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Manotick hockey player selected by Pittsburgh Penquins in NHL entry draft. – Page 2
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The Osgoode community and the surrounding area celebrated Canada Day in style. – Page 3
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The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority has selected a new general manager and treasurer. – Page 13
News - The city’s new wildlife strategy doesn’t go far enough to protect beavers before the agriculture and rural affairs committee approved it on July 4. The city has been picking away at a wildlife strategy since early 2010, when council ordered a review following a series of issues with coyotes. Since then, a number of moose have had to be destroyed and urban sprawl has introduced suburban homes to areas that have habitats for animals like wild turkeys. Liz White, spokesperson, Ontario Wildlife Coalition, said the city’s claim that he strategy will reduce the number of beaver killed is unrealistic. She sat on the working group for the wildlife strategy but resigned in 2012 over disagreements with the policy’s direction. “There are no protections for beaver in the vast majority of the city of Ottawa if you pass this strategy,” she said. Currently, the city traps and kills around 150 beavers each year. Stow said the city could reduce the number of beavers it traps and kills by half over 10 to 15 years if it makes better use of “beaver deceivers” to protect culverts. The fences or other devices are used to block off the area of infrastructure like culverts, which the beavers tend to build dams around, damaging and flooding the culverts. But there is no funding in place to pay for those devices, which can cost between $200 and $2,000, depending in the type, Stow said.
The strategy proposing a “balanced and humane approach” received little vetting from about a dozen delegates who spoke to planning committee. For the most part, they focused on deficiencies in the process used to arrive at the strategy. They called for an additional public meeting. Rideau-Goulbourn Coun. Scott Moffatt urged speakers to provide substantive feedback so the committee could address if there are parts of the policy that need beefing up. There is still opportunity to make minor changes before the policy goes to council on July 17, said Nick Stow, the city planner who authored the report. He encouraged people to submit “constructive feedback.” Stow said another public meeting wouldn’t be helpful because the major issues, conflicts and solutions have been identified. Rehashing worries about beaver management, euthanasia and educational materials – the most controversial elements – would just be repetitive and not productive, Stow said. “The biggest issue is (that) we have is people from the urban area moving into the rural area,” said West CarletonMarch Coun. Eli El-Chantiry. People who grew up in a rural area often have the basic knowledge and skills needed to deal with wildlife, but people from an urban area may not. The new wildlife strategy emphasizes that many human-wildlife conflicts can be prevented or solved by better understanding the dynamic. See WILDLIFE Page 2
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Telling tales by the river The Terrifying Tales at Twilight performance by Watson’s Mill volunteers and staff enjoyed wonderful summer weather for their show on Thursday evening July 4. More than 20 interested visitors dropped by the mill, took a seat on the mill’s front lawn and sat back to enjoy spooky ghost stories. Getting ready for their annual performance were, left to right: Alexandra Smaridge, Amy Nyentap, Julia Michalopulos, Emily Ramsdale, Emily Demers, Cam Trueman, Bishoy Badir director, Noah Kasdorf, Brandon Kassis, and Stephen Tam. The first story of the night was about the fate of James Patrick Whelan who was hanged for the murder of politician Thomas D’Arcy McGee in February of 1869. Whelan’s hanging was the last public hanging in Canada.
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