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It’s official: Poilievre launches Conservative leadership bid campaign

By Charlie Senack Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre is in the Federal Conservative Party leadership race and didn’t waste any time picking up support.

In a campaign video posted to his Twitter account on Saturday, Feb. 5, Poilievre hinted that he will run in the upcoming Conservative leadership race.

Poilievre said he’s running for Prime Minister in order to “give Canadians their freedom back”, however in order to do that, he must run for and then win the leadership contest. That part of the process was never discussed during the roughly three-minute-long video.

Along with the ad, Poilievre also posted a link to support the Carleton MP for Prime Minister. Clicking on the link brought you to a form where you could sign up for updates,

make a donation, or become a volunteer.

In the video, Poilievre spent most of his time bashing the current Liberal government headed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“Governments have got big and bossy. They are spending more than at any time since World War Two,” Poilievre started by saying.

“They control more of what you earn, and you control less. They caused inflation by borrowing and printing a half trillion dollars which has ballooned the assets of the billionaires, the debts of our children, and the cost of living of the working class,” he added.

“Over half of families now say they struggle just to feed themselves, and more 30-yearolds live in their parents’ basements because they can’t afford the typical cost of a home, $800,000.”

The 42-year-old is the first person to officially say their name will be on the leadership ballot.

New Leadership For The Party

Poilievre’s announcement came just days after Erin O’Toole was ousted as leader by his own party, when 73 Conservative MP’s lined up to vote against him. Only 45 Members of Parliament wanted the Durham MP to stay in the position.

In the days since, many have speculated Poilievre has been eyeing the position. He was set to run for leader of the party back in 2020, but dropped out last minute because he didn’t feel “all in.” Poilievre said at the time he didn’t want to sacrifice family life.

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Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre has officially launched his campaign to be the Conservative Party of Canada’s next leader.

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Free rapid tests available at 17 locations in Carleton riding Carleton MPP Goldie Ghamari has announced the 17 participating grocery and pharmacy locations across the Carleton riding providing free rapid tests while supplies last, with a limit of one box of five tests per household per visit. Participating retailers will receive additional supply from the province each week and have the ability to determine how tests are distributed in order to best serve the community, including through appointment bookings, at checkout or through online orders.

Here is a list of the 17 participating locations in Carleton: Moncion’s YIG Gloucester, 685 River Rd, Gloucester, K1V2G2 Limebank Pharma Plus, 10-3771 Spratt Rd, Gloucester, K1V2P3 Shopper’s Drug Mart Earl Armstrong, 647 Earl Armstrong Rd, Glouces-

ter, K1V2G2 Shopper’s Drug Mart, 1-4744 Bank St, Gloucester, K1T0K8 Findlay Creek Pharmacy, 4-111 Shuttleworth Dr, Findlay Creek, K1T0W7 Rexall, 1160 Beaverwood Rd, Manotick, K4M1A3 Shopper’s Drug Mart, 5230 Mitch Owens Rd, Manotick, K4M1B2 Richmond Village Pharmacy, 6146 Perth St, Richmond, K0A2Z0 Metcalfe Pharmacy, 8206 Victoria St, Metcalfe, K0A2P0 Osgoode Pharmacy, 3192 Logan Farm Dr, Osgoode, K0A2W0 North Gower Pharmacy, 7-2333 Church St, North Gower, K0A2T0 Browns’ YIG Stittsville, 1251 Main St, Stittsville, K2S2E5 Shopper’s Drug Mart Stittsville, 5709 Hazeldean Rd, Stittsville, K2S0P6

Shopper’s Drug Mart Stittsville Main, 101A1300 Stittsville Main St, Stittsville, K2S1A3 Food Basics, 5703 Hazeldean Rd., Stittsville, K2S0P6 Stittsville Whole Health Pharmacy, 1609 Stittsville Main St, Stittsville, K2S1B8 Hazeldean Pharmacy, B-6150 Hazeldean Rd, Stittsville, K2S2R2 “I am pleased that so many local pharmacies and grocery stores across Carleton are participating in this initiative by providing free Rapid Antigen Test Kits to the community,” said Goldie Ghamari, MPP for Carleton. “I would also like to thank Councillor George Darouze for his strong advocacy and for working with my office. Together we were able to ensure that the needs of local and rural residents are being

met by advocating for test distribution locations in rural communities such as Metcalfe, Osgoode, Richmond and North Gower.”

There are over 2,300 participating grocery and pharmacy locations across the province. A list of all participating retailers as well as information on how retail locations are distributing rapid test kits can be found at Ontario.ca/ rapidtest. Ontario will be distributing 5 million rapid tests each week for eight weeks through over 2,300 pharmacy and grocery locations across the province, as well as 500,000 each week through community partners in vulnerable communities. In total, the province is making 44 million rapid tests available to the public over the coming weeks.

“As we continue to carefully ease public health measures, rapid tests are providing another

layer of protection and offer the public an additional tool to confidently do the things they love, like visiting family or dining at their favourite local restaurant,” said Deputy Premier and Minister of Health Christine Elliott. “In addition to the millions of rapid tests deployed each week to support priority settings, including hospitals, long-term care homes and schools, working with our retail and community partners we are increasing access to at-home rapid tests.”

To support access to tests for communities that have been impacted disproportionately by COVID-19 and face barriers to testing, including language, income and transportation, lead agencies working as part of the High Priority Communities Strategy will be distributing rapid tests through existing local

partnerships, such as community centres, community health centres, places of worship, and food banks. Lead agencies will also have discretion to provide additional boxes depending on individual circumstances, such as a multi-generational home or an immunocompromised family member.

Over 10 million rapid tests are deployed weekly to these sites and any other sector eligible for the Provincial Antigen Screening Program. As of February 8, over 75 million rapid antigen tests have been deployed since November 2020, with over 33 million deployed to priority sectors to provide an additional layer of protection for hospitals, long-term care and retirement homes. Additionally, approximately 26 million tests have been deployed to support school and licensed childcare settings.

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Messenger a finalist for three Ontario Community Newspaper Association awards Special to the Messenger The Manotick Messenger and its sister publication, the Barrhaven Independent, are finalists for three Ontario Community Newspaper Association Awards.

The OCNA announced the finalists for its 2021 General Excellence and Premier Awards Monday.

The Messenger and Independent are the only

community newspapers in Ottawa to be finalists in the annual awards competition.

In the Best Arts and Entertainment Story category, the Messenger is nominated for a feature story by Jeff Morris on longtime Manotick resident Jennifer Hosten, who became the first Black woman to win the Miss World Pageant in 1970. Hosten, who represented her home country

of Grenada at the pageant, spoke about the experience and the controversy surrounding the pageant. The story was written in conjunction with the release of Misbehaviour, a movie about the pageant starring Kiera Knightly and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who portrays Hostens.

The story was also an honourable mention in the Diversity Coverage category.

In the Best Rural Story category, a story by Morris on the support given by local farmers to protests against legislation in India is among the three finalists. Members of the area’s Indian community held protests on street corners and in front of the Indian Embassy throughout last winter to protest legislation that would have been financially devastating to farmers in that country.

More than 50 per cent of people in India are farmers, and most local IndoCanadians have family connections to farmers in their home country.

In the Best Feature/ News Series category, the Barrhaven Independent was a finalist for the award for its series of profiles called 30 Years, 30 People.

To celebrate the Barrhaven Independent’s 30th anniversary, the publica-

tion profiled 30 different people over that time who had made a significant impact on the community.

Over the past 16 years, the Manotick Messenger has now been a top three finalist for the OCNA awards 64 times, more than any other community newspaper in Ottawa or Eastern Ontario.

The winners will be announced at the OCNA’s virtul awards gala April 29.

eral government has taken freedoms away from Canadians.

“That is why I’m running for Prime Minister; to put you back in charge of your own life,” Poilievre remarked in his video message.

“Together we will make Canadians the freest people on Earth, with freedom to build a business without red tape or heavy tax. Freedom to keep the fruits of your labour and

share them with loved ones and neighbours. Freedom from the invisible thief of inflation.

“Freedom to raise your kids with your values,” he added. “Freedom to make your own health and vaccine choices. Freedom to speak without fear and freedom to worship God in your own way.”

His support for the truckers has loosened in recent

days. After nearly three weeks under siege, Poilievre said while he still supports the movement as a whole, he doesn’t think they should block critical infrastructure.

In an interview with the Manotick Messenger last fall, Poilievre said Canadians shouldn’t lose their jobs because of not being vaccinated, and said the option of regular testing should be provided instead.

Poilievre is also known to speak his mind and is not shy with words. Last year during the election cycle, he held a press conference where papers were thrown around the press gallery as he talked about the prime minister orchestrating a “cover up” in relation to the WE scandal.

First elected in 2004, Poilievre is currently serving in his seventh term. He won last fall’s federal election

with about 50 per cent of the vote.

During the Harper years, Poilievre served as the Minister of State for Democratic Reform, and Minister of Employment and Social Development.

Following the party’s big loss during the 2015 federal election, Poilievre then served as shadow Minister of Jobs and Industry and shadow Minister of Finance.

poilievre continues from page 1 Last fall, Poilievre welcomed a second child, a son named Cruz, with his wife Anaida.

Poilievre has been one of the Conservative Party’s most vocal MP’s on any hot pressing government issue, and most recently has thrown his support behind the truckers who are protesting COVID-19 mandates on the front lawn of Parliament Hill.

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Meehan survives Moffatt’s motion, then resigns from police service board

By Charlie Senack

Emotion was high Wednesday night as Ottawa City council voted on a motion to remove two key Ottawa Police Service Board members amid the downtown siege.

Ward 21 Councillor Scott Moffatt tabled the motion to remove police board chair Diane Deans and board member Carol Anne Meehan, who is councillor for GloucesterSouth Nepean.

The move came just hours after media reports stated a new police chief was hired less than 24 hours after Chief Peter Sloly resigned. The board, which had not formally announced the hire, sped up the process to bring an end to the week’s long anti COVID-19 demonstrations which have gripped the downtown core.

Sloly resigned effective immediately after facing much public backlash for a lack of response from the force, and the board felt they had to act

fast during unprecedented times.

According to multiple media reports, the board hired former Waterloo Police Chief Matt Torigian, who left that position in 2014 and hasn’t policed since. His contract in Ottawa would last until the end of 2022, but could end earlier if a mutual agreement was reached.

When the reports first started coming out on social media, many city councillors were left blind sighted by the news and felt they should have been consulted, which wasn’t legally required.

The Police Services Act allows the board to recruit and appoint a new chief of police or deputy chief. That includes determining their remuneration and working conditions.

Calls for Resignation

Even so, Ottawa’s Mayor Jim Watson clearly wasn’t in support of the move. Sources tell the Manotick Messenger

both Meehan and Deans were asked to resign from the board, but said no.

That’s when Moffatts motion was brought forward to oust them in a vote. It was seconded by Innes ward councillor Laura Dudas.

Both Meehan and Deans said it was a last approach power grab by the Mayor and came from his office.

“I’m astounded by what’s happening tonight,” a tearful Meehan said. “Yes I’m an emotional person, but I can say that I am truly disgusted by the cheap political stunt that is being played out here tonight.”

Meehan said the Police Services Act doesn’t give board members the power to direct the chief.

“We are kept in the dark a lot of time,” she said. “We are oversight, he is operational.”

Reaction to the motion was mixed with some councillors agreeing it was a stunt drawn up by the Mayor, and others saying the board failed Ottawa

residents with inaction for 20 days.

It led board member Rawlson King to resign from the board even before a vote had been done. He said the Mayor had a “different vision” for governance. Many councillors begged him to stay and reconsider his decision, but King, the only Black member on the board, wouldn’t budge.

Earlier in the day, civilian member Sandy Smallwood also resigned in protest, after Councillor Eli El Chantiry publicly criticized the board.

The motion called for him to replace Deans’ seat, and also become chair.

Council voted 15-9 in favour of ousting Deans, but Meehan’s fate was different.

When it was time to vote on whether or not to remove her, the Gloucester-South Nepean Councillor could be heard saying “the vote would be the same.”

“You can vote me off the police services board; that’s

fine,” Meehan told her council colleagues. “It will give me time to go downtown and help Catherine (McKenney) and the residents clean up down there.”

In a surprising turn of events, council voted 13-11 in favour of keeping Meehan on the board, with councillors Keith Egli, Mathieu Fleury, Catherine Kitts, and Matt Lulloff voting differently in the second round.

Barrhaven councillor Jan Harder was expected to take over Meehan’s seat saying she lost the vote.

Meehan Resigns In Solidarity

While Meehan could have remained on the board after the vote of confidence, she too decided to resign in solidarity with Deans and King.

Meehan defended Deans and said the board always followed all rules by the book.

“Councillor Deans has led the Ottawa Police Services

Board with integrity and compassion,” she said. “Councillor Deans has shown a real openness, resilience and thoughtfulness when it comes to managing the difficult files that have come before this police services board.”

She also read out a brief Twitter conversation she had with Mayor Jim Watson over her feelings that more could have been done sooner.

On Feb. 2 she asked the Mayor to declare a state of emergency, a move not done for four more days. Watson responded by saying it wouldn’t accomplish anything, and would not give the city any additional tools to stop the protests.

“I don’t think anyone is going to be fooled here tonight,” Meehan said. “And if they want heads to roll, do it at the ballot box in October. I think the mayor of this city should resign tonight because this city is in chaos tonight and it shouldn’t be.”

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MESSENGER Editorial

Invoking the Emergencies Act will help Canada’s reputation

What the protest has taught us about freedom

Freedom.

After an argument between protestors and It’s probably the most misused word in residents of the building, two protestors from our city right now as we face yet another tried to set the building on fire and then the week of the Duck Dynasty convention thatother taped the doors shut. What about the freePage 6, Manotick Messenger, Wednesday, June 23, 2010 has evolved from what was once intended doms of those the protestors attempted to In recent days, many Canadians have watched in disbelief as protesters easily blocked to be a peaceful protest about kill? As for the arsonists? many access points between the United States and Canada. unvaccinated truckers crossHopefully someday they For six painful days, the blockades included the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont., a ing the Canada-US border will experience the freedom key trade conduit between the two countries, forcing trucks to be rerouted towards Sarnia.

Our Cwith Ommunity goods. of being able to wear an orOther border crossings were disrupted in Manitoba, Alberta and now British Columbia.

The anarchists, determined ange jumpsuit, be chained to Many shipmentsMessenger were delayed andEditorial some cargo had to be scrapped, including blueberries and from the get go to turn the a buddy in a highway ditch, greens. That’s more waste and more costs to the industry and consumers. demonstration into a January and pick up trash.

And Are now, theyou government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is invoking the Emergencies 6 starter kit, latched onto the protest and We are not downtown, but in our commore Canadian Act. demanded that one of the worst plagues in munity, how many people have lost the than a have fifth Given how far things gone,grader? the federal government had to consider all options. human history be declared over. And be- ability to go to work because they can’t Withimpact Canada Day approaching next week, is a good time for us all to The of the blockades wasit immediate.

Manufacturing plants were closing, and it cause they declare it over, they want no commute downtown because of the proreflect on what it means to be Canadian. barely a few before the White House called Trudeau to share its concerns. more vaccines and no more masks. tests. What about their freedom to work, Dotook we take beinghours Canadian for granted?

Better yet, supply how do new Canadians feel about beingdays Canadian? of us thing it needed was more humanOur food chain is messy these andSome the last They want their freedom.

We all do.

But and the freedom of their employers to have look upon immigrants and refugees as opportunists, not wanting to give but induced logistical by isthe very disruptive truckers’ convoy. as President Joe Biden so eloquently said employees? very willing to take.predicaments Perhaps, for somecreated people, that true, but when you celebration for new Canadians, such as the one hosted by NepeanWhat about the freedom of the children Itattend hasataken decades to foster a spirit of interdependence between the two countries, espe- on Fox News last weekend, a freedom is Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre at Mother Teresa High School in Barrhaven last month, see the excitement the thankfulness the eyes of every cially for you thecan agri-food sector.and In the last year,inCanada was the second-largest export market for not a freedom when it puts someone else who were brought to the protest, riding shot new Canadian. in danger. And as much as the protestors gun across the country, and taken out of U.S. agricultural exports, totalling than $26 billion They understand, perhaps better than more all of us, what it means to and be accounting for 15 per cent of all claim that masks don’t stop transmissions school. They are getting lots of freedoms, U.S.Canadian. agricultural exports.

At the same time, the United States imported more than $30 billion So how can the rest of us have that feeling?

Bev McRae photo and that vaccines are ineffective, we will like the freedom to potentially be taken worthThe ofConservative agricultural products Canada. government has afrom solid idea.

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The Canadian Citizenship Challenge, funded in part by CIC and run by the Riviera and believe the real research that Maybe they will have the freedom to enter entially long-term consequences in Canada.

This may persuade the U.S. to reconsider strategic Historica-Dominion Institute, will see students study Discover Canada: the claims that masks prevent the spread and the system as foster children.

Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship and then take a mock citizenship alternatives or change its stance on certain more sensitive trade issues, like softwood lumber test.

Sometimes it’s best to say nil vaccinesjust save lives.

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Notion that protestors are fighting for our freedom is morally offensive The Editor, Further to C. Senack’s excellent Feb 11 Messenger article “Poilievre Supports Truckers”: Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre’s unflagging support for the “Freedom” Convoy, and in particular his refrain that the protesters are “peaceful” and “fighting for our freedom” is legally unsupportable, morally offensive and defies common sense. It is almost trite to state that individual rights and freedoms (e.g., mobility, assembly, protest, religion, speech) are the keystones of a healthy democracy.

Without identified and protected fundamental individual freedoms the considerable coercive power of the state will invariably and quickly result in rule by the tyrannical few to the detriment of the many.

The 1215 Magna Carta Libertatum (“Great Charter of Freedoms”) began our long, difficult journey to identify and protect individual freedoms from authoritarian rulers. Today, our legal system abounds with federal and provincial legislation that entrenches the protection of individual rights and freedoms. And none are more obvious and powerful than the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the Charter) that binds both the federal parliament and the provincial governments.

However, not a single law in Canada, (nor in any healthy democracy) provides that any individual right or freedom is absolute, unfettered, unrestrained! In his seminal work Constitutional Law of Canada, Professor Peter Hogg states: “Civil liberties encompass a broad range of values which support the freedom and dignity of the individual and which are given recognition in various ways by Canadian law. … [But] when we speak of the protection of civil liberties in a society we are really speaking about the nature of the compromises which that society has made between civil libertarian values … and the competing values recognized by social and economic regulation which limits individual freedom in pursuit of collective goals such as public order, morality, and safety.”

Indeed, the Charter itself is crystal clear that individual freedoms are not absolute.

Section 1 states that the Charter guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject to “reasonable limits as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.”

Moreover, S.33 allows parliament or a provincial legislature to expressly declare that their legislation can operate notwithstanding a provision protecting individual freedoms in-

cluded in the Charter. Perhaps the most critical and obvious limitation to individual freedom, directly pertinent to the so-called “Freedom” Convoy is stated in S. 2 (c): “Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: … freedom of peaceful assembly”.

Mr. Senack details the widespread “vile acts and intimidation” of the protesters.

Since Mr. Senack’s article, protester tactics have included an attempt to burn down a 100unit apartment building and taping the exit door shut, overloading Ottawa’s 911 emergency call system with crank calls and disrupting traffic at the Ottawa airport. Among the many critical supply chain disruptions, the auto manufacturing sector in the USA and Canada has suffered millions of dollars in losses to date. Any reasonable person that assesses these reprehensible tactics can only conclude that the protesters have no interest in “peaceful assembly”. Mr. Poilievre insists that these actions are the antics of just “a few bad apples”, that the vast majority of protesters are “bright, joyful, peaceful, law-abiding”, and he encourages protesters to stand their ground.

Two weeks, and counting, of widespread abhorrent, dangerous tactics that have stolen the cities of Ottawa, Windsor

and Coutts from its citizens causing tremendous physical, economic, and psychological chaos exposes the sham to the assertion that only “a few bad apples” are responsible. Ongoing support for the protesters can not be divorced from support for their contemptible antics. Mr. Poilievre has aided and abetted these intolerable actions and must take full responsibility for his part in promoting them.

One of the most wearisome aspects of Mr. Poilievre’s duplicitous support for the protesters is his incessant mantra that Prime Minister Trudeau

is to blame for virtually all the COVID restrictions implemented across Canada to address the COVID pandemic.

Under the Constitution Act, 1867 (formerly the British North America Act, 1867), as interpreted by the Supreme Court of Canada, the federal government is indeed responsible for rescinding the exemption for unvaccinated truckers who travel into the United States. However, the Constitution Act, 1867 and subsequent Supreme Court of Canada decisions make it crystal clear the vast majority of COVID restrictions are the exclusive

responsibility of the provinces (including mandates, vaccine passports, lockdowns, occupancy restrictions, long-term care homes, schools, public health measures). Yet Mr. Poilievre has never aimed his indignation for any restrictions towards any of the provinces who are legally responsible for them, preferring instead to vent his ire solely at Prime Minister Trudeau. Mr. Poilievre’s ongoing support for the “freedom” protesters is contrary to the Charter, socially irresponsible, and disgraceful.

Hajo Versteeg, Manotick

The Editor, Has Doug Ford become the Teflon Premier? One can’t help but wonder why, exactly, he manages to get a free pass from that rag-tag, low-information horde of insurrectionists and evangelicals that is currently residing on the streets of downtown Ottawa—otherwise euphemistically referred to as the “Freedom Convoy.”

For reasons which remain unclear, these folks seem to think that the federal government is to blame for everything associated with the response to Covid-19. Some of them are convinced that the reason they have to wear a mask to enter a grocery store in Calgary is

somehow the fault of Justin Trudeau! Of course, thinking Canadians understand that lockdowns, capacity limits and restaurant closures have all been imposed by Canada’s Provincial governments, 8 out of 10 of which are right-ofcentre majorities. Hardly a leftist liberal conspiracy!

The irony of it all is that it was Doug Ford—in May of 2021—who was complaining bitterly that the Premiers were doing all the heavy lifting in the response to Covid-19 and it was Trudeau who wasn’t being strict enough. As Doug said at the time, “Justin Trudeau is responsible for two things only through this whole pandemic.”

Ford went on to explain that those were “to make sure we have enough vaccines….and to make sure we secure the borders, and it’s just not happening,” Ford continued to describe the border measures as “weak and porous,” and demanded that Trudeau start forcing anyone entering Canada through a land border to be subjected to a three-day quarantine.

In fairness to Doug, Trudeau’s decision to prevent unvaccinated truckers from reentering Canada without quarantining was not in deference to Ford, but rather a response to the Biden administration’s decision to close the US border to

unvaccinated truckers, which is the real reason that Canadian truckers should be angry. If only they could figure out who really is responsible for their current situation!

Of course, the Teflon Premier really shone after Canada’s various conservative parties got word from the folks they actually answer to—the corporate sector—that blocking border crossings could not continue. Instantly federal Conservative interim leader Candice Bergen—a vocal supporter of the “Freedom Convoy,” did an abrupt volteface and told the protesters it was time to move on. Pierre Poilievre, who had famously

delivered coffee and doughnuts to the protesters, was suddenly telling Canadians that, “I’ve always been against blockades and I still am now, because I don’t believe you can gain your freedom by blocking someone else’s.” And of course, Doug Ford famously parked his snowmobile long enough to declare a “state of emergency” in Ontario so that the police could forcibly break up the border blockades. Oddly, for Ford there was no negative press about “government overreach” or suggestions that Doug’s decision to fine violators as much as “$100,000 and up to a year imprisonment” was in any way excessive.

In contrast to Ford, when Justin Trudeau invoked the “Emergency Act”—with the full support of the Teflon Premier—he was largely criticized by the press, with the Globe and Mail suggesting that he had taken the “nuclear option.”

Everyone seems to have forgotten that the “nuclear option” was only taken as a result of the weeks-long failure of both the Ottawa Police Service and the Ford government to restore some semblance of order in the City of Ottawa.

In actual fact, Doug should be thanking Justin for taking the problem off his hands!

Andy Braid, Kars

Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre poses for a photo with truckers during the first weekend of the protest on Parliament Hill.

If only truckers could figure out who is responsible for their situation

by Phill Potter

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Parents: Heather and Dennis Wyche

lem solving. Since the concepts are not broad, and there isn’t much interpretation to be done, it’s more just problem solving, which is what makes me enjoy those classes the most.”

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Career Goals: “After high school I hope to go to university somewhere near the east coast; hopefully in orative candidate elect as kinesiology.

My topto choice our Member of Parliament MANOTICK MESSENGER schools are University of – one who willinmake wise, New Brunswick St. John, rational decisions reflect and Dalhousie in and Halifax.

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Canada needs PHOTO a Just PHILL POTTER Transition Act and it’s up to this House of Commons to get it tabled, debated and passed.

Paul Markle, Barrhaven

Readers calls it shocking that some MPs supported ‘rag-tag collection of anarchists’

The Editor, Predictably, after actually stopping to think, some Conservative Party of Canada members are retracting their outlandish support for the occupation of downtown Ottawa. It was truly shocking to find this week that elect-

ed Members of Parliament were supporting this rag-tag collection of anarchists, illinformed pawns, foreign- influenced agitators, misguided Canadian workers and law breakers.

Pierre Poilievre, our Member of Parliament, is actually

The Editor, Now that the House of Commons has resumed and our Members of Parliament are back at work, it’s time for Canada to pass the Just Transition Act. The simple

fact is that if Canada is going to meet our climate commitments, we need to start phasing out fossil fuels.

And, if we’re going to phase out fossil fuels, we need to make sure that communities,

The MessengerFOCUS ON YOUTH Being OTHS Student Council President a rewarding experience

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The Editor, Much has been said about why it is so difficult for the OPS to bring the blockade in Ottawa under control. The short answer is Its the trucks! Protest organizers chose an effective tactic to use the heavy trucks as weapons of intimidation, shelter, and disruption with noise, and the difficulty of moving them once in place.

Other cities learned from Ottawa’s experience and took steps to prevent them from occupying locations that would have the most disruptive impact. As the blockades continue, we are starting to learn more about the groups behind it, how they are funded and organized. We can expect to learn more, much as the committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has done as they uncover more evidence.

Learning from past experiences will be important to update strategies and tactics for managing future protests that repeat tactics that were so effective.

Premier Ford proclaimed his support for the right to protest early on and his support for truckers, which probably explains his move to suspend the safety regulations on trucking in the first emergency management proclamation. His position changed when the trucks headed towards Queens Park.

Premier Kenney supported the protest initially due to the potential impact on the supply chain.

His position changed once the Coutts blockade shut down the border crossing and he realized they could not be moved and the impact to the supply chain was severe.

PM Trudeau likely felt that a more consistent vaccine mandate would improve the vaccine adoption rate. Given that the truckers had been crossing the border unhindered for two years, a more supportive tactic may have been to provide vaccine clinics at border crossing points to make it as easy as possible for them to continue working in the face of the

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community. He said that, by definition, all residents and businesses in the Village of Richmond are automically members of the RVA. There are no membership dues, as there are in many other community associations. Because of that, the RVA relies heavily on volunteers to organize and run events like the Santa Claus Parade.

Those volunteers looking for a deeper level of involvement are needed for the RVA’s programming.

Another program expected to return in 2022 is the Richmond Youth Centre, which is operated at the Richmond Memorial Community Centre.

“The Richmond Youth Centre is a program that is managed and funded by the Richmond Village Association,” Pinet said.

“We have paid facilitators that are organizing events for youth in the community. That was one program that was very difficult to manage during COVID. The idea is to get the youth together in a safe but engaging space where they can get together and have a good time. We tried to do a lot of it on Zoom sessions but that really limited the ability of what we could do.”

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The Richmond Village Association has elected its 2022 board of directors, and expressed hopes for many of its cancelled and modified activities can return to normal as the province and city continue to lessen COVID-19 restrictions.

The RVA, which gives the community a voice at the city’s political table for things like the masterplan and the transportation plan, also looks after many activities in the community. Ryan Pinet, who returns as the RVA President, said that because of the cancellation of numerous events, the association is currently in a financial surplus situation.

“Because we haven’t been able to do family fun days, and we weren’t able to run the grocery bus that we usually ran, and because our programming has all been run virtually, our expenses were quite low this year,” Pinet said.

Among the programs and events the RVA the oversees include the spring clean-up, the village garage sale, Richmond Family Day, the annual Santa Claus Parade, the walking club, the annual student award, the richmondvillage.ca website and community events calendar, and the Richmond Village Directory.

Pinet also explained how the board spent significant time reviewing and updating their strategic plan. The ongoing project, which will be completed in 2022, identifies five priorities: community events; community engagement; raising the profile of the RVA;

supporting the community, youth and seniors; and advocacy of village needs and interest.

While Pinet returns as the RVA President, he will have seven directors on the board. They include returnees Glenn Fisher, Jordan Newman, Roland Rotter, Sylvain Sauve, Judy Wagdin and Mark Heckman. Kristine Quarrington also joins the board for her first term.

For the second straight year, the RVA worked with the Richmond Agricultural Society to hold a stationary Santa Claus Parade at the Richmond Fairgrounds. Several hundred cars drove through the parade, which lasted for well over two hours.

“One of our key components is to try to bring the community together,” Pinet said. “We were able to run the drive through parade this year. The feedback we got was great – it was wonderful. We had a couple dozen floats, we had hundreds of cars, and everybody really enjoyed it. It was great to do that, but we are really looking forward to holding more events in the future and getting back to a more normal operation in that sense for 2022.”

Pinet said that with the return of more events, there will be a need for more volunteers in the

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Carnival of Chaos at City Council carries on after Sloly resignation Three years ago, when I made the decision to run to represent our community at City Hall, I could never have imagined what this term has brought.

From the colossal failure and disappointment that LRT has become, to the questionable decisions that have been made on the Lansdowne file, Chateau Laurier, the political gerrymandering that occurs to place certain councillors on committees to further the political agenda of Mayor Watson, and now, the dirty political hatchet job aimed to scapegoat political rivals of the Mayor is appalling.

It is the worst kind of leadership and not why I ran for office and certainly is not in the best interests of the City.

Much has been made of the dramatic resignation of Peter Sloly, the former Chief of the Ottawa Police Service and the ouster of Councillor Diane

Deans from her role as Chair of the Ottawa Police Services Board due to the ongoing occupation of Ottawa.

First, I know that no one wants to see the illegal occupation of our downtown come to a safe and quick conclusion more than the members of the Police Services Board who did everything we could under the existing legislation to help our Police Service achieve this goal.

Much criticism from all sides has been directed at the Police Chief, OPS Board members and Councillors, some of it deserved and in fact, much has come from me.

I have been extremely frustrated with the slow pace and the seemingly lackluster results we witnessed during the first few weeks of the protest.

I like many others, want this untenable situation resolved.

Like you, I have no time and little patience for political posturing, behind-covering or any

other political maneuver that is designed to deflect blame when what is needed is leadership.

I am human, and therefore, am imperfect. I have made mistakes during my time around the council table and will likely make more as I continue to serve. What I have always done, is to try to represent my community and its

views, regardless of the personal or political cost.

It takes leadership for anyone who is interested in representing their community to take the leap into the public sphere.

Although there is a democratic deficit and a lack of leadership at City Hall, I am committed to standing up for our community

for as long as I hold your confidence. Although this term of council has been more like a carnival of chaos rather than a model of good government, I am deeply gratified for the faith and trust you have placed in me and will continue to represent our residents to the best of my abilities.

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MVCA participating in City of Ottawa’s Vacant Building Consultations

The increase in the number of vacant buildings in the City of Ottawa, including a few sites along Manotick’s Main Street, has resulted in the City updating its Vacant Building Strategy. The number of vacant buildings has mushroomed from 95 in 2013 to 220 in 2020, making it difficult for City by-law officials to effectively ensure landowners are abiding by property standards for vacant residential, commercial or industrial buildings.

The Vacant Building Strategy, created in 2013, established some property guidelines, a list of vacant properties based on complaints received from residents, and a commitment for a twice-annual inspection of vacant properties.

The City is updating the Strategy with the hope of reducing community nuisances from vacant properties (weedy yards, falling

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down structures), reducing the time that buildings are vacant, improving pest control and providing cost recovery for administration.

Under the existing Strategy, owners of vacant buildings are to maintain them to a minimum standard so they are not unsightly or unsafe and that the lands are free from garbage and debris. The standards require the removal of any dead trees, trimmed lawns, maintenance of shrubs and hedges, and an absence of abandoned appliances or vehicles. It also requires the maintenance and repair of any structural components of the vacant building, such as railings, roofs, eaves-

troughs and stairs.

The MVCA is participating in a discussion with City officials about the effectiveness of the current policy and possible amendments to be tabled later this year. In the meantime, residents can submit a complaint about vacant properties that are unkept or deteriorating by contacting 311 by phone or online. You can also view the documents and info about the consultation at www.engage.ottawa.ca

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It is not too late to support the Ottawa Snowsuit Fund. The Snow Angel Challenge is a great opportunity to experience socially distant winter fun and connect with friends, colleagues and loved ones online all while raising money for The Snowsuit Fund. Everyone who registers and raises a minimum of $20 receives a limited-

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ROSSS helps seniors with income tax preparations

Seniors with a modest income and simple tax situation can have their 2021 tax returns prepared for free by experienced professionals. You can get details by contacting ROSSS (Rural Ottawa South Support Services) at 613-692-4697Ext 228.

The City of Ottawa is developing a Vacant Building Strategy for vacant buildings throughout the city, including in Manotick.

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It looks like things are finally starting to move on planned construction projects along Main Street.

Construction of the new Royal Lepage building (next to the Black Dog Bistro) is now underway.

Good news for Wendy Richards, the owner of the

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SHOP LOCAL Unique ways local businesses can work together The effects of a thriving small business sector are undeniable. Though the COVID-19 pandemic challenged the small business sector in various ways, A postpandemic return to normal could help small businesses regain that influence, especially if such establishments work together.

A recent study from Red Egg Marketing found that 82 percent of consumers indicate they would spend more to support small businesses after the pandemic. That support should go a long way toward aiding the recovery of small, locally owned businesses. But such establishments can do themselves a favor by finding ways to work together. Such collaborations can be a great way for local companies to connect with new customers while also supporting fellow small businesses. The following are a handful of ways local businesses can work together as they recover from the economic effects of the pandemic. · Consider cross-promo-

tional events. Cross-promotion is a marketing endeavor in which two or more businesses work together to promote a service or product. For example, a local brewery may partner with a local restaurant to showcase a new beer release and a special menu item that pairs well with that particular beer. These types of promotions shed light on what each business can offer, and many consumers would be happy to learn they’re supporting at least two local businesses at the same time. · Change suppliers. Many partnership opportunities can be effective even if they’re less public in nature. Global supply chains were in flux during the pandemic and have yet to return to normal. That makes now a great time for local businesses to reconsider their suppliers. When doing so, look into local suppliers and let it be known that your products are locally sourced.

For example, local restaurant owners can highlight the fact that their foods are sourced from local farms and manu-

facturers. That may impress foodies with a fondness for freshness, and also should reassure customers who want to keep as many of their dollars in the local community as possible. · Form a local business network. When one business on Main Street is thriving, others tend to follow suit.

That’s especially true when businesses network in the hopes of creating a bustling local shopping district. Local business owners can organize a network via social media or in person communication.

Encourage business owners to share what worked, and didn’t work, as they built their businesses. Local networks also can be a great forum to plan and pitch community-based events like festivals, holiday bazaars and other functions designed to bring more consumers to Main Street.

Rebuilding after the pandemic poses some unique challenges to small business owners. Working together can be an effective way to overcome those challenges.

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Ontario launches tutoring support program for learning recovery, mental health The Ontario government has announced record funding for the 2022-23 school year. The funding will support learning recovery and mental health supports for students to enable them to return to a more normal school year next year.

Education Minister Stephen Lecce introduced Ontario’s Learning Recovery Action Plan – a five-point plan to strengthen learning recovery in reading and math, anchored by the largest provincial investment in tutoring supports, summer learning and mental health. The government outlined investments that will bridge learning gaps, supporting academic success and focus on overall mental health and wellness.

Together, this total funding amounts to over $26.6 billion in 2022-23 – the highest investment in pub-

lic education in Ontario’s history, with highlights including: A $683.9 million increase in Grants for Student Needs (GSN) funding, with projected total funding of $26.1 billion. This represents a 2.7 per cent increase from 2021-22 Average per pupil GSN funding is projected to rise to $13,059, which is an increase of $339 or a 2.7 per cent increase from 2021-22 Over $500 million in Priorities and Partnerships Funding (PPF) $90 million in total mental health investments, representing a 420 per cent increase in funding since 2017-18 $15 million to deliver expanded summer learning opportunities $92.9 million increase in Special Education

Grant funding through the GSN where it is projected to increase to over $3.25 billion, the highest amount ever provided in Special Education Grant funding $304 million in time-limited additional staffing supports, through the COVID-19 Learning Recovery Fund as part of the GSN. This funding will go towards the hiring of an estimated 3,000 front line staff – including teachers, early childhood educators, educational assistants, and other education workers to address learning recovery.

The government is also continuing to provide $1.4 billion for the repair and renewal of schools for the 2022-23 school year.

The Ontario Government’s $600 million Learning Recovery Action Plan will help students recover from the disruptions of

the COVID-19 pandemic and will be available to students this year and into next school year. $175 million is being invested to expand access to free publicly funded tutoring in small groups after school, during school, on weekends and over the summer. This province-wide program will start in April 2022 and continue until December 31, 2022 to ensure continuity of access to tutoring to ensure students can catchup as they start the next school year.

Many parents and educators have noted stagnation or regression in reading skills. To further support literacy and numeracy focused learning recovery, the government is providing $40 million in foundational learning supports in reading and math, including $25 million for

professional assessments and reading intervention programs for children who face difficulty learning to read.

The Government is also expanding summer learning with $15 million, building on Ontario’s historic investments in the largest summer learning programs initiated in 2020 in response to the pandemic.

Summer programs in 2022 include $10 million in funding for students with special education needs and opportunities for summer learning for First Nation students living on reserve.

In addition to in-person tutoring opportunities, the government also announced an expansion of teacher-led, one-on-one digital tutoring. Ontario is also supporting the expansion of online tutoring through Mathify and

Eurêka! so more students can access these services.

To support student mental health and well-being in 2022-23, Ontario will be investing more than $90 million including $10 million in new funding, of which $5 million is to be used for evidence based mental health programs and resources. This funding will help to retain the existing mental health workers in schools, including the 180 mental health professionals that are providing critical supports directly to students in secondary schools across the province.

This investment will support the mental health and well-being of all students and will enable school boards to continue to assist students who are experiencing mental health challenges that are impacting their learning.

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Remembering Ottawa’s famous places and landmarks from generations ago Remember the Capitol Theatre on Bank near Albert in Ottawa? As you walked into the theatre there was a tremendous, curved stairway with gleaming brass handrails leading up to the huge landing on the second level, the seats were at three different levels. One was left with the impression that everything was “all velvet and chandeliers”. There were other theatres too, the Ode-

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on, the Regent, the Roxy, the Mayfair and who could forget the Rialto, maybe just a play on words but the Rialto was unfairly known as the “Rat hole” – rat hole and rialto sound alike!

The Ottawa Journal

was one of the daily newspapers that didn’t survive but was a dominant force for many years. There are many other places that, for various reasons, find their way back into the memory, the Nurses Residence at the Civic Hospital - the Teachers College - the Auditorium - The Russell Hotel - The Alexandra Hotel, affectionately known by many as “The Alex” and the Prescott Ho-

tel also known as the “Last Chance”, because it was the last hotel before leaving the city limits to highway 16.

Remember the Union Station when the trains came right uptown? Before the Station was moved to the outskirts of the city there was about 32 miles of track within the city.

The streetcars went “all the way to Britannia Park” before the change-over to

buses started in 1958.

Rideau is the French word for curtains that is what the voyageurs thought the twin falls that cascade 300’ to the Ottawa River looked like. Less than 20 kilometres of the nearly 200-kilometre waterways from Kingston to Ottawa is a canal, the rest follows lakes and streams.

Bytown changed its name in 1855 to Ottawa, an English version of the

Algonkian Indian word for “adawe” meaning to trade.

Across the Ottawa River, the word Quebec came from the Algonkian Indian word “kebec” meaning the place where the river narrows, referring to the St. Lawrence River and the first permanent settlement in Canada, Quebec City.

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Manotick Legion collecting clothing, household items for Afghan refugees Upon entering the Legion building in Manotick, one of the first exhibits one sees is a board with the pictures and names of 159 Canadian Armed Forces personnel who died while on duty in Afghanistan in support of a United Nations effort to bring peace and stability to a country torn by war and strife for

centuries.

To cope with various languages spoken in Afghanistan some Afghan people who can speak English assisted the Canadian troops, including the planning and carrying out of combat situations. Not surprisingly, these translators and their families became targets for some

of the Afghan warring factions, a situation that continued even after a peace, of sorts, was achieved in December 28, 2014 and, incredibly, is still on-going today.

To save their lives, the Afghan translators and their families must flee their country and thus become refugees. Canada

assists, and many arrive in Ottawa with nothing more than the clothes they wear, perhaps carrying a hastily packed bag. Indeed, refugees.

The Federal Government assists by providing interim accommodation, typically in hotels and motels, until more permanent housing is found.

A depot called “From House to Home” has been set up in a disused grocery store on Ridgewood Ave. at Mooney’s Bay to collect and distribute clothing, footwear, furniture, small appliances, such as microwaves, and other household articles of all kinds to help these refugees get settled. The Manotick

Legion is a key member of this organization. The Legion also serves as a drop-off point for donated articles, Tuesdays to Saturdays from 1-5 p.m.

We may well ask how many Canadian lives may have been saved through the services provided by the Afghan translators.

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The good news is that with nearly a dozen manufacturers, there are numerous product lines offering thousands of solutions, so with some detailed consideration of all the options, finding what’s best for you is possible.

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Their customized intervention approach is unfortunately rare in today’s market, where retail settings, larger clinics and manufacturer owned chains have limited the patient’s options to a single or few manufacturers.

The unique and refreshing approach that sets Hearing Freedom apart from other providers was established over 20 years ago when Rosanne McNamee, Doctor of Audiology, decided to do it her way.

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At Hearing Freedom, there are no predetermined products or plans. Each and every patient’s intervention plan is as unique as they are. The experience begins with a thorough assessment which is followed by a detailed needs assessment, giving proper foundation. All options, amplification or otherwise, are then discussed. “We devote all the time necessary to ensure our patients’ hearing needs are met.” explains McNamee, “We offer demos as well as a 90-day trial period on purchased hearing aids. These options give patients the confidence that they have chosen the right solution for them, their lifestyle and hearing needs.” With a focus on rehabilitation and continued support, a 5 year service plan is included with your purchase to ensure regular hearing check-ups and ongoing hearing aid care.

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Meehan says she’s appalled at how the city is being run

By Charlie Senack A day after she resigned from the Ottawa Police Services Board, councillor Carol Anne Meehan says she’s appalled at how the city is being run.

The Gloucester-South Nepean councillor was expected to be ousted from the board, after Rideau-Goulbourn councillor Scott Moffatt brought forward a motion to remove Meehan and Diane Deans, the boards chair.

Deans’ position would go to West-Carleton March councillor Eli ElChantiry, and Meehan’s would go to Barrhaven councillor Jan Harder.

Deans was voted out 15-9, but Meehan won the confidence vote with four additional councillors voting to keep her on. Despite this, Meehan decided to resign in solidarity.

In an interview with the Manotick Messenger in the morning after the seven hour-long board meeting, Meehan said she didn’t expect the vote to work in her favour.

“I was surprised but I was also gratified that I had the majority of council support me and wanted to allow me to continue to serve on the Ottawa Police Services Board,” she said. ‘I thank them for that; I think that sends a clear message to Jim Watson, Scott Moffatt, and to Jan Harder that not everyone agrees with their tactics.”

Meehan said she decided to step down because of the dirty politics

at play.

“I could not go forward and serve with an appointed board that Jim Watson had orchestrated,” she said. “I fully believe that our Ottawa Police Services Board did everything in its power to end this demonstration and to support the police as well as we can. I could not in good faith continue on the board.”

Meehan said it was a targeted attack against her from the Mayor’s office. Watson and Meehan have often butted heads with different viewpoints.

“It definitely was an orchestrated attack coming from the Mayor’s office, and what we witnessed on the evening of the 16th was an absolute disgrace,” Meehan told the Messenger. “I want to apologize to the people of this city who should expect more from their elected representatives.

None of us, especially me, wanted to be embroiled in a situation like this when the people of this city need leadership.”

“We need a united front in an unprecedented crisis,” the ward 22 councillor added. “Instead we were killing seven hours debating something that was politically motivated and was nothing more than petty politics and Jim Watsons attempt to discredit the people who were working the hardest to resolve this crisis.”

Hope Turns to Frustration

Meehan was part of the board that hired Sloly in the first place. It was a

history-making moment for Ottawa with the city’s first Black police chief.

Sloly was brought in to help repair race relations, and to fix a divide which existed in the force.

“Chief Sloly was a change agent and we needed that. Our police service was in total disarray,” Meehan noted.

“We had a list of allegations of sexual harassment and assault within the police service; We had numerous officers off on leave; we had a service that did not reflect the diversity of our community.”

The way policing is done has also changed in this city, notes Meehan, which is long overdue.

“Policing in Canada and around the world is changing because of what happened with George Floyd. We need to change the way we police and we have been addressing that,” she said. “One of my council colleagues called me up and said ‘What are you guys doing? Why are you listening to the Bipoc community?’ Do you think that not listening to the community is going to be a solution? We are divided, we are trying to listen and police in different ways for changing times in the city.”

Meehan said not being on the board is going to free up much of her time which can now be dedicated to her ward 22 constituents. She also plans to help with cleanup efforts downtown when the demonstrators go home.

Ottawa Police say

Ward 22 Councillor Carol Anne Meehan resigned from the Ottawa Police Services Board last week.

they have a plan to end the weeks long siege and it’s being orchestrated.

Meehan says that plan will be implemented slowly to ensure the situation doesn’t turn to chaos.

Plans Get Backtracked

On Feb. 17, Mayor Watson announced that former Waterloo Police Chief Matthew Torigian would terminate his contract to become this city’s chief, and Interim Chief Steve Bell would remain in the position for now.

Torigian was expected to start the position in only a few days.

In a memo sent out Friday afternoon from Eli

El-Chantiry and Mayor Jim Watson, it read: “We thank Mr. Torigian for his gracious offer and decision to withdraw his offer of services and to seek no compensation for doing so. “On behalf of Ottawa City Council, the OPS Board and all residents, we thank Mr. Torigian for his extremely gracious handling of this difficult situation.”

Meehan said Torigian was only to come to Ottawa on an interim basis to deal with the situation now. She said the Solicitor General’s Office gave a recommendation and supported the hiring “in order to get through this crisis.”

“We can make decisions and we made a decision which was in the best interest for this city and senior command,” the Gloucester-South Nepean councillor noted.

“He was going to be a short term interim chief to help the senior command. We would have told council about this in due course, except the Mayor’s office leaked it to make it a wedge issue.

The fact that city councillors ignored the truth is really frustrating. I’m really sad to think they have all subscribed to the Mayor’s remedy. I am sad that many of them choose to ignore the rules that we operated under.”

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Rideau Action Group loses hearing regarding North Gower warehouse

By Manotick Messenger Staff The mega warehouse in North Gower has cleared another hurdle.

The Rideau Action Group, who opposed the city’s rezoning amendment to allow the warehouse on Roger Stevens Drive at Highway 416, lost its Ontario Land Tribunal hearing against the City of Ottawa.

“While North Gower was characterized in the city documents as a jewel’ of Ottawa’s small rural communities, nevertheless the location at 416 was deemed important for commerce and jobs,” said Jane Wilson of North Gower. “The fact the City supports the designation as an e-commerce warehouse was deemed important to the decision.”

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the Tribunal decision, and is more concerned than ever that plans to industrialize Ottawa’s small communities will proceed, such as the city’s plans for renewable energy via more than 700 industrial-scale wind turbines.

The developer for the warehouse plan in North Gower is Montreal-based Broccolini, who built the Amazon warehouses and distribution centres in both Barrhaven at the 416/ Fallowfield interchange, and east of Greely at the 417/Boundary Road interchange.

After Broccolini sold the Barrhaven building to a Toronto company for just under $500 million last month – Amazon still has a 20-year lease in the building – the Ottawa Business Journal reported that the North

Gower warehouse, as expected, was to also be an Amazon warehouse and distribution centre.

Although the land presently contains forested areas and actively farmed fields, they are designated within the city’s official plan as ‘Highway Commercial’ and ‘Industrial’.

The eastern portion of the site abutting Highway 416 is within the Highway Commercial designation and the western portion of the site, which abuts residential lots, is within the Industrial designation.

In December, 2019, the City of Ottawa’s Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee voted 4-1 to approve the rezoning for the warehouse. Rideau-Goulbourn Councillor Scott Moffatt was in favour of the project.

Councillor Carol Anne

Meehan was the only councillor who voted against the proposal.

Moffatt said after the vote that a lot of work had gone into the proposal ahead of time, and his goal was to make the warehouse something that would have the least amount of impact on those in the immediate area.

“What we ended up voting on was a much better option for (local residents) and it will be a less invasive option than what the original plan was,” Moffatt told the Messenger after the meeting.

Moffatt had said that the land was the best commercial and industrial site option along Highway 416. He added that he will continue to work with Broccolini.

While the RAG focused on the negative

impact of the warehouse in the Ontario Land Tribunal hearing, the city countered with the benefits such a warehouse would bring to the area. They argued that if a large e-commerce warehouse were to be built on the site, it would require employees who might then require housing or otherwise provide support for existing businesses in the village.

They argued that the site is capable of benefit-

ting both the local and regional economies.

In its conclusion, the tribunal noted that it “was not persuaded that the instruments before it effect major and undesirable changes for the Village of North Gower and accepts the submissions of the Applicant and the City that the OPA and ZBLA satisfy all requisite legislative tests and are representative of good planning in the public interest.”

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Community mourns passing of local icon John Curry Longtime Stittsville journalist, local historian and school board trustee John Curry has passed away.

The local Ottawa Catholic School Board Trustee, who also worked as a journalist with the Stittsville-Richmond Community Voice, passed away Feb. 4 after a brief hospitalization.

The OCSB says he will be remembered for his advocacy for students with special needs and gifted students; as a pioneer in energy conservation and environmental awareness, fiscal accountability, and his commitment to student success and well-being.

Ottawa Catholic School Board, Director of Education, Thomas D’Amico described John as a multi-talented individual who was an author, filmmaker, journalist, historian, poet and a true gentleman. Mr. D’Amico said, “John never sought the limelight for himself – he was much more comfortable shining the light

on others’ accomplishments.”

He added, “everyone will miss John’s quick wit and ability to build consensus through humour, common sense, and kindness.”

Curry studied journalism at Carleton University. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968 and followed that up with a Bachelor of Journalism Honours degree in 1970.

His first job in the newspaper industry came more than a half century ago, when he took a job with the Arnprior Guide in 1970. Most journalists graduating from college and university programs began their careers at small town or rural newspapers and then worked their way up to dailies in bigger markets. Curry fell in love with small town journalism while in Arnprior.

After two years in Arnprior, he moved to Elmira, north of Barrie, to take a newspaper position in that community.

In 1975, Curry jumped on

an opportunity to purchase the Stittsville News for $6,000.

He moved to Stittsville and worked on turning a dying publication into a successful business. It quickly became a weekly vortex of information and connection in Stittsville and the surrounding area, and helped connect the local residents to their community.

In a 2020 interview, Curry told the Ontario Catholic Schools Trustee Association how proud he was of the contributions made by local schools to the communities they serve.

In particular, he was proud of the St. Mark High School canned food drive.

“Ottawa Catholic School Board high schools, each in their own way, give back to their communities,” he said.

“St. Mark Catholic High School at Manotick has become famous for its annual canned food drive which will be held for the 31st straight year this school year. This is a city-wide endeavor involving

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hours of dedication by each and every student, all culminating in close to 50,000 canned food items being collected to provide to the less fortunate through food banks across the city. It’s a tradition that continues to give each year, not only to the wider community but to the students themselves, who learn the values of kindness, gratitude, inclusivity and hard work. Similar values are learned by Sacred Heart Catholic High School students who annually participate in a Catholic Education week cake auction. Over 100 uniquely decorated cakes fill tables in the school foyer. Classes bid on the cakes with funds donated by the students. The class raising the most money gets first crack at the cakes. This cake auction is a tradition at the school, now 20 years old. The cake auction annually raises as much as $30,000, with the money raised being dispersed to various agencies and charities.”

Curry also served on the Goulbourn Hydro Electric Commission from 1988-2000, when Hydro One and Hydro Ottawa took over Ottawa’s hydro services after the City of Ottawa and the neighbouring cities and rural townships amalgamated.

In 1991, Curry was named the Goulbourn Businessman of the Year award. Three years later, he won the Roger Griffiths Memorial Citizen of the Year Award. In 2009, Curry was the Goulbourn Citizen of the Year in the People’s Choice Business Awards sponsored by the Kanata Chamber of Commerce. In 2015, he re-

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ceived the Heritage Advocacy Award from the Goulbourn Museum. He is a former chair of the Goulbourn Township Local Architectural and Conservation Advisory Committee (LACAC) and served on the city of Ottawa’s LACAC from 2001 to 2009.

Curry had a passion for local history and was very active through the years with the Goulbourn Township Historical Society and was a member of the board of directors for the Goulbourn Museum.

Curry partnered with Sandy Durocher of Stittsville’s Navigator Communications to produce a full-length documentary film on the history of Richmond released in 2018.

Curry sold the Stittsville News to Runge Newspapers in 2001. Runge then sold the publication to Toronto-based Metroland Media in 2005.

Metroland eventually shut the newspaper down. While Curry remained attached to the publications after he sold them, he did resurrect his career as a local journalist when he joined the Kanata-Stittsville Com-

Former Stittsville News publisher, local historian and author, and Catholic School Board Trustee John Curry passed away Feb. 5 at the Almonte Hospital.

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munity Voice when it launched in 2018. When the Community Voice restructured the following year, Curry worked for the Stittsville-Richmond Community Voice.

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Royals end five-game Junior B hockey skid with win over Canadians

By Manotick Messenger Staff The Richmond Royals turned on the offense with four goals in the third period as they beat the Ottawa Jr. Canadians 7-3 Wednesday night in Richmond to end their five-game Eastern Ontario Junior Hockey League losing streak.

The Royals had dropped five straight games since the Junior B circuit returned to play at the beginning of February.

The game was a rematch of their Sunday afternoon contest in Richmond. In that game, the Royals took a lead into the third period but lost 3-2. On Wednesday, the Royals also took a one-goal lead into the third period. This time around, they turned it on in the final 20 minutes and scored four goals.

In the first period, the Royals controlled play and peppered Canadians goalie Ian Lee with 22 shots. Lee kicked aside 21 of them, allowing only a goal by Joshua Barbeau, as he scored from Kylan Tavares and Cole Cassidy.

Just 38 seconds into the second period, Luke Richardson scored from Even Burgess to give the Royals a 2-0 lead. Ethan Greene also scored for the Royals in the period with Wylie Dixon and Owen Nevins adding assists, while Liam Hunter and Andrew Carr scored for the Royals.

Richmond’s Tyler Cutts took the game into his own hands in the third period, scoring two goals in the first five minutes of the stanza to give the Royals a 5-2 lead.

Richardson assisted Cutts’ first goal, while Willem Brandt earned the helper on Cutts’ second goal, which came on the power play.

Owen Nevins scored his fifth of the year from Jackson Dallaire at 6:15 of the third to make the score 6-2.

Nicolas Papineau got one back for the Canadians, but that was all goalie Ethan Dinsdale would give up.

Fifteen-year-old rookie Mikayil Kahriman scored his first ever Junior B goal late in the third from Curran Gilmour to make the final score 7-3.

Dinsdale stopped 34 shots to earn the win, while Lee, who faced 50 Royals shots, made 43 saves.

Different Story Sunday

Three days earlier, the visiting Ottawa Jr. Canadians netted three goals in the third period, including a power play goal with a two-man advantage in the dying minutes of the game, to earn a 3-2 win over the Royals.

While the first period ended with no score, there was some sorting out by the referees with just under a minute left. Justin Cox and Isaac Kelly of the Canadians took unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, and Cox and Liam Hunter had

tripping and roughing minors respectively. For Richmond, Will Small took a roughing penalty, giving Richmond a power play that straddled the intermission.

Tyler Cutts converted for the Royals just 29 seconds into the second period with a power play goal to put the Royals ahead 1-0.

In the third, Connor Fraser scored his fourth of the year for the Canadians to tie the score at 1-1, but the Royals got it back as Ryan Sullivan netted his fourth of the season from Kylan Tavares and affiliate player Will Small.

The Canadians came back again, tying the score at 2-2. As Nicolas Papineau scored from Jayden Baptiste with 7:25 remaining.

In the last five minutes of the third period, the Royals’ wheels came off and the Canadians took full advantage. Ethan Greene was called for cross checking, and a minute later, Owen Nevins was given two minutes and a 10-minute misconduct for a check to the head.

The penalty gave the Canadians about a minute of a five-on-three power play. Ethan Dinsdale shut the door on a few chances, but with two Canadians in front of the net screening the Royals goalie, Andrew Carr’s shot found its way through traffic and into the net for the eventual gamewinner. Connor Fraser and Connor Dobson had assists.

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Richmond Royals goalie Ethan Dinsdale makes a save in traffic while defenceman Curran Gilmour (44) ties up an attacker late in the third period in last Sunday’s 3-2 to the Ottawa Canadians.

The Royals were back at even strength for the last minute-and-a-half of the game. They pulled Dinsdale for an extra attacker, but

they were unable to set up an attack in the Canadians zone and lost 3-2.

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Now we wonder why we let the truck occupation happen

It has been a challenging few weeks in our city. While the situation downtown is fluid and the reality of it as you read this column may be very different from the moment I was writing it, I felt it was important to provide some comments on the illegal occupation and other related matters involving Council and the Police Services Board.

We are at a point in this occupation where the benefit of hindsight clouds how we judge the situation. We sit here now and wonder why we let this happen. We wonder why we didn’t prevent the trucks from entering the core. I think what we have witnessed with similar truck convoy protests in Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City and back in 2019 with the United We Roll protest is that they would come and go. Clearly, we were wrong. I do not

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doubt there were people who believed they would come and stay but also I do not believe that the common belief. This is not something that has ever happened before in our country to this extent.

Even beyond our borders, you must go back to the 1973 Oil Crisis to find a protest where heavy trucks were integral to the executive of the demonstration.

In the days and weeks that followed, there was much concern that the Ottawa Police were not acting quick enough and that the protest was becoming entrenched. It wasn’t just Centretown and the Byward Market

anymore. We were now seeing encampments pop up elsewhere in the city and even outside of the city. Some were managed and shut down, others were not. Meanwhile, Ottawa Police were stressing the need for a peaceful outcome and for more resources to ensure that outcome.

I am going to skip over the inter-governmental finger pointing part of the story. What we knew was that this would not be resolved by Ottawa alone.

We needed help from our partners in the Federal and Provincial Governments. In a variety of forms, assistance was secured. As more resources became available, Ottawa Police was able to take more actions against the demonstration, including by-law infraction tickets, criminal charges, and arrests. Of note, there are well over one hundred ongoing investigations by

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Also, in the months to come, we expect reviews to be carried out on this situation. Council has requested such a review to look at all angles. The world is changing, and we cannot expect this to be a one-time situation.

City Council is unanimous in their desire for a post-mortem. To assist the situation, Council has also approved motions on a variety of matters includ-

ing transit fare relief for residents, requests from other levels of government, reducing Councillor workload during the occupation and multiple condemnations of behaviours and hate symbols seen during the demonstration, now occupation.

Of course, another major situation that occurred recently was the resignation of Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly. Given it has been deemed as a private human resourced matter, we do not have public information on the details. In my opinion, I feel removing the Chief of Police during a crisis is not wise. That said, I do not have all of the details.

I do know what I was told during an “in camera” meeting of Council but we are bound by law not to share those details.

They do influence my thinking, though.

Following the departure of Chief Sloly, the Ottawa Police Services Board quickly moved to replace the Chief with an interim Chief. This individual was not a current member of the Ottawa Police Service. I feel we have the right leadership within the Ottawa Police to manage the situation and to lead on an interim basis until a proper process can be undertaken to find a permanent Chief.

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MANOTICK MESSENGER Trucks continues from page 20 Another change came in the form of replacing members of the Police Services Board. This came directly on the heels of the decision surrounding Chief Sloly and that is not a coincidence. One of my Council colleagues expressed it well that when you put in place a leader and that leader resigns during a crisis, it is often expected that those who installed that leader step down as well.

With that, the scheduling of sporadic meetings during the occupation, including one during a time with the crowd was at its peak and the kneejerk reaction to install a new Chief, I, along with many of my colleagues, lost trust in the Board and moved to replace the members. While the results were mixed, there were changes put in place and now the Board moves forward with an experienced Chair in Councillor Eli El-Chantiry. After the sudden departure of the Chief and the lack of faith that the PSB placed in the existing Deputy Chief to lead, I feel stability has been achieved within the OPS at a time when it is

needed the most.

None of these decisions are made easily.

There are many conflicting views and opinions on how to manage this situation. The only certainty is that none of us have had the silver bullet.

I hope, as you read this, the situation is drastically improved and we begin to move passed this challenging occupation of our downtown core, which has been a nightmare for those who live and work in that area.

In closing, I recognize that not everyone shares the same opinions on this protest. Personally, I defended their rights to assemble at the outset. That right to assemble peacefully cannot, though, come at the expense of others. That is exactly what has occurred here.

Whether you support the intent or completely oppose it, the law is clear that this has become an illegal occupation of our City. That cannot go unpunished. No matter which side you may be on, the law is the law, and it will be enforced on those who break it.

If you have any com-

Whether you support the protest or not, Councillor Scott Moffatt says the law is clear and it is now an illegal occupation of Ottawa.

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COVID forces student to change time management and study habits Name: Corinne Fulton Age: 17 School: St. Mark High Grade: 12 Parents: Ian and Kelly Fulton Brother: Thomas (18), first year engineering student at Waterloo University Sister: Rachel (13), grade 8 at St. Mark High Pet: Moose, a 5-yearold Portuguese water dog Pet Peeves: “I like to stay organized, so messes are one of my pet peeves.

I also don’t like turning left at lights without an advanced green, especially at busy intersections.”

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Another subject that I enjoy is history. I have always found it interesting.”

What do you enjoy reading for pleasure? “I enjoy reading books about world history, because you learn something new every time. I love learning about how the world used to work, and how different cultures used to live.

The last history book that I read was Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massi. It was about the Romanovs.”

Who is your favourite author? ”Probably J.K Rowling, because I grew up reading the Harry Potter books and watching the movies.”

What is your greatest accomplishment?

“How I managed to balance work and school in grade 11. The Covid 19

lockdowns last year threw off my study habits, and having a job also made it more difficult to get work done. Therefore, I would say improving my time management last year so I could succeed at school and work, would be my greatest accomplishment.”

School Activities: “I played girls’ hockey at school for the past few years. We went to OFSAA when I was in Grade 9.

That was a really fun experience. I’ve also been a Peer Helper since grade 10.”

Other Activities/Interests: “Since I was 4, I’ve played hockey for the Nepean Wildcats, but I stopped playing when Covid 19 happened. I don’t have any current extracurricular activities, but to stay active, I do enjoy running and walking my dog.”

Career Goals: “I hope to go to St FX or Dalhousie in Nova Scotia next year. I want to study something biochemistryrelated, because I really enjoy those classes in

high school. After my first four years, I would like to complete more school abroad. I would love to study in the U.K or New Zealand. In terms of a career, I would love to have a biochemistry-based job – like a pharmacist.”

Comment: “Although Covid 19 made school more difficult in the last year, it seems that things are looking up, and I hope that this year is as “normal” as possible.

I would like to thank my current teachers, and my teachers of last year, who worked hard to make sure we had the best learning experience possible in the difficult conditions we were in.”

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