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The Clemow construction site where blasting began in November and will continue until February.

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All shook up – blasting at ‘The Clemow’

By Sue Stefko

On the morning of November 2, a strong blast shook homes near the building site of The Clemow retirement residence at 275 Carling. The blasting was part of the excavation for the 5-storey underground parking garage in the 16-storey development. After feeling the intense vibrations, residents from Dow’s Lake, the Glebe Annex and the Glebe began contacting Councillor Shawn Menard’s office to voice their concerns. Menard acted immediately, contacting city staff, the Katasa Group and BurMont construction, trying to resolve the issue.

That blast was strong enough to trigger an instantaneous warning message from the vibration monitors

Index ABBOTSFORD......................................16 ART......................................................28 BIRDS....................................................8 BOOKS...........................................26, 27 BUSINESS...........................................15 CIVIC HOSPITAL................................2, 3 COMMUNITY...................................6, 30 FILM....................................................25 FOOD.............................................23, 24 GLEBOUS & COMICUS ����������������������35 GLEBE REPORT BOARD ����������������18,19 HEALTH...............................................31 LETTERS................................................5 MEMOIR..................................13, 36, 37 PLANNING...........................................12 REPS & ORGS........................... 9-11, 29 SCHOOLS...................................... 32-34 TREES....................................................7

surrounding the construction site. While those blasts still fell into what is considered permissible by the city, the construction crew modified their practices so future blasts remain below those warning levels.

Although the size of the blast and vibrations depend on the amount of explosives used, it is more complicated than that – it also depends on the size of the pre-drilled hole the explosives are placed in before detonation, the depth they are placed at, any holes or seams in surrounding rock, the rock density and the blast’s relation to neighbouring properties. All this is calculated before setting up the charge, and sometimes the crew doesn’t get it right. But all things considered, the majority of blasts do go according to plan – of the more than 110 blasts so far, only three

Contributors this month Krikor Aghajanian Shabana Ansari Stu Averill Nicole Beswitherick Candice Blackwood Karen Cameron Vinay Chander Richard Corbeil Mary Kathryn Dunlop Pat Goyeche Joel Harden Maureen Hollingworth Bob Irvine Nili Kaplan-Myrth Shelley Lawrence Julie LeBlanc Angus Luff Carolyn Mackenzie Ian McKercher Shawn Menard

have triggered warnings.

However, the blasts continue to concern neighbours.

Some have expressed worries about their foundations – both from the current work and from cumulative impacts from the multiple developments in the area.

Andrew Campbell from Explotech Engineering Ltd., a third-party blasting consulting firm which is monitoring compliance with regulations throughout the process, believes damage to foundations should not be an issue. The levels of vibrations allowed by blasting regulations are based on in-depth, long-term studies, which included near-continuous blasting for over 50 years near a variety of homes and foundations Continued on page 2

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All shook up Continued from page 1

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of different ages. This means that if the construction crew follows the regulations, there should not be damage to any nearby structures. He added that if there was damage, it would be seen before in weaker components of the home, like plaster or drywall, before stronger components, like the foundation. To be able to monitor possible changes to nearby foundations, each building within 150 metres of the site had pre-blast inspections, including photographs and videos to help in documenting any issues from the blasting.

A number of neighbours very close to the site are concerned about rock debris damaging their windows.

While the use of large rubber mats minimizes the possibility of projectile rock, Sean Montgomery from BurMont Construction, the manager for the project, says anyone worried about damage to their property should contact Katasa to file a complaint to make sure concerns are addressed.

Some want to see blasting stopped.

However, in the absence of blasting, since the site is entirely bedrock (past

the first metre or so of soil), other methods such as hoe-ramming would have to be used to extract the rock. This would extend the process until about the end of 2022 instead of next February as currently planned. It would also have a disproportionate impact, with neighbours closest to the site having to deal with near constant jackhammering from several hoe rams onsite.

This would obviously benefit those who are too far away to hear the jackhammer as they would not be impacted by the vibrations of the blasts. However, it would be very difficult for those nearest the site, as those who experienced the hoe-ramming for the John Howard Society build at 289 Carling can attest.

As the digging progresses (as of this writing, two of the five floors have been excavated), we expect the level of vibrations will stay the same, but the noise and air pressure from the blast itself will be reduced as the blasts take place further and further underground. After the excavation wraps up this winter, the rest of the project is expected to take another two years, with construction scheduled to finish in spring 2024.

Sue Stefko is president of the Glebe Annex Community Association.

Civic Hospital expansion location botched

By Stu Averill In Kelly Egan’s column of July 10 in the Ottawa Citizen, he asked, “Have we botched the location of the (Civic) Hospital?” His question was, of course, rhetorical, as illustrated by the flood of concurring letters to both the Citizen and local newspapers like the Glebe Report.

As Egan explained, the 2017 recommendation to build on the hillside overlooking Dow’s Lake – a lush, construction-challenging, cost-inflating site – instead of expanding the hospital on the 60-acre Central Experimental Farm site directly across Carling Avenue from the current Civic campus – a previously agreed upon, level site with no trees – was mostly political. The latter site might have allowed construction of a parking garage on either side of Carling Avenue to serve both the old and new hospitals without any environmental destruction. As well, much of the 60-acre site may never have been needed for hospital expansion if some new buildings were constructed on the old site as older buildings were decommissioned and demolished.

Significant public support for rejecting the 60-acre site came from a group of citizens who were opposed to development of any part of the Farm for any reason. It was claimed that the 60 acres were being used for ongoing agricultural research which would be disrupted and its value lost if the land were developed.

But I undertook to study this question. I visited the Farm regularly starting in 2019 to monitor usage of the 60-acre site and asked the Farm about their practices. Astonishingly, I found that only 10 acres on the west side of Ash Lane are being used as research plots. The other 50 acres are comprised of larger fields farmed in the same manner as other fields, including for cattle feed, and thus are not essential to the Farm’s research mandate.

Clearly, usage of the farm fields was misrepresented when the hospital site was being chosen, thereby steering the choice toward the Dow’s Lake site.

Nor was information volunteered on

the chemically intensive farming practices employed on the Farm, further biasing the selection process. Had the citizens of Ottawa been informed that the fouling of Dow’s Lake is probably due to the use of chemical fertilizers on the Farm and that the fields are routinely sprayed with herbicides that are prohibited along Carling Avenue, would there have been any public resistance to using a small part of the Farm to build a hospital? Those protesting use of any part of the Farm for a hospital were duped by a classic bait-and-switch scheme, with the alternate site changed from Tunney’s Pasture or a similar industrial site to a much more environmentally sensitive part of the very Farm that they were trying to protect.

In summary, in addition to the recommendation to move the Civic Hospital to Dow’s Lake being senseless logistically, environmentally and financially, and being ruinous to a prominent Ottawa landscape, support for the recommendation was garnered by deceiving the public about the use of the originally proffered treeless Farm fields across from the present hospital. Yet Mayor Jim Watson and his puppet council recently gave final approval to the Dow’s Lake site, despite having just declared a climate emergency in the city. Of course, with Watson influencing both the recommendation and approval processes, approval was just as assured as the outcome of a Russian election!

There are times when a decision made by our elected representatives is so blatantly flawed that it is indefensible and should be reversed. Should we, the citizens of Ottawa, simply accept Council’s thoughtless approval of the Dow’s Lake site and stand idly by while this landmark is erased from the landscape forever? Or should we uphold our duty to both future generations and the environment, stand shoulder-to-shoulder and stop the bulldozers? Will you join us, Ms. McKenna? Premier Ford?

Stuart Averill is a registered professional geoscientist who grew up on a mixed farm in Manitoba. He lives within walking distance of Dow’s Lake and the Experimental Farm.

CIVIC HOSPITAL OPINION

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Tree songs to save the farm

Chris White (left) and Christophe Elie, in front of a 120-year-old silver maple, sing “Let’s Save the Trees” in the Central Experimental Farm.

“The decision to build anything on the Experimental Farm is insane. As artists and citizens, we have to do whatever we can to stop it.”

By Val Swinton Chis White is a man with a mission. He’s also a man who has marinated in the Ottawa music scene for decades. On November 21, these two strands of his life came together in a Canada-wide musical and advocacy event called Tree Songs 2.

Tree Songs 2 grew from a smaller local event last October. White then joined forces with singersongwriter Christophe Elie and began planning Tree Songs 2 as a Canada-wide event that would include musicians, poets and visual artists. The November event featured 10 shows in-person and livestreamed shows from across Canada, followed by a national wrap-up concert of highlights from those shows. White tells me that an even more ambitious Tree Songs 3 is already being planned for January 22 and 23.

Asked why he undertakes such large challenges, White responded, “I want to raise awareness about tree-related issues and to expand and strengthen community connections so we can halt deforestation of parklands across the country, including Ottawa’s Experimental Farm.” His 16 years as organizer of the Ottawa Folk Festival and many more as host of CKCU’S Canadian Spaces, Canada’s longest-running folk music radio show, fully qualified him to succeed at the task.

White’s alarm call in Ottawa concerns the loss of 50 acres of parkland in the heart of the city, where 750 mature trees will be chopped to make way for

a new hospital. Some are more than 100 years old; many are specimen trees cared for over decades.

City Council, the NCC and the provincial and federal governments have handed over 40 acres of the Experimental Farm, a national historic site that governments have several times promised to maintain in perpetuity as parkland. The remaining 10 acres are on Queen Juliana Park, set aside by former prime minister Pierre Trudeau to commemorate the years Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and her children sought refuge in Ottawa during the Second World War, the contribution of Canadian soldiers in liberating her country, and perhaps as a thank you for the 10,000 tulips the Dutch royal family gifts to Ottawa every spring.

White is supporting ReImagine Ottawa, a citizens’ group trying to prevent development on the Farm. “There is no question that we need a hospital,” says Noel Lomer, a volunteer with ReImagine Ottawa, “but it doesn’t make any sense to build it on the Farm, especially when the National Capital Commission recommended Tunney’s Pasture.”

ReImagine Ottawa launched a petition calling for an inquiry into how and why the results and recommendations of a six-month NCC study were overturned in a few days and the Experimental Farm was chosen instead. It already has over 6,000 signatures and is growing. We know little about why the flip was made, only that the hospital board quickly rejected the recommendation,

and negotiations behind closed doors resulted in a large chunk of a national historic site and all of Queen Juliana Park being given to the hospital. No supportable reasons have been given for the decision.

Shovels will be in the ground next March to construct a five-acre, four-storey parking garage on the corner of Preston and Carling overlooking Dow’s Lake, the Rideau Canal (Ontario’s only UNESCO World Heritage Site) and Commissioners Park, where every spring thousands enjoy those tulips sent by Dutch royalty. The thanks we are giving for their annual gift and our shared history is paving over Queen Juliana Park and creating a token park of the same name on the roof of the garage.

“Kris Kristofferson told me once that if you can touch people’s hearts, you have an opportunity to send a message,” says White. “Art is the way to do that. The decision to build anything on the Experimental Farm is insane. As artists and citizens, we have to do whatever we can to stop it.”

Here’s what you can do. Walk through the Farm to enjoy the landscape and understand what will be lost. Visit ReImagine Ottawa’s website and Facebook page, sign the petition and sign up for updates on activities. Visit the TreeSongs2 website and enjoy the shows that are archived there.

Val Swinton lived in the Glebe for 25 years and is a volunteer with ReImagine Ottawa.

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The Glebe Report’s Poetry Quarter curator JC Sulzenko apologizes to Vinay Chander for omitting the fourth stanza of her poem, “Requiem for a Fallen Molar,” from November’s Poetry Quarter. Here is the complete poem.

REQUIEM FOR A FALLEN MOLAR Vinay Chander I miss you so much Since you left so abruptly After seventy years Living along so close to me.

We were so close, We even have the same genetic code.

You were a living companion.

Nothing can replace you.

It is hard to fill the void, It has left me incomplete.

Do you miss your companions— The insolent Incisors, the cunning Canines, The presumptuous Premolars, all usurpers Sitting pretty in the front, seen by all, And you, way back pushed to the wall.

Goodbye, adieu, my friend.

You served me well right to the end.

It’s true it was a grinding task For which nothing was asked.

You lie before me broken, lifeless and dead, Covered with the tears I have shed.

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Comings & Goings � The Glebe Community Centre was once again the scene of artisans selling their wares on November 28 at the Glebe Craft & Artisan Fair. PHOTO: LIZ MCKEEN

Marking time The other day I stumbled into a conversation about the nature of time during the pandemic, an issue we may be dealing with a while longer, what with the prolonging potential of Omicron.

A recent CBC article posited that time seems to have sped up and slowed down to a crawl, both at once. Why is that? One theory was that it’s because we’re living a life of routine, with no novelty, no extraordinary happenings, few life events marking the time for us. How do we know time is passing if nothing happens to signal a time before and a time after? If we follow the

same route to the coffee shop and get the usual flat white, size medium, walk back along the identical path, open the same door with the same key, kick our shoes off in the normal careless way and slump into the usual chair in front of a screen, how do we know when it’s the next day, and the next? It could be yesterday for all we know.

What’s worse, we don’t remember it. With nothing to distinguish one moment from the next, how can we make memories? Our time in this world just drifts into the ether with no trace left on our brain.

One of the solutions proposed is to generate novelty, even in small ways, so that our brains have something to hang on to, to help understand that

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Glebe Report December 10, 2021

Farewell and thanks

Food nerd favourites

Thieves targeting Glebe cars

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I’m reaching out to let you know that after eight years of service in one of the greatest neighbourhoods around, my time with the Glebe BIA has come to a close.

Looking back, I can’t believe how fast it all went by, and I feel blessed to have been a witness to and a participant in so much positive change.

I have appreciated the camaraderie as well as your collaboration, insight and perspective. The enthusiasm and passion you bring to bear, along with a sense of purpose to find a better path forward, was a benefit to the organization, our members, the community and our city. I’m truly grateful to have worked with you on both a personal and professional level, and I look forward to the time when we cross paths again. I want to express my deepest appreciation to all the colleagues and partners who lent a hand and offered their support during my time with the Glebe BIA. As many of you already know, I’ll be starting another exciting chapter with the Downtown Rideau BIA effective immediately.

With tremendous gratitude and appreciation,

I have been very much enjoying the attention given by the Glebe Report to food, local restaurants and cooks. It seems to have increased in range over the past few years, thanks to contributors like Marisa Romano. Keep up the good work. Promoting local is something a community newspaper should do. The Glebe Report does this very well.

One of the most enjoyable series of articles for me was produced by Carolyn Best, former Pantry owner and cook. While there was always a recipe involved, the articles were anchored by a specific ingredient in the featured recipe (e.g. sesame).

Many things were shared in these pieces – the myths attached to certain foods, their history, their nutritional value. For a food nerd, it was reading heaven.

As the weather has grown more fall-like in the past few weeks, I have pulled out some of Carolyn’s recipes, clipped from the Glebe Report.

As an enthusiastic patron of The Pantry for decades, it is always satisfying to return to some old favourites.

Carolyn, if you read this, thanks again for providing such happy and tasty memories.

It was midnight and we were asleep so were too late picking up the phone.

The voice mail was from a police constable leaving her number. We thought it was a crank call until a few minutes later when we answered the door and several police officers introduced themselves. Thieves had been interrupted in the middle of stealing our car.

The Glebe has been targeted for its upper-end vehicles, so be on the alert.

The thefts are carried out by a professional group of individuals who scope out an area ahead of time and note which cars they will target.

In our case, the thieves were spotted from a neighbour’s unlit window, and they called 911. Police interviewed suspicious individuals in a car nearby but could not prove any involvement in the attempted theft.

Thieves travel to an area with up to six or more men in a car. When they gain control of the vehicle, they drive it to a port where it is loaded into a container and sent to buyers.

They enter the car by using technology that acquires the fob signal of your car even if your key is, like mine was, in a purse inside the house. The police found the vehicle diagnostic device under the dashboard of our car.

It takes a few minutes for all the computer information to be transferred to their fobs so the car can be driven away.

We were advised to get more lighting where the car is parked, so we have arranged for an electrician to put in a motion-activated floodlight. We also plan to get a Faraday bag, which prevents the thieves from accessing the signal from our keys. A tool called the “club,” which goes on the steering wheel, will also be part of our crimeprevention kit.

What was dispiriting was the police telling us we may well be targeted again. We hope the steps we are taking will discourage thieves in the future.

Andrew Peck Formerly Executive Director, Glebe BIA

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Take care of each other patients while they try to seek care and my beleaguered colleagues while they desperately try to save lives at CHEO, At the end of August, I was filled with joy and hope as The Ottawa Hospital, the Queensway Carleton and the we’d just run five “Jabapalooza” events through my little Montfort. Many physician and nurse colleagues have Glebe office with a team of Ottawa volunteers, immunizing shared their stories with me, across Ontario and across more than 2,000 people (construction workers, bus drivthe country. It is unconscionable for advocacy to result ers, teachers, child-care providers, other essential workin threats and harassment. ers, people with disabilities, seniors).

We are now authorized to vaccinate 5 to 11-year-old chilFast forward to the morning of Monday, November 1. I dren against COVID-19 and encourage everyone to get a received a death threat. You might have heard about it shot as soon as possible. Yet we are afraid of the upswing or read about it. Elizabeth Payne wrote about it in nastiness and violence. This is not what we in the Ottawa Citizen on November 3, and I should be dealing with, exhausted after wrote about it in The Globe and Mail on almost two years of caring for you.

November 8. My response to that threat To be sure, threats, harassment and How dare anyone call for was surprise, then anger, then fear. harm are not only directed toward How dare anyone call for me to be healthcare professionals. Grocers me to be killed because killed because of the work that I do have been verbally and physically of the work that I do, as a family doctor? It is so troubling, assaulted for reminding shoppers to a line that cannot be crossed. wear masks. Restaurant owners and as a family doctor? It is I am vulnerable because I have staff in local businesses have been so troubling, a line that spoken out publicly about my concerns confronted for asking patrons to show about gaps in our healthcare system: their COVID-19 vaccine certificates. cannot be crossed. about the dearth of resources for primary I love to work in the Glebe. I am proud care (more than 80,000 people in the Ottawa of Ottawa for stepping up so quickly to do area are without a family doctor); about challenthe right things – wearing masks, social disges early in the pandemic with our inability to access tancing, getting COVID-19 tests and rolling up your personal protective equipment; about patients struggling to sleeves for the COVID-19 vaccine when you were eligible. access COVID-19 tests; about provincial and national issues We need to say very clearly that we will not tolerate of equity and access to COVID-19 vaccines. intimidation, disruptive behaviour or any form of harassI did all of that because there was a dire need, because ment. Like we’ve said throughout the pandemic, we are my patients and the broader community in Ottawa and in this together. So for the sake of our community and our colleagues who work in the hospitals needed help. If I humanity, take care of each other, be kind. were to travel back in time, I’d make all the same choices.

It is necessary advocacy.

Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD, CCFP, PhD, is a family doctor Sadly, this is not an isolated event. I am not the only and anthropologist who writes about health policy and person who is being threatened and harassed. There politics. She co-hosts a podcast, Rx:Advocacy.ca Follow have been anti-vax protests outside hospitals, disrupting her on Twitter: @nilikm.

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By Della Wilkinson Students at Mutchmor Public School were entertained during recess on November 19 by the planting of nine new trees along the school playing field on Fourth Avenue. Three large canopy trees – an American elm, a red ash and a Norway maple – previously occupied this strip of land, as shown on the City of Ottawa’s tree inventory (open.ottawa.ca/datasets/tree-inventory), but they were all cut down over the past decade, leaving the adjacent playing field fully exposed to the sun.

Most Glebe residents believe the city’s forestry services will automatically replant trees on city-owned land, but this is not the case. These new trees arrived thanks to a tree-loving Glebe resident – who prefers to remain anonymous – who applied to the city’s tree programs by calling 311 to request that new trees be planted. This summer, forestry services approved a plan to plant nine trees – three Freeman maples, three hackberries (honey locusts were substituted in the end), two ginkgoes and a Japanese lilac.

These trees will be hugely beneficial to Mutchmor students and others who use the playing field by providing shade and helping to mitigate the urban heatisland effect. Over their lifetime, if they grow to maturity, the nine trees have the ability to sequester up to 3,500 kilograms of carbon dioxide in addition to improving air quality by removing airborne pollution. They will also absorb rainfall to alleviate storm runoff.

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Sadly, four trees were cut down at the same time outside Corpus Christi School on Third Avenue. Residents were quick to inform the Glebe Community Association Environment Committee of this loss. The committee has applied to the City for new plantings next spring.

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For information on the City of Ottawa tree planting programs, see ottawa.ca/en/living-ottawa/environment-conservation-and-climate/ trees-and-urban-forests/tree-planting.

Four trees cut down on Third Avenue beside Corpus Christi school have yet to be replaced.

Residents of Fourth Avenue first noticed something happening when mysterious circles with letters inside appeared on the ground. Several weeks later, trees were placed next to each circle and shortly after, a contractor planted the trees. They are on the forestry services watering route for next year, but residents of Fourth Avenue have already expressed a desire to nurture their new neighbours should they appear stressed. Glebe dog owners can help by ensuring their pets do not pee on the bark of these saplings as this can enable ants and insects to invade and weaken a tree (see Glebe Report,

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Della Wilkinson is chair of the Glebe Community Association Environment Committee and a member of the Tree Team which is engaged in the Glebe Neighbourhood Canopy Regeneration Project. The team aims to assist residents to identify great planting spots on their property and in the community, with the goal of ensuring a leafy green canopy for the Glebe’s future.

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birds of the glebe The Ring-billed gull

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By Jeanette Rive

hat birds use breadcrumbs to attract fish? What birds stamp their feet to produce rain-like sounds to lure earthworms? What birds engage in play, showing off their acrobatic flying skills by purposely dropping a bit of food while up in the air and swooping down to catch it?

Gulls. Not seagulls, please! We may find them obnoxious, noisy, messy, even aggressive – they’ve been known to grab a french fry from someone quietly enjoying lunch outside – but they play a vital role in cleaning our environment. They are also intelligent, adaptable, playful and make great parents. They specialize in kleptoparasitism – stealing food from each other or from other birds. You might have observed a gull flying away with its treasure only to be chased by other gulls trying to wrest away its food.

While preferably not usually seen at our feeders or in our gardens, gulls are part of the urban landscape.

We see them as they soar above parking lots, swooping down to pick up a scrap of food and scavenging garbage. They can be seen all over the city, including in our neighbourhood at Lansdowne Park or Dow’s Lake.

There are about 27 species of gulls. Inland, they are found around lakes and rivers and in urban environments. Around here, the Ring-billed gull is the most common gull. During migration seasons, other gulls pass through, including the Herring gull, recognizable by the red dot on its bill, and the Great black-backed gull, which stands out from a flock of gulls due to its sheer size.

Gulls live in colonies ranging in size from just a few pairs to tens of thousands of birds. The colonies can be seen, among other places, along the Ottawa

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River, around the rapids. All gulls are monogamous and mate for life, returning to the same breeding and roosting site every year. Ring-billed gulls are about the size of a crow with a wingspan of about 120 cm.

They can fly fast, up to 70 kph, but not particularly high, and they take advantage of thermals to hover above the water to look for prey – they have excellent eyesight, one of the few birds whose eyes can move in their sockets. They live quite long, up to 15 years, though the average is between five and 10 years.

Gulls build their nests close to the ground, usually near fresh water. Nests are not elaborate, sometimes just a dip in the ground, lined with vegetation, hidden behind plants or near a bush for safety. Gull pairs share nest building, incubation and feeding of chicks.

Two to four eggs are laid – they are about the size of a small hen’s egg and are incubated for three or more weeks. A baby gull, called a nestling, can wander out of the nest by the second day, but most will leave after four or five days and are looked after by the parents for several weeks. Gulls will eat anything, as we know, but are careful to feed their chicks only nutritious insects or small fish.

Like many creatures, gulls transfer their hunting skills and techniques to their offspring. In the colony, young gulls, distinguished by their brown mottled plumage, form nursery flocks in which they will learn life skills, usually from a few adult males. These flocks will stay together until they are old enough to breed.

Ever wonder how some birds are able to drink both seawater and freshwater? Marine birds, such as gulls, penguins, puffins and pelicans, have built in desalination filters in the form of a salt gland and duct located about the eyes and connected to their bill. When there’s an excess of salt, such as when eating prey straight from the sea, the salty fluid is passed through

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the gland, and excess salt is excreted from the nostril.

Fun fact: the demand for white feathers from gulls, as well as from egrets and herons, to adorn hats and gowns led to a serious decline in gulls in the late 19th century. They made a rapid comeback after they became protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the U.S. in 1917.

Perhaps you will reconsider your opinion of “those pesky gulls!”

If you have a bird feeder in your backyard, consider joining Project FeederWatch, a project of Birds Canada in conjunction with The Cornell Lab. Data collected helps monitor birds in our area and helps our birds in winter. (birdscanada.org).

Jeanette Rive is a Glebe bird enthusiast and Glebe Report proofreader.

GNAG

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Mary Tsai GNAG Executive Director

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GNAG fine-tunes programs GNAG’s Children’s Winter Carnival

For over 40 years, December was the month when GNAG hosted its annual winter community party, the Snowflake Special. It was our way of celebrating winter and our wonderful community.

There were sleighrides, hot chocolate, talent show and face painting. After the Snowflake Special was cancelled last year because of COVID-19, we hoped to reinstate it this year but given the circumstances, we do not yet feel ready.

Instead, GNAG will host a new event, which promises to be festive, fun and safe! You and your family are invited to GNAG’s Winter Carnival on Sunday, December 12 at the Glebe Community Centre. Children from three to 12 years old and their parents can enjoy crafts, carnival games, bouncy castles, photo booth, prizes and more, all organized

by GNAG’s Youth CAT (Community Action Team) volunteers and staff.

We have scheduled two time slots (1–2:45 p.m. and 3:30–5:15 p.m.) with reduced capacity to ensure everyone’s health and safety. All guests must wear a facemask, and those eligible for full vaccination must show proof of getting their shots. Food and drink will not be served, but children will go home with a loot bag full of wonderful goodies.

A very special thank you to our sponsors Magnolia Construction and Party Time Inflatables for making this event possible. Limited tickets are on sale at GNAG.ca. We hope you will join us. It has been a tough 20 months, but we believe we have gotten over the worst of it and have lots to celebrate.

What’s Cooking for Taste in the Glebe

Our beloved annual Taste in the Glebe fundraiser will be back, but only when we are confident that we can ensure public health and safety. In the meantime, our tenacious Taste team has been cooking up exciting plans for safe re-entry sometime in 2022.

The Glebe’s award-winning sommelier Phil Nicholson will return in late winter or early spring with his alwaysan-instant-sell-out premier tasting, featuring special chef offerings from a half dozen of the region’s finest restaurants. We’re busy exploring ways to offer well-spaced tables in Scotton Hall. This will pave the way for a full and safe return of Taste in the Glebe at a later date.

Phil is also revving up plans for the return of the Culinary Caravan, where

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he arranges gourmet fixed-menu meals (with wine pairing options) at restaurants in outlying areas, with school-bus transport to and from the event. The inaugural events at gezellig in Westboro, Les Fougères in Chelsea and The Village House in Wakefield were stunning successes.

Our Taste chair Tahera Mufti and the rest of the Taste Team are hard at work on other culinary offerings, so watch for news in the new year.

Children and vaccination

As I was walking home from the GCC, a young boy about seven years old was skipping down the street with a giant smile on his face as his mother tried to keep up. “Someone’s in a great mood,” I commented to the mother. She responded, “He just got his first shot and is good to go!”

It has been interesting to hear children’s reactions to getting vaccinated: “I don’t like needles, but I’ll be ok,” and “I get my first vaccination on Saturday and then I’m going to a birthday party.

I can’t wait!”

“Every child who came to the craft fair who was going to get their shot was so happy,” says Clare Davidson Rogers.

“When I was asking to see their parents’ certificates, they would brag, ‘I’m going to get mine on Tuesday!’ And that was completely unprovoked, straight out of the blue. They clearly understand the implications of being fully vaccinated.

Way to go kids! You can do it.

With children getting vaccinated, what does this mean for GNAG policy?

Effective April 1, children born in 2016 or before will be required to provide proof of full vaccination (including the completion of the two-week, post-vaccine waiting period) to attend a GNAG in-person program or event, including March Break Camp and Youth Dance. People who don’t provide this proof will not be able to participate in any in-person programming or event.

Children born in 2017 will be required to be vaccinated 12 weeks after their fifth birthday to attend GNAG programs or events, including camps. Children born in 2018 or after and children registered in GNAG’s 2021-22 Q4/BC will be exempt from this requirement when attending before- and after-school programs. Winter program registration is now open at GNAG.ca.

On behalf of the GNAG team, we wish you a safe and happy holiday!

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Isn’t December a wonderful month? It is dark and cold, and the days are busy, but I really love the lights around the neighbourhood and the anticipation and hope that come with this season.

And what a year (and more) we have had. I am thankful to be able to take some time to reflect, and to look forward to what is to come next year.

This has been such a challenging time, and we are not through it yet. But there have definitely been moments of hope to help carry us through, not the least of which was the arrival of vaccines and the decline in the number of COVID-19 infections in our community. And now school-aged children are starting to be vaccinated too – what a wonderful gift that is at this time of year.

As we continue to meet virtually, the Glebe Community Association has had to be creative in our work and advocacy. For example, we had another virtual Great Glebe Garage Sale this year and conducted our membership campaign virtually too. Our collaborative effort with Operation Come Home’s Bottleworks program continues to be a great success; many of you faithfully bring your empty bottles and cans to the Kunstadt parking lot on the third Saturday of each month in support of at-risk youth in our community. Thank you for your support in this work. We have also continued to advocate for improvements to Lansdowne Park, for development that is respectful of neighbourhoods and commensurate with investment in transit and neighbourhood infrastructure and amenities, for more affordable housing and for action to care for our earth and to address climate change.

Our November board meeting

At our meeting in November, we heard updates from three of our committees.

The Health, Housing and Social Services Committee reported on the success of our partnership with Bottleworks and spoke about a new partnership with the Centretown Community Association’s Affordable Housing Working Group. The committee also reported that the GCA had made a submission to the provincial government as part of the legislature’s consideration of a bill that would give more power to municipalities regarding the location and distribution of cannabis retailers. We supported this, recognizing that the City of Ottawa is not able to act on the guidelines they have put in place on the location of cannabis stores.

We also heard from the GCA’s Transportation Committee. At their most recent meeting, they discussed the possibility of doing a transportation study of the neighbourhood and discussed other ways to make streets near schools safer. They also discussed noise barriers along highway 417, improvements being made to Pretoria Avenue and the scooter pilot project.

The GCA’s Planning Committee reported that the Bank Street Height and Character Study, which has been in the works for over two years and lays out a comprehensive vision for Bank Street, will soon be considered by the City’s Planning Committee.

We are hopeful that City Council will approve the study so there is greater certainty about development in our neighbourhood.

Beyond committee reports, the board discussed communications guidelines that will help us use our various tools (email, website, social media) to communicate effectively. As winter approaches, the board also heard that the Mutchmor Rink will not return this season because of the continued need to ensure proper distancing for students and classes while they are outdoors. We will continue to engage with the school in an effort to bring the rink back as soon as circumstances permit.

Looking ahead to 2022!

The GCA does not meet in December, but we will be back in January. Our board meetings are open, and you are welcome to join us. We meet on the fourth Tuesday of most months; our next meeting will be on Tuesday, January 25 at 7 p.m. Please be in touch with Janet, the board secretary, if you are interested in attending – secretary@glebeca.ca.

Who knows what the New Year will bring? There are certain things we know will continue to be of great importance to our neighbourhood, like the future of Lansdowne Park and nearby development proposals, to name a couple.

Provincial and municipal elections will also be held next year. Throughout all this, the GCA will continue to advocate for a liveable, sustainable and diverse urban neighbourhood.

Wishing you and those you love a very happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year.

COUNCILLOR'S REPORT

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Shawn Menard Councillor, Capital Ward

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2022 City budget, secondary plan for Bank Street, and a big welcome Budget

Noted Canadian urban planner Brent Toderian said, “The truth about a city’s aspirations isn’t found in its vision.

It’s found in its budget.” The City of Ottawa’s approach to the budget needs improvement. Consultations occur after the majority of the budget has already been decided; more participatory budgeting would be desirable.

I’ve previously written about several ideas to ensure city budgets use our tax dollars efficiently and fund the services, projects and infrastructure that residents need and care about. For example: not expanding the urban boundary; retrofitting our older buildings to reduce emissions and save money; investing in ending homelessness which would save on social costs; helping to induce more trips by walking, biking and transit; and ending subsidies to wealthy developers.

That being said, our approach to the budget this year has had a hyper local focus, delivering what we can on residents’ priorities in our ward.

In the Glebe, we have secured

funding for the reconstruction of the Bank Street canal bridge. Last year, a redesign of the bridge passed unanimously at City Council. Last spring, we worked with the community and staff to settle on a new accessible design to provide separate, safe facilities for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists. We now have sufficient funding in the proposed budget, and construction is expected to start this spring.

There’s also funding in the draft budget for improvements to Fourth Avenue between Lyon and Percy. This is an important project to make the street safer for students going to Mutchmor and Corpus Christi and for everyone else who uses the street. This project will include traffic-calming measures, speed humps and a raised crosswalk between Mutchmor and the field behind Corpus Christi.

Elsewhere in the neighbourhood, we will see road and sewer work on Ella and Ralph, the continuing design work for Pretoria, resurfacing on Carling between Bronson and Preston, and the replacement of streetlight poles on

Dow’s Lake Road and Kippewa Drive.

A new park will take shape next to the Firehall in 2022.

Finally, we worked to see one million dollars budgeted to begin the design work for the reconstruction of Bronson Avenue between the canal and Arlington Avenue. This will be an important project for the community, as we need to see significant improvements to Bronson to make it a safer and more comfortable street for residents.

Two years ago, we held an initial visioning session for Bronson Avenue, and we will continue the consultation process by hosting a public meeting in the New Year.

For a full list of proposed projects in Capital Ward, you can visit our website at shawnmenard.ca/2022Budget.

A Welcome to the new executive director of the Glebe BIA

I wanted to give a big welcome to the new executive director of the Glebe BIA, Patrick Burke, a Glebe resident with an impressive background. We’ve had a chance to sit down to discuss the

historic nature of the Glebe and the future needs for the area. We committed to working together closely for the betterment of the community and small businesses.

New Bank Street Height and Character Study passes Planning Committee

I’ve been enjoying my new role on the Planning Committee, and one of the more rewarding moments was working with the community to see through the new Height and Character Study. It preserves much of the character of Bank Street while adding density in suitable locations, with each lot considered for its context. I am very grateful to Carolyn Mackenzie, the GCA and Glebe residents who ensured this plan mitigated concerns while accommodating new growth. It also includes a provision for affordable housing in the cityowned parking lot at the north end of the Glebe.

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PLANNING

Bank Street Plan approved

by City’s Planning Committee

By Carolyn Mackenzie After three years, the Bank Street Height and Character Study finally made it to Planning Committee where it gained unanimous approval on November 25.

Hooray! Next stop is consideration by full City Council.

The Glebe Community Association (GCA) thanks the City for working closely with the GCA, other stakeholders and residents on this plan. In the summer of 2018, after the completion of Lansdowne and approval of a couple of significant developments that are currently under construction on Bank Street, the City agreed the time was right – the Glebe was a target for development and intensification, and a plan to guide its future was needed. The result is a plan that includes policies on height and massing that are more tailored to the unique characteristics of Bank Street as well as adjacent lots on Chamberlain and Isabella.

The Plan

The plan seeks a balance – adding density in some areas to contribute to a more vibrant Bank Street while also including measures to “sculpt” buildings in a way that should better maintain the pedestrian scale and street character. It puts in place policies to improve how mixed-use buildings (commercial on the first floor, office or residential above) transition to the residential properties that they back onto.

It also establishes policies for the

street itself. Bank Street is categorzed as a “Traditional Mainstreet.” Currently, most of Bank Street has a “right of way” (public land used for sidewalks, roads, bike lanes, landscaping, etc.) of roughly 18.5 metres. This is among the narrowest of Traditional Mainstreets in the city. This plan will allow the city to take an additional 1 to 1.25 metres in front of any new redevelopment to expand the right of way, making room for wider sidewalks or other public uses. The plan also calls for the city-owned parking lot at the corner of Chamberlain and Bank Street to be used for affordable housing. The GCA will continue to work with the City to find solutions for how to make this happen.

The Model Helped

Many residents visited the GCA’s presentation of a physical model of the City’s recommendations in the fall of 2020. The model was built by GCA volunteer Richard Corbeil. I found it very useful to visualize what Bank Street could look like in the future based on the City’s recommendations, and I believe others did as well. It provided a much more effective basis for residents to give informed feedback to the City, and possibly even for city planners to “see” what the result of their recommendations might eventually look like. So a big shout out of thanks to Corbeil for this. The City should consider greater use of modelling – if not a physical model, then greater use of visual modelling tools – to engage with

The Bank Street Height and Character Study and the plan that resulted from it benefited greatly from the physical model of what Bank Street would look like with the proposed policies. The model was painstakingly created by Glebe volunteer Richard Corbeil.

residents more effectively in future.

To be clear, the community didn’t get everything it asked for: for example, stronger measures to improve the transition from mixed-use buildings to residential areas and building stepbacks at three storeys to better establish human scale. But overall, I think we settled on a plan that will enhance Bank Street for Glebe residents and for all Ottawa residents who work, shop or play here.

It is our hope that adoption of this plan, with clearer rules that are the result of consultation with residents, owners of land on Bank Street, the Glebe BIA and other stakeholders, will ease the way for good development of underutilized land, including a number of surface parking lots fronting the street – but only if the city is prepared to stand behind it in future.

The Glebe was a target for development and intensification, and a plan that would guide its future was needed!

The GCA would like to thank city planners Alain Miguelez and lead Peter Giles for their effort and commitment to this study, as well as the thoughtful and useful input of Councillor Shawn Menard and his staff all along the way.

Carolyn Mackenzie is chair of the Glebe Community Association Planning Committee and one of the chief community crafters of the plan.

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friend of mine recently found a dead bird on her driveway.

Unlike most of us who would likely throw the bird in the garbage, possibly without even bagging it, my friend hesitated and thought the issue through. She did not wish to breach any public health guidelines pertaining to disposal of dead animals, even a small bird that is low on the food chain.

A couple of incidents involving animal carcasses have hardened me, so I was amused by the consideration my friend afforded a dead bird.

Driving on Highway 15, my husband and I once saw with dismay that a dog was lying on the side of the road. I persuaded my husband to stop the car. The dog was dead, but I worried that children might get off the school bus and find their beloved pet. We got a blanket from the trunk of the car and fashioned a makeshift stretcher to carry the dog up the long driveway of the nearest house and deliver the sad news to the dog’s owner.

“Not our dog. Never seen that dog before.”

We carried the dog back to where we found him. My husband declined to try other houses. Reluctantly we left the dog at the side of the road and drove away.

We live on the river. Those familiar with the Rideau know it has an inimitable scent, but the odour that June was more pungent than usual. One hot summer day, I finally found the source – it was a ripe and rotting raccoon carcass lodged under the dock.

“After all it is Father’s Day,” said my

husband as he handed me a bucket and shovel.

It took me a while to gather the bits of the racoon into the pail. Gagging, I gave the remains of Rocky a burial in the backyard, but it was by no means a spiritual ceremony.

I declined to take the raccoon’s tail. One of my regrets in life is that I did not take the tails from raccoons I found as roadkill over the years. I entertained this idea when I bought my first car and travelled the roads of Western Ontario as a child welfare officer. Had I followed up, I likely could have wallto-wall raccoon carpeting throughout my house by now.

When I now see a dead animal on the road, I drive or walk around it. If I find a small creature (bird or chipmunk proportions), I bag it and throw it in the garbage. If it is medium-sized (squirrel), I bury it in the yard. If it is larger (raccoon or ground hog), I call the city.

Mercifully I don’t find that many dead animals.

My friend is less cavalier than I and did not throw the bird away. Wearing disposable gloves, she carefully placed the bird in a plastic bag and telephoned the city to ask for advice on disposal protocol. The officer on the other end of the line indicated that the city would pick up bodies of larger animals but generally did not pick up birds.

“Maybe the Humane Society could help?”

The Humane Society was sympathetic and told my friend to bring the bird to their offices and they would dispose of the remains. They shared her concerns about public health but were also concerned that the bird be handled

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But then I stopped, and I was grateful for people like my friend and the officer at the Humane Society, grateful that there are still people who care and respect each other and all living things.

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Dog grooming is her passion

By Nicole Beswitherick

As a teenager, Jenna Stevenson’s favourite Disney movie was The Fox and The Hound. She also dreamed about being a dog groomer and Jenna Stevenson, owner of Fox and Hound Grooming Co. at 790 Bronson, loves pets of all types and has a passion for dog grooming.

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A groomer for the past 10 years, Stevenson had a salon in Westboro but decided to move to the Glebe during the pandemic to meet new people and their pets. She also wanted a central location so her clients in Westboro would not have a long trip to follow her.

Stevenson said finding the right building in the Glebe was very important. She wanted to have enough parking, and with COVID-19 protocols in place, it was extremely important to have one entrance for clients to drop off and pick up pets and a separate entrance for employees. She also needed a place that her four-year-old daughter could be while mom worked during after-school hours. The building at 790 Bronson Avenue was the perfect fit.

Stevenson decided to open her small business just after the peak of COVID-19 cases in Ottawa, but she says the pandemic has not hindered the grooming business; in fact, the pet boom, as so many families rushed to get a new “pandemic puppy,” has probably helped.

Although some people wonder why she would move during a pandemic, her business has been quite successful in the Glebe. Even during the three

lockdowns in Ontario over the past 20 months, she has been able to stay open and keep serving clients.

“I love the Glebe,” Stevenson declared.

According to Stevenson, Fox and Hound Grooming has been very busy in its new location. “We average about 50 to 70 [clients per week],” she said.

Stevenson and Angie Fritz-Nelson, an employee, both work full-time, and an assistant comes in to help on Fridays and Saturdays.

Fox and Hound Grooming offers a lot of services for dogs and other pets. For dogs, they provide brush outs as well as nail trimming, which can be done by walk-in with no appointment. The business also includes bath-and-brushes and bath-and-trims, when they bathe the dog and give it a small trim around the face and paws.

While dogs are her main business, Stevenson also provides services for other animals, such as brush-outs and nail trims for cats and nail trims for other small animals like rabbits, guinea pigs and even ferrets.

Stevenson loves pets and has a passion for pet grooming. She has quite a few pets of her own: two dogs (a husky and an Australian shepherd mix), a couple of cats and a rabbit. Stevenson works with a local kitten rescue organization that has an intake room in her building, making her new location in the Glebe all the more suitable.

Having success in the Glebe has been great for Stevenson.

“We’ve been pretty busy. It’s been so exciting getting to know new people, [because] when you move neighbourhoods, you get to know these different neighbourhoods and different dogs and different people, and we’ve been getting to know the Glebe.”

It has been fun and exciting, Stevenson said, to be able to work in the Glebe where everyone is so friendly and seems to have a puppy.

Nicole Beswitherick is in her third year in journalism at Carleton University.

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Restoring Abbotsford’s front porch

By Pat Goyeche

What’s old is new again!

The official ribbon cutting for Abbotsford House’s restored front porch took place on Friday, November 19. The original porch, built just under 150 years ago, was quite different from today’s version. It was originally much longer, from the front door to underneath the front window, and the stairs faced Bank Street. Over time the porch changed, as did the needs of those who were housed in the building. Around 1975, the house was renovated and took on its present incarnation as a seniors centre, serving the Ottawa region by offering programming and services to help maintain and support seniors living in community. The rotted pillars that were recently removed originally came from a previous porch on the side of the building. The many photos of the porch over the years show varied pillars, steps, layout and materials.

The building was declared a heritage property in 1984, and its façade was therefore protected by law. Because of that heritage status, many rules and regulations had to be followed in the redesign and rebuild of the porch.

Because of our inexperience with such detailed work, an architect was hired to provide much-needed project management. Thus began an almost daily exchange of emails between the city, the architect, the builder and our team on each and every detail.

Thanks to the generosity of numerous donors – including a bequest from the late Ann Denis, a gift from an anonymous donor and a corporate donation from Amica (The Glebe) as well as donations from Abbotsford members – the project got underway in June and is finally complete.

We are grateful to everyone who saw the need for the restoration, and we are so pleased to see the house looking as loved on the outside as it is on the inside.

Renewal of the porch serves as a symbol of the restoration of engagement and activity for our seniors.

Back in person, and still online

In September of this year, we were finally able to open our doors to the public again. Ping Pong, Mah Jong, Muscle Toning, Aerobics, Yoga, Stained

Glass, Conversational French and our Caregiver Club are among the many activities that are back and running strong again indoors!

We are currently selling homemade teddy bears, baby blankets, Christmas ornaments, puzzles, books, ladies’ clothing and jewellery, and flea market items. Stop in and support our volunteers who help keep Abbotsford viable by donating their talents and time to our not-for-profit seniors centre.

We added more indoor classes and clubs as the fall progressed and will offer even more in the New Year. We will also continue to run online classes over Zoom at the request of our large membership. We will continue to ask those who enter our building to show proof of double vaccination and to follow public health measures.

Memberships for 2022 went on sale as of December 1; registration for winter classes began the following week. The cost of membership is $50 and lasts for a full calendar year. Look for a full list of January/February/March classes and clubs under Current Guide on our website glebecentre.ca and join in!

Collecting flea market items, books, jewellery, women’s clothing, puzzles and art once again…

We will start accepting these items in the New Year, with the plan to sell them both in house Monday to Friday and at the Great Glebe Garage Sale in the spring. Your donations are most appreciated.

Please drop by to collect a paper copy of our guide, to become a member or a patron or to admire our newly restored porch. Think of us when you think of seniors in the community. We have been “Building Community Since 1975!”

Abbotsford is your seniors active living centre. We are the community programs of The Glebe Centre Inc., a charitable, not-for-profit, organization which includes a 254-bed long-term care home. Find out more about our services by dropping by 950 Bank Street (the old stone house) Mon.–Fri., 9 a.m.–4 p.m., telephoning 613-230-5730 or checking out all The Glebe Centre facilities and community programs on our website glebecentre.ca.

November 19 marked the official reopening of the restored Abbotsford House porch. On hand to celebrate were Glebe Centre board members, staff, members and donors. From left: Bill Robertson, president of the Members’ Council; Sarah Moriarty, community relations director, Amica (The Glebe); and Lawrence Grant, executive director of the Glebe Centre PHOTO: BRUCE HILL

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Why I joined the Glebe Report Board

work being done to increase our online presence. The production team is fabulous. All in all, it has been a rewarding experience.

By Shabana Ansari For 48 years, the Glebe Report (GR) has been the paper of record for the Glebe and nearby neighbourhoods, keeping residents informed, amused and occasionally outraged with local news, events and opinions, and providing a vehicle for residents to speak out on local issues. It’s an independent paper known for its informative and thoughtprovoking articles and features on local people, homes, businesses, issues and events.

While the GR’s production and distribution is handled by a small team of volunteers consisting of an editor, copy editor, layout person, advertising manager and proofreaders, as well as a webmaster, a social-media coordinator and an army of deliverers, a board of directors is responsible for the governance and overall affairs of the Glebe Report Association (GRA), the non-profit organization that publishes the GR. We are currently looking to invite more people from the community to join the board.

Here is an account of what motivated each of us to join and of our experiences of serving on the board.

And why you should consider it too

Andy Joyce, Co-chair

I have been on the GRA board for seven years. I joined because I was interested in being a part of a not-for-profit board with local connections.

I was already a director on other not-for-profit boards, but none of them had a local perspective.

During my time at the GRA board, I have certainly learned more about our community, especially its stores and restaurants. I have spent more time reading the Glebe Report.

Earlier, I tended to concentrate on work and national and international news. This did not leave me much time for local news and interests.

Another great benefit was the pleasure of meeting other interesting board members, most of whom I had not met previously even though I have lived for 50 years in the Glebe. COVID-19 has had an impact, but it seems we will be able to meet in person in the near future.

Beatrice Keleher Raffoul

More than eight years ago, a former chair of the board invited me to get involved. We had worked together on community issues through the Glebe Community Association.

I thought, why not? My children and I, and now just me, have delivered the Glebe Report for at least 35 years. It is a wonderful, largely volunteer-driven newspaper that tells our stories and discusses news and issues of importance to our neighbourhood, and I wanted to know more about what it takes to publish it. I have learned that and more.

But of course, any involvement in an organization is all about the people you serve with and the people you get to know while serving. There are always challenges, including some tough decisions, but we have been working hard to ensure that our community newspaper evolves with the times. I am proud of the

Jennifer Humphries, Co-chair

I joined the GRA board in September 2018. I’ve read the Glebe Report since I moved to the Glebe in the 1980s. I admire its capacity to include local happenings that wouldn’t get noticed anywhere else – my elderly mother’s purse being snatched comes to mind!

– while featuring issues of moment from the municipal level to the international.

It’s a great community newspaper, and making it so takes community volunteers. I had been writing a column about trees for a couple of years and had a highly favourable impression of how editor Liz McKeen responds to contributions. When I saw an ad for board members, and after speaking with a friend who was then serving on the board, I emailed the co-chairs to

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role on the board. I had young kids when I started so adult conversation was welcome.

Most importantly, I also got to know some new neighbours.

Line Lønnum, Treasurer

I have been a member of the GRA board and its treasurer since 2018. I saw a notice in the Glebe Report about the need for new board members a few months after I first moved to the Glebe. Having a background in local newspapers, I thought getting involved would be a good way to get to know the community. I also didn’t really know anyone in the Glebe, so I thought joining the board would be a good way to meet neighbours, and that turned out to be right.

Being a board member has been a very positive experience. It has given me great insights into local issues, and I am very happy to have met many people in the neighbourhood. Being new to the area, it was also a good way to get recommendations from local experts and to get to know all the great things the Glebe has to offer. As I am now about to go on maternity leave, I am happy to feel included and more knowledgeable about our great community.

Patricia Lightfoot

I joined the GRA board in

2016. A neighbour who was associated with the Glebe Report suggested I join the board because I worked in publishing. She also noted the preponderance of men on the board at that time and, thus, the need for more women. I’m happy to say that we now have a quite balanced board in that respect, though it would be good to have a greater diversity of life experiences and perspectives represented.

Being on the board has helped me re-establish my connection with the community, which had diminished once my children left high school. Contributing to the board’s varied activities, such as engaging a volunteer to run the Glebe Report’s social media, the installation of the painted newspaper boxes on our streets and delivering papers as needed, has given me a greater appreciation of the neighbourhood and its many volunteers and a greater sense of belonging. I should add that the regular board meetings and the dedicated members of the paper’s production team are always very pleasant. We get a lot done in a good-humoured fashion.

every now and then.

I considered joining the board when I saw a call for new board members last year.

It was the first few months of living through a global pandemic, and I was starting to feel a bit isolated. I thought joining the board would be a great way to meet new people (even if it was virtually!) and hopefully lead to a feeling of being connected to the community.

The last 12 months as a board member have been interesting and enriching – I have received great insights into the unique and vibrant Glebe community and enjoyed listening to the experiences of other members (some of whom have been living in the Glebe for decades) and sharing my own thoughts and ideas with them.

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I have been on the board for about five years. Retirement prompted me to join. I had a long career in the aerospace industry, a global business that involved extensive travel.

In retirement, I wanted to

Shabana Ansari

I’ve been on the board for just over a year now. Since I came to the neighbourhood in 2018, the Glebe Report was my first glimpse into the local community – the people who lived here, the shops and businesses, the social events and activities. I eagerly looked forward to receiving my copy every month and even started writing for the Glebe Report

contribute to something with a local focus and to work with people who came to the table with career paths and experiences that were different from mine.

During my time on the board, I’ve learned how much talent and dedication are inherent in the local community.

I’ve learned how much goes on “behind the scenes” each month to produce something like the Glebe Report, both in terms of individual effort and as teamwork.

I have been on the GRA Board for about a year, since just before the pandemic started to impact us all so dramatically.

What prompted me to join was a question from Andy (co-chair), asking if I had any interest in joining the board.

I thought it over and talked with my wife, Mary Ann, and decided that it would be a capital thing to do. As expected, I had a conversation with a couple of board members (Patricia and Steve), and I was

introduced at the next board meeting. I was pleased to join, as the Glebe Report is such an integral part of the community. I wanted to be part of my community and hopefully be able to help in some small way. I had the experience of being a board member with the GCA, and the GRA was another important part of our community jigsaw.

I continue to be so impressed by the level of commitment and the quality of people volunteering in our community as exemplified in our board.

In addition, the wider contribution of so many others in the distribution of the paper is impressive. The amount of involvement and the selfless efforts of so many people in the GRA, the GCA, Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group (GNAG) and other community groups is what makes the Glebe a true community.

Membership in the Glebe Report Association is open to people 18 years of age or older who currently live, work or study in the Glebe. If you are interested in joining the board of directors or would like more information, please email chair@glebereport.ca.

Shabana Ansari is a member of the Glebe Report Association Board of Directors.

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By Marisa Romano I received an early Christmas present from a neighbour: one of those recipe collections printed on sheets of paper held together by a spiral binding, the type put together for fundraisers. They used to be pretty popular; nowadays, they are lucky finds at garage sales and church bazaars. They often contained favourite family recipes, some used by culinarians as bases for new ideas found in trendy cooking magazines.

The one I received had an intriguing title: Cooking with Characters – A Cast of Favourite Recipes. It is presented by Characters Inc. My gift-giver did not know its origin and I needed to find out.

Characters Inc., it turns out, is the name of Fredericton’s Nashwaaksis Middle School drama club which became a song-and-dance troupe that performed for thousands of people all around the world between 1982 and 1997, from the Canada Day stage on Parliament Hill to Disney World, from Europe to Australia and Japan. The message was all about how great it is to be Canadian. The group was put together and directed by Philip Sexsmith, one of those exceptional teachers who inspire their students.

Kirk Pennell, a former Character who is now a professional videographer with CBC P.E.I., brought his camera to Sexsmith’s surprise retirement party and started filming what later became a documentary on the group, the people whose lives were shaped by their experience in Characters and a celebration of the role of the arts in schools.

In its 15-year history, the group had a cast of over 300. “Some stayed for one season, others for many,” says Pennell. “[The experience] made them a better public speaker, it gave them confidence, or it gave them friendships, or they met their spouse or whatever their story may be.” In his documentary, Pennell commented, “Some people became artists, and some people became performers and musicians, but a lot of people, they never followed the arts, but Characters really made an impact on them in other ways.”

Pennell has a copy of the Characters Cookbook. “It was a fundraising event for our 1997 tour. All of the parents and members submitted their fave recipes and cooking with Characters was born.”

Among past Characters is Meg Tucker, a former MasterChef Canada Top 25 finalist and certified professional cook, creator of the kids cook show Just One Bite and the successful online cooking program Cook with Meg. She was in Characters from 1986 to 1989 while in middle and high school; it was too early to contribute to the cookbook, but she would have otherwise. “I have loved cooking since a very young age, and that certainly inspires me to teach families today,” she says. “In fact, I have taught over 3,000 families [many in Ottawa] since launching Cook with Meg in 2020. My theatre background has certainly helped me grow my business.” Find Meg Tucker’s recipes and workshops at megtucker.com.

While fame is an exceptional outcome for an after-school club, the life-marking experience is certainly not unique to Characters. Many of us who were involved in performing arts at a young age have

collected memories and acquired skills that enriched our lives beyond the stage – just one of the reasons to celebrate the role of arts in schools.

Thank you, Jenny M., for your gift! A cookbook, but also a piece of Canadian history, a chance to meet a filmmaker

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in the Gallic guise of Coq au Vin

Tim’s Coq au Vin, a stew by another name

PHOTO: TIM O’CONNOR

By Tim O’Connor Now that summer has left us, our good friend stew comes to visit.

There are a lot of good things about stew. On days when it’s a gloomy out there, stew reminds us to reach into the cupboard to get out that beloved pot that you forgot when the BBQ took over for summer. It’s time to dig out your Creuset – or whatever cast-iron pot or slow cooker you have – and soon your kitchen will fill with the aromas of stocks simmering and meat cooking at a relaxed pace. It’s a powerful tool to make us happy through these grey days.

Stews are easy to make. The variety is endless and global – an Indian vindaloo is a stew and so is a curry. Slow-cooked Mexican dishes such as beef birria are stews, as is a French cassoulet.

It’s another French stew, coq au vin, that we’re making today.

The other cooking tool you’ll need is a wine glass to fill while cooking (memories of the classic CBC show The Galloping Gourmet). Indeed, the

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most difficult thing about making a coq au vin is deciding which bottle of wine you’re going to share with the pot.

It only takes about two hours to make. It’s among the easiest of stews because comparatively you don’t cook the chicken for long, yet it has all the joys and benefits of a stew – your house will be a fragrant wonderland of bird braising in red wine.

You can use a whole chicken or breast or thighs.

I like the varying flavours and textures of different cuts, but there’s no wrong choice of which cut of chicken to cook. Experiment with your choices of ingredients because as it cooks slowly, your friend the stew will fix and forgive most any mistake you make.

My recipe is heavy on the vegetables, to keep it healthy, and they can be whatever you have on hand and want to add. The only essential solid ingredient for a coq au vin is the chicken.

Otherwise, it’s just vin.

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Heat pot on high, add oil, and once oil is hot, sear chicken in batches. Set aside.

In the same pot on medium heat, chop and sauté a large yellow onion, celery and carrot.

Stir in a blend of thyme, oregano and rosemary.

Add 2 tbsp of butter, let it melt. Stir in 2 tbsp of flour.

Add 1 cup of red wine. Stir, add chicken and 1 cup of chicken stock. If you want to add chopped potatoes, do it now.

Cover pot on low heat and simmer 40 minutes.

If you wish to add green beans or broccoli, add close to finish so they don’t overcook. Check the pot and stir frequently to make sure the bottom of the pot doesn’t burn.

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Canadian horror film stands test of time Black Christmas

Directed by Bob Clark (Canada, 1974)

Review by Angus Luff What separates Christmas from other holidays is the interpretability and flexibility of the true meaning of the holiday. You could ask 10 different people what Christmas means besides the literal definition and almost everyone would have different answers. That’s what makes it so uniquely special for so many people for different reasons. We all love Christmas films that reflect the typical warm and fuzzy feeling of the holiday, but there’s always a risk-taking storyteller who goes beyond the usual Christmas movie norms – when done successfully, it can truly twist the most familiar version of the holiday from joyful to nightmarish.

Black Christmas is a 1974 Canadian Christmas horror film directed by Bob Clark. During the holiday season, a group of sorority girls are invaded by a dangerous stalker, making his presence known with obscene phone calls and striking victims without warning inside and outside the sorority house. When the situation escalates further, the police get involved to find the mysterious killer.

Early in his career, Bob Clark cemented himself as a cinematic force with this genuinely shocking and horrifying Christmas film. In 1983, he made another famous film, A Christmas Story. But Black Christmas is more notable for me because of its effect on movie fans all these years later. It is a horror film that stands the test of time because it was way ahead of its time. It

never resorts to overused horror tropes or the typical directing of popular 1970s horror cinema. Clark scares his audience by showing horrible images as bluntly and honestly as possible and by hinting at possible horrible images offscreen. Each directorial decision is elegantly yet maniacally chosen. The unclear and sudden directions that the film takes keep you on the edge of your seats. I recommend this film, though be warned it is very disturbing and shocking – I would not recommend it for children.

Besides excellent direction, other aspects make this film a landmark for indie horror cinema, especially the memorable, realistic performances by Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder and the rest of the sorority girls. All of them are distinct and alive; some are more comedic, ruder or more reserved. You truly feel that a real-life situation has been captured on film. What really gets under my skin is the perfect way they nail the disturbing and uncomfortable atmosphere of the film.

It feels as though you’re not supposed to see them like this, as if you’ve stumbled upon something you really shouldn’t have. The girls look just as afraid of the killer as they are of you. As the film goes on, the audience acts as another pair of eyes to watch the sorority girls’ every move; the slow buildup of tension demands that close response from the audience, especially at the end when it makes you reflect on the trauma and horrifying images you witnessed. It is horror filmmaking at its strongest, not pulling any punches, not adding humour or references, just showing you how it is.

Black Christmas succeeds at trying something new.

Original and unique horror films like this one and

Ordinary Love is anything but Ordinary Love Directed by Lisa Barros D’Sa (Ireland, 2019)

Review by Barbara Popel The excellent Irish film Ordinary Love does something relatively rare – it takes us into the lives of a very ordinary middle-class, middle-aged couple whose placid, uneventful lives are knocked sideways by a traumatic crisis.

Tom and Joan (Liam Neeson and Academy Award nominee Lesley Manville) have been married for many years. The degree of their “ordinary” love is evident before the title credits roll, as the two of them stride briskly along the shore – she taking two steps for every one of his – getting their daily exercise.

They come to a small tree which is their halfway point but rather than allowing Tom to turn on his heel and head for home, Joan pushes him around the tree so he does their complete exercise circuit. Sweet. Then they comfortably hold hands on their way home. They share an easy-going camaraderie such as develops – if a couple is lucky – after the romance and passion have abated in a marriage.

As they josh and tease over the dinner table, we get the feeling they’re each other’s best friends. Their bickering about Tom’s evening beer and who puts away the Christmas ornaments is mild.

All seems perfectly ordinary. No drama

here, folks, just move along.

Then Joan finds a lump in her breast.

And their ordeal starts.

Terrified, Joan asks Tom, “What’s going to happen if I’ve got cancer?”

He reassures her, “If you do – and you don’t! – we’ll do whatever has to be done, just the two of us.” They’re in this together, but their lives are about to change forever.

Any woman who has been through the usual steps of diagnosis, from “It’s probably just a cyst” to “I’m afraid I have to tell you that you have breast cancer,” will empathize with Joan.

They’ll do so even more as Joan goes through a radical double mastectomy, then more tests to see if the cancer has spread to her liver or bones, then many debilitating chemo treatments.

Any man whose loved one has been down this terrible path will empathize with Tom. He hates being in the hospital – it’s full of sick people! He rails against the medical establishment.

Why can’t the doctors be certain about the test results? After Joan’s mastectomy, why can’t her surgeon say she is cancer-free? Tom seems very alone.

(By this time, we’ve found out that their adult daughter, Debbie, died some time in the past. We don’t know what caused her death, but there are hints it wasn’t a disease.) Tom dreads what will happen to him if Joan dies. He asks a stranger at the hospital, “How do you say to someone, ‘Don’t die!’?”

The most harrowing scene isn’t when Joan is shivering and retching from the side effects of the chemo or when Tom is talking at his daughter’s graveside about his fear of being alone. It’s when their terrors – she of death, he of being alone – explode in a screaming fight full of blame and hurtful words. How can they possibly forgive each other, after what they’re just said? Well, they do.

The focus isn’t on the horrible things these two people are going through. It’s on how they react to this seemingly

the equally nightmarish Texas Chainsaw Massacre opened the way for the “slasher” sub-genre, which includes films like Halloween, Friday the 13th, My Bloody Valentine and Child’s Play. Such films became extremely popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s but because so many were produced, the sub-genre became a punching bag for critics and was generally looked down upon. While there was undoubtedly a lot of trash produced, I wish more people would give great films like Black Christmas a chance. Though it gets lumped in with other lazy garbage in the slasher sub-genre, this film is anything but lazy – it’s a classic in Christmas and Canadian cinema, something to be proud of, not ashamed of.

If there’s one alternative film to challenge your notion of jolly Christmas stories, make it Black Christmas, but only if you think you can handle it.

After you see it, you likely won’t stop thinking about it.

Available on The Criterion Channel and Shudder Running time: 1 hour 38 mins Angus Luff is a student at Glebe Collegiate. He grew up in the Glebe and is obsessed with movies.

never-ending nightmare. They always come back to each other and to the love that grounds them.

Ordinary Love is anything but ordinary! See it with someone you love.

Running time: 92 minutes Rated: PG (Warning: brief scenes of a

woman’s breasts.)

Available: Apple TV, Crave, Google Play, Illico, Kanopy and YouTube Barb Popel has lived in the Glebe since 1991. At university in the early 1970s, she was introduced to the joys of film.

She’s been an avid filmgoer ever since.

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BOOKS

Now for something completely different:

Centos for the 21st century Poet JC Sulzenko is curator of the Glebe Report’s Poetry Quarter. Her collection, Bricolage, A Gathering of Centos, published by Aeolus House and launched this fall, represents a departure from her lyric and narrative poetry, so much so that it came out under her pseudonym, A. Garnett Weiss.

The Glebe Report asked Sulzenko (or Weiss) why and how she embraced the cento, a particular and unusual form of poetry. A cento is a poem composed entirely of lines taken from other poems. The word cento is derived from a Latin word meaning “patchwork garment.”

What attracted you to the cento form?

Collage always has attracted me as an art form. Centos date back to the Greeks and the Romans and the term conjures the notion of patchwork, a collage in words.

Perhaps that’s why I find joy in using what comes to hand and in drawing lines from the work of other poets – well or lesser known, living or passed, Canadian or international – to create a cento, independent in form and meaning from the source material.

It’s an adventure each time. The first cento I wrote won an award and I never looked back.

Do you go searching for a specific type of line of poetry, or are your choices serendipitous, led by chance and inspiration? How do you

recognize the next line – is it like a Rubik’s cube where you know when you’ve got it right?

I approach current or archival collections and anthologies as a predator. I note lines that stay with me. Then I live with them, sometimes for hours, sometimes for weeks or longer. Until a first line or a title suggests itself. The next line and lines fall into place from that starting point. In a way the cento tells its own story.

Not every collection or anthology I read leads to a new cento. On the other hand, sometimes more than one cento emerges from the same anthology or collection.

For the most part, I don’t begin with any preconceptions about how a poem will evolve. On occasion, I may write

a piece for a reason, prompted by an event or a person. Sometimes, after a cento has been written, it acquires new purpose, which an epigraph may reflect. Though these are the exceptions, rather than the rule.

In his review of your book, Colin Morton talks about a kind of “spooky action at a distance.” Is there a sense that you are working “once removed” from the source material, giving you a sense of distance and a larger perspective? Or is it the opposite, a sense of digging deeper, dissecting, examining and rearranging close up?

That characterization interests me.

I see my own involvement and how I live the process as an intimate experience, felt close-up as each line leads me on. I relate to each line, I respect the relationship of the line to what precedes and what follows it and I revere Comments by Miller Adams Bricolage invites us to examine the cento by meticulously piecing together language by other poets which have been gathered from anthologies and individual collections into admirable revelations. As examples, “Sacred place where each thing speaks itself,” gleaned from lines by Don McKay, Roo Borson, Marilyn Bowering and eight other poets, unfolds into a comprehensive dissertation. A cento also can be comprised of lines taken from a single poet, from such writers as W.H. Auden, Al Purdy, Tomas Transtromer, Natalie Shapero and Fred Cogswell, in a way that blends their observations.

In her preface, Weiss acknowledges the excitement she experiences reading an anthology or a poet’s collection. The words of poets come to her as gifts and she assures us of her gratitude.

The resulting poem in each effort adds sparkle and opens up enterprising possibilities.

the source poet and poem. That’s why the collection includes a key with full attribution to the originating poet and poem for each line. And why bibliographical notes list the anthologies and individual collections from which the lines were taken.

Who would enjoy this book?

This is a collection poetry readers and writers can appreciate as they discover how poets, renowned or obscure, dialogue with each other or with themselves in each cento of my making.

While each poem stands on its own merits, the added twist, the mystery if you will, comes from taking the poem in and then checking the keys to find out the origin of the lines in the piece. The reader becomes somewhat of a sleuth, pursuing these threads to gain a deeper understanding of the new poem.

Copies of Bricolage are available at Octopus Books and from bricolage. weiss@gmail.com.

These comments first appeared in The OSCAR, November 2021.

Comments by Colin Morton Rather than expressing a feeling or proving an argument, a poem can create a mood. It may make you think of all the ways its words can mean and try to hold all those meanings together in your mind for a moment. It can be magical, but it’s a magic that speed-readers miss. In the rush to acquire useful information, they don’t hear the wealth of meaning that resides in everyday events and words.

The best poems in Bricolage create a mysterious energy, a kind of “spooky action at a distance” through the entanglement of poetic lines from disparate sources.

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Reading this holiday season

Here is a list of some titles read and discussed recently in various local book clubs: TITLE (for adults)

AUTHOR

BOOK CLUB

The Buried Giant

Richard Gwyn

The 15 Book Club

The Henna Artist

Alka Joshi

The 35 Book Club

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

Abbotsford Book Club

The Plot Against America

Philip Roth

Broadway Book Club

Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

Can’ Litterers

The Leopard

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Helen’s Book Club

Mona Lisa: a Life Discovered

Dianne R. Hales

Seriously No-Name Book Club

Five Little Indians

Michelle Good

The Book Club

Piranesi

Susannah Clarke

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If your book club would like to share its reading list, please email it to Micheline Boyle at grapevine@glebereport.ca

BOOKS

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The Internet made me read it

By Candice Blackwood As a reader who typically consumes over 100 novels, graphic novels and audiobooks each year, I’m always looking for my next read. When library branches closed back in March 2020 and browsing the shelves was no longer an option, I turned to a few different corners of the internet to discover titles I might enjoy.

Instagram made me read it: From Blood and Ash

by Jennifer L Armentrout This was a bit of a surprise publication in 2020 for longtime fans of Armentrout’s paranormal romance reads. I follow a lot of Bookstagramers, people who create wonderful, artsy pictures of books. From Blood and Ash came up on my Instagram feed so often that I knew I had to check it out.

The story follows Poppy, the chosen maiden who will bring about a new era on her Ascension Day. Her life, much like her title and ascension, are shrouded in mystery. She’s not allowed to be touched, spoken to or seen. Her sad, solitary existence is rocked when Hawke takes over as her personal guard. Forbidden love tempts Poppy and opens her eyes to a greater evil than the violent Descenters who attack the city.

This blush-worthy title is perfect for readers who like a little bit of fantasy with their romance. All three volumes of the Blood and Ash trilogy are available as eBooks from Ottawa Public Library.

YouTube made me read it: The Black Prism

by Brent Weeks With all the extra time at home since the pandemic began, I was quickly drawn into the YouTube world of books, BookTube. I think its safe to say there’s a booktuber out there for whatever your preferred genre is, so try a few different channels.

The Black Prism is the first in a fantasy series where the magic system is based on the light spectrum. The more

colours you can see and control, the more powerful you are. In Weeks’ world, there’s always one person, the prism, who can see and manipulate the full spectrum of colour.

That is, except for the time when there were two of them.

Gavin Guile won the prism war, but he still has a secret to keep and discovering he has a teenaged son won’t make that any easier.

This was probably the best book I read last year, and the series is now easily one of my favourites. I loved rooting for Gavin even when I wasn’t sure I could trust him.

The Black Prism is available in print, eBook and eAudio from Ottawa Public Library.

NoveList made me read it: Magic for Liars

by Sarah Gailey NoveList Plus and NoveList K-8 Plus are online resources available to everyone with an Ottawa Public Library card through our website. On NoveList, you can find recommendations based on authors and titles you’ve read, keep up to date on your favourite genres and discover new reads based on the elements or appeal factors of a book that you most enjoy. I discovered Magic for Liars while browsing NoveList for an adult fantasy book that centred around a magic school.

Magic for Liars is at heart a mystery novel. Ivy Gamble, a private detective without any magical talent, is asked to solve a murder. The murder just so happens to have taken place at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, the school where her estranged and magically gifted twin sister teaches.

I really enjoyed this stand-alone novel – since it’s a little outside my typical reading, I might not have discovered it without the help of NoveList’s appeal factors.

Magic for Liars is available through Ottawa Public Library in print or as an eBook or eAudiobook.

Candice Blackwood is the coordinator at the Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library. She enjoys reading fantasy novels for any age that are full of magic, dangerous creatures and the women who fight them.

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POLITICAL REPORTS

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Yasir Naqvi MP Ottawa Centre

N 613-946-8682 E yasir.naqvi@parl.gc.ca

LRT public inquiry is on It’s been quite a trying time for Ottawa’s LRT. I’ve been asking the provincial government to help fix our LRT for a long time. After over almost two years of urging action, it’s finally beginning to listen.

On December 1, 2019, we held an LRT town hall in the basement of the Centretown United Church with transit users and workers. What we heard that day shocked us. Doors that jammed.

Train wheels that cracked. Stations that smelled of sewer gas. None of this made sense.

So we called on the province to act.

We insisted it find out why this train doesn’t work and why it is so challenging to investigate the secretive public-private partnership (P3) behind our LRT. At that time, the province refused. The government said this was the city’s problem.

Undeterred, some councillors worked hard for answers but were met with excuses, obstruction and delays.

Councillor Catherine McKenney, a member of the city’s Transit Commission, could only review the LRT’s monthly maintenance contract in the City Solicitor’s Office and was banned from taking photos or written notes.

Calling this Kafkaesque is an insult to a great novelist. There was no subtlety

here, no man-beetle metamorphosis with the insect flipped on its back.

This was a mess that only abated with reduced ridership during COVID-19 as many of us worked from home.

But then a sixth LRT derailment happened on September 19. A train entering Tremblay station travelled across a rail bridge with 12 passengers as a wheel remained off the track.

That sent shockwaves through our city.

Our office was flooded with calls and emails from commuters who were left stranded.

In the two months since, as Joanne Chianello from CBC Ottawa continued her focus on finding the truth, more concerns came to light. All of this traced back to our secretive P3 LRT deal.

After previously insisting that this was our city’s problem, Caroline Mulroney, Ontario’s transportation minister, announced a public inquiry on November 17 after I spent two days asking her about it in Question Period.

The dam finally broke.

There you have it, dear readers.

The LRT public inquiry is on because some of us demanded more from politics. Some of us believe that fighting back and speaking out can make a difference.

Let’s keep the pressure on, let’s get the answers and the LRT we deserve.

Holidays are a time of giving As we enter the holiday season, I want to wish everyone Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy Kwanza. And of course, a very Happy New Year! I hope you are able to enjoy some quality time safely with family and friends.

For some in our community, the holidays can be a difficult time. Please check in with your friends and family to make sure they are okay. Also, connect with our community. We have many amazing local organizations here in Ottawa Centre that continue to do great work to support those in need. But they cannot do it alone. If you are able to, please support them, whether that is by volunteering with the Shepherds of Good Hope or participating in The Good Companions’ Santa 4 Seniors. There are so many ways we can come together and support our community during the holiday season.

Below is a list of a few local organizations you can support: • Shepherds of Good Hope • Parkdale Food Centre • Cornerstone Housing for Women • Meals on Wheels • The Good Companions • The Snowsuit Fund of Ottawa • Operation Come Home • The Ottawa Mission • Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa I am excited to share that my community office is officially up and running. It is located at Suite 404, 1066 Somerset Street West. I have a great team of individuals who are ready to assist constituents and provide exceptional service. Please reach out to me at Yasir.Naqvi@parl.gc.ca or call us at 613-946-8682 and let me know how we can help. Invite me to your holiday or charity events or let me know what you think about important issues in our community. I look forward to connecting with you over the holiday season and beyond!

Small businesses getting a helping hand from the City

By Jim Watson

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JAMES McCULLOCH LAWYER IN THE GLEBE

wishes to announce that he has relocated his Glebe office.

Mr. McCulloch will be remaining in the Glebe, and will continue to offer legal services to Glebe residents.

He will continue to offer in-home visits.

He offers new clients a free initial consultation.

Mr. McCulloch can be reached by phone at 613 565-5297 or email: mccullochlawyer@rogers.com

I’ve heard people say that I would go to the opening of an envelope, alluding to the fact that I love to congratulate small business owners on an important milestone and thank them for investing in our city.

Running a small business is one of the biggest risks someone can take in life and it can be challenging at the best of times. Add a pandemic to the equation and it makes things nearly impossible. Lockdowns, talent shortages, constant rule changes – you name it, Ottawa’s small business owners have been through it all.

While Ontario municipalities don’t have much in their toolkits to help out, I am proud that we were one of the first cities to consider and implement a Small Business Property Tax subclass.

Eligible properties will automatically receive the new discount based on eligibility criteria related to property use, property size and extensive consultation with key business organizations.

On October 13, City Council approved the new tax subclass, providing small businesses at eligible properties with a permanent 15-per-cent reduction in property taxes phased in over two years at 7.5 per cent a year.

The new tax will benefit 5,800 properties or more than 10,000 small businesses, in recognition of the contribution of small businesses to employment,

neighbourhood vibrancy and quality of life. It’s important to note that this discount to small businesses will have no impact on residential property taxes, as the larger commercial and industrial properties will absorb the difference.

Below are a few examples of the benefits over two years of this new subclass for our small businesses: • a food store in Manotick will see a reduction of $265 in municipal taxes • a restaurant on Richmond Road will see a decrease of $3,300 in municipal taxes • a small bicycle shop on St. Joseph Boulevard in Orléans will see a reduction of $1,620 in municipal taxes • a small automotive trailer shop on Stittsville Main Street will see a decrease of $3,500 in municipal taxes.

A special thanks goes out to our BIAs for their strong advocacy and collaboration, to the business owners for their patience and to the employees of these establishments who have been in constant limbo over the past 20 months.

With the holidays just around the corner, please consider supporting your local shops and restaurants instead of buying from big box stores. Now more than ever, your support is needed.

For more information, please visit ottawa.ca/taxes.

Jim Watson is mayor of Ottawa.

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Thirty Years Ago in the Glebe Report This retrospective is filed bi-monthly by Ian McKercher of the Glebe Historical Society. The society welcomes the donation or loan (for copying) of any item documenting Glebe history (photographs, maps, surveys, news articles, posters, programs, memorabilia, etc.). Contact Ian at 613-235-4863 or ian.s.mckercher@gmail.com.

Note: All back issues of the Glebe Report to June 1973 can be viewed on the Glebe Report website at www.glebereport.ca under the PAST ISSUES menu.

Trees of the Glebe The first meeting of Trees of the Glebe and Dow’s Lake was held November 19, 1991. Several environmental topics were discussed, including a community tree planting in the fall. Damp-resistant willows and silver maples needed to be planted in Central Park to sop up the swamp that appeared every spring. Any building site plan submitted to the City should include adding trees. More trees were necessary along the Queensway to reduce noise and visual pollution. Plans for a park on the southeast corner of Bank and Holmwood had been drawn up by landscape architect Dieter Gruenwoldt and approved by City Council in 1975.

Why had so little of this park ever been completed?

Volume 20, Number 11, December 13, 1991 (36 pages)

Cash-in-lieu supported In a letter, Frank de Jong disagreed with the Glebe Community Association’s objection to the application for cash-in-lieu of parking by Irene’s Pub. (The pub wanted to expand.) He wrote, “In a decade or so I suspect we will begin to drastically reduce our dependence on the

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automobile and opt rather for walking, bicycling and cleanfuel mass transit. I foresee cars banned from Bank Street through the Glebe, replaced with a walking mall. Bank Street should intensify the size and number of its businesses, making it more attractive for people to spend time and money in our community. We should encourage cashin-lieu payments and use the money for bicycle lanes and bicycle parking facilities. The GCA and the City should plan now for the inevitable post-petroleum era that is peoplefriendly, not car-friendly.”

Classy curtain call Defeated Capital Ward Councillor Lynn Smyth thanked the community for “the challenging and rewarding opportunity to serve from 1988 to 1991.” She acknowledged “the dedication and commitment to service shown by City and Regional Staff.” She offered a special thanks to office assistants Michele Proulx, Mary Kovacs and Sharlene Hertz “for their special attention to ward needs and their good humour under constant daily pressures.”

Amnesty International ‘Write for Rights’ at Southminster

By Paul Mullin Amnesty International advertises its annual Write for Rights campaign as “the world’s biggest human rights event, where millions of people around the world come together to protect the rights of others.”

On Sunday, December 12, Southminster United Church at 15 Aylmer Avenue will once again host an in-person Write for Rights event where members of the public are welcome to drop in to write one or more letters of support for the 10 cases featured in 2021.

One of these cases involves a 16-year-old boy called Mikita in Belarus. In August 2020, Mikita went to a central square in the city of Homel to meet a friend but was swept up in crowds leaving a peaceful protest against presidential elections. The next day, police accused him of throwing a Molotov cocktail towards officers and arrested him. Mikita was taken into custody, beaten, interrogated without representation present and jailed for six months before going to trial. He was subsequently convicted of mass disorder and using illegal explosives and was sentenced to five years in a child educational prison colony. To this day, Mikita is in prison where he endures solitary confinement and reported torture, as well as

being deprived of medical treatment for his epilepsy.

In this case, writers request that Belarus release Mikita and give him a fair trial.

If you are interested in participating in this local Write for Rights event, you are welcome to drop in at Southminster United Church, on the canal at Bank and Aylmer, anytime between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Sunday, December 12. Documentation on the 10 cases and instructions will be available, as well as writing materials. Please note that COVID-19 screening protocols are in place and include providing proof of double vaccination, wearing a mask and recording contact information.

Amnesty International also invites you to participate online where you can use Twitter, send emails and sign online petitions. Please see the Amnesty website for more information: amnesty.org/en/ get-involved/write-for-rights/.

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Paul Mullin is a member of the Outreach Committee at Southminster United Church.

Doors Open for Music at Southminster After 12 years serving as the Southminster United Church’s music director, Roland Graham will step down from his post at the end of January. For the time being he will continue to run the Doors Open for Music at Southminster (DOMS) noonhour series, which he has run in parallel with his role in the church since launching the series in 2013.

“As with so many programs in so many institutions recently,” said Graham, “DOMS struggled to survive the pandemic and now needs some development and support to have a solid future in the post-pandemic era. I plan to see the series through until the end of the season at least, to

weather some of these challenges, and possibly beyond. Suffice it to say, the future of DOMS is as important to me as anything else in my musical and professional life.”

One of the biggest pandemic challenges has been financial. Costs of presenting live-stream concerts have risen and revenue has gone down due to smaller audiences. The current financial model will be difficult to sustain over the long-term. Additional sources of income are needed to survive in a post-COVID world, and work on this is being done. Dontions can be made through Canadahelps.org or directly to the church.

In view of his retirement from leading

Upcoming Concerts

Roland Graham

Southminster’s liturgical music program, which involved directing the church’s choir and playing music for Sunday services, Graham will lead the final DOMS concert for the year on December 22, featuring an expanded Southminster choir joined by a baroque orchestra and soloists.

December 15 Shakespeare’s Viola A pairing or poetry and music: works by Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Ichmouratov arranged for viola, interspersed with excerpts from Shakespeare, Walter and Misbakhova.

Elvira Misbakhova, viola Irina Krasnyanskaya, piano Alina Ichmouratov, narrator December 22 Sleepers Wake!

Southminster’s expanded church choir, baroque orchestra and soloists, directed by Roland Graham, presents Bach’s Advent Cantata, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140.

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Tips to avoid overindulging during the holidays

By Emilie Paradis The holiday festivities are on the way!

This is the time of year when we savour traditional feasts, maybe have more wine and cocktails than usual. It is a joyful moment that we share with our loved ones, when we take the time to relax, get out of the routine and perhaps overindulge a bit. As we want to enjoy all the upside of the celebrations without feeling remorse or physical discomfort, here are some tweaks to help find a balance during the holidays: ➭ Stay hydrated! Starting the day with a glass of water will hydrate the body. A convenient way to ensure that we drink enough during the day is to keep a large bottle of water handy. Also having a glass before each meal is a great way to control the appetite. ➭ Eat three meals a day and do not skip! Often, we think that skipping a meal to be able to indulge in the next one is a great way to equalize the calories eaten during the day.

But this is wrong thinking. I recommend snacking on greens and vegetables before or on your way to the party. It will help calm that hunger and the obsession some of us may have around the never-ending amount of food available. ➭ Plan and prepare for events in advance. If possible, look at the menu and select what to eat. And there is no need to attend all of the parties! ➭ Reserve a time in the morning for your physical activities. That way, if anything unexpected shows up, it won’t disrupt your exercise regimen. You will feel great, energized and it’s a good way to start your day. ➭ If you choose not to eat certain foods or drink alcohol, you do not have to mention it. Do not make an issue of it, you do not need to justify yourself, just say “no, thank you” with a big smile. Getting into

conversations about it can not only create frustrations, it can also make you doubt your decision. ➭ Occupy yourself with games or play with the kids. Staying out of the kitchen and away from the snack table will help to distract your mind from all the temptations. All too often, we eat even when we are not hungry but just because the goodies are readily available! ➭ If you bring a dish to the party, it is the perfect occasion to be creative and make something healthy. That way you will be certain to have a healthy option. ➭ Holidays are a time when we go to bed later than usual. That often deprives us of a few hours of sleep.

Taking a nap will help to recuperate some sleep and also balance blood glucose levels. Missing sleep may affect our decision-making.

Many studies show that lacking sleep makes us crave high carbohydrate foods. ➭ Take a moment before eating to be grateful or even to meditate. It calms the nervous system and can slow down the pace of eating. ➭ If you can, only eat at the table and avoid snacking. ➭ Use smaller dinnerware. When we use larger plates, we tend to eat more. ➭ If you decide that this meal is the “happy meal,” then go for it and enjoy every bite of it! But make sure the next meal is balanced with proteins and greens!

POETRY QUARTER JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022

An embarrassment of riches November’s poetry free-for-all triggered a deluge of creativity. What will we do with the overflow of frothing literary art?

While giving further consideration to poems in our poetry bank, we also seek new submissions on the theme of spillover, holdover, boil over, mull over, pick over – you get the picture. That’s how we’ll launch our new year of Poetry Quarter.

As usual, poems should be: • Original and unpublished in any medium (no poems submitted elsewhere, please); • No more than 30 lines each; • On any aspect of the theme within the bounds of public discourse; and • Submitted on or before Monday, January 24, 2022.

Poets in the National Capital Region of all ages welcome (school-age poets, please indicate your grade and school). Please send your entries (up to 5 poems that meet the criteria) to editor@glebereport. ca. Remember to send us your contact information and your grade and school if you are in school.

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Choice in a pandemic - who knew?

Ottawa Catholic School Board!

Choice is not a word we associate with the pandemic. Still, thanks to the Ottawa Catholic School Board opening two new virtual schools in September, that is precisely what OCSB offered our students and their families – choice!

The OCSB created two new virtual schools - Blessed Carlo for elementary students and St. Josephine for secondary students. These are permanent OCSB schools. Students and staff in both say, “Learning virtually is the same but different when compared to brick-and-mortar schools.”

If we look at the virtual high school, the curriculum meets all provincial standards. Programs such as French Immersion, Co-op, Dual credits and the Achievement Centre are all offered – just virtually.

Deep learning remains the foundation of how students learn – that can be seen in the arts, languages, drama, science and math. One need only check out St. Josephine High School’s Twitter account to see how students find innovative, creative and collaborative ways to showcase their talents. For example, it is unlikely an in-person student would use a bathroom towel, a bedsheet, pita bread and a paper towel to create art.

But when learning virtually, students see the potential in everyday materials in their homes. Creativity is front and center in the online learning environment.

More than 1,100 OCSB high school

students learn virtually. They come from the east, west, north and south of Ottawa. The students have diverse backgrounds and cultures and likely would never have met if they had attended their local high schools. The school has 94 employees, including educators, administrators, faith leaders and resource teams.

Meanwhile, at Blessed Carlo Elementary Catholic School, educators, support staff, mental health staff and faith leaders focus on virtual wellness.

When students feel connected and part of a school community, they succeed academically, socially and emotionally. Building diverse relationships is also encouraged at Blessed Carlo, as the partnerships between the home, parish and the business community are critical to creating innovative learning opportunities, wellness initiatives and celebrating international cultures.

To ensure student equity, OCSB provided all virtual students with the tools they needed to succeed. We distributed Chromebooks and Wifi sticks to those requiring them. We also collaborated with parents who were new to virtual learning by providing tip sheets and holding two parent webinars to help families navigate their children’s online tools and answer questions. These live events were recorded and posted to the virtual schools’ websites so all parents could view them at their convenience.

When students were asked why they

Online learning from home allowed a student to create art from materials at hand: a towel, sheet, paper towel and pita bread. CREDIT: OCSB

wanted to learn virtually, the answers were both unexpected and expected.

One of the most surprising was that many students described the virtual environment as more social. These students enjoyed interacting with their teachers and peers more in the online school and enjoyed meeting students and educators from across the city.

Students reported feeling more comfortable and as a result, their confidence grew, and they felt more at ease reaching out to classmates and teachers.

Not surprisingly, students liked getting an extra half hour of sleep in the morning, not having to take the bus, having hot meals all day and staying

at home with their pets and family.

Students also rated the tech tools and apps and quiet learning environments as major pluses.

As a school board, we still believe in-person learning is best for most students, but I am proud to be part of a board that sought solutions and altered policies to meet the needs of all students dealing with a worldwide pandemic. “Deep learning” embraces creativity, communication, collaboration, character, critical thinking and citizenship. OCSB students, educators and trustees practice deep learning inside and outside the classroom and boardroom.

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Canterbury is special, even in a pandemic

By Iva Apostolova

My daughter, Tamara, has lived in the Glebe since birth. She went to kindergarten and school with the same kids she had playdates with since she was a little tot. It was this comfort and familiarity that softened the blow for her – she was in Grade 7 at the time – and

Canterbury School has 70 per cent of its population in the Arts program.

for all of us when the pandemic hit last year.

Tamara has always been artsy and as she pondered where to go to high school, she decided that despite her close friends in the Glebe, she wanted to try out for Canterbury. I thought the school would be a perfect fit for her.

Singing is her passion and Canterbury offers the most comprehensive voice program in Ottawa.

We were told that the auditions had to be online. Now doing anything musicrelated online is hard! For starters, there can only be one source of sound at a time. When the Canterbury music department held its virtual orientation night last January, it was clear they were still figuring out how to do online auditions without live accompaniment, something unprecedented for them.

Until the last minute, everyone was scrambling to answer questions such as “will there be different music tracks in different keys?” or “what if my computer/modem/internet gives out during the audition?” When the results came out, along with the sense of accomplishment, there was also a sense of genuine relief.

We had heard fantastic things about Canterbury (70 per cent of students are in the arts program, 30 per cent in the general program), not only as an academic institution but as an environment fostering creativity and freedom

of expression as well. A “special place” and a “safe space” for the artistically inclined kids, as Tamara’s violin teacher, a Canterbury alumna herself, put it. Once September rolled around, the anxiety of leaving behind everything my daughter has ever known, including the luxury of walking to school (now she takes two buses each way in rush hour) came to a screeching crescendo.

But Canterbury was everything we were told it was, and more. Tamara quickly found her artistic niche (and fashion sense), made friends, and she loves all her teachers.

I was so grateful that I signed up as a volunteer in various parent-support groups. Then things started coming into sharper focus. My daughter was in Voice, so she was luckier than most students in the arts program. She still has to sing with a mask on, but the inconvenience is nothing compared to what kids in the Winds section, for example, had to deal with. Because of the risk of aerosol transmission, playing wind instruments indoors was considered unsafe. (It was only on October 26 that OCDSB decided to lift that restriction.)

On October 21, CTV News reported the disheartening news about the closing of the Grade 12 dance course (informally known as the “Company.”)

The course is related to the big event for graduating dance students, their endof-the-year production, Dance Night.

No extra-curriculum activities, such as regular talent shows (known as coffee houses), various music ensembles and other arts activities, which are as much a part of the fabric of the school as the mandatory programs, are currently allowed in-person.

At meetings with trustees, it was argued that the restrictions are valid for all schools in the region. While that may be true, it is also true that Canterbury is not like other schools – it doesn’t simply have arts programs, it is the arts. As a parent, I feel a degree of frustration and apprehension about the future but also hope the OCDSB will take the necessary steps to ensure that Canterbury can continue its smooth sailing in growing our future artists.

Iva Apostolova is a philosophy professor at Dominican University College and a Glebe resident of 16 years.

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Learning through music and song

By Julie LeBlanc Toddlers and pre-schoolers love to enjoy music in many ways – singing, dancing, clapping and actions.

At Glebe Cooperative Nursery School, music and movement is a big part of circle time.

Children are quite familiar with the routine and jump into their “Good morning” song as they pass a djembe around eagerly to say their name as they drum. “Good morning, good morning, good morning to you. Good morning, good morning, and how do you do?” “Hello (child’s name), hello (child’s name), hello (child’s name), it’s fun to say hello!

Children continue with learning about the calendar as they sing “Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. These are all the days of the week. Then we start again.”

Music helps grow creativity and stimulate brain development in young children. Shakers, clapping toys and bells are favourites at GCNS. Singing songs together is a wonderful way to engage children and

Music helps the kids at Glebe Coop Nursery School learn many things. PHOTO: JULIE LEBLANC

reinforce various topics they have been learning about.

Singing also supports early language development.

Throughout the fall, the children loved the song “Five little pumpkins” and the props and actions that went along with it. They had lots of fun seeing the pumpkins roll away, making the sound of the wind and clapping their hands for the lights going out.

“Five little pumpkins sitting on the gate The first one said, “Oh my it’s getting late” The second one said, “There are witches in the air” The third one said, “But we don’t care.”

The fourth one said, “Let’s run and run and run” The fifth one said, “I’m ready for some fun” Oooh went the wind and out went the lights and the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight!”

Music is also a great motivator during transitions from one activity to another. As the children end their circle time together, they sing, “Our circle time is over, is over, is over. Our circle time is over, we’ll sing another day.”

Singing instructions can help encourage little ones to follow along. It can also help with tricky tasks like cleaning up or brushing teeth. Children at GCNS sing tidy-up songs while putting their toys away.

“It’s time to put our toys away, Toys away, toys away.

It’s time to put our toys away, On this (day of the week) morning.”

Glebe Cooperative Nursery School children have been busy learning and practising their winter songs.

The holiday season will certainly give us all many opportunities to enjoy music and singing with our little ones at home!

Julie LeBlanc is a Glebe Coop Nursery School parent and is responsible for communications.

As we head into the holidays

By Karen Cameron As we head into the holidays, parents will be spending more time with their toddlers and preschoolers at home. The educators at Good Morning have been brainstorming some ideas to support your child during this time to enable a smooth transition back to programs in the New Year.

Children thrive with structure and routine; it has been challenging for parents to nurture this part of development during the pandemic. Being at home while trying to stay safe limited opportunities for children to further social and emotional development with their own peer group – during lockdowns, there were no library visits, no music and movement classes, no swimming lessons. Even preschools were closed for a time last year. We are seeing the effects of this on children in our programs and we want to help parents with ideas on how to incorporate structure into playtime.

Hopefully these ideas of how to play “school” will give parents a glimpse into their child’s day and offer some

support to families at home this winter: • Have a look at your child’s daily schedule from their program and consider mimicking this loosely at home over the holidays. This will help them feel more secure when returning to group care as it creates continuity and predictability.

“First/then” statements can ease transitions within the routines. “First, we tidy up, then we read a story.” “First we wash hands, then we have a snack.”

And so on.

• Have circle time. Sit on the floor with your child, put some animals in a bag and sing Old MacDonald (or another interactive song), revealing one animal at a time. Try to have them wait until you reveal the animal so they can practise patience. This will help the educators when they do the same thing in “real” circle time.

• Read a book like the teachers do, with the child sitting on the floor facing you rather than on your lap.

Ask your child to predict what’s going to happen next.

• Get up and get silly together by playing some music and shaking those

Kids at Good Morning Creative Arts and Preschool benefit from school routine and structure, but that still means getting down and silly! PHOTO: KAREN CAMERON

sillies out. This is great for both of you!

• Encourage child-directed play.

Follow their lead, whether it’s cooking cars in the play kitchen, playing hide and go seek with animals under the couch or doing silly walks up and down the hallway. Kids are great at creating their own fun!

• Tidy up time. Have your child help with tidying up before you move on to another activity. This doesn’t have to

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be a full-on cleanup, but make them responsible for putting toys in a bin or basket. Offering clear directions increases the likelihood of success for preschoolers: “Put the dinosaurs in the blue bin.” Responsibility helps build confidence and self-esteem.

• Snack time. Now that the toys are put away, you can sit for snack or lunch time. Have a sit and chat with them as this is a great opportunity to build language skills. Give them one or two of whatever you prepared and model asking for more food. “May I have more apple, please?” Food is a great motivator if you are building language. It may start with just “more,” then move on to “more please” and then to “more apple please.” It will eventually become a fully formed sentence. Celebrate their successes in language with lots of high fives and cheering – the smiles are worth it!

Enjoy your time with your little ones.

We hope you have easy days and many fun family moments! We can’t wait to see all of our friends again in the New Year. Parents who are interested in further information about Good Morning Creative Arts and Preschool programs can check out our website at gmcaps. com, or contact the school by phone at 613-276-7974 or email at goodmorningpreschool@gmail.com. We are accepting applications for the New Year with spaces available in our Toddler, Preschool & Beyond and Creative Arts After School programs.

Karen Cameron is the director of Good Morning Creative Arts and Preschool.

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The Glebe according to Zeus

A GUINEA PIG’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE GLEBE

Christmas photo shoot turns to class action suit!?!

CONTENT WARNING: Some of the allegations may deeply shock and upset guinea pigs and other small rodents. Caution is advised.

At least three Glebe guinea pigs hired for the annual GiddyPigs.com holiday campaign allege poor quality food and ego damage in their $8.50 class-action suit filed yesterday.

Excerpts from the lawsuit provide the harrowing details of what took place on set in a November afternoon photo shoot for the conglomerate’s renowned Christmas catalogue.

“The tinsel on set was old and tasted of 2021!” allege all three plaintiffs. “I shudder to remember it,” said Bruno, the model pig chosen for the high-profile scene. “We could barely eat even a few strands during set up. Awful!” added Sam, junior lighting technician and aspiring model.

Despite the horrors, some suspect the suit

may just be a cash grab since the guinea pigs made no complaints until several weeks later.

Counsel for the class-action suit responded that it was impossible to file sooner because the pigs were hospitalized, suffering from acute dashed promises and intense disappointment. Indeed, according to the lawsuit, “The guinea pigs were told they would feast on imported Christmas parsley from Italy and sweetgrass from Peru, followed by relaxing chin rubs. But all they got was hay.”

The guinea pigs are also suing for ego damage due to the ugly clothing they had to wear and/or handle, in particular the hats. Damages of $1 per pig are being sought as well as gift cards to Gucci.

Zeus, CEO, CFO, COO and POO of GiddyPigs.com, was not available for comment at press time. But an Instaham post from the same day shows him enjoying a chin rub whilst eating what looked to be imported parsley and sweetgrass...

Frabjous: another literary invention

By Sophie Shields From alligator to scrumdiddlyumptious, writers have been adding words to the English language ever since the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press.

But who are the authors behind our words and how did these neologisms (new words) come into being?

Let’s begin with the common words, used each and every day as if they always existed. The bard himself, William Shakespeare, is credited for over 2,000 of them, including a few rather surprising ones: alligator, leapfrog, eyeballs and more. Similarly well-known for his neologisms is Dr. Seuss, without whom we would be floundering without a way to describe those obsessively smart people often caught wearing retro circle-framed glasses – nerds.

When the word was used in Dr. Seuss’s If I Ran the Zoo, it referred to an imaginary animal that the narrator wanted to collect; not until 10 years later did it adopt today’s meaning!

Another unexpected literary invention is the word blatant. First used in Edmund Spenser’s epic poem “The Faerie Queen,” the word originally described a thousand-tongued beast.

Centuries later, it has come to mean instead something that is glaringly inyour-face – like Spenser’s beast.

Of course, many authors have their fun when inventing words, treading into the territory of nonsense.

For instance, Roald Dahl’s scrumdiddlyumptious, defined as “extremely scrumptious,” leaves much up to the imagination, just like his adjective frothbungling, used to refer to something mind-boggling. Another author celebrated for his literary inventiveness is Lewis Carroll, known for combining words to create new ones, such as frumious (“fuming” and “furious”) and frabjous (“fabulous” and “joyous”).

Whether it was a desire for precision or a sudden burst of creativity, it’s hard to know how exactly these literary inventions came into being. Next time you are reading a frabjous book, take note of the author’s made-up words.

You won’t want to be frothbungled when your fellow Glebites begin using them in conversation!

Sophie Shields is a Carleton student studying global literature and a proud Franco-Ukrainian who is learning German. She is the social media coordinator for the Glebe Report.

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Memento mori: Prague

By Douglas Parker

Prague’s historic Jewish cemetery.

The cemetery is located in the heart of Prague, hidden behind a high stone wall as if to protect it from vandals and the profane sounds of a vibrant and busy city full of people who are still alive. It is, after all, a holy, hallowed place whose holiness must be both acknowledged and respected. After I buy my ticket, I see a wicker basket full of yarmulkes. I look at the man tending them; he sees the question in my eyes and nods with a smile. I put one on my head, a clumsy gentile gesture. I walk in feeling an awkward reverence and find myself in Prague’s historic Jewish cemetery.

I am struck immediately by a number of things. The first is the deathly silence of the place. Only a few feet beyond the wall, Prague life goes on; inside the wall, it is death that goes on. The second is the size of the place; it is astonishingly small even though, as the pamphlet says, it houses over 100,000 people. Adding to the sense of its size are the 12,000 memorials and tombstones, jammed together, haphazardly, creating a sense of both intimacy and chaotic jumble. Seemingly, no one tends this cemetery except time, and time has not been kind to it, sweeping away and erasing many of the inscriptions, which I couldn’t read in any case because I lack the language; clearly, I’m a foreigner here in several senses.

Many stones, like old, arthritic men, lean against their neighbours that seem

to assist and support them lovingly.

The whole impression is of a place in a state of decay and disuse, as if letting observers know that what they see reflects the decay that now lies hidden.

Stones as markers; stones as symbols.

Paradoxically, for what it represents, the place holds a certain ruinous, sad and tragic beauty.

The cemetery dates from 1439. The last burial occurred in 1787. Jews were not allowed to be buried anywhere outside the ghetto, which explains, I suppose, the cheek-by-jowl placement of the 12,000 tombs. To accommodate all the dead in this confined space, bodies were buried on top of each other up to 10 deep, like extended families living together in the same house but on different floors. Philip Larkin’s phrase, “a serious house on serious earth,” pops into my head. I wonder about this enforced intimacy, bones intermingled, individual identities subsumed into the collective, bones embracing other bones indiscriminately. A kind of unity amongst people who, for no comprehensible reason, have been throughout history despised in life by – one must admit and acknowledge it – others, monstrous others. The humble Jewish cemetery in Prague, “a place to grow wise in” to cite Larkin again, an ossuary and reliquary of the quiet dead.

Douglas Parker is a long-time Glebe resident with an interest in English Reformation literature, history and theology.

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A Cold War Christmas party

By Bob Irvine In the spring of 1986, I was in my mid-thirties and director of research at Supply and Services Canada. SSC was the government’s purchasing arm, buying everything from tanks to toilet paper. One day, my boss – also named Bob – called me to his office.

Fred, a make-it-happen manager in our procurement operations, was there already. Bob introduced me to Jim and Jean-Marc, two officers from the USSR desk at External Affairs.

Jim and Jean-Marc explained that the Soviets – first to our embassy in Moscow and now in Ottawa – were showing growing frustration with Canada: “We buy your wheat every year, but you never buy anything from us in return,” they complained loudly.

Australia – a fierce competitor in global grain markets – had responded quickly to similar demands by the Soviets. Now Canada was playing catch-up, but what could SSC buy from the Soviets?

Tractors! The Soviets had chided External that we had never bought a single tractor from the USSR. They sent External scads of literature about Belarus-brand tractors, which Jim and Jean-Marc passed around. The pamphlets earnestly pointed out the tractor’s economic engine and other features.

We quickly worked out a game plan.

Jim and Jean-Marc would assure the Soviets that the Canadians were now very much on the case. Fred would talk to departments that used tractors.

Fred would plead with Agriculture, Transport and others to include Belarus tractors – please just this once! – on their annual shopping lists. At meetings organized by External, I would explain to the Soviets why, with our fair-play procurement rules, a Belarus tractor on the front lawn of every federal building was not a sure bet.

The months passed. The line departments balked. Could they get parts fast if a Belarus tractor broke down in Fredericton? Could it clear away heavy snow from a winter storm in Cranbrook?

At monthly meetings with the Soviets, my progress report on our efforts was becoming a soft-shoe routine.

Then Fred shared some great news.

Transport would buy at least one Belarus tractor. It would cut the grass at an airstrip in Gravenhurst. And other departments were coming on board. We briefed the Soviets. They were ecstatic.

It was now late November. An envelope from the Soviet embassy appeared in my inbox. The Commercial Counsellor was inviting me and others on “the Canadian tractor team” to dinner. I went to Bob to tell him about my invite.

“We know already,” Bob answered.

I recalled that outgoing mail from the Soviet embassy was secretly opened by the RCMP and then carefully resealed. I felt that I had passed a loyalty test from the McCarthy era.

The next day, a man in a trench coat knocked on my office door. He identified

himself as an RCMP inspector. Closing the door, the Mountie began to speak in hushed tones: Don’t bring your briefcase. Every flowerpot has a hidden microphone. Watch how much you drink. If a sensitive topic comes up, start talking about the weather. Debrief him soon afterwards.

On a snowy December evening, I stepped out of a taxi and into an old home in Sandy Hill, which housed the office of the Soviet Commercial Counsellor. A line of men in dark suits greeted us as we entered a large room. A stocky man with biceps bulging through his black leather jacket held out a cocktail glass full of cigarettes with one hand and a lighter in the other. I declined.

Running the length of one side of the room was a huge buffet. Prominently displayed in the middle was a spitroasted pig.

“Dig in or there’ll be an international incident,” Jim whispered to me.

With an open bar, people loosened up as the evening wore on. Talk turned from tractors to hockey. Jackets and ties came off. Around midnight, the Soviets opened a large room with a piano at the back. Our hosts threw down the gauntlet: they were the best singers, not the Canadians! Leading off with a rousing folk tune, they taunted us to show our stuff. We then quickly disgraced ourselves when we started mumbling the second verse of “This Land Is Your Land.”

The Soviets rushed back around the piano, drew in their collective breath, and softly sang with piano accompaniment a lullaby from the Russian steppes in three-part harmony. Perhaps fueled by too much vodka, I fought back tears. Acknowledging our sound defeat, the Canadians expressed our sincere thanks and bid our hosts adieu.

I moved on to other projects. The Berlin Wall came down. Years later, as I tucked our toddler son into bed, I would remember the lullaby. We all love our children, I thought, as I kissed my son’s cheek.

Bob Irvine is a former public servant, long-time Glebe resident and frequent contributor to the Glebe Report.

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COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS ABBOTSFORD SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTRE (950 Bank St.) is looking for books, flea market items and treasures to sell in house at Abbotsford and in the spring at the Great Glebe Garage Sale to help support the centre’s much needed fundraising efforts! We will begin accepting items in January 2022. Thank you for your donations.

The ABBOTSFORD SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTRE’s list of January/February/March classes and clubs can be found under Current Guide on our website www.glebecentre.ca.

Please note that Abbotsford will be closed between Dec. 24 and Jan. 4.

ABBOTSFORD SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTRE (950 Bank St.) MOVIES FOR RENT. We have a wide selection of movies in our lounge. They are divided into categories (drama, action, comedy, etc.), and the DVD’s can be rented for $1 each. Browse our selection, pick and pay at reception.

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE CAFÉ DISCUSSION, Dec. 15, 9 a. m. Free online activity, animated by a French teacher and open to all French levels. Share an online breakfast in French with us and talk about the news. Registration is until Dec. 13 (www.af.ca/ottawa/en/notre_culture/ online-cafe-discussion-6/#/) You will receive the zoom link a day before the activity.

Local AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL WRITE FOR RIGHTS EVENT 2021 – Southminster United Church at 15 Aylmer Ave. will once again host an in-person Write for Rights event where members of the public are welcome to drop in to write one or more letters of support for the ten cases featured in 2021. If you are interested in participating, drop by the Church anytime between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Sun., Dec. 12. Documentation on the ten cases and instructions will be available, as well as writing materials. Please note that COVID-19 screening protocols are in place and include providing proof of double vaccination, wearing a mask and recording contact information. Amnesty International also invites you to participate online where you can use Twitter, send emails and sign online petitions. Please see the Amnesty website for more information: www. amnesty.org/en/get-involved/write-for-rights/ FRIENDS OF THE FARM ANNUAL NONDINNER Please join the Friends for our popular annual fundraiser. Not a single person will show up and we will be delighted. You can help just by staying at home! By purchasing tickets to this fundraising event that will never take place, you can help sponsor numerous activities in support of the Ornamental Gardens and Arboretum on the Farm. Individual seats $25. Couples $50. Family $100. Table of Six $250. Community $500. Your support is greatly appreciated, and your donation is tax deductible. You can contribute by using our online fillable form for cheques or PayPal at friendsofthefarm.ca/donations/ HERITAGE OTTAWA LECTURE VIA ZOOM Wed., Dec. 15, 7–8 p.m. Cundell Stables: The

Last Stable in Lowertown. Cundell Stables has been operating as a family business in Lowertown since the 1870s. It remains the last vestige of Ottawa’s equine history and is teetering on the verge of extinction. Artist Karen Bailey and writer Marc Aubin joined forces to combine both fine art and local history in their book, The Last Stable in Lowertown: Cundell Stables, Ottawa. Karen will present an illustrated lecture that pays homage to the Cundell family using her art that documents the present-day working life at the stables in paintings and Marc’s research and writing that places the Cundell family history within the context of Lowertown. The lecture will be presented via Zoom, and pre-registration is required. Register by going to https://bit. ly/31davJr. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about how to join the webinar.

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Come and Sing with Us! MUSICA VIVA SINGERS (MVS) is a community choir that sings an eclectic mix of contemporary and classical music. We have planned an exciting program of choral singing for the winter term. The choir meets in Centretown United Church on Bank St. across from Arlington St. Director Scott Richardson leads this ensemble in rehearsal, with Tom Sear at the piano.

Rehearsals are Monday 7:15– 9:15 p.m. The winter term will comprise 15 sessions, from Jan. 17 to May 9. If you would like to join us or would like more information, please contact the membership secretary Marjorie Cooper at marjcooper@rogers.com. You will be added to the membership list, and arrangements will be made for payment and to provide you with music closer to the start date. If you can read music, that’s an asset. An introductory rate of $80 for the winter session is being offered.

Due to COVID-19 rules, all singers must be double vaccinated, masked and appropriately distanced. This may change by January.

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OLD OTTAWA SOUTH GARDEN CLUB’S PLANS FOR 2022 Second Tuesday of the month, January to May: an armchair tour of Reford Gardens; advice on spring planting; plant guilds; cottage gardening; garden design with foliage; and a tour of the peonies at the Central Experimental Farm. Info: www.amilia. com/store/en/old-ottawa-south-communityassociation/shop/programs/67090

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OTTAWA NEWCOMERS CLUB Our club is a non-profit social organization for women who have recently moved to this area or who have experienced a significant life change and would like to meet new people of similar interests by joining our many group activities. More information about us and what we do can be found on our website at: ottawanewcomersclub.ca or by contacting newcomersclubottawa@gmail.com RA CURLING CLUB Did you know you don’t have to join the RA curling club for the full season? You can register for just the winter session and pay a much-reduced rate. Join us in January! For more information contact the RA Member Services Desk at 613-733-5100 or visit www.racentre.com/curling

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Friends of the Farm new FALL GREETING CARDS are here! These lovely cards, featuring the stunning photography of our own Richard Hinchcliff, celebrate the Arboretum wrapped in all its autumnal glory with six unique images.

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