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Eastern Ontario workers injured or sickened on the job will no longer have to make the long trek to Toronto or Sudbury for medical consultations. On Jan. 21, Ontario Labour Minister Kevin Flynn joined the province’s chief prevention officer George Gritziotis in opening Ottawa’s new Occupational Health Clinic for Ontario Workers on Carling Avenue. See CLINIC, page 2
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The clinic, created with $777,000 in provincial funding and a pledge for ongoing financial support, joins five previously existing clinics in other areas of the province. Besides the Ottawa area, the clinic will serve both the Ottawa Valley and seaway, from Kingston to Cornwall. A board of directors headed by David Chezzi, a labour union executive specializing in Workplace Safety and Insurance Board services, will guide the clinic. “It’s great news for eastern Ontario, and great news for Ottawa,” said Flynn. “We are one of the safest jurisdictions in the world, and we should take some satisfaction from that, but I don’t think we should be entirely satisfied with that. We should be proud of what we’ve been able to do – in the past decade, we’ve reduced workplace incidents by 40 per cent. We should be proud of that, but by no means should we be satisfied with that.” Flynn said the clinic at 1565 Carling Ave., near Churchill Avenue, will be a “valuable partner” to the Ministry of Labour, providing workers with medical diagnosis, preventive information, and services sick or injured workers need to recover and return to work. “It’s a no brainer – when you can get this much value for that much money, you take that opportunity
and make that investment,” said Flynn. “You’ve got such an excellent reputation and bring so much credibility to the table … It makes it a very easy decision.” To date, the province’s OHCOW clinics have responded to over 100,000 workplace inquiries, worked on 31,000 patient cases, staged 11,500 workplace interventions, and developed 500 workplace prevention tools. Gritziotis, who has held the role as chief prevention officer for five years, oversees six health and safety organizations, of which OHCOW is one. He came to the ribbon-cutting armed with facts and figures that explain the clinics’ net worth. “When we look at occupational fatalities in the province – both fatalities resulting from accidents and exposure to toxic substances – occupational diseases account for almost two-thirds of all fatalities in our province,” he said, adding that the number stands at 200 to 250 per year. “There’s so much more work that needs to be done, and I look at what OHCOW is doing as being really groundbreaking, watershed work … When we look at occupational disease, about 20 per cent of those fatalities are attributed back to eastern Ontario. As the minister said, it didn’t take much to figure out that we needed that capability in eastern Ontario.”
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A celebration of arts and culture will take over Richmond Road once again this summer, albeit in a different form than before. On Jan. 20, the Westboro Village Business Improvement Area announced a summer festival would return to the community this June. The as-yet-unnamed festival, a partnership between the BIA, Aboriginal Experiences and Knock On Wood Communications, would serve to replace Westfest as the area’s cultural draw. Westfest, which announced its relocation to Mechanicsville late last year, was funded by the BIA until rising costs made them part ways. A request for proposals was then put out by the BIA in the hopes of attracting warm-weather entertainment for the commercial strip. By late November, a new festival team was chosen, at a cost that undercut previous festivals by $25,000. “Aboriginal Experiences has organized the very popular Summer Solstice Aboriginal Arts Festival in Vincent Massey Park for years, so they bring lots of experience to the table,” said
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Rev. Anthony Bailey says he harbours no malice to the perpetrator who spray-painted a racial slur and other graffiti on the south side of Parkdale United church last week. In the 16 years he’s been at the church, there hasn’t been a single incident like the one that occurred overnight on Jan. 10, in the leadup to the church’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day gospel service. Bailey wishes he could take the perpetrator out to lunch to explain his feelings and views in the hopes that whatever differences exist between the two would disappear. “It’s part of our faith and part of Martin Luther King Jr.’s teachings,” he said. Given the racial nature of the scrawled message and the close proximity to the day that honours the fallen civil rights leader, Bailey believes the two are connected. Police are currently investigating the crime, though it isn’t being pursued as a hate crime at this point. Const. Marc Soucy of the Otta-
were quick to offer support to the church and its congregation and condemn the hateful act. “It has no place in our community,” Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi said of the slur on Twitter. Also on social media, Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper referenced Bailey’s words during the Jan. 17 MLK Jr. Day service. “Rev. Bailey’s defiant challenge
wa Police Service said the incident is being looked at as vandalism, which carries with it the crime of mischief. Investigating such an incident is similar to other forms of vandalism. “We would look for witnesses, security cameras and go from there,” said Soucy when asked what the process would be. “Sometimes, the public might know something – it depends.” Community representatives
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The outpouring of support and generosity heartens Bailey, and shows that the sentiment expressed through last week’s act are in no way representative of the community. “People have been contacting us through phone calls, emails, letters,” said Bailey. “We’ve heard support from as far away as Calgary, Victoria, Seattle. We’ve heard from the Muslim and Jewish communities, and have had folks walk in who wanted to donate to cover the costs of the graffiti removal. (These acts) are much more indicative of the community.”
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The National Capital Commission has rescinded their approval of the planned site for the controversial memorial for victims of communism. The NCC’s board of directors rescinded the approval during their board meeting on Jan. 20 in favour of public consultation on a relocation to the Garden of Provinces and Territories – further west on Wellington Street than the original planned location. The planned memorial was controversial because of its placement on land to the south west of the Supreme Court of Canada on Wellington Street. There were also concerns about its size and scale. Mark Kristmanson, the board’s chief executive officer called the project difficult and divisive. Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly has also spoken publicly against the memorial’s size and planned location on Wellington Street. In November, Joly called the project a priority for her department. Half of the funding for the memorial will come from the federal government, which
will cap its funding at $1.5 million. The federal funds will be matched by the group Tribute to Liberty, which is leading the project. Last month the Department announced the memorial will be moving. Decontamination of the 5,000 square meter original site was supposed to begin in November. It was supposed to mark the beginning of the decontamination of the site, but was halted pending design approval. Board member Michael Pankiw said he would like to see it cleaned up. “I have to speak against this motion because of the number of contaminated sites in the capital,” he said. “There were specific questions about the decontamination in June.” Stephen Willis, executive director of capital planning for the NCC, said the site does not need to be remediated if it remains parkland. While a future Federal Court of Canada headquarters building is on the horizon, Willis said decontamination on the site can wait until planning for the new building starts. Canadian Heritage will have to submit a land use proposal for the memorial to the board in April.
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great effort.” And, most obviously, not without extraordinary loss – people-wise. A dozen crucial voices gone in a blink from the Ottawa reporting landscape, taking their perspectives and encyclopedic knowledge of their beats with them. No longer digging up the stories our dwindling numbers strive to tell on multiple platforms. Godfrey said in each of those markets, one editor will oversee two newspaper brands, that most newsroom resources will be shared and ... “Stories covered will be adapted by platform at a rewrite desk dedicated to ensuring that the right voice and content makes it to the right brand and platform.” The advent of rewrite desks and the silencing of 90 journalists is a tremendous blow, and not only to remaining journalists and sources. Ultimately, the readers lose out. And the trend – whether in axe form or buyouts – will continue. So thank you, dear reader, for believing in newspapers, for not just skimming the headlines, and more importantly, for not skipping them altogether. Those of us still working our beats are glad you do.
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of the things that make that city great, or not, are invisible to the visitor. The visitor doesn’t see the school system, the policing, the snow removal, the recreation program, the garbage pickup, the recycling system. Aside from the road to and from the airport, he has little experience of the traffic or the transit. He sees, or doesn’t see, wide boulevards, big statues, lavish convention facilities and decides that this is a great city, or isn’t. This would be after he has a five-minute chat with the taxi driver to take the pulse of the community. He has little sense of how ordinary people live. In many of the impressive cities of the world, such as New York or London, people with ordinary incomes can’t live DISTRIBUTION INQUIRIES Traci Cameron 613-221-6223 ADMINISTRATION: Donna Therien 613-221-6233 DISplAy ADvERTISINg: Gisele Godin - Kanata - 221-6214 Dave Pennett - Ottawa West - 221-6209 Cindy Gilbert - Ottawa South - 221-6211 Carly McGhie - Ottawa East - 221-6154 Geoff Hamilton - Home Builders Accounts Specialist - 221-6215 Valerie Rochon - Barrhaven - 221-6227 Jill Martin - Nepean - 221-6221 Mike Stoodley - Stittsville - 221-6231 Blair Kirkpatrick - Orleans - 221-6216 Rico Corsi - Automotive Consultant - 221-6224 ClASSIfIED ADvERTISINg SAlES:
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anywhere near the centre of town. That would be true of Vancouver too, often cited as a great city. Is it a great city if you can’t afford to live in it? Is it a great city if the streets and bridges leading downtown are clogged? Looked at it this way, Ottawa may well be a greater city than Vancouver. To look at it from another perspective, a visitor might deplore the spread of ugly condo developments in downtown Toronto and deem it unworthy of a great city. And of course we love it when we hear people trash Toronto. Yet those unsightly condo developments enable people of less than huge incomes to live downtown and support stores, restaurants and bars. That can’t be a bad thing, maybe a great thing, although of no visible impact to someone from out of town. (Another thing that makes Toronto great: competing daily newspapers.) EDITORIAl: MANAgINg EDITOR: Theresa Fritz, 613-221-6261 theresa.fritz@metroland.com NEwS EDITOR: Nevil Hunt, nevil.hunt@metroland.com, 613-221-6235 REpORTER/phOTOgRAphER: Steph Willems steph.willems@metroland.com - 613-221-6161
Predictable as the debate is, it’s useful to have it from time to time (as we do). It never hurts to discuss what makes a city great, what a city lacks and doesn’t lack. It doesn’t hurt to appreciate what we have and identify what we need. And it helps to pass the time while we wait for LeBreton Flats.
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s a professional writer, I can tell you that it is simultaneously one of the best and the worst occupations one could have. I could never quite put my finger on it until another professional writer – one you probably know much better than me – nailed it: to make money from your creations is one of the best ways to kill inspiration, writes Elizabeth Gilbert in her latest book, Big Magic. Gilbert is best known for Eat, Pray, Love, an anecdotal novel which documented her postdivorce soul-searching and subsequent recovery. But her latest tome – part writer’s memoir, part selfhelp book – has an entirely different feel. For anyone who’s tried to create something, for pleasure or vocation, Gilbert offers a straight-talking guide book to lure you out of those moments of selfdoubt, self-pity and selfhatred to actually create. Make no mistake. Gilbert doesn’t promise you’ll become a best-selling author like she accidentally did when she poured her heart and soul into Eat, Pray, Love. In fact, she warns against making that end the means to start creating. For her, the success of the book came precisely because she wrote such an honest, heart-wrenching – and often funny and self-deprecating – portrayal of the rollercoaster of emotions and experiences she witnessed after her marital breakdown, without contemplating an audience or a paycheque at the end of the journey. What Gilbert does offer is a brutally honest assessment of the artist at work, many elements of which hold us back from actually creating. She defines inspiration (Big Magic) as these ideas just floating all around us, with the singular goal of being materialized. When we are ready to receive inspiration – gener-
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ally when we’re relaxed and open to new ideas – we may just get lucky enough for inspiration to choose us. If we’re closed, depressed, worried about failure or worried about success, we may inadvertently send a message to inspiration to go choose the next creator. Gilbert kills the notion of the tortured artist, which is probably one of my favourite elements of Big Magic, since I’ve had a lot of firsthand experience with that persona. Creation should come from a place of love and it should be enjoyable, she writes. Specifically, the idea is that we get into our flow as artists when we’re nurturing creation and engaging in the creative process in a loving way, the same way we’d nurture a child.That’s not to say that creating isn’t hard. Gilbert acknowledges the wide range of self-defeating thoughts that enter into the process. I can tell you, at the worst time in my professional life as a writer, every word, every sentence was a chore. I may have been writing about insurance products or paint drying (seriously, one of the first trade magazine articles I ever wrote was a lengthy feature on curing industrial coatings), but the niggling thoughts in the back of my head were, “You’re a fraud; what makes you think you can write about this; you’ll never work again; the editor will read this and chuck it out; why did you bother starting this project; you’ll never finish this project.” And, of course, the critics are always out there. I receive emails weekly from
readers of this column. Some are nice. Others have been filed away in a legal file for being not-so-nice. I’ve been attacked on Twitter; and sometimes my friends and loved ones have said to my face, “This isn’t your best work.” Subjective criticism is a harsh reality if you have the guts to put your creation out to the world, says Gilbert, but it shouldn’t be a showstopper. Creating something from nothing is hard and it requires a lot of discipline. If you want to create, you must prioritize the time to sit down and do it. Thinking about things does not make a person creative; creating things does. But Gilbert argues that, despite the time discipline and stick-to-itiveness required to make inspiration materialize, creation should ultimately be enjoyable. If you think about something you’ve created – as a hobby or as a professional – where you really got into the flow, where you just loved every minute of the process, that’s creativity at its best. If it’s a chore, why do it? That sounds trite if you’re forcing creativity to pay the monthly bills. But if you’re doing something as a hobby with the hope of creating something that will make you a millionaire best seller and guzzling tequila just to get through the process, you may be in the creativity gig for the wrong reasons. Gilbert believes there’s an artist in all of us. We just have to open our hearts to receive and materialize inspiration. So, go forth and create, for the sake of creation itself!
Notice of Completion of Transit Project Assessment Process Trillium Line Extension The City of Ottawa has completed an Environmental Project Report in accordance with Ontario Regulation 231/08 for the Trillium Line Extension Planning and Environmental Assessment study. The Project The City of Ottawa has developed a plan to extend and expand the City’s existing diesel-powered O-Train Trillium Line service from Greenboro Station to Bowesville Road and to the Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport. The plan includes options to service the growing communities of Riverside South and Leitrim, the Airport and adjacent lands. The plan also incorporates new stations on the existing line at Gladstone Avenue and Walkley Road and a relocated station at Confederation Heights. Impacts to private property are anticipated to be limited to the areas adjacent to the proposed Lester Road and Leitrim Road grade separations. The Process The environmental impact of this transit project was assessed and an Environmental Project Report (EPR) prepared according to the Transit Project Assessment Process as prescribed in Ontario Regulation 231/08, Transit Projects and Greater Toronto Transportation Authority Undertakings. The EPR documents the entire study process, including a description of the planned project, its anticipated environmental impacts, and the project’s consultation program. The EPR for the Trillium Line Extension project will be available for a 30-day public review period starting January 22, 2016 at the following locations during their regular business hours: Ministry of the Environment
Environmental Assessment & Approvals Branch 2 St. Clair Avenue West, Floor 12A Toronto, ON M4V 1L5
Ottawa District Office 2430 Don Reid Drive Ottawa, ON K1H 1E1
City of Ottawa City Hall Information Desk 110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1
Carleton University MacOdrum Library 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
University of Ottawa Morisset Library 65 University Private Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5
Ottawa Public Library Rosemount Branch 18 Rosemount Avenue Ottawa, ON K1Y 1P4
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There are circumstances where the Minister of the Environment has the authority to require further consideration of the transit project, or impose conditions on it. These include if the Minister is of the opinion that: • The transit project may have a negative impact on a matter of provincial importance that relates to the natural environment or has cultural heritage value or interest; or, • The transit project may have a negative impact on a constitutionally protected Aboriginal or treaty right. Before exercising the authority referred to above, the Minister is required to consider any written objections to the transit project that he or she may receive within 30 days after the Notice of Completion of the Environmental Project Report is first published. If you have discussed your issues with the proponent and you object to the project, you can provide a written submission to the Minister of the Environment no later than February 21, 2016 to the address provided below. All submissions must clearly indicate that an objection is being submitted and describe any negative impacts to matters of provincial importance (natural/ cultural environment) or Aboriginal rights.
Attn: Solange Desautels, Supervisor
Environmental Approvals Branch Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change 135 St. Clair Avenue West, 1st Floor Toronto, ON M4V 1P5 General Inquiry: 416-314-8001 Toll Free: 800-461-6290 Fax: 416-314-8452 E-mail: EAABGen@ontario.ca If not otherwise provided, a copy of the objection will be forwarded to the proponent by the ministry. For further information on the proposed transit project or if you have any accessibility requirements in order to participate in this project, please contact: Frank McKinney, P.Eng. Program Manager City of Ottawa Transportation Planning – Environmental Assessments Unit Tel: 613-580-2424 ext. 28540 E-mail: Frank.McKinney@ottawa.ca Under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA), personal information included in a submission to the City of Ottawa will not be disclosed to any third parties without having obtained the prior consent of the person to whom the information pertains, except when MFIPPA permits disclosure or other applicable law requires that the City disclose the personal information. Direct submissions to the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change are subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Environmental Assessment Act. Unless otherwise stated in the submission, any personal information such as name, address, telephone number and property location included in a submission will become part of the public record for this matter and will be released, if requested, to any person.
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Red Bull Crashed Ice coming to Ottawa in 2017 Brier Dodge
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Skaters from across the world will hurl themselves down an icy hill full of jumps to compete for the world’s best ice cross downhiller next winter in Ottawa. The Red Bull Crashed Ice world championship event will be hosted in March 2017 beside the Chateau Laurier and Major’s Hill Park at the Ottawa Locks, part of the Rideau Canal and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Red Bull Crashed Ice events have been held in Quebec City in the past,
and feature a downhill course, approximately 400 metres long, with jumps. Red Bull Crashed Ice sports director Christian Papillon called the sport a combination of power skating and ski cross. A former competitor himself, he said skaters can travel up to 82 kilometres an hour while skating downhill. Racers compete four at a time, with the first two to cross the finish line advancing to the next round. There are both men’s and women’s divisions. Papillon said it’s exciting to introduce a new audience, Ottawa, to the sport. “People growing up here
are built for the sport, and Ottawa provides a great urban backdrop.” Event organizers have made a point to host their events in urban areas with interesting backdrops, such as in Niagara Falls and Quebec City and internationally in cities such as Moscow, Russia; Helsinki, Finland; and Valkenburg, Netherlands. The course is built with spectator stands all around, lighting for evening events, and often features music and DJs. “It will have a modern, edgy and appealing image for youth,” said Guy Laflamme, the Ottawa 2017
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS / AMENDMENTS UNDER THE PLANNING ACT NOTICE OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MEETING Thursday, February 4, 2016 – 10 a.m. The item listed below, in addition to any other items previously scheduled, will be considered at this meeting, which will be held in The Chamber, Ben Franklin Place, 101 Centrepointe Drive, Ottawa. To see any change to this meeting agenda, please go to Ottawa.ca.
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The Red Bull Crashed Ice world championships will come to Ottawa for the first time in March 2017. The announcement was made in Ottawa on Jan. 21. executive director. “We are gearing up for a big, bold year.” The event was recruited by the city for 2017 as part of the country’s 150th birthday celebrations. “We expect this event will be hugely popular,” Mayor Jim Watson said. “We’re going to see the downtown packed like never before.”
Watson has also been in talks with both the CFL and NFL and hopes to have an outdoor winter hockey game and Grey Cup game in Ottawa as well. He said the goal is to have events spread out throughout the year to bring visitors to Ottawa all through 2017. Ottawa-Orléans MPP Marie-France Lalonde said
the conservative estimate of the economic impact of the Red Bull Crashed Ice event is $10 million. She said the competition will also benefit Ottawa as it’s planned to be globally televised. The final dates haven’t been announced yet, and will be confirmed once Red Bull announces the 2016-17 tour schedule for the event.
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The National Capital Commission has approved a massive, four-storey, $50-million visitors welcome centre under Parliament Hill. The NCC’s board of directors unanimously approved phase one of the project – set to be the largest addition to the hill in a century. The intent is to provide a place for visitors when much-needed renovations on the Centre Block start in 2018. The project – and its funding – was approved in 2012, but design approvals needed to jump through a number of hoops that included the Federal Heritage Building Review office and the advisory committee on planning, design and realty. The proposal has been heard by both groups on multiple occasions before the NCC board approved the land use for the new West Block entrance. The new entrance and exit to the welcome centre
will be located in the wall that provides transition from the lower to the upper terrace. It’s the work of American landscape design Calvert Vaux. The project is part of a long-term plan for Parliament and will include an entrance and connection to the East Block in the second phase. The third phase will include a below-grade, tunneltype connection in front of Centre Block to link the East and West blocks. BETTER SECURITY
Fred Gaspar, director of federal approvals and environmental management for the NCC, said the welcome centre will separate visitors and allow for better security screening without disruption to the regular business on the hill. The structure will have an environmentally friendly LEED gold certification and a 75-year building lifecycle. “It’s a robust intervention,” Gaspar said. Despite the unanimous approval of the endeavour,
some members of the board expressed concerns about visibility and landscaping. Kay Stanley said with the absence of trees or awnings over the entrance, visitors could get warm in the summer months if there was a wait to get indoors. Steve Willis, executive director of capital planning for the NCC, said the slope created by the excavation for the new facility will be a natural resting place and landscaping should reflect that. Board member Norman Hotson said the design doesn’t show any signage. He worries there won’t be enough indication about where visitors should go. “On the approach from Elgin (Street) to the Hill there’s a set of steps and a large wall immediately to the east of the entry,” he said. “I worry people won’t be able to find it,” he said. Willis said most visitors’ first stop on the Hill is the Centennial Flame. The visitors centre is slated to be complete by December 2017.
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Enjoy some comfort food this winter dish; this version has savoy cabbage and can be served with smoked sausages, roast pork or chicken. Preparation Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 30 minutes
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• 4 cups (1 L) thinly sliced Savoy cabbage • 2 tbsp (25 mL) butter • 1/3 cup (75 mL) milk (approx) • Salt and pepper PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS
Cut potatoes into chunks. Cut rutabaga into ½-inch (1 cm) cubes. Place potatoes and rutabaga in large saucepan and cover with cold water.
Cover and bring to boil; reduce heat and cook covered until vegetables are tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Meanwhile, place cabbage and 2 tbsp (25 mL) of water in microwaveable dish. Cover and microwave on High for 2 minutes or until tender-crisp and bright green. Drain and set aside. Drain potatoes and rutabaga; mash until smooth. Stir in butter until melted and add enough milk for a creamy consistency. Stir cabbage into mash.
Season to taste with salt and pepper. Tip: Rutabaga takes longer to cook than potatoes, so cut rutabaga into small cubes. NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION
• One serving • Protein: 5 grams • Fat: 4 grams • Carbohydrate: 30 grams • Calories: 169 • Fibre: 4 grams • Sodium: 120 mg Foodland Ontario
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The National Capital Commission’s board of directors approved a $110-million facelift for the National Arts Centre on Jan. 20, with a caveat that the board have final say on the management for a “lantern feature.” The lantern feature – a tall glass addition intended to serve as an electronic marquee with still and moving images over a new Confederation Square entrance – was a cause for concern at the board because of the potential for over exposure of corporate sponsors. The lantern will mostly feature performances at the NAC and local events like Remembrance Day, but 10 per cent of the space could be devoted to corporate sponsors, NAC representatives said. Board member Norman Hotson said he would hate to see it used as a way to attract corporate sponsors. “I would like to see the lantern used for non-commercial purposes,” he said. While Hotson said he was enthusiastic about the renovations, he said he hopes to see more
ambitious weather protection at the entrance – in the form of an awning or some other covering. Steve Willis, executive director of capital planning for the NCC, said the lighting in the lantern could be dimmed or turned off if needed. The project was well received by the NCC’s advisory committee on planning, design and realty in December. Hotson said he was happy to see the work completed. “There will finally be a front door on the street,” he said, “something that should have been there all along.” Hotson called the existing NAC building one of the worst examples of urban design in the city. The design attempts to knit the old and the new, planners said, adding consultations with veteran groups took place to make sure the new facade worked well with the nearby National War Memorial. “Pedestrians will have a lot to look at when they walk by,” Willis said. Construction at the NAC is slated to be completed by July 2017, to coincide with Canada’s 150th birthday celebrations.
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ather said he had no recollection of how the red bricks came to us on the farm in Northcote. They were always there. And yes, they served just about the same purpose as they did since he was a little boy. He said they could probably have come from a building that was being built many years ago, such as the big red brick house beside Briscoe’s General Store, where the family lived for generations. “If there were bricks laying around, and not being used, you could have them, I guess,” he said. And no, he doubted any money changed
“just in case”. The “just in case” meant we needed a quick warm up for freezing feet on a bitterly cold day after being outside playing in the snow, or after our three and a half mile walk home from the Northcote School. And if there wasn’t something cooking in the oven of the Findlay Oval, it wasn’t unusual to see a couple bricks heating up inside. If we were still wearing our stockings, there was no need to wrap the bricks in a heavy towel. We just put our stockinged feet right on the hot bricks and got immediate warmth. Of course, we never went anywhere in the cutter or on the sleigh without hot bricks
MARY COOK Memories hands. I accepted that explanation of how red bricks got to us when there wasn’t a building on our entire farm that wasn’t made of logs or boards. But they were certainly put to good use by our family. They were mostly used in the wintertime. Always a couple sat on the reservoir at the back of the stove, as Mother said
wrapped many times in the Renfrew Mercury and placed under our galoshes-covered feet. Hot bricks warmed our beds at night. How I loved to crawl between the feather ticking that covered us, and the feathered mattress, and know that the bricks had warmed the bed first! There was one brick that never touched the floor. This one was scrubbed clean and sat on the bake table and was wrapped in cheesecloth. It was used to hold down anything we ate that needed to be “pressed” as Mother called it. And you better not touch it without washing your
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hands first, either. And then there were the bricks that served as doorstops. The ones in the shed and the back summer kitchen were minus their corners from being kicked into place over decades. But the two bricks that caught my fancy the most was the one that sat at the back door in the kitchen, and the one at the door in the parlour. Both of them were door stops, but because they were the first thing a visitor saw when coming into our house, you would never, at first glance, know they were bricks. Long before Mother went to the farm in Northcote,
someone had crocheted covers for these two bricks. They were made of bright red and green wool, no doubt left over from knitting socks or mitts. As Mother said, the crocheted brick covers gave a bit of status (a word I had never heard of before), to two very ordinary necessities: door stops. Like so many other ordinary things put to good use on the farm, bricks coming to us from goodness knows where, served a purpose. And when they were put at my feet, I wondered how many toes had touched them before me, and I would look at the covered brick at the back door, and marvel at the number of visitors who had passed beside it, and how often a foot had moved it out of the way to hold open a door on a farm that generations before me had called home.
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What does the future hold for Hintonburg’s Armstrong Street? Hopefully, more than the recent past, if a report created with the help of the local business organization and students from McGill University has its way. The report, which was spurred by a local commercial study of the area in 2013, delves heavily into the future of land uses along the narrow collector road. Input from residents via an open house, questions posed to businesses, and the expertise of land-use and transportation experts all went into the report’s final recommendations. Architect Atelier TAG helped craft the final document. “As the first step of (the process), we hired a group of McGill students – every year they come into the ward and do something – to take a look at it, hold a public consultation, and ask ‘What do you see as the future of Armstrong Street?’” explained Leiper. The area examined in the McGill study was the stretch
of road between Parkdale Avenue and Bayview Road, where Armstrong runs like a spine through the tightlypacked neighbourhood of Hintonburg North. The working-class neighbourhood emerged in the 1890s and early 1900s as Ottawa’s population boomed and a nearby streetcar line made travel easier. In the mid-20th Century, the report noted, the neighbourhood stagnated after planning decisions caused it to become more isolated from the rest of the city. One thing the earlier local commercial study yielded was the recommendation of two new zoning categories to recognize and permit small-scale commercial and non-residential operations. “The community was uncertain about it, so we pushed back at it,” said Leiper. “Staff wouldn’t budge, but we were successful in putting a holding symbol on the zoning until we had completed a community study.” The McGill exercise and final report was the first step of that, after which a community working group will pick up the torch to focus
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NCC approves expanded uses for properties on Sussex Jennifer McIntosh
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The National Capital Commission is hoping expanded uses for properties on Sussex Drive between Bolton and Cathcart drives will help secure a tenant for 283 Sussex Dr. The board of directors
approved the expansion of the core area sector plan on Jan. 20 – the move will allow for offices at the underused property. A lawyer’s office is in negotiation with the commission to move from another property on Clarence Street that is currently being renovated.
Board member Norman Hotson suggested expanding the use beyond office to include a coffee house or restaurant. “It’s a high profile site,” he said. “It should be more public oriented.” But board CEO Mark Kristmanson said the commission has seen with public
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consultations in the past, that residents aren’t too happy with more restaurants or bars. Steve Willis, executive director of capital planning for the NCC, said the tenant can move into 283 Sussex in the
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The image is an impressive one: hundreds of men, who rebuilt Parliament after it burned down in 1916, defiantly standing in front of the half-finished new building. When Paul Couvrette first looked at the photo in the basement of Irene’s Pub in the Glebe, he quickly scanned it in search of a specific face. His great-grandfather was actually standing among the crowd. An enlarged copy of the picture hangs on the wall below Irene’s Pub, where patrons wandering past on their way to the washroom stop to inspect it. Through research about his family tree, Couvrette discovered his great-grandfather, Gedeon Couvrette, had worked on both the original construction of Parliament Hill when he was 17 years old, and the rebuilding of Centre Block when he was 72.
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Pub and self-described history buff, Ron Bujold, said he found the photograph in the basement of a house he bought on Morris Street in 1994. “There was all sorts of junk in this basement and I found this in what was left,” he said. “I’ve always been fascinated by anything historical like that.” Bujold and Couvrette were not alone in their historical curiosity. The Bytown Museum recently contacted Bujold to include the photo in an exhibit marking the 100th anniversary of the fire, which ripped through Parliament on Feb. 3, 1916. The exhibit, called Forged in Fire, will chronicle the history of Parliament Hill, from the time before European settlement up until
when the buildings were rebuilt after the fire. The blaze started in the Commons Reading Room and quickly spread to engulf all of Centre Block except for the library, which was saved by its iron doors. A cornerstone ceremony was held on Sept. 1, 1916, exactly 56 years after the original cornerstone was laid. Construction was complete on the Peace Tower just 11 years later. “We no longer have the people who were working the stone and lumber to restore it but their children and grandchildren have mementos of that occasion,” said Grant Vogl, a curator with the Bytown Museum. “It’s a great way to reintroduce a story that is moving out of memory and into the history books.” In Bujold’s photograph,
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There’s a fight, but instead of in the schoolyard, it’s around the board table. Ottawa-Carleton District School Board chair Shirley Seward said she’s seeking legal counsel to figure out how to censure a fellow trustee for comments to the media. Donna Blackburn, the trustee for MerivaleKnoxdale and Barrhaven, spoke out against her colleague Shawn Menard, calling trustees who opposed the hike “whack jobs” and swearing in an Ottawa Citizen article published Jan. 14. Blackburn said she was frustrated over the debate around a rate hike for board-run programs offered in schools before and after class hours. The program is facing a $1.8–million deficit, and staff are proposing job cuts to save $10 million. The new rate for the before- and after-school programs could represent a 32 per cent increase for some parents. Blackburn said she is sympathetic about the potential impact, but she thinks parents want her to talk about the deficit and not about language in a newspaper article. “The issue has become that I dropped an F-bomb, but not what drove me to it,” Blackburn said, adding the vote over the rate hikes included an amendment to exempt parents who receive subsidy from paying a $50 registration fee. Blackburn said without increases to the childcare rates, there will have to be cuts to other board services – like social workers or educational assistants. “Trustees were asked to vote on something we didn’t have any information for,”
DONNA BLACKBURN she said, adding staff didn’t have the figures available at the meeting to show the impact of the proposed fee exemption. Seward wants to keep the debate at the board, citing a board communications policy. The policy reads that the chair or designate is the spokesperson for the board and is responsible for external communications regarding matters under consideration by the board, as well as explaining decisions and positions. Seward said it’s not about silencing the other trustees, but simply having a cohesive message on board-wide policy. “Trustees have always been free and encouraged to discuss matters that pertain to their own zones,” Seward said, adding debate on board-wide issues should happen at committee meetings, not in the media. She called Blackburn’s remarks unprofessional and expressed concern about students reading the paper and seeing the language. “We are dealing with (programs for) kids as young as two-and-a-half, and we are just trying to do what’s best for the kids,” Seward said. Seward was elected to chair the board this year “That was way to easy!”
and Blackburn also ran for the position. The board doesn’t have a code of conduct, something Seward said could change. “That’s why I will be seeking legal counsel, to see what the appropriate course of action is,” Seward said. Seward said the public is able to attend committee of the whole and board meetings to hear the debate – so there’s no need for trustees to publicly call out their colleagues. But Blackburn calls that illogical, saying parents don’t have time to go to every meeting, and she will continue to voice her opinion when asked. “The minutes are not verbatim,” Blackburn said. “And people want to be informed.” Blackburn sits on the board conduct committee responsible for developing a code of conduct if a motion is passed at the board level to require one. Blackburn has a reputation for sticking to her guns – one that was solidified after Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder and Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod called for her resignation in April 2012 after she voted in favour of funding a remodelling of Broadview Public School. Blackburn didn’t bend to pressure to change her vote, and she won’t bend now, she said. She said it’s her responsibility as an elected official to voice her opinion when she feels it’s warranted. “I will not be told what to do,” Blackburn said. But Seward said if Blackburn doesn’t like the communications policy as it is, she’s free to propose an amendment. “If Donna’s unhappy with the policy, despite all kinds of media attention in the past, she can make a motion and we can have a policy discussion at a board meeting,” Seward said. “I just clicked and saved 90%”
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‘It’s nice to know you can make a difference in a kid’s life’: Goins Toronto Blue Jays hit home run at CHEO during Ottawa visit bracelets are named. Matthew, who suffers from seizures and an autoimmune condition that have confined him to a wheelchair and stolen his ability to speak, first met some of the Blue Jays players while undergoing treatment in Toronto. Since then he has become friends with catcher Josh Thole, Jamie Campbell, host of Blue Jays Central, and Goins, who began wearing a Matthew bracelet after he saw Thole with one. “And so Ryan has worn one every day since then,” said Matthew’s mom, Stephanie. “If you look at clips (from the American League Championship games), you can see the pictures of Ryan wearing his ‘Matthew the Brave’ bracelet. “For Matthew and his brother it’s amazing,” she said. While Matthew is nonverbal, the Blue Jays fan
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Ryan Goins looks down at his wrist and touches a green and blue bracelet he is rarely seen without. His smile is evidence he enjoys being asked about the plastic band, emblazoned with ‘Matthew the Brave’ in white lettering. “I passed a bunch around to the team,” the Toronto Blue Jays second baseman and shortstop said of the bracelets he received from the Paravan family of Carlingwood, and wore all last season, including during the team’s American League Championship run. “It’s kind of his motto, you know, just going through what he’s been going through,” Goins said inside CHEO’s fifth floor playroom on Jan. 22, just moments before reuniting with Matthew Paravan, 9, a CHEO patient for whom the
conveyed his excitement during the players’ recent visit by way of communication cards. “That’s where stuff like this makes a huge difference,” Stephanie said, adding that it was wonderful to see Matthew so excited. “It helps. It’s a boost (for the kids), which, in turn, boosts us, keeps us going.” Making connections with kids like Matthew and other young patients who are facing extraordinary health challenges keeps things in perspective, said Goins. He was joined during the visit by pitcher Marco Estrada, first baseman Justin Smoak, outfielder Kevin Pillar, and other team officials. “It’s good to come back and see him again,” Goins said. “Whether I’m having a good day or bad day, I always look down at my wrist and know that there are people you still make happy no
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Jamie Campbell, host of Blue Jays Central, visits his friends, Stephanie Paravan and her nine-year-old son Matthew, of Carlingwood, at CHEO on Jan. 22. Campbell, who joined four Blue Jays players during the visit, first met Matthew by chance when the youngster was undergoing treatment for a still undiagnosed condition in Toronto. matter what happens.” The afternoon visit was just one pit stop during the players’ two-day winter
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10 questions with Tom Green Ottawa-raised comedian to perform at Algonquin Commons Theatre Jan. 30 ues to produce the Tom Green Radio Show, which launched in 2013. The Ottawa native is the 2015-16 comedy series’ third act, following Gilbert Gottfried, who performed in September, and Posehn, who appeared in November. Green, who now lives in Los Angeles, shed some light on his most recent projects in an interview with Metroland Media. This interview has been edited for length.
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Tom Green is going back to school this month, but the Canadian comedian won’t be sitting through any lectures while at Algonquin College – he’ll be running the show. The Ottawa-raised prank engineer turned actor, interviewer and stand-up comedian will take Algonquin Commons Theatre’s 201516 comedy series back to local roots with a show on Jan. 30. The show will be Green’s first on campus since graduating from the school’s TV broadcasting program in 1994. Since then, he’s found fame with his cable access prank show The Tom Green Show after it was picked up by MTV, appearing in films and touring worldwide as a stand-up comedian.
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Ottawa native Tom Green is back to perform stand-up comedy at Algonquin College on Jan. 30. Green has also interviewed the likes of Buzz Aldrin, Crispin Glover, Pamela Anderson, and comedians Joe Rogan and Andy Dick among others on his various late-night talk and
radio shows, and collaborated with Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company on their Tom Green Beer in 2013. Between stand-up comedy tours, Green contin-
Can you tell me about your current tour? Is there a theme to your show? The tour itself … we can call it the Tom Green Tour. How about that? This leg of the tour is a little bit different in the sense that I’m coming up and doing a bunch of shows in Canada. It’s kind of a Canada-heavy
year, which is exciting for me. I’m trying to really make people think when they come to my show. We’re living in this society that is so media obsessed and obsessed with their cell phones and their technology, and I think that a lot of the things that I grew up with that I experienced and loved about being a human being have sort of disappeared a little bit because of technology, and I think there’s a lot of nostalgia in my show. You’ll be touring in Canada, America and Australia over the next few months. Do you have a trick for performing all of these shows without wearing yourself out? I definitely pace myself but it’s the kind of thing that I love doing and it’s a real adrenaline rush and also quite cathartic to get up on stage and tell jokes and have a great time laughing with people all over the world. Whenever I stop touring for even just a couple of weeks I start to get antsy and I want to get back out there.
What should fans have heard and seen other work, but not stand-up, expect from show?
They should expect to come to the show prepared to have a great time and it’s gonna be a ridiculous night. I’m not doing any performance art or any stunts but there’s a lot of different elements to what I do when I do stand-up. I’m talking about the world that we’re living in, I’m talking about society, I’m talking about relationships, I’m talking about my personal life. I’m doing a lot of crowdwork, I’m interacting a lot with people. It’s sort of a highenergy show. Having graduated from Algonquin, how do you feel about returning to the campus for this show? It’s my first time performing there. I don’t think that theatre was there when I was at Algonquin or I would have been there for sure. See TOM, page 33
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Tom Green to play show at Algonquin College It’s gonna be fun. I’m gonna talk about my days in television broadcasting at Algonquin College and try to connect with the students that are there. But I always personalize my show toward cities that I’m in and with Ottawa I certainly have so many more points of reference because more than half my life was spent in Ottawa. I have a lot of things and a lot of subjects I can address to have some fun talking about Ottawa. It’s gonna be a good time. How often do you make trips to Ottawa? I’m often in Ottawa when I’m not performing. I’ll come back to Ottawa sometimes to see friends
and family. I’m around town.
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What are your favourite things to do while you’re in the capital? Do you have any favourite haunts?
No, there’s only one Tom Green beer. It is the Tom Green beer – exclamation mark. I’m not planning on making any more. Beau’s, of course, makes all sorts of amazing beers and they’re an incredible brewery. The Tom Green beer is a milk stout and it’s always going to be a milk stout. They made it a milk stout because I used to always cut milk bags open on my TV show and squirt milk all over the place.
When I was growing up we used to always go down to the market and we used to hang out there and skateboard downtown, and to Elgin Street and places like that. So whenever I’m in town I tend to spend a fair amount of my time down in that area with friends, grabbing some beers in the market, drinking some Beau’s beer in the market. Drinking some Tom Green Beer and having a good time. Speaking of Beau’s Tom Green Beer do you have any
Who are your favourite comedians of all time? If you’d asked me 20 years ago I would probably say ‘David Letterman
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Are you recording any music these days? I’m always basically doing music and recording. I’ve built a new recording studio here in Hollywood. That’s where I do my podcast and just moved into a new location in January and it’s an exciting time. I’ve always loved making music but now I’m really trying to satisfy that itch and make some funny songs this year that I’m probably going to incorporate into my live show at some point. Is there anything you’d like to send us off with? I guess I would say that people should check out my Twitter, @tomgreen-
live, and check out my Instagram and my Facebook page. Check TomGreen.com as well, because I’m always posting some fun stuff up there. And check out my podcast, the Tom Green Radio Show. The podcast now is really made up of me taking calls from all over the world and we have these goofy, ridiculous, nonsensical, non sequitur conversations and it’s a lot of fun. Tickets to see Tom Green at Algonquin Commons Theatre are available at the theatre box office or online through algonquinsa.ticketfly.com. For more information about the venue visit algonquinsa.com/algonquincommons-theatre.
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A new Ottawa Humane Society program is matching older felines with senior adopters to help find homes for cats faster while giving their new human caretakers the companionship of a furry friend. The Cats for Seniors program brings together people 60 plus and felines age five and up. OHS staff match the cats in need with their new families for half the usual fee. “These cats are often overlooked in favour of kittens so they tend to be here longer. The longer these cats stay in the shelter and not in a forever home, the greater their stress and risk of getting sick,” said Bruce Roney, OHS executive director. “Cats for Seniors gets them out of here faster and into loving homes where they belong. It’s a wonderful happily ever after for everyone involved.” Cats for Seniors has been in the works for a while because of the impact it will have on both senior and animal lives, Roney said. “We’re always looking for ways to do more for the animals and for our community. This fulfills both goals,” he said. “Nothing compares to the love and companionship of an animal. And for an animal, there’s nothing like a loving forever home.” For more information, please visit www.ottawahumane.ca.
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is my favourite thing in the world.’ I can’t really even think about anything without talking about David Letterman first. I grew up loving his TV show and it was his TV show that really connected with me at a young age and made me want to do the Tom Green Show. When I was a teenager I discovered live stand-up comedy. I wasn’t in New York or L.A., I was in Ottawa and I was going to Yuk Yuk’s and I was lucky to see some of the great comedians of the world today when they were just young kids starting out. I certainly look up to and am inspired by some of the great comedians like George Carlin and Richard Pryor and some of the modern comedians like
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Jan. 28
The Ottawa Women’s Canadian Club luncheon will be held at 12:30 p.m., in the ballroom of the Fairmont Chateau Laurier. The guest speaker will be Dr. Angel Arnaout, breast surgical oncologist at the Ottawa Hospital. For information or tickets call Judy Paré at 613-523-0098 or visit www. owcc.ca.
Jan. 29
Arts Night 7:30pm. Please come and see Nessa Sherwwod, writer; Mariam Elchamaa, event decorator and Deirdre Kellerman, pianist and choir director,
talk about, demonstrate or perform their art. First Unitarian Church, 30 Cleary Ave. Admission $5. For more information: 613-725-1066
Jan. 30
Support military families by attending the not-for-profit Military Family Resource Centre-National Capital Region’s third-annual Victory Ball at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier on Jan. 30. Proceeds from the prestigious black-tie gala, which this year will have an Old Hollywood theme, will support programming for children of military parents with PTSD. The event will feature comic
Andy Hendrickson, live and silent auctions, a four-course dinner and 1930s-themed live entertainment. For details and tickets, visit victoryball. org.
marketplace, a computer room with access to online databases and a closing banquet, all at the Confederation Education Centre, 1645 Woodroffe Ave., Ottawa.
Feb. 6
Winterlude
The Westboro Beach Community Association welcomes you to its annual winter carnival to be held from 1 to 4 p.m.The carnival at Westboro Beach will feature a bonfire, tobogganing and snow building and colouring. Hot chocolate and cookies will be available. For more information, please call 613798-0880.
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Registration is now open for the 32nd Gene-O-Rama Genealogy Conference, hosted by the Ontario Genealogical Society - Ottawa Branch. Dynamic and informative presentations, a vendor
The 33rd Winterlude Triathlon will be held Jan. 30, with an eight-kilometre skate along the canal, a 7K cross country ski through the Arboretum,, and a 5K run on the canal. You can participate as an individual or as a relay team. For more information and registration go to www.winterludetriathlon.ca.
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Skating season is almost here. The Hampton Iona Community Group is looking to hire two or three rink attendants for its community skating rink in Iona Park. For more information or to apply, please contact Lorne Cutler at 613-725-9147 or lacutler@ magma.ca. Volunteers also being sought to help build our rink. The neuropsychology laboratory at the University of Ottawa is recruiting participants for research on brain training. We are looking for adults
aged 60 or older. For more info, email neuropsychologylab.nict@uottawa.ca, or call 613-562-5800, ext. 8757. The Ottawa Newcomers Club is designed to help women new to Ottawa or in a new life situation acclimatize by enjoying the company of other women with similar interests. We have morning, afternoon and evening events such as bridge, mah-jong, fun lunches, photography ,art tours, walking, golf, crafts, movie nights and book clubs. For more information visit our website at www. ottawanewcomersclub.ca or email Marilyn at newcomersclubottawa@gmail.com
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Confident, charismatic leaders were not born that way. In Toastmasters you will gain the practice to become the leader and speaker you want to be. Carlingwood Toastmasters meets Monday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at St. Martin’s Church, located at 2120 Prince Albert Ave. For more information, visit carlingwoodtoastmasters.org. 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 at the back left of the Cafeteria Tulip Café on Mondays from 5:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Call Carole at 613-761-6537 or e-mail lucani@sympatico. ca for more information. You can also visit us online at amigos-tm.ca.
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Golden Age Seniors (a 50plus group) exercises every Monday and Wednesday at Villa Marconi, 1026 Baseline Rd. A qualified instructor leads the classes and there is still room for new participants in the 11 a.m. class. All levels of fitness are welcome. For more information call Teresa 613-225-1878 or Carmela 613-723-6197.
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ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, it’s a good time to be thinking about family. Consider delving more deeply into your genealogy. Research your roots, and you may be surprised at what you discover. TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 All that hard work you have been putting in will finally start to pay off, Taurus. It’s quite possible you will receive some good news soon. Don’t forget to go out and celebrate. GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, major changes could be coming your way and they likely involve your home life. Get ready for a big move or some major renovations to your home. CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 This week your thinking could be even sharper than ever. It’s a good time to make plans that affect your future, including those pertaining to education or employment. LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 If you let your imagination take over, you just may find others are more Here’s How It Works: receptive to this creative way of expressing yourself, Leo. Use every trick to your advantage. 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, a recent project of yours could bring about some deserved clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle! recognition. It doesn’t matter if it is at work or home, being honored can feel good.
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