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A nine-question tool on fainting developed by a team of Ottawa researchers is expected to save lives by helping uncover potentially life-threatening health problems.

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The screening tool – which will be made available to doctors online and in an app – is the product of the world’s first comprehensive study on fainting that was launched five years ago.

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Red carpet welcome in south Ottawa U.S. President Barack Obama, left, walks the red carpet at the Ottawa International Airport with Gov. Gen. David Johnston after Air Force One touched down on June 29 ahead of the North American Leaders’ Summit and Obama’s highly anticipated speech in the House of Commons. For more summit coverage, turn to pages 26-28.

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A motorcyclist was transported to hospital with serious injuries after the bike and a car collided on Walkley Road where it

the trauma centre at the Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus, where he was listed in critical condition upon arrival, Deschamps said.

The driver of the car involved in the collision was not injured.

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After several months of delay, lifecycle repairs to the Walkley Road Transitway overpass were scheduled to resume July 4 following the hiring of a new contractor.

Lischer Construction will now complete the job left half done by Ottawa-based Dalcon Enterprises, which was fired by the city last December for breach of contract after the repair job experienced a string of delays. “The remaining work was covered under bond, which means taxpayers didn’t get the shaft on this one,� said River Coun. Riley Brockington, whose ward includes the overpass. He raised questions with staff about the first round of work last September.

The $2-million project, which got underway last June and also included repairing a Sawmill Creek culvert liner, was to have been completed by the middle of last November. However, the contractor advised the city that same month it wasn’t able to finish the job.

Also that month, Dalcon filed its intent to declare bankruptcy.

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The city had already paid out about $452,000, not including taxes, to Dalcon for any finished work. “The city paid for the work that was done

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Any additional costs above the contract price of $1.4 million, before taxes, required to finish the project were expected to be covered by the bonding company, Jeff Byrne, the city’s chief procurement officer, told Metroland Media last year. The bond is worth half the value of the contract.

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Foolish Shakespeare to bring laughter to local parks Michelle Nash Baker michelle.nash@metroland.com

A foolish group will be taking over a park near you this summer.

The Company of Fools begins its Torchlight Shakespeare – Shakespeare Under the Stars on July 4

at Strathcona Park in Sandy Hill.

This year the theatre group will be performing The Amazing Adventures of Pericles, Prince of Tyre.

Directed by new artistic director, Catriona Leger, the outdoor production promises to delight audi-

ences with the company’s 13th summer performance.

“Pericles is an epic adventure story with exciting plot twists and a huge variety of characters,” Leger said.

“It’s classified as a ‘romance’ and was written in the latter years of Shake-

45 characters in the play, which will be represented by six Fools.

Ottawa favourites Pierre Brault, Mary Ellis, Al Connors will be returning and newcomers Jennifer Cecil, Mahalia Golnosh-Tahririha and Mekdes Teshome have been added to the

speare’s life. Given that Pericles is rarely produced – I’m told there was a production at the NAC back in the 1980s — I thought it would be an exciting opportunity for Fools fans to have a new story brought to their neighbourhood.”

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“This year we have a new cast of established and emerging artists, bringing diversity to the Torchlight Shakespeare stage and the neighbourhoods that the tour visits,” Leger said.

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Leger added that while Pericles is a romance, it is also full of humour and ridiculous situations – such as pirate kidnappings, shipwrecks, bringing the “dead” back to life — so she promises people will be able to count on the fact that this show will embody the whimsical nature of the Fools.

“This show will absolutely live up to the Foolish expectations of our audiences,” Leger said.

“With a cast of six actors playing over 45 characters, you can rest assured that our signature colourful, lightening quick costume changes are going to be an integral part of this show.”

In addition to quick costume changes, there will be an original musical score created by Mishelle Cuttler and Core Fool.

Vanessa Imeson made the costumes and puppets and set design was created by Great Canadian Theatre Company’s Stephanie Dahmer Brett, who has created imagery that is reminiscent of a sea soaked, sun drenched fantastical Mediterranean voyage.

Company of Fools is a professional theatre company which has been around since 1990, and even though there are only six actors on stage, Leger said more than 20 people have contributed to putting Pericles together behind the scenes.

“People often ask what we do if it rains — rain or shine, the show must go on. Even if the forecast calls for rain, we always go to the park and set up for the show,” Leger said.

At 7 p.m., if there is an audience who is willing to sit through the rain, the cast will perform.

“We find that many people are content to sit under umbrellas to take in the show and some of our most special performances come out of these unique experiences,” she said.

“In the 13 years of Torchlight Shakespeare, we have only cancelled a very small handful of shows. The call to cancel is made at 7 p.m., once everything is set up and the show is about to start, and it is only cancelled if the downpour is extremely heavy or lightening is directly overhead.”

The show will run until August 20 and all performances are pay what you can, with a suggested donation of $15 to $20 per person. The shows start at 7 p.m.

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Snow removal meeting called Erin McCracken erin.mccracken@metroland.com

Complaints among River Ward residents over a report recommending a new snow-clearing threshold has prompted the councillor to call a public meeting.

Coun. Riley Brockington said his office has fielded a number of concerns after city staff recently pitched the idea

that snowplows should only be deployed when snow accumulates to 10 centimetres, rather than the current sevencentimetre threshold. The idea was suggested as a costsaving measure.

“The City of Ottawa has been providing above-average service when you compare it to other municipalities,” Brockington said, but noted that residents are worried

about not being able to get around on city streets and sidewalks as a result.

The meeting happens July 12 at 7 p.m. at the Hunt ClubRiverside Park Community Centre. It will not take place if the transportation committee rejects the change at its July 6 meeting. Call Brockington’s office at 613-580-2486 or go to rileybrockington.ca for an update.

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Lanes will be closed during bridge project Continued from page 3

“The city is working with the bonding company to ensure the project is completed in 2016,” Carina Duclos, city manager of design and construction, recently said in an emailed statement.

TRAVEL TIMES IMPACTED

The delays last fall caused frustration among some motorists, who complained to Brockington that travel times were increased by Walkley Road lane closures near the work site, especially when it became apparent that no work was being done.

Once the contract with Dalcon was terminated by the city, the lanes were reopened, and the Transitway stairwell access points that had been cordoned off were also reopened.

But with the project now back on, those lanes will once again be closed to allow work to resume. Brockington acknowledged that motorists will be impacted.

“The issue is, it’s going into Year Two now, which is an inconvenience for people who use that strip because we’re going from two lanes down to one (on each side of four-lane Walkley

Road),” he said.

However, it’s not an impossible situation, he added.

“That’s actually a precursor to Walkley Road being narrowed if and when the (Airport Parkway) off-ramp goes in,” Brockington said, referring to plans to narrow Walkley Road West, between a roundabout that will be built at the western edge of the bridge and McCarthy Road to coincide with the widening of the parkway.

The work to be completed on the south side of the Walkley Road Transitway overpass will focus on the concrete link slabs that connect the bridge and the southeast and southwest transitway stairwell towers, and on the concrete columns beneath these connectors, replacing the bridge deck asphalt and waterproofing, as well as repairing the bridge deck, Duclos said.

The project is considered “routine maintenance,” Brockington said of the lifecyle work that will be done on the structure, which was built in 1972.

“To expedite construction, OC Transpo’s agreed that the two transit towers on the south side of Walkley will be closed with a temporary bus stop slightly to the west of the station (on the deck of the overpass),” the councillor said.

Para Transpo plans to widen eligibility criteria Jennifer McIntosh jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com

The city’s Para Transpo service will widen its doors to include passengers with non-physical disabilities.

The transit commission approved a number of staff recommendations on June 27 that change the service delivery model.

The reaction from public delegations was mixed.

Most were happy with the move to be more inclusive and accept passengers with intellectual disabilities, but took issue with contracted medical professionals making the call on their ability to use conventional OC Transpo service.

“No one is better able to assess my ability to use regular transit than me and my doctor,” Linda Paul said, adding most doctors are not familiar with her disease or its impact.

“How can these doctors be aware of every potential ailment and how it impacts people to use conventional service?” she asked.

Both Paul and Catherine Gardner said that Para Transpo’s service is inconvenient, citing booking issues and long wait times.

“I really don’t think there’s people abusing the system,” Paul said.

“If people can use conventional service, I think they would.”

OC Transpo GM John Manconi said the decision to use contracted medical professionals, as a tool to review the applications, was not about putting customers on the

spot.

“OC Transpo staff are not health-care professionals,” Manconi said, adding that contracting out the expertise makes sense.

Pat Scrimgeour, assistant general manger of customer systems and planning, said the bulk of applications will be approved based on the paperwork provided by the client,and that it’s only in the case of a question that an in-person assessment should take place.

Applicants should renew their eligibility every three years, the report recommends, as the transit system changes and can better suit the needs of clients with mobility issues.

The use of contracted medical professionals should be a “minor expense,” Scrimgeour said, and should be covered under Para Transpo’s existing budget.

The report estimates there will be 5,000 customer contacts per year, which Scrimgeour said will probably represent a cost of $250,000.

Para Transpo’s annual budget is $33 million.

LATE CANCELLATIONS

Another set of changes will be around the process for late cancellations and no shows.

Scrimgeour said that annually there are 25,000 late cancellations and 100,000 no shows.

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The city’s Para Transpo service will widen its doors to include passengers with non-physical disabilities. customers would be contacted and there would be a demerit system.

“The last we wanted to do was to bring recommendations that would put pressure on the budget,” Manconi said, adding the plan is a good balance.

“We need to take care of each other as a community and make sure all the options are used,” he said, adding Ottawa is the first North American city to have a fully accessible transit fleet.

City council will have to approve the recommendations before they are implemented.

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For years now the City of Ottawa, like cities across North America, has brought in all types of rules and regulations that, in essence, say to smokers you are not welcome here.

And it is now starting to feel as though drivers – those nasty people who reject being socially engineered into taking a bicycle everywhere they go and have no interest in jumping on public transit no matter how many bells and whistles the city’s future light rail system will have – are becoming the new smokers in this city.

A new city bylaw is expected to reduce the number of parking spots required for future developments in the inner urban core.

The city’s planning committee approved changes to the minimum-parking bylaw on June 28. It’s the first time the city has altered the bylaw since the 1960s.

Under the new rules, which go to council July 13, developments within a 400- to 800-metre walk from light rail stations would not have

to provide parking – except apartment buildings that have more than 12 units.

The availability of parking downtown will thus get even scarcer in the future. But apparently, over at city hall, that doesn’t matter since in the utopian view of some, we will all be happily going about our business on light rail or cycling our way through the urban jungle.

This goes along with the new sensors that the police department have to nab those horrible drivers who have the misfortune of driving within a metre of a cyclist on city streets.

Never mind that some streets in the core are so narrow that to keep a metre buffer zone from a cyclist means to not drive at all on those streets.

Yes, the war on the car as a means of transportation in Ottawa continues to roll on.

We’d suggest, with the way things are going, that the city just ban cars completely from the roads of Ottawa except for the suburbs.

But we fear that to make such a suggestion, even with tongue firmly in cheek, the social engineers over at city hall will take the suggestion seriously, and run, or in this case, pedal with it.Â

There has to be a better way to travel in the city

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eople do manage to get downtown in Ottawa, in their cars. And some of them even manage to get out of downtown Ottawa.

It’s a miracle that happens every day.

In the construction zone, that is the core of our city, there are faint signs that it might some day be over.

After tunnels are completed and tracks are laid and the Senate is safely moved into its new home and the National Arts Centre has finished dolling itself up and barring any massive new holes opening in the ground or visits from the President of the United States — then, and only then, can we return to normalcy, if anyone can remember what that looked like.

And that will be just in time for them to begin widening the Queensway again. Whoopee.

CHARLES GORDON Funny Town There is a plan for adding more lanes, going from three to four in a western stretch where it had previously narrowed from four to three, causing what the provincial government perceives as anguish to drivers.

Hating driver anguish, the government has decided to spend millions to widen the highway, a project that will last years and create havoc while it happens.

People may flee to downtown to escape it.

The number of millions has not been announced, but a widening project in the east, begun in 2013

and completed only recently, cost $226 million. So this one could cost at least that.

As you would expect, a considerable debate has arisen over this plan. It seems, critics say, to go completely against the prevailing mood about roads and transit.

For some years the conventional wisdom has been that public transit should take priority over road construction, that new roads only attract more drivers, thus causing increases in pollution, global warming etc.

There has even been wide acceptance of a theory that adding lanes creates more problems than it solves, that the temporary ease of driving brings more drivers onto the roads, eventually causing the new lanes to be as clogged as the old ones.

If that happens, there goes $226 million down the drain.

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The Ontario minister of energy, Ottawa’s own Bob Chiarelli, disputes that theory. “ ‌ We need to move beyond the over-simplified theory that every highway widening is a senseless idea,â€? he wrote in an opinion piece in an Ottawa daily newspaper. As the region has expanded, “so has the need for increased economic infrastructure,â€? he added.

Sure. But the widening project does seem to indicate a lack of confidence in the effectiveness of light rail in easing the city’s traffic problems.

And then there is the question of what happens while the construction is on. It was chaos in the east. An on-ramp will be eliminated and the effects of that on local traffic worry residents.

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kilometres in advance of the current narrowing, warning of a lane ending. That could be coupled with a course teaching drivers how to deal with lane changes and an advertising campaign urging people to take public transit — perhaps even with lower fares.

That would cost a lot less than $200 million.

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e are a camping family. If that makes us sound all healthy and sporty and cohesive as a unit, that’s precisely the point. But, as with many things in life, we don’t always live up to our own expectations.

The last two years, we’ve kind of camped ourselves out. Over time, our family and the size and number of equipment has grown. By the end of last summer, we weren’t heading out of town for a single overnight trip without a couple of kayaks, three tents, fishing rods, bicycles, a stroller and enough food to feed us three times over.

Tarps, ropes, knives, beach toys, rain gear, sun gear, multiple footwear options – you name it, we had it.

It sounds great, right? We’d want for nothing. We’d be prepared for any eventuality – to fish or not to fish?

But I started to dislike camping by the end of last

BRYNNA LESLIE Capital Muse year. Personally, I’d always been drawn to the activity due to its simplicity. Sure you had to cook and do dishes, but there was no tidying, no cleaning of toilets, and few things to distract one from enjoying whatever nature had to offer. As our gear list grew, however, it seemed like the campsite was always a mess.

I spent half my time shuffling things about, hanging things on the clothes line, trying to match up one of the 20 pairs of shoes.

Camping had become such a disappointment to me that I hadn’t pre-booked any

and simpler than it had been in years, which gave us more time to explore. A campfire ban meant there would be no cooking on a fire, but also no sitting around. Instead, evening and morning walks led to the discovery of deer and waylaid raccoons, and a grassy plain of hundreds of

fireflies. It was a fairy world.

We went to bed as soon as the sun went down and got up with the squawking of the crow. Time stood still as we played in the lake and on the beach, read books and talked to each other. Having less made us appreciate the things we did have and it made us happier.

Returning home on Sunday afternoon, I was struck by how much stuff there always is in the house. I’ve had

a long time goal to get rid of half of everything we own.

I’m constantly purging items and donating to charities, but despite my best efforts, we seem to acquire as fast as we shed.

Still, at least the joy of the family camping trip has been revived. We’re attempting another weekend at Mont Tremblant National Park. It looks like rain gear may be required, but we’re leaving the beach toys at home.

trips for the family this year by mid-June, much to the children’s disappointment.

With the impending heat wave, however, I finally broke down and booked two nights in Gatineau Park, just to test it out.

We decided to pack very simply — one tent, one change of clothes, a single pair of shoes. It was easier than it could’ve been because the weekend was forecast to be dry and hot, so extra blankets, rain gear and tarps could be left at home.

On our arrival, getting equipment out was faster

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Summer comes with a warning: check your drinking, health officials urge Jennifer McIntosh jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com

For some of us, summer means beach days and barbecues, but for public health officials it could mean risky drinking.

Jackie Kay-LePors, a public health nurse in the health promotion unit of Ottawa Public Health, said people are more likely to imbibe when the weather is warm.

The stats around visits to emergency rooms appear to bear that out.

She said annually there are between 20 and 25 emergency room visits related to alcohol use each Canada Day, followed by 15 to 18 on Labour Day and 13 to 16 on Halloween.

“We try to promote responsible drinking around those times, as well as New Year’s Eve, St. Patrick’s Day and the May long weekend,” KayLePors said.

She said most visits are at the Civic and General campuses of the Ottawa Hospital, followed by the Montfort

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Ottawa Public Health is warning Ottawans to keep their drinking in check this summer.

Hospital. A small number are seen at CHEO or the Queensway-Carleton Hospital. KayLePors added those aged 19 to 24 are at highest risk. The rate of ER visits in this age group is over twice that seen in the 25 to 44 age group.

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down the road, she added.

By answering the questions at www2.checkyourdrinking. net, residents can find out how many calories they consume in drink form annually, as well as estimated monthly spending on alcohol, their risk factors and how they relate to the norm.

“The survey can also be

the starting point to talking to your doctor,” Kay-LePors said, adding that the results can be emailed or printed out and given to your family doctor.

The city’s website has a section about alcohol and healthy living where a number of resources are available, including the check your drinking survey and Canada’s Low Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines.

The page ottawa.ca/en/residents/public-health/healthyliving/alcohol also busts some myths about drinking.

Kay-LePors said one of the most common urban legends is that drinking red wine is actually good for you, because it lowers your blood pressure.

“That one is an interesting urban legend,” she said, adding that studies show that small pockets of the population have shown some benefit, but when they put in all the control data there’s no overall benefit to drinking.

“There is no health reason for someone to start drinking if they don’t already,” she said.

Despite the information about the risks around binge drinking, many people still engage in risky behaviour.

Public health has been tabulating the information from the surveys since beginning to promote it four years ago. The numbers show that 73 per cent of young adults (25-35) reported heavy binge drinking over several months during the past year. KayLePors said that equals about 38,000 young men. Women in the same age range weren’t far behind, with 48 per cent, or 14,500 reporting the same thing.

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More troubling, said KayLePors is that stats indicate one in five of the city’s high school students reported binge drinking in the past month. Not surprisingly, the same number reported having gotten drunk in the past month.

Approximately 2,000 have participated in the survey, Kay-LePors said.

The results will be made public sometime in July.

“One of the concerns for people under the age of 25 is that their brains are still developing and there’s more risk of permanent damage as a result of risky behaviours,” she said.

According to the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, which published Canada’s Low Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines in 2012, women should limit themselves to 10 drinks per week, and no more than two drinks per day.

Men should stick to 15 drinks per week, and no more than three drinks per day. The guide also suggests planning non-drinking days every week to avoid forming a habit.

There are physiological reasons for the different amount of drinks based on gender, said Kay-LePors.

“Women’s bodies contain more fatty tissue and less water, so even if a man and woman are the same weight, she metabolizes alcohol differently,” Kay-LePors said.

But if you must imbibe, be safe, she said.

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The Ottawa Black Bears squared off against the Boston Night Riders on July 2 at Matt Antony Field in Sandy Hill.

The three-series match saw the Black Bears face tough American competition, but the Bears managed to keep the other Muggles at bay in a game originally created for J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter book series.

The game emulates that of the novels, with players “riding” brooms and attempting to score on three hoops at the end of the pitch. Adapted 10 years ago from the rules in the Harry Potter books, it's a co-ed contact sport that incorporates elements of basketball, rugby and dodgeball.

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Turmoil was a symptom of special visitor’s arrival

T

he house was in a turmoil again.

The whole place was upside down.

Mother was in a bad humour, ordering us around, Emerson said like a drill sergeant!

Even Father, who hardly ever got flustered, was all keyed up.

All because Father’s sister, Aunt Lizzie of the hand-me-down boxes from Regina, was coming for her annual visit.

She always came in the hottest month of the year, to make sure the old homestead was still standing.

Aunt Lizzie didn’t think Mother was good farmwife material, coming from New York and all.

Mother was out to prove her wrong!

Of course, Audrey and I had to give up our bed and sleep on the narrow creton couch in the kitchen.

MARY COOK Mary Cook’s Memories That meant the bedroom, which was really the large upstairs hall, had to be scrubbed within an inch of its life. Audrey had to stand on a chair, and using the broom, sweep the ceiling, which was only whitewashed over tar paper.

This was to make sure no flakes would fall on Aunt Lizzie’s face when she was in bed, as they often did for Audrey and me.

The feather mattresses, tickings and pillows had been thrown over the back fence and pounded with the broom within an inch of their lives.

Audrey said we wouldn’t

be going to that much trouble if the Queen of England was coming!

The kitchen, which was always spotless to begin with, was as clean as a whistle, and Mother, just to prove she knew a little more about being a farm wife than she was given credit for, had the bake table loaded down with sticky buns, homemade bread, freshly made pickles, raspberry preserves, and a basket full of newly picked tomatoes and cucumbers.

Aunt Lizzie rarely gave us notice of when she was coming, and more than once, we would get a call

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from the station in Renfrew that she had arrived. At least this time, a letter had arrived a week before telling us when she would be coming.

Of course, we five children would love to go into Renfrew to meet the train, but that would mean taking the flat bottomed wagon with the one seat, pulled by the team of horses. Aunt Lizzie wouldn’t like being paraded through her hometown on a flat bottomed wagon, hauled by a team of work horses.

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I was sure even bad Marguirite had never laid eyes on anything so exciting!

I didn’t care about all the work we had to go to, to get ready for Aunt Lizzie’s visit. I didn’t care that she wasn’t our favourite visitor to come to the farm at Northcote. I was too young to think beyond the wonderful gifts she would bring all the way from Regina.

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Safer Roads Ottawa’s Kale Brown said area bike shops

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Just because a car can pass a cyclist, doesn’t mean it’s legal – or safe.

Police recently launched an education campaign by demonstrating a new device that identifies drivers who don’t leave the mandatory one-metre buffer space when passing bicycles.

Drivers must give bikes at least a metre when passing, in keeping with the Highway Traffic Act, but it can be hard to measure while it’s actually happening. The new law passed on Sept. 1, 2015.

Bike patrol officers from central division showed off a device in downtown Ottawa on June 21 that connects to handlebars and uses sonar to detect when a car is too close.

It alerts the bike patrol officer when a car comes “90 centimetres or closer.”

Each sonar device costs about $1,000, but a bulk order can be less costly.

Police are warning people to make them aware of the

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A sonar detector is mounted on the handlebars of an Ottawa police patrol bike. The device helps alert police when a driver is operating too close to a bicycle. rule, especially in high traffic areas, before ticketing starts.

Legally, police are allowed to give a $180 ticket with two demerit points.

“We want to make sure that everyone knows that it’s something that we’re going to be ticketing for in the future, but this is all education,” said Const. Craig Barlow. “There’s definitely a grace period.”

Several cars were pulled

over downtown that had driven too close to the uniformed police officer on the bike.

Generally, patrol officers on bicycles wear uniforms and are easily identifiable as police.

“Regardless we still have people who pass too close to us,” Barlow said.

The cars pulled over at Somerset Street between Kent and Lyon streets didn’t

legally take the lane and don’t have to ride along the curb.

He said it’s especially important in areas where cars can park on the side of the road and cyclists are at risk of being hit by a car door.

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Secret police board committee meetings will now be advertised online with a list of topics and identified as public, following a vote by the Ottawa Police Services Board on June 27.

But the board failed to go one step further, getting rid of them completely and having

the discussions at the already open and advertised monthly board meetings.

Coun. Jan Harder, who sits on the board, asked members if they had considered completely abandoning the working groups and having those discussions at the board meetings.

“I think that’s something that should have been considered,” Harder said at the meet-

ing. “How did we get here so quickly?”

She suggested getting rid of the separate committees would bring more people out to the police board meetings because there would be more discussion and more information available for attendees and less rubber-stamping.

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Coun. Tim Tierny said presenters could be limited to the number of slides at regular board meetings to allow for more discussion, so everything gets done at the table.

But, board member Sandy Smallwood said staff find the committees helpful and they provide the arena for a more fulsome discussion between the chief of police, his staff and board members.

Board member Suzanne Valiquet agreed.

“It’s important we separate the meetings and have the opportunity to engage with staff,” she said.

Harder’s motion failed in a vote of 4-2 with only Harder and Tierny in favour.

The committees are comprised of three board members, and as a result no decisions can be made at that level.

According to a board report, the committees – complaints, finance and audit, human resources and policy and governance – met a total of eight times last year.

The board surveyed other

COUN. JAN HARDER jurisdictions to determine how they handled committee meetings and found that of 34 boards that responded 22 have committees. Eight of 20 respondents make their meetings open to the public and six keep detailed minutes.

The board approved the advertisement of the date, time and location of the meetings on its website.

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vide updates at regular board meetings.

A copy of the minutes with information about the essence of the subject, the outcome and a summary of the rationale for the outcome will also be provided.

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“We know meetings across the province are moving towards a more transparent and accountable model,” ElChantiry said following the meeting.

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The implementation of new street check regulations has some police board members questioning whether it goes too far and will obstruct future investigations.

Following a presentation about a provincial regulation banning random street checks – also known as carding, announced on March 22 – Coun. Jan Harder asked if the rules go too far.

“This is all nice that some bureaucrat and elected person in Ontario came up with this, but really we care about the people in this city. Has this gone too far?” Harder asked.

“I would not want us ever to be in a position where because someone needs to add some rules to make them feel better that we are doing something that isn’t in the best interests of the people of this city.

Ottawa police Insp. Mark Patterson said the new regulations, which outline when police can and cannot ask for identification during face-toface encounters, only apply to random and arbitrary stops.

“The regulations are so strict, but it is manageable and

it all comes back to the training component,” Patterson said. “We want to be sure … that we continue to do our job.”

Patterson said the checks remain an important tool for preventing and solving crimes.

The new regulations keep police from randomly stopping people for street checks based on a person’s race or presence in a high-crime area, Patterson said.

The regulations put conditions on face-to-face encounters where identifying information is collected under certain circumstances, including when investigating criminal activity in a community, inquiring into suspicious activities to detect offences or

gathering information for intelligence purposes.

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has been committed.

Board member Suzanne Valiquet asked whether police officers are still encouraged to use their “spidey senses.”

Officers will have to remember the new protocols and that will change how they interact with people face-to-face, Patterson said.

“The officer has to remember if they are stopping a person, they have to have a reason for that; it’s not just suspicious activity,” he said.

During street checks, officers must inform the person of their right not to provide identification and provide a reason for the request – which can’t be arbitrary. The request for ID cannot be based on the person declining to answer a question or attempting to get out of the interaction, or be based on race.

Those stopped in street checks must be offered a doc-

ument with the officer’s name and badge number and police must take detailed records about each interaction.

Officers require training on the rules for the checks by Jan. 1, 2017. The Ontario Police College is leading the design and development of the eighthour training sessions, which will have to be renewed every three years.

All of the Ottawa police force’s 1,400 officers need training, with topics ranging from racism and discrimination to bias awareness and the right not to provide information. Training will be prioritized, beginning with frontline officers, Patterson said.

The regulation also outlines how obtained information is

reviewed and managed. The chief of police must also compile an annual report of the number of times street checks were completed, demographic information and how many times it was found officers did not comply with the new rules.

Following the new rules will cost the police service, but how much is still unknown.

Director general of the police service Debra Frazer said the costs are unexpected because the regulations hadn’t been released when preparing this year’s budget. The costs are associated with training, information management and reporting. “We will do our best to balance the budget, but this is the year of unexpected costs,” she said.

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Marc André Way, vicepresident of Coventry Connections, said staff at the taxi headquarters will work to accommodate the 137 taxi drivers who drove under the airport taxi banner.

The Ontario Labour Relations Board decision, published on June 27, proposes splitting the 137 plates between Blueline Taxi and Capital Taxi.

Labour board vice-chair Matthew Wilson made the decision following the case management hearing on June 21.

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“In my view, as expressed to the parties with their consent that, given the fact that the work of the Ottawa airport was divided between two taxi companies, the most appropriate and equitable way to resolve these matters was to have an appropriate division of plates and drivers between the two companies,” the decision reads.

The phasing in of the drivers was to begin a week after the decision.

On the basis of seniority, which will be provided to Coventry and Metro (which owns Capital Taxi) by Unifor, the union that represents more than 2,500 Ontario taxi operators, drivers will have the option of joining Blueline, up to a maximum of 95. After that,

the remaining drivers will be given the option to join Capital Taxi.

“We are reviewing the decision and digesting the details,” Way wrote in an email. “We will be accommodating the drivers over a 30-day period and will be honouring the decision of vice-chair Wilson.”

The resolution is a long time coming.

Unifor Local 1688 represented the airport taxi drivers bargaining unit until they went to work for Coventry Connections directly in December. This was after the union alleged the company had engaged in an illegal lockout in August.

As a result of the decision, cabbies picking up fares will have to pay a $5 pick-up fee – the very thing that sparked the strike in August.

That fee will increase to $5.05 by July 1, then $5.11 the next year and $5.16 in 2018.

Standard rents for the sign for drivers under the Blueline banner will be reduced to $385 per month, the decision reads.

The strike action started Aug. 1 when drivers stopped paying dispatch fees, but continued to pick up riders at the airport. By Aug. 11, Coventry said drivers who didn’t pay their fees couldn’t pick up airport passengers.

In December, the union claimed the dispute was settled when drivers went to work for Coventry directly.

A labour board decision on May 19 quotes an email from

Harry Ghadban, the eastern Ontario director for Unifor, in which he states the union abandoned its bargaining rights. “…This is notice that the union Unifor and its Local 1688 wholly and unconditionally abandons and renounces its rights as the bargaining agent for the bargaining unit…” the email reads.

The union assumed the matter was resolved and the drivers would be working under the Blueline roof sign.

“This has been a long and difficult dispute and I am proud of the dedication our members have shown throughout,” Ghadban said in a press release dated Dec. 15.

“All the members now hope the company can work with us and put the conflict aside so that we can concentrate our efforts on serving our customers. We have to cooperate to face the many other challenges facing the industry.”

But Coventry didn’t agree with the representation, and the dispute continued, with the union grieving what they termed an illegal lockout.

As well, Coventry challenged the union’s standing to represent the airport taxi drivers after they dropped the union. As a result of the most recent decision, the union has agreed to drop its other grievances.

Ghadban wasn’t immediately available for comment on the board’s most recent decision.

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The Ontario Labour Relations Board has proposed divvying up airport taxi fleet plates among Blueline and Capital taxi drivers. Ottawa-based taxi company Coventry Connections has agreed to accomodate the 137 cabbies who drove for the former airport fleet.

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Reports of a balcony fire at a Riverside Drive apartment building had fire crews racing to the scene.

The 911 calls came in on June 30 around 2:20 p.m., reporting smoke coming from a third floor balcony at the Kingsview Apartments at 1725 Riverside Dr., near Frobisher Ave. The first crew to arrive was “able to determine it was just paper on a balcony on that floor and there was no extension (spreading),” said Capt.

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It was also determined that the smoke originated from a balcony on the second floor, she said.

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South Ottawa celebrates Canada Day Above left: Captain Canada, a South Keys resident, has been showcasing his Canadiana spirit during downtown Ottawa Canada Day festivities every July 1 over the past 25 years. He can barely make his way through the crowd before being asked to have his photograph taken with revellers, such as Centretown’s Laura Beks.

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NEWS Students welcome plans to boost Canada-Mexico exchanges Erin McCracken erin.mccracken@metroland.com

More Canadian and Mexican students will soon be able to dust off their passports as travelling between the two nations on exchange is expected to become easier and lead to more work experience.

That announcement, made jointly by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto on June 28, gives Alan Iniestra optimism for the future.

“They showed that they are really engaged, to work between these countries,” said the Mexican university student, who is studying English as a second language at Algonquin College.

“That’s pretty interesting for us Mexicans because we need to improve our education,” Iniestra said after joining several dozen other university and college students for a question-and-answer session with the two leaders at the Canadian Museum of Nature on June 28. Peña Nieto’s State visit with Trudeau was held in the lead-up to the North American Leaders’ Summit on June 29 with U.S. President Barack Obama.

Iniestra is spending a month here to become immersed in Canadian culture and improve his language skills as part of Project 10,000, a student and faculty scholarship program sponsored by Mexico’s government. This marks the first time Algonquin College has participated in the program.

The hope is that such a program will be offered in Mexico

ERIN MCCRACKEN/METROLAND

Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto, centre left, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, centre right, pose with post-secondary students following a question-and-answer session at the Canadian Museum of Nature on June 28. The leaders spoke of a newly renewed bilateral partnership between the two nations, which they say will lead to more student exchanges and industry training opportunities. for Canadian students, said Iniestra. Through that, Canadian students “... will see that Mexico is not a bad country because most of the people think that there is violence,” he said. “They are going to be able to see the opportunities that are in my country.”

That same day, Trudeau and Peña Nieto signed a new bilateral agreement designed to allow more students to gain valuable work and training experience.

As part of that deal, up to 20 Mexican graduate students and 20 Canadian graduate students will be able to travel to the other country to take part in 16- to 24-week research projects with industry partners.

Iniestra said this improved level of cooperation bodes well for students, their future careers, and ultimately for both countries in the long term.

There are already more

than 400 partnerships between Canadian and Mexican higher-learning institutions, and both governments have scholarships available that are designed to attract students from the other country, the Government of Canada said in a statement.

The federal government makes available 75 to 100 scholarships annually for Mexican post-secondary students to study or do research here for up to six months, as

part of the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program.

When asked how their nations’ newly enhanced educational partnership will benefit Canadian and Mexican students and academics, Trudeau told the approximately 75 people who gathered for the museum event that “the more we can challenge ourselves to understand different realities, different perspectives, different cultures, the more we discover about ourselves and our place in an increasingly complex world.”

Developing skills through hands-on experience will benefit young people, communities and the companies that today’s students will eventually work for and even establish, he said.

“We have to do a better job of allowing young people to develop the tools that they’re going to need to deal with a future that’s going to be very different,” said Trudeau.

Students taking part in the question-and-answer session asked several different questions, ranging from the TransPacific Partnership to Englishlanguage opportunities for students in Mexico.

“If I want to better my level of English in Mexico, why not make it available to all levels – preparatory, secondary – not only to better the English level, but also to curb the dropping out of school,” one student said, directing his comments to Peña Nieto in Spanish.

English is an indispensable language, agreed Mexico’s president.

“We want the new generations to have this opportuni-

ty,” he said, also in Spanish, adding that Mexico’s education system is in the process of undergoing reform to better equip and prepare future generations of students.

Peña Nieto also clarified the reasons for his country’s dropout rates, saying some students may be forced to quit school due to financial constraints. However, he said his government has almost doubled the number of postsecondary scholarships in order to improve access.

“We are bettering the conditions and economic supports to avoid (dropping out) of school,” Peña Nieto said.

BY THE NUMBERS:

• More than 5,000 Mexican students were in Canada in 2015 on a study permit of six months or longer. That makes Mexico the 10th largest source of international students for Canada, according to the Canadian government.

• Since 2009, almost 600 Mexican students have studied and conducted research in Canada under a governmentsponsored scholarship program.

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The Three Amigos agreed on June 29 upon a goal of achieving 50-per-cent clean power generation for North America by 2025, a level that Canada already achieves but Mexico and the U.S. do not.

As a result, it’s expected to boost Canada‘s hydro power exports.

CLEANING UP

The three nations also plan to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 per cent by 2025.

By the same year, the leaders have committed to phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.

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Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto, left, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama met at the National Gallery of Canada for the North America Leaders’ Summit in Ottawa on June 29. Several agreements were announced during the day-long Three Amigos event, including clean-energy targets.

Building on the environmental aspects of the threenation summit, the leaders committed to accelerating deployment of clean vehicles within government fleets, and encouraging investment in

North American refuelling corridors for clean vehicles, which could make them a more popular choice for motorists.

The auto industry can expect an invitation to meet

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The joint statement also commits to conservation of the monarch butterfly and

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Obama’s arrival leaves lasting impression Continued from page 27

Asked what the Three Amigos statement will mean to the average Canadian, McKenna said the deal may be continental in nature, but delivers benefits at the local level.

“The residents of Ottawa Centre care about climate change,” McKenna told Metroland Media following the summit. She pointed to a “packed meeting” on climate change, held April 28 at the Glebe Community Centre, as evidence of local support.

“You can see the concrete action (in the agreement),” she said. “We are helping keep temperature (increases) below two degrees, and that’s the goal.”

She said the move to clean energy will “create good jobs,” and she agreed it would be a positive move if more countries signed on to the trilateral climate document, including Central and South America.

“We’re looking where we can do more,” McKenna said.

POIGNANT SPEECH PHOTOS BY ERIN MCCRACKEN/METROLAND

A renewed and stronger relationship between Canada and the U.S. was at the heart of Obama’s speech in the House of Commons during his visit.

“We are stronger together than we are apart,” Trudeau said before introducing his U.S. counterpart, who was greeted by thunderous applause and cheers in the packed Commons and press galley.

At times funny (“Michelle now refers to my hair as the Great White North”) and also poignant, Obama’s remarks also featured an underlying message urging Canada to play a more significant military role in NATO. He also touched on the dependence national economies have on the global supply chain.

“Restricting trade or giving into protectionism in this 21st Century economy will not work,” Obama said. “Even if we wanted to, we can’t seal ourselves off to the rest of the world.”

In addition to highlighting the “extraordinary alliance” Canada and the U.S. benefit from, Obama touched on a wide range of topics: the realities of climate change, aborig-

Above: Interim Conservative Party leader Rona Ambrose is flanked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, and U.S. President Barack Obama in the rotunda of Centre Block on Parliament Hill on June 29, ahead of Obama’s speech in the House of Commons.

Right: U.S. President Barack Obama hugs Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, wife of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, upon Obama’s arrival at Centre Block on Parliament Hill on June 29. inal issues, Syrian refugees, and the role that Canada and the U.S. have to play as leaders in global investment and that it will lead to future prosperity in developing nations, helping foster global security and combat disease.

“We Americans can never say it enough: We cannot ask for a better friend or ally than Canada,” Obama said. “And we do not take it for granted.”

Security was also front and centre.

“Certainly, we are more secure when we stand united against terrorist networks and ideologies that reach to the very doorstep of this hall,” he said.

Obama also shared a pointed message about global security issues, such as Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine, and the need for countries to stand united in defence of our collective security.

He highlighted the need for

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economic sanctions, investment in new technological capabilities and keeping military forces at the ready.

“And as your ally and as your friend, let me say, that we’ll be more secure when every NATO member, including Canada, contributes its full share to our common security,” he said, drawing applause.

“Because the Canadian Armed Forces are really good, and if I can borrow a phrase, the world needs more Canada. NATO needs more Canada. We need you.”

GHOST TOWN

Earlier in the day, parts of downtown Ottawa looked like a ghost town during the height of morning rush hour on June 29, as streets were closed for the summit and the arrival of Obama’s motorcade.

Police officers from mul-

tiple forces outnumbered pedestrians along much of Wellington Street.

HEIGHTENED SECURITY

Obama arrived amid a state of heightened security at the Ottawa International Airport, making his last official visit to Canada before his second term as president ends in January.

Even before Air Force One entered Ottawa’s airspace, a small aircraft and an RCMP helicopter circled overhead, while throngs of officers wielded automatic rifles and high-powered binoculars.

First among several dignitaries to arrive and line up along a red carpet on the airport apron was Canada’s Gov. Gen. David Johnston. He was joined by Bruce Heyman, U.S. ambassador to Canada, Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion, Ottawa-Orléans

MPP Marie-France Lalonde and Mayor Jim Watson.

Businesses around the ByWard Market were quieter than usual as street traffic dried up, a side effect of many closed roads in the core and Lowertown.

Alina Bugar had time to do some sweeping at the flower stall where she works.

“It seems really slow today,” she said, although the closed streets didn’t affect her commute. “I live close, so I just walked.”

On the Heart and Crown pub’s patio, only a couple of groups were enjoying a meal or drinks.

“It‘s a pretty average day,” said assistant general manager Alex Hay. He said the streets were very quiet and chalked that up to the road closures and fast-approaching Canada Day. By 1 p.m., two women had

already picked out a bench on Sussex Drive, readying for Obama’s departure from the National Gallery. Sandra Reid of Ajax, Ont., travelled to Ottawa for a chance to see the U.S. president.

“No, we haven’t shaken his hand yet,” she joked. “We‘re still looking for him.”

Reid was visiting her friend, Marilyn Findlay of Kars, and the pair took a bus into the city to avoid traffic snarls.

“It’s been a good day but I thought we would see more,” Findlay said.

The only consolation was a trip to Le Moulin De Provence, the ByWard Market bakery where Obama stopped for cookies during his 2009 visit to Ottawa.

“We didn’t see Obama and we were depressed so we got some Obama cookies,” said Reid, referring to the snacks now named in the U.S. president’s honour.

Travel back in time to enjoy jousting, sword fighting at annual medieval festival Kelly Kent

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Hear ye, hear ye! The ninth annual Medieval Festival is returning to Osgoode between July 8 and 10.

The community will be steeped in history that weekend as kings, queens, knights and jesters descend upon the Market Mall for three days of medieval entertainment.

Connie Bazil, co-chair of the festival, said it’s an event full of fun for the whole family.

“It’s an incredible weekend,” she said.

“There always something interesting going on.”

The Osgoode Medieval Festival started nine years ago as a quirky way to draw people into the heart of the community.

Since then, it has grown into one of the area’s most anticipated annual events and draws hundreds of residents and tourists alike.

During the festival, the field beside the Market Mall is transformed into a kingdom filled with vendors, exhibits and live demonstrations of the medieval way of life. In addition to live music and entertainment, the festival also features more than 25 vendors at a Medieval Market.

Princesses and knights in training can enjoy the best of the best as they explore the children’s castle to discover the queen’s bedroom, the dungeon and a costume room filled with medieval fashions just waiting to be tried on.

Of course, the biggest draw of the Medieval Festival is the live demonstrations of sword fighting and jousting.

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• Splash pads are an exciting option for kids of all ages and Gloucester-Southgate is home to 10 options: Emerald Woods Park (3795 Alderwood), Aladdin Park (3939 Albion), Fawn Meadow Park (165 Meandering Brook), Russell Boyd Park (1735 St. Bernard), Sieveright Park (2999 Sable Ridge), Greenboro Park (1505 Cahill), Winterwood Park (1844 Johnston), Calzavara Family Park (1602 Blohm), Heatherington Park (1560 Heatherington), and Fairlea Park (2989 Fairlea). Hours of operation are from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.

• There will be special events throughout the summer at wading pools in our ward, featuring arts and crafts, games and prizes. These events will take place on July 14 (Pushman Park), July 21 (Elizabeth Manley), and August 19 (Greenboro Park).

• Park-ticipate is a free drop-in program run by Parks & Recreation staff for children ages 4 to 10 years old.

Locations in our ward include: Wednesdays 9-10 a.m. at Trappers Park (3580 Trappers), Wednesdays 10:30-11:30 a.m. at Emerald Woods Park (3795 Alderwood), Wednesdays 12-1 p.m. at Russell Boyd Park (1735 St. Bernard), and Wednesdays 2-3 p.m. at Heatherington Park (1560 Heatherington).

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Working with the Armoured Company of the Sword, a Metcalfe group of sword fighters dedicated to the study and practice of historical swordsmanship, the Osgoode

Medieval Festival features regular demonstrations of live, daring sword fights. Bazil said the company brings real excitement to their demos as the swords they are using are real and no fight is staged.

The Knights of Valour bring an

equal measure of historical accuracy to their jousting demonstrations.

Using no scripts, no choreography and no air bags, according to their website, the group practises the historical art of jousting the way it was meant to be. They’ll run

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regular shows during the festival and Bazil says they are not to be missed.

The kingdom gates open at 9:30 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $10 per adult per day, or $6 for children ages four to 12. Two-day passes can be purchased for $15 for adults or $10 for children. Family tickets (up to four people) are $35 per day.

Tickets can be purchased online at the festival’s website or at the gates.

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For even more medieval fun, adults can participate in a Medieval Murder Mystery dinner on either Friday or Saturday night.

Called “It Was a Dark and Stormy Knight”, the dinner is both a meal and a mystery. Guests will join performers in piecing together clues to discover who murdered the valiant knight.

This is an adults-only event, Bazil said, with doors opening at 5:30 p.m. at the Osgoode Community Centre. This year’s dinner features savoury pie (lamb, chicken, beef and vegetarian options are available), a variety of salads, breads, cheeses and dessert.

Tickets are $45 per person and can be purchased in advance at the Osgoode Medieval Festival website.

You can find more information about the festival, tickets and a full schedule of events by going online to osgoodemedievalfestival.com.

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“This is the largest study on fainting patients in the world,” said Dr. Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy, an emergency physician at the Ottawa Hospital and lead author of the fainting study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on July 4.

“Fainting can be very scary,” said the scientist with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, who is also an assistant medical professor at the University of Ottawa. “When somebody faints, it’s like they’re literally dying for a few seconds, except they wake up.”

The nine identifiers doctors can now look for include a history of heart disease, whether common fainting signs were present – such as standing for long periods of time or being in a warm or crowded environment – and testing for abnormal electrocardiogram measurements and high levels of a heart muscle protein called troponin.

Fainting is fairly common, with about 35 to 40 per cent of people fainting at least once in their lives, and largely caused by minor issues.

However, about 10 per cent of people faint due to “dangerous, hidden, life-threatening causes,” such as an irregular heartbeat, heart attack, blood clots in the lung, and bleeding in the brain or in the stomach, said Thiruganasambandamoorthy.

Scoping out these hidden health conditions can be a challenge, particularly since hospital emergency departments across Canada are busy treating about 140,000 fainting cases every year.

STREAMLINING ASSESSMENTS

Currently, there is no streamlined approach to assess fainting patients in emergency rooms across Canada. But Thiruganasambandamoorthy is hoping to change that.

He first became interested in studying fainting several years ago while working in a community hospital in Lindsay, Ont., where many retirees live.

“On Sunday morning all that I would see was fainting patients coming from church,” he said.

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When looking to different jurisdictions, he learned that many fainting patients were being admitted to hospital to figure out the cause of the fainting spells.

Then, about seven years ago, a family member fainted in front of him.

“That was so scary,” he said. “I thought she was dead.

Because the pulse is so feeble, you can’t detect it.”

Both experiences prompted the doctor to put fainting under the microscope.

Now, thanks to his study, which included patients at the Ottawa Hospital and hospitals in Kingston, Edmonton and Calgary, doctors are being advised to conduct an electrocardiogram and a single blood test, as well as look for nine factors.

Patient responses to these questions can be plugged into a new screening tool that estimates whether a patient will experience a serious problem within the next 30 days.

Of the 4,030 patients studied, 147 suffered a serious health event within a month after discharge.

“If there is an underlying issue, it should be evident with

the next 30 days,” Thiruganasambandamoorthy said.

“This will tell them what the probability is,” he said of the screening tool. “If the probability is high then they (doctors) need to go and do a very thorough evaluation of the patient, (and) not necessarily that we are recommending admission for these patients.”

Not all serious health conditions, such as an irregular heart rhythm, can be detected during an ER visit. Of the 10 per cent of fainting patients who have serious underlying health issues, the cause will not be detected in about four per cent.

To figure out if arrhythmia caused the fainting, patients can he hooked up to a device that will remotely monitor their heartbeat after they return home from the hospital. The device will feed information back to a central monitoring station. If a serious condition is detected, the patient can be immediately contacted and called back to the ER. The screening tool is also expected to cut down on the time patients spend in emergency rooms, as well as the

ment,” Thiruganasambandamoorthy said, adding this leads to significant health-care costs.

In the U.S., as many as half to three-quarters of fainting patients will be admitted to the hospital for a few days to determine the cause. That is very resource intensive, as doctors order CT brain scans, monitor heart activity and conduct blood tests.

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DR. BARBARA MILLER number of hospital admissions by quickly and safely discharging those low-risk patients who fainted.

Most fainting patients will spend an average of five hours in the ER, while approximately 10 per cent will be admitted to the hospital for an average stay of eight days.

In Ottawa, about 12 per cent of fainting patients are admitted at the Ottawa Hospital’s Civic and General campuses. Across Canada, about 10 per cent are admitted.

“That drives a lot of issues in the form of a lot of testing in the emergency depart-

In Canada, the average cost of an hourly ER visit is $55.14, which translates to $38.5 million annually.

For fainting patients admitted to the Ottawa Hospital, the daily cost of a hospital stay is $1,140. Across Canada, hospitalization of patients who have fainted costs $127 million each year.

“If we just reduced 30 per cent of our admissions, we could save $22 million,” said Thiruganasambandamoorthy.

“We do not want to follow in the footsteps of the U.S. in the form of using millions of dollars for wastefully admitting all of these patients,” he said.

“We want to develop a very efficient strategy for this fainting.”

Dr. Barbara Miller, an emergency physician who fainted in the early morning hours at the General campus about five years ago, was subsequently enrolled in the study.

It was her first fainting spell, and was caused after she consumed a soft drink that caused her throat to distend.

As an emergency physician who works out of both the General and Civic campuses, she said fainting patients frequently come to the ER for treatment.

“I expect this study will give us some good perspective on who is safe to discharge and who needs more investigation,” the Alta Vista resident said, saving time, money, “and streamlining the care to hopefully know who needs to be investigated right away and who can be assessed as an outpatient.”

The study was funded by the Physicians Services Incorporated Foundation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Ontario Innovation Fund and the Ottawa Hospital Foundation.

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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-723-1862, E-mail: Ottawasouth@metroland.com The deadline for community event submissions is Friday at noon. Email events to ottawasouth@metroland.com.

July and August

Enjoy babytime programming with stories, rhymes and songs for babies up to 18 months and a parent or caregiver on Mondays until July 25, from 10:30 to 11 a.m., at the Alta Vista library branch, at 2516 Alta Vista Dr. No registration is required.

The August session takes place Aug. 8 to 15, from 10:30 to 11 a.m.

Family storytime at the Alta Vista library branch features stories, rhymes and songs for all ages and parents or caregivers on Tuesdays until July 26, from 10:30 to 11 a.m.

The August session is August 2 to 16, from 10:30 to 11 a.m.

Registration is not required.

July 7, 9, 13, 27

Bear & Co. brings swords, songs, and sorcery Ottawa’s parks this month, with a production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, complete with fire dancers. Bring the whole family and a picnic and something to sit on. The suggested donation is $20 per person.

The full tour schedule is at bearandcompany.ca. In south Ottawa, you can enjoy the performance at Applewood Acres Park in Alta Vista on July 7 and in Manotick’s Dickinson Square on July 9.

There will also be performances in Old Ottawa South’s Windsor Park on July 13 and 27. Shows get underway at 7 p.m.

July 7

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joy a jungle-themed program at the Alta Vista library branch on July 7, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

July 8

Show off your architectural creativity with Lego or challenge someone to a friendly board game during Block Party programming at the Alta Vista library branch on July 8 and July 22, from 2 to 4 p.m.

July 9

Like garage sales? The Ottawa Humane Society Auxiliary invites you to help us support the animals.

Join us July 9, from 9 a.m. to noon, at 59 Larkin Dr. in Barrhaven. For more information, call Linda 613823-6770 or go to facebook. com/OttawaHumaneSocietyAuxiliary.

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Take a walk through the wilderness during an Alta Vista library branch called, Into the Woods, on July 14, from 10:30 to 11 :30 a.m. The program is for kids ages four to six. Registration is required.

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August 8 to 12

A week-long Christian day camp program sponsored by the Ottawa Presbytery of the United Church takes place at Rideau Park United Church, 2203 Alta Vista Dr., from August 8 to 12, and serves children ages four to 12. Led by trained staff, activities include games, crafts, drama, singing, water fun and learning about important topics.

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Mondays

Play 4-hand euchre at Our Lady of the Visitation Parish Hall, 5338 Bank St. on Mondays from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., excluding holidays. Partners are not needed. Complimentary light refreshments will be provided. Admission is $5.

For details, call 613-769-7570.

Wednesdays

Play 4-hand euchre at St. Bernard Parish, in the basement, every Wednesday from 1 to 3:30 p.m. The church is located at 1720 St. Bernard St. in Blossom Park. For details, call Gisele Newburry at 613-739-0960.

Ongoing

The Eastway Gardens Community Association is participating in a fundraiser by selling Perth Classic Theatre Festival tickets in support of the neighbourhood’s Cecil Morrison Park. Tickets for the play, “An Inspector Calls

by J.B. Priestley,” on Aug. 27 at 2 p.m., are $34 and are available by calling Kim at 613-741-1283.

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