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FIRE HALL GETS NODThe Fire Hall in Old Ottawa South, recently converted into a community centre, has be nominated for a architectural conservation award by the city.
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MEETING HER HEROESA seven-year-old North Gower girl got to say thank you to the trio of paramedics who helped save her life after a playground accident in October.
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NO JOY FOR JR. SENSOttawa had hoped to pick up two valuable points for their playoff charge, but ended up on the wrong end of a 3-1 game against the Cumberland Grads.
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A SUNNY STROLL ON THE CANALYoung Embrun resident Myko enjoys a sunny walk on the canal with his grandfather, Luc Lavoie, who came to town on Feb. 5 to celebrate the start of the 33rd edition of Winterlude in Ottawa. See page 6 for more on Winterlude.
LAURA MUELLER
Laurier Avenue moved one step closer to get-ting a segregated bicycle lane after the city’s transportation committee approved the two-year pilot project during a marathon meeting Feb. 2.
The pilot project would see a segregated bike lane installed along Laurier Avenue between El-gin Street and Bronson Avenue.
It could be the province’s fi rst bike lane that physically separates cyclists from vehicles on a downtown street. The lane, which will involve the installation of pre-cast curbs, planters and barriers at a cost of $1.3-million should be ready to use by the end of the summer, city staff said. The decision still needs the approval of city council, which will consider the issue at its Feb. 23 meeting.
After briefl y debating shortening the lane so that it would end at Bay Street in order to retain on-street parking in that block for high-rise resi-dents, the committee unanimously approved the original proposal.
But not everyone was in favour of the segre-gated lane. More than 50 people spoke at the Feb. 2 committee meeting, with many business peo-ple, Laurier residents and even cyclists opposed to the plan.
One of the main concerns of both businesses and residents in the area was the removal of much of the on-street parking on Laurier.
In total, 122 parking spaces will be removed from Laurier Avenue to make way for the bicy-cle lane, but there will be 124 spaces created on Gloucester and Nepean streets, which run paral-lel to Laurier.
The problem is that the parking spaces won’t be replaced in the same block, said Somerset Ward Coun. Diane Holmes..
Convenience isn’t the only impact on parking – it could also affect the city’s bottom line. While the addition of parking spaces on Nepean and Gloucester streets will make up some of the dif-ference, the city stands to lose about $74,000 in annual revenue.
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The Old Fire Hall on Sunnyside Avenue is among six recent projects that have re-ceived a nomination for the Ottawa Ar-chitectural Conservation Awards.
According to the city’s built heritage advisory committee report, improve-ments to the 1921 heritage building, which currently serves as the Old Ottawa South Community Centre, included pro-viding an enlarged community hall and a new multi-purpose room in the basement of the building.
The committee felt the exterior of the building fi t seamlessly into the existing neighbourhood and the interior was simple, but aesthetically appealing, func-tional and preserved some of the original fabric of the fi re hall.
“In a neighbourhood known for its beautiful old homes, the Old Fire Hall’s well-designed exterior fi ts right in,” read the city’s report.
The building’s expansion was designed by local architect Anthony Leading of CSV architects. The building’s renova-tion cost $3.4 million and was completed last year.
“It’s an award for something which from a heritage point of view respects the heritage character of the existing building,” said Leaning.
“Getting an award for protecting heri-tage is an exciting thing.”
The designer also paid particular at-tention to preserving the heritage char-
acter of the original fi re hall structure, maintaining as much of the external fa-çade as possible.
“The exterior materials we used were compatible with the neighbourhood and the existing building,” he said.
“We tried us much as possible to main-tain the parts of it that had heritage character, to keep them visible,” leaning noted.
The community contributed close $357,000 to the project.
“It is a wonderful building and I love the way they kept the facade of the origi-nal building. We are proud that we con-tributed to the funding of the project” said Deirdre McQuillan, executive direc-tor of the Old Ottawa South Community Association.
“It has been a huge accomplishment, we are now able to serve many people from the neighbourhood and beyond, we are able to offer more programs and able to have bigger and more events.”
The city of Ottawa contributed the re-maining $2.9 million for the project.
The awards will be handed out at the annual Ottawa Architectural Conserva-tion Awards and heritage recognition ceremony on Feb. 22 at city hall.
Old Fire hall nominated for architectural award
Photo by Eddie RwemaThe Old Fire Hall on Sunnyside Avenue, now the home of the Old Ottawa South Com-munity Centre, has been nominated for an architectural conservation award.
EDDIE RWEMA
Medical students at the University of Ottawa are challenging area residents to shave their heads to help raise funds for pediatric cancer research.
Through Smiling Over Sickness, a stu-dent run organization, medical students are inviting the public to their eighth an-nual Shave for a Cure to be held on Feb.11 at the Urbandale Centre during the game between the Ottawa 67’s and Erie Otters.
“It is a fundraiser designed to raise funds for childhood cancer Canada, a national organization that funds cancer research for kids,” said Maren Hamilton, one of the event co-ordinators.
At the event, volunteers will be able to shave their heads for the cause or have 10 inches of hair cut, which will be in turn donated and used to create wigs for chil-dren with cancer.
“We are targeting doctors, teachers, professors and medical students as our core group and also reach out to the com-munity to try to get people to shave their heads to raise funds or cut off their pony-tails that will get donated to make wigs for kids with cancer,” said Hamilton.
The organization sends student volun-teers into the community, with an aim on
raising awareness about pediatric can-cers and raise money for research in the hopes of fi nding a cure.
Second-year medical student Shawna Bierderman added that as medical stu-dents, they get to work a lot with physi-cians in hospitals where they see the pain patients go through fi rst hand.
“To be able to do something for the peo-ple that we interact with is really a nice thing,” she said.
Last year, about 60 students, faculty and community members participated.
“Just seeing how people return ev-ery year to get their head shaved for the cause proves how dedicated people are to this cause,” Biederman noted.
The event has experienced great suc-cess in the past, with over $60,000 raised in the 2009-2010 campaign alone.
This year, with the help of various or-ganizations, corporations and business-es, fundraisers are aiming to not only surpass this mark, but to shatter it by fundraising in new and innovative ways.
First Choice Haircutters, one of the event sponsors, will be on hand at the event to help with the hair cutting and $7 from the sale of each 67’s ticket for the Feb. 11 game will go to support Shave for a Cure. For more information, visit www.shaveforacure.ca.
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A Carleton University pro-fessor has been honoured for his work in the fi eld of medi-cal radiation treatments with a $15,000 research achievement award.
David Rogers, a Canada Re-search Chair in medical phys-ics, was rewarded for his out-standing research. The award, given to faculty for innovative research that can be applied to real-world problems, can be used for research funding or to buy release time from teaching so that one can concentrate on research.
“I am very pleased, since it gets me signifi cant release time to concentrate on my research and on developing a new gradu-ate course which I am keen to get started,” said Rogers.
Rogers uses computer simula-tions to help improve the treat-ment of cancer patients using radiation. The computer simu-lations allow accurate calcula-tions of how radiation deposits energy in patients and instru-ments.
“My overall goal is to improve the delivery of radiation thera-
py to cancer patients,” he said. “I am working on projects that would help calculate the dose more accurately in patients un-dergoing treatment and make the computer software that does this available to a wide spec-trum of researchers in cancer clinics.”
According to a statement is-sued by Carleton University, Rogers was the principal re-searcher behind a clinical pro-tocol used in cancer clinics throughout North America to establish the dose delivered to over 600,000 radiotherapy pa-tients a year.
His background includes more than three decades at the National Research Council and eight years teaching at Carleton, where he has made great strides in improving the accuracy of treatment for cancer patients.
The other component of his research is to train the next gen-eration of medical physicists so they can contribute to patient care. He has mentored several graduate students who now hold key leadership positions in the medical physics commu-nity throughout North America and Europe. He also helped Car-leton’s medical physics PhD pro-gram become accredited.
Rogers, was only the fourth Canadian ever to receive the William D. Coolidge Award, the highest honour from the Ameri-can Association of Physicists in Medicine. The award is pre-sented annually to a member of the association for signifi cant practice in medical physics, in-fl uence in the professional de-velopment of other physicists and leadership in national and international organizations.
“After the excitement of the Coolidge Award, this becomes a very pleasant local recognition of my efforts,” said Rogers.
Photo submittedLast year, David Rogers, Canada Research Chair in Medical Physics, was only the fourth Canadian ever to receive the William D. Coolidge Award, the highest honour from the American Association of Physi-cists in Medicine.
Carleton professor wins research award
EDDIE RWEMA
The Sens Mile Charity Chili Cook-Off, held Jan.16, raised close to $10,000 for the Jack Pur-cell Park re-development pro-gram.
The event is a community fundraiser that was created to benefi t the Elgin Public School playground and play structure for the community park.
Top prize in the chili compe-tition went to the Lieutenant’s Pump Pub, which beat out nine other area restaurants.
“The funds will help us rebuild the park, with new trees and an accessible play area,” said Junya Devine, volunteer project coor-dinator. She said majority of the trees that will be planted will re-place ash species that have been infested with emerald ash bore.
The park’s ownership is di-vided between the city, Jack Purcell Community Centre, and Elgin Street Public School.The school’s parent council has spearheaded efforts to raise $130,000 in support of the rede-velopment.
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Two men who fi led a legal case against the city to fi ght Lansd-owne Park’s redevelopment have dropped out of the case.
The Friends of Lansdowne will continue with the legal chal-lenge, but Doug Ward and Gary Sealey, who initiated the case alongside the group, backed out of the case because of the con-siderable fi nancial risk they faced as individuals.
The pair originally applied to the court because the Friends of Lansdowne worried its case would be dismissed.
“A little organization might have trouble getting standing in the court,” Ward said. “Someone has to stick their heads up above the trenches.”
Now that the case – and the Friends of Lansdowne – are more established, the City of Ot-tawa agreed not to challenge the group’s standing in the case.
That paved the way for Ward and Sealey to step down.
“It doesn’t make sense for two citizens to take on all the risk for thousands of people who are represented in the case,” Ward said. He said both men support the cause, but now they can fi ght along with the group. If the Friends lost the legal case against the city’s process for signing the Lansdowne redevel-opment deal, Ward and Sealey could have been on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dol-lars in legal costs.
“The chance was very low, but Gary and I would have been at real risk,” Ward said. That’s be-
cause individuals have assets the court could go after, whereas the group’s only assets are the mon-ey it has been able to raise, which so far amounts to $100,000.
Ward said he wasn’t “fully aware” of the city’s policy to seek compensation for legal fees if it’s determined that a case was “vexatious” or brought forward in bad faith. He said he doesn’t think the legal case is frivolous, but the slight chance that a judge could disagree is enough to make the fi nancial risk real.
The latest development in the Friends of Lansdowne case is the group’s request for the city to release fi nancial documents and agreements for the Lansdowne Live plan. The group made that request in court on Jan. 31, but the court master had not made a decision before deadline.
LAURA MUELLER
The revealing of a long-await-ed OC Transpo review doesn’t provide residents with a much clearer picture of which bus routes may be cut this year.
After the tabling of the 2011 draft budget, Mayor Jim Wat-son said the review would give council direction on where $7 million in cuts could be made to the transit budget this year. An additional $15 million is supposed to be saved next year.But the American Public Trans-portation Association’s (APTA) review of OC Transpo gave little detail on where those cuts could be made.
Instead, the report congratu-lated OC Transpo for its “well-respected” and impressive tran-sit system, strategic direction and management.
The peer review also states that OC Transpo has an “un-paralleled reach” of 99 per cent of residents living within 400 metres of a transit stop at peak hours in urban areas – a “signif-icantly higher” reach than most other North American transit authorities.
The report recommends mov-ing forward quickly on a plan to focus on bus routes that feed into the Transitway.
Route cutting and route sched-uling are the areas that can lead to the most savings, APTA’s Greg Hull told the city’s transit commission on Jan. 31.
“If you want to be the best, you need to optimize this,” he said.
Watson echoed this in a re-cent speech on the 2011 budget, saying that the city needs to cut back on overlapping routes and “milk runs”.
The review criticized OC Transpo’s lack of communica-tions strategy – both within its own organization and to the public.
“(OC Transpo needs) to make things simpler and have a more
clear message,” said Carl Desro-siers, head of Montreal’s transit authority and one of the volun-teer experts who conducted the APTA review.
Alain Mercier, the head of OC Transpo, said a plan to purchase less than 100 double-decker bus-es could save money because they cost less to operate.
Watson said there will be more detail “about the kinds of changes” that could come out of the APTA review during the transit commission’s next meet-ing on Feb. 16, but changes to individual routes or stops won’t happen until after the 2011 bud-get is complete.
Citizens will get a “pretty good idea” of the scope of the transit changes based on the budget discussions, Watson said.
“We’ve cobbled together, based on, at times, political will or whim, a bus system that is no longer sustainable,” he said. “If we don’t make changes to make the system run more effi ciently, it’s going to bankrupt us and we are going to lose more and more passengers because they are going to be so dissatisfi ed with the early buses, late buses and crowded buses.”
FARE INCREASES
It’s going to cost you more to take the bus if you use a pass or pay with tickets, but cash fares won’t change.
Effective July 1, an adult fare (two tickets) will cost $2.60 – a 10-cent increase. An express fare (three tickets) will go up 15 cents to $3.90, and a rural fare (four tickets) will increase 20 cents to $5.20 per trip. Cash fares will stay the same: $3.25 for a regular trip.
If you want to take the O-Train, it will also cost you a bit more. The fare will go up 10 cents to $2.85.
Passes are also going up. A regular adult monthly pass will cost $94 per month – an increase of $2.50. An express pass will be worth $116 (a $2 increase) and a rural pass will go up to $145 (a $3.25 increase). A regular adult annual pass will go up $20 to $950. Student passes will also in-crease slightly to $75 per month, a $1.50 increase.
LAURA MUELLER
Merchants in Chinatown had even more reason to celebrate on Chinese New Year’s eve on Feb. 2 after the city’s transportation committee approved the exten-sion of free parking in the busi-ness area to include Saturdays.
The Somerset Chinatown Business Improvement Area was the only BIA in Centretown that did not offer free Saturday parking – until recently. The construction of the Chinatown Gateway closed off Somerset Street West at Bronson Avenue last summer, and the city de-cided to extend free Saturday
parking on Somerset to reduce pressure on area businesses.
Despite the road closures, businesses in Chinatown actual-ly reported an increase in com-mercial activity last summer for the fi rst time since the open-ing of the large T&T Asian su-permarket on Hunt Club Road, which had a detrimental effect on Chinatown grocery stores.
The BIAs west of Somerset, including Wellington West and Westboro, have free on-street parking at all times.
After seeing the positive im-pact of free Saturday parking, Grace Xin of the Chinatown BIA told the city’s transportation committee that Chinatown felt
“punished” to be the only BIA without regular free parking.
Peter Yeung, who owns prop-erties along Somerset, agreed.
“It creates an unlevel playing fi eld from one end of the city to another,” he said.
The free Saturday parking between Bronson and Preston is part of the effort to revital-ize the area, which Yeung said he has seen transform from a haven for drug addicts and pros-titutes to a neighbourhood that attracts doctors and architects.
The transportation commit-tee’s decision still needs coun-cil’s fi nal approval, but it would grant free on-street parking un-til January of 2012.
Chinatown closer to free Saturday parking
Two parties drop out of Lansdowne case
Photos by Laura MuellerA sold-out crowd packed the Mayfair Theatre in Old Ottawa South on Saturday, Feb. 5 to take in the Lans-downe Follies. The variety show kicked off with Teman Teman (a protest band whose members organized the show) rousing the audience to sing, ‘Lansdowne is our legacy, we shall not be moved.’ A troupe of male can-can dancers, including former Capital Ward councillor Clive Doucet, donned purple tutus and helmets to entertain the crowd. The fundraiser collected $15,000 for the Friends of Lansdowne, putting the group above its $100,000 goal.
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LAURA MUELLER
By 2012, booking arena ice time in Ottawa could become as easy as booking a hotel room.
Right now, frustrated residents often fi nd themselves mired in a series of phone calls and forms if they want to apply for a city permit, book time at a municipal recreation centre or even apply for a burn permit.
But the city’s proposed new Service Ottawa project is aimed at putting those options online so they will be available to resi-dents 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The new program proposed in the draft 2011 would cost about $15 million this year and a simi-lar amount in the next couple of years, up to a projected total cost of $79 million over fi ve years. But it’s expected to generate $40 million in savings each year by 2014, deputy city manager Steve Kanellakos told the fi nance and economic development commit-tee during its Feb. 1 meeting.
It’s a big undertaking, but city staff say it will make a huge dif-ference to how people use city services – and that means big savings to the bottom line.
Some of the city’s complicated and often antiquated procedures discourage people from using services, such as booking ice time, Kanellakos said.
Right now, residents must call during limited business hours
to ask about arena availability, but there is often a lengthy turn-around time before the resident could hear back about their re-quest.
Forms must be faxed, signed and returned and the payment must be made before they can access the ice and if someone wants to book last-minute ice time, they have to call each are-na to check the availability.
If the Service Ottawa project is approved in the budget, all of that could be done 24/7 online by 2012.
Making the process easier and more accessible could generate another $153,000 for the city each year.
That’s because 5,835 prime hours of arena time go unbooked each year.
Arenas aren’t the only city service that would be available online through Service Ottawa. People would also eventually be able to book city facilities; ap-ply for a business licence; apply for permits for tree cutting, con-trolled burns and more.
City council is still debating the Service Ot-tawa project as part of the 2011 budget process, which is expect-ed to wrap up in early March.
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City aims to move services onlineLAURA MUELLER
After a dozen years of fi ghting for a patio, the Fox and Feather pub on Elgin Street has moved one step closer to making it a reality.
Ottawa’s transportation com-mittee gave city staff the OK to review the pub’s application for a 38-seat patio on the corner of Elgin and MacLaren – directly across the street from another recently granted patio at Ma-cLaren’s on Elgin.
Representatives from the Fox and Feather said their three pa-tio applications have been de-nied and they were frustrated to see MacLaren’s get approval.
“We try to go through the proper channels and we get no response. Now she’s (Somerset Ward Coun. Diane Holmes) try-ing to delay this,” said Joseph Eyamie, who represented the Fox and Feather during the transportation committee’s Feb. 2 meeting. Eyamie said he felt the treatment was unfair.
Innes Ward Coun. Rainer Bloess introduced the motion to discuss the patio, because Eya-mie said Holmes would not re-spond to the pub’s inquiries.
Holmes opposed the MacLar-en’s patio because there are ap-proximately 900 residents in the surrounding area, many of whom indicated they were op-posed to the level of noise the patio would create.
Councillors wondered if they were obliged to grant a patio to the Fox and Feather because they had given one to its neigh-bouring competitor, but city lawyers said the MacLaren’s de-cision didn’t set a precedent be-cause each application is dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
While city staff are reviewing the Fox and Feather patio appli-cation, they are also drawing up a study on how the city grants these types of patio encroach-ments. A number of city coun-cillors and members of the pub-lic who spoke at the meeting said they wanted to see the results of that study before the city grants any more patios.
Eyamie said the pub needs to get the licence within a month or they will lose the whole patio season – something Coun. Diane Deans questioned.
The pub already has a liquor licence for the patio. Eyamie said it would close by 11 p.m. and there would be no music.
Fox and Feather patio closer
LAURA MUELLER
The city’s transportation committee “nickled and dimed” its budget to save 10 new crossing guard positions that were on the chopping block.
Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Peter Clark moved a motion to trim three of the 10 new public works staff positions from the draft 2011 budget, which cut about $195,000 from the city’s $135 million trans-portation budget.
That paved the way for Innes Ward Coun. Rainer Bloess’s motion to add the crossing-guard positions back into the budget at a cost of about $60,000.
As Clark put it, it was a matter of “tighter management” versus “kids get-ting killed on the streets.”
There will be no change in the cost to park on the street or city-owned lots in Ottawa in 2011. On-street parking permits will go up by two per cent.
Partially thanks to the city’s new pay-and-display metres, Ottawa is expected to make $1.7-million more in parking rev-enue this year.
The city’s pedestrian plan will be de-layed and one staff position dedicated to pedestrian issues will be eliminated
– something that didn’t sit will with Som-erset Ward Coun. Diane Holmes.
Holmes added that it’s “phony” for the city to list 46 “strategic initiatives” in the budget that have no chance of being fund-ed because it gives residents false hope, she said.
The draft budget does include $2.8 mil-lion for cycling initiatives, $1.16 million for a multi-use bridge over Coventry Road from Overbrook to the Train Transitway station, and a traffi c management plan for Richmond Road in Westboro aimed at encouraging people to walk, bike or use transit.
The fi nal budget is set to be approved at the beginning of March.
Crossing guards back in budget
PUBLIC WORKS BY THE NUMBERS
• 173 kilometres of roadways • 74 kilometres of sidewalks• 1,800 streetlights
The City of Ottawa handles a lot of resident requests each year. Putting up to 30 per cent of these options online is expected to cut back on staffi ng costs.
• Total 311 service requests each year: 248,910-Bylaw: 49,239• Waste collection: 52,957• Recycling information requests (including green bin): 10,713• Road maintenance: 27,387• Traffi c issues: 11,821• Parking enforcement: 25,262• Parking equipment, such as a faulty meter: 9,120• Parking ticket inquiries: 4,513• Trees: 11,500
HOW DO PEOPLE COMMUNICATE WITH THE CITY?
• Calls to 311: 611,690 calls a year, plus emails to [email protected]• Searches on ottawa.ca: The city has 23,500 web pages, but an ineffective search tool, staff say• Call centres: Nine centres for departments such as OC Transpo, public health, tax and water• Service centres: Seven centres across the city with various hours and inconsistent services offered• Blue Pages: 29 pages of listings• Direct calls to each of the 23 members of council
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In response to a wave of pub-lic and political opposition to a decision that would have seen signifi cant changes to Internet billing, the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commis-sion is reviewing a Jan. 31 deci-sion that would see usage caps implemented across the coun-try.
The CRTC indicated on Feb. 2 that it has decided to delay the implementation of the usage-based billing rules by at least 60 days from the original date of March 1 and has promised to review its decision.
The commission’s reversal came after widespread opposi-tion from the public, including a petition on the website openme-dia.ca that has so far collected more than 410,000 signatures, as well as the federal government.
Industry Minister Tony Clem-ent said in a Feb. 3 statement that the government has “grave concerns about the ruling” and the potential effects on consum-ers and small businesses.
Clement confi rmed on his Twitter account that had the CRTC not chosen to revisit the decision, the government would have overturned it, forcing the commission to “go back to (the) drawing board.”
Usage-based billing has been used by large Internet service providers like Bell for several years and involves users paying additional fees for bandwidth used above levels indicated in their service agreements.
The CRTC decision would see those caps imposed on smaller service providers who pur-chase wholesale services from larger providers. Many of these smaller providers offer sub-scribers downloading and up-loading privileges that often ex-ceed those offered by the larger fi rms.
For the CRTC, the decision was about ensuring internet service providers (ISPs) are able to continue to expand their net-works to meet growing demand
for bandwidth as consumer appetite for downloadable or streaming content increases. In the existing system, according to the commission, heavy In-ternet users are in effect subsi-dized by the vast majority of us-ers who consume signifi cantly less bandwidth.
“We are convinced that In-ternet services are no different than other public utilities, and the vast majority of Internet us-ers should not be asked to subsi-dize a small minority of heavy users,” CRTC chairman Konrad von Finkenstein told the parlia-mentary committee on industry, science and technology on Feb. 3. “For us, it is a question of fun-damental fairness.”
The usage-based billing sys-tem, according to Finkenstein, will also ensure customers of smaller ISPs will not be restrict-ed by the larger provider, who could potentially “limit their wholesale services to the slow-est speeds.”
But according to one indus-try observer, the effects of the CRTC’s decision would have far-reaching consequences.
“The anti-competitive effects of the CRTC’s decision will ulti-mately affect all Canadian con-sumers,” said David Fewer, di-rector of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa.
“The problem is, in (the Jan. 31) decision, the CRTC said Bell can now impose its pricing caps on the customers of indepen-dent ISPs,” Fewer said. “His-torically, independent ISPs were able to engage in their own pric-ing strategies – offer their own a la carte, all-you-can-eat, higher caps, lower caps. They could do what they want. That’s the way competition is supposed to work.”
In an earlier decision, the CRTC had ruled that Bell and other large ISPs that owned their own networks could es-tablish usage-based billing sys-tems.
Fewer said that in a competi-tive marketplace those systems would allow the larger ISPs to counter the effect of the smaller ISPs
“What (this) CRTC decision means is no matter what the in-dependent ISP wants to do, Bell (or other incumbent ISP) can undermine it by effectively im-posing its own pricing strategy on the independent ISP.
“This kills independent ISPs, because they are unable to dif-ferentiate themselves on price from Bell. You just can’t do it. Bell’s pricing is now everyone’s pricing.”
CRTC to reviewInternet billing plans
‘The anti-competitive effects of the CRTC’s decision will ultimately affect all Canadian consumers.’
David Fewer
OTTAWA THIS WEEK STAFF
The 33rd edition of Winter-lude festival kicked off last Friday in the National Capital Region and over the next three weeks, a variety of events will be taking place across Ottawa and Gatineau.
The opening night ceremo-nies, held at the Museum of Civ-ilization in Gatineau, included a celebration of Parks Canada’s 100th anniversary and a fi re-works display.
For those wishing to get around, OC Transpo and the
STO are offering a shuttle ser-vice running between Winter-lude’s offi cial sites on weekends during the festival.
Winterlude visitors can also park for free at the Greenboro park and ride lot and take the O-Train to Carling Station, where they can enjoy the activities at Dow’s Lake or catch the Sno-Bus. Parking is free on week-ends at all OC Transpo park and ride lots during Winterlude.On Saturdays, the Sno-Bus oper-ates from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Sno-Bus stops are situ-ated all along the Rideau Canal, so customers with a Sno-Bus ticket can hop on and off the bus at various sites at their convenience.Customers 12 and older can ride all day with their Sno-Bus ticket, available on the Sno-Bus for just $3.50. Day Passes, STO transfers and STO Sno-Bus tickets will also be accepted on the Sno-Bus. Children under 12 ride for free. For further transit information or travel planning, call OC Transpo at 613-741-4390 or visit octranspo.com.
Photo by Eddie RwemaVisitors admiring glittering blocks of ice turned into stunning works of art at Confederation Park.
Winterlude 2011 gets underway
Dear Editor,The Riverview Park Com-
munity Association (RPCA) appreciates the attention the recent front page article on the Alta Vista Transportation Corridor (AVTC) project drew to this exorbitantly expensive and controversial undertak-ing. The cost of $55 million for the 1.2 kilometre hospital link works out to twice as much per km as it cost to widen Hwy 401 collector lanes through Toronto (adjusted for infl ation) and ap-proximately eight times more per kilometre as the recent twinning of the Sea to Sky Highway in preparation for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
However, we wish to correct some misperceptions which may have been generated by this article and the quotes attributed to councillor Peter Hume. He states that the op-position to the hospital link “is most concentrated within the executive of one community association.” While the RPCA has been a leading critic of the AVTC over the last couple of years, we are not alone. Every other community association in Ottawa’s centre has spoken out against the AVTC over the many years that this has been on the city’s books. This includes the community as-sociations of Sandy Hill, Old Ottawa East and Dalhousie as well groups such as the Cen-tre Coalition, Transport 2000, Sierra Club (Ottawa Chapter), Citizens for Healthy Commu-nities and the Federation of Citizens Association. Many of these organizations have
memberships across the City of Ottawa, and are not confi ned to the borders of the Riverview Park Community Association (RFCA). You may also wish to note that the Ottawa East Community Association joined us in speaking out against the AVTC at the recent Transporta-tion Committee budget consul-tations on Feb. 3, 2011.
The article also adds, “Hume said the other community associations in his ward are supporting the project because they believe in the greater good of the city.” In fact, the RPCA idea of the “greater good” aligns directly with the city’s goal of Smart Growth: sustain-able transportation which moves people effi ciently with-out adding roads to our already transit-challenged network. It does not include an expensive road which is only the fi rst step in a car-centric solution to traf-fi c problems in Ottawa. Fur-thermore, the RPCA actively supports sustainable long-term solutions in many other areas outside our boundaries, includ-ing the 417 overpass near the train station, the Ottawa East canal footbridge, a more trans-parent process for Lansdowne Live, the Laurier Avenue seg-regated bike lane and on-going funding to implement the city’s offi cial pedestrian and cycling plans.
For the greater good of this beautiful city, we hope Mayor Jim Watson and council will make the diffi cult decision to scrap this poorly founded plan once and for all. Ottawa needs to invest our scarce resources
into repairing our aging in-frastructure and growing our light-rail transit network.
Karin Keyes EndemannPresident, Riverview Park
Community Association
•Dear Editor,In last week’s article (Group
opposes Alta Vista Corridor Plan, Feb. 3), Alta Vista Ward Coun. Peter Hume claims that the $55 million hospital link road promotes “the greater good of the city” and that build-ing it is doing “the right thing.”
Does a 1.2 kilometre road that will cost many times more per kilometre than most six-lane highways promote the greater good of the city?
The very expense of this link implies a future investment in a road running the full length of the Alta Vista Transporta-tion Corridor. When you build a commuter road to bring more cars into the city centre, are you doing the right thing?
In the interest of the greater good, councillors and Mayor Jim Watson need to remember our Offi cial Plan’s commitment to Smart Growth and cancel the funding for this road. Ottawa needs to start doing the right thing: repairing infrastructure (many projects were put off with this budget), preserving our green spaces and building effective light-rail transit.
Sherry McPhailRiverview Park
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Dear Editor,Peter Hume is wrong and
wasting taxpayers’ dollars in his advocacy of the proposed Alta Vista Transportation Cor-ridor. He said in your paper, “The opposition to the hospital link is mostly concentrated within the executive of one community association,” but I assure you there has been great opposition from the community of Old Ottawa East and else-where.
How in the world can he conceivably justify the expen-diture of $55.5 million for a 1.2 kilometre section of roadway? Advocates of the enormous expenditure say the new route will reduce traffi c on Smyth Road and Alta Vista Drive, but surely there are less expensive means of reducing traffi c on these routes.
As anybody who reads your
paper knows, Old Ottawa East’s Main Street also has a huge amount of traffi c from the south but we do not believe building a new four lane road, (i.e. the AVTC) is the way to solve the problem.
The proposed transportation corridor will totally isolate the Lees Avenue apartments of Old Ottawa East, destroy some wonderful soccer pitches which are much needed in this city and just dump traffi c onto the already excessively busy Queensway, Nicholas, Lees and elsewhere.
Some many years ago Toronto had enough sense to stop the Spadina expressway. I sure hope that Ottawans will have enough sense to stop the equally ill-conceived Alta Vista Transportation Corridor.
John Dance Old Ottawa East
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Reading the newspapers and watching TV, you might get the impression that storms are big-ger these days. That’s diffi cult
to know, since these things were not always measured with the precision that they are today.
But it’s possible. And it’s also pos-sible that it’s the media, not the storms, that are bigger. Storms are covered like never before, from every angle. CNN has photographs from space; the Weather Network has viewer videos of their driveways and tweets from people who have been looking outside. (The network also briefl y turned its screen red, always a thrill.)
This all comes from the arrival of 24-hour news – all-news channels compet-ing with each other, and news websites doing the same. In the struggle to fi ll all that time and all that cyberspace, any story can become big big big, and the weather is a perfect topic.
The process is particularly evident in the U.S., which doesn’t do very well at dealing with snow but excels at cover-ing it. Last week’s storm was all over the American news networks, and well before it even arrived. It was lucky that the crisis in Egypt received any cover-age at all.
The storm was expected to impact 100 million people, a headline on CNN said, before it began. This in itself was an upgrade from an earlier headline: “Tens of millions of people will be affected.” Meanwhile, split screens showed vari-ous U.S. locations that were already af-fected, and they all looked like Ottawa on a calm day in early December.
“This week’s winter storm could be one for record books,” said a headline, two days before the storm arrived. “Will weather snarl Super Bowl travel?” asked another headline. And just to show that Americans are not alone in fearing the worst, the Toronto Globe and Mail headlined: “Southern Ontario braces for a snowy slammer.”
There is an important journalistic principle at play here, which is that you can produce much better headlines
before the event than after. The storm may not live up to expectations, but the expectations can produce some real excitement.
Will this storm be the worst ever? What if it is? Will the country come to a standstill? Will people freeze? Starve? What is the White House saying?
Television does this particularly well, with breathless reporters in storm gear standing in the middle of cities that are expected to be paralyzed with snow, but are not yet.
The same principle applies to sports writing, where the Super Bowl is pre-dicted to be the best ever, or political writing, where fi reworks are predicted when Parliament resumes. If the Super Bowl is a dud, or Parliament is peaceful (hah!), no one much notices that the pre-dictions are wrong, since the media have already moved on to fevered speculating about other topics.
Killer bees could be returning!For news consumers, it’s fi ne too,
since we would sooner read about a storm coming than about a storm arriv-ing. And for Canadian readers, there is the added smug satisfaction of snicker-ing at the winter rookies in the States.
Even if the storm does not live up to expectations – a safe assumption – the
news media are not to be denied. On the day the “colossal blizzard,” as it was called, fi nally arrived, CNN cut to its man in St. Louis, standing there in his red jacket and hat, in the middle of what appeared to be a nice day, with little wind and just a trace of snow on the ground.
He pointed at the telephone wires above and said that they could be a problem if ice appeared, which it hadn’t yet. Then he walked over to a car and snapped an icicle off the grill, holding it up to the camera. An icicle! In winter! Has this ever happened?
Meanwhile the headlines rumbled on: “Monster storm moves east.” And for all anyone knew, maybe it would.
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Future shock: The storm is always bigger before it arrives
A Barrhaven girl won’t be charged by the Ottawa police after sending them on a wild goose chase last month to track down an alleged sexual attacker.
We need to know why. Police sought the public’s help to fi nd potential witnesses, anyone who had seen suspicious behaviour around the Fallowfi eld Road park-and-ride, the place where the girl said she was dumped after an assault at gunpoint.
The community went into panic mode. Memo-ries of a similar attack on Jennifer Teague have bubbled to the surface. Residents are remem-bering all too clearly, when she was found dead following her disappearance fi ve years ago. Her attacker is serving life in prison.
The details in this latest incident were like those portrayed by a crime writer: a male in his 40s, light brown- or olive-skinned, who spoke English with a French-type accent, approximately fi ve-foot-six, of medium build with a slightly pro-truding stomach and dark, shaggy ear-length hair. He wore a beige suede coat, blue jeans, black work boots, glasses with thin black rims and a gold wed-ding band, said the alleged victim.
Now, weeks later, police said it didn’t happen
– they couldn’t substantiate it – and charges of mischief won’t be laid.
Now the community has changed its focus of anger from the attacker they were ready to tar and feather to the girl who cried wolf… or did she? There are so many questions that are unan-swered: Was the false report driven by a personal vendetta or a lovers’ quarrel? Is she mentally unstable? But most importantly to the commu-nity, we need answers to two key questions: Why wasn’t the girl charged? And what is the cost to the taxpayer when the police investigate a false claim such as this?
A similar incident happened in Hawkesbury when a 15-year-old girl fabricated a story of assault, blamed a boy she went to school with who was subsequently charged. She will appear in court on March 2 to answer to the mischief charges after confessing that it didn’t happen.
It makes us wonder why the police won’t elabo-rate on the specifi cs of the complex investigation, including the costs to the taxpayers. Doesn’t the public have a right to know?
We need answers. Sometimes not knowing only creates more problems.
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Three years ago, I knew noth-ing about fi nances. Every time I heard the term registered retirement savings plan,(RRSP),
I wanted to run for the hills and scratch my eyeballs out. But there’s something new and alluring in our Canadian fi nancial planning tool box that changed my mind: tax-free savings accounts, also known as TFSAs.
If fi nancial acronyms make you yawn and want to turn the page, please try to restrain yourself for a moment because I think TFSAs are going to turn you on.
These sexy little savings accounts were introduced by the federal govern-ment three years ago on the brink of recession to encourage Canadians to sock away a bit more of their disposable income.
Unlike RRSPs, TFSAs are simple and accessible. And for low-to-medium income earners – which are most of us – they’re a great alternative to stashing cash under the mattress, better than RRSPs, in fact.
RRSPs, as you probably comprehend by now, are a way of deferring taxes. But RRSPs only work to your advantage if you save while you’re in a high income tax bracket and withdraw when you are in a low income tax bracket. For anyone who is low income – those on maternity leave, recently graduated or in the early days of a new business, for example – RRSPs are, frankly, a bit of a rip-off. Yes, you defer the tax, but you may end up paying more tax when you withdraw the money in your retirement.
Still, we would all like to save a bit of money for a rainy day, or say, for our pensions (because secretly we have an inkling that the Canada Pension Plan will spontaneously combust before we ever get our hands on it). And that’s where the TFSA comes in.
The TFSA is basically a savings ac-count where all interest earned is tax free. If I put $5,000 into my TFSA and invest it into nice, safe, guaranteed investment certifi cates, (GICs), and earn a modest two per cent this year on my investment (around $100), I don’t have to give the government a percentage of the $100 I earned.
And if I were a riskier investor who put the $5,000 of my TFSA into stocks and doubled my money, I would make $5,000 in investment income and I still wouldn’t have to pay the government a penny.
Put simply, TFSAs are a great way to shelter investment earnings that you may be saving for retirement. But they’re also a great way to save money in the short term. Unlike with RRSPs, I’ve already paid tax on the money I put into my TFSA, so I can access it whenever I want without penalty.
TFSAs are great for me as a small business owner. I regularly have to hold money in trust that will ultimately be turned over to the government – such as my income tax, CPP contributions and the harmonized sales tax (HST) I collect. Well, why not make a bit of money on it? Case in point: I recently purchased three-month-term GICs within my TFSA. Between now and April, I can make a bit of money on my investment, grow my TFSA, and withdraw what I owe to the government at the end of 90 days.
If you’ve fi led a personal income tax return for the past three years, you currently have $15,000 worth of tax-free savings room available to you. I say go for it, if for no other reason than TFSAs are pretty damned sexy. I, for one, am totally sold.
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THIS WEEK’S POLL QUESTION
What do you think about the city’s $1.3-mil-lion segregated bicycle-lane pilot project for Laurier Avenue?
A) It will make cycling safer
B) I’m not sold on it, but I think it’s worth trying for the two-year pilot project
C) Cyclists would be safer if drivers and cyclists learned the rules of the road
D) It’s a waste of money and a hassle to remove parking on Laurier
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What do you think is the best way to help those who are forced to turn to the food bank for assistance?
A) Increase monthly social assistance payments
B) Donate more food and money to the food bank
C) Devise more effective job creation programs
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A seven-year-old North Gower girl got a chance on Feb. 4 to personally thank the three paramedics who saved her life
The three Ottawa-based Ornge para-medics, Marcie Beaudoin, Patrick Auger, and John Holbrook, airlifted Victoria Wilson by helicopter to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario after what initially looked like a simple playground accident back in October took a turn for the worse.
Victoria had been playing in the yard at her school when she suffered a head injury. She was taken to emergency, where she was diagnosed with a con-cussion and sent home by the attending physician.
But by the next morning, Victoria was complaining of a headache and her par-ents called 911. The local EMS team de-termined that she had suffered a much more serious injury.
As her heart rate began to slow and she became increasingly unresponsive, the Ornge paramedics were called in to airlift Victoria to CHEO.
“It is very hard to put it into words how we were feeling, especially when it is your child and the dire situation she was in,” said Roger Wilson, Victoria’s fa-ther.
“It is good to be able to meet the people
that helped save my daughter. Without their services and abilities it might have been a very different situation”
According to Ornge paramedics, Wil-son’s heart had been damaged and her lung had fi lled with fl uid. A subsequent CT scan would reveal that she was suf-fering from a broken bone in her temple, which had cut an artery and was causing blood to pool inside her brain.
“She had all sorts of issues. We had to put an airway into her, and ventilate her to make sure her oxygen levels were ad-equate,” said Auger. “Her condition was critical ... at that point you are dealing with minutes.”
Once at CHEO, Victoria underwent emergency brain surgery to remove a blood clot that was causing her to suffer mini-strokes. She survived her ordeal, and after two more emergency opera-tions, she is fi nally recovering at home.
“Recovery has been amazing, she is doing very well” said Victoria’s mother, Susie Wilson. “She still has a weakness on her left hand, her RMI has come back really good, her heart has healed com-pletely and she is doing really well”
A not-for-profi t, charitable organiza-tion, Ornge is responsible for opera-tions including the contracting of fl ight service providers, medical oversight of all transport medicine paramedics, and screening all transfers of patients be-tween hospitals in Ontario.
EDDIE RWEMA
Last week, the Ottawa YMCA got a massive boost when a local company do-nated $2 million dollars to help support the redevelopment of the organization’s fl agship building on Argyle Avenue.
According to a statement from YMCA-YWCA, the donation from the Taggart Group of Companies is the largest single donation in the 144-year history of the Ot-tawa YMCA.
In honour of the donation, the fa-cility on Argyle Avenue will be re-named the Taggart Family Y once the redevelopment is completed. “The Y has always been a big part of our family,” Jim Taggart, chairman of the Taggart Group and co-chairman of the Y’s capital campaign along with his brother Keith Taggart, said in the state-ment.
“When we were young and growing up in Ottawa, our mother was a board member of the Y, and as kids we took part in camp, childcare, and a number of other programs including swimming.”
“Today, our own children and grandchil-dren are using Y services,” adds Keith. “We hope our support will ensure that quality programming continues to be available to the whole community.”
The family-owned Taggart Group, found-ed in 1948, has worked on numerous road, sewage and building development projects in Ottawa during the past 60-plus years.The Taggart Family Y will feature new kids, youth and family zones, modern-ized fi tness facilities with state-of-the-art equipment, expanded child care, a refurbished aquatics centre, revitalized squash and racquetball courts, and some new learning and skills acquisition spac-es, among others.
“We are grateful to the Taggart Family for this historic gift,” said Nancy Cook-Johnson, chairwoman of the Y’s board of directors. “From the start, they have given outstanding leadership to the cam-paign. Their gift is a true refl ection of their commitment to the Y.”
The National Capital Region YMCA-YWCA is a charitable association dedi-cated to improving the quality of life for children, youth, adults and families through programs that build spirit, mind and body.
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Photo by Eddie RwemaOrnge critical care fl ight paramedics Patrick Auger, left, John Holbrook and Marcie Be-audoin meet with Victoria Wilson and her father Roger only months after the team airlifted the 7-year-old to CHEO, saving her life after she injured her head during a playground accident.
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Ottawa’s Association of Com-munity Organizations for Re-form Now is getting ready to of-fer free tax clinics that area set to begin on Feb.7 for families of low to moderate incomes.
This is the third year the or-ganization, known as ACORN, has offered this service. In 2010, they helped over 660 low income individuals fi le their 2009 tax returns. The service also offers help in fi lling back returns as well.
ACORN hopes this service will help low income families realize the best tax return pos-sible. ACORN volunteer Wayne Mahoney wants to make sure as many people as possible fi nd out about this free service.
“We have found that people who are low income haven’t heard about us and this time around we wanted to make sure people knew who we were and the kind of free services that we offer,” Mahoney said.
ACORN estimates the ser-vice has saved clients close to $113,000.
Recently retired, this will be the fi rst year that Mahoney will be using the service.
“I was happy to hear about it myself. Over the past years I have spent close to $200 dollars every year and it will be great to save that money this year,” Ma-honey added.
“It is important that we get the word out for those who need it.”
About two years ago, Andrea Thomas, a single parent of three, discovered the ACORN service. She had spent hundreds of dollars in the past getting her taxes prepared.
“It is great that it is a free ser-vice. You don’t have to go to far from your home,” Thomas said.
Thomas now volunteers with ACORN to help book appoint-ments.
She tries to volunteer every day, whether it is in the offi ce or handing out fl yers, which some-thing she can do with her kids.
ACORN hopes services such as these help change some low income people’s situation one dollar at a time.
“Book as soon as possible be-cause the spaces have been fi ll-ing up pretty quickly,” Mahoney said.
The clinic is booking appoint-ments now and will open their clinic to the public on Feb. 7 and the clinic will run until May 21.
ACORN offers free tax clinicsEDDIE RWEMA
After nearly 35 years of dedi-cation to youth crime prevention a Canterbury-area resident has been awarded Ontario’s highest honour.
Louise Logue, an expert ad-viser in the fi eld of crime pre-vention, youth intervention and criminal diversion was among 30 people named to the order for their contributions to the arts, justice, science, medicine, his-tory, politics, philanthropy, and the environment on Jan.27.
“It is a great honour, and one that I will cherish forever,” said Logue.
As an board member and ad-viser to numerous youth service agencies in Ottawa, Logue has advocated for youth and families in need of timely and meaning-ful services.
“For close to 35 years I have worked to ensure every child is blessed with at least one par-ent that cares, that a child has a right to a dream, have hopes and right to education,” she said.
Soon after graduating from nursing school in 1977, Logue started working with at-risk youth in a variety of settings.
In 1992, she joined the Ottawa Police Services and became the co-ordinator of youth interven-tion and diversion where she developed strategies for youth in confl ict with the law.
“While with police, I helped develop a risk assessment screening tools and trained po-lice offi cers on how to be able to identify the risk factors that lead kids towards crime.
“The instrument allows offi -cers to identify kids that are at risk or in danger of pre-offend-ing and get them services that they need.”
In addition to her professional achievements, Logue has raised her two sons as a single parent, one who is currently a lawyer and the other a police offi cer.
“This award means a lot to me, my family and community. To be able to be of service to my com-munity means I have to have a strong family unit and support which my family and communi-ty have generously given me.”
Previously, Logue has been recognized as a pioneer in youth intervention and acknowledged for her deep compassion for the welfare of young.
In 2007, Louise was the recipi-ent of the Governor General of Canada’s Order of Merit of the Police Forces and last October, Logue was appointed as a justice of the peace.
“To have a community as beau-tiful as Ottawa (that) is always willing to engage, I learned a lot and that prepared me for who I would become one day and I al-ways wanted to become a justice of the peace,” Logue noted.
The Order of Ontario was cre-ated in 1986 to “recognize Ontar-io residents who have achieved the highest level of individual excellence and achievement in any fi eld.”
Photo by Eddie RwemaSince 1991, Supreme courts in Ontario and Quebec rely on Lou-ise Logue’s expertise in the fi eld of behavioural pharmacology.
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Around 50 athletes, coaches and offi cials from Ottawa are set to take off for the 2011 Canada Winter Games in Nova Scotia Feb. 11-27 and a big chunk of them will be carrying ringette sticks.
Five out of the 16 players on Team Ontario’s playing roster – plus two more alternates – are from the area and will compete in a seven-day tournament dur-ing the fi rst week of the Games.
“I’m defi nitely excited, and nervous for the girls,” says Car-rie Lugg, an Ontario assistant coach and Canterbury High School grad. “The hours and hard work they put in is all com-ing together now. It’s been a re-ally long road for them.”
It’s taken countless hours and many, many years for the under-20 ringette athletes to reach the Canada Winter Games level. The Team Ontario selection process began around a year-and-a-half ago, with the players training to-gether on a few occasions in the summer months and multiple times since the season kicked off in the fall.
Team Ontario attended prepa-ratory Challenge Cup competi-tions in Calgary and Pickering, Ont., where they played Alberta in both fi nals, winning once and losing the other.
“I think everyone goes in with the intention of going for gold, and that’s defi nitely ours,” notes Lugg,
Glebe Collegiate Institute grad Alex Bateman, who’s scored 16
goals and 16 assists in 17 games playing in the National Ringette League this season, has the poten-tial to be a major star at the games – a fact no one knows better than Lugg, who plays alongside Bate-man with the Ottawa Ice.
“It’s funny – we’re teammates on one team and then I coach her on the other,” Lugg smiles. “She’s defi nitely a strong leader and doesn’t need the ‘C’ to get her message across.”
John McCrae Secondary School grad Kelsey Youldon, a Wilfrid Laurier University stu-dent who plays for the NRL’s Waterloo Wildfi re, also fi gures to play a prominent role as another experienced member of Team Ontario, while St. Patrick’s student Kali MacAdam, St. Jo-seph grad Natalie Crouch and
Ashbury College student Sarah Gross represent some of the squad’s younger talent.
The Gloucester Concordes are also sending an astonishing nine out of 18 Team Ontario athletes to compete in short- and long-track speedskating at the games.
Coach Lynne Morrison will lead a group that includes Con-cordes club members Julien Col-lin-Demers, Vincent De Haitre, Camille Bean, Hannah Morri-son, Philippe Bergeron, Emily Rendell-Watson, Isabelle Weide-mann, Gabrielle St-Germain and Cambridge’s Keri Morrison.
Other Ottawa-area athletes competing are: curlers Lauren Horton, Cassandra Lewin, An-drea Sinclair and Jessica Arm-strong, Andrew Bursey (biath-lon), Daxxon Gill (wheelchair
basketball), James Pintea (table tennis), Philippe Aurora (box-ing), Nicholas Baptiste (hock-ey), Brad Barker (alpine ski-ing), Kathleen Connelly (alpine skiing guide), Oliver Gervais (short-track speedskating), Sa-mantha Glavine (fi gure skating), Margarita Gorbounova (cross-country skiing), John Kirby (cross-country skiing guide), Quincy Korte-King (snowboard-ing), Vesta Mather (cross-coun-try skiing guide), Lisa Nasu-Yu (fi gure skating), Erikka Niemi (biathlon), Joseph Rogers (bad-minton), Alana Thomas (cross-country skiing) and Shannon Zheng (table tennis).
More than 2,700 athletes will compete in 20 sports at this year’s games, which are held ev-ery four years.
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February is an exciting time in the ByWard Market. The 20th Annual ByWard Market Stew Cook-Off kicked off Winterlude with a beautful day of family fun and delicious stew on George St. This event, organized by the ByWard Market BIA, raised $5,165 for the Youth Services Bureau’s Street Outreach Program.
Not only is it the month of Winterlude, it’s also Valentine’s Day and the businesses are really pulling out the stops this year with delicious menus, great parties, and sales too!
There’s a wide array of Valentine’s Day dinner options for every taste and budget. Prix fi xe menus range from $35 for two people to $85 each, and you can get everything from comfort food to gourmet cuisine by some of Ottawa’s best-known chefs. Among these offerings: Executive Chef Michael Hay of Courtyard Restaurant will be featuring a 65$ prix-fi xe menu that includes such delicacies as Fois Gras Torchon, Champagne Sorbet, Grilled Beef Tenderloin and Goat’s Cheese Cheesecake. Kinki’s $75 menu includes Lobster Bisque and Green Tea Rack of Lamb, while at Stella Osteria you can taste Fried Quail and Caramelized Seabass in their $75 menu. These are just examples of the many Valentine’s dinner options available in the ByWard Market – for more options and details, please visit www.byward-market.com.
For those who prefer to impress their sweetheart with their culinary talents, Saslove’s Meat Market will be featuring specials on Rabbit Loin stuffed with Duck Sausage, and Veal and Beef Tenderloin.
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MATTHEW JAY
Two more Ottawa South United acad-emy teams will be blazing trails for the city soccer scene in April when the club’s ’95 and ’96 girls’ squads travel to Texas to take part in the inaugural Dallas Interna-tional Girls Cup.
Coming on the heels on an announce-ment that a pair of the club’s Force Acad-emy boys’ teams have been invited to take part in the prestigious Dallas Cup along-side some of the top youth teams in the world, the latest announcement adds an-other feather to OSU’s cap.
“The fact that it’s being run by the Dal-las Texans, which is the No. 1 (youth) club in the United States, the fact that Nike is sponsoring it – it’s a big deal,” said Ot-tawa South United general manager Jim Lianos.
The tournament, which runs from April 19 to 25, will feature clubs such as Eclipse Select Soccer Club based in Lib-ertyville, Illinois, the Colorado Storm, FC Dallas, the Alberta Soccer Associa-tion provincial team, Crewe Alexandra ladies FC as well as teams from Norway and Denmark.
“The quality is going to be very good,” said Lianos.
He added that this is yet another oppor-tunity for the players to receive exposure to both professional and college scouts.
The ’95 girls’ team recently participated in the Disney’s Soccer Showcase tourna-ment in Florida in late December, which also attracts top teams from Canada, the United States and Europe.
Both teams compete locally in the On-tario Soccer League. Registration is cur-rently underway at Ottawa South United, and tryouts for the Force Academy teams as well as the club’s other competitive teams get underway on Feb. 14 at the
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MICHELLE NASH
The city began the removal of more than 700 ash trees on Feb. 3 to help stall the spread of the emerald ash borer.
The ash borer is an insect na-tive to eastern Asia and was fi rst discovered in Ottawa in 2008. The city of Ottawa implemented an ash borer management study to treat and remove infected trees. To date, at least 500 trees have been protected with Tree-Azin, the inoculation registered for control in Canada.
The removal of the trees must happen during the winter when the insect is dormant. At a inoc-ulation and removal demonstra-tion on an ash-tree-lined street in the east end, River Ward Coun. Maria McRae, chair-woman of the environmental services committee said the city will try to save as many trees as they can, but in some cases the infestation of the ash borer has become too severe.
“The bottom line is that we can try to save the tree for a short period of time, but at the end of the day it is very likely that every single ash tree that is affected with this in the city will
have to be taken down,” she said.The infected trees have been marked and homeowners who have an ash tree on their prop-erty were informed by the city of the potential removal or treatments of the trees. Close to
700 trees will be removed from 23 different areas in the city. In 2010, the city removed 150 trees. Since then, the infestation has grown worse and the city has seen the need to combat the is-sue aggressively.
Jason Pollard, who works with the city of Ottawa’s forest-ry services, said the important thing is to continue to plant new trees so when the time comes to remove the ash tree, there will still be a tree left standing.
“We would like to encourage residents to look into tree plant-ing,” Pollard said.
The city has been inter-plant-ing as they get prepared to take down some of the ash trees, planting a maturing tree along-side the distressed ash tree.
Pollard said forest services has estimated it will cost $1.2 million dollars to re-plant the affected areas.
Four community associa-tions in the Rideau-Rockcliffe area plan on working together to save their ash trees. Headed by Lindenlea’s community as-sociation member Dean Frank, the associations want to get a group rate to inoculate the ash trees with the TreeAzin. “We want to save as many trees as we can for as many years as we can,” Frank said.
Alta-Vista councillor Peter Hume was impressed by the Rideau-Rockcliffe community association’s initiative.
“Bravo to them. That is the kind of citizen engagement we need to help fi ght this issue.”
Hume’s ward has 111 identi-fi ed ash trees which may be re-moved. Hume plans on speaking with the association in his ward to also try to save some trees.
City starts preventative removal of 700 ash trees
Photo by Michelle NashJason Pollard, a forester with the city of Ottawa, demonstrates what an infected ash tree looks like as the city began the removal of close to 700 trees starting on Feb. 3.
LAURA MUELLER
The cities of Ottawa and Gatineau are expected to put the brakes on the Nation-al Capital Commission’s plan to create a bicycle-sharing program.
Ottawa city hall staffers are planning to recommend against pitching in to set up the program, according to transporta-tion committee chairwoman Marianne Wilkinson.
The Kanata North councillor said there is little support for the multi-million dol-lar cost of setting up the program, which the NCC hoped to start this spring.
The service would allow people to rent a bike for short periods or buy a subscrip-tion to use the service on a monthly or yearly basis. Five hundred bicycles were to be available at stations around the cap-ital region, mainly in downtown, and the bikes could be returned to any location.
The program was meant to “lay the groundwork for a broader, more progres-sive initiative” to promote environmen-tally sustainable transportation in the capital, an NCC spokesperson said in De-cember.
A 2009 feasibility study found the capi-tal cost to purchase the bicycles and set up the service could be between $3 and $3.9 million.
That cost was to be shared between the NCC, Ottawa and Gatineau, NCC spokes-woman Jasmine Leduc said.
But Gatineau has already pulled out of the plan, Wilkinson said, and Ottawa will
likely do the same.“There is a recommendation that we
not go ahead with that because the costs have skyrocketed,” Wilkinson said. “Staff are saying we cannot go ahead with it un-der the current proposal.”
She said council had originally been told the cost to set up the program would be about $500,000 for the city’s share, but that estimate had gone up into the mil-lions of dollars.
Ottawa city staff will bring a recom-mendation to the city’s transportation committee, likely at its next meeting, Wilkinson said.
If councillors support that recommen-dation, it will mean the city won’t provide funding at this time, she said.
There is no money earmarked for the project in the city’s draft 2011 budget, which the transportation committee signed off on last week. Council is set to approve the fi nal budget at the beginning of March.
“(The) fi nal decision to go forward this year with bike share among all parties has not yet been reached,” city spokes-woman Jocelyne Turner said in an email. Also, no fi nal decision has been made on which projects will be given money from a $2 million “strategic initiatives” fund-ing program, she added.
Leduc said the NCC’s negotiations about the project with Ottawa and Gatin-eau are ongoing.
“This is still a priority for the NCC,” she said. “It’s still premature to talk about Plan B.”
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MATTHEW JAY
After picking up points in their previ-ous four games, including a 6-1 win over league-leaders Cornwall on Jan. 29, the stage was set for the Ottawa Jr. Senators to pick up two more when the second-from-bottom Cumberland Grads paid a visit to the Jim Durrell Complex on Feb. 5.
But in the Central Canada Junior Hock-ey League, where little separates teams outside the top three of Cornwall, Pem-broke and Brockville, it’s never quite so simple and a stale effort from the home team saw the Grads walk away 3-1 win-ners.
“In this league, any team can beat any team. That was a prime example tonight,” said the Jr. Senators captain, defenceman Liam Burtt. “When you play the bottom-feeders, you’ve got to get those points and we’re not.”
Ottawa lost 3-2 after a shootout the pre-vious night in Kemptville to the 73’s, an-other team in the hunt for a playoff berth.
“We lost to Kemptville, we lost to Cum-berland and it just seems that we’re play-ing down to their level,” said Burtt.
Jr. Senators coach Peter Howes said he was disappointed with his team’s efforts to pick up points in the playoff race with only 10 games remaining. Ottawa is two points behind Kanata for the fi nal CCHL playoff spot, but have lost one of their games in hand on the Blazers.
“I give (Cumberland) credit – they came with energy,” said Howes. “But you know what? We didn’t. Two nights in a row we didn’t.”
Play swung back and forth during the opening period, with both teams cre-ating odd-man rushes, but not seeing many good scoring opportunities until the Grads broke the deadlock with 4:30 remaining as Fabian Walsh notched his 20th goal of the season.
Cumberland increased their lead just over a minute into the second when de-
fenceman Jacob Lewis scored his sixth of the season.
After the goal, the Grads took control of the game, penning Ottawa in its own end for much of the period.
Even when the Jr. Senators were hand-ed a series of three powerplay opportu-nities later in the second, they couldn’t fi nd a way past Cumberland goalie Robin Billingham until 1:01 into the third when Jr. Senators defenceman Owen Werthner clawed back a goal for the home side, his fourth goal of the season.
Ottawa pressed on for a tying goal, but the Grads sealed the game midway through the period when Cumberland forward Ben Hartley was wide open the right of Eddie Zdolshek’s net and slotted home a rebound for his third goal of the season.
Ottawa continued pressing and had a couple of gilt-edged chances from for-ward Joey House turned aside by Billing-ham, but a comeback wasn’t in the cards for the Jr. Senators.
Ottawa had a few days to recharge be-fore they were to face the Smiths Falls Bears at home on Feb. 9.
Despite their tepid play the past two games, Burtt remains confi dent the Jr. Senators can push on to a playoff berth.
“We have a very good chance. Smiths Falls seems to be sliding; we’ve got a cou-ple of games in hand. If we just start get-ting points, even if we go to overtime and get one point, we should be fi ne. Kanata’s playing well, Kemptville’s playing well, but it’s probably going to come down to the last week of the season.”
If they’re going to make it in to the fi nal eight, Ottawa will have to see a return to form from their top three scorers Conor Brown, Drew Anderson and Dalen Hedg-es. The trio has only one goal between them in the past four games.
The Jr. Senators will play the Hawkes-bury Hawks at home on Feb. 12 before travelling to Cumberland on Feb. 15 for a rematch against the Grads.
Playoff push stutters as Jr. Sens fall to Grads
Photo by Matthew JayMembers of the Ottawa Jr. Senators look on as they wait for play to resume during their game on Feb. 5 against the Cumberland Grads at the Jim Durrell Complex. The Grads won the game 3-1.
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• JAN. 31 TO FEB. 21Toddlertime at the Alta Vista branch of the Ot-tawa Public Library. Stories, rhymes and songs for babies and a parent or caregiver. Ages 18-35 months. Mondays at 10:30 a.m. (30 min.)
• FEB. 1 TO 22Storytime at the Alta Vista Branch of the Ot-tawa Public Library, 2516 Alta Vista. Stories and rhymes and songs for preschoolers and a par-ent or caregiver. Ages 3-6. (Bilingual) Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. (45 min.) 613-737-2837
• FEB. 13Heaven and Earth will perform spiritual Tibetan music in tune with singing bowls, bells and gongs on Sunday, Feb. 13 from 7 to 8 p.m. at The Garden of Light, 1099 Bank St. (near Sunnyside). The concert is free of charge, but space limited. Please call 613-680-5727 to reserve your place.
Valentine Dessert/Card Party at St. Ignatius Martyr Parish, located at 518 Donald St. The party will go from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Delicious desserts, fun card games and lots of prizes. Tickets are $5 at the door and there is plenty of free parking. For more information contact 613-748-6093
Come out to the Eastview Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, 294 Cyr Avenue. Weekend entertainment includes The Ladies’ Auxiliary Valentine’s Dance with Al Visser on Friday, February 11 from 8 PM to Midnight, and Terry McCann on Saturday, February 12 from 7 to 11 PM and on Sunday, February 13 from 4 to 8 PM. Free Admission. For more information, contact the Branch at 613-741-9539. www.rcl462.ca
• FEB. 16 Heritage Ottawa’s Sixth Annual Bob and Mary Anne Phillips Memorial Lecture: Changing Ap-
proaches to Theory and Practice in the Conser-vation Field: A Willowbank Perspective starting at 7 p.m. The event will take place at the Old Firehall, 260 Sunnyside Ave., east of Bank St. The Willowbank School in Niagara-on-the-Lake offers a new direction for professional training in conservation. Julian Smith will discuss the school’s philosophy and its use of a cultural landscape framework to shape emerging trends in the conservation fi eld. Free admis-sion. This lecture will be in English. For more information contact 613-230-8841 or www.heritageottawa.org
• FEB. 20At 12:30 p.m., Cathedral Arts will present Dr. Karolyn Smardz Frost, award-winning archae-ologist and historian at a Luncheon Lecture. Her talk, “Steal Away Home”, is taken from the title of her upcoming book, “Steal Away Home: Letters to a Fugitive Slave”.
Coro Vivo Ottawa ( director Antonio Llaca) presents Armonia Rinascimentale: European Madrigals from the Renaissance era. Sunday February 20, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. Tabaret Hall, University of Ottawa, 550 Cumberland St. Adults $15, free for children 14 and under. Tick-ets available at Leading Note, at the door or by calling 613-841-3902 www.corovivoottawa.ca
• FEB. 21The First Annual Rainbow Family Day has activi-ties for the whole family including a pancake breakfast and interactive family entertainment by Company of Fools, Salamander Theatre, Dr Kaboom’s Mini Mobile Circus, Future Shock, and many more local artists. The event will also feature an outdoor family skate with the Tim Horton’s/Rogers TV Community Cruiser, a family swim, outdoor activities and giveaways for dogs in the local dog park sponsored by Wagmore, family portraits and event photog-raphy by Natalie Lyle Photography. The event goes from10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Jack Purcell Com-munity Centre 320 Jack Purcell Lane (off Elgin St. at Lewis).
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From LAURIER page 1Representatives from a number of ho-
tels in the area, including the Lord Elgin and Hotel Indigo, also wanted to keep the parking. Dan Smythe, who represents the Lord Elgin Hotel, among other hotels, sug-gested the bike lane would cause a back-up in bus traffi c in front of the hotels, po-tentially even impacting bus routes along Wellington Avenue.
Many of the people who spoke out against the bicycle lane worried that it wouldn’t make cyclists safer, and could put them in danger.
“This project isn’t about safety, it’s about perceived safety,” said Eric Wright of Responsible Cycling Coalition, who ar-gued that efforts would be better spent on educating cyclists and drivers on how to share the road.
Other cycling groups, such as Citizens for Safe Cycling, argued the bike lane is a good idea. While Alex deVries, the group’s vice president, originally wanted to see a bike lane on Somerset Street, he now says Laurier is a better option because there are no buses, which makes it safer.
Charles Akben-Marchand, former pres-ident of Citizens for Safe Cycling and the
current president of the Centretown Citi-zens Community Association, is against segregated bike lanes in general, but said the plan makes sense for Laurier.
He urged councillors to be bold and try out the lane because the benefi ts will be obvious once it is in place.
“It can make cycling in this city enjoy-able instead of a battle with traffi c,” said Akben-Marchand, one the few who cycled to the meeting on a day when 15 centime-tres of snow fell on the city.
The bicycle lane will lead to more traffi c congestion, said Colin Simpson, the city’s senior manager of transportation plan-ning, but the impact will be minor. It takes about 4.5 minutes to drive that section of Laurier now, and the addition of a bicycle lane could tack 30 seconds onto that trip.
That traffi c congestion actually makes conditions on Laurier “textbook perfect” for a bike lane, Simpson said. Vehicles move slowly, only about 30 to 45 km/h. The sidewalks are lined with pedestrians; in fact, there are likely more pedestrians than vehicles on Laurier, which leads city staff to believe there would be even more cyclists if there was a safer option for them.
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