The Orleans Star Oct. 1, 2020

October 1, 2020 • Volume 35, No. 11

Next edition October 15

Local COVID cases more than double in September

Top row: Patrick Uguccioni, Yvette Ashiri, Denis Lebrèche Middle row: Lyse-Pascale Inamuco, Catherine Kitts, Henry Valois Bottom row: Mark Scharfe, Jensen Boire, Craig MacAulay Not pictured: A. Bruce Faulkner (See story page15)

By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star According to the most recent data issued

by Ottawa Public Health, the east end is not immune from the ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases across the National Capital. In fact, the number of new cases between Sept. 7 and Sept.

21 more than doubled compared to the previous two-week period.

Cumberland Ward saw 20 new cases between Sept. 7 and Sept. 21 compared to nine new cases between Aug. 23 and Sept. 7.

Innes Ward had the greatest increase in new cases in the east end, going from 10 new cases between Aug. 23 and Sept. 7 to 37 new cases between Sept. 7 and 21. The number of new cases in Orléans Ward, on the other hand, just had two new cases going from 19 to 21.

All told, there were 78 new COVID-19 cases reported in the three east end wards between

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Cumberland Ward had the seventh highest number of new cases in the city among the 23 wards. Only College Ward (57), Beacon HillCyrville (57), Rideau-Vanier (55), RideauRockliffe (50) and Gloucester-Southgate (50) reported more cases.

With cases in the east end on the rise a new COVID-19 assessment centre, planned for the Ray Friel Recreation Complex, can’t get up and running soon enough.

The assessment centre will be operated by the Montfort Hospital in collaboration with Ottawa Public Health. Officials with the Montfort are hoping to have the centre operational by the middle of the month, but Orléans Ward councillor Matt Luloff would like to see it open sooner if possible.

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COMMUNITY BRIEFS Seven east end schools, four child care centres report COVID-19 cases ORLÉANS – Six east end schools have reported at least one case of COVID-19 since the province established a COVID-19 data base for schools and child care centres last month. The fact that a student or staff member has tested positive for the coronavirus does not necessarily mean they caught the virus at school, nor does it automatically trigger an outbreak. In most cases, a student testing positive likely contracted the virus from a family member. It does mean that anyone in their class would be classified as a close contact. It’s up to Ottawa Public Health to determine if the close contacts should stay home for the 14-day isolation period or not. Should another student in the class test positive the entire class must stay home for a minimum of 14 days. Should one or more students test positive outside the class, but in the same school then the entire school will be closed for a minimum of 14 days. The schools with one student who has so far tested positive are École secondaire publique Giséle-Lalonde, École élémentaire catholique Alain-Fortin, École élémentaire catholique d’enseignement personnalisé La Source, Cairine Wilson Secondary School, Glen Ogilvie Public School and St. Peter High School. École secondaire publique Louis-Riel also has a positive case, but there’s no information whether it’s a student or a staff member. While COVID-19 cases in schools have been getting the lion’s share of the media’s attention, there have been several cases reported in area child care centres mostly among the staff. According to the provincial database, the MIFO child care centre at École des Voyageurs has had three staff members test positive, while one staff member at the MIFO child care centre at École St-Joseph d’Orléans has also tested positive for COVID-19 along with a staff member at the La Coccinelle child care centre at École Arc-en-Ciel and a child at the Cumberland HUB Day Care Centre.

City to open COVID clinic at Ray Friel Complex Continued from page 1 “I’d like it open three months ago, to be honest with you,” says Luloff, who has led the fight for an assessment centre in Orléans along with Innes Ward councillor Laura Dudas, “but the work that we need to do is quite ambitious.”

The assessment centre will be located in one of the rinks which must be de-iced first and then converted into a clinic.

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ORLÉANS – (This is a reprinting of a Community Brief that appeared in the Sept.

17 edition of the Orléans Star with corrections.) Miranda Smith has come a long way since her days playing youth soccer with the Gloucester Hornets. After graduating from St. Matthew High School in 2014, she spent four years on a scholarship with the University of Memphis Tigers before returning home to the University of Ottawa where she helped lead the Gee-Gees to the 2018 CIS women’s soccer championship and the 2019 University World Cup championship. With the COVID-19 pandemic in high gear, Miranda was under no illusion that she would be able to play organized soccer this year. To say that she was surprised when a scout called agent about an opportunity to play proMiranda Smith fessional soccer in Finland this fall is an understatement. TPS Torku offered her a contract and a plane ticket. After arriving in Finland in late August, Miranda had to stay in self quarantine for the prerogative 14-days before joining her new teammates. After joining the starting roster, Miranda helped lead the team to their first win of the season.

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The centre will provide COVID-19 testing and respiratory assessments for people with symptoms of respiratory illness – cough, fever and cold-like symptoms – that can’t be managed at home. Offering services in English and French, this centre will be equipped to do basic diagnostic tests, such as COVID-19 swabbing, chest X-rays and lab tests.

The site will be operated by staff and physicians from the Montfort, as well as primary care physicians.

Testing will also soon be available at a number of pharmacies in the east end including the Rexall Pharmacy in the Orléans Garden shopping plaza and three Shopper’s Drug Mart locations at 3940 Innes Rd., 2954 St. Joseph Blvd. and 1937 Portobello Blvd.

Due to the recent spike in new cases, Ottawa’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Vera Etches has invoked a Class Section 22 Order under the Health Protection and Promotion Act that stipulates that any person who tests positive for COVID-19, has signs and symptoms of COVID-19, is a close contact of someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, has been tested for COVID-19 and awaiting a test result or otherwise has reasonable grounds to believe they have COVID-19 must self-isolate without delay and remain in isolation for 14 days, unless COVID-19 is ruled out.

Failure to comply with the Order could result in a fine of up to $5,000 for every day or part of each day on which the offence occurs or continues.

Meanwhile the province of Ontario has reimposed Stage 2 restrictions on private gatherings to 10 people indoors and 25 people outdoors. Failure to comply will result in a fine of up to $10,000.

Cumberland Ward candidates answer election survey Candidate: Henry Valois Age: 64 Education: College Diploma Occupation: Semi-retired volunteer firefighter # of Children: 3 daughters (31, 34, 38) Bilingual: Yes Question #1. How will your past experience make you an effective city councillor?

I am honest, hardworking and reliable. I have been a resident of Cumberland Ward for 39 years, both urban and rural.

Having been a volunteer firefighter for over 30 years, I have helped thousands of residents in this ward with many different types of emergencies as a front-line worker.

As the captain of the fire station, I have had to deal with the Ontario Fire Marshal’s Office, police, bylaw, water works and many other divisions of the city.

Question #2. Please list the extent of your volunteer activities.

• Volunteer firefighter • Navan Fair director • Cumberland Lion’s Club supporter • Orleans-Cumberland Community Resource Centre’s annual food drive organizer • Cumberland Heritage Museum annual Firefighter Day coordinator • Petrie Island Canada Day annual event coordinator • Orleans Christmas parade of lights • Cheo Skate-a-thon (24-hour skate) • Guinness World Record 50 Horse Hitch (1995) • Ice Storm (1998) • Hay West (2002) • Initiated the emergency response for flood victims of the 2017 Ottawa River flood in Cumberland.

Question #3. What is your position on whether or not the rural part of the ward

should be merged with Osgoode Ward?

I do not believe the rural part of Ward 19 should be merged with Osgoode Ward. It would become strictly a rural ward and our tax contributions would likely go to core city projects. It would also become a very large area for a councillor to serve and represent.

Henry Valois Question #4. Please list your top three priorities should you get elected?

My top three priorities are: 1) TAXES – We need to keep our property taxes as low as possible. If a 2% increase is not sufficient to initiate projects they should not be implemented. I would encourage Council to work on keeping our property tax increase to a maximum of 2%. Zero increase would be ideal.

2) ROADS – I believe that the roads in the east end of the city are in poor shape compared to the west end. Let’s get our roads in better shape and do a better job at snow removal in the winter.

3) GARBAGE – I agree that recycling and composting bins are good, but weekly garbage collection should help residents keep their properties cleaner.

Our streets are not safe for families, children, and our seniors. I will install traffic calming measures, such as speed bumps, to address car speeding. I will also advocate for high quality cycling infrastructure design.

For more information about the candidate visit www.henryvaloisward19.ca.

Candidate: Craig MacAulay Age: 68 Education: Two university degrees Occupation: FREE bike-taxi pilot, retired teacher, pundit # of Children: 2 (ages 31, 34) Bilingual: Qui Question #1 – How will your past experience make you an effective city councillor?

An effective councillor provides good value to the long-suffering taxpayer. Being a City of Ottawa politician should be an honour and a sacred responsibility rather than a way to accumulate personal wealth and power. I will work at City Hall FOR FREE until the REAL election in 2022.

Now that’s value!

If elected, I will put the $210K salary, the $500K office-budget slush fund, the $12K car allowance, the overly generous benefits and all the other perks of power into a BIG POT that will be spent democratically and transparently IN CUMBERLAND WARD. So NO money for me and NO personal power either. ALL political decisions will be decided upon by a transparent and democratic Cumberland ward committee, not by me. And certainly not by the developers who finance the mayor and some of the other candidates in this byelection.

Question #2 – Please list some of your volunteer activities.

• 10 years of piloting the Bells Corners FREE Bike-taxi; • Community association president, rink operator, building manager, bike coop treasurer, community activist, blogger, journalist, anti-politician.

Craig MacAulay Question #3 – What is your position on whether or not the rural part of the ward should be merged with Osgoode Ward?

Ward boundaries should be NOT be decided by gerrymandering politicians.

Hopefully the voters of Osgoode will pay attention to this important issue (and many others) as the campaign grinds on. Most insiders expect voter turnout to be less than 20 per cent. Quelle honte! We candidates need to stir up some interest in this obscenely expensive fake election where the result seems sadly predictable.

Question #4 – Please list your top three priorities should you get elected; and B) Why is the first issue on your list your number one priority?

Electoral reform via ranked-choice voting and limits on the power of big money. A sustainable, just and prosperous economy. More transparency and less corruption at City Hall.

Politicians should NOT be financed by the developers, contractors and consultants who benefit from council’s decisions. Elections must be fair to be legitimate.

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What’s next As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise in the National Capital, the sense of worry is almost palpable. Parents are worried about their children going back to school. Family members continue to worry about their parents and grandparents in senior care homes.

Small business owners are worried about losing their businesses. And employees swing between potentially catching the virus and potentially losing their jobs should the provincial government implement another shutdown of commercial businesses.

The provincial government has thus far managed to avoid shutting businesses down again. Instead, they have reduced the number of people who can gather outside together from 100 to 25 and indoors from 50 to 10. They have also encouraged municipalities to take a zero tolerance stance against anyone who flaunts the COVID-19 rules. That means a maximum fine of $10,000 for anyone who organizes a private gathering that exceeds the limits, in addition to the current $750 fine for anyone caught violating the rules.

That’s all good and well, but before we start going overboard, we need to take a sober look at the numbers and three numbers in particular – the positivity rate for COVID 19 tests, the number of people in the hospital and the number of people in intensive care or on a respirator.

For instance, in Ottawa the positivity rate is still under three per cent and at last check there were under 15 COVID patients in the hospital and only two patients in intensive care. No one was on a respirator.

That’s all truly good news when there seems to be scant little good news out there. It means that the elderly and those people with underlying conditions who are most likely to end up in hospital are taking the necessary precautions to stay safe despite the increase in new cases.

And it’s only going to get worse. As the temperature drops and we’re forced to take cover inside to stay warm, we will be more susceptible to the bioaerosals produced by asymptomatic individuals that will get recirculated in businesses and homes kept cozy and warm by central heating units.

Instead of threatening people with five-digit fines, the government and public health officials need to do a better job warning people about the potential for infection due to the use of loose-fitting and ineffective face masks.

They also need to issue a warning about the risk of transmission in the home. If your kids are going to school, or if you have older children between the ages of 18 and 25 who are out socializing with their peers, you have an exponentially greater chance of contracting the virus than those people who don’t have children going back to school or out socializing with their peers. If you fall into the latter category, you should really be wearing a mask at home if you want to stay completely safe. But although 76 per cent of Canadians wear a mask when going outside, I doubt even one per cent wear them at home.

So what’s next. More of the same I’m afraid. More cases, more hospitalizations, more bankruptcies and more deaths. A safe, widely available vaccine can’t come soon enough.

– Fred Sherwin, editor

Fredrick C. Sherwin, Editor & Publisher fsherwin@orleansstar.ca The Orléans Star is a bi-weekly publication distributed to 44,000 residences in Blackburn Hamlet, Orléans and Navan. The newspaper is locally owned and operated by Sherwin Publishing Inc., 745 Farmbrook Cres., Orléans, ON. Inquiries and delivery issues should be sent to info@orleansstar.ca.

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Local MPP calls on goverment for COVID-19 second wave action plan Last week, I went to the Brewer Park COVID-19 government scrambled to respond. But now, there are assessment centre to see for myself the long lines. I no more excuses. The government has had months to spoke to some parents who had already been waiting prepare for a potential second wave and I’m calling on in line for three hours, and it looked like they still had them to share the details of their plan with the people hours to go. As we were chatting, of Ontario. some of the dedicated frontline In the Legislature, I asked the Queen’s government staff who have worked so hard to for their second wave Park try and keep us safe and healthy plan. To see more, please visit: had the unpleasant task of coming http://bit.ly/2ndWaveON Corner out and informing people that the Based on advice and feedback centre was at capacity for the day. from health experts and front-line Stephen Blais Can you imagine waiting in line for health care workers, I believe that three hours and then being asked to come back in the the government’s second wave plan should include morning? That same situation has repeated itself across the following: liminating unsafe waiting lines for Ottawa and Ontario.

COVID-19 testing; The Ontario government controlled the easing of • Expanded sick leave and additional protections for social restrictions, they controlled the opening of the workers; economy, they controlled the return to school. Despite • Guaranteed access to fully-funded PPE for residents, all of the factors that have lead to an increase in patients and workers in both hospitals and nursing COVID-19 cases being within their control, they still homes; did not properly plan for adequate testing capacity.

• Real-time reporting of outbreaks at the source; I’ve been calling on the government to add a testing • Increases in wages for essential frontline workers; Centre in Orléans since the spring. I’ve written several • Urgent, compassionate action to protect migrant letters to the Minister and when the Legislature returned farm workers. after the summer break this was my first question. To Front line workers are doing the very best they can learn more about my advocacy and to see the question with limited resources and a lack of planning from the please click visit: http://bit.ly/OTTtesting provincial government. They are stressed, anxious and As a result of the collective advocacy of all of tired. They need and deserve our thanks, respect and Orléans elected officials, a testing centre will soon be patience. located in our community.

There is lots of information on my website at Earlier this year, when COVID-19 first struck, stephenblais.ca and as always please don’t hesitate to everyone was caught off-guard and all levels of contact me at sblais.mpp@liberal.ola.org.

Trying to live the new normal as pandemic enters 8th month Try as we might, 2020 is the non-stop year of COVID-19. Whether it is the impact of the disease itself on family and loved ones, its continuing toll on local businesses and community organizations, or wall-to-wall media coverage, a part of me wants to put up the Christmas tree now, open some presents, then ring in the New Year and give 2021 a big hug.

Yet this little time slip fantasy would only bring us closer to much feared – if not inevitable – headlines noting that even with a vaccine or vaccines, mass immunization is still months away, a wave of personal bankruptcies and mortgage foreclosures is upon us, and up to onethird of our restaurant sector and one-fifth of other retail businesses have vanished.

Sadly, this will get worse before it gets better.

On the bright side – and yes there is one – researchers and front-line clinicians know a lot more today and have some antivirals and other interventions to help patients with moderate- to severeCOVID-19 disease, especially in acute care settings. This has kept death counts

Walter Robinson Guest Column for at-risk populations low even as the daily infection counts have risen.

As well, I’ve been impressed with the overwhelming compliance with indoor mask-wearing edicts, patient and wellspaced lineups from the grocery store to the ServiceOntario office on St. Joseph Blvd and a degree of comaraderie evident in Saturday afternoon LCBO waits.

I’ve also seen kindness at the drug store prescription counter letting elderly clients skip the line and on local sidewalks as dog walkers take extra care with their pets around others – please, let’s keep this up!

On a personal level, our family did not have to agonize over the return to school. Our son is in his final semester of university and all classes are on-line.

In chatting with friends and neighbours, the decision on returning to the classroom was not easy. Some kids need structure and sorely missed their classmates while others just rolled with the proverbial punches and have adapted quite well to hybrid or full stay-at-home learning.

My house backs onto a high school field and I can walk to three primary other schools within five minutes. On these walks it’s clear that teachers have been doing their best to use good weather to their advantage with outdoor teaching seeing younger kids sitting in well-spaced circles or teenagers appropriately seated on the football stands. Here’s hoping they can keep this up to Thanksgiving or beyond.

With the virus doing its thing or as one friend puts it, ‘virus gonna virus’, one strategy that has helped me tune out COVID-19 is to concentrate and devote my energies to things I can control.

Stepping up my game in the kitchen is a direct result of the early lockdown back in the spring and restricted opportunities to dine out. Another personal positive is

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Converting part of the garage into a mini gym has been a good counterbalance to my aforementioned LCBO visits.

Although watching a middle-aged man do jumping jacks, push-ups, shadow boxing along with varied dumbbell sets while streaming old-school 80s and 90s hip-hop tunes through my Bose speaker has likely been a tad unsettling for the neighbours.

Best to add a few bottles of wine and Scotch for the five houses around me on my next ‘beverages’ run.

Finally, with our trips to Florida and Europe scuttled (yeah I know, First World problem), we’ve toured local markets and towns all within an hour or so drive from Orléans and discovered great micro brewers, local food producers and talented artisans across Eastern Ontario and into the Gatineau Hills.

So control what you can, tune out the negative, and continue to be well. #InThisTogether #CaVasBienAller

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Letters to the editor: City council needs to delay ward boundary review To the editor: In the midst of a declared State of Emergency within the City of Ottawa and a global pandemic, Ottawa city council is conducting a ward boundary review which will significantly impact the residents of rural Cumberland and Osgoode. At the same time, there has been no municipal councillor in place who would have been able to consult or communicate with residents of the Cumberland Ward.

The majority of residents in the ward have no idea that there is even a proposal to realign the boundaries and eliminate Cumberland Ward.

They, like myself, have been concentra-

ting on how to keep our families, friends, neighbours and community safe and healthy during the COVID-19 crisis.

Many initiatives, activities and events have either be postponed or canceled during this time and the same should apply to this major proposal.

This is not the time to either force residents to consider such drastic changes nor is it time to find ways to shortcut or eliminate public consultation, which is what has happened. There has not been a single piece of written communication to residents to inform them of these proposals.

It is time to put a HALT on this and to wait until we no longer need to worry

about the health and safety of those around us. Council needs to stop this from going ahead. There is no time, no interest and no energy for residents to consider all of the implications that these decisions could and will have.

STOP NOW!!!! Let’s not let the city recommend changes that will rip our community apart.

DISCONTINUE THE PROCESS !!!!!

If council needs to reconsider this, do it when the people have the time and energy to properly and adequately consider the implications this will have on rural and urban residents, both anglophone and francophone and on future generations.

Hold public meetings and properly inform the residents.

I am appealing to everyone to join in the fight to convince Ottawa city council to discontinue this process.

Also, please note that the only consultation left is for a zoom call (or something similar) with hundreds trying to get their voice heard. This will not work and I will not participate.

Respectfully submitted, Linda L. Dunn Former Cumberland municipal councillor

Boundary Review needs more time, input from residents To the editor: Both my grandfather, an English farmer, and my father, a school-teacher and lay-minister, instilled in me a principal of fairness. “Treat others as you would have them treat you” was their mantra. I therefore learned how to conduct myself with integrity from an early age. After a lengthy career in the Canadian Armed Forces and the Federal Government, my wife and I settled in the rural community of Navan.

I recently learned of the ongoing City of Ottawa Ward Boundary Review “by accident” in a conversation with a friend.

It is with chagrin that I read the full

history of the events from February to the present, surrounding the activities of city council during a pandemic.

The process to re-align ward boundaries has taken place over the past year, with the majority of the work related to public consultation taking place since March, 2020. I need not remind your readers that this was and continues to be done during a State of Emergency and a global pandemic.

In addition, the ward that is being most negatively affected, namely Cumberland Ward, has been without a permanent representative on city council since February of 2020. The rural portion of

Osgoode and Cumberland Wards are significantly at a disadvantage with internet service being sparse and problematic and many residents not having any access to or interest in any electronic communications.

No consultation has occurred by either mail or telephone to inform residents of the intentions of the City of Ottawa. This essentially means that they are literally “in the dark”. They are not aware that something so hugely important is taking place, largely in secret.

On the issue of the Ward Boundary Review it is my contention that the new Cumberland Ward councillor to be elected

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on Oct. 5, make an emergency motion to council to defer further actions on the subject matter until such time as the COVID-19 State of Emergency measures put in place by the Province of Ontario are lifted.

Hopefully one other councillor will support the motion and a sufficient number of their colleagues will “see the light” and concur with the motion. It is at just such a moment in history that the true measure of individuals and their level of integrity becomes evident..

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Taylor Creek VW taking pandemic precautions

By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star When the Ontario government first introduced emergency measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic by closing all non-essential businesses, car dealerships in the province took a tremendous hit. Most were closed for weeks except for their service departments which were deemed an essential service.

It wasn’t until May 4 that car dealerships were permitted to interact with clients by appointment only. Two weeks later, they were given the green light to open fully under Stage 1 of the province’s reopening plan. Prospective customers were able to once again walk into a car dealership – albeit wearing a protective face mask and maintaining social distancing – and test drive a car.

Besides requiring visitors to their showroom to wear a face mask and use hand sanitizer, all the touch points such as door handles, restroom doors, rails, showroom doors, tables and employee

desks are wiped and sanitized regularly.

Taylor Creek VW has introduced a number of other measures to make the car-buying experience easier during the pandemic, especially on their website where you can do a video chat with a sales specialist and take a virtual tour of any of the vehicles in their showroom.

The sales staff at Taylor Creek VW are second to none. The dealership has been recognized as a Wolfsburg Crest Club member for two years in a row. The designation is handed out by Volkswagen to dealerships for meeting the highest sales and service standards based on feedback from their customers.

At the outset of the pandemic, car manufacturers around the world had to temporarily close their plants for several weeks which resulted in a reduction in inventory. To help bring things up to speed and to make sure customers get the vehicle with the options they want, Volkswagen is encouraging new customers to pre-order their vehicle online and they are even

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2020 Volvo XC60 R-Design puts the XC in exciting

By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star The XC60 is Volvo’s mid-sized SUV positioned between the compact XC40 and the full-sized XC-90. The R-Design is the middle trim package for the XC60 priced at $56,550 – that’s $7,250 more than the entry level Momentum with the same T6 power plant and $1,700 less than the Inscription.

Outside, the R-Design has a much sportier look than the Momentum, with an attractive grill, 19-inch alloy wheels, (rather than 18inch wheels), front and rear glossy black skid plates, integrated dual tailpipes, fog lights and bending LED active headlights with cornering lights.

Inside, the R-Design is loaded with leather accents; heated seats that warm up in under a minute; a cushion extension on both front seats to better support your legs; and a touch screen LED centre console display that’s incredibly user-friendly as is the gear shift knob. And did I mention the R-Design also comes with a panoramic sunroof?

All of the trim packages come with the same state-of-the-art safety features including a Lane Keeping Aid that will gently steer your car back into the lane if you’re about to cross a lane marking without

using the indicator; Hill Start Assist and Hill Descent Control as well as Whiplash Protection in which the entire front backrest and head restraint moves with the occupant in the event of a collision .

The vehicle also comes standard with the Sensus GPS Navigation System. (Interestingly enough, the system warns you when you are approaching an inter-section with a red light camera, only it’s referred to as a “safety camera”.)

The XC60 can also be purchased with the Premium option package which includes Blind Spot Detection; a power tailgate; heated rear seats; headlight washers; an inductive charging station for your Smart Phone; a heated steering wheel and heated wiper blades for an additional $1,750.

The R-Design is powered by Volvo’s T6 2.0-litre, four-cylinder turbo- and supercharged engine with AWD. Once you’re on the road you can choose from four different driving modes – Comfort Mode in which the XC60 responds gently and to your commands; Eco Mode which adjusts the powertrain to allow for maximum fuel efficiency; Off-Road Mode which can only be activated at speeds under 40 km/hr; and my favourite, Dynamic Mode which turns

The 2020 Volvo XC60 R-Design is sporty, eye-catching and a thrill to drive in all seasons and in any conditions. STAFF PHOTO the compact SUV into something akin to a sports car. The throttle goes hair-trigger, the revs are kept higher for quicker access to the turbo, and the steering, which already has an extremely small radius, becomes even tighter and more responsive. Of course, the vehicle’s

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All-New 2021 Atlas Cross Sport now at Taylor Creek VW

By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star If you are in the market for an SUV, then you should seriously consider making an appointment to test drive the all-new 2021 Atlas Cross Sport available exclusively at Taylor Creek VW. I recently had the opportunity to take one out for a spin myself and I was immediately impressed by how smooth the ride was, even on Ottawa’s bumpy roads. As someone who is used to driving a well-equipped four-door sedan, I was blown away. It’s impossible to overstate how smooth the ride was.

The 2021 Atlas Cross Sport comes in three different trim packages: the Trendline, the Comfortline and the Execline. All come standard with Volkswagen’s patented 4MOTION All-Wheel Drive system and an 8-speed automatic Tiptronic transmission.

The Trendline and Execline models come standard with the TSI 2.0L 4-cylinder turbocharged engine with 235 hp. If you purchase the Comfortline model, you have the option of upgrading the engine to a 3.6L V6 that can deliver an additional 41 horses.

All three models are equipped with five driving modes – Normal, Eco, Snow, Off Road and Off Road Custom.

When you approach the Cross Sport, the first thing you notice is the makeover given to the exterior. Gone is the imposing, blocky look and in its place is a much more stylized and visually attractive form with rounder, sweeping lines and the coupe-like roof. It’s also slightly shorter than the flagship Atlas with the third row seating having been removed making it a five seater.

The vehicle I took out for a test drive was the Comfortline, which comes standard with a panoramic sunroof; a rear view camera; heated front seats including an 8-way power driver seat with 2-way power lumbar support; and an 8-inch Infotainmemt display that includes Volkswagen’s App-Connect which integrates Apple CarPlay for iPhone, or Android Auto for Android smartphones.

That means you can control your apps with your voice or from the app-connect screen.

The 2021 Atlas Cross Over is also available with many of the safety features VW has become famous for starting with a blind spot monitor system; Adaptive Stop & Go Cruise Control; Front Assist Autonomous Emergency Braking; and Hill Descent Control.

The interior is spacious and ergonomically driver friendly. In particular, I liked the

The all-new 2021 Volkswagen Cross Sport has all the makings to be a gamechanger for the German car maker. STAFF PHOTO starter button on the centre console next to the shifter and the double USB ports.

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When it comes to the Jaguar F-Pace, ‘F’ stands for fun

By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star I love my job. Getting to test drive the latest Volvos, VWs, Land Rovers and Jaguars and then writing about them is a car lover’s dream come true. That’s especially true when it comes to cars like the 2020 Jaguar F-Pace.

The British car manufacturer describes its mid-sized SUV as a luxury performance vehicle built with driver in mind.

I would describe it as an SUV built with a sports car mentality – it’s both practical and a thrill to drive, perfect for anyone looking for the best of both worlds.

The base Prestige model is powered by a 20T 2.0 litre, four-cylinder, turbo-charged engine that delivers 247 horsepower and comes with a base sticker price $52,500.

From there you can opt for 30T Prestige which delivers an additional 49 horses for $59,500; the R-Sport ($64,400); the 300 Sport ($67,250); and the fully loaded Portfolio ($68,500). If you are looking for additional power and money is no option you can opt for the S model which comes with a 3.0 litre, six-cylinder, supercharged engine for $70,900; or the SVR model which comes with an 5.0 litre, eight-cylinder, supercharged engine for $92,000.

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order only.

Despite the fact that it’s an SUV, the F-Pace looks fast with it’s distinctive F-type front grill. Although the interior is relatively under-stated by Jaguar standards, it still comes with all the comforts you would expect from a luxury SUV, including heated front seats, heated steering wheel, panoramic sunroof, 10-way electric front seats with 4-way electric lumbar adjust and driver memory, a Meridian sound system and a 10-inch Infotainment display with InControl Touch Pro (SSD) Navigation, Apple CarPlay and Bluetooth connectivity.

The F-Pace can be driven in four different modes – Normal, Eco, Dynamic, and Snow/ Wet mode. The latter gives the F-Pace even more traction when combined with all-wheel drive. In Eco mode, the on-board computer modifies the interior comfort and audio settings to reduce energy consumption and the accelerator pedal response is softened to maximize fuel economy. Dynamic Mode is, well, dynamic. It makes passing slower traffic a breeze and adjusts the suspension according to the drive mode and your driving style, resulting in a sports car-like feel when taking on those tight corners. And if you get bored, you can switch the transmission over to S-mode which lets you toggle through the

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Road to getting our fair share is a long and winding one We live in an age where so many have come to expect so much for free.

News, music, and social media are the first victims that come to mind as almost entirely ad-supported industries. Even the heavily subsidized CBC is running ads at the beginning and end of many of their news podcasts, a development I lament with serious heartache.

I won’t get into the all of the serious and detrimental effects this has had on these industries, especially the music and news industries, but as we continue to shift into the digital realm, a curious and dark new area has emerged underneath articles and social media posts: the dreaded comment section.

I know, I know, “Don’t read the comment section” has joined more prestigious idioms on our vernacular like “fail to prepare and prepare to fail” and “you are what you eat,” and all three warnings are fair and should be observed with equal measure. But there is one

Matt Luloff Orléans Ward 1 common, local and insidious sentiment that seems to persist despite so much evidence to the contrary, especially in recent years: Orléans is always last. We’re last for investment, we’re last for services and we generally never get “nice things.”

This is the most common sentiment I read this week after announcing our COVID-19 Care Centre at the Ray Friel Complex.

In the comments section, feelings rule and facts tend to take a back seat. While it may be true that we in the east have the cruel distinction of being home to the only municipal four-lane highway – a punishing and expensive gift from Mike Harris – and

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that we have spent decade after decade largely dismissed as a sleepy bedroom community with little to no development to support the major improvement we now desperately need, my immediate predecessor, my council colleague-turnedMPP and I have worked very hard to change that.

Stephen Blais is committed to having the province pick up the tab for maintaining the 174, something that would save the city millions and ensure it receives the investment it has needed for some time.

This highway is primarily used for residents that do not even live in our city and make their way into the downtown core every day for work. People that do not pay taxes in our city use our infrastructure at no cost to them. This piece of infrastructure should be a provincial asset. But, I digress.

We are the first suburb to get the LRT. Not Barrhaven, not Kanata, not Hunt Club – us.

Using this as a catalyst, I commissioned the Orléans Economic Corridor Study in

my first year. This study, and the revamped land permissibility that comes along with it will attract the investment, jobs, housing options and amenities we have been sorely lacking.

It will revitalize our core, make our community more walkable and provide places for our seniors to downsize to while remaining in our community. We are the only community in the city with this kind of secondary plan work underway. I encourage everyone to read more about it in the news section of my website and submit comments and suggestions as we finally set the table for transformative investment in Orléans.

We are also the first suburb to get a COVID-19 Care Centre. As your representative, I will always put you first. I will always put the hard work in to ensure that we never come last again.

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Cumberland by-election enters the final stretch

By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star Cumberland Ward residents have less than a week to decide who they are going to vote for in the Oct. 5 by-election. In fact, many have already made up their minds, having already voted by a mail-in ballot or during one of the advance polls held earlier this week.

For those who haven’t voted yet, you can be sure the candidates will do everything they can to persuade you to cast a ballot in their favour on Oct. 5.

Several of the candidates recently contacted by The Star said they would be spending all the time and energy they have left to identify their supporters and ensure they cast their ballot on Monday.

The polls will open at 10 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, registered voters can vote at any polling station in the ward. Face masks will be mandatory while in the polling station and physical distancing of at least two metres will be in place.

There are 10 candidates on the ballot, most of whom have their own websites where their position on the various issues can be found.

A full list of the candidates with their contact information can be found at ottawa. ca/elections.

Former Orléans Star editor Catherine Kitts is among the top three candidates in the

running to replace former Cumberland ward councillor Stephen Blais along with social activist Yvette Ashiri and Ottawa Community Voice managing editor Patrick Catherine Kitts Uguccioni.

Carlsbad Springs Community Association president Denis Lébreche is expected to pick up quite a few votes in the rural part of the ward as will volunteer firefighter Henry Valois and Uguccioni, who is originally from Carlsbad Springs and seen as the most rightleaning of the top tier candidates.

That leaves Avalon south of Innes Road and east of Mer Bleue Yvette Ashiri where the NDPbacked Ashiri and long-time Liberal LysePascale Inamuco should do well. Whether or not they will do well enough to out poll Kitts and the other front-runners will be determined on Monday.

Kitts and Ashiri both have a strong ground game in terms of organization and volunteers. Although Kitts has been endorsed by a number of local Liberals

including Blais, she is also receiving a lot of support from long-time Conservative Party supporters in the rural part of the ward.

Ashiri is seen as the most progressive of the frontrunners having been endorsed by the leftleaning progressive organization Horizon Ottawa as well as Ottawa Patrick Centre NDP MPP Uguccioni Joel Harden.

The biggest obstacle all of the candidates have had to overcome during the by-election campaign is the pandemic. Having to wear a face mask for hours on end while

maintaining proper physical distancing has made traditional door-to-door canvassing a challenge to say the least. The candidate who has best been able to overcome that challenge, either through organization, the use of social media, or both, will in all likelihood win the seat.

Among the key issues the candidates have had to address during the campaign are transit, the ward boundary review, the city’s handling of the pandemic and excessive speeding on residential streets.

Whoever wins the by-election will have to deal with all four issues as well as the 2021 budget process and the challenge of limiting the next year’s tax increase to three per cent in the face of a massive drop in revenues due to the pandemic.

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