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Canterbury may get first covered outdoor rink Erin McCracken

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The city’s first outdoor covered rink may end up being built in Alta Vista’s Canterbury community. “We really want this to be a nice, accessible social hub – a social complex – where people

could walk up with their skates and visit their neighbours, who might be skating, to have a good view of the park,” said Alta Vista Coun. Jean Cloutier, who first pitched the idea to ward residents when he ran for office in 2014. See WE, page 12

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Patience is a virtue Pirthi Man Rai, of the Fairlea community near Heatherington, left, looks on as Dhan Subba, of Herongate, tries his hand at ice fishing for the first time during the first-ever Valentine’s Day Ice Fishing Extravaganza at the Nepean Sailing Club on Feb. 14. The event featured games on the harbour ice and in the snow, including volleyball and soccer, as well as a bonfire and a charitable chili cook-off in support of Refugee 613. Several new Canadian groups were invited to the event to experience ice fishing. See more photos, page 14.

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Three people were displaced from their Walkley Road townhouse after unattended burning sage morphed into a fire. The owner of the unit at 1821 Walkley Rd. in Alta Vista made the 911 call on Feb. 8 just after 2 p.m. When fire crews arrived, they confirmed “extensive” smoke was coming from the basement of the twostorey home, said assistant deputy fire chief Sean Tracey. “As well, there was a connection to an underground parking garage and (they) saw some smoke coming from that area as well,” he said. “It was quite an extensive fire at that time.” The cause has been ruled accidental. The homeowner had been down-

stairs in his basement workshop carving, and lit some ceremonial sage. “He thought they were out, but they were not and it ignited some nearby combustibles and caused the basement fire,” Tracey said. Firefighters conducted an “aggressive initial attack” and were able to contain the fire to the basement and bring it under control by 2:41 p.m., he said. Despite this, there was still quite a bit of damage; the smoke and flames caused an estimated $75,000 in damage to the structure and about $25,000 in content damage, said Tracey. Three people, including the homeowner, were displaced from the residence, but Tracey said they did not require support from victim services. No one was injured in the fire.

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The driver of a large commercial truck has been charged with making an unsafe turn, causing a crash that punctured the truck’s fuel tank, according to Ottawa police. The collision, which occurred on Feb. 10 at 6:50 a.m., and resulting rupture of the tank caused 700 litres of diesel fuel to spill onto the roadway at the corner of Hawthorne Road and Stevenage Drive, north of Hunt Club Road. The fire department is crediting firefighters and hazardous materials team for a quick response, allowing them to contain the fuel with dykes, “preventing a greater contamination hazard,” said Sean Tracey, assistant deputy fire chief. “There was no entry into the storm or sanitary systems,” he said, adding the fuel was still pouring from the tank when they arrived on scene. Firefighters notified the Ministry of Environment about the spill, as well as the city’s environmental services department, which has a standing agree-

ment with private companies to clean up these types of spills, Tracey said. Drain-All was brought in clean up and haul away the contaminants, with expertise provided by fire and hazmat crews. “We will then typically pressure wash and clean whatever spill spots that are still there and vacuum that up as well,” said Tracey. “So I think there were two vacuum trucks that were full of material that was taken away for disposal.” The clean-up, which involved the use of booms and an absorbent, kitty-litter-type material to trap and soak up the spilled liquid, was completed by about 11 a.m. The driver has been charged under the Highway Traffic Act with making an unsafe turn, confirmed Const. Chuck Benoit, Ottawa police spokesman. The tractor-trailer and the second vehicle involved in the collision had been travelling northbound on Hawthorne Road at the time. “The large vehicle was northbound in (the) left lane, turned in front of the other vehicle (that) was in the right lane,” he told Metroland Media in an

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Kanellakos named new city manager Jennifer McIntosh

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OSU Signs Canada and MLS Goalkeeper Coach Mike Toshack OSU is pleased to announce that Mike Toshack, recognized as one of North America’s foremost and experienced goalkeeper coaches, has agreed to lead our Goalkeeper Academy within the OSU Force Academy. Coach Toshack, has guided some of MLS’s and NCAA’s best known goalkeepers and brings over two decades of professional, collegiate and international experience to our program. Mike Toshack’s tremendous track record of tutoring goalkeepers at all levels around the world has seen him working with five professional clubs over his career as well as serving as Goalkeeper coach for the U20 and U23 Canadian Men’s National teams. Toshack has won titles at every level, including two MLS Soccer Championships ( 2015 Portland Timbers, 2007 Houston Dynamo ), one USL championship ( 2006 Vancouver Whitecaps ), and one NCAA championship with Saint Lawrence University. In particular, he has spent the last decade working with MLS Clubs such as Vancouver Whitecaps, Houston Dynamo, Toronto FC and Portland Timbers. During his time in these environments he had the opportunity to prepare and coach against the world’s best clubs – such as Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. All of this said, we know that he will help elevate and expose our club goalkeepers to another level of performance. Having grown up in Eastern Ontario, Coach Toshack returned close to Ottawa when the opportunity to coach St Lawrence University (Canton, NY) presented itself two years ago. Given their close proximity, working with Ottawa’s elite club, OSU made a lot of sense.

City council appointed Steve Kanellakos to replace outgoing city manager Kent Kirkpatrick at a special meeting on Feb. 8. Kanellakos is well known at city hall, as he is a former City of Ottawa deputy city manager and has 30 years of experience overseeing municipal projects and services, according to a press release sent out by the city. “We are delighted to have Mr. Kanellakos return to Ottawa city hall to continue his great work on behalf of Ottawa residents,” Mayor Jim Watson, chair of the hiring panel, wrote in the statement. “He is a trusted leader and consummate public servant with impeccable credentials in the planning and delivery of a broad range of municipal services.” Watson added the city is undergoing unprecedented growth with the expansion of li ght rail, the opening of the new Innovation Centre and other city construction projects. “Our council, residents, employees and stakeholders will be well served by the dynamic and prudent

management style of Mr. Kanellakos as the city moves forward with its challenging, ambitious priorities,” Watson said. The city’s finance and economic development committee acted as the hiring panel for the new city manager. All members of council provided input on their expectations for the ideal candidate. Kanellakos worked as a manager for the city from 2000 to 2015, but he got his start with the Gloucester police department in 1985. During his tenure as a deputy city manager in Ottawa, Kanellakos was responsible for the majority of municipal employees and front-line service departments. Kanellakos is currently the city manager for the City of Vaughan. He is scheduled to take over his new post in Ottawa on May 2. Kirkpatrick had indicated previously that he would not seek a contract extension beyond March 2016. Kirkpatrick has held the city’s top administrative job since 2004.

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“Connecting with OSU Force Academy is an exciting opportunity for me to enter into the youth side of the game. I was immediately impressed with the work going on within their program and the aspirations of the club and its players” Coach Toshack reflected on his new role. Paul Harris, OSU’s Technical Director added that “Mike will bring a whole new level of proven goalkeeping experience and knowledge which has not been previously present in the Ottawa area. It will give a unique and special opportunity for aspiring goalkeepers to maximize their potential”. Mike Toshack will lead an already impressive, and growing group of goalkeeper coaches within OSU. We are fortunate enough to have Les Escobar, Jasmine Phillips, Erhan Yilmaz and Aaron Falsetto also working with our goalkeepers on a weekly basis. For Goalkeepers who are interested in joining our Goalkeeper Academy program email our GoalKeeper Academy Programs manager Les Escobar at les.escobar@osu.ca For a complete bio on Coach Toshack please visit www.forceacademy.ca

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Valentine’s Day fire causes $20K in damages to home Erin McCracken

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The cause of a residential fire that damaged a Blossom Park home over the weekend may remain undetermined. Firefighters responded to 1495 Kingsdale Ave. on

Feb. 14 at 11:16 a.m. after at least one 911 caller reported smoke coming from the single-family dwelling. “Upon arrival, the firefighters did notice smoke showing from the eaves of the home and a light haze inside the home, and then that

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No one was injured in a Blossom Park fire on Feb. 14. Fire crews worked in extremely cold temperatures to snuff out the flames, which caused less than $20,000 in damages. in keeping with department protocols. “They’re to monitor who goes in and out of the structure and their whereabouts

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It sounds like a ridiculous idea, right? It’s hard to imagine that we could be talked into giving up booze forever. At a time when our federal government is looking to legalize marijuana, could it really contemplate banning alcohol completely? Impossible. Or is it? Public health agencies have learned a lot

It’s hard to imagine that we could be talked into giving up booze forever. At a time when our federal government is looking to legalize marijuana, could it really contemplate banning alcohol completely? Impossible. perceive their healthcare system as “free” understand how individual behaviour impacts the system. You may be thinking that Taylor and his report are blowing things out of proportion. If he is, then so are his counterparts elsewhere. One doctor featured on a British documentary on the subject this month said each time he puts a glass of wine to his lips, he questions whether or not it’s worth the cancer risk. The anti-alcohol movement is gaining momentum. As I plowed through a range of news articles and transcripts on the subject, I started to wonder if public health agencies across the developed world are launching a cross-border temperance movement.

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from the success of antitobacco campaigns. Thirty years ago, it would have been very difficult to imagine that smokers would become the social pariahs they are today. The simultaneous release of reports and guidelines damning alcohol consumption and connecting booze to cancer is step one of the new temperance movement. Wait until the stats on alcohol-related violence, car accidents and anti-social behaviour start making their way into the campaign. If you’re one of the 80 per cent of Canadians affected, you may just want to brush up on your knowledge of Canada’s agricultural, scientific and social history – and learn to make moonshine.

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Algonquin’s international mistake One would hope that those who run educational institutions think before they act. That hope has dimmed with the decision of two Ontario colleges two years ago, including Ottawa-based Algonquin College, to expand their global footprint, pump up their prestige as institutions and try to make a few bucks as well, with international campuses in Saudi Arabia. On the surface, there is nothing wrong with Algonquin College and Niagara College opening international campuses. But there is something wrong with opening men-only campuses in Saudi Arabia where Sharia law forbids the education of women and men in the same educational programs and classes. The men-only campuses may be the way they do things in Saudi Arabia, but that is not the way we do things in Canada. And in this instance, the criticism that Algonquin has had to deal with since the school decided that it was fine with excluding half the human race from its Saudi operations is richly deserved. The issue has been raised before, and most recently even Ontario’s premier has waded into the debate.

“As soon as I found out there was a possibility that women weren’t being offered programs, I asked questions about it, and it’s unacceptable to me,” Premier Kathleen Wynne is quoted as saying in a recent Canadian Press story. There are those who will say – and Algonquin has said this in past statements – that the way you foster change is to engage the society that partakes in such discrimination from within. It’s the old Margaret Thatcher stance on apartheid in South Africa. But Thatcher was dead wrong on South Africa, and former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney was right. Mulroney was a staunch advocate of sanctions against South Africa because he knew that you do not foster change by just going along to get along when it comes to human rights issues. Algonquin College’s decision to go along to get along in Saudi Arabia by participating in that fiefdom’s discrimination against women was a bad decision. There is no honour and no prestige to be had by doing the wrong thing.

Enjoy a safe conversation It’s always good to have something to talk about with strangers. A sense of community comes out of that, the ability to talk with ease with people we barely know, or don’t know at all. We’re all in this together, is the feeling we all get out of it, and that’s good. Of course, it was the big hockey trade last week that brought all this about. The Senators get Phaneuf ? Holy cow! Cowan and Michalek go to Toronto? Amazing. You might have seen the news crawling across the bottom of a TV that happened to be on. All previous conversation would cease and this new topic would take over. You could even have the conversation in an elevator. Did you hear about the trade? You could ask that of a complete stranger and

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tion opener. It’s one of the things we can discuss, even argue about, without anybody getting upset. “How about that Phaneuf trade!” you can exclaim, without offending anyone. That wouldn’t work with most other topics, such as politics, even in Ottawa. Exclaiming “How about that Trudeau announcement on Syria” might get a mixed and not altogether pleasant reaction. Same goes with “How about that school board French immersion policy!” Sport is safer. You can disagree on whether Phaneuf is getting too much money, whether the Sens should have been more patient with Cowan, whether they gave up a valuable prospect, whether Michalek will be missed. No one will get angry during this disagreement. Yes, it’s true that angry words are sometimes expressed about sports, but those are mostly online,

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in the Comments section. Everybody seems to be angry there. But not on the elevator. Another nice thing about the casual sports conversation is that you don’t have to be an expert to take part. You have just have to have a feeling about it. True there are experts, and those who hear them, particularly on the TV talk shows, know how tiresome they can be. They go on and on about salaries and cap space and free agency and whatnot. Whereas you can just say you like that Phaneuf has a hard shot and you wonder if Greening will get a shot with the Leafs. You don’t have to justify why you thought the Super Bowl was interesting. You just have to say it. And the guy who thought it wasn’t just has to say it too. No harm done. Whereas, if you want to say that Donald Trump is interesting, you had better be prepared for a

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challenge. What do you mean by “interesting”? Don’t you think he’s horrible? How can you say he’s interesting? On most topics, conversations can degenerate. In the manuals of old-time manners people were taught never to talk about politics and religion at the dinner table. A good hockey trade, though, is another matter.

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Notice of Completion of Transit Project Assessment Process Trillium Line Extension The City of Ottawa has completed an Environmental Project Report in accordance with Ontario Regulation 231/08 for the Trillium Line Extension Planning and Environmental Assessment study. The Project The City of Ottawa has developed a plan to extend and expand the City’s existing diesel-powered O-Train Trillium Line service from Greenboro Station to Bowesville Road and to the Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport. The plan includes options to service the growing communities of Riverside South and Leitrim, the Airport and adjacent lands. The plan also incorporates new stations on the existing line at Gladstone Avenue and Walkley Road and a relocated station at Confederation Heights. Impacts to private property are anticipated to be limited to the areas adjacent to the proposed Lester Road and Leitrim Road grade separations. The Process The environmental impact of this transit project was assessed and an Environmental Project Report (EPR) prepared according to the Transit Project Assessment Process as prescribed in Ontario Regulation 231/08, Transit Projects and Greater Toronto Transportation Authority Undertakings. The EPR documents the entire study process, including a description of the planned project, its anticipated environmental impacts, and the project’s consultation program.

week away, Denis said there is a lot to look forward to. “We’ve made the rink even bigger this year so they can play hockey on one side and have leisure skates on the other side. So it’s a nice big square,” she said. In addition to skating, the line up of fun will echo last year’s snow party, and will feature a Scout-hosted bonfire and s’mores. Hot chocolate will also be served, and there will be a bake sale to help offset the cost of future community events.

A tug-of-war, potato-sack racing, a mini Zumba class in the snow, music, and, weather-permitting, more on-ice games, such as hockey-related activities and possibly an obstacle course are also on the agenda for the carnival. “It was really fun to see the men doing the potatosack race because they were really into it,” Denis said with a laugh of last winter’s event. For more details about the association or the carnival, visit wisteriaparkcommunityassociation.weebly.com.

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The relatively young community of Wisteria Park is anticipating celebrating winter together – on and off the ice. There was so much demand for the neighbourhood’s second annual winter carnival that residents were asking for one even before organizers had decided to hold another. “We were not necessarily sure that we would do it and then we got a lot of people, (saying), ‘So when is the carnival this year?’” said Gen Denis, past-president of the Wisteria Park Community Association, who is now the group’s events co-ordinator along with Olivia Leung. “People do like it, and we will do it again,” Denis said. The second annual celebration on Feb. 27, from 2 to 4 p.m., will centre around the community’s puddle rink, which opened for the first time last February, but has since become a premier winter attraction for local residents. It was during the cityfunded rink’s planning stages that residents came together and eventually created an association. Since the rink’s opening, the volunteer-based group has been organizing events to maximize the use of Wisteria Park, where the rink is situated and for which the neighbourhood is named. The community of Wisteria Park is an approximately decade-old standalone neighbourhood in the Gloucester-Southgate ward that is bounded by the former CFB Uplands on the south side and Hunt Club Road on the north. Of the almost 200 households there, about 80 people attended the inaugural winter celebration last year. “We had a pretty good turnout, especially for a first time,” Denis said. Following that, the group worked to organize Wisteria Park’s first-ever barbecue last September, which attracted about 70 residents. The association also took up the organization of the neighbourhood’s annual summer garage sale. With this year’s winter carnival a little more than a

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Inaugural winter celebration taking shape for Herongate Erin McCracken

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Valérie Assoi is planning to let her inner child out to play during Herongate’s inaugural winter celebration, and she’s hoping residents of all ages will join her. The neighbourhood’s community developer, who has been working over the past year with local organizations and residents to create events and establish community engagement programs, is helping organize the family fun day. “Enjoy winter in Canada,” Assoi said of the purpose of the free outdoor carnival, which will take place near the puddle rink in Sandalwood Park on Feb. 20, from 1 to 3 p.m. The fun will feature onand off-ice games, including snow painting and an obstacle course, as well as treats such as hot chocolate and pancakes, local music and horse-drawn wagon rides. One of the highlights will

be the participation of players from the Ottawa Junior Senators, who are scheduled to take to the ice to skate with area residents. The festival marks an important first for the neighbourhood, but is the latest in a string of positive initiatives that have taken shape there since Assoi was hired more than a year ago under a new crime-prevention initiative. Her work has focused on bringing together residents to improve their neighbourhood and serve as leaders to inspire others to become involved. The community developer with the South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre was recently given the green light to continue her engagement work until at least the end of this year. Not long after, planning for the winter fun day quickly took shape. “We have a community barbecue during the summer and we thought, ‘OK, winter is a big part of our

life in Canada,’” she said, adding that Herongate is home to many immigrant families, some of whom may not know what to do during the winter months. “They don’t know how to enjoy the winter,” Assoi said. “It’s a kind of teaching-learning for them to see how, as parents living in a new country, to embrace the country with this tough weather, how to turn it into a positive thing. “It’s my goal.” Through organizing of the event, she has linked with the volunteer Herongate rink operators who are caring for the outdoor skating surface in the park. She views them as important community partners too, now that she has connected with them. Her vision for the neighbourhood also includes starting up a community association to bring people together “who usually don’t talk together,” she said. See PARTNERS, page 11

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Jake Hansen, of Riverview Park, prepares to shovel the outdoor rink in Herongate’s Sandalwood Park amid sub-zero temperatures on Feb. 13. A clean ice surface will be key to ensuring residents enjoy themselves during the community’s first-ever winter celebration on Feb. 20.

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Partners looking to connect with youth to ramp up involvement Continued from page 10

Within the past year, several stakeholder groups have been meeting regularly to ensure the community’s needs are being met. Many were involved in planning the upcoming carnival, including Ottawa South MPP John Fraser, Alta Vista Coun. Jean Cloutier, the South-East Ottawa Health Centre, the Alta Vista branch of the Ottawa Public Library, the Catholic School Parents’ Association, Ottawa Community Housing, Crime Prevention Ottawa and the French public school board. Community engagement takes years, said Assoi, but the events held so far over the past year have served as important building blocks towards the goal of fostering a more tight-knit neighbourhood. A new youth program may also been in the works “because there’s an untapped potential of how we could use the youth more,” said Assoi. “There’s lots of youth there.” The festival will be an opportunity to connect with even more children

and young people, as well as adults. It’s essential that they be made to feel involved, she said. “We can make projects and programs

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‘We know there’s a need for more facilities in the area:’ association president Continued from page 1

also in need of additional ice time. The hockey association also has ideas for the rink, including holding practices or novice games, thereby freeing up indoor ice time for others. “Being where it is in the Canterbury complex it really rounds out the place quite nicely, with the pool being there, the existing arena, plus the community centre,” Marshall said, noting that the complex is close to two bus routes, is within walking distance for many people in the community and parking is available. Building a covered outdoor rink near the indoor arena offers the advantage of sharing washrooms, change rooms, staff and the Zamboni, which all would help keep costs down, Cloutier said. Twinning, or adding another rink, to the Brian Kilrea Arena was explored in 2013 and city staff found the arena, which dates back to about 1967,

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If approved by council, the $5.8-million facility would be built next door to the Brian Kilrea Arena, located at 2185 Arch St., by November 2017. The plan calls for an outdoor covered space that would have a standard-sized refrigerated ice pad, measuring 70 by 160 feet, from November to March. That’s a longer skating season than at city hall’s Rink of Dreams, Cloutier noted. “The covered part is a very important aspect of this proposal,” he said, noting the roof would allow the site to be used at other times of the year, regardless of the weather. The Canterbury Community Association, which runs programming at the nearby Canterbury Recreation Centre, has developed several ideas for the space, including a first-ever winter carnival, an inaugural bi-weekly summertime farmer’s market, an urban agricultural

fair at the end of the growing season for residents and gardeners from the Kilborn Allotment Gardens as well as backyard gardeners. The preliminary list of activities also includes ball hockey, roller skating, youth karate, team drop-in activities, meditation, low-impact fitness, art, dodge ball, badminton, basketball, as well as events such as an ice cream and art social. “Once you get outside the urban core, there isn’t much like this,” said John Marshall, president of the Canterbury Community Association. The list continues with family movie nights, a swap-andshop sports equipment exchange with the South Ottawa Little League and the Canterbury Hockey Association and shuffleboard for seniors. “We know there’s a need more facilities in the area, in the ward and in Alta Vista,” Marshall said, adding the Canterbury Hockey Association is

would be very expensive given its electrical constraints. “That could not be updated without a huge investment, and to do that would have meant either tearing down the (indoor) pool or eliminating one of the baseball diamonds or removing the park,” said Cloutier, whose idea echoes a similar facility in Toronto’s Leslieville community. The Greenwood Park Skating Facility opened in 2013. Canterbury’s new rink will mean relocating 22 parking spots between the arena and the pool. “So we are losing 22 spots there, but by re-configuring the front of the pool area we are producing those 22 parking spots (elsewhere on the site),” he said, adding that the change will translate into six handicapped parking spots located much closer to the pool. PRICE TAG

To pay for Ottawa’s first outdoor covered rink, the cost will be divvied up, with $2.5 million coming from development charges – the maximum allowable amount, as well as $400,000 in user fees, which includes at least $15,000 a year for a decade from the Canterbury Community Association, and from sponsorships. “We might sell some naming rights to this facility,” said Cloutier. “We have been speaking with the Sens Foundation, for example. We don’t have an agreement yet.” Another $2.9 million will come from a ward-wide levy, which works out to about $16 per household each year for 10 years. This mirrors the levy that south Alta Vista households have been paying annually over the past decade to offset the cost of an expanded Canterbury Recreation Centre. That levy expires this year, as does the $30,000 bill the association was paying annually to fund it. “If we didn’t go this route, this project wouldn’t be built, and I’m willing to bet that this community feels that this project provides really good value,” Cloutier said. See PROJECT, page 13

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Project will go before council in April Continued from page 12

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The Canterbury community may become home to Ottawa’s first outdoor covered rink within another year and a half, pending city approvals. rightfully so – at the political committee level at finance and economic development,” Cloutier said, adding that any member of the public can address that committee in April. Public feedback can be submitted until the end of February. Following that, the application will go before the finance and economic development committee on April

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Once crews knocked out the blaze two hours later at about 2 p.m., they remained on scene in case any remaining hot spots reignited. About 20 firefighters from various stations were involved in fighting the fire at the height of the emergency. No civilians or firefighters were injured in the incident. A verification of the fire department’s records reveal staff had visited that home in 2006 and determined its smoke detectors were functional. Though no one was home at the time of the fire and the department doesn’t know if the alarms were operational when the flames broke out, Tracey said the incident serves as an important reminder. “Smoke alarms do have a 10-year life,” he said. “So in addition to replacing the batteries in the spring and the fall when you change your clocks, we want them also to be, at 10 years, replacing all their smoke alarms.”

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Newly signed Ottawa RedBlacks players, from left, Trevor Harris, Arnaud Gascon-Nadon and Brendan Gillanders take part in a press conference at TD Place on Feb. 12. Both Harris and Gillanders come to the RedBlacks from the Toronto Argonaults and Gascon-Nadon comes from the Hamilton Tigercats. me Elizondo served as the receivers coach in Toronto last year. RedBlacks general manager Marcel Desjardins said when a signed player also happens to be local, it’s an added bonus. “The first criteria will always be finding the best players,” Desjardins said at a Feb. 12 press conference at TD Place. “But when those best players that are available to use happen to have a connection to the city or

the area, it’s a nice add-on for us – both on the field in terms of the fans being able to have a better sense of knowing those players, but also from the player’s standpoint, to be able to reach out into the community as well.” Two other CFL players were introduced to the RedBlacks’ fan base at the press conference: Arnaud Gascon-Nadon from the Hamilton Tigercats and Gillanders’ former Argos teammate, quarterback

Trevor Harris. “I think he does some things that you guys haven’t even seen yet,” Harris said of Gillanders. “He can run the football out of the back field really well too, and he catches passes really well. He’s one of those guys you never need to give a kick in the rear for effort.” FREE AGENTS

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The American player took over for injured Argonauts quarterback Ricky Ray last year, and made an impression. He met with the RedBlacks starting quarterback, Burris, earlier in the morning on Feb. 12. “I think we both realize that it’s not about him, it’s not about me, it’s about the mission that we’re on and I think that mindset will help drive everything,” Harris said of joining the RedBlacks.

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ather was sitting on the bench at the back door. The washbasin and soap dish had been placed on the floor underneath, and beside Father’s feet was the shoebox. It was made of wood, and had the shape of a shoe sole tilted on one side. This is where Father placed his foot when he wanted to put a shine to his Sunday boots. He removed from inside, the piece of rubber, and a baking powder tin that had holes punched in the bottom, which he would use to scrape the spot where the rubber would go, when it was cut into the right size for a patch to be glued on to the galoshes or gum rubbers he was working on. I tried not to look at the galoshes on the floor beside him. These were the very same galoshes Father had tried to patch a couple weeks before Christmas. The memory of that night was one I would be a long time erasing from my mind. I thought as the winter wore on, I might be

MARY COOK Memories able to forget that night, but I couldn’t. I had seen the beautiful doll one day in the dime store, and I could talk of nothing else when I got home. I even wrote Santa a letter asking if he might consider putting the doll under our Christmas tree. That night, as I raved on about the doll, and said how much I longed for it, it was then Father held up Mother’s worn galoshes and said, if Santa had any heart he would bring new galoshes for Mother. And then, like a miracle the doll had appeared that Christ-

mas morning under the tree. And there were no new galoshes for Mother. And now, every time I watched Father working on our galoshes and rubber boots, hoping to get a bit more wear out of them by gluing on rubber patches, my mind reeled back to that fateful night when I begged for the doll. I thought, if I didn’t watch Father, maybe I could forget about the sacrifice that was made, and stop wondering how Santa knew about that beautiful doll, and how it ended up under our tree. And as the winter wore on, Mother wore those old galoshes,

patches on top of patches and there was never enough money to replace them. So I got to praying. I prayed that it would be a short winter, that the patches would hold onto the galoshes, and I even prayed that I would stop fretting about how Santa brought me the doll and no new galoshes for Mother. And that night, as I watched Father once again try to repair what looked to me beyond fixing, I wondered how much more wear Mother would get out of them, and how Renfrew County could possibly handle one more snow flake! Old Herman said it was the worst winter he had ever seen. Mother’s shoes fitted inside the galoshes, and there was a strip of tattered fur around their tops covering the laces down to the toes. I thought they were probably as old as I was. And they were black; as black as night. As hard as I tried, I couldn’t stop watching Father working away at the galoshes. And then he reached into his back pocket and took out a pair of brand new black laces. He took out the old laces and worked in the new ones, tying a knot at

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They way police forces interact with members of the public could change following a planned update of the province’s Police Services Act. That was the message delivered by Yasir Naqvi, minister of community safety and correctional services, on Feb. 12. Reducing encounters that result in incarceration or hospitalization is at the heart of the Strategy for a Safer Ontario. The proposal foresees collaborative partnerships with health and social services, as well as modernized training, as keys to the improvements. Province-wide consultations kick off on Feb. 18 for what would be the first update to the act since it was written in 1990.

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Naqvi said crucial lessons were learned during the Ottawa Police Service’s one-year Multiagency Early Risk Intervention Tables initiative, which sought better outcomes for vulnerable people when they interact with police. “What we’re seeing in Ottawa with MERIT is a pilot, and what we’re talking about is making a practice across the province,” said Naqvi. “This is a great example of creating a co-ordinated approach of early intervention – looking at chronic circumstances and instead of treating it individually, we’d work collectively to provide better services.” The plan would create a model – backed by legislation – that would require communities to develop community safety and well-being plans, as well as create situation tables like those used in MERIT. Naqvi’s ministry has funded numerous policing pilot projects over the past two years to gauge results and develop best practices. “The results have been very compelling – very similar to (Ottawa’s pilot),” said Naqvi. A framework for policing in First Nations communities would also be part of the changes. The province’s policing initiative doesn’t exist in a vacuum, however. Recent high-profile media coverage of policing troubles – including the Sammy Yatim

case in Toronto – has illustrated a need for a different approach in dealing with the public. As well, horror stories about the continued lack of mental health resources for young people abound. All of these factors can conspire to create an extra burden on already-overworked jails and medical facilities. “We’re looking at many different factors in our development of a strategy,” said Naqvi. “In order for us to continue to have effective community-based policing, there needs to be a strong level of trust and respect between (police and public) … Some of the pillars we’ll be consulting on are around how can we better use technology in the way policing is provided? What changes do we need to do for training? How can we put more emphasis on de-escalation before any kind of use of force? “All of those elements are being considered as part of our consultation, to ensure that we really are putting forward a policing model … that is rooted in evidence we have now.” TEAMWORK

When pressed on what form the police response would take in the event of a call involving a distressed individual, Naqvi referenced a now-permanent project in Hamilton that saw officers paired with social workers as an example. “Whenever a call came in for a mental health crisis, that particular mobile crisis response unit … (was) able to use their respective expertise to help deal with the situation,” said Naqvi, adding that in the majority of situations the team encountered, the distressed individual didn’t need to go to the hospital. “The challenge upon us now is how do we encapsulate all that information? What kind of legislative changes do we need to make to move forward with those changes, so that it becomes part of the way we do policing?” Public meetings will be held in eight Ontario cities to introduce the initiative, with feedback accepted through the www.ontario. ca website. Ottawa’s turn to speak up about policing comes April 2, during a two-hour consultation held at the Ottawa South Community Centre, 260 Sunnyside Ave., from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

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Minister Steven Del Duca. “Providing better incentives for electric vehicles will help consumers and businesses make the transition to more sustainable vehicles, and keep Ontario at the forefront of the clean, green economy.” Del Duca has said the province will now allow EV drivers to use high-occupancy vehicle lanes on 400-series highways, even if there is only one occupant in the car. Once high-occupancy toll lanes become operational in the province, EV drivers will be able to use those lanes for free. The incentives also address the need for better infrastructure to power the province’s growing EV fleet. Home and business owners can receive a $1,000 incentive for the installation of EV charging stations. Last December, the province withdrew $20 million from the same fund to boost the number of public charging stations. With files from Torstar News Service

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Residents have until Feb. 29 to submit their feedback on the city’s draft proposal on coach houses – backyard dwellings, more commonly referred to as granny flats. The proposal is part of 2011 provincial legislation that said all municipalities must include the dwellings in their official plan. The city posted a questionnaire last summer, asking residents a variety of questions in an attempt to gauge public interest. But Alta Vista Community Association president Clinton Cowan said he wants to see the city take a pause. If a new zoning bylaw is passed, Ottawa will be the first large municipality to allow them. “I don’t know why we have to be the first one to do it,” Cowan said, adding Ottawa could benefit from seeing how the structures are implemented in other cities. City planner Emily Davies said based on the comments from residents, most seemed concerned with privacy – including concerns regarding height and windows. “They didn’t want windows overlooking the neighbouring property,”

who worked with staff on a bylaw to better control rooming houses around Algonquin College, said he thinks coach houses could complement the existing rules. He said it would give homeowners an additional option – rather than carving up existing homes to rent out rooms. Chiarelli said he has some concerns; for example the number of responses. There were 436 questionnaires filled out, and he didn’t feel it was representative. “The people that filled them out seemed to have a vested interest,” he said. The figures do seem to bear that out, with 60 per cent of respondents saying they would be interested in building a coach house FILE and another 21 per cent answering The city is debating coach houses this month. Residents have until Feb. maybe. Davies said the number of ques29 to submit their feedback on the city’s draft proposal. tionnaires were not “statistically significant.” square metres. Davies said. “It was a tool to get public feedWater and sewer servicing would Coach houses will be allowed on back,” she said. lots with detached, semi-detached come from the main house. While Davies said the city hasn’t and linked homes – except in rural areas where properties are on well set a minimum lot size, there are OLDER GENERATION rules about setbacks that prohibit water and septic tanks. The house can’t be bigger than the use of a townhouse lot for a Chiarelli said the idea will support 40 per cent of the size of the main coach house. the older generation, many of whom College Coun. Rick Chiarelli, are looking to downsize but want house, up to a maximum of 95

to stay in the same neighbourhood. But he wants to work out some rules around occupancy and parking. “You wouldn’t want the whole team living there, thinking it is the coach’s house,” he said in jest. Cowan also said there’s more he would like to see in the proposal – namely maximum heights, rather than storeys. Right now the structures would be limited to one storey, either on the ground, or a storey over the garage. “You can get pretty creative with one storey if you’re building a loft,” he said. There are also no locational limitations to the structures, meaning an area like Pleasant Park – with lots that are 30 meters deep – may be targeted for construction. Cowan said Alta Vista is a community where the front doors are on the street and people know their neighbours, and he worries that dynamic might change if new units in the back of houses are built. Davies said she will meet with community associations throughout the city as part of the process. Based on comments, staff will compile a final proposal that will be open for comment for 30 days, from the end of March into April.

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Lisa Nasu-Yu left Ottawa last August to start a new job. Now she’s excited to come back home this month to show her friends and family what she’s been up to. She’s coming home from Feb. 24 to 28 to perform daily at the Canadian Tire Centre with the cast of the travelling ice show Disney on Ice Celebrates 100 Years of Magic. “I’m really excited to be able to show my friends and family what I’m actually doing,” said NasuYu, a figure skater who has trained with two Ottawa clubs. “I’ve had so much support from them to get here, so to be able to let them see my work and the show is really exciting.” Nasu-Yu, 18, has been on the road with her Disney on Ice cast mates since the show’s current tour started in September, 2015. While touring, the show’s 49 performers travel from one city to the next in a convoy of four tour busses, covering an average distance of 600 kilometres between each tour stop. By the end of their 2015-16 tour, the cast and 20 staff

and crew members will have covered about 20,000 km travelling to 33 cities in Canada and the United States, mostly by bus. Despite the near-constant travel, Nasu-Yu said she’s adjusting to her new lifestyle, and is even learning to enjoy it. “It definitely took a while to get used to the travelling and everything, just figuring out how to pack your suitcases for every city,” she said. “But everyone’s been really helpful. I’ve learned a lot and I think I’ve found my place. It’s great that we get to explore all the different cities with our tour family.” The show begins with a parade of 50 classic and modern characters – including Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and an ensemble of Disney princesses – led by Mickey Mouse. Then, in two acts, it celebrates Disney’s legacy with high-energy musical tributes to 14 classic and new stories. Its team of international figure skaters glides, spins and dances its way through more than 30 choreographed song, including Let it Go, You’ve Got A Friend in Me and Hakuna Matata. During each show, Nasu-Yu

undergoes three transformations as an ensemble skater, becoming a green army man for the Toy Story song You’ve Got a Friend in Me, a turtle for the Finding Nemo song Turtle Rock, and a bride for the Mulan song Honor to Us All. “My favourite part of the show would have to be the Mulan production,” she said. “It’s really great to see Mulan out there. She’s beautiful and graceful but powerful at the same time.” Before joining the cast of Disney on Ice in 2015, Nasu-Yu trained at the Nepean Skating Club and the south Ottawa Minto Skating Club, and skated competitively with Skate Canada. Despite breaking her leg in 2009, in 2011 she was named the Canada Winter Games pre-novice champion and earned a silver medal at the Pre-Novice Canadian Figure Skating Championships that year. With her latest, more theatrical venture, she said she feels like she can enjoy the best of both worlds. “It’s really different from competitive (skating) I guess,” she said. “It’s professional but we’re not fighting for things, it’s just more fun. You get to skate while having fun and exploring, so it’s perfect.”

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

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through to find his dinner; or create interactive challenges for your dog by hiding a treat under one of several covers, and praising him when he finds it. Outings Next time you’re heading out to your local pet store or animal shelter, take your dog with you. He’ll be excited to get out of the house, see and sniff new people and animals, and show off some of his good manners and obedience training in hopes of coming home with a new toy or treat. Join a class Take your dog’s training to the next level by joining a new obedience or agility class. This will provide a regular outing for both you and your dog to look forward to each week, and give you new interactive tricks to practice together at home. Plan a FUN outdoor activity Find a scenic, pet-friendly location for snow shoeing, cross-country skiing, or winter hiking. Invite some friends along to make for an enjoyable group activity. Spice up “the walk” Alternate between walking and jogging with your dog every 10 minutes or so. This will help keep things interesting for your pup, and it will help keep both of you feeling warmer while you’re out. Pausing the walk for snowball fetch is another exciting activity for your dog, and you don’t have to worry about favourite dog toys getting lost in the snow! Pet of the Week: Lily (ID# A185939) Meet Lily (ID# A185939), a playful and energetic girl looking for her purr-fect match. Lily is a pretty brown tabby that loves to play. She can spend hours batting around her favourite wand toy. When she’s done playing, she’ll curl up beside you on the couch for a relaxing evening. Lily would prefer to be the only cat in the home so she can have all of the love and attention to herself. She loves making new friends, so come to the shelter to meet her today! For more information on Lily and all the adoptable animals, stop by the OHS at 245 West Hunt Club Rd Check out our website at www.ottawahumane.ca to see photos and descriptions of the animals available for adoption.

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

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There’s still a lot of work to be done to deal with the obesity problem in Canada, said Sherry Nigro, who’s in charge of health promotion and disease prevention for Ottawa Public Health. Nigro, who presented the department’s Healthy Eating, Active Living initiative to the Ottawa Board of Health on Feb. 8, said obesity costs Canadians $5.8 billion in direct and indirect health care costs annually. The public health plan to engage the public and encourage healthy eating and active living includes community partnerships and addressing people’s physical and social environments to make exercise fun and convenient. Nigro said one of the key areas where public health can work on improvements is with food retailers. The province passed Bill 45 – the Making Healthier Choices Act – in 2015, and part of the work of OPH will be to work with food retailers with more than 20 outlets to help them get ready for the requirements of the new legis-

lation, which addresses things like food labelling. Nigro said it’s also important that OPH work with corner stores. “Traditionally corner stores have more processed foods with higher sugar counts,” Nigro said, adding that about a third of the city’s neighbourhoods would be considered low on the socio-economic scale. Not surprisingly, these neighbourhoods are home to half of the city’s corner stores, Nigro said. “We can help with labelling of foods and encouraging more produce and healthier options,” Nigro said. Another part of the initiative is working with organizations like Just Food. Nigro said organizers are also working with the city’s planning and growth department, and public works, to advance the city’s natural and built environments to encourage walking and cycling. “Studies show spending time in nature has health benefits,” she said. Obesity rates in the capital remain largely unchanged from 2011 to 2015, dipping from 52 to 47 per cent, said Nigro.

“Is that statically significant? No,” she said, adding it will take time to change people’s habits. Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury worried the city’s plan encompassed too many elements. “It’s all important, but that’s a lot to focus on and something may get lost,” he said. But the city’s chief officer of health, Dr. Isra Levy, said there’s a smorgasbord of issues to be dealt with. “The answers are not easy. The cancers of overconsumption and under activity are multi-generational,” he said. “It’s hard changing the culture – behaviours are ingrained and even when we do, change is slow to come and the impact is slow to be measured.” Nigro said health promotion will get us there, but in some cases we have to start from scratch. “It’s a bit like reverse engineering,” she said. She said that the guidelines to child care centres that include things like, there don’t have to be birthday cakes for every child’s birthday were met with scepticism, but it’s the younger generation we want to impact.

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Brockington after he was elected. He received 80 submissions from residents last fall. “We are firm on it’s going be to low and medium density, residential,” he said, adding building heights would be capped at six storeys and the lot is serviceable. According to the request for interest document, the city first purchased the land from the Ottawa-

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Public health boards at risk under proposed change: consultant Province plans regional health-care model Jennifer McIntosh jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com

Local public health capacity could be at risk, Dr. Brent Moloughney told the Ottawa Board of Health on Feb. 8. Provincial Minister of Health and Long-Term Care Eric Hoskins released a discussion paper in December, entitled Patients First: A Proposal to Strengthen Patient-Centred Health Care in Ontario. The proposal would see medical officers of health

and public health services funded and integrated under the control of Local Health Integration Networks. Right now LHINs plan and fund local health care. Ottawa is part of the Champlain LHIN, which covers much of eastern Ontario. There are 14 LHINs across the province. Critics say the LHINs never lived up to their names because they didn’t truly integrate health-care services. Moloughney, who works as a public health consultant, said it’s difficult to give specifics on the situation because the discussion paper is so high level. He said the context is different than regional health authorities across the country, though there are examples of the public health boards being stripped and

a loss of funding to public health. “Public health focus can shift to delivery of services, which can include a net re-

public health, the discussion paper puts community care access centres – which deal with in-home care and other support services – under the

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

duction in public health capacity,” he said. GAPS

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

purview of the LHINS. The idea is to make the expanded regional health networks accountable directly to the ministry. The Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario made a statement in December calling for public health departments to be connected

to LHINs. The statement said the proposal is the next phase of the health system and evolution and lauds the idea of bringing all parts of the health system under a single jurisdiction for planning and performance reporting. “The organizations (public health boards) are focused on understanding whole communities to prevent sickness and the spread of communicable diseases,” the Dec. 18 statement reads. “Public health professionals analyze communities to identify and monitor health risks, and target public education and other programs to promote health wellness and illness prevention within a population.” Moloughney said the best example of the regional health authority practice is

in Saskatoon. “They have to have the epidemiological capacity,” he said. In light of Moloughney’s presentation, the board opted to write a letter to the minister making recommendations about any health system transformation. The letter will include a direction to maintain independent governance and authority for public health boards, protect public health funding, enhance public health capacity and integrate population health priorities, assessment and surveillance. Dr. Atul Kapur, a member of the Ottawa Public Health board, said there should be a whole government approach to health. “Social determinants of health are determined at a municipal level,” he said.

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Building height cap of Elmvale Acres mall clarified Erin McCracken

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Alta Vista’s councillor has clarified that the Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre site is currently zoned to allow buildings up to six storeys tall, and not 12 storeys. The clarification comes just as the newly established Elmvale Acres Community Association is fleshing out a survey that its volunteer directors will soon be posting on the group’s website to garner feedback from local residents about RioCan’s proposed redevelopment of the mall. In a previous interview regarding the plan, Alta Vista Coun. Jean Cloutier said the site is currently zoned for up to 12 storeys. That was in reference to 12-storey maximum building heights outlined in an official plan amendment that was passed by the city’s planning committee and, subsequently, by council in August 2014. However, that amendment is under appeal by developers,

who argue that is too restrictive, said Cloutier. “Really, what they want is more height and more density,” he said. “Given that rezoning as an arterial main street, caps the height at 12 storeys, and it also says heights of nine storeys will predominate – and the tallest buildings up to 12 storeys could be considered,” Cloutier said of the changes in the official plan amendment. He said the appeal hasn’t been heard by the Ontario Municipal Board yet, which means the previous version of the official plan still stands. “Right now current zoning applies,” he said, referring to six-storey building heights. The zoning is an important issue for Elmvale Acres residents, some of whom have already been speaking out about the proposed redesign of the shopping centre at 1910 St. Laurent Blvd. Building heights are just one of the main concerns, along with traffic and parking, as expressed at a recent meet-

ing held by the association on the proposed overhaul, which features the addition of rental apartment buildings. “It’s a concern for different people for different reasons,” said Kevin Kit, association president. Property owner RioCan is seeking to overhaul several of its shopping centres across Canada, including the Elmvale Acres site, where the company hopes to construct four rental apartment buildings in phases over the next 20 to 25 years, along with several changes to the mall itself. The buildings would be nine, 12, 22 and 26 storeys tall, if RioCan is successful in its application to the city. For residents living along Othello Avenue, which is a north-south route that runs along the west side of the shopping centre at the back, privacy will be impacted since tenants in the new apartment buildings would be able to see down into homeowners’ yards, Kit said. One Othello Avenue resi-

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This image shows the proposed full build-out for the redevelopment of the Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre, owned by RioCan. dent told Kit she worries because she has a swimming pool in her yard. “With small kids she was somewhat uncomfortable with that idea (of nearby high rises), so I understand,” he said. Potential shadows cast by the towers on nearby homes

“is something our association is worried about as well, with regard to building heights,” Kit added. The community association is planning to hold its next public meeting about its survey and the RioCan development on Sunday, Feb. 28, at 1

p.m., at St. Aidan’s Anglican Church, at 934 Hamlet Rd. It’s expected that an online public survey will be launched following that meeting. For details about the meeting, go to elmvaleacres.org. For details about the proposal go to jeancloutier.com.

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Feb. 27

The Ottawa branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society invites you to two presentations by author and speaker Jennifer DeBruin on Feb. 27. First, from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. our monthly Genealogy: Back to Basics lecture will focus on “Discovering and Sharing Our History - Our Story.” And from 1 to 3 p.m., the discussion will be on “Captive Ancestors of North America.” Everyone is welcome to the free events, which take

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