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Parents at Regina Street Public School are hoping a last-minute proposal for a teaching partnership with the University of Ottawa is what’s needed to keep the school’s doors open.

“I think we are at the end of the process, and have said what we have to say and I think we’re kind of done now and just have our fingers crossed,” said Heather Amundrud, school council chair for Regina Street Public School.

“It’s been a long 10 months.”

Regina Street Public School is one of several schools board staff has indicated could close this fall in its summary of recommendations for change.

The recommended closures include D. Aubrey Moodie Intermediate School, Greenbank Middle School, Leslie Park Public School, Grant Public School, Century Public School, Regina Street Public School and J.H. Putman Public School.

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Final recommendations could look different: Seward will come into effect in September,” she said.

The partnership can’t move forward if the school is shut down.

The proposal would have the university renting space at Regina Street public, helping to fill space inside the build-

school with Regina’s teachers, who are considered experts in outdoor education, teaching the next generation of teachers and making use of Mud Lake.

“This partnership is just being proposed now, and we’re hoping that if the school stays open, that it

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Amundrud is hoping a new proposed partnership with the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education could keep the doors open.

Under the proposal, Regina Street Public School would become a lab

ing and bring in more money for the board.

“We think we have a compelling proposal, partly with this Mud Lake proposal, but also with our outdoor education component.

We’re hoping that makes a difference.”

Concerned community members across the west end have attended consultations and meetings to advocate for their community school in the hopes that it stays open in September. The most recent, and final public meeting, was held on Jan. 10.

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“They heard the input, took it seriously and said that the recommendations would probably look somewhat different ...”

It was in September that the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board approved the start of two pupil-accommodation reviews: one in the west end of Ottawa, which involves 26 schools, and one in the east end of Ottawa, which involved three secondary schools — Rideau, Gloucester and Colonel By Secondary School.

Regina Street Public School parents aren’t the only one’s making a case for their schools.

A petition, with about 250 supporters, was started on change.org to stop overcrowding at Agincourt Road Public School. According to the petition, if J.H. Putman Public School closes, there could be overcrowding at Agincourt.

“Both schools are already over capacity, this would mean expanded use of portables, and would place particular strain on already busy common areas,” the petition reads. The petition proposes that the public school board allow Agincourt Road Public School and J.H. Putman to remain as is, until Agincourt has been expanded.

“I think everybody is trying to argue their case,” Amundrud said of consultations and other efforts initiated by the community.

“Everybody has reasons why their school is special and why it should stay open. It’s just letting the school board know those reasons that’s important,” she said.

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are listening, said Shirley Seward chair of the school board.

“I’m hoping to see that staff have taken into consideration the comments of people,” Seward said of the forthcoming recommendations.

During the final consultation, Seward said staff gave an overview of what they’ve heard about the four families of schools. From that presentation, Seward said she sensed some movement on the part of staff ’s original proposal.

“They heard the input, took it seriously and said that the recommendations would probably look somewhat different and that’s what you hope to have in a good consultation process. You hope to get really good input and suggestions of how the original recommendations can be improved,” she said. “That’s what I’m hoping to see when we see the report.”

Seward pointed to the closure of J.H. Putman Public School as an example. While parents would prefer the school to stay open, they’ve suggested that if it has to close, it not be until the new addition is finished at Agincourt Public School to avoid overcrowding.

“That was an example and a really good example of what staff said they were looking at (for) alternative options for moving forward. That’s the kind of thing I hope we see in the final report and that’s why consultation is important,” she said.

On the question of the proposed partnership between Regina Street Public School and the University of Ottawa, Seward said staff will have to take a look at that.

“Transition planning will be a very important part of what happens next and these kinds of issues will be very much at the front of everybody’s minds,” she said, declining to comment on the specific case.

While the public meetings are over, there’s still time for parents to voice concerns about the closures at the board meetings.

The report with staff ’s recommendations will be released on Jan. 27. The committee of the whole will consider the staff report for the Western Area Review on Feb. 13. The public is welcome at those meetings.

“During that debate people are very welcome to come and make delegations at our meetings and many people have been doing that already and I would encourage more people to,” Seward said.

Questions or concerns regarding the proposed changes for the Western Area Review can be emailed to westernareareview@ocdsb.ca.

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The Vibe Lounge in Hintonburg will close its doors for good on March 31.

The city suspended the cafés food premise license in December after a shooting death occurred a block south on Bayswater Avenue near Laurel Street.

Dozens of residents lined the chambers at Ben Franklin Place for the licence committee hearing on Jan. 10.

Doug Wallace, the chair of the committee, used to work as a city solicitor.

“These hearings don’t normally draw such a crowd,” he said at the beginning of the meeting.

Francine Levert and Dan Beaton, who live close to the Somerset Street West location, said they’re happy to see the place go.

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Max said the landlord will be on the look out for new tenants.

The café is on the ground floor, but there are other tenants at 1066 Somerset St. W. Donatucci negotiated the deal with the city that would see the licence suspended until the end of the current lease. After March 31, a new application for the location can be made without prejudice, as long as no one involved with the current hookah café is involved with the application.

Leiper said the suspension of the Vibe Lounge’s licence and termination of the lease is good news for Hintonburg.

“I think the violence was really localized,” he said, adding that generally, the gentrification of Hintonburg has made it a safe place to live.

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At a meeting on Jan. 9, Claridge Homes unveiled its plans for what it is calling “East Flats,” which includes a 55-storey tower at its centre.

“No doubt there are some positive pieces to what they have shown us,” Coun. Catherine McKenney said in an interview after the meeting.

“I always say height in itself is not always a negative thing, but I think that if you look at what they are proposing here, it is excessive.”

In total, Claridge is proposing to construct five buildings — three 25-storey towers, the

signature tower at 55 storeys, and a 30-storey tower.

McKenney highlighted some of the plan’s positives, including uncovering the aqueduct, and adding public amenity space as well as cycling and pedestrian connections, and she is applauding the plan for the buildings to face Booth Street. All of that is good, she said, but it it’s being overshadowed.

“While they are providing some nice public space, it looks like it would get negatively shadowed,” McKenney said.

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the development will interact with and complement existing neighbourhoods. As details emerge, she’ll also keep an eye on how the development deals with things like parking and affordable housing.

Claridge purchased the property from the National Capital Commission in 2005 for $8 million. There are already two condo buildings on the site.

Danny Brown, an urban planner with Urban Strategies Inc., which is working with Claridge on the project, said between 200 and 250 people attended the open house.

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Claridge has been working with the NCC and the city on the plan for about three years.

Brown said Claridge had been waiting to see what was happening with the west Flats land, but now feels it’s time to move forward.

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Despite temperatures reaching -26 C with the wind chill on Jan. 14, thousands braved the cold weather to be some of the first to skate on the Rideau Canal in 2017.

The skateway officially opened the 47th season with a 4.4-kilometre stretch of the canal opening up for skaters, from the Laurier Avenue bridge to the Bronson Avenue bridge at 8 a.m.

Ottawa Centre MP Catherine McKenna got to be the lucky one to formally announce the canal was open several hours later, as bundled up families skated past behind her.

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This year Winterlude is jam-packed with activities to showcase both the best of this city and 150 years of what makes Canadian winter fun.

Winterlude begins on Feb. 3 and runs until Feb. 20 at three main locations: the Snowflake Kingdom in Jacques-Cartier Park in Gatineau, the Crystal Garden in Confederation Park and on the Rideau Canal Skateway in Ottawa.

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Then there's Ottawa. Do we care what outsiders think about us? Do Canada geese poop on golf courses?

It was all too apparent when the New York Times ran a travel piece about our city, part of a regular feature in which a Times writer spends 36 hours in a city. As it happened, Ottawa got a rave review, the writer accurately pointing out some of the more interesting views and tastes in the city.

So that was enjoyable. What was less enjoyable was the narcissistic

CHARLES GORDON Funny Town manner with which the article was received. Media outlet after media outlet ran big features on it. The New York Times likes us! The writer himself was chased down and interviewed, perhaps to see if we could squeeze just a few more complimentary remarks out of him.

Commentary was all over the airwaves and print media. Has our little city grown up? Isn't it swell to be noticed? All of the previous slights to our reputation were dredged up again, and dismissed in light of the new evidence produced by a foreign publication.

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Coma City? Not any more (if ever).

Best thing about Ottawa is the train to Montreal? Hey, not now!

There was even discussion of a previous Times piece (two years ago on Jan. 18, not that we really pay that much attention) in which the writer didn't get things exactly right.

So euphoric was the mood, so lifted were we by the out-of-town praise, that Ottawans almost forgot to complain about what was omitted. Hey, what about the hockey team, what about Westboro, what about Rockcliffe, what about the Experimental Farm? What about the little place you like where the grilled cheese sandwich comes with a sprig of parsley on it?

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Well, enough. If this is a mature city, which it often seems to be, it doesn't need to concern itself about what out-of-towners think, no matter how distinguished. If this is a mature city, it just goes about its business, concentrating instead on how to make life better for the people who spend more than 36 hours at a time here.

That means schools, roads, buses, walkable neighbourhoods, rinks, hospitals - all of the things that don't make themselves obvious to the visiting expert. If those are good, and they mostly are, we can take pride in that, without actually having to brag about it.

Ottawa is not the only city to be overly conscious of how the world sees it. Vancouver preens a bit and Toronto is obsessed with being compared favourably with New York.

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Police add downtown information session

BY MICHELLE NASH BAKER michelle.nash@metroland.com

A fourth information session concerning changes to Ottawa police’s front line deployment has been added for downtown residents to attend.

According to the police, the new service model will make it easier to move resources across the city and streamline the process for those who need to access services.

The changes are part of a strategy called the service initiative program, which is designed to improve how police serve the community.

The new date and time is Jan. 25 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at city hall.

Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury said he couldn’t believe that a downtown consultation wasn’t organized in the first place, and quickly brought it to the organization’s attention.

“I’m happy that they corrected their mistake, it was a weird thing that they had not thought of consulting down-

town residents,” Fleury said of the orginal three mettings that were announced.

The front line deployment model received backlash when it was first presented in April 2016.

Many residents expressed concern that community policing efforts would be eliminated and low-crime areas would be underserved.

Community officers will continue to be part of the new model, in the community safety services unit, but the areas served will be less about geography and more about which areas need more police assistance, according to police.

“Community officers will be realigned to better address high-priority areas,” according to the department’s website.

Other changes to the police service delivery model that have already been made include a new organizational structure for investigative units and the creation of a strategic operations centre.

Located at the Greenbank police station, the centre acts as a

service hub for operations and can share information — such as floor plans, suspect photos and related incidents — with officers responding to calls.

With the new service model, filing police reports is going to become even more important, said Eli El-Chantiry, chair of the police board and councillor of West Carleton-March.

Reports will help police determine which areas need a higher presence, he said.

“We don’t require as much policing in Fitzroy as we do in the ByWard Market. I’m not saying we should ignore Fitzroy but the call for service will generate the attention,” said El-Chantiry. “The new model is going to focus more on the areas where police are needed. That’s why it’s important residents make those calls.”

Police issued 1,100 speeding tickets along Dunrobin Road in his ward “because people kept calling,” El-Chantiry said.

“That’s how you’re going to get the service.”

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Ottawa police will host four community meetings – in Kanata, Nepean, Orléans and downtown – to discuss changes to its service delivery model, as well as alterations that have already taken place.

All residents are encouraged to attend one of the three meetings since the changes will affect the entire city, said El-Chantiry.

“At the information sessions, residents will learn

about their community police officers, how to access policing services, where to direct concerns about safety in their neighbourhood, and more,” police said in a news release.

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I hope you and your families had a refreshing holiday and are enjoying the snowy winter weather so far this January.

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The Canadian War Museum is getting hockey boards from Afghanistan that are painted with a Canadian Flag. The boards will be on display after their arrival, which is scheduled for February.

Hockey boards painted with Canadian flag now en route from Afghanistan

BY MELISSA MURRAY mmurray@metroland.com

A reminder of home for soldiers and Canadian civilians in Afghanistan will find a new home at the Canadian War Museum next month.

The hockey boards from Kandahar's airfield in Afghanistan, which were once painted with a vibrant Canadian Flag, will be flown to Canada in February before being displayed at the museum.

Photos of the boards show them beaten up and marked from the many games played on the ball hockey rink.

The boards are in line with what the museum generally seeks out, according to the museum's executive director Stephen Quick. They look for items that show all sides of the conflict - the battle, the home front, supportive roles, as well as how people survive through

war, how it changes them and how it changes the social fabric of the country afterwards.

"Having something as iconic as a set of boards from a rink in Kandahar with a Canadian flag on it is a bit of a no brainer," Quick said of the museum's acquisition.

As soon as the boards arrive in Ottawa, he said they'd be on display, either in the museum's main atrium or in the post 1945 gallery.

The minute the war museum learned the boards were coming, discussions about how to incorporate them started.

Since then, the museum has received a number of emails with stories, photos and videos of players using the rink.

One video shows a rocket attack with players and civilians running and ducking for cover, then minutes later cheering and getting back to the game.

"It looks like Armageddon," Quick said of the video. "I think the person who was filming went to the air raid shelter and it kept filming ... you see people running and ducking."

"There's rockets landing 300 feet from the rink but they're so into the game itself - it speaks to what they were going through at the time."

It's stories like that Quick is hoping to incorporate into the exhibit that will feature the boards. He said it could take several years to fully develop. It won't just be sixty words printed out, he wants to see the stories, photos and experiences included in an interactive exhibit. He wants museumgoers to be able to understand what it's like to be far from home, what people go through and how they even spend their time off.

"How do we in some way show to Canadians what it was like? It's things like this,"

he said.

More than 40,000 Canadians served in Afghanistan, and the last Canadian service members left in March of 2014.

On Dec. 29, 2016, Canada in Afghanistan's twitter account tweeted that "for the nearly 40,000 Canadians who served in Afghanistan, Kandahar Airfield (with its iconic hockey rink) was their 2nd home.)"

Canada's ambassador in Afghanistan, Kenneth Neufeld, was in Kandahar to collect the boards, but not before one final game was played on the rink.

Another post reads, "Our hope is that these boards will help to tell the story of Canada in Kandahar - hardship, courage, triumph and tragedy."

Boards will also be sent to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.

I know many of you got out to celebrate the Ottawa 2017 opening ceremonies. It is going to be quite a sesquicentennial year of events, which will include Red Bull Crashed Ice, the Juno Awards, La Machine, and the 105th Grey Cup. 2017 will be an exciting time to be in Ottawa and we hope you invite friends and family to visit and enjoy your city with you!

Upcoming events On Sunday, January 22nd from 11 am to 12 pm, join me for the Kanata Nordic Snow Day at Wesley Clover Parks.

This year I will be racing Paralympian Robbi Wells and some younger members of the ski club in a snowshoe challenge. The whole family can participate in a variety of free outdoor activities including - snowshoe rentals, cross-country skiing, and horse-drawn sleigh rides.

I also want to take this opportunity to wish all those celebrating, a Happy Chinese New Year (the year of the Rooster)!

Winter operations We have already experienced a heavy amount of snow so far and I know our teams have been working diligently to keep up with it. However, our snow removal will never be flawless. Residents can help by phoning 3-1-1 or visiting Ottawa.ca to let us know about problem areas to redirect our efforts to.

You can always find more details about upcoming events and activities in Bay Ward and across Ottawa by following me on Twitter and Facebook or by subscribing to updates at www.BayWardLive.ca. Should you ever need the assistance of my team please do not hesitate to reach out. We are happy to help.

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OPINION

Connected to your community

Trump knows you better than you know yourself

A

s president-elect Donald Trump prepares his inauguration address, many of us up here in Canada are scratching our heads.

Is it really, truly possible that this man is to be president?

Surely, there will be some kind of 11th hour intervention — treason for the connection to Russian hacking, a vote recount that will show Hillary Clinton really did win the whole show?

In reality, Trump may go on to be the most popular president the country has ever seen.

I jest not. It’s easy to talk ourselves into believing that his election was some kind of mistake based on misrepresentation or scandal. But there are millions of people who voted for Trump; they are the millions of voices some of us have chosen to ignore — mainly because they’re not like our own.

Trump’s playbook was magnificent from the beginning.

He was simultaneously un-

BRYNNA LESLIE Capital Muse derestimated and downplayed by mainstream media, giving him the fuel he needed to turn “them” into the enemy. He’s frequently and continually called journalists crooks and liars.

It’s an easy sell, given that more than three-quarters of Americans already believe journalists have average to low ethical standards, confirmed in a December, 2016 Gallop Poll.

Yes, journalists are among the most untrusted professionals in the U.S., right up there with lawyers and politicians.

All Trump had to do in a series of Tweets and short sound bites is confirm the existing bias in the minds of the American

public. And that is exactly what he did with immigrants, Democrats, the taxman, and foreign companies. He tapped into the inherent distrust and confirmed the bias with simple, digestible messages.

Trump didn’t write the playbook, but he perfected it. At a time when most of us self-select news — fake or otherwise on social media — Trump has presented himself as the perfect student-come-master of Walter Lippmann, an early 20th Century social scientist.

More than 100 years ago, Lippmann, in fact, did write the book on how to shape and manipulate public opinion, in

his 1922 tome entitled, “Public Opinion.”

A simplistic summary of Lippmann’s theory of human nature and how to use it to create opinion goes as follows.

It all comes down to manipulating “the pictures in our heads.” Lippmann argued that everyone has intrinsic biases and the public relations practitioner merely has to manipulate them to his own ends.

It’s easy, in some ways, because, as humans we are so limited. With so much competing for our attention on a minute-to-minute basis, the more simple the message, the plainer the language, the more likely we are to grasp onto it. Even better if one can effectively employ stereotypes and fear of “the other.”

Humans, by our nature, are wary of anything different from ourselves. Adjust the message to fit simply and comfortably with what’s in our own heads and you can be the next … well, the next president of the United

States. Little could Lippmann have predicted the ideal platform upon which someone like Trump could manipulate the public mind.

Social media has narrowed the scope of our access to information that falls outside of our comfort zones. We prefer, seek out and find more trustworthy messages and information from our friends than from some mainstream source, even if it’s so-called “fake news.”

If we don’t like what someone is sharing, if war makes us confused or uncomfortable, we can block the message.

We, humans, crave simple messages that we can process quickly in the midst of our busy lives. The world is scary and complex. The one who finds someone to blame — immigrants, foreign companies, ethnic minorities — can easily accentuate the picture in our heads that has already taken shape.

Trump has done all of these

things to perfection. He is the Twitter master.

He has employed the limiting 140 characters to criticize Chinese trade policy, blow off his opponents and trash journalists.

Trump has tapped into all the unspoken limitations, fears, stereotypes and isolationist tendencies of the modern population and, as such, he now rules the free world.We can sit and scratch our heads and hope for an 11th hour reprieve, or we can open our eyes, our hearts and our minds, and get out of our comfort zones.

Retain friends that offend you on Facebook; read fascist literature to know thy enemy; look deeper into the shallow, but simple arguments Trump has successfully made to turn his public against those who are “different.”

That’s where the true power lies. We’ve got four, possibly eight years of Trump to endure.

Let us no longer let him Trump us.

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Ottawa looking to replicate banner film, TV successes of 2016

BY ERIN MCCRACKEN erin.mccracken@metroland.com

When it comes to lights, camera, action, 2016 was Ottawa's equivalent of a box office smash.

"It was record-breaking," said Bruce Harvey, Ottawa's film commissioner.

Last year, $100 million in "foreign funds" were spent in Ottawa, most of it from the U.S. and elsewhere in Canada. Half of that was in the animation field, with the other half neatly split between live-action French and English drama, reality and lifestyle shows.

"All of that $100 million spins out into the economy and then stays here, multiplying within our economy," Harvey said of the benefit.

While it's difficult to predict how well Ottawa will fare in 2017 since producers often don't book locations well in advance of a shoot, a number of Canada 150 birthday events, such as the NFL Grey Cup game and

the Red Bull Crashed Ice competition, will draw cameras.

"There's a lot of events that will attract tourism and travel shows," said Stephanie Davy, co-ordinator of the Ottawa Film Office.

That means there will be shoots in a variety of iconic Ottawa locations.

"The intention is for them to come back afterwards. So we do hope that works for film as well," said Harvey.

"Maybe they'll see a location they like and think of setting something here in future."

Ottawa already has several advantages that have helped it secure a corner of the production market, placing it in the top six or seven of production hot spots in Canada.

It has prime shooting locations and crews can quickly access remote and urban locations here within a short time frame, saving time and money. This has, in part, helped draw several horror movie productions, which tend to be on a

tighter budget.

But there are "inherent hurdles" Harvey would like to smooth out to make Ottawa more attractive as a TV and film hot spot.

While Ottawa is home to a solid crew base, there is a need for those working on the business side, such as accountants. And as a nation's capital, producers face challenges in navigating multiple layers of bureaucracy.

"There are different levels of government that have to be co-ordinated," Harvey acknowledged.

For instance, there is an RCMP-controlled zone around Parliament Hill, which means camera drones can't be used to shoot at the nearby Confederation Park.

Crews wanting to cross the provincial border into Quebec to shoot a scene are faced with more permission requirements.

And they can lose their Ontario filming subsidy when they cross over to Gatineau to film a scene

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If TV and movie production in Ottawa in 2017 echoes the successes of 2016, that will mean back-to-back banner years, according to Bruce Harvey, Ottawa’s film commissioner, and Stephanie Davy, co-ordinator of the Ottawa Film Office, seen here at the Bayview Yards Innovation Centre in Mechanicsville. there.

"It would be good if the National Capital Region was treated as one region," Harvey said.

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“There’s some (TV) shows that are never going to come here until we get a studio, and then there’s others that won’t come here until we get our crew base going up,” said Harvey.

He and Davy are working with different groups in the city to create a space, and the hope is this could become a reality within the next two years. However, it will largely depend on interest shown by enough developers, which can leverage support from different levels of government.

Having founded a production company in Calgary in 1990, Harvey said the former military base there translates into 9,290 square metres of studio space where shows such as Heartland, Fargo and Hell on Wheels have sets.

Such a space here would produce enormous economic benefits.

in the world have been built with government funding.

In Vancouver, govern-

“There’s some (TV) shows that are never going to come here until we get a studio, and then there’s others that won’t come here until we get our crew base going up."

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It costs about $1.8 million to shoot an episode of CBC’s Heartland, which features 18 episodes per series. Game of Thrones costs more than $10 million an episode.

“One good series doubles what we do. So it can make a big, big difference,” said Harvey, a Genie Award-winning film and TV producer.

The majority of studios

ment seed money was instrumental, as were government dollars that helped create a number of Toronto studios.

In Calgary, the city committed $10 million, the province chipped in $5 million, a $1.5-million contribution came from William F. White, a Canadian film, TV and theatrical equipment company, and other

dollars came from private sector loans.

It’s a formula that could work in Ottawa if there is willingness.

A few years ago, the city committed $1.5 million, but Harvey said it will take a double-digit-million-dollar figure to make a dent. There is also potential to secure federal infrastructure funding.

There are other benefits to having studio space. It would free up clogged city streets where some shows tend to repeatedly shoot.

“If you’re going to have a film community and television community ... in Ottawa, you either have to accept the fact that your streets are going to be blocked - and we have narrow streets in the downtown core - or you have to have a studio facility to relieve some of that congestion,” Harvey said.

COMMUNITY ROLE

To further strengthen Ottawa’s marketability as a go-to shooting location, community and business improvement associations can play a role.

Popular filming locales tend to be along the Rideau Canal, the ByWard Market, at Parliament Hill and in the downtown Golden Triangle neighbourhood, which offers a uniquely older look and feel.

The suburbs also offer a bounty of options. Homes with large front lawns in neighbourhoods absent of sidewalks are a hit since these can’t be found in large cities as much anymore.

“There’s so much choice.

You can go to Kanata. You can go to Orléans. You can go to Barrhaven,” said Harvey, adding there are some prime locations in Kanata

and Dunrobin, and up-andcoming locales in Vanier where there is unique architecture. “You can go anywhere. Even Old Ottawa South, Heron Park, (the) Alta Vista area.”

The Ottawa Film Office maintains a database of available locations across the city, but community associations can help by sending in photos of homes and businesses and letting the office know of neighbourhoods that are film-friendly.

Even the high-tech park in north Kanata could become a huge draw. Vacant office space is also valued.

“Productions don’t want the burden of fighting with people to get to shoot there,” Harvey said, adding it can mean national exposure for a business and extra income for the property owner. “If you’re friendly they want to go there.”

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BY JENNIFER MCINTOSH jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com

Hospital layoffs are forcing housekeeping and infection control staff to work faster and take on more duties, a recently released report says.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees completed a survey of its hospital members in the fall of 2016.

The union is making stops across the province to share the results. The Ottawa meeting was at the Montgomery legion hall on Jan. 12.

Staff from 60 hospitals across Ontario participated in the study - a large majority - 78 per cent, said they felt more duties had been added to their work. Another 76 per cent reported being asked to work at a faster rate.

The report, entitled Hospital-Acquired Infections: Stop Preventable Deaths, is based on information from 421 respondents that work in infection control in Ontario.

More than half of respondents said they believe the lack of staffing is unsafe.

Nicholas Black, regional vice-president or the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) in northern Ontario, said that hospitals are feeling the crunch as a result of decreased funding by the government and are cutting staff to make ends meet.

"It puts people at risk, because with less staff, things are getting cleaned less frequently and that puts patients at risk of infection," he said.

Black, who works in environment services at a hospital in New Liskeard, said he's seen the cuts himself.

He says on average, Ontario hospitals have cut housekeeping and environment services staff by 1.8 per cent annually since 2002.

"We aren't going after the hospitals, we know they're doing the best they can with the funding they're getting," said Louis Rodrigues, first vice-president of OCHU. Less money means less staff, which could ultimately lead to outbreaks of MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) and C. difficile.

The Public Health Agency of Canada statistics show more than 200,000 Canadian patients get infections annually while receiving health care. Of those, 8,000 will die.

Black said conservatively, that means more than 3,000 of those deaths occur in Ontario.

Rodriguez said one of the immediate fixes would be to force mandatory reporting of hospital outbreaks.

"You should be able to pull up the information on your phone, so when you're headed to the hospital you know if you're at risk," he said.

Kate Eggins, director of communications for the Ottawa Hospital, said the hospital does report clusters and outbreaks of MRSA, C. Difficile, In-

fluenza A, RSV, S. aureus and enteric illnesses.

"Our health-care teams work hard to reduce their occurrence, and when cases are detected, special measures are put in place to reduce their spread.

Some of the measures include: • Isolating patients who have diarrhea in private rooms when possible, • Using a bleach solution to clean the environment, • Auditing health-care professional to ensure equipment and hands were cleaned between patients, • Reminders to staff, patients and visitors that frequent hand washing is the best way to prevent infection.

"Patient safety and preventing the spread of hospital acquired infections is of paramount importance at The Ottawa Hospital. Our housekeeping service staff pride themselves as being on the front line of infection control.

Housekeeping service to patient care areas has actually increased in recent years, " Eggins said, adding the hospital has been outbreak free for oneand-a-half months.

The Queensway Carleton Hospital increased their environmental services staff by three per cent in 2016-2017 and the same is planned for next year, John Martin, director of hospital services for QCH wrote in an email.

"Patient safety is a top priority for Queensway Carleton Hospital and we recognize the important role that our environmental services team plays in preventing hospital-acquired infections," he said.

Hospitals are required to report publicly on eight patient safety indicators. In 2016 there were fewer than five cases of MRSA. The cases happened between April and June. The hospital had fewer than five cases of C. Difficile every month except December, where there were a total of five cases.

The Montfort Hospital wasn't immediately able to respond to requests for information about infection prevention or environmental services staffing levels.

A spokesperson for the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, wrote in an email that the government has increased the investment in health care each and every year.

"Here in Ontario, patients come first and every decision we make is centred around making sure the right supports are in place for hospitals to continue providing high-quality, convenient care," the email reads.

Funding for home and community care has increased by five per cent per year since 2013. A billion-dollar commitment this year will translate into a two-per cent increase to each hospitals budget.

Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington had an outbreak of scabies in September 2015. The hospital had to treat

1,600 patients, staff and volunteers.

The same hospital had to pay out $9 million to the families of patients who died in C. Difficile outbreak between May 2006 and December 2007.

More than 200 people were diagnosed and 91 died as a result of the outbreak. The lawsuit was settled in 2013.

From left, Nicholas Black, regional vice-president for the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions and Louis Rodrigues show off a report entitled Hospitalacquired infection: Stop Preventable Deaths, during an information session at the Montgomery Legion on Jan.12.

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Family gets cozy when temperatures take a dive

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e were getting used to the interruptions in our sleep.

It was in the dead of winter. Father said it was the worst winter he had seen since he was a young boy.

Mother said every winter in Northcote was the worst she had ever seen!

Anyway, we had hardly settled in our beds that night when the loud cracking noises began.

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MARY COOK Memories to take the bone chilling cold out of the house. And of course, that was all Mother needed to hear...

Father attacking the stove with another log from the wood box. She knew that within minutes the stove pipes would be making their own noises, and there was a good chance they would turn red from the flames.

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Emerson said it was just like camping out. Mother went to the creton couch, which she pulled away from the stove as far as she could, and Father; who she said could sleep leaning against a barn door, was softly snoring in his rocking chair. Just as he said they would, the stove pipes returned to their natural colour. Much to Mother’s surprise, we survived the night without the house being burnt to the ground.

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blankets and pillows on the floor, plugged another log in the stove, and got as far as saying, “Well, I see.... ,” when Mother said, “Not one word Albert...not one word.”

I knew there would be many nights ahead of us when the old log house would crack from the frost, the pipes would turn red, Father would spend most of the night in the rocking chair in the kitchen to keep the stove stoked, and Mother would herd us all down to the kitchen to sleep on the floor. Just in case.

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Spice up “the walk” Alternate between walking and jogging with your dog every 10 minutes or so. This will help keep things interesting for your pup, and it will help keep both of you feeling warmer while you’re out.

Pausing the walk for snowball fetch is another exciting activity for your dog, and you don’t have to worry about favourite dog toys getting lost in the snow!

Hopefully these suggestions will inspire some renewed enthusiasm for providing exercise and excitement for our dogs during the winter.

Remember, the benefits of fresh air and exercise are many – for both you and your pet – so avoid giving up on dog walks altogether. Before you know it, you’ll be back to playing fetch in the park under the warm summer sun.

Pet of the Week: Tiger (ID# A189865) Meet Tiger (ID# A189865), a playful and talkative kitty looking for his purr-fect match.

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Line two large rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper. Slice potatoes, sweet potato and beet into 1/3-inch (8 mm) thick rounds.

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Ottawa 2017 Souvenir Calendar Metroland Media is proud to bring you the most nostalgic calendar in the Ottawa region.

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Part of the proceeds will go to the following local charities:

CLUES ACROSS 1. Newts 5. Taxis 9. Ski down these 11. Solace 13. Thieves of the sea 15. Diacritical mark 16. Frost 17. Enmities 19. Furnace for baking 21. Founder of female institute 22. Eight 23. Earl Grey and chamomile are two 25. Messenger ribonucleic acid 26. Dull, unproductive pattern of behavior 27. A large and hurried swallow

29. Large nests CLUES DOWN 31. A way to choose 1. Call forth 33. Grocery store 2. Front legs 34. Drains 3. Third-party access 36. Hawaiian wreath 4. Hairlike structure 38. Where fish live 5. Ghanaian money 39. Get rid of 6. Settled down 41. Beyond, transcending 7. Ill-natured 43. Uncastrated male sheep 8. Choose 44. Asserts 9. Mountain in the 46. Snoopy and Rin Tin Slovenian Alps Tin are two 10. Samsung laptops 48. Windy City footballer 11. Inquire into 52. Green veggie 12. Not slow 53. Director 14. Thailand 54. Conditioning 15. Front of the eye 56. Spoke foolishly 18. Kentucky town 41549 57. Legislative body 20. Extreme disgust 58. Square measures 24. Not fast 59. Cheek 26. Smelled bad 28. Portended

30. Leader 32. Comedian Noah 34. Course 35. Sloven 37. Perfect places 38. A vast desert in N. Africa 40. Monetary unit of Angola 42. Clerks 43. Canadian law enforcers 45. Without (French) 47. Having wisdom that comes with age 49. Delicacy (archaic) 50. Grows older 51. Bitterly regrets 55. It’s present in all living cells (abbr.)

This week’s puzzle answers in next week’s issue

ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Be yourself instead of hiding behind a persona, Aries. Show your true feelings and you will earn more respect for it. If you meet any resistance, try again.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, a missed opportunity won’t come back to haunt you. You will have plenty of additional opportunities to make another go of things in the days to come.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, you must find ways to sure up any cracks before you can move ahead. Give it your best effort, but you may want to seek advice from Pisces.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, keep forging ahead even if you feel like you are going up against a brick wall. Eventually you will find a solution and a way to overcome this obstacle.

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 There are a few things you need to tackle early in the week, and then you Here’s How It Works: will likely have the rest of the time for recreation, Leo. Put travel at the top of your to-do list.

Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric Virgo, if you experience a scare, it will be short-lived and you will recover clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle! quickly. The rest of the week could prove uneventful. Make the most the downtime.

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LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, you may be second-guessing an important decision. It is not too late to make a change. Approach the next decision more carefully.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, if you have been away from your childhood home for a while, pay a visit. You can visit your old haunts and reminisce about things.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, step out of the shadows for a bit and accept the praise and recognition you deserve this week. It’s not being boastful if you accept well wishes of others.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, although you may be looking straight ahead, you are having trouble seeing what is right in front of you. Adjust your perspective and you might be surprised.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, you are quite productive this week, tackling many things on your to-do list. While you are feeling motivated, keep going and you may accomplish even more.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Sometimes you have to make sacrifices, Pisces. Put others first this week. This selfless approach will be its own reward.

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Local events and happenings over the coming weeks — free to non-profit organizations Fax: 613-723-1862, E-mail: ottawawest@metroland.com

Jan. 21

The Church ladies of Christ Church Cathedral will be hosting the annual Burns Nite Dinner in the Great Hall beginning at 5:30 p.m. This is the time when Scots and all those who would like to be Scots get together to celebrate the Immortal Bard, Robbie Burns.

The piping in of the Haggis takes place at 6 p.m. with Canon Bill Fairlie of the RCMP Pipe Band and the toast to the Haggis by Geoff Heintzman. The post supper cabaret will feature the father and son duo, David and Alasdair Campbell along with Garth Hampson,singing favorite songs of Burns. There will also be a silent auction. This is a great evening out with lots of Scottish traditions, now in its third year.

Tickets can be ordered by calling 613-236-9149. Christ Church Cathedral is located at 414 Sparks St.

Jan. 27

ARTS NIGHT, 7.30pm. Please come and see Ingrid McCarthy (a.k.a. Rose D. Franklin), writer; Marie Daoust, visual artist and Scott Voelzing, musical artist, talk about, demonstrate or perform their art. First Unitarian Church, 30 Cleary Ave. (off Richmond Rd.) Admission: $5. Information: 613725-1066.

Feb. 2

The Ottawa Humane Society Auxiliary welcomes new members to help raise money to support the animals. Join us at our monthly business meeting 1:30 - 3 pm Thursday February 2nd, 2017 at the animal shelter, 245 West Hunt Club Rd behind Hunt Club Nissan. Refreshments are served and all are welcome. For more info, call Linda 613-823-6770 or go to facebook.com/OttawaHumaneSocietyAuxiliary.

Feb. 5

Mitzvah Day starts this year at 9 a.m with a bunch of new exciting Mitzvot (good deeds) taking place. Items are now being collected to give to the needy or disadvantaged, until Feb. 5 at the Soloway JCC, 21 Nadolny Sachs Private. The Kosher Food Bank accepts all non-perishable items.

Note: All food items must have a kosher symbol. We are also looking for new adult-sized gloves, new warm socks toiletries, nutrigrain bars and other soft individually-wrapped peanut-free snacks, new adult-sized underwear, and

gently used men’s winter boots.

We would also appreciate receiving brand new packs of crayons, markers and stickers that will be donated alongside the colouring/ activity book we will be creating for kids at CHEO. And, in supporting our Canadian Troops stationed overseas, we will be creating care packages at Mitzvah Day and would like to include magazines (health and fitness are the most popular), DVD movies, gum, small tubes of cream, chapstick and decks of cards.

Breakfast and registration will be open at 9 a.m., followed by opening ceremonies at 9:30. For more information and to participate or to sign up to be a Mitzvah Captain (volunteer), please visit www.mitzvahdayottawa.com.

Feb. 11

Annual Chinese New Year Banquet and Fundraiser, featuring door prizes, entertainment, silent auction. Tickets are $50. Event starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Mandarin Ogilvie Restaurant, 1137 Ogilvie Rd. Hosted by the Canada-China Friendship Society. Reserve early. www.ccfso.org . 613-729-3660.

work on the community rink. and for supervision during the winter.

Email info@carletonheights.org.

Set aside Tuesday mornings with the Painters’ Circle. We are a friendly group with a wide range of painting experience from beginners to people who sell their work. All media are welcome including oils. This is not a class. We meet in the Unitarian Church on Cleary Avenue.

Please drop in, but first contact Clea Derwent for further details at clderwent@gmail.com or 613-694-0505.

Positive birth and natural parenting meetings on the second Tuesday of each month 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Peerto-peer support, empower yourself and meet like-minded women and build community. To RSVP and for address, please contact Leslie amagicalbirth@hotmail.com or call 613829-8511.

Thursdays

The Nepean-Kanata Rotary Club meets every Thursday at 6

p.m. at the Holiday Inn & Suites in Kanata, 101 Kanata Ave. For details, visit nepeankanatarotary. com.

Toastmasters meet every Thursday at the Bells Corners Legion, 4026 Richmond Rd. with a 6:45 p.m. meet and greet and 7 p.m. meeting. Call 613 828-3862.

The weekly Quilting and Craft Group at the Riverside United Church meets Thursdays, from 1 to 3 p.m. The church is located at 3191 Riverside Dr. No experience is required. Join us for handwork, conversation and light refreshments. For information, call the church office at 613-733-7735.

Ongoing

Hospice Care Ottawa offers Day Hospice programs at the RuddyShenkman Hospice, 110 McCurdy Dr. These programs are open to individuals living with a life-limiting illness. Other programs are

available to support caregivers and those who are bereaved. Our nurses will visit you to provide assessment. All programs and services are provided at no charge.

Call 613-591-6002, ext. 23 for more information.

The Salvation Army needs Christmas Kettle volunteers!

Just two hours of your time can make a lasting difference. We have 38 indoor kettle locations in shopping areas all around the city. For more info or to sign up visit www.ottawaboothcentre.org/kettle-campaign or call Kristine 613-241-1573, ext. 307.

The Kanata Food Cupboard is looking for adults who can volunteer on a regular or casual basis. If you are available weekday mornings, have a larger-sized vehicle (e.g. SUV, van, truck) and are comfortable with lifting boxes of food, please contact volunteer@kanatafoodcupboard. ca.

Feb. 16

The new Ottawa-based not-for-profit Youth Experience Project is hosting a fundraiser to help provide Ottawa children-in-need with unique experiences. The event takes place on Feb. 16, beginning at 6 p.m., at the Red Lion Public House, located in the ByWard Market at 47 Clarence St. Have your photo taken with a cosplayer, play with a VR headset and experiment with green-screen technology – all by donation. For details, visit clubify.com/youth.

Mondays

Practise and improve your Spanish speaking skills at the intermediate and advanced levels. We are Los Amigos Toastmasters and we meet at the Civic Hospital, main building, main floor, room 3 from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. E-mail membership@losamigos.ca or visit our website www. losamigos.ca.

Tuesdays

CHARA, your local community association, is searching for volunteers to fill open positions on our board of directors. CHARA holds meetings on the last Tuesday of the month starting at 6:30 p.m. As well, we are looking for volunteers to

Ringing in the new year

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Youth musicians Nancy Szeto, 15, from the Glebe (left), Evelyn Andrews, 13, from Centretown, Jennifer Ong, 15, from Little Italy, and Amar Marouf, 16, from Elmvale, perform at the New Years Levee on Jan. 14 at the Glebe Community Centre. The four are all a part of OrKidstra, based out of the Bronson Centre.

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Wellness Beyond Cancer Dr. Roanne Segal and her team at The Ottawa Hospital have developed a program to improve the quality of care for breast cancer patients in remission. Wellness Beyond Cancer coordinates all care providers, minimizing hospital visits and reducing frustration and anxiety caused by duplicate testing. It helps patients focus on their wellbeing and the best possible recovery.

Find out more about made-in-Ottawa solutions for a healthier world at

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Dr. Roanne Segal Medical Oncologist, Regional Cancer Program The Ottawa Hospital