at 613821-4409 to arrange for an appointment.

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Ovarian Cancer Canada offers a free presentation called Ovarian Cancer: Knowledge is Power, about the signs, symptoms and risk factors of the disease. To organize one for your business, community group or association, please

The Greely Friendship Club meeting every second Tuesday of the month for a pot luck lunch from11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Membership is $5 per year and $4 per lunch Introductory meeting free with pot-luck contribution.

The Gloucester South Seniors Chess Club, 4550 Bank St. (at Leitrim Road) meets every Monday and Thursday at 7 p.m. immediate openings available for more chess aficionados. Please contact Robert MacDougal at 613821-1930 for more information.

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