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What do you love about Ottawa? Dwayne Brown wants to find out Ellen O’Connor

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hat do you love about Ottawa? That’s what Hintonburg resident Dwayne Brown wants to find out as he wanders the city, camera in hand, looking for inspiration for his new photography project. LoveOttawa, a photography blog created by Brown about two weeks ago, highlights and celebrates the many people, places, and hidden gems that make up the beautiful landscape of the nation’s capital. “I have a pretty good sense of the aesthetic of the city, but as of late I’ve begun to appreciate more what people get to do here,” said 50-year-old Brown who owns and operates a studio out of his home in Hintonburg and works as a corporate and commercial photographer. “I wanted to do a side project that would be fun for me and shine light on good deserving businesses and people in Ottawa.”

Ottawa photographer Dwayne Brown shoots a photo of members from JustChange, Photo Credit: Michael Power

The people featured on his blog loveottawa.com are a mix of his friends and strangers, long-time residents, students, immigrants, and tourists, all happy to pause in their day-to-day activities and share with Brown what they love most about Ottawa.

Even Mayor Jim Watson made an appearance on the blog to share that he loves how Ottawa is a city with big city amenities and loads of small town charm. Owner of his photography business since he was 20-years-old, Brown

War photo “Wait For Me, Daddy” to be cast in bronze on spot of famous picture By Keven Drews, The Canadian Press

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.—It was an emotional moment, captured on film, when five-year-old Warren Bernard bolted from his mother’s side and reached for the outstretched hand of his war-bound father in October 1940, and it will soon be preserved in a public memorial in New Westminster, B.C. The Metro Vancouver city announced it has selected artists Veronica and Edwin Dam de Nogales to create a bronze memorial

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based on the famous photo, “Wait for me, Daddy,’’ taken by The Province newspaper photographer Claude Dettloff. Canada Post plans to issue a commemorative stamp in 2014, and one New Westminster councillor said she hopes to also preserve the event through a commemorative coin, a National Historic Site designation, and even a visit by royalty. Amidst the whirlwind of publicity, Bernard, now a 78-year-old resident of the Vancouver Island community of Tofino, B.C., said Five-year-old Warren Bernard reaching for the he’s still “just the kid in the outstretched hand of his war-bound father in picture,’’ and was concerned October 1940. Photo: Claude Dettloff about one thing when Dettloff released his camera’s shutter. going away to join up, as they “I probably wasn’t thinking called it in those days, to, you know, too much other than getting close join up, to get in the army, get into to my dad,’’ he said. “I had, you the services.’’ Continued on page 5 know, a fair experience of people

knows his way around a camera, but interviewing his subjects was a new challenge. He begins each interview with the most important question: What do you love about Ottawa? From there he asks Continued on page 2

NSA spying prompt some citizens to rethink habits By Oskar Garcia, The Associated Press

In Louisiana, the wife of a former soldier is scaling back on Facebook posts and considering unfriending old acquaintances, worried an innocuous joke or long-lost associate might one day land her in a government probe. In California, a college student encrypts chats and emails, saying he’s not planning anything sinister but shouldn’t have to sweat snoopers. And in Canada, a lawyer is rethinking the data products he uses to ensure his clients’ privacy. As the attorney, Chris Bushong, put it: “Who wants to feel like they’re being watched?’’ News of the U.S. government’s secret surveillance programs that targeted phone records but also information transmitted on the Internet has done more than spark a debate about privacy. Some are reviewing and changing their online habits as they reconsider some basic questions about today’s interconnected world. Among them: How much should I share and how should I share it? Some say they want to take preventative measures in case such programs are expanded. Others are looking to send a message—not just to the U.S. government but to the Internet companies that collect so much personal information. Continued on page 13


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