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News – The atmosphere was electric, and when the signal was given, 1,341 students of Franco-CitÊ French Catholic high school in Ottawa held hands and conducted static electricity to light up a clear baton.

As a result, they likely have set a new Guinness World Record for the longest human electrical circuit.

Students in grades seven to 12 gathered on the Smyth Road school’s football ďŹ eld last Thursday, Sept. 25, on Franco-Ontarian Day. “You never know for sure, but we anticipated it deďŹ nitely because we had practised it before,â€? principal Marc Bertrand said after their attempt. “Our objective was to have everybody here and do something together.

So just that in itself, for me,

obtained our goal. But this is even better.�

Luc Cyr, head of the school’s science department, agreed, saying, “It was even better than the practice, because at least this time there was a sound (emanating from the baton) and the light went on for more than a fraction of a second.�

Now they must wait to hear from Guinness World Records ofďŹ cials whether they did everything by the book and, in fact, broke the record for longest human electrical circuit, which was set by 1,113 staff and students of a Texas kindergarten to grade six school last October.

Cyr and Bertrand are conďŹ dent they followed Guinness’ strict rules, which required the hiring of three electrical engineering consultants to determine if the circuit worked.

The chain of students was

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And the activity was videotaped from the air by Max Forgues of MC Nation Productions, who operated a drone or unmanned aerial vehicle.

About 35 volunteers from outside the school were tasked with verifying the students also followed the rules. “We went to the churches, we went to the community groups, the parents, staff family members,� Bertrand said, adding the volunteers were needed because it was just too expensive to

bring in special Guinness judges.

To ensure their scientiďŹ c experiment would work, the school did a trial run that proved successful. “We actually had a practice last week to practise to see if we could get (the students) going, because with that many people you need to, especially with age groups ranging from 11, 12 years to 17, 18 years old,â€? Bertrand said.

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There have been no new confirmed cases of a serious respiratory virus infection, known as enterovirus D68, following the recent successful treatment of four children late last month.

However, three patients have come down with hospital-associated respiratory illnesses at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. The hospital reports all three are doing well.

The hospital last week reported 25 patients are being treated for respiratory illness.

While multiple respiratory viruses are currently making the rounds in the community, which the hospital says is typical this time of year, visits to CHEO’s emergency department were up seven per cent this September over last year.

“About one-quarter of visits to

CHEO’s emergency department currently are for respiratory infections, compared to 16 per cent last year,” Eva Schacherl, hospital spokeswoman, said in a statement released Sept.

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The hospital is taking extra precautions in one of its medical units to combat the spread of respiratory infections.

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Extra measures range from restricting visitors to 4 East inpatient medical unit, limiting staff movement between different hospital units and increasing cleaning resources for rooms and equipment, among others.

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The tenant was not home when thick black smoke broke out at 1541 Riverside Dr., south of Industrial Avenue, on Sept. 24 around 4:40 p.m.

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Gangsters’ siblings focus of new diversion program violence, gang colours, symbols, jargon and graffiti.

It is one of eight new initiatives that have been developed by more than a dozen agencies and organizations over the past year that were publicly unveiled on Sept. 23 as part of the Ottawa Gang Strategy steering committee’s one-year progress report on gangs in Ottawa.

Since the three-year action plan was launched in June 2013, stakeholders have been developing collaborative programs to curb gang activity through prevention, intervention, neighbourhood cohesion and enforcement and suppression activities.

Some of those initiatives are being rolled out in a number of communities identified by police as being affected by gang activity and violence, some of them the setting for some of the 30 shootings this year, including Herongate, Banff-Ledbury and other south Ottawa communities, said Bryden.

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Partner agencies, including the Ottawa police service, are rolling out tackle gangs and gang violence. Acting Staff Sgt. Kenny Bryden, head of the police guns and gangs unit, says one new program developed as part of the yearold Ottawa Gang Strategy is designed to divert younger kids from following the path of their older siblings who are known gang members or gang associates. and gangs,� he said. “What that young fellow or that young girl might be learning or absorbing from

the big brother, who knows, but they’re exposed to it,�

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Families of gang members and gang associates are identified by police guns and gangs investigators.

From there, families will be approached with an offer of assistance in the form of counselling, employment services and school programs for siblings and even the gang members. If the families consent to the service, a worker from John Howard or Youturn will tailor a program to the needs of the family, the siblings, and the gang member to help them leave behind gang life.

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News – Several Ottawa organizations, from police to case workers, are reaching out to gang members’ families as part of a new strategy to divert younger siblings from joining street gangs.

The siblings-at-risk project is a partnership between the Ottawa police, the John Howard Society, Youturn Youth Support Services, Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa, Crossroads Children’s centre, provincial probation services and Ottawa Youth Justice Services.

Siblings of gang members are often recruited by gangs. “We do see family names repeat,� said acting Staff Sgt. Kenny Bryden, head of the police guns and gangs unit, adding the key is reaching siblings when they are still very young.

The siblings-at-risk program “goes straight to the root of what could very possibly be the future of guns

for action,� community partners are sharing information, hosting training opportunities, providing a co-ordinated response in supporting families, and mapping out provincial services and resources, among several other supports. “A gang strategy is a longterm approach to a complex social problem, and so what the first-year (report) says is that we’re putting a lot of great pieces in place with the intention of creating, long-term, a community that will be resilient to crime and gangs, and will be able to keep families and children and youth safe,� said steering committee member Nancy Worsfold, who is executive director of Crime Prevention Ottawa, which is funding the initiatives coming out of the strategic plan.

Since August, agencies have reached out to seven families of gang members or associates, and one has already accepted help. “Our goal is to target

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“It’s a very holistic approach in supporting the whole family,” McIntosh said.

“It’s for mom and dad and it’s for little Johnny and little Mary, but it’s also for that gang member and that gang associate that we know lives there,” said Bryden.

“It’s the olive branch of

‘Look, this is why we’re here, but we’d love to help you out as well. Are you looking for an exit strategy from this world that you’re in? We can help you migrate out of that safely.’”

Trying to get gang members to accept an offer of help is a “massive” hurdle, Bryden said.

“Some have been en-

trenched for years. Some love the lifestyle, the money, the attention that maybe they wouldn’t necessarily get if they didn’t have this, the world of gang affiliation, the gang phenomenon.”

The gang strategy reveals police identified about 485 gang members and associates in 2013, up from 473 in Ottawa in 2012, and between 15

to 19 street gangs in both 2012 and 2013.

The hope is that the numbers of street gangs and members and associates operating in the city will go down if siblings can be diverted as soon as possible.

“If we see a decrease in one or more or all of these numbers, we’re on track,” said Bryden.

“I am very confident there are going to be very good results,” he said. “I can’t see tangible results right now, but I certainly see the makings of those.”

While police enforcement is helping, “it needs support and this is the support it needs,” he said.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This will be an exciting year for voting and changes in the municipalities that this newspaper covers.

There are several newcomers and veteran politicians out in full force soliciting your vote.

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

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

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

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

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

Now, this isn’t true everywhere.

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

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

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The big question is how important.

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

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

Now, there are those for whom this is an exciting concept, doing nothing. From time to time they pop up in various places, promising never to increase taxes, promising perhaps even cut them. They never succeed (see: Larry O’Brien) although they sometimes claim that they have (see: Rob Ford). Most people, you would hope, want more from their city than just a tidy balance sheet. When you look at the great cities of the world

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

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

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

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

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it’s that pretty much everyone agrees that what happened is a travesty,� said Greta Levy, NDP press secretary. “If a wider concern is voter apathy, it’s worthwhile that this incident has caused anyone who has seen it to say, ‘woah, this is way over the line.’�

Levy, for one, is hopeful the shock may shake people out of their political apathy.

Admittedly, I do too.

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Mulcair asked a follow-up question about Iraq.

Calandra repeated his party line on Israel, curse words and all.

Mulcair attempted a third time to ask the government about Canadians in Iraq.

In response, Calandra monologued about Israel.

And then all his Conservative buddies cheered and jeered, except for one guy who admittedly looked shocked.

You should care, because the Conservative Party, which also happens to be in government, is in campaign mode. If Calandra’s behaviour is anything to go by, they don’t seem to have any issue using your time and your money to campaign for their own party inside the House of Commons. They are also withholding information that belongs to you.

And the Speaker of the House, Andrew Scheer , who is meant to neutrally enforce centuries

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old rules of procedure and decorum, has unapologetically stated that it is not his job to interfere in Question Period.

As a pithy Maclean’s blog noted last month, this trend of deflection has always been. “For surely as long as the human species has been able to engage in oral politics, there has been some desire for obfuscation,� wrote Aaron Wherry. “And for likely as long as there have been Question Period, governments have probably found it handy to give someone the job of throwing himself or herself in front of uncomfortable questions.�

But maybe, just maybe, it will all backfire. Maybe Calandra went a little too far, taking the trend of lowlevel discourse and obfuscation to a disturbing extreme. “If there’s a silver lining to this,

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f I asked you about your recent trip to Maine and you responded by talking and swearing about your mother’s house on Vancouver Island and blaming me for always hating that place, someone within earshot may question your state of mind.

But, you know, maybe you just didn’t hear me properly the first time.

If I asked you again about your Maine vacation, adding more detail and punctuation to ensure understanding, and you responded by repeating your curse-laden monologue about your mother’s house on Vancouver Island which I apparently hated, I’d contemplate calling a psychologist.

If I asked a third time about that Maine trip, with more context, and you repeated your first two answers almost swear word for swear word about Vancouver Island, and your friends all stood up behind you and cheered your answer and jeered at me, I’d think about calling the riot police.

And yet, that’s essentially what happened in the House of Commons last month.

During question period, the leader of the official Opposition, Thomas Mulcair, asked a pretty straightforward question about Canadian troops in Iraq.

In response, Conservative cabinet minister Paul Calandra rhymed off rhetoric about the Canadian government’s position on Israel.

In his irrelevant monologue, he quoted an apparent NDP fundraiser, including swear words and inflammatory statements. Not once did he

If you do nothing else useful today, write a letter to your member of Parliament.

In the letter, remind your MP that he or she is there to serve you. Remind your MP that he or she is accountable to you. Remind your MP that when the government takes up to half of your paycheque in the form of taxes and contributions and puts it in a collective account, it is your expectation that the government will use those dollars for the public good.

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Museum to take financial hit with prolonged closure Erin McCracken erin.mccracken@metroland.com

News - January is the earliest the beleaguered Canada Science and Technology Museum could reopen its doors, despite initial hopes by officials to have it back up and running within weeks following the discovery of mould.

The facility will suffer a financial blow since it will be forced to remain closed over the Christmas holidays, when it draws thousands of visitors, making it one of the busiest seasons for the museum.

Officials initially hoped to be back up and running again within weeks of

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“On top of having costs to fix the situation, we’re also going to have a significant revenue shortfall if we can’t be open during the holidays,” said museum spokesman Olivier Bouffard.

Visitor admissions, memberships, corporate rentals, group bookings, and parking fees generate about 21 per cent of the annual operating budget for the Canada Science Technology Museums Corporation, which manages the Canada Science and Technology Museum, the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum and the Aviation and Space Museum.

The bulk of the budget is funded by the federal government. The corporation received $28.6 million for the 2012-13 fiscal year, representing 79 per cent of total revenues, Bouffard said.

“The repairs right now, we don’t have a cost for it yet so we don’t know where we’re going to take the money,” he said, adding that it’s too soon to tell how much the mould remediation project will cost.

Specialized contractors have been brought in to develop a work plan to fix the mould problem – a process that has been painstaking given the care needed to work safely around a roof loaded with asbestos, which was discovered last October and subsequently sealed off.

Initially, it was thought the museum would remain shuttered for several weeks while repairs were made.

“What makes this job particularly complex, and why it’s taking us awhile to be able to say how long this work is going to take, is that we have to fix a mould problem in a wall that supports a roof that has asbestos in it,” Bouffard said.

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The Canada Science and Technology Museum will remain closed until at least next January – much longer than museum officials had initially hoped following the Sept. 11 discovery of high levels of airborne mould caused by a leaking roof.

The museum’s problems have sparked interest in creating a new dedicated site at Lebreton Flats, but Bouffard shot down the idea.

“That’s outside speculation from our standpoint because the corporation doesn’t have a plan to move or relocate at this point. What we’re looking at is fixing the problem in order to welcome visitors as soon as possible.”

Even if a new site were approved, it wouldn’t happen quick enough for the museum to reopen in the short term, “unless our locomotives start flying or something,” he said. “I wouldn’t even want to start speculating on how long it would take us to start moving some of our big artifacts, like locomotives.”

The museum is home to four steam-

powered locomotive engines.

Factor in the museum’s outdoor landmarks such as a lighthouse, a rocket and the Helen Sawyer Hogg Observatory, which houses one of the largest refractor telescopes in Canada “and I don’t think we’ll be sneaking out without anybody noticing,” Bouffard said. “At this point (moving elsewhere) is just not on the table or in the cards for us, as far as we know.”

Meanwhile, about 60 staff members have been relocated to the Space and Aviation Museum and the Food and Agriculture Museum, as well as the corporation’s administration building on Lancaster Road, across the street from the shuttered museum.

They were initially evacuated from

the premises on Sept. 11 after airquality tests detected high levels of airborne mould during the week the facility was closed for week-long annual maintenance.

“There are currently no layoffs.

Everyone is being reassigned and redeployed through the corporation,” Bouffard said. “That’s a bit of a silver lining of being three museums together.”

Between 50 and 60 customers who had booked the museum for children’s sleepovers, birthday parties and corporate events until the New Year are in the process of being contacted by staff with the offer of holding their group bookings at the sister museums, he said.

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Cyr pitched the idea last November.

“When I saw that a Texas school had set that record, I said ‘Yeah, I want to break that record,’” he said.

“We said, ‘If we are together we can beat it,’ and that’s the main theme: if we are together, we can do something special to change the culture of the school in certain ways.”

“If we are together, we can do something special to change the culture of the school in certain ways.”

‘Yeah, I want to participate in that,’ and it was like a wave that did affect the teachers and then the students,” Cyr said. “They want to be in the record books.”

When Bertrand learned of the idea to set a new world record, he was enthusiastic.

“When students and staff bring ideas together, well, who am I to say no?” the principal said.

The only people possibly disappointed that day were the students in Texas, due to their record possibly being broken – albeit unofficially until Guinness confirms the results.

“They say everything is bigger in Texas,” joked Cyr. “It’s not true.”

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The school’s theme this year of togetherness was chosen to complement plans to foster French language and culture within the high school.

The record attempt also coincided with Franco-Ontarian Day, and students dressed in the green and white colours of the Franco-Ontarian flag.

“When I said it would be a project that would bring people together, there were a lot of people who said,

As Franco-Cité French Catholic high school science department head Luc Cyr and student Jacinthe Gedeon look on, evaluators peer closely at a special baton lit by static electricity passing through 1,341 hand-holding students on Sept. 25. Now they must wait until Guinness World Records officials can confirm the success of their attempt to create the longest human electrical circuit.

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Loss of police staff sergeant ricochets through Ottawa West Carleton police officer who took own life had a laugh that filled the room Brier Dodge and Jessica Cunha brier.dodge@metroland.com

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Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death Sunday of veteran Ottawa police Staff Sgt. Kal Ghadban, seen here in this July 2014 photo.

Ghadban, 43, lived in West Carleton with his young family.

“I knew Kal even before

my time on council,” said West Carleton-March Eli ElChantiry, chair of the police services board. “Kal used to

frequently come see me at the Lighthouse (Restaurant) with his family. We got to know him through the years.”

El-Chantiry had just gotten home from the Canadian Police and Peace Officers Memorial on Parliament Hill Sunday when he received the news.

“It was a sad day to begin with,” said El-Chantiry. “Our focus is on his wife, his three children, his family, his mom and dad, his brothers and sisters, the whole Lebanese community.

“He was larger than life.

His laugh would fill up the room. I don’t know what to say. Honestly, my heart goes out to his (family).”

Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau said the mood at the police station was sad and sombre as he gave a statement to media hours after the incident.

He said police met with Ghadban’s wife, three young children and parents that afternoon.

“We’re there to support

Kal’s family, his wife, his three kids, and all the members of the Ottawa Police Service who knew Kal deeply,” Bordeleau said. “He was a dedicated police officer, dedicated to his community.

We mourn his loss and there will be difficult days ahead of us.”

Bordeleau said Ghadban handled many difficult cases and projects. He tackled highprofile drug addiction issues in the village of Manotick and oversaw an investigation into a string of break and enters targeting Ottawa’s Asian communities.

He had also recently managed a break and enter at Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau’s Rockcliffe Park home.

Ghadban headed the police’s break and enter section as well as the street crime and human trafficking units.

Ghadban was a familiar face at community meetings and events across the city.

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News – Ottawa police are in mourning after an officer took his own life at the Elgin Street police headquarters on Sunday.

Staff Sgt. Kalid “Kal” Ghadban, a 22-year veteran of the police force, was discovered with serious injuries in his office shortly after 1 p.m. on Sept. 28.

Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit, which is probing the death, said that Ghadban was transported to hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

The unit has assigned three

investigators and one forensic investigator to look into the incident.

Police spokesperson Const. Marc Soucy would not confirm reports that Ghadban killed himself with his service revolver.

Ghadban’s family have released a statement through the police, asking the public to respect their privacy.

“We are heartbroken to have lost Kal so tragically and so young,” said the family. “He was a proud and devoted husband and father, and an excellent police officer.

“We would like to thank his friends, his colleagues and the community for their support and for keeping our family and friends in their thoughts and prayers during this very difficult time,” they said.

“The loss to our family will remain, but the outpouring of love we have received for Kal has been comforting. As we continue to grieve and honour him, we would ask that our privacy be respected.”

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“This is difficult and it’s not a day that you want as a chief or a member of the executive,” Bordeleau said. “It shows the fragility of life and how important it is to come together and support our people in this organization.”

Bordeleau could not comment on the circumstances surrounding the incident because the civilian Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has invoked its mandate.

The agency is called in to investigate criminal cases involving police and civilians resulting in death, serious injury and sexual assault allegations.

The incident happened the same day the annual police officers’ memorial was held on Parliament Hill.

“Today we commemorated the eight officers who lost their lives on Parliament Hill, five of them active members,” Bordeleau said.

“And so for this to happen on a day like this is just tragic.”

On Monday morning, Sept.

29, Soucy said the family has requested a private funeral service.

He said crisis-intervention supports continue to be available for all members of the police service.

“Everybody’s encouraged to talk to someone if they feel they need to,” he said.

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28, hours after Staff Sgt. Kal Ghadban, a well-respected member of the police department, took his own life. ing the case as a first responder, he said.

“I think it’s a combination of things,” Savoia said. “It’s the sort of work that they do, police, fire, EMS. The unfortunate reality is that they see the underbelly of society.

“On the flip side, you see the culture that almost penalizes people for coming forward if they ask for help.”

Savoia said there are significant resources available to first responders through their own employers and outside associations, but there is a stigma, and some individuals who have asked for help have been ridiculed for it.

“It’s a shame factor,” he said.

“It took me a while to come forward and ask for help, and when I did it was really hush-hush. I don’t think it’s a lack of resources, I think it’s the culture.”

Savoia said many suicidal first responders suffer from both post traumatic stress dis-

order and depression. The organization launched an online suicide-awareness campaign the week before Ghadban’s death at TEMA.ca, which links to crisis resources across the country.

He said it would be impossible to comment on Ghadban’s death specifically as details have not been released. No information has been released as to whether Ghadban was suffering from any job-related stresses or problems.

Ghadban had retweeted a statistic detailing how many first responders had died from suicide since April from the Tema Conter Memorial Trust on his Twitter account in September, which included the hashtag “heroes are human.”

TEMA operates a personal, peer and family support line at 1-888-288-8036.

The Ottawa Distress Line is available at all hours at 613238-3311.

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

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

The father of four, who’s originally from Midland, Ont., said when he worked as a page in the House of Commons in 1988 he never pictured 20 years later he’d be serving as deputy mayor for the City of Ottawa. “I joke with Mayor (Jim) Watson that he holds the chain of office and I hold the keychain of office,� Desroches said.

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

Harder also called Desroches a cham-

pion for veteran’s affairs. “If there was an event that had to do with the legion or veterans at city hall, you can be sure Steve was involved,� she said.

Desroches said he is very proud of the work he has done, namely pulling the Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge project out of the ashes and securing a $35 million for improvements to Limebank Road.

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

He also said he was happy with the expansion of the transit system into the ward, with new Longfields and Leitrim park-and-rides. “We are currently working on the environmental assessment to get the OTrain out to Riverside South,� he said.

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

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

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

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

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Meet the candidate: Jeff Dubois Emma Jackson emma.jackson@metroland.com

News - Alta Vista candidate Jeff Dubois hopes to bring pragmatism and fiscal responsibility to city hall.

The 54-year-old retiree lives in the Canterbury neighbourhood of the ward with his partner, who works for the federal government.

Dubois did surveys and mapping

for private industry in West Africa for a number of years before taking a job with the federal government.

He worked with science teams to complete research surveys and maps across the world, including the ocean floor, he said.

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Q: Why are you running?

A: I want to cast my ballot for someone who is rational, pragmatic and fiscally responsible in spending my tax dollars, and I haven’t seen that in several years. I’m pretty much dissatisfied with all the decisions that have come out of council, save a few.

I get a general impression that most

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

A: I have done a substantial amount of volunteer work; basically when I think something is a good project or it interests me. I’ve worked on projects for the food bank, I’ve done volunteer work with probation services, I’ve worked several years for the Ottawa Folk Fest. I’m currently on the board with a not-forprofit organization to facilitate computer technology knowledge.

One time I did attend a political riding association nomination meeting and the subsequent election meeting for the federal Liberal party, just to vote.

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

A: Absolutely not.

all over zoning by-laws and passing variances, it’s easy to forget the real issues: waste management, water, roads. Professional sports is not the place to be. You’ve got to fund all these things. They think the streets are paved in gold, and every time they need money they go take some bricks. That’s why we have so many potholes.

The rubber stamp approval of illthought programs and development is probably the biggest issue in the city. The single biggest investment in a person’s lifetime is their home, and they rely on the certainty of zoning to ensure the character of their neighbourhood is maintained. That’s why they bought in that neighbourhood. When you start granting variances, handing this stuff out, it really doesn’t serve the interest of the taxpayer. Of course that’s not to suggest I’m opposed to development, but whose interest does this serve?

That’s what you’ve got to ask.

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

A: The big issue in Alta Vista is roads, transportation in general: roads and public transit. It wasn’t handled: this is the problem. When you’re too busy representing the interest of developers and stomping

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

A: It will probably be dealing with the plethora of lawsuits and the financial disarray. There will be serious financial issues, mostly brought about by the mismanagement of the public coffers. No one has the cojones to say the purse strings are closed.

Q: How will you fundraise?

A: Privately: family and friends.

I will not accept any corporate or union donations whatsoever. I don’t think democracy should come with a price tag.

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of council doesn’t have the ability to walk and chew gum at the same time. This started as someone saying do you think you can do a better job?

Why don’t you run? I know I can do a better job.

Residents invited to shop for River Ward candidates at job fair Council and school-board trustee candidates to take centre stage Erin McCracken erin.mccracken@metroland.com

News - Eligible voters in River Ward who are still shopping for their preferred council or school-board trustee candidates are invited to a job fair being held in advance of the upcoming municipal election.

More than a dozen of the 19 candidates in the ward have confirmed their participation in a public information session hosted by the Hunt

Club Community Organization and the Riverside Park Community and Recreation Association on Oct. 8 at the Hunt Club-Riverside Park Community Centre.

The format, which the Hunt Club residents group first used ahead of the 2010 municipal election, is unique, said longtime organization president John Sankey.

“I’ve gotten an astonishing number of compliments for it and now we’re the only ones doing it,” he said.

Last time, the event included mayoral candidates, while this year organizers are focusing solely on council and trustee hopefuls. As well, the organization’s neighbouring resident’s association, the Riverside Park Community and Recreation Association, is also onboard and helping promote the event.

Both associations represent more than 20,000 residents of

River Ward.

To help people choose a potential candidate to represent them, attendees will be given a guide that suggests what qualities to look for that could help them make a decision on voting day.

“Issues come and go but people stay.”

JOHN SANKEY, PRESIDENT, HUNT CLUB COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

Sankey said the message of the guide suggests judging people, not issues.

“Issues come and go but people stay,” he said, adding that no promise made by any candidate for office is legal one second after they are elected.

“So there’s no point in talking about issues, as far as I’m concerned,” he said.

“They can say anything they like – it doesn’t matter. If we judge people, that matters.”

The guide, provided by the Hunt Club Community Organization, suggests residents gauge whether candidates realize the level of commitment that comes with the job of representing constituents.

“It’s 24/7, 365,” Sankey said. “Do they realize it?

Most people think a councillor’s job is a joke.”

In chatting with candidates at the upcoming job fair, voters can also get a sense of whether they feel they are being listened to, he said.

In choosing a school-board trustee, Sankey recommends residents ask candidates whether they have children in the system, and how they would balance the competing needs of parents, teachers and

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ISSUES OF CONCERN

The Hunt Club organization has been advocating on several issues, including improving traffic flow along Riverside Drive and Hunt Club Road, improving transit access between the Hunt Club community and the rest of the city, as well as ensuring parks and green spaces are cared for.

Residents of River Ward, specifically those who live in the Hunt Club neighbourhood, are welcome to speak to candidates on these issues, said Sankey.

“I would love it if they did,” he said.

Additionally, pressing issues of concern include “the neglect of Hunt Club Road and Sheflin Bridge,” said Sankey. “We regularly have halfhour traffic jams all over the

place, both in the east end and west of the Rideau River.”

However, Sankey says improving roadways is not an election issue “because nobody will touch it. Our city planners have decided that everybody ought to get out of cars and take public transit.”

Three-quarters of people using the Sheflin Bridge come into the city from south of the Greenbelt, he said, adding that the problem is further compounded due to limited bus routes.

Traffic at the bridge is regularly at a standstill, creating a ricochet effect of traffic jams in Hunt Club neighbourhoods.

“We are feeling the pressure,” Sankey said.

The all-candidates’ job fair is scheduled to take place Oct. 8, from 7 to 9 p.m., at the Hunt Club-Riverside Park Community Centre, located at 3320 Paul Anka Dr.

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O-Train expansion, garbage, taxes top issues at forum Erin McCracken erin.mccracken@metroland.com

News – Four of seven candidates vying to take the helm of Gloucester-South Nepean Ward are vowing to improve transit and road safety, be fiscally responsible, tackle traffic congestion and bring a sports complex to Riverside South.

Scott Hodge, Sue Sherring, Jason Kelly and Michael Qaqish rolled out their views on topics ranging from speeding traffic to mismanaged infrastructure projects and ballooning contracts, such as the Orgaworld waste-disposal contract, at a Ward 22 candidates’ forum on Sept. 25.

Absent were Kevin Fulsom, Roger Scharfe and Bader Rashed who are also competing for Coun. Steve Desroches’ council seat.

More than 100 residents, members of the media and candidate supporters packed the Rideauview Community Centre in Riverside South for the event, hosted by the Riverside South Community Association.

The four candidates acknowledged the growth in Riverside South and the need for a north-south O-Train line.

“We need to see more transit options and greater frequency,” Hodge, a management consultant, said, adding the O-Train extension is critical to community and commercial development.

The north-south line is the answer and must come to Riverside South to curb traffic congestion, according to Qaqish, who worked in Ward 22 Coun. Steve Desroches’ office at city hall.

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north-south line, he said encouraging businesses to set up shop further south “would give us an opportunity to take the weight off of the transit system.”

Candidates also agreed a multi-use sports complex, featuring a pool and a rank, amongst other amenities, needs to come to the bedroom community soon rather than later.

However, they did not all agree over implementing summer garbage pickup in the southern suburb, though they did see eye to eye on the fiscal mismanagement of the Orgaworld wastemanagement contract.

“As a reporter I spent an inordinate amount of time covering the Orga contract,” said Sherring.

“There is absolutely no doubt this was a very bad contract.”

ERIN MCCRACKEN/METROLAND She said she couldn’t promise to bring back As council candidates Jason Kelly, left, and weekly garbage pickup.

Sue Sherring look on, Scott Hodge addressKelly, meanwhile, is unwilling to spend tens es a large crowd during a Ward 22 forum in of millions of dollars to get out of that contract, Riverside South on Sept. 25. and believes there are creative solutions, such as placing compost waste in plastic bags to curb the “That’s the quickest relief within the next de- smell. cade, to move the people that we have in this ridHe is also proposing the creation of a ward ing,” he said of those living in Riverside South, council of business leaders and residents who can where there are 4,000 homes. weigh in on issues before decisions are made.

Sherring, a 20-year political newspaper reHodge took a different approach. porter, echoed this, saying the current 2023 date “I’d like to ... seek ministry of environment to bring the O-Train south must be bumped up, approval at the provincial level to explore the opand that means talking with the federal govern- tions of a high-efficiency incinerator that would ment. produce electricity, bring electricity back onto While Kelly, a businessman, is supportive of a the grid and offset some of the electricity pro-

duction costs and also allow us to get away from the old fashioned landfill,” he suggested.

Cancelling the current Orga contract, which is costing taxpayers $8 million more than planned, might be cheaper, said Qaqish, who is in favour of the return of weekly summertime garbage pickup.

Asked whether a two-per-cent property tax increase would be reasonable for city taxpayers, Hodge said it is, though he hesitant to work with arbitrary numbers “where down the road you don’t know what type of environmental impacts we made be facing,” he said, referring to the city’s snow-clearing deficit.

The city is plagued by long-term debt and there has been no strategic review to save money and keep property taxes down, he said.

Qaqish did not commit to a specific property tax increase, but said he is committed to focusing on core city services, such as investing in transportation infrastructure, among other initiatives.

There is “danger” in picking a number because it can be limiting, said Sherring, though added that a two-per-cent hike does give people an idea of what they’re heading into and makes room for inflation.

It’s important not to pick a number out of the air, and to recognize that tax hikes each year quickly add up, said Kelly.

“So I’m not ready to sit down and throw away my eraser and my pencil when looking at the budget and saying that two per cent is the best that we can do,” he said.

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News - A two-storey development in the Glebe was delayed after the community and city councillor demanded answers about parking at the site.

A decision on a rezoning request for a retail building and plaza at 852 Bank St. was put off until an Oct. 2 meeting so the developer, Canderel, can work out the community’s parking concerns. There is currently a service station on the site.

City planning staff supported the rezoning request relating to a patio, loading area and parking. Although the zoning would have required 40 to 60 parking stalls, Canderel doesn’t want to provide any parking on site, which the local merchants’ association and community group were worried about, said Capital Coun. David Chernushenko.

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ciation planning committee member Carolyn Mackenzie said the group sees the delay as a potentially positive one, as she hopes it will improve the current plans for the site.

In preparation for the upcoming presentation from Canderel developments, Mackenzie said the community association, the Glebe’s Business Improvement Area and the councillor all worked together to speak against the current development plans.

According to Mackenzie, the three agreed more parking was needed or a reasonable explanation of why it would not be technically feasible to build underground parking on the site and were prepared to speak to that at the city meeting.

Planning committee chairman Coun. Peter Hume said he’d grill Canderel on why the building isn’t something “more substantial” during the next committee meeting. The developer is also rebuilding the Beer Store site nearby as a one-storey building, which Hume called “an absolute tragedy.”

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Mercedes raises the bar with new C Class and GLA models

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

braking should the driver fail to react.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Video screen may have contributed to bus crash, safety board says Driver was speeding, looking at monitor seconds before deadly Barrhaven collision

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The Transportation Safety Board outlined a timeline of what occurred just before the Sept. 18, 2013 bus-train collision: • 8:47:23 – A passenger accessed the upper deck of the double-decker bus and remained standing while holding onto a pole at the top of the stairs.

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

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

• 8:47:59 – The bus passed the point at

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

The investigation into the Sept.

18, 2013 crash isn’t complete, said lead investigator Robert Johnston on Sept. 24, but the safety board is suggesting OC Transpo review whether the video displays on Ottawa’s 75 double-decker buses – which can be viewed by the bus driver while the bus is in motion –can be locked so they do not display video when the bus is moving.

The TSB also said OC Transpo should look at whether video screens can be located “as close as practicable to the driver’s forward line of sight,” instead of above and to the left of the operator, as they are currently positioned. The board also suggests certain in-vehicle systems be disabled unless the bus is parked.

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He said a team of 15 investigators looked at when braking was initiated and used data from the locomotive event recorder, crossing signal downloads, closed-circuit video from Fallowfield Station, the bus engine control module and interviews with around 60 bus passengers, next-

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

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Later that day, OC Transpo general manager John Manconi told reporters it’s too soon for the city to react in a “knee-jerk manner,” to the TSB’s suggestions, but calls have already been made to the bus manufacturer to begin discussions on options for altering the video monitors.

The recommendations come after the TSB’s analysis of various sources of information, including interview with 60 passengers who were on the bus, revealed the driver, Dave Woodard, was glancing up at the video monitor five seconds before the crash.

OC Transpo instructs drivers not to stare at the screens while driving, as the monitors are supposed to be used for the driver to ensure all passengers on the upper floor are seated before the bus starts moving. But witnesses said one passenger was still standing upstairs just before the crash, Johnston said. The upper deck was close to full, he said.

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

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The bus – a one-year-old Enviro 500 double-decker designed and manufactured by Alexander Dennis Limited in the United Kingdom – met all safety standards and nothing was mechanically wrong with it or its brakes, the TSB said. Woodard did not have a medical illness at the time of the crash and a toxicology report showed no drugs or alcohol in his system.

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

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

The city has since lowered the bus speed limit to 50 km/h on that sec-

tion of the Transitway.

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

CITY RESPONDS

Deputy city manager Steve Kanellakos said changes to the video monitors are just one of the items OC Transpo will review after receiving the two new safety advisory letters from the TSB on Sept. 24.

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

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

• Transitway speed enforcement.

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

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

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Right after a curve in the road, train tracks cross the Transitway at an angle where the crash occurred.

Changes to speed enforcement are also already underway, Manconi said. OC Transpo special constables conduct traffic enforcement on the Transitway because it is a private road, Manconi said, and a two-person dedicated radar speed enforcement unit will patrol the Transitway, focusing on the area near the rail tracks at Fallowfield.

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disciplined for speeding since the crash, Manconi said. The approach is one of “progressive discipline,” he said, including suspensions, coaching and other measures.

“It’s not permitted to speed,” Manconi said. “That’s the clear message.”

There is a form operators can fill out if they feel the schedule doesn’t allow enough time for the driver to navigate the route at the posted speed

limit, or if the schedule provides too much time, Manconi said.

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Old Ottawa South resident wins award from NASA Brier Dodge brier.dodge@metroland.com

News - Local engineers were recently recognized internationally for making future air passengers safer.

Mike Benner, a team leader (propulsion) at the National Research Council is a Fallingbrook resident, who received a prestigious award from America’s space agency, NASA. He was accompanied by another Ottawa resident, Craig Davison, who lives in Old Ottawa South and is a research officer at the NRC. The two were part of a larger group who were awarded the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s group achievement award in Ohio on Sept. 12.

They were awarded the honour for developing an instrument which measures ice content in clouds at high altitudes.

Clouds are made up of liquid droplets, but at higher altitudes, they freeze into ice crystals in the clouds.

The probe was put to the test in an early 2014 flight campaign in Australia.

The data is important because certain engine types don’t perform as well in

clouds with a higher ice concentration; there currently aren’t certification rules for engine performance passing through ice crystal clouds.

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“In the past 10 or 15 years, they’ve found certain engine types don’t do particularly well when they’re flying through clouds made up of ice crystals,” Benner said. “Typically when an aircraft engine is certified to be used for transporting people, those engines have to be certified to operate safely in clouds. (But) that’s when the clouds are made up of liquid water droplets.”

Benner said he expects future regulations to certify engine performance in altitudes with ice crystals in clouds.

The project Benner and Davison worked on provides a way to collect data and research in those clouds.

The team designed, fabricated, tested, delivered and operated the device to do the research, called an iso-kinetic probe.

Davison said it will be used on research aircrafts; regulatory agencies like Transportation Canada can then use the data

collected.

“It was completely unexpected and obviously a great honour to receive an award from NASA; it doesn’t happen often for staff from NRC,” Brenner said. “We endured quite a bit of uncertainty, whether or not we were going to overcome a number of challenges.”

The iso-kinetic probe work isn’t done yet. Benner and Davison are still working on another probe that will be able to undergo wind tunnel testing.

From left, Charlie Landreville, Mike Benner and Craig Davison with their iso-kinetic probe technology. It measures the amount of ice crystals in clouds, which can affect airplane engines. Benner is a Fallingbrook resident, while Davison lives in Old Ottawa South.

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Hundreds show for Ruddy-Shenkman Hospice open house Adam Kveton adam.kveton@metroland.com

News - Hospice Care Ottawa is looking to expand its services and potentially open another hospice in the city’s east end.

But any future expansion will have to wait until after construction on the RuddyShenkman Hospice in Kanata is finished, said the organization’s executive director Lisa Sullivan during the organization’s annual general meeting at the Ruddy-Shenkman Hospice on Sept. 22.

“Likely that will be some community-based services, but there is certainly interest, from a number of partners, after we are finished with the west end, to look at a site in the east end.”

In the coming year, Hospice Care Ottawa will also be looking at increasing its capacity to offer services in French as well as English, said Sullivan.

“That is an important step in our growth in the next year,” she said.

Hundreds of community

members, volunteers and hospice workers came out for the Sept. 22 open house and annual general meeting.

followed by in memoriam donations.

Apart from fundraising for the organization’s operations, Hospice Care Ottawa has also been fundraising for the Ruddy-Shenkman Hospice’s livein building, providing muchneeded beds for those unable to remain home as they approach their final days.

HOSPICE SHOWCASE

The newly refinished and furnished interior of the hospice was filled with visitors, with about 370 people attending the event, said Sullivan.

“We were just thrilled that so many people came through,” she said, adding that the event was a chance to show off the work that has been done at the former church site on 110 McCurdy Dr., and to let people know what is planned for Hospice Care Ottawa.

The annual general meeting gave attendees a look into the organization’s financials, showing that Hospice Care Ottawa is currently on budget, though she added funding is never a done deal.

“It’s always a concern financially, because we are only funded at about 55 per cent,” she said, meaning fundraising has to make up for the remaining 45 per cent.

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Hospice Care Ottawa’s executive director, Lisa Sullivan, addresses dozens of people at the organization’s annual general meeting at the Ruddy-Shenkman Hospice in Katimavik on Sept. 22.

“If we continue the way we are now with our fundraising activities, we will be able to

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Hospice Care Ottawa’s capital campaign, run in partnership with the Bruyère Foundation, has raised $4.6 million of its $6.2 million goal. Sullivan said Hospice Care Ottawa hopes that, with one last push, construction can start soon.

“That will be significant for the Kanata community if we can make that final push with that campaign, because then we can start building in 2015,” she said. “That’s our goal.”

In the coming year, the organization is hoping to increase its day hospice programs, which would allow those reaching the end of their lives to stay home as long as possible.

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A British soldier leaps over one of the obstacles in the Soldier’s Cup competition at the Connaught Range in Kanata on Sept. 19. The event was part of the Canadian Armed Forces Small Arms Concentration, a learning opportunity and competition for Canadian Forces and NATO allies to share information and find out who is the best marksman.

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

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

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

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

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

mation-sharing and competition.

Participation in the twoweek event is highly soughtafter, with soldiers having to go through tryouts to win a spot, said Master Cpl. J.D. Hackett with the 5th Canadian Division out of Gagetown, N.B. “This is probably the hardest competition that we do in Canada, in all honesty,” he said moments before beginning a portion of the team competition on Sept. 19.

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

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This included: • close-quarter battle, mixing rifle and pistol.

• casualty evacuation where four soldiers have to carry a dummy a set distance and then begin firing on moving targets from hundreds of metres away.

• counter-attack section.

• soldier’s cup which is a two-and-a-half kilometre march with an obstacle course followed by range shooting from 500 to 100 metres away.

Getting to practise longrange shooting with live ammunition is one of the draws of the competition, said Hackett, along with getting to share techniques with other soldiers.

While the competition attracts top shooters, soldiers from any branch of Canada’s military can participate.

Hackett is not a marksman by trade, but a weapons tech, and has engineers and a truck driver on his squad.

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

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

Shooting at Connaught Range was particularly difficult, he said, as wind tends to swirl on the range, meaning the wind can actually affect a bullet from multiple directions, instead of one constant direction.

One of the main purposes of the event is to not only improve marksmanship across the Canadian Armed Forces, as soldiers take knowledge back to their divisions, but to show soldiers that hitting a target less than a metre tall from 500 metres is possible for any soldier, said the competition’s director, Lt. Col. Don Haisell.

Haisell has a blind spot in his right eye, he said, so he knew he couldn’t shoot with his dominant right hand. After lots of training, Haisell learned to shoot with his left

hand, and can know make that 500-metre shot.

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

The winners of the team competition get to travel to Australia’s version of CAFSAC next year.

This year, the winners were from 2nd Canadian Division Regular Force from Quebec: • Cpl. Jason Boutin • Cpl. Simon Leclerc • Cpl. Sebastien Masse • Cpl. Jean-Philippe Joanis • Cpl. Jean-Christophe Boivin-Couillard • Cpl. Joey Tremblay • Master Cpl. Dany Lessard • Cpl. Michael Aube • Cpl. Mathieu Charest • Cpl. Dave Michaud • Cpl. Chad Dion • Cpl. Guillaume Merette

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Cpl. Johnathan Palmer (reservist) from 5th Canadian Division, left, and Cpl. Jean Christophe Boivin-Couillard (regular forces) from 2nd Canadian Division were named the top marksmen in the Canadian forces after winning the Queen’s Medal for the champion shot competition at Connaught Range in Kanata on Sept. 20. The pair are lifted up by other members of their unit in special chairs in accordance with a longstanding tradition during the finals of the Canadian Armed Forces Small Arms Concentration.

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News - Staff Sgt. Dana Reynolds and her partner were on patrol in Ottawa when they were called to help a woman in distress.

“She wasn’t making a lot of sense and she was yelling and waving her arms around,” Reynolds said.

The officers were attempting to get her to sit and calm down when the she lunged and attacked. There was no time for Reynolds or her partner to call for backup. Within seconds all three were on the ground. The woman kicked and punched the officers as they worked to handcuff her. Reynolds’ leg was hurt in the fight.

“We weren’t really of the mentality that we had to be prepared for a fight because we didn’t expect anything from this woman,” said Reynolds. “But I don’t know what she was thinking. We were just talking to her and, boom, she just started fighting with us.

“And that’s where you have to be prepared when you’re on patrol because they can just be standing still looking at you and you’re not sure if they’re planning something, or nothing at all,” said Reynolds, who has almost 20 years of policing under her belt. “You just can’t tell. It happens really quickly.”

they’d be targeted more to go on those types of (mental-crisis) calls, because they have the additional training,” said Reynolds, head of the police mentalhealth unit.

If the pilot training initiative is approved by senior police brass, the program could be delivered to brand new officers returning from police college as soon as January.

“By starting out targeting recruits, we’ll get the most out of them on the front line because they have to stay on patrol for (five) years,” said Reynolds.

Incident scenarios, guest speakers with mental illness and medical insight on mental illness have been part of the service’s current two-day, twice-yearly training program, which has been offered for at least three years.

Most of the 40 people who attend each session are patrol officers, though BRYAN MCNALLY/OTTAWA POLICE SERVICE spots are also reserved by external Dr. Peter Boyles, left, and Const. Stéphane Quesnel, with the Ottawa agencies, such as security personnel police service mental-health unit, respond to calls involving a mental- from the Ottawa-Carleton Detention health crisis as part of the service’s Live program, which expanded full Centre and OC Transpo. time this summer. “(The police officers) are always really happy with the additional trainBut with specialized mental-health tends beyond equipping them with ing that they get because everybody training in her arsenal, the situation guns and radios. does feel like we’re expected increasmight have unfolded differently.

For that reason, the Ottawa police ingly to deal with people that are not “Maybe I would have picked up mental-health unit, which was estab- well, and we have no training or exon the fact that she probably wasn’t lished in 2006 and has since evolved pertise when it comes to that,” said mentally well earlier and I would into a full-time unit, is looking to ex- Reynolds. have maybe given her more space,” pand the twice-yearly mental-health Reynolds estimates one in five calls Reynolds said of the incident about 12 training it provides officers from two to police have a mental-health comyears ago. to five days. ponent, but she suspects it could be Arming patrol officers who work “The officer receives a pin and much higher. the front lines of policing in Ottawa they’re recognized on their platoon as “Certainly (officers) that haven’t with the right tools of the trade ex- crisis-intervention officers, and then been on the road in some time and go

back are shocked at how many people you’re dealing with are mentally ill compared to 10 years ago when we were doing the same police work, but not seeing the same demographics,” Reynolds said.

Police agencies across Canada are experiencing similar pressures, and a number of reports released this summer provide blueprints on how police services can do better.

The goal should be “zero deaths when police interact with a member of the public – no death of the subject, the police officer involved, or any member of the public,” wrote retired Supreme Court justice Frank Iacobucci in his July report on the Toronto police service’s use of lethal force, with a special focus on encounters between police and people in crisis.

Before the Ottawa police mentalhealth unit’s expanded training program can be launched, Reynolds and another mental-health officer hope to travel to Memphis, Tenn. in October to see first-hand the delivery of the crisis-intervention training.

The development of specialized crisis-intervention training for officers with the Memphis Police Department in Tennessee began after one of its officers shot and killed a knife-wielding man with a history of mental illness in 1987.

Since then, the Memphis Model, as it is known, has spread to thousands of police agencies across the U.S., and into Canada.

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Police and doctor partnership expands full time Continued from page 33

Studies show the use of this model has helped decrease officer injury rates.

It also involves partnerships between police and mental-health service providers, which allow for more information sharing and streamline the process of taking people to the hospital with the goal of diverting more individuals from judicial and health-care systems.

During training, officers, and to some extent emergency dispatchers, spend 40 hours interacting with people with mental illness, training in de-escalation scenarios and visiting mental-health facilities.

They also learn about mental illnesses, crisis intervention, medication side effects, legal liability, suicide prevention, developmental disabilities and the effects of drugs and alcohol.

DOCTOR-POLICE PARTNERSHIP

To further assist patrol officers and help people in the community with

mental illness, the Ottawa police mental-health unit recently expanded a program that pairs together mentalhealth officers with psychiatrists.

The Live program, largely funded

by The Ottawa Hospital, launched as a one year part-time pilot program in July 2012. As it enters its third year, the Live program was expanded this summer from three to five days, Monday to Friday.

“Sometimes we have two cars out now,” said Dr. Peter Boyles, a psychiatrist with The Ottawa Hospital who does ride-alongs with police.

When it comes to mental healthrelated calls, frustrated Ottawa patrol officers have for years complained of long waits in emergency rooms for the person in their custody to be assessed. Often individuals were not even admitted to hospital.

Studies have shown that up to 20 per cent of police patrol time is spent dealing with the mentally ill, and that number is on the rise, said Boyles.

By having Boyles respond to calls with officers, he can assess a person right at the scene, as well as call the person’s family doctor, fill out hospi-

tal admission forms, prescribe medications and check online medical records.

He can also streamline the hospital admission process.

And that means getting people timely and proper help.

“If you’re told right at the scene this is what you need and here’s how you get it, I think people feel better,” Boyles said.

“If they do need hospitalization, the care starts immediately rather than waiting eight hours in a busy emergency room.”

Over the course of 112 days during the pilot phase of the program, between July 2012 and July 2013, 245 calls were handled.

Fifty-one people assessed at the scene were taken directly to psychiatric emergency hospital services.

Another 88 people were diverted to outpatient services and other community providers.

In all, 918 hours of police time was saved.

By having a doctor at their disposal, police say they have an advantage when it comes to ensuring the safety

of the community, the person in distress and police themselves – one of the overarching goals underscored in Iacobucci’s Toronto police use-offorce report.

Studies have shown that up to 20 per cent of police patrol time is spent dealing with the mentally ill, and that number is on the rise.

DR. PETER BOYLES, OTTAWA HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIST

Too often, police arrive at a scene where there are many unknowns about a person’s behaviour. Often the symptoms are related to drug use, or a combination of mental illness and drugs.

“Addiction can mimic mental illness and so a doctor is better at sorting out: do they need addiction help, do they need mental-health help or do they need both?” Boyles said.

The psychiatrist at the scene can provide police with the information they need to decide which course of action to take in the interests of community safety.

“We just don’t have, as police officers, the tools to assess what’s going on with them,” said Reynolds.

In one case, an Ottawa man who was brandishing a knife barricaded himself in his home.

One of Boyles’ resident psychiatrists responded to the call with a mental-health police officer, among other uniformed police.

“Obviously when you’re holding a knife, the whole gamut of police arrive,” said Boyles.

The resident psychiatrist used an iPad to access the person’s medical records, and determined the man had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

“And the SWAT team listened to us on what was the best way to get him out of the house safely and get him the care that he needs,” Boyles said.

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It could have been much different. It could have escalated.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He’s not responding.”

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

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

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peared in a closed visiting room.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LACK OF BEDS

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

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

To make matters worse, Correction-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Too often, security trumped treatment, stated the report.

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

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

The CSC has rejected the recommendation.

HOWARD SAPERS

HEATHER STUART

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With files from Erin McCracken

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

BY THE NUMBERS 50%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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News - The last item purchased with the Vanier Community Association’s 2013 Better Neighbourhoods grant will soon show its face on Vanier streets.

The community association received one of the first grants from the then city’s new Better Neighbourhoods Office in 2013 to help improve or add to the community.

The grant Vanier received was aimed to help fund a community festival, to add way-finding signs in the neighbourhood and to bring community directories, or bulletin boards into the area.

These directories have taken a bit more time to get off the ground, said Nick Heisler, the association’s board member in charge of implementing the project.

From design issues, dealing with city staff and getting the directories built, the last piece to

the better neighbourhoods’ puzzle will finally be going up.

“It’s moving forward with five suggested locations,” Heisler said.

The five suggested locations are Beechwood Avenue and the Vanier Parkway, Marier Avenue and Beechwood, Marier and Montreal Road, Cummings Bridge and Montreal Road and McArthur Road and the Vanier Parkway.

These directories will have a map to identify where in the neighbourhood someone is, it will have a list of businesses and could share and update residents about events, meetings, places to visit or areas to see in the community.

The way-finding signs, purple signs indicating places and things to walk to in Vanier were placed in 25 different locations throughout the neighbourhood.

Those signs, too, took some time to go from a winning idea to a reality, with the signs only recently being placed on telephone poles and street signs this past spring.

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

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

You see, it was the height of the Depression, and every day I knew was a challenge for him, a challenge to survive yet another year, and then a comfort to know that the summer had yielded good crops and the winter ahead would be one of contentment.

That didn’t mean of course, that there wouldn’t be work to be done. The long winter months would be filled with chores, but there wouldn’t be days of worry about a drought that could wipe out the fields of grain, or endless rain equally as damaging. Winter

MARY COOK Memories would be a time of catching up on fixing broken-down stalls in the cow byre, hauling in wood from the bush, and fixing harnesses, and mending aging machinery.

But by the time the end of summer was upon us, I could see a change in Father. Although he talked little about it, I knew just by looking at him that his mind, for months, had been on survival. The summer months could make or break us, and I was old enough to sense uneasiness in Father at the end of each day.

His days during those summer months began before daybreak, as he strived to make use of every waking

hour while the weather held.

At night, as the darkness descended on us, I would watch Father go to the back door and look out at the sky, looking for any sign that the weather would change and we would be faced with torrential rain.

Or he would look for clouds if we were going through a dry spell that threatened to rob us of the grain that would see us through another winter.

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

He still went to the barns every night to check on the

animals, but he no longer looked anxiously out at the night sky, trying to read what the next day would bring.

I thought, back then, by the time the fall weather was ready to settle in, that his face didn’t show the weariness I saw nightly during the summer.

He ate his supper more slowly, and I was quick to notice every page of the Ottawa Farm Journal was read, and he stayed longer in the old rocking chair by the Findlay Oval, as the darkness of the fall night closed in around us.

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

And I would know. I would know without asking why this change in Father from one season to the next was taking place.

The hay mow would be full, and there was no worry that

we would not have enough hay to feed our animals over the long winter.

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

Grain would be plentiful.

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

That year, it had been a good season, one amongst

few in those Depression years.

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

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

The time to worry was over. All that could be done to survive had been done.

There was nothing left to do, but cherish the warmth of home, and give grateful thanks.

That one year in those lean 1930’s, I knew in my very young heart, just looking at the change in Father, we had been blessed beyond measure.

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New speaker series aims to draw members to committee First meeting to discuss the importance of bees Michelle Nash michelle.nash@metroland.com

News - The Glebe Community Association’s environment committee will be doing something a little different this year.

In an effort to gain new members and interest from the community, the committee will host a series of talks this year.

Dubbed Public Talk, the monthly event will take a look at provincial, national or global environment concerns and focus on what residents can do locally concerning the issue.

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“We want more members,” KellerHerzog said.

The events will all have a local hook, Keller-Herzog added; explaining it’s the committee’s way to tackle major environment concerns locally.

First up is a look at bees on Oct. 8 -- the Vanishing of bees and pollinators in Canada, will discuss what local and municipal residents can respond and make a difference in their own neighbourhood.

Presented by Beatrice Olivastri from the Friends of the Earth Canada, the speaker series will begin at 7:30 p.m. and run until 9 p.m. Regular committee business will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

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Keller-Herzog said the group is still working on what the topics of each monthly meeting will be, but interested residents can email the group at environment@glebeca.ca for more information about the committee and the upcoming speaker series.

The Glebe Community Association’s environment committee, which hosted this bio blitz event last June, has made plans to host a special speaker series this year, with each meeting focusing on a different expert’s view on a relevant environment concern to the community.

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College students welcome new Learjet Former air ambulance to serve as learning tool for aircraft maintenance Steph Willems steph.willems@metroland.com

News â&#x20AC;&#x201C; It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t every day that the single-engine aircraft that frequent Rockliffe Airport share space with a jet, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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At 11 a.m., a Learjet 35 inbound from Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport touched down on the short runway behind the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, marking the last

flight of the former air ambulance.

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Having the end of its service life, the Learjet is being donated to the school from Skyservice Air Ambulance of Dorval, Que. -- a suburb of Montreal.

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Students from Algonquin Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aircraft maintenance program joined school officials and representatives from the Canada Aviation and Space Museum at Rockliffe Airport on Sept. 25, as the college took ownership of a donated Learjet 35. The former air ambulance was flown from Montreal to serve as a basis of the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curriculum.

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The Ottawa Humane Society believes it’s important to teach humane education in schools to teach animal care and welfare to our younger generation. By examining the relationship between humans and animals, students recognize that we share many of the same physical and emotional needs. Humane education school presentations teach kindness and respect while working to create a compassionate and humane society for animals.

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

The OHS has also introduced three new presentations this year: UÊ À>`iÊ {\Ê Ê Ý ÃÌ }Ê Ü Ì Ê Urban Wildlife where students learn about wildlife conflicts as they relate to urban communities and habitat loss, and collaboratively resolve various conflict scenarios to explore how we V> Ê LiÃÌÊ ¼V iÝ ÃÌ½Ê Ü Ì Ê ÕÀL> Ê Ü ` viÊ in our community.

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about the current plight of livestock/ v `Ê> > ÃÊ Ê > >`>]ÊÌ iÊÀi}Õ >Ì ÃÊ surrounding their care, as well as the importance of conscious consumerism and advocacy on this topic.

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“We have a superb traffic committee to deal with the outside of Lansdowne, but this committee will deal with the internals of the park.”

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The result so far is a committee comprised of Slemko and a few other Glebe residents.

Slemko said he is looking for more members to join the small group. Interested residents can contact Slemko at gca@glebeca.ca.

In an update at the association’s Sept. 23 meeting, Slemko reported that the committee will focus on the positive side of the large development in the neighbourhood.

According to Slemko, the committee intends to build relationships, maximize the community

benefits and minimize the negative by being a group that can deal with issues and concerns and lastly, keep the community aware of what’s going on at the park and take part in the conversation of how the public space can be used.

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Part of the role of the committee will be to liaise with the Ottawa

Sports and Entertainment Group on what to expect with the retail side of the development and when to expect it. So far, of the retail space leased, a few of stores are expected to open this month, including TD Bank, which will move into its new space in the park on Oct. 6, Winners will open on Oct. 16, Sporting Life is aiming to open mid-October and Whole Foods is scheduled to open on Nov. 19. GoodLife fitness

is planning to open in early 2015.

Aside from trying to stay ahead of the retail store openings and keep residents informed, Slemko said the next steps for the group will be to focus on specific uses of the park, including working with the city on particular programming.

More information about the committee and its role with Lansdowne Park is available on the association’s website, gca.ca.

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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-224-3330, E-mail: Ottawasouth@metroland.com The deadline for community event submissions is Friday at noon. Email your events to ottawasouth@metroland.com.

Until Oct. 21 Enjoy family storytime at the Alta Vista library branch on Tuesdays, Sept. 16 to Oct. 21, from 10:30 to 11 a.m. There will be stories, rhymes and songs for all ages. No registration is required.

items, toys and games. Proceeds will support the church.

For more information, visit rideaupark.ca, or call 613733-3156, ext 229.

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Healthy aging will be the topic of discussion on Oct. 7, from 9:15 to 11 a.m. at Arlington Woods Hall, located at 225 McClellan Rd. A chiropractor will speak, and Stephanie Fukumoto will sing. Cost is $5, or $2 for a first-time attendee. The cost includes childcare, light refreshments and door prizes.

To reserve your spot, call 613-721-1257 or 613-8292063. The event is sponsored

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Toddlers are invited to take part in the Alta Vista library’s toddler time program featuring stories, rhymes and songs for children ages 18 to 36 months. Registration is not required. The events take place on Wednesdays, Sept.

17 to Oct. 22, from 10:30 to 11 a.m.

Come dance the night away at Emmanuel United Church, which presents Big Band music of the ’40s and ’50s as well as Broadway show tunes on Oct. 3, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. The Fall Frolic Big Band dance features the 15-piece Silver Swing Orchestra, and feature vocalist Mary Simpson will perform. Dress is casual to black tie, and prizes and refreshments will be available. Tickets are $20 for adults and $12 for students.

For details, call 613-7330437. The church is located at 691 Smyth Rd.

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Babies up to 18 months old and their caregivers are welcome to enjoy stories, rhymes and songs at the Alta Vista branch of the Ottawa Public Library on Mondays, Sept.

15 to Oct. 20, from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Another session takes place on Thursdays, from Sept. 18 to Oct. 23, from 1 to 1:30 p.m. Registration is not required.

Find out if you are Mensa material by taking a test on Oct. 4. Mensa is a high IQ society that welcomes people from every walk of life with an IQ in the top 2 per cent of the population. Ottawa and Gatineau Mensans get together regularly for a range of activities including dinners, theater nights, a book club and games night. For details, visit mensacanada.org, or send an email to Nicole Belec at nicole.belec@mensacanada.org.

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Oct. 2 Library staff will demonstrate new Google Chromebook laptops and offer one-on-one assistance on Oct. 2, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at the Greenboro branch of the Ottawa Public Library. Registration is not required. For more information, please call 613580-2940.

The next meeting of the Ottawa Humane Society Auxiliary takes place Oct. 2 at 1:30pm at the Ottawa Humane Society Shelter, located at 245 West Hunt Club Rd. New members are welcome to attend.

Are you retired or soon-tobe retired and looking for assistance in downsizing or choosing the retirement community that best suits your needs, as well as guidance on handling your estate, from managing your assets to selling real estate? A free information session designed for Legion members, other seniors and their families will be held on Oct. 4, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Westboro Legion. To RSVP, call Amy at 613.406.6031.

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A fall nearly new sale will be held at Rideau Park United Church, 2203 Alta Vista Dr. on Oct. 3, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and Oct. 4, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. There will be gently used clothing, household

The Harvest of Hope auction and banquet takes place on Oct. 7 at 5:30 p.m. in support of the Caldwell Family Centre Food Bank. The event will take place at the Ron Kolbus Lakeside Centre, located at

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Learn about careers with the city of Ottawa during an information session on city job postings, the application process and how to navigate the online recruitment tool. The event is scheduled for Oct. 7, from 2 to 3 p.m., at the Greenboro branch of the Ottawa Public Library. Register online at biblioottawalibrary. ca, or phone 613-580-2940 for more details.

Patients, family members and caregivers are welcome to attend a Sjogren’s Syndrome support group on Oct. 7, from 1 to 3 p.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle Anglican Church, located at 2345 Alta Vista Dr. There is no admission, but a contribution of a non-perishable item for the food bank is appreciated. For details, call Gail at 613-526-5433.

The Canadian Federation of University Women of Nepean hosts guest speaker Kathy Lucking with the Madagascar School Project, who will speak on the history and needs of children in Madagascar. The event takes place Oct. 7 at 1 p.m. at the Bells Corners United Church, located at 3955 Old Richmond Rd. For details, visit cfuwnepean.ca, or call 613-257-1747.

Oct. 8 St. Aidan’s Anglican Church harvest dinner will be on Oct 8. There will be two sittings,

one at 5 p.m. and a second at 6:30 p.m. Tickets will be available at the church office by calling 613-733-0102, and by emailing staidans@ bellnet.ca. Adults are $20 and children, ages six to 12, are $10. The meal will be a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and all the trimmings and homemade pies.

The church is located at 934 Hamlet Rd. near the Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre.

A childcare connection meeting will take place Oct. 8 at the Ontario Early Years Centre, located at 2330 Don Reid Dr., from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. to connect parents looking for home daycare services with caregivers who have space in their daycare. For more information, go to ccprn.com, or call 613-749-5211, ext.

23. The event is organized by the Child Care Providers Network, a non-profit, charitable organization that provides information, training, resources and support to home childcare providers.

Oct. 15 The community is invited for a night of fun and fashion on Oct. 15 at Rideau Park United Church, located at 2203 Alta Vista Dr. Doors open at 6 p.m. for homemade desserts and a preview of the fashions and accessories. The Fall Fashion Show begins at 7:30 p.m. and will feature the 2014 collection by Judy Joannou Designs. All are welcome.

Proceeds go to the work of the church. Tickets are $15 and are available from the church office, Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For details, call 613-733-3156, ext. 228, or visit rideaupark. ca

Oct. 16 A special event will be held at the Fred Barrett Arena on Oct. 16, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. in support of the Ottawa South Women’s Connection and Stonecroft Ministries.

The event at the arena, located at 3280 Leitrim Rd. near Bank Street, will include a demonstration on interchangeable handbags by Beth Lacasse, as well as a faith

story, a singer, door prizes, refreshments and child care will be available. Admission is $5. For details, call 613249-0919.

Oct. 18 Dispose of your personal records securely during the annual Kiwanis shred-it day on Oct. 18, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bring old tax files and other personal records for this one-day Kiwanis Club of Ottawa event. Watch as shred-it technicians destroy documents at their mobile unit.

All proceeds will benefit the Kiwanis Christmas food basket program. The event takes place at Hampton Park Plaza at 1399 Carling Ave. Cost is $8 per box, and a maximum of five boxes are permitted per person. For details, visit ottawakiwanis.org, or contact the Kiwanis office by calling 613-233-1900.

Ottawa – Lost … and Found! is a riddle-iculous event that is a fundraiser and an unusual scavenger hunt on Oct. 18, at 2 p.m., at First Baptist Church, located at 140 Laurier Ave. West. Register in advance at rotaryottawametro. ca. Cost is $5 per person, or $20 per team of four to five people. Proceeds will go to Rotary Club of Ottawa Metro and the Rotary Home Adult Respite Care program.

Oct. 20 The Gloucester Horticultural Society presents a public talk on perennials and woodies on Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at 4373 Generation Crt. Master gardener Mary Reid of Green Thumb Garden Centre will present the pros and cons of newly introduced perennials, shrubs and trees. Admission is free, and pre-registration is recommended. Call 613749-8897 or visit gardenontario.org/site.php/glouster for details.

Oct. 23 Information and advice on a range of topics including wills and power of attorney, choosing your attorney and executor, designating your beneficiaries and information on probate will be presented

by Alice Yoch, a financial planner, mortgage specialist Pauline Ghanbari and lawyer Jean-Nicolas Crepin. The event takes place on Oct. 23, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Greenboro branch of the Ottawa Public Library. Register online at biblioottawalibrary. ca, or call 613-580-2940 for more details.

Oct. 25 There will be a used book drop-off in support of the Central Experimental Farm’s Friends of the Farm. The event takes place on Oct. 25, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Magazines, textbooks or encyclopedias will not be accepted. The event takes place in building 72 of the farm’s arboretum, located east off the Prince of Wales Drive roundabout. For more information, call 613-230-3276 or visit friendsofthefarm. ca/events.htm#events.

Ongoing Stay in shape for active living every Tuesday and Thursday, from 9 to 10 a.m., for the 50-plus Fitness Group at Rideau Park United Church, located at 2203 Alta Vista Dr. The program runs Oct. 7 to Nov. 27. An hour of gentle, yet thorough movement is offered twice weekly to women and men. A fee of $40 is payable at the first class. Plan to keep fit by continuing with the winter session in January 2015. For more information, call the church office on weekdays at 613-733-3156, ext. 229.

The Strathcona legion hosts social euchre every Monday at 1 p.m., social drop-in darts on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. and dinner every Friday at 5:30 p.m. with entertainment at 7 p.m. The branch has also added bingo to its lineup of events every Tuesday, starting at 7 p.m. Call the branch at 613-236-1575 for more information.

In Harmony, a woman’s chorus, welcomes new members.

Practices are from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays. Call 613722-0066 for details.

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