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audits and train staff to ensure incidents in the library branches are properly reported. The addition of a child-porn filter is a direct result of that work, said library board chairwoman Coun. Jan Harder. The filter will only prevent the viewing of illegal child pornography – not legal porn. “We’re focused on preventing illegal activity in the library,” Stirling said.
News - Learning math and arithmetic doesn’t have to be dull or hard. Just ask South Ottawa teenager Kevin Wang, who stars on a made-inOttawa show designed to help young students learn the numbers subject. The second season of The Prime Radicals launched on Sept. 5 on TVOKids in the province and across Canada. The show, said Kevin, puts the fun back into learning math. The series follows the Ontario math curriculum for children ages 6 to 8, and features Kevin 9as Kevin) and co-stars Alanna Bale (Alanna) and Norman MacQueen as Uncle Norm. Each 14-minute live action episode was shot in and around Ottawa. The Shenkman Arts Centre in Orleans was home to The Prime Radicals, which includes, as seen on the show, Uncle Norman’s workshop. The Radicals – cousins Kevin and Alanna – come to the rescue every time on the scene of Uncle Norm’s latest misadventure. They enlist experts to help them solve Uncle Norm’s problems with mathematical solutions. Five local singers contributed and recorded vocals for the opening tunes at General Assembly Production Centre, the entertainment company producing the show, at their studio on Laperriere Street in West Ottawa. Ottawa viewers will recognize many notable landmarks on the show, including Pinto Valley Ranch, a local dairy farm, and Fulton’s Sugar Bush.
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A Christian music festival marks its second year.
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The long arms of the law Members of the Ottawa police team pull a 36,000-kilogram Air Canada Embraer E-190 aircraft a distance of four metres during Plane Pull Challenge 8, a fundraiser held at the airport on Sept. 14. The day raised $80,000 for Project Clear Skies and the Ottawa Senators Foundation, bringing the total haul from plane pull events to $380,000 over the past eight years.
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Part three of our series on dyslexia looks at private services. – Page 24
MPP Ottawa South
Educational TV shows puts magic back into math
Moms invited to the Rideauview Community Centre on Sept. 26. – Page 3
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Local actor stars in homegrown series
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News - For the first time, the Ottawa Public Library has taken steps to filter its Internet connection to prevent child pornography from being viewed or downloaded. The Ottawa Public Library already filters content viewed by children by using their library cards to block sexual, hateful, violent or gambling-related content, said Jennifer Stirling, the
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library’s manager of technology and innovation. Now, the library is in the process of acquiring software that will prevent child pornography from being viewed on any library computer throughout the city. The filter will extend to the library’s Wi-Fi network so the illegal material can’t be viewed on people’s laptops or other devices. The library has been working with the police this year to conduct safety
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