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GROUND BROKENWork is set to begin on the expan-sion of Maison Fraternité’s youth addiction treatement centre, which will provide improved op-portunities for troubled youth.
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Year 1, Issue 37 July 7, 2011 | 28 Pages yourottawaregion.com
FLEURY BACKS AWAYThe Rideau-Vanier councillor was forced to declare a confl ict of interest in a Lowertown develop-ment dispute.
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SIGN OF THE TIMES?The NCC has approved the installa-tion of three digital signs totalling 291 square metres for the Ottawa Convention Centre as part of a pilot project.
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BLOCK PARTY GETS THUMBS UPConst. Jennifer Gourgone, left, Mike Boisclair, Samuel Earle, Rose Anne Leonard, Christopher Cochrane, Cynthia Bekolay, Daniel Brunette, Christine Boisclair, Christine Paquette and Talia Earle celebrated their fi rst neighbourhood watch block party by donating $355 to the McCann Boys and Girls Clubhouse. The fi rst neighbourhood watch organized in Vanier, the members hope to make the party an annual event. For the full story, turn to page 2.
MICHELLE NASH
An open house concerning a multi-use pathway crossing the Rideau River saw the much-anticipated span move one step closer of connecting Overbrook and Sandy Hill.
“This is exactly what we want and need. So far we are very happy,” Sheila Perry, Overbrook Community Council president,
said at the event. The proposed multi-use bridge crossing
the Rideau River is currently in the con-sultation phase, a process being handled by Genivar Consulting Group for the city. The June 28 open house discussed Phase 2 of a fi ve phase process aimed at assess-ing the best possible outcome of a cross-ing for both pedestrians and cyclists. The open house for Phase 1 of the process
was held in January and feedback from that event helped Genivar narrow down the cor-ridor under consideration for the bridge.
The connecting corridor of choice is between Donald Street on the east side of the river and Somerset Street East on the western bank. This is the technically pre-ferred option by the consulting group and the city.
See PLANNING on page 15
Community connection a long time coming
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CELEBRATION FIT FOR A ROYAL COUPLEThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, right, had the best seats in the house as they joined Gov. Gen. David Johnston and his wife Sharon, left, on the Parliament Hill stage for the annual Canada Day concert. Prince William and his new wife Kate were met with crowds of jubilant fans who fi lled Ottawa’s downtown streets on Thursday, June 30 and crowded Parliament Hill for a glimpse of the royal couple on Friday, July 1.
MICHELLE NASH
A block party hosted by a Vanier neigh-bourhood watch group celebrated the start of summer vacation with a generous donation to the Boys and Girls Club’s Mc-Cann clubhouse.
Held on June 26, the party was orga-nized by the original neighbourhood watch group in Vanier. The Longpré Street neighbourhood watch team raised $355 for the clubhouse.
“It was important for all of us to make sure the money would go to local kids,” said watch captain Rose Anne Leonard.
The block party was organized all with-in one month, with Leonard quickly fi ling the paperwork to make sure they would get the street closure application in before the deadline.
Another watch member, Christine Pa-quette, also worked hard getting things ready for the event. All the neighbours sold 50/50 tickets in the community and at work and made sure there would be enough food and games for all the families in the neighbourhood.
The day involved hot dogs, salads and lots of games for the children.
“The kids had a great time. The day just couldn’t have gone any better,” Paquette said.
The decision to give the money to the local Boys and Girls Club was a natural decision for everyone involved.
In Vanier, there are now nine neigh-bourhood watch teams, all of which got started after Leonard and her neighbours
organized the Longpré team. The fi rst to start a watch and now the
fi rst to hold a neighbourhood watch block party, Paquette hopes this will inspire other groups and streets to start up their own.
“We are pretty pumped; everything went so wonderfully, we are looking at this as a start of a new tradition.” Leon-ard said.
The donation was given to the Boys and Girls club on July 5. McCann Clubhouse manager, Adam Joiner thanked the team for their hard work, dedication and gener-ous donation to the club.
Submitted photoVanier’s fi rst neighbourhood watch team held their fi rst block party on June 26. The party had over 90 people in attendance and was held to raise money for a local charity.
Block party donates funds to Boys and Girls Club
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MICHELLE NASH
Maison Fraternité celebrated the start of work on an expan-sion of their treatment centre that will see six beds added, offering Francophone youth a chance to receive counselling for drug and alcohol abuse in Ottawa.
The ground breaking ceremo-ny took place on July 4 at Mai-son Fraternité at 300 Olmstead Rd. in Vanier.
Executive director Denis Boi-leau said he was very happy the day had fi nally arrived.
“July 4 marks the United States Independence Day, but today, here we too would like to celebrate youth’s independence as we break ground for our new six bed treatment centre,” he said.
The Olmstead centre cur-rently takes youth from the age of 12 to 18 and helps them learn to deal with a drug or alcohol addiction by improving self-es-teem, addressing concerns that arise in the home and the effects of peer pressure.
The new 325-square-metre ex-pansion will allow for youth to stay for up to 60 days of treat-
ment, and was made possible through Project S.T.E.P., a joint venture funded by the province of Ontario, the Champlain Lo-cal Health Integration Network, Health Canada, the Sens Foun-dation, the Cowan Foundation, the Ottawa Police Service, Ot-tawa Public Health, the Royal Ottawa Hospital and Ottawa’s four school boards.
Club Richelieu is also a part-ner in the Maison Fraternité renovations, donating $200,000 for the expansion. Representa-tives from the United Way were also at the ceremony, and pre-sented a cheque for $750,000 on behalf of Project S.T.E.P. to help fund the expansion.
Currently, youth from Ottawa requiring treatment must travel to treatment facilities located either in Northern Ontario, Quebec or the United States.
Ottawa Police Chief Vern White is a strong supporter and advocate for the program and has been part of making sure all the school boards were en-hancing their substance abuse education and prevention pro-grams.
“It’s been a real passion of mine and I look forward to see-ing the success of less young
people out on the streets,” White said.
Ottawa-Vanier MP Mauril Bé-langer is also involved with the
project at the request of White. “It is important to make sure
we have residential treatment centres for youth,” said Bé-
langer “We have to turn the tap off, if you will, of the number of youth who are suffering from this addiction.”
Photo by Michelle NashA new to 300 Olmstead Rd. that will offer treatment to youth struggling with drugs and alcohol addiction broke ground on July 4. Executive director Denis Boileau, left, celebrates with the project’s main campaign-ers Police Chief Vern White, Mauril Bélanger, right, and United Way president Michael Allen.
Ground broken at site of youth shelter expansionNews
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LAURA MUELLER
His father’s job at Claridge Homes has forced Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury to step down from representing his constituents on any issue involving the developer.
In hindsight, Fleury said he “most defi nitely” should have sought legal ad-vice at the beginning of his term last De-cember, when he was fi rst learning about confl ict-of-interest law.
“Now that I understand more about declaration of interest and everything, that should have been right off the bat in December, when we started it should have been something that we dealt with.”
That decision left one Lowertown com-munity group fuming, since Fleury made the declaration only a few days before the Bruyere Street Task Force was set to oppose a proposed fi ve-storey, 108-unit development that it claims is a threat to heritage buildings.
The group had worked on the fi le with the councillor’s offi ce for six months, ex-changing hundreds of emails and hold-ing several meetings, said Marc Aubin, the acting president of the Lowertown Community Association.
The planning committee chose to de-lay the item to its next meeting, and councillors Peter Hume and Jan Harder, the chair and vice chair of the planning committee, have extended their support
to represent the Bruyere group.The city’s solicitor, Rick O’Connor, gave
councillors a full presentation on all as-pects of municipal government, includ-ing confl ict of interest legislation, during a week-long workshop in December.
“I didn’t think anything of it because I haven’t lived with my dad since many years,” Fleury said. “At that time, I didn’t perceive that link as relevant at all,” he said.
His parents divorced when he was eight years old and although he was close to his father when he was younger, Fleury said his relationship with his father has been more distant as he got older.
“We’re sort of close sometimes, and not. We haven’t been close in the last few years,” Fleury said.
Fleury said the topic of what people’s family members do for a living came up during a casual conversation with coun-cil colleagues recently, and other council-lors advised Fleury to seek legal advice on whether he was in a confl ict.
“It was clear from the lawyer that I had to declare a confl ict,” Fleury said. “This has a direct impact to me, but I really have no control over where my dad works,” Fleury said. “He is an adult, I’m an adult.”
To his knowledge, Fleury said that his father has a small role in the company that involves inspecting new houses be-fore people move in.
“I sort of knew what he did, but he was in a small role,” Fleury said, adding that
he hadn’t spoken to his father since De-cember and he wasn’t sure exactly what his father did at Claridge, or if he was still in the same role.
The councillor said he has spoken to his father since this issue arose to “give him a head’s up.”
Fleury said he goes through periods when he is close to his father and peri-ods when he is not, but it became clear through conversations with his lawyer that it does not matter what the status of his relationship with his father is – it will always be a confl ict.
Fleury added that concern over his fa-ther or Claridge donating money to his election campaign is unwarranted; nei-ther made a donation, as confi rmed by the councillor’s public fi nancial records.
Most of the feedback Fleury has been getting is positive, with residents thank-ing him for being transparent, the coun-cillor said.
“I’ve gotten a lot of emails saying
‘Thank you for being honest,’ ‘I know this is not an easy situation,’” he said.
“It’s the group of these residents that say that it’s short notice who say they are really concerned with it,” Fleury said.
Other residents have told him they are comfortable approaching another coun-cillor for support on particular issues.
“I see that as the process evolving,” Fleury said. “As fi les come in, my col-leagues on planning committee or coun-cil will accept residents’ concerns and take the fi le on my behalf, understanding that I do have a declaration of interest.”
Planning committee vice chair and Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder has taken the lead on representing the Lowertown community on the Bruyere development, with the help of the committee’s chair, Alta Vista Coun. Peter Hume.
“We intend to support the community through some of these confl icts,” Harder said. “They deserve to have elected rep-resentation.”
In Rideau-Vanier Ward alone, Harder said she knows of around seven possible development applications that could be coming forward in the near future that the community would need to fi nd coun-cil representation for.
Fleury cautioned that he is not a voting member of the planning committee any-ways, although all councillors are able to speak to a project at planning committee.
At the council level, Fleury said any items involving Claridge would likely be removed from the bulk consent agenda so he could vote on everything else, while the other members of council would vote on the Claridge item.
Aubin said the “silver lining” of this is that it encourages the community associ-ation to be more proactive in its approach to development and heritage issues, so that when individual development pro-posals come up, there is already a frame-work that creates some predictability for both the residents and the developer.
Fleury forced to declare confl ict over father’s job
LAURA MUELLER
The Elgin Street police headquarters will be getting $2 million in upgrades as it prepares to become the base for the crimi-nal investigations directorate.
Approximately 2,332 square metres of space at the 474 Elgin St. headquarters will need renovation and realignment, ac-cording to a city report.
While some of the work simply in-volves workstation relocation, there will be some demolition and construction of entire areas, rooms and the purchase of new furniture.
Approximately 740 square metres of space was vacated at police headquarters earlier this year to make way for the proj-ect, with some police operations moving to a location at 19 Fairmont Ave.
The renovations are the “critical fi rst step” that paves the way for implement-ing the 15-year strategy for CID facilities.
Elgin Street police headquartersto get $2 million upgrade
File photoRideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury’s de-cision to declare a confl ict of interest has left the Bruyere Street Task Force fuming as it means the councillor won’t be able to vote on a fi ve-storey development pro-posed for Lowertown.
File photoNearly 2,350 square metres of space at Ottawa Police headquarters is in need of renovation and realignment.
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ANNUAL U.S. PARTY COMES NORTHUnited States Ambassador David Jacobson and his wife Julie greet guests as they arrive at their Rockcliffe Park residence for an Independence Day celebration on Monday, July 4. About 4,000 guests were expected to attend the party, which featured a barbecue com-petition featuring both American and Canadian chefs as well as live musical performers including Juno Award winning singer Sean Jones.
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MICHELLE NASH
After an extended debate at a recent board meeting, the Na-tional Capital Commission has given its approval for a pilot project that would see digital screens installed on the exte-rior of the Ottawa Convention Centre overlooking the Rideau Canal.
The board discussed the con-cept of allowing digital screens to be installed near NCC sites across the capital region at a
meeting on June 29, with NCC board members voting eight to three in favour of the screen following a two-and-a-half-hour discussion.
Marie Lemay, the commis-sion’s CEO, said the three-year pilot project could be a great ad-dition to the capital region.
“I am looking forward to see-ing it and I think it will be well received,” Lemay said.
The presentation by NCC staff member Guy Lafl amme looked at every aspect of the screens, from artistic and com-
mercial opportunities to the ef-fect such screens would have on sightlines.
The initial proposal present-ed in March looked at just one screen on the side of the conven-tion centre, but there will now be a total of three screens cov-ering a total area of 291 square metres.
Although the proposal has been approved by the NCC, there remain some Ottawa resi-dents who are unsure they want to see such screens intruding into their views of the Parlia-ment buildings. Iola Price, of the Rockcliffe Park Residents Association, created a petition opposing the proposal and went to the meeting hoping to see the NCC’s decision go the other way.
“I am very disappointed with this decision,” Price said. “I feel something like this would never be allowed in Washington D.C. It is not allowed in Moscow, Rus-sia. Other capitals just wouldn’t do this.”
Price had 21 signatures oppos-ing the screens and understood it may not be enough to sway the vote to opposition, however hoped that along with other let-ters and petitions it would make an impact.
Lemay wanted to assure the public that this was only a pi-lot project, something that can be altered or abandoned at any time.
Board member, Adel Ayad, who voted against the proposal, had many reservations about the screens.
“We want a capital that is full of energy and life. And our mandate is to have a capital that will instill pride in all Canadi-ans. I am wondering how proud Canadians will be if they see Pfi zer or a doctor’s convention or a Viagra man performing his little happy dance with the parliament in the background,” Ayad said.
Richard Jennings voted for the proposal, but did so with reservations.
“I will vote for the pilot proj-ect, but I will be watching care-fully the reports on how it goes over the next two and a half years and it is going to have to take a lot of positive elements
for me to extend it (beyond the three years),” Jennings said.
The City of Ottawa is also currently trying out a digital screen pilot project, with the closest screen 4.5 kilometres from downtown.
The city’s pilot project impos-es limitations on illumination, frequency, scrolling, rolling, fading in and out, blinking or giving the impression of move-ment in regards to public safety.
The digital screen proposed for the convention centre does not have such limitations at this time.
The project now moves into the evaluation process, where Lemay and Lafl amme insist all the concerns the board has will be addressed.
City council must still vote on the pilot project.
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NCC approved digital screenpilot project overlooking canal
Photo by Eddie RwemaThe National Capital Commission has approved a pilot project that would see three digital screens covering a total area of 291 square metres installed on the outside of the Ottawa Convention Centre over-looking the Rideau Canal.
LAURA MUELLER
A proposal to give ward coun-cillors more control over traf-fi c calming in their communi-ties has become a divisive issue among city hall’s elected offi -cials.
From speed bumps to stop signs and turning restrictions, traffi c calming measures are among the issues community members bring to their councillors more than anything else, and the num-ber of complaints is on the rise, according to a city report.
Whether it is a request for a new restriction, or a plea to re-move one that is already in place, councillors face an uphill battle through red tape if they want to tackle the issue for their resi-dents.
Innes Coun. Rainer Bloess was the fi rst to suggest the city revise its process to give each council-lor more control over making decisions about traffi c calming within their own wards. The idea
would put $30,000 into the hands of each councillor each year to deal with local traffi c issues.
After a great deal of debate on the matter during a June 29 meeting, the city’s transporta-tion committee agreed to have staff look at that possibility.
“We’ve bogged ourselves down with red tape … and then when we get to it, we don’t have the money to get it done,” Bloess said. “Some of use are starting to say let’s untie that … process.”
But not everyone was on Bloess’s side. Several committee members, including fi rst-term councillors David Chernush-enko (Capital), Katherine Hobbs (Kitchissippi) and Mathieu Fleu-ry (Rideau-Vanier), didn’t think it was such a great idea to leave traffi c management issues in the hands of councillors.
Chernushenko said the change would add more “political temp-tation” for councillors to say “yes” to all community requests, regardless of the greater good.
“I’m not – and I don’t expect to
become – a traffi c management engineer,” he said.
John Maconi, the city’s gener-al manager of public works, said the intent of the changes would be to give councillors more con-trol, but only if the issue is very localized within a particular neighbourhood.
“Larger (transportation) net-work issues would be addressed at a higher level,” Manconi said, meaning city transportation experts would have to study the ramifi cations of any changes.
Bloess said he was surprised that councillors were not willing to take on the extra accountabil-ity of being responsible for local traffi c-calming solutions.
“I’m surprised that anyone would run away from making that decision in their own ward,” he said.
That made sense to a few coun-cillors, including Kanata North’s Marianne Wilkinson, who said she has been told there is a 20-year waiting list for speed-bump requests.
Councillors mull control over traffi c calming
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Adults across Ottawa who have devel-opmental diffi culties will now be able to call one number for all of their support needs following an announcement by the provincial government that will see those services provided by a series of re-gional offi ces.
Starting July 4, the Developmental Services Ontario offi ces will be the only place adults with disabilities will need to contact for services.
Prior to this announcement, families and individuals searching for help or services would have had to call different agencies for different support systems, having to explain their individual needs over and over, often to an automated tele-phone system.
For Molly Bruce, whose 39-year-old son has developmental diffi culties, this is a day she has long dreamed would come.
“To be this long in it and still have your dream, to see this, holy cow, I wasn’t sure we were going to get there,” Bruce said. “But you know you have to never give it up and keep thinking ‘If I can keep go-ing, keep going,’ and here it is.”
She likened the old system of trying to access services and resources to shop-ping for a dress.
“You went to every agency, looking for the best services and then return to the fi rst place you found – and then start try-
ing to make the best deal. You felt like you were trying to sell your kid and it never stopped,” Bruce added.
In the Ontario government’s 2011 bud-get, the department of community and social services of Ontario added an addi-tional $40 million to developmental ser-vices. This new system will offer clear eligibility criteria for accessing services as well as create a standard throughout Ontario which will make eligibility deci-sions consistent.
Videoconferencing and mobile services will also become available in the coming months as the program gets underway.
To develop this new system, the min-istry worked with many different agen-cies, parents like Bruce and clients of the agencies to fi nd the best solutions. Community and Social Services Min-ister Madeleine Meilleur said the new system will create a standard of care for people with developmental diffi culties in Ontario.
“Instead of repeating information over and over again, now they can get it all from one place,” Meilleur said. “From one place to the next there was different ways of applying, different ser-vices and the parents were re-ally concerned about that. Now it is transparent, fair and assess-able.”
She also said this system will help navigate through services for individuals to be able to get the right services and closer to their home.
For Kory Earle of People First Ontario, this new service is inte-gral for people with disabilities to fi nd what they need.
“It is going to create opportu-nities where people can actually choose where they want to go. It is our hope that this will elimi-nate the current waiting list,” Earle said.
The program’s Ottawa offi ce will be located at 200-150 Mon-treal Rd., but there will also be
a number of satellite offi ces throughout the region, including the option for home visits.
“These new services are all about con-necting communities and people,” execu-tive director Anna Laselle said.
Adults who are currently on a list with-in the old system do not need to reapply; they will be grandfathered into the new system. Earle said this new system is im-portant for creating a better standard of living for all adults with developmental diffi culties.
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Photo by Michelle NashKory Earle, left, and Molly Bruce celebrate a new system for people with develop-mentally diffi culties living in Ottawa.
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Summer is the right time for a look at the good, the bad and, yes, the ugly in the Canadian arts.
First the good: Last week, during the Ottawa International Jazz Festival, a band of young musicians rehearsed in the theatre of Library and Archives Canada, as part of the TD Jazz Youth Summit. The 17 players, high school, university and college students, were brought together from across the country. Later, they would present two concerts on the festival’s main stage.
Three seasoned pros, all Canadians, worked with them as they struggled to learn a diffi cult composition, Transit, by Darcy James Argue. The band’s musical director, Jim Lewis, a Toronto trumpeter, composer and teacher, welcomed Argue, who is originally from Vancouver but now leads a New York-based band. One of his trumpet players, Ingrid Jensen, who is also originally from British Co-lumbia, also pitched in, as well as playing fi ery trumpet solos.
The guidance was in part technical but also general – it was about breathing, it was about not playing timidly, it was about projecting authority and it was enjoyed by both sides. “I’m very appre-ciative of you guys playing my music,” Argue told them.
By the end of the 90-minute rehearsal, the piece was sounding almost as profes-sional as it would sound later that night, when Argue’s own band, the Secret Soci-ety, played it in Confederation Park.
Here was the Canadian arts scene at its best, the essential components being talented young performers, dedicated mentors and generous funders. In vary-ing degrees it can be found across the spectrum of the arts in this country. In music, theatre, dance and writing, more and more young Canadians are emerging as impressive performers, ready to take their place in the professional ranks.
Here’s the bad: Once they get to the professional ranks, they fi nd they can’t make a living. The same day the young jazz musicians were rehearsing in Ot-tawa, the SummerWorks Theatre Festival in Toronto was facing a signifi cant
loss of government grants. The federal Heritage Department’s rejection letter to SummerWorks was particularly omi-nous. It said it was looking for “tangible results, which contribute to program objectives; provide the best possible value for money; and meet the needs of Canadians.”
This is great. Government is quantify-ing art, looking at plays and music and paintings to see if they produce tangible results that contribute to program objec-tives. I think that’s one play you don’t want to see.
Meanwhile, the federal fi nance minis-ter, Jim Flaherty, was warning cultural institutions not to count on government grants. And of course they shouldn’t, but anybody who thinks the arts in this coun-try can operate without help from gov-ernment and corporate donors doesn’t know much about how the arts work, not only here but all over the world.
The unfortunate thing, here and all over the world, is that the people buying tickets, CDs, books and paintings, do not provide enough revenue to keep the cul-ture going. That’s the ugly part. The ugly part is us. Those of us who have money to spare, spend thousands on elaborate elec-tronics and home theatre systems and, relatively speaking, virtually nothing on
going out to see live music and theatre.Festival season may be an exception.
People seem capable of venturing out of the house if someone is putting on a festival nearby. Tickets and passes are relatively cheap, helped by the grants that cultural institutions are told not to count on any more. But once the summer is over, we go back inside, turn on the home entertainment system, download music for free and leave the artists to fend for themselves.
As anyone who has seen Canadian young people perform knows, we are doing a terrifi c job of training young artists. But we are doing a terrible job of supporting them. Some of that is govern-ment’s fault, but a lot of it is ours.
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Soon the historic Rideau Canal will have a new feature – a digital sign that will light up the side of the Ottawa Convention Centre for close to 17 hours a day. Of those
17 hours, half will be advertisements, possibly for such things as cars, cellphones, fast food and myriad other gizmos and gadgets.
The National Capital Commission approved the three year pilot project, which they feel will use the 291 square metres of the side of the con-vention centre to promote events, heritage and set a standard for digital signs in the city.
But only 30 minutes in a one-hour slot on the sign will be devoted to the convention centre and culture. The other half is purely profi t from private and public advertisers. Even television shows offer viewers a slightly better ratio of pro-gramming to advertising. The question remains, will the NCC take matters into their own hands and make the digital sign something worthwhile to stop and look at?
The debate at the board meeting on June 29 took two and a half hours. Two hours involved questioning whether this is right for Ottawa. Is it right for a capital? Is it right for tourists who are
skating leisurely down the canal during Winter-lude who will look up and see an advertisement for cellphones or shoes?
The board members voted eight to three in fa-vour of the project. While chief executive offi cer Marie Lemay indicated she felt this would be a great opportunity for the capital, some residents in the audience did not share her sentiment. They opposed placing such a sign beside the city’s world designated heritage site. They sat in silence as they watched the deliberations, hoping heritage would trump monetary need.
And although opposing arguments included pe-titions, questions about the future of the canal’s world heritage designation and suggestions that no other capital city would approve such a project, the board didn’t hear them because the public was not allowed to speak at the meeting.
Whether this is a money grab or a new means of promoting culture remains to be seen. Howev-er, one thing is clear – when tourists and residents are taking a leisurely skate or boat ride down the canal, the scenery will provide them ample oppor-tunity to contemplate whether the cellphone plan they have really is the best option available.
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The longer I stay on Facebook, the younger my “friends” seem to get. You see, I’ve befriended children of friends, some of
whom are entering that glorious, yet confusing time called adolescence. As I snoop through their photos, their notes, and their lists of friends, I bow my head and thank God I was not a teenager in the social media age.
That’s because, like most 15-year-old girls, I was charged with hormones and insecure in my physical appearance. I had profound infatuations with boys that I mistook for love at the time.
And I was jealous of the girls who were seemingly confi dent and popu-lar and beautiful. (Whoever said you couldn’t be smart and gorgeous didn’t know Katie D).
My friends – yes, I was fortunate enough to have some – and I used to model each others’ clothes and slab our mothers’ too-dark foundation on with a trowel to cover our acne. Lipstick was listed as the one cosmetic one of my best girl’s couldn’t go without. I, on the other hand, listed mascara, in my attempt to identify the one cosmetic that wouldn’t accentuate the prominent nose I had yet to grow into and love.
We spent way too many hours eating chips and mourning the boys we had loved and lost – within just 12 hours – from the time the crush began, to the fi nal song at teen night when he slow-danced with another girl.
We’d go home and cry and the girl-friends would tell us what we wanted to hear: he doesn’t know what he’s miss-ing; she’s a skank; it’s these loser boys
that live in town. The next day we’d write teenage angst poetry on the back of our math notes.
Once in a while we had an oppor-tunity to make a public spectacle of ourselves, like the time I published one of my teen angst poems in the yearbook, thus immortalizing my misery. But mostly the spectacle of our emotions was confi ned to a small group of sympa-thizers, our friends; our real, live, in the fl esh friends.
These emotions and experiences are the timeless representations of female adolescence. If you don’t believe me, or you don’t remember, just click on your friend’s daughter’s Facebook page. It’s all there: the insecurity; the hormones; the teen angst poetry.
And it’s often photoshopped into a single, devastating image for all her 500 friends to see. How does one stop the train wreck?
It makes me feel nostalgic and more than a little nauseated. I want to reach out to these girls and tell them to be silent.
I want to tell them that the teenage years won’t last forever and that once they start to fi nd and love themselves, adolescence will fade into the back-ground like a bad dream. And I want to pass on the wisdom of my grandmother, who told me never to document any-thing negative, including extramarital affairs, fl irtations with alcoholism, and deep-seated jealousy.
But they wouldn’t listen. Teenage girls have a need to communicate. “Take away her iPhone,” said one friend, a mother, “and you might as well cut out her heart and tongue.”
And in today’s world, communicat-ing is less about spending hours on the phone to the chagrin of one’s parents without call-waiting, and much, much more about mobile, social media up-dates: live, unrefl ective, and offering way too much information, (or TMI, as we say in the Twitter world).
So instead of trying to stop the train wreck, I simply avert my eyes. It may
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THIS WEEK’S POLL QUESTIONIs the NCC right to approve digital signs overlooking the Rideau Canal?
A) Yes. It will lend a cosmopolitan edge sorely lacking in the city.
B) No. Heritage sites in capital like the canal should remain unblemished by technology.
C) Maybe. Lets see how the pilot project turns out before drawing conclusions.
D) It doesn’t matter. City hall will see the light and turn down the idea at council.
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The federal government’s recent job cuts in the public service meant to slash the national defi cit could have a drastic ef-fect on Ottawa’s local economy – both good and bad.
Last month, the federal government an-nounced that 687 jobs will be cut from the Public Works department over the next three years, 81 per cent of which will be lost in the national capital region, to save $98.2 million in operating costs. Other cuts were announced in 12 other federal orga-nizations as part of an ongoing strategic review to cut $2.6 billion in ineffi ciencies over three years, including about 275 jobs at the Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 50 science and research jobs at Environment Canada and 5 curatorial positions at the National Gallery in downtown Ottawa.
These cuts and others coming in the fu-ture could have negative economic impacts on the region, including lower consumer confi dence, explained economist Alan Ar-cand, who works for the Conference Board of Canada, a national think tank.
“The direct impact, of course, is slower and weaker growth in the public sector,” Arcand said. “But an indirect impact is also weaker consumer spending. People are nervous about their jobs and they’re going to be less likely to make big spend-ing decisions. You’ll probably see slower growth or weakness in the city’s housing sector, too.”
Larry Rousseau, national capital region president for the Public Service Alliance of Canada, said cutting this many jobs is poorly timed given the shaky economy, and agreed the cuts could have major re-percussions for Ottawa in the short-term.
“When there is uncertainty in the econ-omy, who’s going to want to upgrade their house? Who’s going to want to go out and buy that next thing they were thinking about? Well guess what, they’re going to put that on hold,” he said. “What we’re saying is now is not the time to have that kind of uncertainty. It can have a chain reaction, and the business community should be very concerned.”
The stress isn’t just on people’s pocket-books, either. Rousseau said the most im-mediate local impact is increased stress from lack of information.
“There’s a heightened state of stress among public servants, because we just don’t know exactly who or where will be cut next. We just know the cuts are being announced. It looks as if it will simply be a slow and steady death by a thousand cuts,” he said, noting that it’s not just PSAC union employees who are suffering, or term workers who face being cut once their contract expires.
“It’s managers as well who have to deal with these situations, so it’s quite general-ized, it’s not just a union or a management thing.”
PSAC represents 55,000 public servants in the national capital region, including 100 of the Public Works employees who will be on the chopping block in the next three years.
Rousseau said the most worrisome news so far has been the deletion of Auditing
Services Canada, a fee-for-service internal offi ce that provided spot checks and audits for public contracts, because it gets rid of a non-partisan oversight.
“This was an internal mechanism we could count on that auditors were doing spot checks to make sure contracts were being awarded following the rules and at least raise the fl ag. The Conservatives saw that this was a loophole for the opposition parties to get information, and they said, ‘If someone can do an access to informa-tion request and get the information that way, we don’t want that.’ This government is about control of information,” Rous-seau said.
However, chartered accountant and Carleton University professor Garth Sher-iff said private auditing is unlikely to get sucked into providing partisan or biased audits, because the chartered accountant industry is so strictly regulated.
“We have absolutely the strictest inde-pendence rules on the Earth. If an exter-nal auditor came in and had any intent to help further a cause, they would be fi ned and severely reprimanded. They have zero tolerance for bias,” he said, noting that the biggest risk in getting rid of the public au-diting service is that the government may not be as diligent in doing spot checks.
The good news, Sheriff said, is that Ot-tawa hosts a large number of small and mid-sized auditing fi rms that can poten-tially benefi t from the raft of auditing that will need to be completed outside the gov-ernment.
“If they do go out and put out requests for proposals, that should have an impact with smaller, mid-size fi rms in Ottawa,” he said.
Arcand noted that even with the many cuts planned for the future to reduce the defi cit, the public service will still be larg-er than it was a decade ago. He said a more pressing concern for the city is the risk of becoming a one-industry town.
“We have the high-tech sector, which is another big industry, and it can help off-set. But this is the kind of issue that you get when you have a city that depends on one industry,” he said.
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The summer season is here, along with vacations. A recent survey conducted by the Hotel Associa-tion of Canada revealed that 83% of Canadians plan to take a vacation in 2011, which represents an increase of 5% over last year. For those suffer-ing from seasonal allergies, just one little trip can mean several unforeseen surprises, sometimes easy to avoid, but nevertheless having the poten-tial to ruin a visit abroad.
To avoid allergy problems, before leaving, bring enough antihistamines for the duration of your stay. Antihistamines are most effective if they are taken at least 20 minutes before exposure to an allergen. It is therefore preferable to take them before leaving the house or the plane. Nasal sprays also offer relief of nasal allergy symptoms. HydraSense Allergy, a 100% natural-source sea-water spray, available in a 135-mL format is an effective option.
Moreover, it is important for individuals suffering from seasonal allergies to plan for the weather conditions they will experience once they arrive at their destination. Keep in mind that the pollen season varies according to geographic location. For example, in the Atlantic provinces, it lasts from April to September, whereas it is limited to the months of March to July in Saskatchewan and Alberta. A complete calendar of the pollen season nationwide can be consulted at www.claritin.ca.
Once you arrive at the hotel, even though it is tempting to open the windows of your room to air it out and enjoy the warm weather, it is nev-ertheless preferable to opt for air conditioning to prevent pollen from getting inside. For people who are allergic to dust, remember to bring a hy-poallergenic pillowcase. If you reserve your room in advance, do not hesitate to ask the housekeep-ing team to take special care while cleaning your room, because of your allergies.
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At the RCMP’s annual Sunset Ceremo-nies this year, Manor Park residents took the opportunity to spread the word about their campaign to oppose current Kettle Island interprovincial bridge option, one of three currently being considered.
For Manor Park, any proposal that would divert trucks from downtown to their backyard is not an option and resi-dents used the June 25 ceremony as an op-portunity to hand out about 300 informa-tion sheets about the Kettle Island bridge option.
The campaign, according to residents, is about protecting their way of life and they’re working to ensure other options, at Lower Duck Island and McLaren Bay-Gatineau Airport, are considered.
“We were very pleased with the overall response to the handout” Penny Thomp-son, co-president of the Manor Park Com-munity Association said.
The sheets stated the community’s po-sition on the issue and questioned the National Capital Commission’s position on a number of issues surrounding the proposed interprovincial bridge.
Among those questions, Thompson points out, is there does not seem to be an integrated transportation plan for the National Capital Region.
“It is our view that the NCC has not clearly explained the need for a new bridge in the east end,” she said.
And when it comes to the question of where the trucks currently clogging King Edward Avenue should be diverted to, many in Manor Park feel the issue needs to be clearly defi ned.
“The project is taking an isolated ap-proach to a not clearly defi ned problem, without the underlying planning princi-ples or data to support the conclusions,”
Thompson added. “Decisions made on this basis will be a blemish the National Capital region for generations to come.”
Resident John Forsey said they handed out fl yers over three years ago in the same manner, in hopes to gain support and in-terest with the surrounding communities.
“We want people to see it is not just af-fecting us, it will be an issue that affects everyone,” Forsey said.
As the consultation process has begun for Phase 2B of the project, the environ-mental assessment to determine the best location for the bridge, Manor Park resi-dents are hoping to make inroads in com-munication with the surrounding area to help create a strong opposition to the Kettle Island option.
File photoPenny Thompson, co-president of the Man-or Park Community Association said Manor Park hopes to gain support from the sur-rounding communities to stop an east end bridge crossing at Kettle Island.
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An employee at a restaurant on Cyr-ville Road was tied up and locked in the restaurant’s offi ce during a robbery.
Two men entered the restaurant on June 30 at 10:55 p.m. and threatening an employee with a knife, tied and confi ned the employee to the offi ce. Police say the suspects left the restaurant with a consid-erable amount of cash.
The bound employee was found some-
time later by another employee. There were no injuries related to the confi ne-ment.
The suspects were described as black males wearing black masks, black shirts and black pants.
One suspect is described as 6 feet tall and the other is approximately fi ve feet, fi ve inches tall.
Police are asking for anyone with infor-mation about this incident to contact the robbery section at 613-236-1222 ext. 5116.
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Children in Overbrook have enjoyed a great soccer season so far, largely thanks to the efforts of the East Ottawa Optimist Club.
The optimists have been donating to the Overbrook Community Centre for many years, said club president Sandy Kilby.
This year’s donation of $1,700 covered much of what young people in the area need to play, helping to lower the cost and allowing everyone to participate.
“Anything the community centre needs, we work hard to provide,” Kilby said.
The club makes these donations pos-sible by holding weekly euchre tourna-ments and a hosting a fl ea market table
at Lansdowne Park. Now with the newly renovated commu-
nity centre complete and larger rooms to accommodate crowds, Kilby is looking forward to the potential of holding more events at the centre to raise money.
The average donations the club can manage are about $1,500.00 to $2,000.00 and Kilby said this donation is always a great one to give because it ensures that
every child, regardless of income, can play soccer with their friends.
Michelle Stephenson, Overbrook Com-munity Centre’s program coordinator said these donations are very important to the centre and to the programs she runs.
“They give every year and it is great,” Stephenson said.
The soccer season started mid-May, and although weather gave the children some trouble, but Stephenson said they all had a great time.
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Optimist club works hard to keep children healthyContinued support for Overbrook centre helps everyone get in the game
EDDIE RWEMA
Mia Doré’s summer holiday plans are anything but ordinary.
The Sandy Hill resident will be spend-ing two weeks later this month volunteer-ing at a children’s orphanage in Guate-mala.
Doré has spent the past several weeks trying to raise money to help support the Casa Bernabe orphanage, home to more that 160 children. She hopes to raise at least $3,000 before she packs her suitcases full of medical and school supplies to take to the orphans.
This will be Doré’s second time in Gua-temala volunteering with Orphan Re-sources International, a non-profi t group based in the United States
“The fi rst time was overwhelming, amazing, life changing and really satisfy-ing,” she said, adding the visit touched her heart enough that she is really looking forward to going back again this year.
Many of the orphans have been aban-doned, others abused. Each child belongs to a loving, nurturing family made up of house parents and their own children. To-gether they live in houses large enough for 15-20 children of the same age group.
Doré fi rst got interested to volunteer in Guatemala through her mother’s friend, who has an adopted daughter from Gua-temala and has organized at least three trips there to support the orphanage.
“My mom and I had a conversation and we thought we would go along,” said Doré.
Together with a group of other volun-teers from across Canada and the U.S., they will be constructing a security pe-rimeter at the orphanage to ensure the safety of the children and to help with the day-to-day management of the centre.
“We also do a lot of arts and crafts for the children and help with day today activities that range from peeling 250 pounds of potatoes to helping cleaning the orphanage,” she said.
“To me, it is the feeling of giving back that motivates me and travelling to Gua-temala is such an amazing experience.”
She said her career, which involves working with refugees and new immi-grants at the Eastern Ontario Resource Centre, has helped her appreciate the kind of struggle people go through.
‘They live in such poverty but they are happy and they love life and they just re-ally want to spend time with you.”
She said she has been touched by a story of one child who spent the fi rst six years of her life locked in a box, and that of an 11-year-old girl that was raped by her father and gave birth at the age of 12.
“All the children have touched my heart and all have their own stories,” she said. “Offering them as much support as you can is very much appreciated.”
Doré admits coming back home after witnessing the kind of life those kids have lived, allowed her perspective and understanding.
“We don’t really consider how well we have it here.”
Previously, she has raised funds through her friends and family, but now she said she would be happy if other people came forward to donate towards supporting vulnerable children in devel-oping world.
“We accept all kind of donations from medical supplies to school supplies, some shoes and socks and all kind of stuff like that to help children,” she said.
Anyone wishing to donate to the project can contact Doré via email at [email protected] .
Sandy Hill resident to spend vacationhelping orphans in Guatemala
Photo by Eddie RwemaMia Doré, a Sandy Hill resident, will be vol-unteering at an orphanage in Guatemala during her vacation this summer.
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Students starting high school next year can get a head start on their mandatory community vol-unteer hours required for gradu-ation, after Ontario’s ministry of education announced hours can now be collected throughout the summer before Grade 9.
The province updated the rules for collecting the manda-tory 40 volunteer hours earlier this spring after the minister’s student advisory council made a case for the change. Since then schools have been trying to get the word out to their graduating Grade 8 classes as quickly as pos-sible.
“We announced it in the school’s e-newsletter, and we mentioned it at the Grade 8 meetings (for transitioning to high school),” said Mike Curry, principal for St. Francis Xavier Catholic High School in River-side South, which has a separate Grade 7/8 wing along with a reg-ular high school program.
But Damien Martin, youth program co-ordinator at Volun-teer Ottawa said it may not be enough to make a difference this summer.
“There hasn’t been a lot of roll-out from the (school) boards about how they go about record-ing their hours throughout the summer. Chances are we won’t see any impact until next sum-mer,” he said, noting he hasn’t had any calls from graduating Grade 8 students.
One potential problem is that Grade 8s in the Ottawa Carleton District School Board must have pre-approval from their princi-pal or the principal’s designate, which they needed to get before leaving school at the end of June. If they haven’t gotten that approval, potential volunteer op-portunities – especially ones that pop up after school ends – will have to be passed up.
However, Martin said he be-lieves the change is a positive one in principle, even if it won’t catch on until next year.
“I think it has a great poten-tial impact, it’s really up to them whether they take the opportu-nity to get it done early,” he said. He added that many students who volunteer early in their high school career are more likely to continue volunteering through-out high school and beyond.
Barry Bickerton from the OCDSB, who has been commu-nicating the change to the area schools since the board got word
on March 30, said the most excit-ing part of the change is that it came from students.
“Given that it came forward from the students, they saw the value and they saw opportunity in it, and they felt they had time available to begin to get that job started,” he said. “I think therein lies the spirit of the policy. We’re about building strong citizens, and strong citizenship. It’s about creating an opportunity within the policy for students to look beyond their own needs to the needs of others.”
Mike Feenstra, a spokesperson for the minister of education, said the change is a testament to the student advisory council’s enthusiasm.
“They recognized that volun-teering in the community is an important component of learn-ing and that many students were already volunteering in their communities prior to Grade 9,” he said in an email, noting that early involvement in community volunteering builds strong civic responsibility.
Martin said the best opportu-nities for students in Grade 8 and 9 are one-day events, which give them a taste of the volunteering experience and help them fi gure out what they want to focus on in the future.
The ministry’s approved vol-unteer activities include help-ing at a non-profi t organization or charity, providing tutoring, housekeeping and support ser-vices to someone in need, partic-ipating in food drives, fundrais-ers and community clean-ups, helping with a local sports team, leading youth and children’s programs, or getting involved in a local committee or group.
Activities that don’t count to-wards volunteer hours include paid positions, jobs that displace a paid person, activities that are part of a school credit, or activi-ties that are part of the student’s regular family responsibilities or a court-ordered community service program. Students also can’t count participation in sports or arts programs if they are a regular member – the stu-dents must be helping, rather than playing.
Bickerton said students were given the correct forms and in-formation in ample time, but it remains to be seen how many will use their free time to volun-teer this summer.
“We might see a slight in-crease (in participation), but I would expect more next year,” Martin said.
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BLUESFEST BEATSLocal drummer and songwriter Élage Mbaye (left) played the National Bank Stage at Bluesfest on Tuesday, July 5, the opening night of the 12-day music festival. Mbaye came to Canada in 1986 from Senegal, and mixes traditional music from his home country with modern sounds. He now lives in Ottawa.
‘Juggling act’ part of planning processFrom CONNECTION, page 1
The purpose of Phase 2 is to determine the best design for both the bridge itself, the con-nections to other multi-use pathways and roads.
Sandy Hill resident, Sheila Waugh can’t wait for an easy connection between the two communities to be made.
“I play tennis at the Rideau Tennis Club, it would be so won-derful to be able to walk there,” she said.
Currently, Waugh drives to the club, but would love to have a faster, more environmentally option available.
The important thing for both Waugh and Perry is the time frame for the project.
Christopher Gordon, project manager with Genivar, said he understands the needs of both communities and acknowledged this project has been a long time coming.
“We plan on having the study complete and handed to coun-cil no later than the end of this year, giving council time to vote on the study and leave the op-tion open for potential in the 2012 budget,” Gordon said.
Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury also attended the open house said he too would like to see funding for the bridge in-cluded in next year’s budget.
Fleury said he spoke with Gordon and Steven Boyle, se-nior project manager for the city, after the open house and in-dicated he had some particular concerns.
“It needs to be a smooth tran-sition from the bridge to the paths,” Fleury said, adding he’d like to see a better connection at Donald Street to make it more accessible for Overbrook resi-dents.
Gordon said the juggling act of mitigating public concerns
and fi nding alternatives that are both cost effective and en-vironmentally friendly can be a diffi cult task, but that is what the open houses are for.
“We will take feedback from this session and review our de-signs and make changes depend-ing on the outcomes,” he said.
Gordon and Boyle said the event was well attended and many residents indicated they had been waiting for the chance to put their concerns on paper.
“We held another public con-sultation in Overbrook in Janu-ary, which was well attended by the community,” Boyle ex-plained. “We wanted to make sure Sandy Hill also got repre-sentation, but it has been pretty even. There have been a lot of residents from Overbrook com-ing by.”
Perry said the project is in-deed a long time coming, add-ing she is very pleased with the decision to focus on locating the connection between Donald and Somerset.
Once this phase is complete, Boyle said there will be a fi nal public open house in the fall when the project managers will reveal the recommended plan taking into consideration public comments and making revisions to the technically pre-ferred option.
Photo by Michelle NashAn open house concerning the multi-use pathway connecting Overbrook and Sandy Hill held on June 28 was an opportunity for the public to provide feedback concerning the latest proposal.
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BY DAN PLOUFFE
As Ottawa’s Kelleigh Ryan prepared for the fi nal crucial Olympic qualifying event of her 2010-2011 season – the Pan Ameri-can fencing championships July 4-9 in Reno, Nev. – the 24-year-old was doing her best to stay calm instead of getting psyched up for such an important competition.
“I’m learning how to not be so nervous for it, so I’m just happy I’ll be competing,” says Ryan, who’s observed a different feel to competitions now that the 2012 Olympics are nearing and the qualifi cation period is underway. “It’s hard to push that out of your head. But if you prepare for it properly, it’s fi ne.”
That’s one thing the Glebe Col-legiate Institute grad has learned over the course of her fencing ca-reer that began at a University of Ottawa camp when she was 10 years old: the right mental ap-proach and the ability to main-tain composure are major ingre-dients to success.
As a junior athlete, Ryan never represented Canada internation-ally. That opportunity fi nally oc-curred in 2007 when she earned a spot on the national team a year-and-a-half into her senior career.
“I was always a pretty physi-cal fencer, but I got a lot smarter at the age of 20,” Ryan explains, crediting her boyfriend, fellow Ottawa fencer Alex Martin, for helping to motivate her and bring her mental game up.
The Sandy Hill resident who trains out of the RA Centre now competes for Canada regularly on the World Cup circuit, which took her to events in Germany, Italy, Hungary, China and Russia earlier this season.
The Pan Am competition, which brings together the best fencers from across the Ameri-cas zone, however, carries great-er weight than the World Cups in the Olympic qualifi cation pro-cess.
“The other day I felt this pres-sure that I had to win this com-petition, but then I realized, ‘The best result you’ve had at the Pan Ams was a top-eight, so it’s not like you’re expected to medal,’” recounts Ryan, who’s always fought in foil since her 5’ 3” height isn’t much of a hin-drance. “(Winning an individual medal) is a good goal, I think, but I’ve realized there’s no stress or expectation to do that.”
The team event on the fi nal three days of the Reno compe-tition is the most important in terms of qualifying for the Olym-pics, which will be decided based on the world rankings through next season.
With only one team berth in the Pan Am zone available per discipline, the Canadians cur-rently sit 12th globally (and second amongst Pan American countries) in the women’s foil rankings at 177 points, while the U.S. is sixth with 232.
“The U.S. is in a pretty good po-sition to get the spot,” notes Ryan, the world’s 60th-ranked women’s foil fencer. “We’re going to give
them a run for their money, but we’ve decided as a team that this Pan Ams, we’re going to focus on fencing our best and see where that goes.
“It doesn’t mean we don’t want to win, we certainly do,” Ryan adds, acknowledging nonetheless that her team has never beaten the U.S. “I think we could have a good bout with them. We’ve had some really close ones and we’ve also had some bad ones.
“I honestly think that when we think about winning, that’s when we have the bad ones, so this time, we’re going in to fence well as a team, and that’s our goal.”
Although it’s one of her ob-jectives to make it, the Olympic qualifi cation picture isn’t crys-tal clear for Ryan. It’s possible the U.S. could wind up ranked in the world’s top-four, which would open up an Olympic team berth to another Pan American country, while Ryan could also earn her way to London as an individual. But running all those
scenarios through her mind is not high on the priority list for the 2011 Carleton Ravens female athlete-of-the-year.
“Although the Olympics would be amazing, it’s just too stressful to wrap my head around,” says Ryan, whose long-term goal is to be amongst the world’s top-16. “It’s best to look back on the experience of trying out for the
Olympics and try to enjoy it rath-er than fi nding it to be a stress-ful situation, because that’s not why we’re competing. There’s no point in doing your sport if it makes you unhappy.”
OTTAWA VANIER LADIES TAKE SILVER IN SLOVAKIA
Team Canada, featuring Otta-wa Vanier Women’s Ball Hockey League players Elysia Desmier, Lesley McArthur, Alicia Blom-berg, Erika Pouliot, Fannie Des-forges, Susie Laska and Danika Smith, won a silver medal at the June 19-26 ball hockey world championships in Bratislava, Slovakia.
The Canadians didn’t allow a single goal as they outscored Austria, Greece (twice) and the U.S. by a combined 42-0 total to reach the fi nal before the host Slovaks ended that streak with just over fi ve minutes left in the championship game to take the title 1-0.
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Please note that hours are shift work with three 12 hour shifts, one 8 hour day and one day off per week, Monday – Friday with no weekend work.
ResponsibilitiesDuties and Responsibilities: Retrieve digital fi les from email, ftp and network fi leservers. Work closely with advertising sales reps to elicit requirements. Produce ads using InDesign/Illustrator. Prefl ight incoming artwork using Pitstop and Acrobat Pro for correct specifi cations. Check fi nal newspaper pages for ads assembled into them and page completeness. Send press-ready PDF page fi les via network fi leservers. Various page, fi le and spreadsheet handling for shipment to third parties. Be responsible for ensuring all fi les are sent on time and procedures are followed. Design and layout newspaper special section pages. Work with regular newspaper pages using InDesign.
Competencies, Skills and Experience Skilled in Adobe Creative Suite 2 in a PC environment, MAC experience desirable. Skilled in digital fi le retrieval and manipulation. Able to work under tight deadlines. Organized, good phone manner, ability to multitask. Familiar with PDF technology, retrieving and sending fi les electronically, working on a network. Creative design skills for newsprint advertisements. Flexible and adaptable. Newspaper publishing background preferred.
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Metroland Media currently has an opening for a Regional Human Resources Manager supporting the Ottawa region. Reporting to the Director, Human Resources, the incumbent will be responsible for providing expert Human Resources consultation to the Region ensuring all Human Resources needs are successfully met. Consulting with the regional businesses, the primary responsibility of this role is to provide guidance and consulting to ensure that business practices are promoted and supported by HR practices.
Key Responsibilities:Promote the business strategy & vision by acting as a business partner to assist in the implementation of key initiatives
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Employee Relations – Coach Managers & employees through eff ective listening, counseling, being supportive & making appropriate recommendations in accordance with company policies, government legislation & the requirements of the business unit.
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ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities for this role are heavily focused on sales activities for Metroland Digital properties, with the embedded understanding of customer relationship management and service.
1. Outbound sales acquisition activity to local businesses promoting digital products. 2. Plan and prioritize personal sales activities and customer/prospect contact towards achieving agreed business aims, including costs and sales - especially managing per-sonal time and productivity. 3. Plan and manage personal business portfolio according to an agreed market devel-opment strategy. 4. Manage product/service mix, pricing and margins according to agreed aims. 5. Maintain and develop existing and new customers through appropriate propositions and ethical sales methods. 6. Use customer and prospect contact activities tools and systems, and update accordingly. 7. Plan/carry out/support local marketing activities to agreed budgets and timescales, and integrate personal sales eff orts with other organized marketing activi-ties, e.g., product launches, promotions, advertising, exhibitions and telemarketing. 8. Respond to and follow up sales enquiries using appropriate methods. 9. Monitor and report on market and competitor activities and provide relevant reports and information. 10. Communicate, liaise, and negotiate internally and externally using appropriate methods to facilitate the development of profi table business and sustain-able relationships. 11. Attend and present at external customer meetings and internal meetings with other company functions necessary to perform duties and aid business development. 12. Attend training and develop relevant knowledge, techniques and skills. 13. Adhere to health and safety policy, and other requirements relating to care of equipment.
RequirementsQualifi ed candidates should possess: • Proven track record of achieving and exceeding measurable goals • Outbound B2B calling experience • Experience in managing a portfolio of clients • The ability to function in a deadline driven environment • Demonstrated superior customer relationship skills • Good communication skills, both verbal and written • The ability to work effi ciently independently or as a part of a team • Excellent organizational skills, along with a high level of attention to detail and the ability to multi-task • Working and functional knowledge of the MS Windows and Offi ce suites, as well as functional and navigational knowledge of the Internet
Interested candidates are requested to forward their resume and cover letter by July 11, 2011 to: [email protected]. Please reference “Multimedia Sales Specialist” in the Subject Line.
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