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Kids get new link to sports Erin McCracken

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A new partnership has been forged to give kids in more neighbourhoods a chance to realize their potential.

The new not-for-profit Ottawa Community Sport Media Team is now working with the Ottawa Community Housing Foundation’s Rec Link program to give kids living in three community housing neighbourhoods free access and transportation to recreational programs, camps and sports clubs, including those at higher competitive levels.

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MELISSA MURRAY around both cities or their incoming LRT systems.

Just like Kitchener and Waterloo, this community wasn’t built on a grid system – my GPS will be getting a good workout in the next few months.

However, maybe Ottawa is easier to navigate. I have yet to find a street that goes both north, south, east and west, like the infamous Weber Street which crosses Kitchener and Waterloo.

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After covering the story of a plump potbelly pig that would squeeze through a dog door to beat the heat, residents concerned about incoming wind turbines, and anniversaries of farm equipment companies, I made a move east.

At the Kitchener Post, I worked as a regional government reporter covering everything from wastewater treatment plants to the construction of the region’s light-rail transit line. I also took an interest in telling the stories of the local homeless and low-income population and the region’s struggle to provide affordable and supportive housing.

The best part of my job is that I get to tell people’s stories. I get to hear about residents’ triumphs and tragedies, and tell them.

I’m looking forward to learning more about Ottawa West – its landmarks, hotspots and community associations. And I’ll need your help because most of the city is brand new to me, after making the move to the city just last week.

But as I made my way to work this Monday, for my first day with the Ottawa West News, I couldn’t help but notice a major similarity between this community and the one I came from.

And it has nothing to do with the numerous cranes popping up

Heading into its annual distracted driving campaign, the Ontario Provincial Police confirmed that 2015 marked the third consecutive year that driver distraction as a causal factor exceeded all other categories of road deaths on OPPpatrolled roads.

Last year, 69 people died in road crashes in which driver distraction was a factor, compared to 61 speedrelated, 51 seat belt-related and 45 alcohol/drug-related deaths.

Numerous studies have been conducted on the risks associated with distracted driving – in particular, texting or talking on a cell phone while driving. Many of these stud-

ies have confirmed that this form of distracted driving is as dangerous as driving while impaired by alcohol or drugs.

Each year for the past three years, OPP officers have laid about 20,000 distracted driving charges throughout the province, which is more than double the number of impaired driving charges they laid over the same three-year period.

Over and above cell phone use, the OPP continues to lay numerous charges every year against motorists whose driving ability is compromised by other distractions such as eating, self-grooming or tending to kids in the back seat, to name a few.

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Goal for 2015: reach at least 50 kids in 3 communities Continued from page 1

“You might play basketball in your after-school program, but if we link you up to a basketball club that are the experts in youth athlete development, we can really put them on the path to succeeding in sport,” said Dan Plouffe, Kanatabased executive director of the sport media team, its Camps Project for youth-in-need and editor of the Ottawa Sportspage newspaper.

“Dan is out there hitting the pavement and meeting people and these clubs and doing stories on the various athletes,” Tara Howlett, community engagement director of the Ottawa Community Housing Foundation and Rec Link, which helps link kids, ages six to 18, to sports and recreation programs through bursaries.

“We each had a piece of what the other was missing,” she said.

Through the new partnership, clubs that offer free positions to OCH youth through the media team’s Camps Project, which stands for Connecting Athletes of All Means to Paths in Sport, can advertise for free in Plouffe’s sports publication.

Plouffe also has strong connections with Ottawa’s elite sports clubs, the missing link Rec Link needed.

“We couldn’t level up kids because we didn’t have those connections,” Howlett said, adding that Rec Link is likewise able to provide Plouffe with insight on the com-

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Tara Howlett, community engagement director of the Ottawa Community Housing Foundation and Rec Link, and Dan Plouffe, executive director of the new Ottawa Community Sport Media Team, say their new partnership will give more kids living in Ottawa Community Housing neighbourhoods, such as Britannia Woods, access to sports and other recreational activities. plex barriers families face and the communities they live in.

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The goal now is to reach at least 50 kids in Rochester Heights, Britannia Woods and Carson Grove this year.

Since 2011, more than 500 kids in the Dalhousie area, which includes Rochester Heights, have enjoyed sports and other recreational activities through Social Rec Connect, as Rec Link was known until last year when it joined the housing foundation.

The hope is that the program can one day be available to all 15 Ottawa Community Houses, Howlett said.

“What we realized is a lot of the families that come from lowincome backgrounds, they have a lot of complex barriers that make it difficult for their children to get connected to recreation,” she said.

These neighbourhoods are home to many single parents, big families with multiple children and families on a tight budget that may be challenged to pay for sports registration and equipment fees, Howlett said, adding that some families are challenged by language barriers, while others may not be able to easily transport their kids to extracurricular activities.

“So we’re really looking forward to making a difference in those three communities,” said Howlett.

“And that’s where we need the help of other community partners, and sports clubs and recreation service providers.”

The foundation and the sport media team accept donations from businesses and individuals for the project.

Organizers hope additional sports clubs and recreation programs will provide free spots to kids, as well as organize carpooling groups and offer mentoring.

For more on Rec Link, visit reclink.ca, and for details about the Ottawa Community Sport Media Team, go to ottawasportscamps.ca.

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Committee votes in favour of starting work on ‘smart city’ Jennifer McIntosh

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The future is now, heard the city’s IT sub committee on March 31.

A motion by Kitchissippi Coun.

Jeff Leiper was passed, aimed at forming a working group to start

work smarter, not harder.

In some cases, it’s already in place – such as the city’s LED street lights, or smart meters used by Hydro Ottawa, but there’s much more potential.

Beacon Hill Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney said he’s seen an innovative garbage can called “big belly” that

making Ottawa smarter.

It’s more than just working on creating a fibre optic network, said Saad Bashir, director of economic development.

The right plan would include physical infrastructure and innovations that would help municipal staff

communicates with the dump truck.

“It can say, ‘don’t pick me up today, I am not full,’” he said.

Tierney said he’s worked with Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley before on trying to get new technology such as smart garbage cans piloted before, but the attempts have fallen flat.

But Bashir said thanks to the city’s Innovation Pilot Program – part of the economic development department – which was “quietly” introduced last year, there are funds available to run pilot projects such as that one.

Leiper’s original motion included naming members of the working group, with people such as Couns.

Marianne Wilkinson and Rick Chiarelli on the list, as well as the city’s legal and economic development de-

partment.

But Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder said she’d like to see councillors who have worked on innovative ideas be part of the conversation.

“Our time is now, actually our time is yesterday,” she said. “We need people around the table who don’t need to be brought up to speed.”

After the amendment to his motion, Leiper said he and committee chair Chiarelli plan on identifying who should be in a working group.

“It’s really about defining what is a smart city and identifying resources,” he said, adding looking for funding to develop the fibre optic infrastructure will certainly be part of that.

Leiper said he hopes to see something concrete in the next eight months.

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Still two sets of rules for the same service

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he City of Ottawa’s review of its car for hire polices and regulations gets one thing right, and a lot that is still wrong.

Yes, it’s 2016 so the notion that you can stop a service such as the app-based Uber ride share operation is impossible.

Once the genie is out of the bottle, it’s impossible to put it back in.

But the recommendations that were put forward on March 31 after the city released its review of the taxi and limousine bylaw treat two things that are essentially the same thing differently, with two sets of rules for what are both, in fact, taxi services.

There are nearly 70 recommendations in the report – one of them being to allow ride-sharing programs, such as Uber to operate legally.

That is the thing the city got right.

What it got wrong is to treat Uber and the rules its drivers must operate under, differently from what taxi companies must adhere to.

Uber calls itself a “ride sharing” service, but the reality is that Uber operates exactly like

a taxi service except for the fact that it wants to call itself a “ride sharing” service. The difference in how these businesses operate is semantics.

It is perfectly understandable that the traditional taxi industry is fuming over what the city is recommending.

Coun. Diane Deans can say the city has “taken the handcuffs off the taxi industry,” but the traditional taxi industry still must follow rules and operate under a different set of regulations than its direct competition.

“Nothing about this is fair,” said Amrik Singh, who is the president of Unifor Local 1688, which represents taxi drivers. “The rules are supposed to be the same for everyone.”

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When a springtime pond is more than just a pond

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here’s a pond that’s not supposed to be there in the park.

Every year around this time it appears - a goodsized little lake, maybe a foot deep at its deepest point, formed by melting snow. As it shrinks it begins to be more like a giant puddle.

Some day, maybe, somebody will do something about it.

But I hope not. Kids wade into it. Dogs love to run through it. They drag sticks into the middle of it and drop them. It is interesting to ponder why they do that.

Gulls and even ducks float on it. And when the pond freezes over, as it can in these uncertain temperatures, people even skate on it.

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CHARLES GORDON Funny Town unpredictable, unorganized. It just appears and the neighbourhood makes use of it, one way or another. When it freezes, people appear with shovels and clear it for skating. Nobody phones city hall asking for assistance.

Spontaneity is a pretty rare thing in our day and age, especially for kids. They have a range of activities mapped out for them by their busy parents.

There’s nothing wrong with that.

Why shouldn’t kids learn to dance, play piano, play hockey, baseball or soccer?

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And because facilities are limited and time is scarce, activities have to be organized.

When you see boys and girls playing hockey, baseball or soccer, now, it is probable that they have team uniforms on.

There’s a lot to be said for that, but there’s something to be said also for kids just throwing a ball or playing soccer in the park, with no referees and their own rules.

That’s why the instant pond is so nice. There are no rules for a giant puddle, except for the ones you make up. There are no uniforms, except for rubber boots, no equipment, except for sticks you throw in for the dogs to chase.

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ence in our daily lives, you’ll fear that the pond/giant puddle’s days are numbered. A concerned parent might call city hall and demand that it be filled in. A kid might catch cold or the standing water might breed mosquitos, or something. Sports organizations might not like the unevenness of the field and ask that it be leveled out.

In a way it’s a miracle that something like that has not taken place.

It’s also a miracle that some expert on recreation didn’t put up a play structure there and then take the play structure down later because of safety concerns.

Those things could still happen. But they haven’t so far. The pond has been in existence for quite a few years now, arriving just before spring, disappearing some time in May. Maybe it’s because city hall has better things to do, higher priorities than a low spot in a park. It’s EDITORIAL: MANAGING EDITOR: Theresa Fritz, 613-221-6225 theresa.fritz@metroland.com NEWS EDITOR: Nevil Hunt, nevil.hunt@metroland.com, 613-221-6235 REPORTER/PHOTOGRAPHER: Steph Willems steph.willems@metroland.com - 613-221-6161

also possible that, each year, by the time somebody decides to do something about it, the pond is gone. You can see them pulling up, with their trucks, unloading lots of equipment, only to find that there is nothing there.

It could be any of these things.

Or maybe, heaven forbid, it could be common sense. Stranger things have happened.

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When you’re sad, lonely and depressed, do you reach for the ice-cream bucket, the ohso-sweet cliché of TV sitcoms and RomComs? When you’re angry, do you opt for bitter and salty foods?

Or could it be that eating bitter foods made you angry in the first place?

We think of the connection between food and body as a modern phenomenon.

But for at least 1,000 years of human history, philosophers have examined the link between mood and diet.

“Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food,” is a quote attributed to Hippocrates, a Greek physician, who lived 400 years before Christ.

Over the last several decades, researchers have attempted to make links between food and the mind to

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One piece of conclusive evidence from the research is that food, generally, does affect the way we think and feel, even in the moment. It can bring good memories to the surface or make us feel angry.

Using food as medicine, however, falls short because, inversely, our mood also affects the way we experience food.

Because food affects people and people affect

food in many different ways, there is no clear way to cure depression, PMS or anxiety purely through diet. In fact, many of the theories out there seem to contradict one another.

And yet, back in the late 1980s, a couple of scientists surnamed Wurtman posited that eating a diet rich in carbohydrates could have a positive impact on seasonal affective disorder, PMS and obesity. Protein, on the other hand, they argued, decreased serotonin levels and contrib-

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In a series of tests on lab rats in 2012, Nancy Dess, a professor of psychology at Occidental College in Los Angeles and her colleagues set out to prove that some of us are genetically wired to be more sensitive to certain tastes. They concluded that rats, who are more sensitive to bitterness, were more stressed out and subversive than those who appreciated taste. The more sensitive to bitter tastes, the more nervous and socially awkward they were likely to be.

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Libraries take to Twitter to talk fair ebook pricing Jennifer McIntosh

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The Ottawa Public Library is part of a nationwide charge for fairer ebook pricing, said

library board chair and Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney.

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Libraries can pay as much as three times to purchase the same ebook that the general public purchases.

Tierney said he’s pleased that the federation, which represents 2,000 member municipalities across the country, passed the resolution.

“I think it’s a clear message that some action needs to be taken,” he said.

Unfortunately, it’s not something the general public is aware of, said Tierney.

Raising awareness is why a consortium of public libraries across the country called Canadian Public Libraries for Fair Ebook Pricing hosted a Twitter chat on March 31.

Tierney said the Ottawa, Edmonton and Toronto libraries have taken the lead on the Twitter campaign.

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“We aren’t looking for anything free,” Tierney said. “We just want fair pricing.”

“We are paying upwards of $125 in some cases, and

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Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney is leading the charge to get fair ebook prices on behalf of the Ottawa Public Library. that’s not for unlimited uses,” Tierney said, adding that in some cases the purchase only includes a finite number of leases.

“It’s not like you can check out multiple copies of the ebooks either,” Tierney said. “It has to be returned before another user checks it out.”

The campaign is aimed at five major multinational publishers: Harper Collins, Mac-

Millan Publishers, Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, and Simon and Schuster. Tierney said the cost of ebooks is prohibitive since the price of one electronic copy is more than nearly 10 paperbacks.

“Ottawa has been fortunate that we have the budget to expand our electronic selection, but it has hit smaller municipalities really hard,” he said.

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Gotta go? There’s a new mobile app for that Developers take care of business with mobile applications that put 190 public washrooms on the map Jennifer McIntosh

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Thanks to the open data program, Ottawa is now flush with apps that tell people where and when they can use public facilities, the city’s IT sub committee heard on March 31.

Joan Kuyek, chair of the Gotta Go campaign which aims to create a network of free and accessible public washrooms in Ottawa, said she’s pleased with the city’s additional resources to help people in need of a place to go.

“It’s important to see council taking care of one of our most basic needs,” she said.

Kuyek said there’s room for improvement though,

saying the city could align the apps that help residents locate facilities with OC Transpo maps, or show the washrooms as greyed out when they’re being renovated or not in use.

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She is pleased to see the city working on paper maps of public washrooms, but would like to see more information on unisex washrooms and more work on accessibility.

“There’s not a whole lot of information about

what to do if you’re in a wheelchair,” she said.

“And braille is missing.”

Kuyek said the city needs more in the way of public washrooms.

“I recently visited Seoul,” she said. “I was blown away by their public facilities.”

The staff presentation to the committee showed that there are a number of apps, including Bathroom Scout, Toilet Finder and ottpee. ca.

Kevin O’Donnell developed ottpee.ca. He said the work was easy, once he discovered the city’s data on washrooms.

“There was so much behind the door,” he said.

The information is available through Geo Ottawa, an online mapping tool on

the city’s website.

City council voted last September to compile and publish data about public washrooms so third-party web developers could create an app to map out the locations.

The city collected data on 190 washrooms in its own buildings and also noted such things as the availability of baby-chang-

ing tables, building hours of operation and level of accessibility.

Robert Giggey, manager of open data with the city, said it was all about leveraging systems that are already in place.

“This is what the city excels at, taking all that information and cataloguing the washrooms,” O’Donnell said.

IT sub committee chair Coun . Rick Chiarelli said the campaign to create a network of public washrooms has come a long way.

“This is a problem for a lot of people,” he said. “So thanks for providing some relief.”

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Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney and RideauRockliffe Coun. Tobi Nussbaum want residents to start thinking about how they’d evaluate potential locations for a new central library.

As the library board prepares for public consultations, McKenney said she wants people to consider some elements from a survey that was commissioned by the board.

Figures show that 68 per cent of residents who use the existing central library walk there.

“More than 23,000 people live within a kilometre of the current site at Laurier and Metcalfe,” McKenney wrote in the co-authored letter to residents. “How that population can be served by a new location within walking distance will therefore be an important criterion.”

Another important statistic is that 25 per cent of users

walk to the library from their place of work, McKenney said, adding a site to the west of Bronson Avenue, such as at Lebreton Flats, wouldn’t be convenient for current users to access by walking.

“Today very few people get there by transit,” McKenney said. “That could change, but it’s something to consider about a downtown library.”

McKenney said she wants people thinking about these issues as the board prepares to go out to the public. That could happen in the spring or early summer, McKenney said.

“It’s a tight timeline if we are going to get shovels in the ground by 2018,” she said.

Library board chair and Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun.

Tim Tierney said the library board recently held an ad hoc meeting on the status of the file, but it’s still premature to talk about possible locations.

Tierney said the board voted for two tracks at the last

board meeting – one where a standalone facility is built and one in which the city library teams up with Library and National Archives for a facility.

He said he expects staff to come back at the next meeting with a plan for public consultation. Tierney said while the city is open to working with potential developers of the Lebreton Flats site, the process to choose an appropriate location of a new main branch has to run independently.

He added that the inclusion of a library in the two Lebreton Flats proposals that the National Capital Commission is evaluating has “muddied the waters” and given people the impression it’s a done deal.

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City Councillor/Conseiller Municipal River Ward/Quartier Rivière

Spring Cleaning the Capital Spring is here, I promise. With the arrival of Spring, the City launches the Clean-Up the Capital Campaign.

Community groups and individual citizens may register their clean-up project by calling 3-1-1 or by visiting, www.ottawa.ca/clean. The campaign runs from April 15-May 15, with a big push on Clean-up Weekend, April 22-24. Let’s all do our part to keep River Ward clean and beautiful. If your community group launches a project and would like me to drop by to roll up my sleeves, let me know and I will help out.

River Ward Earth Day Event

Spring painting At left, volunteers from Turner and Townsend, including Douglas McNeill and Jon Gilford, paint the second floor of the renovated Pinecrest Terrace Community House on Iris Street, Tuesday. Turner and Townsend encourages employees to give back one day each year.

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On Saturday April 23, from 2-4pm, I will be hosting the River Ward Earth Day celebration at the Hunt Club-Riverside Park Community Centre on Paul Anka Drive.

Many environmental groups will be on hand, there will be activities for children, special guests, a guided walk through the McCarthy Woods and a free electronics drop-off depot, sponsored by Junk That Funk. Please plan to attend this event.

Traffic Calming Measures Yellow flex sticks and speed display boards will be erected through-out River Ward in the next month or so. City staff are completing their site visits and I have hosted various consultation forums. In addition to what was in place in 2015, new equipment will be installed on Laperriere, Shillington and Kirkwood in Carlington, as well as a new red-light camera at the intersection of Kirkwood and Coldrey. Streets with yellow flex sticks in 2015 will see their return later this spring. It is my main focus as your City Councillor to improve community safety, particularly on our local streets. I encourage any resident who would like to discuss any matter with me, to please contact me.

U-Pass Summer Program OC Transpo will offer a U-Pass fare product from May 1 to August 31 for full-time students attending school during the summer semester at Algonquin College, Carleton University, University of Ottawa and Saint Paul University.

The summer U-Pass will provide unlimited access to all OC Transpo and STO services. The four month pass will cost $192.70.

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Shaw Festival June 1, 2016 - June 3, 2016 $649 per person double +hst Featuring Orchestra seating for “Alice in Wonderland” and “Our Town.” Travac’s Shaw visit includes round trip transportation, two nights’ accommodation at the Hilton in downtown Niagara Falls, two breakfasts and two dinners

Stratford Festival June 7, 2016 - June 9, 2016 $649 per person double +hst Featuring Orchestra seating for “Shakespeare in Love” and “All My Sons.” Travac’s Stratford visit includes round trip transportation, two nights’ accommodation at the Courtyard by Marriott, St. Jacobs two breakfasts and two dinners

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A group of River Ward residents who are passionate about cycling infrastructure in the City and our ward have formed a local cycling advisory group. If you are interested in taking part, please contact me and I will connect you with them. Their work will assist me in advocating for improvements in our ward.

Red Light/Stop Sign Runners Caught As part of a focused campaign by the Ottawa Police Service this past winter, 181 charges were laid for red light runners, in addition to 66 charges for failing to stop at a stop sign. Please do your part as a motorist or cyclist to obey all traffic laws in our community. We all have a role to play to keep our community safe.

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other said if she lived to be 100, she’d never get used to the common housefly or the mice, both of which were in ample supply on our farm in Renfrew County.

The flies, fortunately, were only around in warm weather, but the mice had no respect for the seasons, and it didn’t seem to matter if the snow was knee deep, or we were gasping for air on a hot summer day, the mice had minds of their own.

In the cold weather, our summer kitchen kept our food chilled or frozen. An old table sat in the middle of the floor, and Mother was always frightened a wayward mouse would climb up a table leg, and help itself to whatever was there.

Her solution was to have Father fill four tobacco tins with coal oil and put one under each leg of the table. Any mouse daring to reach the top of the table had a fatal bath in the coal oil, and the food was safe. Of course, this only worked in the summer kitchen. Inside the house was another matter.

No one knew how they got into the house, but it wasn’t unusual, while we sat around the kitchen table at night, to see a tiny mouse scurry across the floor, or run tight against the baseboards. And Mother, who could sense a mouse a mile away, would fly into a state of hysteria, demand Father get the broom, order the brothers onto the chase, and chaos ensued until the mouse was either caught, or found a means of escape.

Silently, I rooted for the mouse.

Now, Mother would not allow any dogs or cats in the house. “They belong in the barn,” she’d say when I would beg to bring in one of my pets, which included a hoard of cats, one I especially liked and simply called Kitty, or our old Collie dog, which, like just about every other dog in Northcote, was called Sport.

MARY COOK Memories Father, a third generation on our farm, told stories of the pets he had as a young boy, and how the dogs and cats were just as comfortable in the house as they were in the barns. But Mother wouldn’t budge. They belonged in the barn, and that’s all there was to it.

Spring was breaking early that year, and for some unexplained reason, we were seeing more mice than usual, both in the summer kitchen, and in the house.

Mother was on constant alert, and since she hated mousetraps as much as she hated the mice, catching the little critters seemed to be the only solution. That is, until that night at supper.

Father, who my sister Audrey said later, brought up the subject on purpose, said how he saw Kitty snare mouse after mouse in the barn. “She’s a real mouser, that one is,” he said, without taking a pause between mouths full of supper.

“Never saw anything like it, and I’ve lived on this here farm forever ... but that Kitty sure can catch a mouse if one happens to cross her path. She is sure cutting down on the mouse population.”

Mother, with a fork half way to her mouth, asked Father if he was sure it was Kitty. He said he caught her in the act at least a dozen times.

It was probably more coincidence than anything else, but that night, at least three mice interrupted our card game at the kitchen table. By the time they were chased out into the woodshed, or knocked senseless with the broom, it was bedtime. The whole evening

had been wasted battling the mice.

The very next morning, just before we headed for school, Mother said she thought it was time Kitty was brought into the house, where she’d be trained to sleep in a box beside the stove, eat in her own dish (heaven forbid that a cat would eat out of a bowl we used at the kitchen table), and if she was caught within a mile of one of our beds, she would be banished back out to the barn.

My sister Audrey said she was sure Kitty could read Mother’s mind. “Cats are pretty smart, you know,” she said, and who was as thrilled as I was that, finally, I could have one of my pets in the house.

No one knew what Kitty did with the mice she caught. Like a night burglar, most of her action was when we were in bed, but ever after, our house was free of mice. And Mother, on occasion could be seen dropping a piece of salt pork, or a spoonful of gravy into Kitty’s dish in gratitude.

Finally, the mouse problem was under control. Sadly, nothing was discovered that could rid the house of the common housefly, which remained the bane of Mother’s existence all the time we lived on the farm in Renfrew County.

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Taxi union president Amrik Singh was seeing red during the briefing of the city’s new rules around taxies and other car for hire services.

The city released the review of the taxi and limousine bylaw on March 31, after nearly a year of work.

There are nearly 70 recommendations in the report – one of them being to allow ride-sharing programs, such as Uber to operate legally.

“Nothing about this is fair,” said Singh, who is the president of Unifor Local 1688. “The rules are supposed to be the same for everyone.”

Under the proposed bylaw Uber drivers would have to have annual criminal record checks, biannual vehicle inspections, insurance and pay licensing fees.

“The city answered the public’s call for change,” said Diane Deans, chair of the city’s community and protective services committee.

Deans did caution that for residents using private transportation companies, it is buyer beware.

“Residents will have the choice of taking taxis, with trained professional drivers and cameras or a ride sharing app, which offers only a basic level of consumer protection,” Deans said, adding the city wouldn’t get involved in any disputes between riders and private transportation companies.

Anthony Di Monte, the acting head of the city’s emergency services, said it’s about modernizing the industry.

In an effort to level the playing field, the review recommends cutting the licensing fee for taxis from $170 to $96. The city would also remove the $1.50 processing fee for debit transactions – something Di Monte said makes taxi fares in the capital some of the highest across the country.

Taxis will also be allowed to offer lower fares on prearranged trips booked

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Amrik Singh, president of Unifor Local 1688, which represents the city’s cab drivers, fumes over a series of changes to the city’s car-for-hire bylaw that will make ride-sharing services like Uber legal. The city released the contents on the review – which had been in the works since May 2015. through an app.

“We are taking the handcuffs off the taxi industry,” Deans said.

But Singh doesn’t think so.

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adding taxi drivers work hard to follow the rules.

While Singh said he hasn’t read the whole 116-page document, he isn’t pleased with what he’s seen so far.

Neither is Hanif Patni, president of taxi dispatcher Coventry Connections.

Patni said he’s worried about the viability of taxis under the new rules.

“We are going to study it very carefully,” he said of the new bylaw.

River Coun. Riley Brockington said while he ap-

plauds the deregulation of the taxi industry, he wondered why there wasn’t more about a cap on surge prices that Uber uses at busy times and fares.

Uber, while not immediately available for comment, was circulating an online petition in the days before the briefing.

Currently at more than 12,000 signatures, the petition is aimed at getting council to support ridesharing services in Ottawa.

“There will be loud voices on the other side of the debate that want to stop progress,” the petition at uber.org reads. “They want to reverse the gains we’ve made in transportation in the last four years. We think this is wrong. Ottawa should join other progressive cities around the world by embracing ridesharing and the benefits it brings to cities.”

The public will get a chance to weigh in on the debate at a special meeting on April 7, with possible overflow on April 8. Council will vote on the issue April 13.

2016 Complimentary Spring Seminars Wills, Executor Duties & Preplanning Monday, April 4th Central Chapel at 6:30 - 8:00 pm Wednesday, April 13th West Chapel at 1:30 - 3:00 pm Thursday, April 21st St. Laurent Chapel 1:30 - 3:00 pm English • 6:30 - 8:00 pm French Thursday, May 12th Brown Chapel, Kemptville at 1:30 - 3:00 pm RSVP to preplanning@hpmcgarry.ca or 613-233-1143.

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Guestrooms needed for marathon runners Michelle Nash

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Are you a race weekend fan or runner looking to learn the tricks of the running trade from another runner?

Well, a new online accommodation service called Staybillety.com wants to help you out with that.

The accommodation service is looking for Ottawa residents who would like to open their homes up to fellow runners for the Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon at the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend, May 28-29.

“It’s about connecting likeminded people,” said Staybillety.com spokesperson Carolyn Waldo.

It’s also about helping outof-town athletes spend less during big city events, and potentially be able to bring their cheer section along too.

A former two-time Olympic athlete, Waldo said she knows firsthand what it is like to travel for your sport, and

how expensive it can be on your family to come watch you perform.

“This is dating me, but it was the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, and I was lucky enough to stay in a house, not a hotel. It made it possible for my family to come,” Waldo said, adding that at times, her parents had to pay more than $300 a night to cheer her on.

This, she said, should change that for eager athletes looking to do the best they can and not have to worry about a pricy hotel bill at the end of the event.

“It’s not that hotels don’t have their place when it comes to events for athletes, but this is something different,” she said.

The concept is similar to Airbnb.com, in that it offers people the opportunity to list their homes as accommodation options – but that is where the similarities to those types of services end, Waldo said.

Staybillety.com is actually

about sharing common interests, along with sharing a roof.

“We are partnering with different community events, to connect people within the community,” she said.

Waldo said the accommodation service offers people a chance to get to know the community, make new friends and save money all at the same time.

As a member of Staybillety.com individuals can indicate their affiliations with school groups, organizations and events when signing up their property or themselves.

Launched at the start of March, this online accommodation service partnered with Run Ottawa to help fill the void of finding affordable accommodation for the race weekend, giving runners the opportunity to meet other runners.

The goal, Waldo said, is for Staybillety.com to donate to different charities each month.

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The new online accommodation service, Staybillety.com is looking for Ottawa residents interested in hosting race weekend runners this May 28-29.

It is free to sign up for Staybillety, but the organization does charge a service fee to guests when they book an accommodation.

Hosts are also charged a service fee for each trans-

action. Hosts get to set the price of their accommodations and Staybillety.com will also donate a portion of its proceeds towards a national charity that is picked by members.

Aside from Run Ottawa, the organization has also partnered with CanoeKayak Canada.

To book for race weekend, or sign up as a host, go to Staybillety.com.

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Civic campus makes better use of parking lot Pilot project aiming to create extra parking spots could mean less stress for patients, visitors Melissa Murray

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OSU Force Academy Sends Four U15 Boys to Canadian National ID Camp

Highly Respected Goalkeeper Coach David Bellemare Joins The OSU Goalkeeper Academy.

Ottawa, ON (March 24th, 2016)OSU is very pleased to announce that David Bellemare will be joining our already impressive list of club goalkeeper coaches.

This announcement comes on the heels of securing Mike Toshack to lead up our Goalkeeper Academy. With Bellemare joining the program now, it shows a very serious intent on the part of the club to invest in the development of our club goalkeepers. Furthermore, this unprecedented cooperation between goalkeepers coaches in our region will help bring together the expertise we have, for the betterment of our players. Safe to say, this is very exciting news for OSU Soccer.

In bringing Coach Bellemare on board, OSU has secured one of the most highly respected goalkeeper coaches within North America. He is well known for his previous work within The Ottawa Fury organization, last working with their NASL professional goalkeepers. Bellemare has worked with Canadian National Team goalkeepers Taryn Swiatek, Leisha Alcia, Erin McNulty, Dayle Colpitts, Rachelle Beanlands, Audrey Bernier-Larose, Cynthia Leblanc, Chad Bush and Aidan Aylward.

He also works with The University of Ottawa Women’s Team and Louis Riel Sport Etude Program. In addition he has also served on an interim basis with CASL in North Carolina as their goalkeeping lead coach. CASL is well known to be one of the top organizations in The United States. David will be focusing on working with our Force Academy keepers as well as our OPDL and OYSL Goalkeepers.

On behalf of the entire club, we would like to welcome David to OSU. For more information, please visit: www.osu.ca About Ottawa South United Ottawa South United (OSU) is a soccer club based in Canada’s capital, Ottawa.

With some 6800 members, it is one of the largest, as well as most successful clubs in Ontario and Canada. Over 150 OSU Players have moved on to play university and college soccer both in the United States in Canada since 2003. In addition, multiple OSU players have moved on to professional clubs both in the MLS and Europe with many featuring for the Canadian national program.

Patients and visitors familiar with circling the Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus looking for an open parking spot are in luck.

A new pilot project, which launched April 4, will open up about 60 more spaces in the P2 parking lot on Ruskin Street, north of the Ottawa Heart Institute.

Two attendants will help direct drivers to open spaces, asking how long they intend to use the space.

Once the lot is full, other cars can block in the cars of patients with longer visits by leaving keys with the attendant.

Renée Légaré, executive vicepresident human resources, who is responsible for security and parking, said the pilot project will last at least six months, when it will be assessed and potentially expanded to the General and Riverside campuses or other parking garages.

“Parking is always a hot issue,” Légaré said, adding the hospital had received complaints about finding open spots on campus.

She said it wasn’t rare to find between 20 and 30 vehicles circling the garage searching for parking.

“These people don’t deserve to be looking for parking when they are patients or visiting the hospital,” she said.

She’s hoping that allowing more people to park in the lot will help alleviate some of the stress of coming to the hospital, during an already stressful experience.

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The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus started a pilot project this week aiming to optimize parking in its P2 lot on Ruskin Street.

Légaré added the intent of the project is to be cost-neutral, while also optimizing the number of parking spaces.

Last fall the hospital started investigating solutions to an emerging parking problem and issued a request for proposals after hearing from patients they had been late for appointments because of the lack of parking. Lineups outside the lots were also cause for concern, she said.

Other initiatives are also underway that encourage staff to park off site, and the hospital is also working with doctors to stagger appointments to lessen demand during peak hours.

“I’m hoping this is a win-win for the hospital, and that it’s cost-

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Heavy trucks, (300) light vehicles, trailers; Parabuses; Chiptruck; etc.

Registration of participants and vehicle inspection will be possible on April 13 between 9 am and 4 pm, April 14 between 9 am and 4 pm and on April 15 between 9 am and 4 pm. A $500 deposit will be required immediately after the purchase of each vehicle. Vehicle pickup and complete payment including fees plus HST should be made before April 22 at 4 pm. Will be accepted: cash, certified cheque, Visa, MasterCard, and Interac for the $500.00 deposit and only cash, certified cheque and Interac for balance of vehicle.

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neutral as promised,” Légaré said.

The day of the pilot’s launch, 40 of the additional spaces had already been used, she said.

Earlier this year, the provincial government announced they would cap parking rates at hospitals and require reduced prices for weekly and monthly passes.

While the pilot project isn’t expected to provide additional revenue to the hospital, Légaré said optimizing the spaces and expanding the program could help increase parking revenues when costs are capped.

Parking at the hospital costs $3.50 per half hour or $13 per day. A weekly pass is $42.25 and a monthly pass is $92, according to the Ottawa Hospital’s website.

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Dear neighbours, Spring is finally on the horizon and with that comes many exciting ventures in Bay Ward and across the City that I trust that you and your families will be able to enjoy during this wonderful time of the year

New LRT station better for transit, better for community After much work with fellow Councillors Blais & Egli as members of the 100 day working group and City staff I am pleased to share with you, that we are proposing that the Cleary Avenue LRT station be built at the corner of Cleary and Richmond Rd. This will improve access to transit for the surrounding community and limit the impact to private property.

The graphic on the side shows the old alignment in blue and the proposed changes in red.

This alignment not only better serves the neighbourhoods nearby but also avoids the need to use any of the Unitarian campus land. I believe having Cleary Station located right on a main street – creates a better experience for residents and offers improved accessibility, visibility and usability for the surrounding area. The City will hold a public consultation on April 14th at Notre Dame High School to receive input from the public. Please join if you are able.

As part of my commitment to residents we continued listening, working and improving our plan for this area. I believe with this update we deliver responsible and effective transit while being respectful of the community it serves.

If you would like more information please feel free to contact our office or attend the consultation on April 14th.

Mother’s Day Tea

Defying gravity CHEO patient Wyatt Theoret, 3, of Alexandria, Ont., gets help from Harlem Globetrotter Orlando ‘El Gato’ (The Cat) Melendez spinning a basketball on his finger during the player’s visit to the regional children’s hospital on April 4. The Globetrotter told the patients several stories, including how he earned his nickname and the first time he met his hero, basketball legend Michael Jordan. The Globetrotters are set to play a game on April 10 at the Canadian Tire Centre.

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If you would like to attend call Jodi Jennings at 613-580-2477 to reserve your space or email her at Jodi.Jennings@Ottawa.ca.

You can always find more details for upcoming events and activities in Bay Ward and across Ottawa by following me on Twitter and Facebook or by subscribing to updates at BayWardLive.ca. Should you ever need the assistance of my team please don’t hesitate to reach out. We are happy to help.

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ByWard institution moving to Kanata Jennifer McIntosh

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The iconic Fat Tuesdays, with its Cajun food, duelling pianos and Mardi Gras party atmosphere closed its ByWard Market location on April 2.

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Manny Garcia, one of the managing partners of the club, said they couldn’t pass up the deal they got for a space in the Kanata Centrum shopping centre.

The club will take the place of the former Skirt Steak restaurant, located near a multiplex movie theatre and a Wal-Mart at the Kanata shopping complex.

“It was a great deal and we are excited to move to Kanata; it’s a great neighbourhood,” Garcia said, adding their information says that people in the suburbs are willing to come out and party like they’re in New Orleans.

The Velvet Room – the city’s only 25 and up nightclub – will continue to operate upstairs at the York Street location in the market, and Garcia said the new space at the Centrum will be divided in half to accom-

modate another Velvet Room location in addition to Fat Tuesdays.

“It will be half and half,” he said. “The Velvet Room will be in the back, and Fat Tuesdays will be in the front.”

Garcia said it would likely be late spring or early summer before the doors open at the Kanata location.

He added that a lot of staff come from nearby schools and will be welcome at the new digs, but it’s likely they’ll look for work closer to the downtown location.

“We will be holding a job fair soon,” Garcia said.

Fat Tuesdays was at the York Street spot for 14 years, and while they had a good run, it’s time for a move.

Garcia said the winter months in the market are tough, and fewer people are walking in.

Phil Waserman, co-chair of the ByWard Market Business Improvement Area, who is also one of the managing partners for the Courtyard Restaurant, said that his venue is more a destination place for weddings and events, but he too has seen a decline in walkin traffic in the last number of years.

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Waserman confirmed rumours that Starbucks Evenings – the traditional coffee shop with the addition of craft beer and wine served after 4 p.m. – will be taking Fat Tuesdays’ place in the market.

The concept is a relatively new one, and there are only a handful of locations across the globe.

“I think it’s telling that they chose the (ByWard) Market as a place to roll one out,” Waserman said, adding he sees the change as good news – provided the market doesn’t become over run with coffee shop chains.

“I think we have a good mix of independent coffee houses,” he said.

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Fat Tuesdays is moving from its home on York Street to the Kanata Centrum shopping centre.

According the Starbucks website, 70 per cent of Starbucks customers drink wine, as compared to 30 per cent of the general U.S. population. Starbucks customers are also twice more likely to drink craft beer than the national average, their research shows.

The first Starbucks Evenings menu was

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Stay away from online want-ads as they almost always lead you to fly-by-night types with little or no experience. Get references from potential contractors and check them out.”

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Does everyone carry liability and worker’s compensation insurance? Where will materials be sourced and who will buy them?” Steve noted that a lot of people are under the misconception that buying materials through their contractor is more expensive. As qualified contractors will have preferred purchase discounts available through reputable suppliers, the end cost to the client is no higher than if they bought the products themselves. But homeowners can hit warranty snags if they purchase certain products on their own and have someone else install them.

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Dalcini Stainless founder Nita Tandon has been on an upward trajectory since founding her steel snack container company last summer, and her recent success at the Mompreneur Awards has launched her even higher.

In an awards ceremony on March 5, Tandon, a Barrhaven resident, received the competition’s start-up award, coming out on top of a pool of 17,000 candidates and 124 nominees from across Canada, along with three other award winners.

The ceremony was the finale of the 2016 National Mompreneurs Conference, held in Toronto during International Women’s Day Weekend, on March 4 and 5. Mompreneurs CEO Maria Locker founded the organization – which publishes a magazine and hosts. the annual conference and awards ceremony – to sup-

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“The organization has been wonderful in terms of understanding what it’s like to try and balance family and running a company,” Tandon said.

“No matter how big or small that company is, when you run it as a mom, it’s difficult to manage, and they

This year the innovation competition bestowed four women with honours including an award of excellence for the top “mompreneur,” a momentum award for a service based or nonprofit company, an award of merit for the top consultant, franchisee, or broker, and the start-up award, for the top business under three years old.

Tandon learned in January that she was a finalist for the latter award, along with four other start-up founders.

“I thought, ‘If I win, great, and if I don’t, it’s still a wonderful opportunity,’ and I went in with that mindset,” said Tandon, who entered the competition in November, shortly after launching Dalcini Stainless.

“When they called my name I was shocked.”

Tandon founded Dalcini

Stainless in 2015 after struggling to find chemical free, hygienic and easy-to-open containers for her daughter.

Dalcini Stainless containers are made with stainless steel – which Tandon said is more durable and hygienic than the plastic often used for snack containers – and are designed so that even kindergarten-age children can easily open them.

They’re also free of bisphenol A, a chemical Health Canada banned from baby bottles in 2009.

Over the next year, Tandon will receive $5,000 worth of services and cash as winner of the start-up award, as well as a chance to compete again for the Mompreneur Award of Excellence, worth $30,000.

But award or no award, Tandon said that participating in the conference and competition has opened avenues of exposure, networking and education for her.

“If you’re working on your own it’s hard to get

people to notice you and to recognize you,” Tandon said.

“But when there’s a room full of people that start Tweeting about you and taking pictures of your product and getting your message out, it’s phenomenal.”

As part of her prize package, Tandon will also work with a business coach for a year as she builds her business, and they’ll have a lot to go over with Dalcini Stainless gearing up to meet demand for the 2016-17 school year.

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She said her recent exposure has helped connect her with new types of customers, and that she is already receiving large orders from non-retail clients like colleges and universities.

Tandon also plans to sell her containers through local retail stores this year, but said that she is willing to deliver her containers to

clients across the city.

“If anyone purchases online, if it’s in the Ottawa area, I will deliver it,” she said.

Between making business plans for the coming year, preparing for another tradeshow in Toronto and basking in her recent accomplishment at the Mompreneur Awards, Tandon has had some time to reflect on what her partnership with the organization as done for her.

“It terms of getting nominated and winning the award, it’s just the exposure has pushed me so much further ahead than if I had been doing this on my own,” she said.

“I would definitely recommend for any entrepreneur in Canada to join an organization like this.”

For more information about Mompreneurs, visit themompreneur.com.

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Residents trickled into the city’s public consultation meeting on new options for the city’s stormwater, water and wastewater rates at city hall on March 30.

The city’s proposed changes to water rates haven’t drawn much ire from residents in the core, said Capital Coun. and environment committee chair David Chernushenko.

“People may not like the change, but they can live with it,” he said.

While the city’s proposals include tweaks to the water rate, many residents have taken issue with the new stormwater fees.

A meeting held in West Carleton the day before was standing room only, and 50 people were turned away because there wasn’t room at the West Carleton Community Complex.

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REVENUES

Isabelle Jasmin, the city’s deputy treasurer, said that one of the reasons for the

change is a dip in revenues.

While it’s a good thing residents are conserving water, it means revenues have gone down, while capital costs for maintenance have stayed the same.

“Right now the rate structure isn’t aligned with the benefit,” Jasmin said.

Jasmin said the new rate structure would include a

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Jasmin said the increase to residents would be minimal.

Adele Muldoon, who made the trek to city hall from West Carleton, said the city should have kept it the way it was before amalgamation.

Before that, residents paid an annual fee for the maintenance of ditches and culverts.

Muldoon says the ditches are now poorly maintained, adding one of her neighbours has trees growing in her ditch.

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• An assessment-based rate: uses property assessment values to allocate the charge, excluding farmland and forested land.

• Rate based on hard surface area: a flat rate based on the average hard surface area by property type.

That means a rural home valued at $360,000, with about 250-square-metres of hard surface area would see a monthly storm water fee of: • $5.94 under a flat rate; • $6.75 under an assessment-based rate; • $9.29 under a hard surface area rate.

One resident said the city’s assumptions that a single family detached home in the rural area is the same as in the city is flawed.

Another resident said the classifications were crude and there should be incentives built into the rate structure for people who do work to mitigate run-off from their land.

But Chernushenko said that might be putting the cart before the horse.

“The environment committee had a number of factors to look at during the review, including conservation that we had to prioritize,” he said.

“But they were all important, which had the impact of diluting things.”

Chernushenko said that definitions might be a bit crude, but have a highly complex system of determining the hard surface on a property might be costly.

“We can’t send someone out to every property with a watering can and a stop watch,” he said.

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QNX aims to create the OS of automated cars Adam Kveton

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It won’t be long.

Not today, not tomorrow and not five years from now, but not long after, your car, your neighbour’s car, and just about everyone’s car will be driving itself.

“I’ve been telling people 10 to 15 years.”

That’s the prediction from Grant Courville, the senior director of product management for QNX Software Systems – an operations system software developer, and a subsidiary of BlackBerry.

It’s not a prediction to take lightly.

QNX software shipped in more than 20 million car systems last year – things like infotainment systems, telematics, digital clusters, and every OnStar system – said Courville.

“Chances are that if you have a vehicle with an infotainment system, it’s running QNX,” he said.

But QNX is aiming to

branch out into a new potential market in a big way – automated driving.

QNX revealed some of the tech systems it’s been working on, which the software developer refers to as building blocks towards autonomous drive, in January at CES 2016, which is one of the largest showcases for new consumer electronics.

The big announcement was that QNX aims to create an operating system that can safely and consistently coordinate between computer algorithms and hardware like cameras, radar and other sensors to allow a road vehicle to drive autonomously.

QNX is making the software that integrates those elements only, not the algorithms or tech behind it.

“From a QNX perspective, everything we do is aimed at full autonomous drive,” said Courville.

While it’s a new direction for the developer, it harkens back to QNX’s pedigree as a provider of life-critical sys-

tems in hospitals, industry and elsewhere.

“You wont’ find QNX on the desktop. We never focused on that, that wasn’t our world,” said Courville. “We focused on devices and systems where essentially they have to be ultra-reliable, so they have to work well, work predictably and work all the time.”

“We are doing nuclear reactor monitoring, we are involved in high speed rail, laser eye surgery, robotic surgery, MRI systems,” he said.

Now, software in cars is moving from being largely for entertainment purposes to being part of safety systems where, in some cases, the software will be responsible for life or death decisions.

Considering QNX’s emphasis on software built for safety and security, and its history with the auto industry, working on an OS for automated cars is natural, said Courville.

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QNX software developer Mike Shane demonstrates the company’s test vehicle heads-up display format, on a television rather than on the windshield. The vehicle was one of several demonstrations QNX, a branch of BlackBerry, took to a large tech show in Las Vegas. The Jeep’s software processes a pre-recorded video in real time, identifying when the vehicle ahead of it is too close, when the car is near a gas station and what direction to turn.

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“Since the 80s we’ve been in safety critical systems and now seeing autonomous drive in safety systems becoming more at the forefront of automotive software, it speaks to our DNA, you know: what makes us different, what makes us ideal for these kinds of environments.”

AUTOMATION NOW

Courville estimates that autonomous drive will be common in cars in about 10 or 15 years, though there are some instances of it now, with the Tesla Model S including an autopilot option that uses a variety of sensors to remain in a lane, steer, maintain and adjust speed and park.

The Google Car has also traveled many kilometres on its own.

But it’s widespread adoption of automated vehicles is what QNX is looking at.

“It’s well on its way,” said Courville of automated drive technology.

Some of the tech applications that QNX is working on include digital clusters that replace a car’s usual dials with a screen that can show car speeds, music selections and maps

that display warning based on sensor data like cameras, lidar, radar and others.

They are also looking into heads up displays, with information like direction arrows, gas station locations, car proximity and more being identified based on GPS information and video cameras to be displayed on a vehicle’s windshield.

QNX brought demonstrations of both of those applications to CES, built into a Jeep and a Toyota Highlander.

Though a video screen in front of the car simulated the Highlander’s heads up display, the demonstration had both vehicles making real-time decisions based on a pre-recorded video of a vehicle driving down streets. These kinds of applications are seen as interim steps towards automated driving.

But, for widespread automated drive to become a reality, new technology will have to be embedded not just in cars but in traffic infrastructure as well, said Courville.

QNX also demonstrated some of the advantages of vehicle-to-vehicle communication (V2V) and vehicleto-infrastructure communication (V2I) with a video.

The idea is that nearby cars who can communicate with each other would be able to alert drivers to oncoming vehicles in passing lanes, a vehicle that has had its breaks slammed on unexpectedly and more.

The cars could even take action themselves based on that informa-

We want to dominate the software foundation of the vehicle … it’s a perfect fit for us. It’s exciting.

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tion.

However, there are even more advantages if infrastructure, like street lights, are able to communicate with vehicles as well. A street light could, for instance, let a car know how much longer there remains until a red light becomes a green light, allowing a driver or their vehicle itself

to time the light. The traffic light could also show when a green light will go to a yellow, or even communicate to a city’s traffic centre if there is some problem with vehicles at a given intersection.

Trials of V2V and V2I technologies are being funded by the US Department of Transportation in New York City, Tampa Bay and parts of Wyoming, while Cadillac is rumoured to be deploying V2V technologies in its vehicles in the next few years.

TECH VS REGULATION

The technology for autonomous driving, which QNX is working to create an OS for, is on its way, and autonomous cars are going to become a common reality, said Courville. But it’s not the technology that will determine when autonomous driving becomes widespread – it’s acceptance of it that will.

How quickly government regulations change to incorporate autonomous cars and how quickly customers grow to accept and trust autonomous cars will be the determining factors, said Courville.

Various governments have sig-

nalled interested in testing autonomous vehicles and incorporating some of the interim steps towards that. The Ontario government announced that it is launching a pilot project to allow for the testing of automated vehicles on Ontario Roads, while the city of Stratford, Ont., is hoping to be the premier place to do those tests.

Over the years, the city has built city-wide Wi-Fi into its infrastructure, removing one of the cost barriers to testing V2V and V2I technology.

As the world moves towards automated cars being the norm, as Courville seems pretty sure it is, some of the interim steps will likely be transport trucks using automated drive systems on highways or specifically designated corridors, and then regular cars able to use automated drive on those specific corridors, with suburban neighbourhoods likely being one of the last places autonomous drive is accepted.

Regardless, it’s an exciting time to be working for QNX, said Courville.

“It’s awesome,” he said. “We want to dominate the software foundation of the vehicle … it’s a perfect fit for us. It’s exciting.”

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City gets cash boost for downtown cycling path Separated cycling lane worth the ride: cyclist Michelle Nash

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A $325,000 boost in funding will help make riding along MacKenzie Avenue a little safer for cyclists.

The funding is thanks to the province’s $10 million Ontario Municipal Cycling Infrastructure Program, which will help pay to build a separated cycling lane along the avenue from Rideau to Murray Streets.

Ottawa-Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi made the announcement in Major Hill’s Park on March 29. Mayor Jim Watson, Rideau-Vanier Coun.

Mathieu Fleury, OttawaVanier MPP Madeleine Mei-

lleur and Dr. Mark Kristmanson, chief executive officer of the National Capital Commission joined Naqvi for the funding announcement.

Watson said he was looking forward to the project beautifying the street, and thanked U.S. Ambassador Bruce Heyman for working with the city and both levels of government on the project.

The project will also finally remove the cement barriers that are in front of the U.S. Embassy. The costs will be shared amongst the four partners: the city, province, NCC and U.S. embassy.

Excited about the project, and on-hand to hear the announcement was avid cyclist and Walk Ottawa advocate Chris Bradshaw.

“I will definitely use it more often,” Bradshaw said.

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He added he also liked how the low-level curb close to Rideau Street is pedestrian-friendly.

“Complete street designs are meant for all people using the streets, not just cyclists,” he said.

Meilleur said she is pleased that the lane will offer a safe, effective way to get

around.

“This funding is great news for the City of Ottawa,” she said. “It will improve our cycling infrastructure while providing a safe bike path.

Cycling greatly contributes

to reducing congestion in our cities and it is also a good way to stay healthy while respecting the environment.”

The Mackenzie Avenue cycling corridor compliments Confederation Boulevard, said the NCC’s Kristmanson.

“I thank the province of Ontario for their contribution to this project which will advance our efforts to foster active transportation in the urban core and build a more connected and vibrant Capital Region,” he said.

The two-year, $10 million Ontario Municipal Cycling Infrastructure Program was announced in July 2015.

Municipalities were eligible to apply for funding for up to 50 per cent of the total costs of a cycling infrastructure project to the maximum amount of $325,000.

According to the province, 51 municipalities have applied for funding and approved projects will be announced between April 1, 2016, and March 31, 2018.

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Likos would enjoy a quiet home. While she has lived with other If you lose your cat, don’t give up looking for him. We have reunited animals in the past, Likos would prefer to be the only pet in pets with their owners months after they became lost. Here are some the house, so she can focus all of her love and attention on her new best friend — you! tips from your friends at the OHS: For more information on Likos and all the adoptable animals, • Visit the Ottawa Humane Society as soon as possible. stop by the OHS at 245 West Hunt Club Rd Check out our website • View photos of most stray cats admitted to the OHS shelter at www.ottawahumane.ca to see photos and descriptions of the animals available for adoption. at www.ottawahumane.ca.

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Metroland East VP Mike Mount retires Ashley Kulp

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Metroland Media lost a community newspaper champion April 1 when its Metroland East vice-president and regional publisher closed his office door for the last time.

Mike Mount recently announced his retirement in mid-March, noting it was the right time to step away from the company he helped grow in order to spend more time with his wife and three daughters, as well as pursue other interests.

“The short-term plan is to give myself some time and see what interests surface,” he remarked. “I’ve enjoyed my entire career and I hope I will find that next thing in life, both personally and professionally.”

“If I can become a better golfer, everything else will be a bonus,” Mount joked.

Torstar’s Peter Bishop, who came on board with Metroland East in March, will take over for Mount.

“I have every confidence in his ability to continue to lead our region in a professional and progressive way,” Mount said of Bishop.

The 53-year-old, who has a degree in mechanical engineering and Master of Business administration (MBA), first got his feet wet in the newspaper industry in 1993 thanks to his father Bob, who had owned the former Performance Printing Ltd. company for 15 years. He had formerly worked as a process engineer at Albany International in Albany, New York, where he lived with his wife Karen, who was born in the U.S. “He started with $1 million in revenue, so it was a small operation and he had just moved into the Lorne Street building in Smiths Falls,” Mount said. “My dad’s background was in printing.”

“I had never worked in newspapers or printing,” he said.

Nearing retirement and looking at succession planning, Bob gave Mike the opportunity to test the waters for three years. “I had an opportunity to take a position in Europe with the company I was working for so I had to decide what I wanted to do,” Mount said.

“My father said if I wanted to come in and

MIKE MOUNT join the company, now would be the time.”

He admitted he was torn on whether the smaller Performance Printing would be a good fit for him.

“That was my biggest issue, whether I would enjoy working in Canada but I enjoyed the business like I enjoyed manufacturing,” he stated.

He surprised himself when he found he was comfortable in the smaller company. He immersed himself in different departments, including pre-press, customer service and helping improve the company’s technology.

It was important for Mount to try and relate to the different departments to understand their challenges.

“I think over the period before becoming president, I probably had done almost every job,” he said.

Once he had put his time in, he was named vice-president and five years later, eventually president. It was under his guid-

ance Performance Printing and the EMC group of community newspapers, saw great growth, going from a market that included Smiths Falls, Perth, Almonte/Carleton Place, Kemptville and St. Lawrence, to Ottawa, Kingston and Belleville.

“Being able to grow was fun, that’s the part I enjoyed the most,” he admitted. “I loved buying new companies and adding newspapers.”

“We took five papers to 26 and went from 64,000 (circulation) to half a million papers delivered to doors,” Mount added, which prompted several press expansions, as well as a bigger online presence.

Mike immersed himself in the community while at the helm of Performance Printing as well. He served on the board of the Perth & Smiths Falls District Hospital and was also credited as the first business to make a large commitment ($100,000) to the Smiths Falls hospital site’s redevelopment campaign. Accolades also came in from business organizations with Mount being named the Smiths Falls Chamber of Commerce’s Business Person of the Year in 2003.

That period of growth in a short amount of time in the mid-2000s was exciting, but Mount credits a dedicated team, including former publisher Duncan Weir and Peter O’Leary, former chief operating officer (then regional general manager of Metroland East) with Performance Printing’s success.

pany and for everybody to sell the whole company versus trying to form a partnership,” he said.

It’s a partnership he doesn’t regret. “Metroland is an excellent company and they are committed to newspapers, printing and media,” he said. “I couldn’t have found a better partner and I feel fortunate that it all worked out for them and for us.”

Nearly five years later and after an expansion into the former Stanley Tools building, which serves as Metroland East’s distribution centre, Mount believes he’s leaving the company he helped build in good hands.

“There isn’t a better organization in our industry that understands what we do and is committed to journalism and newspapers,” he said.

Addressing the changes to the industry, Mount feels there will always be a place for the community newspaper.

“Newspapers and publishing is always about connecting to your customers and to an audience. There are lots of different medias that can do that, but community newspapers are one of the strongest ways you can connect with people, particularly in smaller markets,” he said. “The changes to digital give more ways for people to access the information.”

“Newspaper is still a way for us to connect to our communities,” he said. “Our core business is really telling our communities’ stories to people interested in learning about them. That won’t change.”

Calling the Lorne Street headquarters home for 22 years, Mount said there are many aspects of his job he’ll miss, but one outweighs them all: the people.

“When I say the people, I mean both our employees and our customers,” he said.

“I’m fortunate that in my 22 years working at Performance Printing and Metroland, many of the employees I started with 22 years ago still work for the company. When you work together that long, you develop relationships and friendships that go beyond the 9-to-5 job.”

“That’s what I’ll miss, having a reason to be together with a great group of people everyday.”

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It was a successful but small company and had connected with the Ottawa Citizen as a strategic partner for years, but he decided to take the company in a different direction.

“The goal when I started to talk to Metroland was not to sell the company, but to secure a new strategic partner,” he said.

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Future museum collection centre ‘a game changer’: president Visitors to access stored national treasures Erin McCracken

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Happy tears flowed the day the federal budget delivered good news and spelled relief for Canada Science and Technology Museum staff.

A $156.4-million federal cash infusion will be doled out over the next three years to pay for a new state-of-the-art collection and conservation centre that will mean more storage and laboratory space, a consolidated headquarters and allow visitors to enjoy more of the artifacts of three Ottawa-based national museums.

“There were a few people crying the day of the announcement,” said Alex Benay, president and chief executive of the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation, which manages the science and tech museum, the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum and the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.

“This literally gets us at par with the best museum institutions in the world,” he said of the funding, announced March 23.

Staff, some of whom have been with the corporation for 20 and 30 years, have been “just getting by, just finding ways to come up with solutions,” Benay said of the cramped museum and collection warehouses. “We were always

sort of the make-do museum.

“From the very day we were created, it’s always been a little jerry-rigged, and now those days are over.”

The new collection and conservation centre will be “a game changer,” said Benay, and will “ideally” be built to wrap around the museum at 1867 St. Laurent Blvd. that is now being overhauled and modernized for $80.5-million ahead of its November 2017 opening.

Its future location and design won’t be finalized until after architects are hired. A request-for-proposals to hire a design team is now being drafted.

Once the storage facility opens sometime in 2018, it will not only provide more storage space for the collections of the three museums, but will be partly open to the public, historians and researchers.

“If we do a walk around I’d like it to be free,” Benay said, but added that this may not be possible if a guide needs to be hired.

He said it’s too soon to talk about admission fees for the centre, and how much of the storage site will be accessible.

Prior to the museum’s sudden closure in fall 2015 after airborne mould was detected, it showcased three to five per cent of the museum’s collection, below the industry standard

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Museum officials are breathing a sigh of relief that a new round of federal dollars will pay for a new $156.4-million collection and conservation centre on the property at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. of five to 10 per cent, said Benay.

Once overhauled, it “will get us into the top echelon percentage of collections on display,” he said, adding the collection building will compliment that.

The site, which will also include laboratories for artifact preservation and digital technology development, will span 51,000 to 56,000 square metres. The facility will also serve as the corporation’s new consolidated headquarters.

Currently, the corporation has 21,000 to 23,000 square metres of storage and office space at three aging and leased warehouse sites on Lancaster Road across from the museum. These sites have been bursting at the seams for several years.

“It’s not ideal for public walk-through when there are artifacts in the aisles,” said Benay.

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The Ottawa Humane Society Auxiliary welcomes new members to help raise money to support the animals. Join us 1:30 p.m. at the animal shelter, 245 West Hunt Club Rd. Refreshments are served and all are welcome. For more information, call Linda 613-823-6770 or go to facebook.com/OttawaHumaneSocietyAuxiliary.

The Kanata Nepean Bicycle Club hosts an open house from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Mountain Equipment Co-op, 366 Richmond Road. The open house is a good opportunity to meet the club executive, learn about the club operation and cycling tours. For

Open stage night at the Westboro Legion with the host band the Feel starts at 8 p.m. For more information visit www.rcl480.com or call 613-725-2778.

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Visitors are welcome. For information call Pat Thompson at 613-591-1390.

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The Nepean Horticultural Society’s guest speaker is Catherine Disley, on raised bed gardening at 7:30 p.m., at City View United Church, 6 Epworth Ave. Everyone welcome. Non-members $4.

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The Ottawa Potter’s Guild invites you to our Spring Exhibition and Sale at Lansdowne Park. See www.ottawaguildofpotters.ca for times and details. Free admission, door prizes, kids craft area and Ikebana display. The guild is a non-profit organization and welcomes new members.

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