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COMMUNITY CALENDAR Saturday, Dec. 3, 10:00-15:00 MAC Fair Christmas Cheer Edition, Immaculata H.S. Sunday, Dec. 4, 10:30-12:30 OSCA Breakfast with Santa, Firehall Wednesday, Dec. 7, 12:00 Doors Open for Music (DOFM), “Classic Blue,” Southminster United Saturday, Dec. 10, 16:30 Music at Trinity - Pianist Vlad Soloviev Sunday, Dec. 11, 16:00 OSCA “White Christmas” Movie, Mayfair Sunday, Dec. 11, 14:00-17:00 Write for Rights, Southminster United

Wednesday, Dec. 14, 12:00 DOFM, “Nöel Nouvelet,” Southminster United Saturday, Dec. 17, 14:00- Refugee Committee Open House, 16:00 Trinity Anglican Sunday, Dec. 18 10:30 Centre 7 Fundraiser Pageant, Southminster United Saturday, Dec. 31, 17:00- “Hogman-eh!” New Year’s Eve 24:00 Celebration, Aberdeen Pavilion

To see the latest listings, go to the online calendar at www.oldottawasouth.ca

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BUSINESS BEAT - In Good Hands

Anna Bélanger & Associates is at 1097 Bank St. In September, Massage Addict opened its door at 1111-B Bank St. (in the PHOTOS BY ERIK VAN DER TORRE southern half of the old Folklore Centre space). By Erik van der Torre Anna Bélanger & Associates Barrhaven location offer massage wasn’t disappointed. And like Anna The OOS location of Anna therapy for everyone – our family Bélanger & Associates, Massage Residents of Old Ottawa South are Bélanger & Associates is a women’s is quite familiar with their services. Addict offers a wide range of literally in good hands. Along the clinic that provides registered Anna Bélanger started her massage massage services, including Swedish, short stretch of Bank Street between massage therapy of all kinds, career on the west coast, and when hot stone, and sports massage. the bridges, we are blessed with not including pre- and post-pregnancy my wife was pregnant with our eldest one, but now two massage places. massages. In addition to various and then our twins, she would go for Sunnyside Chiropractic and Sports Anna Bélanger & Associates has massage services, Anna Bélanger & regular pregnancy massages. So she Injury Clinic been operating for several years now Associates also offers Doula services. and, indirectly, our three sons have Need more serious attention for at 1097 Bank St. and in September, (Doulas provide non-clinical support all received massage therapy from an injury or chronic pain? Dr. Steve Massage Addict opened its door at to women in childbirth.) Anna, and while the latter are unable Pelletier provides chiropractic and 1111-B Bank St. (in the southern half While I have not been to an Anna to provide much feedback about sports injury services out of his clinic of the old Folklore Centre space). Bélanger & Associates location their experience, my wife has always on 339 Sunnyside Ave. (Just west of for a massage – the Orléans and raved about Anna’s services. Bank Street.)

Massage Addict Between two registered massage Massage Addict is a franchise- clinics and a chiropractic and sports Winter is Coming! based company that currently has injury clinic, Old Ottawa South can over 65 massage clinics Canada relax in knowing that, it is in good wide, and continues to grow. hands. Come see our full selection of very Providing the same model in all of warm jackets, hats & scarves their clinics, they are able to offer registered massage therapy using Business Beat is a new monthly and mitts & gloves. an interesting membership model. feature that will highlight new and Although a regular massage costs existing businesses in Old Ottawa Our Pajar Canada and Olang about the same as it would at most South. Reviews and opinions are clinics, a membership or prepaid those of the author alone. If you boots are fully waterproof massage package allows one to know of any new businesses opening and good down to -30C! receive discounts on individual up or want to share your thoughts massages of up to $20 to $30. about existing businesses, please feel For the purpose of writing this free to share them: e.vandertorre@ We have casual to elegant article (insert winking emoji) I gmail.com. fashions from top Canadian have now been to Massage Addict Erik van der Torre has lived in Old twice. Both times Marcel was my designers and manufacturers. Ottawa South for over 7 years. He therapist and he was fantastic. With recently joined the OSCA board and Sizes 2-20. my wonky back and tense muscles, I is an active member on Hopewell appreciate a deep tissue massage that Avenue PS’s parent council. Glebe Spree is Back! is more painful than relaxing and I Shop in the Glebe for a chance to win a $10,000 shopping spree. Contest starts November 15th. BUSINESS UPDATES

Dough Brothers opened a take-out and delivery pizza and burger place at 1202 Bank St., in the space recently vacated by Papa Pizza.

Alteriors is scheduled to open on BGGO Boutique December 1st in its new location (the old 751 Bank St. TD Bank). (between 1st & 2nd Ave) 613-680-1500 3 Little Monkeys will close by the end www.bggo.ca of December. The OSCAR l December 2016 Page 5

MCCOY’S MUSINGS Ten Years of the OSCAR in Colour By Brendan McCoy

Ten year ago, in 2006, the OSCAR started printing some pages in full colour. The first issues had just 4 pages of colour. (Because of the way Thompson, an experiment to see newspapers are made, this how it would look, and to see if is the minimum that can be advertisers would pay more for printed. Additional pages must colour ads. be added by fours.) Colour The object of the OSCAR was a big leap forward for this is to have a great community community paper. Previous to paper, to inform the community 2006, the OSCAR had been about what is happening and only black ink, sometimes with allow a discussion of important a single additional colour, such issues. But having enough ads as green or blue, to add some is vital for the paper which, contrast to a few pages. Since while owned by the community 2006 the cover has always association, gets no subsidies been in colour. It looks more and is expected to cover all its modern, professional and allows own costs. everyone to enjoy great colour That first colour looked great, photos. and over the years, more and This issue, December 2016, more advertisers have been has twenty pages of colour, prepared to pay for colour ads, while sixteen has become a which has allowed the paper common amount in the last to run more of those colour couple of years. Back in 2006 pages. Ten years on, it is hard to going with colour was a leap imagine the OSCAR without all of faith for editor Mary-Anne those colour photos.

Holiday Hours

December 12th to 23rd Monday to Friday 9am to 7pm Saturday 9am to 5pm Sunday 11am to 5pm We will be closed to celebrate December 25th and 26th as well as January 1st

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CHRISTY’S CORNER Winter Programs, Youth Advisory Committee and A Special Thank You By Christy Savage, programs, but mentored the children who attend. OSCA Executive Director They are leaders simply because of who they are and how they work and give back. We know how fortunate we’ve been to have their contribution Winter Programs - A New and Exciting Launch so we’ve been discussing ways to expand youth The staff (Sarah Rosborough - OSCA Program engagement overall. Director, Sarah Cybulski - OSCA Preschool-Child- So, when Board member, Janet Jull, suggested Youth Coordinator, and myself) and the Program a Youth Advisory Committee, we simply couldn’t Committee, have been hard at work putting say no. We launched our first night, with minimal together a new line-up of programs and specialty promotion in early November and had some workshops and trips for the winter. amazing feedback from the small group of 11 who Not only did we get some great responses and attended. And we’re excited to be launching a few feedback in our winter and spring program survey, new programs because of that feedback. In the but we also (unofficially) canvassed many in the coming months we’ll be reaching out to youth in community. Most of you said that committing as many ways as we can to invite them to come to to a 10 or 12 week program can be challenging. the Firehall to brainstorm ideas for programs run However, you still want the opportunity to ‘By Youth For Youth’. participate in fun and interesting programs that get Our next Youth Advisory Council meeting you out and about exploring your city and beyond, will take place in January. Stay tuned for more meeting others and socializing with likeminded information and please spread the word. We had individuals. As a result, we’ve been reaching out to such amazing engagement, feedback and ideas at many companies, organizations and individuals to our first Youth Advisory Council meeting that we help us launch two new programs. look forward to hearing more. One offers day trips for adults, families and children. We’ll introduce approximately one per A Special Thank You to Volunteer Brenda Lee month for each group in the winter. And if this is After many years, 17 to be exact, volunteering successful we’ll expand options for the spring/ with OSCA, Brenda Lee will be stepping down summer and fall. as the Chair of the Special Events Committee and You also said you’d love to come to the Firehall member of the Board. to see a great show, participate in a workshop, or We’re very grateful to her for her leadership, attend a drop in program for a specialized course. love of and commitment to the community, and As a result we’re introducing a few options in the for the sometimes exhausting work she’s put in winter for all ages as well. to mentor, lead, and ensure the high quality and We’re very excited and hope you are too. calibre of OSCA Special Events is maintained. The Winter Program Guide is posted online, and Special Events are OSCA’s way of bringing the is included in this edition of the OSCAR. Don’t community together and giving back. Brenda’s forget to have a look and pick your choices for our signature events: Fall Fest, Shop Your Local Talent December 6th and 7th registration launch. and the Windsor Park Art show are some of our largest events often bringing over 500 people Youth Advisory Committee Brenda Lee at the OSCA showing of “It’s a together at a time. We are grateful to her for her We’ve been fortunate to have some very Wonderful Life” last year at the Mayfair. vision and guidance. amazing staff working for us who grew up coming We wish Brenda well in her new pursuits and PHOTO BY CHRISTY SAVAGE to Firehall programs. Their interest, feedback, will miss her greatly. commitment, and love of the community, have She is truly an unsung hero. been vital to OSCA and our programs. Moreover, their contribution has not only served our

OSCA PRESIDENT’S REPORT Programming and Special Events By Linda Hancock, great programs, there is still much her position as Chair at the end of OSCA President that we can do. I thank all of you who this year. On behalf of all of us at have made suggestions, such as more OSCA, I want to thank Brenda for all programs for the less-served groups that she has done for OSCA and all As another holiday season draws in our community such as youth and that she will continue to do for Old nearer, I am thankful for all of the seniors. We are also hearing that we Ottawa South. We will have the op- good things in my life – health, hap- should consider other formats for portunity to thank her formally at our piness, a wonderful family, friends programs, like 2 to 3 hour workshops AGM in May 2017. who are like family and, of course, on topics of interest. All are being On the theme of special events, living in Old Ottawa South. considered, and we hope that you some of you may have done a little Many of you are very familiar with for OSCA this past year. Without the will see some exciting new programs holiday shopping at Shop Your Local all of the programs and activities that efforts of so many, OSCA would not with each new program cycle. Talent – always one of my favourite OSCA offers at the Old Firehall and have nearly the scope and quality of In addition to programming, one of events! I hope to see some of you at other locations in our community. We programs and activities that many OSCA’s stated purposes is “offering Breakfast with Santa at the Firehall have a good variety: from pottery, of us enjoy. We have an incredibly social events to strengthen commu- on Sunday December 4th, and the to yoga, to After 4 and children’s talented and committed group and, nity bonds and help neighbours get Christmas Movie “White Christmas” programs. As discussed by our Board as such, I look forward to all of the to know each other”. OSCA has been at the Mayfair on Sunday, December and Staff at a recent planning meet- challenges and opportunities that we very fortunate to have Brenda Lee as 11th. ing, programming is a strength of will face together next year. the Chair of our Special Events Com- In the spirit of the season and of OSCA but also a weakness, as there On behalf of the OSCA Board, I mittee and the driving force behind being thankful, I would like to take may be some gaps, and there are wish you all a very happy Holiday most of our special events for a very this opportunity to say a special many opportunities to explore. While Season and all the best for 2017! long time. Sadly for all of us, Brenda thank you to all of our staff and vol- it is recognized that we offer some will be leaving the OSCA Board and unteers who have been working hard The OSCAR l December 2016 Page 7

OSCA White Christmas and Traditions By Julia Morency to me that I will carry on the tradition with her, as my parents did with me. Could you pick a favorite Christmas I hope everyone can come out movie? I remember being small to the Mayfair Theatre on Sunday and loving Christmas movie time. December 11th at 4:00pm to watch Popcorn and family time. As I got White Christmas. Doors open at older, of course, I got to watch the 3:30pm. Children under twelve years more “mature” Christmas movies. old are $5.00, everyone else is $10.00. I remember falling in love with Come and sing with me. I promise not White Christmas. The clothes, the to be the only one. This time of year music... Bing Crosby and Danny is always full of running around and Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera- hustle and bustle. Come take some Ellen. I tell you, that dance routine time to find some magic... I guarantee between Judy and Phil when they you will. first meet is magic. It was one of my Mother’s favorites. I am still adjusting to watching it without her. To this day, I watch it every time it plays on TV. My daughter will finally be old enough this year to start watching the Christmas movies. It means so much

Windsor Rink Volunteers Needed!

OSCA is currently looking for volunteers to assist in maintaining the outdoor rink at Windsor Park this year. Your duties would include helping to build the base, flooding the rink a couple of times over the season, and snowblowing the rink occasionally during heavy snowfall. If you’re interested or would like more information, contact Sarah Cybulski at OSCA at [email protected]

The Dairy Queen wishes you a Merry Christmas and a HappyThe OSCAR is a self-supporting New newspaper, Year paid for entirely by advertising, and reliant on volunteer contributors and distributors. Thanks to the Dairy Queen for contributing to our community through its support of the many OSCAR volunteers.

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THE OSCAR 260 Sunnyside Ave, Ottawa Ontario, K1S 0R7 www.oldottawasouth.ca/oscar NEXT DEADLINE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16 ISSN: 0715-5476 The OSCAR is published eleven times per year. Upcoming deadlines: [email protected] December 16 (January issue); January 13 (February issue); February 10 (March issue); March 17 (April issue); April 14 (May issue); May Editor: Brendan McCoy [email protected] 12 (June issue); June 16 (July/August issue); August 18 (September Layout and Design Editor: Bess Fraser issue). Copy Editor: Michael Thibault Distribution Manager: Larry Ostler 613-327-9080 [email protected] To book an OSCAR ad Business Manager: Susanne Ledbetter [email protected] Advertising Manager: Gayle Weitzman 613-730-1058 call Gayle at 613-730-1058 [email protected] [email protected] (not classy ads) The OSCAR is printed by Winchester Print. 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FILM 20 ZONE F2: Pierre Guevremont (Coordinator), Paulette Theriault, Torin and SECOND THOUGHTS 29 Konstantine Assal, Judy and Pierre Chamberland, Luc and Sydney Grenier, Mary Johnston, the Walker Family, the Polkinghorne Family, The Kushner FOOD 28 Family. ZONE G: Susan McMaster (Coordinator), Cindy MacLoghlin, Bernard and POETRY 19,30 Simon, Luke and Robin Eriksson, Gillian Hurd, Joanne Monaghan, Steve LIBRARY 32 Mennill, Larry Ostler. AROUND TOWN 33 Echo Drive: Alex Bissel. Bank Street-Ottawa South: Tom Lawson, Paula Archer. MARKETPLACE 35 Bank Street-Glebe: Larry Ostler. CLASSY ADS 35 Other: Maya. The OSCAR l December 2016 Page 9

Canal Pathway Detour

Signalized Crossing on Colonel By Drive at the Bank Street exit. Access to Colonel By Drive at Avenue Road is closed. PHOTOS BY KATHY KRYWICKI By Kathy Krywicki skating season. Avenue Road stairs, but not other do you feel about the level of comfort The National Capital Commission places in the neighbourhood with and safety for pedestrians and If you’ve travelled along Colonel is in the process of adding two direct connections to the pathway cyclists (and skaters) trying to access By Drive recently you’ve likely new pedestrian crossovers of the such as Rosedale, Leonard, or Seneca the pathway or canal? seen the new signalized crossing Queen Elizabeth Driveway: one at Streets. The OSCA Traffic & Safety at the Echo Drive ramp, that is, the Commissioners Park (Dow’s Lake) The installation of a new crossing Committee would very much like to Bank Street exit. This push-button and the other at Queen Elizabeth to the canal, albeit temporary, gives hear your views on this matter. Please activated signal has been installed Place (just west of the Bank Street us a chance to re-examine this study, contact us at traffic@oldottawasouth. to assist pedestrians and cyclists Bridge). However, a permanent safe to look at the changes in traffic ca with your feedback. crossing of Colonel By Drive in the patterns, and to press for follow up of crossing this busy thoroughfare while Kathy Krywicki is a member of the vicinity of Old Ottawa South has yet our concerns. the recreational pathway is closed OSCA Traffic & Safety Committee. from the Bank Street Bridge to Pig to be addressed. What do you think of this new Island. Work is being done to repair In 2008 the NCC initiated a study signalized crossing of Colonel By the canal walls and Parks Canada of key crossing points along the Drive? Would you like this crossing envisions the rehabilitation project to Rideau Canal corridor to examine retained on a permanent basis? How continue until June 2017. The detour ways to improve access and safety to avoid the pathway alongside the for all users. In the Old Ottawa canal will be in place until the repair South area, that process looked at work is completed. Currently the the Colonel By Drive intersections stairs at Avenue Road are closed but of Bronson Place, Echo Drive/Bank 613-725-1171 access will be restored during the Street ramp, and the Riverdale/

Francojeunesse Families Protest School Jennifer Stewart Diane Allingham Catchment Change By Nick Desbarats inadequate parent and community consultation process, the facts that The Conseil des écoles publiques de only one rezoning scenario was pro- l’Est de l’Ontario (CEPEO) has re- posed and that the proposed scenario cently proposed to alter several school would cause significant disruptions to catchment zones that would directly students’ academic and social devel- affect many residents of Old Ottawa opment as well the fact that it would South, in particular, residents whose split the communities of Old Ottawa children currently attend the CEPEO’s South, the Glebe and Centretown in Francojeunesse school in Sandy Hill. two. Several families have already Currently, the catchment zone for expressed their intent to remove their Francojeunesse includes all of Old children from the CEPEO system Ottawa South and Old Ottawa East, altogether and send their children to among other neighbourhoods. Under Hopewell Public School if the pro- From all of us here at the new rezoning proposal put for- posed rezoning plan is implemented, dianeandjen.com ward by the CEPEO at the end of Oc- potentially exacerbating the current tober, a new school would be opened crowding situation at Hopewell. in 2017 at 175 Beech (near Preston A group of concerned parents Street in Little Italy) and the roughly has set up an online petition to ask 30 Francojeunesse students who that the rezoning process be halted live in Old Ottawa South and west and that a more open and consulta- Melanie Wright Tracy Martin of Bank Street would be asked —or tive process be put in place that will possibly required— to transfer from consider more than one scenario. The Francojeunesse to the new school. petition, at www.change.org, had 140 [email protected] Many parents from Old Ottawa supporters as of November 18, and #200 –1335 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 8N8 South, the Glebe, and Centretown can be viewed online at https://goo.gl/ are expressing concerns with the Z0ZQZ2 . dianeandjen.com current proposal, citing a flawed and Page 10 The OSCAR l December 2016

OCDSB TRUSTEE’S REPORT Public School Board Update: Gifted Program Review By Shawn Menard, Trustee Grades 1 to 4 would be eliminated. possibly broaden the definition of gifted. The Ottawa Carleton District School 2. Segregated classes for the gifted Board has been going through what would remain in Grades 5 to 8, but 5. Students would be offered a I would characterize as “a massive more variety would be offered. One place in a gifted program at one change-management undertaking.” stream of classes would be offered school; parents could not request There have been changes proposed for children who are gifted in one placement at another school. by senior staff to the way we deliver area, but challenged in another. programming in JK/SK, changes in Another stream would be for the At that meeting, trustees listened course offerings for adult learners, profoundly gifted (above the 99.6 to over 20 delegations and listened far more comprehensive consultation severe budget constraints, learning percentile of the population). to staff detail the report. The primary plan, a general issue that I’ve felt disability changes, a review is An “inquiry” stream would be issue around the table was that very strongly about since becoming a ongoing of boundaries and learning available to all. trustees were not happy with what trustee in 2014. accommodation (read: potential was perceived as a lack of a proper The next steps will be to review closures), and others. Senior Board 3. The number of secondary schools consultation plan, the timelines being that consultation plan, discuss and staff have now approached trustees offering segregated gifted classes imposed (implementation for Sept incorporate community feedback into with recommended changes to the would be reduced from four to 2017), and had concerns about the our decision-making on this issue. gifted program. three, eliminating the program at changes themselves. I personally Merivale High School. support some of the changes (a new If you have questions or comments Staff brought the following screening process that provides you wish to share with me, please recommended changes to trustees at a 4. A new screening process would be better equity) while I oppose others send them to Shawn.Menard@ocdsb. recent meeting: introduced in Grade 3 that would (elimination of Grade 1-4 gifted). A ca. include measures to try to get rid vote was taken and approved to have 1. Segregated classes for the gifted in of bias in the selection process, and staff come back to the Board with a

OCSB TRUSTEE’S REPORT School Update By Kathy Ablett, Trustee engineering student, these after- shots, water bottle toss, bean bag school clubs will give students toss, back bend, etc. They videoed Immaculata High School News the opportunity to solve problems the activity and invited grade 7 Immaculata students are keeping creatively. Each week, the girls classes in to explain what they did very busy in the days leading up to will work on a different component with some deep-learning questions the Christmas Break. of a personal project to wear that for our intermediate students. This Over the fall, and leading up to will be composed and made by the is a great example of a grade 7-12 Christmas, the students have been technology they are taught, as well cross curricular Math approach involved in several community as learn and apply the steps of the with creative and deep-learning activities such as being Ambassadors design process. opportunities. that’s volunteering, fundraising or at the May Court Bazaar, Cleaning raising awareness around causes that the Capital initiatives, and preparing Cross Curricular Math Inquiry – Corpus Christi News matter.” for the Arts Christmas Open House Blue Jays style! Students at Corpus Christi have which takes place on December 14th. The MCF 3M class joined many been involved in many activities this Please continue to check your Please refer to your school newsletter Canadians this fall watching the fall from Chili Night and Dance, school newsletters for current and for future events and activities. Blue Jays baseball, but they did to local Food Drives to support our upcoming events. The last day of classes before so for a different reason. In their friends at Centertown Emergency Christmas is Friday, December 23rd. Math class they found quadratic Food Centre, to their attendance As we approach the Christmas The first day of classes in the New equations that mimicked the flight and participation in WE Day on Season, my hope for all students, Year is Monday, January 9th. of the baseball during the Blue Jays November 9th. A WE Day belief for their families and friends is to enjoy a home runs in the American League students is as follows: blessed, safe and happy holiday. It is Girls Innovating Engineering Club Championship Series/American “Students who Live WE at School my privilege to serve as your Trustee. This club, hosted by the University League Division Series. Using the are stepping up and making a If, at any time, I can be of assistance of Ottawa at Immaculata High Major League Baseball site, you difference in their neighbourhood to you please do not hesitate to call School, is for girls in grades can watch videos to see the contact and world at large. Because no me at 613 526-9512. 7-10. This educational initiative point and the landing point of the matter your age or location, we can provides a great introduction into ball as well as the maximum height. all make a positive impact – whether various technologies such as 3D The students continued by creating printing, laser cutting, and Arduino their own projects using various programming. Taught by a female movements – basketball three-point

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COUNCILLOR’S REPORT Passing our Mid-terms at City Hall By Councillor chair, I have now laid claim to urban important to residents based on your David Chernushenko wildlife issues, including the ongoing input. I collaborated with a number need to see bird-friendly policies of councillors and community groups adopted and promoted so as to reduce in pushing for: Excuse me, will there be a mid-term the very frequent bird injuries and • A more affordable transit pass for exam? How many of us remember deaths in the city. those on low incomes. Check! asking or hearing that question in Which brings me to the name of • Increased funding for social service school? I know I did, and though my the committee. In February 2016, providers. Check! school days may be over, mid-terms as part of a far-ranging motion to • More funding for measures and remain part of my life. minimize Ottawa’s contribution to infrastructure leading to safer We’re halfway through the current city and for the ward. But in a climate change, I suggested adding and more accessible walking and term of City Council, and with that world of competing priorities and the words “Climate Protection” to the cycling. Check! milestone comes a standard “Mid- limited means — and little desire for name of the committee. I believe this term Governance Review.” It’s a increased taxation — I am pleased term is a better fit than the similar but Some citywide initiatives that I way to take stock of how we do to have worked with City staff and more nebulous Climate Change, as have championed received some things at City Hall, and a chance for the mayor to get these important argued in my motion: modest initial funding. There is a us to consider how our processes or priorities addressed in the budget. “… governments … are making financial infusion to kick-start some approaches might be improved. All this was accomplished within important commitments to reduce projects as part of the Renewable Among the dozens of elements the targeted 2% cap on residential emissions of climate-changing Energy Strategy coming forward reviewed recently, I proposed property tax increases. greenhouse gases, thereby protecting in 2017 — now called Energy changes in a couple of areas related You can find the full draft budget the climate from human behaviour Evolution. There is money for work to the mandates of the City’s standing document at ottawa.ca/budget2017, and economic activity; and recommended in the draft Urban committees. First, I was able to add and you will have the opportunity “… governments … are already Forest Management Plan (to be to the Environment Committee’s to comment in a number of ways experiencing, and are anticipating debated and finalized in the spring). mandate responsibility for in advance of budget discussions at considerably more impacts upon built There is also money for enhanced “preserving/promoting biodiversity various committees, leading up to the infrastructure and ecological and road safety measures and technology. and protecting/coexisting with urban final debate at Council on Dec. 8. human health as a result of climate There are some specific initiatives wildlife, particularly with respect To close, I would like wish you change, and are devoting additional and capital projects that benefit to matters that are not specifically every happiness during the holiday resources towards protecting humans Capital Ward residents in particular, within the mandates of other season and throughout the coming from the negative effects of a which I have listed in my more Standing Committees.” year. changing climate; and extensive online commentary at What this comes down to is “… adopting the term Climate capitalward.ca. that preserving and promoting Councillor David Chernushenko Protection would serve not only to Did we get everything that you biodiversity as a policy goal is TEL: 613-580-2487 underline the importance of tackling (and I) asked for? No. But no budget not specifically named as part of [email protected] climate-related issues for the City of is perfect, and there are other things any committee’s mandate. Some www.capitalward.ca. Ottawa, but also better describe the I would like to have seen, for the committees, such as Planning or dual nature of the challenge before Transportation, deal with some the city, as described in this motion; specific, related issues, but not as an On Nov. 9, Council made overarching objective. That loophole a symbolic but absolutely has now been closed. important change by approving Somewhat related — not a the committee’s new name: loophole, but an oddity — is the A gastro pub Environment and Climate transfer of “urban wildlife” issues Protection. from the Agriculture and Rural by the Fraser Affairs Committee (ARAC) to the Draft Budget Overview Environment Committee. It’s not brothers Also on Nov. 9, the Mayor tabled rocket science, and the chair of the city’s 2017 Draft Budget. I am ARAC had no desire to fight me over particularly pleased with what I see Just steps over Glebe skunk issues or troubles with in several areas that are my declared raccoons and squirrels in Centretown. the bridge priorities, and which I know are So — lucky me!! — as Environment

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PHOTO BY JOHN DANCE SIMPLY DELICIOUS Cyclists, pedestrians and their dogs became more visible and safe thanks to free lights and related equipment provided by Councillor David Chernush- enko and the City of Ottawa. The event on November 10th at the corner of Echo and Clegg was enormously popular with cyclists and pedestrians who Reservations accepted online or by phone streamed by Councillor Chernushenko, his assistant Ian Grabina and volun- teers Denise Inglis and Don Fugler. Pictured above, cyclist Anthony Polci is equipped with new lights from Councillor Chernushenko (left) and Ian Grabina. Page 12 The OSCAR l December 2016

MP’S REPORT One Year in Office By Katherine McKenna Parliament for Ottawa Centre, I have: Canadians from coast-to-coast-to- • Held over 100 constituent meetings coast. Since then, the government On October 19, 2015, I was deeply and four community consultations has worked hard to fulfill our honoured to be elected as your with participation by over 1,000 commitment to strengthen the middle representative in the House of people; class and grow the economy over the Commons. I have also had the great • Championed reform of the National long term. privilege of serving as the Minister Capital Commission Board; By listening to Canadians and by of Environment and Climate Change. • Secured $10.5 million in federal following through on the things that funding for a canal footbridge and matter most to them, the government The year has flown by with much secondary education and receive two access points for paddling on has started to deliver real results for work and progress, both in the riding the skills and training they need to the canal; all Canadians: and regarding the environment and get the jobs of today and tomorrow. climate change portfolio. • Approved heritage designation of • As a first step, the Prime Minister the Ottawa River (Ontario) and named his Cabinet that was not Over the last year, as Member of Moving into the second year of announced $62 million in federal only gender-balanced, but reflected the mandate, our government will funds to control sewage in the the great diversity of Canada. continue to invest in our people, Ottawa River; and • After one month in office, the our communities, and our economy. • Cancelled ‘ten percenter’ print government introduced a middle Canada will remain focused on the newsletters in favour of face-to- class tax cut that asked the CATHERINE priorities of its citizens and take face pop up community meetings, wealthiest one percent to pay a clear action to build an economy that MCKENNA electronic communications little more so that the middle class works for everyone – not just the MP—Ottawa Centre and columns in community – and those working hard to join it wealthiest one percent. newspapers. – could pay less. • As part of Budget 2016, the federal Working for you! Investment to Reduce Carbon These accomplishments are government introduced a new Footprint and Boost Research on Community Office a reflection of my commitment Canada Child Benefit – a fair and Green Technology at Carleton U 107 Catherine Street to you and the result of support generous tax-free monthly cheque Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 0P4 On November 4, I was pleased T 613-946-8682 • F 613-946-8680 from my dedicated team of that gives nine out of ten Canadian to announce that our government /McKenna.Ottawa @CMcKennaOttawa staff and volunteers. A more families more money to help is investing $22.5 million from our detailed one-year status report is with the high cost of raising their Strategic Investment Fund to support available on my website at www. children. the greening of operations at Carleton CatherineMcKennaMP.ca. • Working in close partnership University. More than a year ago, Prime with the provinces and the This funding supports Carleton Minister Justin Trudeau and our territories, the federal government University’s goal of reducing energy Cabinet took office with a clear came to a historic agreement consumption while expanding www. CatherineMcKennaMP.ca mandate to deliver real change for that strengthened the Canadian research on green technologies Pension Plan, so that hard working and smart environments. The Canadians can secure the strong infrastructure funding will lower and stable retirement they deserve. energy use on campus by up to eight • Building on its commitment to per cent through a major retrofit forge a new, nation-to-nation and modernization program that relationship with Indigenous includes an upgrade to Carleton’s Peoples in Canada, the federal Sustainability Energy Research government launched the National Facility and a new Research Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Observatory Centre in its central Indigenous Women and Girls – a heating plant. As well, Carleton is powerful step in the reconciliation renovating to create the Institute for process. Advanced Research and Innovation • In response to the deepening in Smart Environments (ARISE) humanitarian crisis in the Middle focusing on applied research in clean East, the Prime Minister kept his technology, health technology, and promise to open Canada’s doors to information and communication more than 25,000 Syrian refugees technology. fleeing war and persecution. I am delighted to see that these • Recognizing the need for concerted new buildings will be energy efficient global action to combat climate and provide research opportunities change, the government proposed a in environmental and climate pan-Canadian approach to pricing science—a key field of research as carbon pollution, one where all Canada continues to take real action Canadian jurisdictions will have and find practical solutions to tackle carbon pricing in place by 2018. climate change. • Finally, the government made a In addition to the $22.5 million strong investment in Canada’s in federal funding, the Ontario youth by boosting Canada Student government is providing $3.9 Grants for middle and low-income million and Carleton University is families by 50 percent – so that contributing $23.5 million, for a total more Canadians can afford a post- investment of $49.9 million.

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MPP’S REPORT Reviewing the Ontario Municipal Board By Yasir Naqvi, our land. Because of this, the OMB’s themes: MPP Ottawa Centre decisions have a direct impact on Ot- • OMB’s jurisdiction and powers tawa families and communities. • Citizen participation and local As such, along with you, I have perspective We are fortunate to live in a vibrant long advocated for changes to OMB • Clear and predictable decision- downtown community in a major to ensure community-inspired making North American city. Our neighbour- development. I am proud that the • Modern procedures and faster hoods continue to grow with devel- Ontario government has undertaken a decisions opment all around us. As your MPP comprehensive review of how OMB • Alternative dispute resolution and nothing is more important to me than the OMB must be reformed so that it operates and its role in our province’s fewer hearings ensuring that Ottawa is healthy, sus- can better serve the unique needs of land-use planning system to help tainable and safe for all of us. our community, and incorporate bet- make it more efficient, and more ac- The government has released a Balance is a central factor in main- ter land-use planning principles. Any cessible to all communities. Public Consultation Document to taining the vibrancy of our communi- changes our government makes to the The OMB review is framed by the support the review of the OMB. It ties. We must understand the need for OMB in the future will put people, following guiding principles: protec- provides context and direction. It growth and development, along with and communities like ours, first. Over tion of long-term public interests; gives background on Ontario’s land the protection of our green spaces the next 25 years, our population is maintenance or enhancement of ac- use planning system and on the and enhancing the character of our expected to increase by more than cess to dispute resolution; provision OMB. It sets out possible changes neighbourhoods. The Ontario Mu- four million. That means our com- of transparency in hearing processes being considered to improve the nicipal Board (OMB) plays a central munities and municipalities will need and decision-making; and, minimiz- OMB’s role within the system as role in the province’s land-use plan- to respond and adjust to this growth. ing impacts on the court system. As organized under the five key themes, ning process and the City of Ottawa’s We believe that no one knows what a result, the review has been orga- and raises questions for consider- own plans for how to best develop is best for the community than the nized according to the following five ation. I had the opportunity to host people who live there. That is why the Ottawa town hall on November the input and advice you share on 9th. The turnout was fantastic with how to move forward with an im- great ideas and suggestions on how proved and modernized OMB is very to make the OMB work better for our important. community and give more consider- With that in mind, I hope everyone ation to council decisions. has the opportunity to gather with If you were not able to attend, there family and explore our wonderful is still opportunity to submit your community this holiday season. My thoughts online by simply going to family and I want to wish everyone ontario.ca/OMBreview. We want to a very Merry Christmas, Happy Ha- hear from you! nukkah, and Season’s Greetings! As the MPP for Ottawa Centre, I have often heard from residents that

MAYOR’S REPORT Welcoming the World to Ottawa 2017 Canada’s centennial year. The whole nation rallied together to create a year of lasting memories and experiences that transcended generations, and we plan to do it once again during Canada’s upcoming sesquicentennial. It seems like yesterday that I announced the creation of the 2017 Bureau to begin preparations for Canada’s Big Year. Now with 2017 only weeks away and 12 full months of big, bold, immersive and moving experiences about to begin, we will • Red Bull Crashed Ice – March 3rd-4th soon enjoy the fruits of our labour. (redbullcontentpool.com) This is an exciting opportunity to not only com- • JUNO Awards – April 1st-2nd (Junoawards.ca) memorate the progress we’ve made as a nation, but it is a chance to look forward towards the future. Canada is a diverse country, and we will host an The energy, excitement and investments gener- equally diverse selection of large signature events, ated by Ottawa’s 2017 celebrations will serve as a such as the Canadian Video Game Awards, the catalyst for long-term tourism growth. Canadian Track and Field Championships, The Ca- I encourage you to visit www.ottawa2017.ca nadian Olympic Curling Trials - Roar of the Rings, and sign up for the newsletter to stay up to date the 105th Grey Cup and many more. and receive the latest news on the many upcoming We have also worked hard to ensure that resi- events and celebrations. Here are just a few to look dents and visitors alike can partake in many Otta- By Mayor Jim Watson forward to, early in the New Year: wa 2017 celebrations at no cost: the Underground Multi-media Experience, La Machine, Inspiration As winter falls upon us and Canada’s 150th Birth- • New Years Eve – December 31st. Lighting of Village and Ottawa Welcomes the World are just a day is less than 50 days away, I want to take this the Ottawa 2017 Cauldron at Ottawa City Hall few of free signature events not to miss. opportunity to wish you and your family a Merry kicks off a family-friendly New Year’s Eve Ottawa 2017 will be a once-in-a-lifetime cel- Christmas and Happy Holidays. celebration, leading to a national celebration on ebration and I encourage you to get involved. If 2017 will be a historic year in the nation’s Parliament Hill with fireworks at 8:17pm (20:17) you would like to plan your own community even, capital. We have worked hard to prepare Ottawa to and midnight. (Ottawa2017.ca) volunteer or simply learn more, visit www.ot- welcome the world as host of these celebrations. I • Canadian Tire National Skating Championships tawa2017.ca. still remember the excitement of Expo ’67 during – January 16th-22nd (skatecanada.ca) Page 14 The OSCAR l December 2016

Amnesty Write for Rights, December 11 at Southminster and to families, prisoners get better yours put pressure on governments for flooding the Peace River Valley conditions or are released. And human our physical freedom, but knowing would “severely undermine” the rights defenders are better protected. we have your solidarity also supports ability of Indigenous peoples to Those whose lives and freedoms us mentally.” carry out hunting, fishing, and are at risk feel hope as they learn This year the Amnesty write-a-thons other traditions protected by treaty, that people around the world are will focus on 11 cases from around the Canadian Constitution and witnessing and advocating on their the world: Azerbaijan, Australia, international law. George Desjarlais, behalf. The actions inspired at the Cameroon, Canada, China, Egypt, a Dane-Zaa man from the West write-a-thons make a difference. Iran, Malawi, Peru, the USA, and Moberly First Nations speaks about Three of the prisoners whose Venezuela. Letter writers will learn what this land means to his people: cases were highlighted in the 2015 about: “My people, they’ve used that river campaign have now been released as a corridor, almost like what you from prison! • Mahmoud Abu Zeid, a call a major highway, for years and Yecenia Armenta was imprisoned photojournalist better known years and years. There are grave By Anne Whitehurst for four long years, after being as Shawkan, was doing his sites and graveyards and village tortured in order to force a confession job and taking pictures during areas where they used to camp in Every December members of the Old that she killed her husband. As a result demonstrations in Cairo in 2013. He the summer or the winter. It’s prime Ottawa South community and friends of Write for Rights 2015 over 300,000 was arrested, tortured, and jailed for wildlife habitat.” gather at the Southminster United actions were taken on her case urging taking pictures. The many charges Church to join thousands of letter the Mexican Government to drop the against him include “disturbing At Southminster’s event this year writers around the world defending charges and release her. This activism public peace” and “joining a there will be case profiles, sample human rights in the annual Amnesty helped shift public opinion and criminal gang”. His trial is ongoing. letters, and information about how to write-a-thon. This year Southminster media coverage, and pressured the If he is found guilty, he could be send messages of support to prisoners will be hosting the 2016 Write for government. She was acquitted and sentenced to death. and their families. Paper and pens are Rights event from 2:00 to 5:00pm on released in March 2016. provided as well as cards for prisoners Sunday afternoon, December 11th. Albert Woodfox is free. On his 69th • Máxima Acuña, a peasant farmer and families. Last year participants at birthday, Louisiana prisoner Albert in Peru, is in a legal battle with All are welcome. Please come Southminster wrote 161 letters on Woodfox walked free – 44 years Yanacocha, one of the biggest gold along, have a cup of tea or coffee, and behalf of prisoners of conscience, after he was first put into solitary and copper mines anywhere, over join in the letter writing. Stop by for human rights defenders, torture confinement in the USA. More than the ownership of the land where an hour or stay the whole afternoon. survivors and communities at risk. 200 people took action for Albert she lives with her family. She has The write-a-thon will take place For this event Amnesty scans its during Write for Rights, 2015. braved violent attacks from local between 2:00 and 5:00 on Sunday, global portfolio of cases and picks And Phyoe Phyoe Aung expresses police for refusing to leave. Máxima December 11th. those where they believe global her gratitude to Amnesty letter writers believes the harassment from police Participants are invited to enter activism can have a huge impact. for their support and help in gaining is an attempt to drive her away Southminster through the Galt As letters, cards, tweets, emails, her release: “I am so grateful to from her home so that the mining Street door at the back of the faxes and text messages arrive in Amnesty and all of the people who company can use her land. She will church. Donations of a toonie will government offices, in prison cells, participated in the campaign for my not give in, but she needs support in be welcome to help with the cost of release. International movements like her struggle to keep her land. postage. If you have any questions about the write-a-thon please get • The West Moberly and Prophet in touch with the church office at River First Nations in northeast 613-730-6874 or Anne Whitehurst at B.C. are fighting to stop the 613-730-6831. construction of the Site C hydroelectric dam. The B.C. Anne Whitehurst is a member of government has begun construction Southminster United Church’s Local, even though an environmental National and Global Outreach Com- review process concluded that mittee. Area Worship Services

Location Times Sunnyside Wesleyan Church Sunday Worship 58 Grosvenor Avenue Services at 9:00 am and (at Sunnyside) 11:00 am, Children’s Family Mass: 6:30 PM program offered during Midnight Mass: 10:00 PM worship services. Mass: 10:30 AM St Margaret Mary Mass Sunday at 9:30 New Year’s Day: Catholic Church and 11:30 am. 9:30 A M & 11:30 AM 7 Fairbairn (corner of Sunnyside)

Trinity Anglican Church Holy Eucharist at 8:00 1230 Bank St am and 10:00 am with (at Cameron Ave) Church School & Choir.

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FAITH COMMUNITY Q&A With New Minister At Southminster United Church By Margaret Moyston ordained for seventeen years. she didn’t know much how a tree vibrant community. I am interested in Cumming and Rev. Trisha actually worked and in her quest to discovering new ways that the church Q: I wonder why those experiences be more of an activist, had to learn can enhance that vibrancy. The Elliott led you to pursue ministry? basic science, I thought that there church needs to provide more than A: I think it was those experiences was profound truth to that. How a pretty skyline; it has to be a center Q: (Margaret Moyston Cumming) that led me to re-examine the Church. do you love a universe you don’t where people can meet to encounter When did you first become called Before that, I didn’t have a lot of understand? I started learning about beauty, comfort and challenge. to ministry? respect for churches in general. I saw foraging after that, began doing eco- A: (Rev. Trisha Elliott) That’s a them as boring and closed minded. spirituality walks, etc…There have Q: Churches everywhere are big question but in a nutshell, I But the more I dug into what church been many moments like that in struggling. What plans do you have developed a skin condition in my is about, the more my appreciation my writing career where my world for rejuvenation? teens that grew quite severe. During grew. I came to love the church’s has grown, often when I speak to A: I don’t think churches as a my first year of university, I flew to openness and forward-thinking. After scientists. I live for those moments whole are struggling. Sure, I think England to go to a center for holistic I started getting involved in church and love to share them. They remind we struggle to maintain buildings medicine for treatment. The plane again, people around me kept telling me that no one has a corner on truth – made for a time before secularism encountered turbulence. People were me to pursue ministry. Eventually I we need each other to flesh it out and took hold. But the church itself frightened. A Muslim woman who did. It’s the best decision I have ever even then have to respect a mystery continues to be vibrant – in a sense, was sitting beside me grabbed my made. It’s where God wants me to be. that is beyond us. more so than ever before because hand. I felt a kind of vibration go up I feel most fulfilled when I am doing the people who attend no longer feel my arm and down my body. It’s hard ministry – caring for people and Q: What are you looking forward socially pressured to go. They are to describe. It was a bit like being drawing out their spiritual gifts. to most about ministering in Old there because they truly want to be, injected with inner peace. After that, Ottawa South? because it helps ground their week, I knew there was something to this Q: Aside from being a minister, A: You know people here talk about their life. Christianity is a challenging God thing. I became deeply curious. you are a writer. What stories have “the community” almost like it’s a spiritual path. It’s counter-cultural. It I went home and switched my major touched you most? person. So in the few short weeks is not appealing to the masses. I don’t from studio art to world religions, A: It’s hard to say. I have been I’ve been here, parishioners have think it ever was. That’s all to say and that led me to re-examine my writing professionally for fourteen said “we’ll talk to the community” that my plan is pretty basic - to try United Church roots. Looking years and have interviewed some more than once. I haven’t heard and follow the values Jesus lived by. back, I’m certain that I wouldn’t be high profile people. But I would people talk about their community The rest is God’s business. Christian today without experiencing say that the stories that touch me in such an affectionate, close way in the grace of that Muslim stranger most are the ones where I’m privy a long, long time. In fact, I’ve lived Rev. Trisha Elliott is the new minister on the plane. Later, I was impressed to unexpected glimmers of truth. and served in three other Ottawa at Southminster United Church and by the church’s decision in 1988 to For example, when an eco-feminist neighbourhoods and I haven’t an award winning religion writer. She ordain ministers regardless of sexual theologian confessed that while she heard that. I’m looking forward to told Margaret Moyston Cumming, orientation and that decision brought had studied eco-theology for decades, getting to know “the community” chair of Council, about her call to me back to the church. I’ve been and figuring out how the gifts of our ministry, the stories she writes and congregation can continue to enhance her work in Old Ottawa South. the social fabric here. This is a

Celebrating Advent & Christmas at Southminster United Church Sunday Worship: 10:30 am

Advent 1: November 27 HOPE SUNDAY: A Service of Gratitude & Hope! 7:00 pm Service of Covenanting with Our New Minister

Advent 2: December 4 PEACE SUNDAY: A Service of Remembrance & Peace Amidst Change & Loss

Advent 3: December 11 JOY SUNDAY: Letters that Make a Difference 2:00-5:00 pm Write for Rights Write to, and on behalf of, prisoners of conscience.

Advent 4: December 18 LOVE SUNDAY: Children’s Pageant Carol Sing & Refreshments following

Christmas Eve Candlelight Services 4:30 pm Family Service 10:00 pm Communion Service

Christmas Day & New Year’s Day 10:30 am Worship as Usual

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Back to Number 76 By Ilia Fabbri my uncle, their partners, some guy with a mohawk and the occasional One fine morning in August, I woke couch-surfer. I am told that at one up to an email from a friend telling point we were 9 or 10! There were me: “Your mom’s house is going up also the pets: a Great Dane, two cats for sale... thought you might like to and countless kittens. As you can know.” Gulp. What? But that’s MY imagine, they were all students and house! It had been twelve years since everyone in the house except my dad my mom sold the home I grew up was an artist. But wasn’t everyone in, but I still felt the pang of betrayal in Ottawa South back then? These from these people for selling MY residents were to be replaced in later house. I was consciously aware that years by my two siblings, born at I didn’t know the people who lived home, a German Shepherd, another there and that indeed they had every cat and an iguana. Fun times, crazy right to sell it, but emotions, as we times, happy times. know, are not always rational. Fast forward to 2016. I live in a In 1980, a year after immigrating to house I love. We shopped for nearly Canada, my family bought the three- three years to find it and I still sit storey, five bedroom home in Old in wonder sometimes at how much Ottawa South (then known simply as I love it. But I am also a real estate Ottawa South) for $44,000.00. Ha! junkie. This is problematic because Let that one sink in, it’s not a typo. I I am also a real estate agent and I was 2 years old. spend my days seeing homes. Rarely I lived with my parents, my aunt, have I come home from showings

76 Grosvenor Ave. with my mom in front of our house in the early 1980s after a snowstorm; our Lada in the driveway and my snowman on the door. SANTA’S HOURS NANNI FAMILY ARCHIVES and thought about selling mine, but living space we needed? How did DAY this was different; this was our family it compare to the home we have in SUNDAY 10AM to 11AM 11AM toNovember 1PM 2PM to 4PM home and my emotional dilemma relation to our needs and wants? The MONDAY 10:30AM to 12:30PM 2PM to 4PM 6PM to 8PM began. My logical first step was to numbers worked, but could I imagine TUESDAY 10:30AM to 12:30PM 2PM to 4PM 6PM to 8PM scan through my clients and see selling the home I have? WEDNESDAY 10:30AM to 12:30PM 2PM to 4PM 6PM to 8PM if the house would interest any of So I bought a lottery ticket for the THURSDAY 10:30AM to 12:30PM 2PM to 4PM 6PM to 8PM them - easy solution: they want it, I first time in forever and thought if I FRIDAY 10:30AM to 12:30PM 2PM to 4PM 6PM to 8PM have to step aside - but I knew that, win, it’s a sign and the house is mine. SATURDAY 11AM to 1PM 2PM to 4PM - for various reasons, it didn’t fit their There was a puzzled pause a couple needs and indeed it was so. Our turn. days later with the woman behind the DAY Surprisingly, my husband was keen counter at Shoppers as she looked at on seeing it too… “keep it in the my blank stare… “Um, would you 10AM to 11AM 11AM toDecember 1PM 2PM to 5PM SUNDAY family” he said. Good Italian boy. like the ticket back?” I was genuinely MONDAY 10:30AM to 12:30PM 2PM to 4PM 5PM to 8PM On our first viewing, we brought confused: I hadn’t won. Truthfully, 10:30AM to 12:30PM 2PM to 4PM 5PM to 8PM TUESDAY my brother along; it was an I think if I had really pushed it, 10:30AM to 12:30PM 2PM to 4PM 5PM to 8PM WEDNESDAY opportunity for him to go back to my husband would have happily THURSDAY 10:30AM to 12:30PM 2PM to 4PM 5PM to 8PM the house we couldn’t pass up and acquiesced. We would have sold the FRIDAY 10:30AM to 12:30PM 2PM to 4PM 5PM to 8PM I needed the moral support. My home we love and bought the one I SATURDAY 11AM to 1PM 2PM to 4PM 5PM to 8PM siblings and I had agreed that we grew up in. We would have loved it SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24 TH, FROM 11AM TO 2PM, IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SEE SANTA BEFORE HE STARTS HIS GIFTS DELIVERY AROUND THE WORLD! wouldn’t tell our mother about it to too, but the Universe has other plans avoid her possible heartache, but for us. she ended up finding out from a At lunch with my dad some days friend (another real estate junkie). later, as I recounted the adventure of Incredibly, she was more zen about it going back to our family home, he than I was. laughed in a sympathetic voice and As we walked through, the said these pearls of wisdom: “You’re Merry memories came flooding back: the chasing memories! I’m happy that Christmas! creaks in the floors engrained in my they’re so good, but you’re forgetting mind, my body knew exactly how that they’re already yours.” Yeah, he to move inside the house. I cooed at may not be an artist, but he sure can the banister my dad made, seeing my be a poet sometimes. grown brother sitting in the room he The agent whose clients finally was born in, the beautiful changes bought the house happens to be a

File Name: Log-048-Jul-Ad-Newspaper-Fallis-5inx2_25in made to the home since we sold, friend of ours. He says they’re lovely Trim: 5” x 2.25” Colours: CMYK Creative & Production Services even the Klimt painting hanging in people and a four year old will be 100 Yonge Street, 10th Floor Bleed: 0" Safety: n/a Mech Res: 300dpi Material Deadline: August 2016 BILLINGSBRIDGE.COMToronto, ON M5C 2W1 the master bedroom was the exact joyfully running up and down the replica that adorned my living stairs… perhaps in a couple years room for my entire childhood. she’ll even slide down my dad’s We left the house feeling more banister like we did. I hope the Do you know how much you conflicted than before, but as memories they make in their new a professional in the industry, home are as sweet as ours; may they need to retire comfortably? I also knew that I had lost all enjoy the years of light, love and joy www.findyournumber.ca objectivity: I wanted it blindly. we poured into those walls as they (613) 782-6773 When my husband and I went add their own. for our second viewing, we brought my business partner, Ilia Fabbri was born in Italy and Beth, for a second opinion. grew up in Old Ottawa South. She Being the ‘client’ was unusual now lives in Old Ottawa East with Scotia Capital Inc. is a member of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada. For more information visit www.scotiawealthmanagement.com. for me, but it helped. Was it the her family, in a home they all love.

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OOS GARDEN CLUB - Bring Spring into Your Home By Marilyn Whitaker be watered and allowed to drain, bulbs can be planted outdoors in available with a portion of the funds then covered and stored again. At anticipation of their dramatic blooms raised going toward future activities The last meeting in 2016 of the the start of April, the bulbs are ready for several weeks in late spring and of the club. Old Ottawa South Garden Club to emerge and can be brought out early summer. (OOSGC) featured a presentation to into the light. In just a few days, After being forced, bulbs will not At the next meeting of the OOSGC, inspire people to prepare bulbs and the plants begin to bud and then rebloom soon. Many can be placed on Monday, January 9, 2017, Master bring spring flowers into their homes. bloom. Accompanying photos show in the garden, and within a few years Gardener Mary Ann Van Berlo will Jill Hopkins, a club member who how quickly the blooms burst forth. will begin to bloom on their own. present a virtual tour of some of operates Clovellys Interior & Garden Forcing short-stemmed flowers, Also part of the evening was a the gardens and other features of Design, has been a serious gardener such as grape hyacinth (Muscari), sale and silent auction of floral the Lake District and the Scottish for 25 years and shared her passion Tulipa tarda and snowdrops, can be materials and bouquets. Another Borders. People are also encouraged and techniques for forcing bulbs. especially successful. club member, Diana Carr, along to bring garden related tools and Each fall Jill purchases a variety When growing daffodils, Jill likes with her sister organized this event. books for a fundraising sale. of bulbs in anticipation of blooms at to repot some daffodils into pots Both have studied at the Jane Packer Christmas time as well as blooms in that are placed in outside urns. She School in London, England and now Marilyn Whitaker grew up in Old the early April to herald the arrival finds that they last especially well operate a business as the Flower Ottawa South. Currently she operates of spring and summer. Jill noted that outdoors. Even if they get coated in Girls (see www.2flowergirls.com). Oasescapes. bulbs should be large and firm, and ice, the daffodils will recover and Several beautiful arrangements were then kept in paper bags in a darkened continue blooming. area until needed. For the early Jill also spoke about some ways spring blooms, there should be a to combine a variety of forced cool storage space. Ideally, this could bulbs and boughs of flowering be an unheated attached garage, shrubs. For example, boughs of cold cellar or dedicated refrigerator. forsythia can be displayed with Unglazed clay pots are the best daffodils. Pussy willows can be containers and Jill recommends bulb combined with early flowering pans that are wide and shallow. bulbs. Another technique that Starting in late January, the bulb produces beautiful results pans are filled with soil and the bulbs involves placing paper whites in arranged so that they are close but white gravel or stones and then not touching. The bulbs are pressed moistening them. Fragrant flowers into the soil and then sprinkled will soon follow. with more soil. The container is November is the time when covered with a heavy clay saucer amaryllis bulbs can be started and left in the cool storage area. indoors for their showy flowers at Once in February, the bulbs should Christmas. It is also when allium

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POETRY CAFE - It Takes a Village to Create Magic

PHOTOS BY MONA BARBUZZA

By Susan Atkinson visionaries, sticking to the status quo days later 400 pumpkins were know... rarely happens. Ott Reynolds, creator magically gutted (led by Rod, who Sunday, and day two of carving, As we all know “It takes a village to of Pumpkin Alley is no exception and really was there from start to finish) and it was a fresh group of raise a child” well I’d like to build when it came time to plan this year’s and lined in a row ready to transport neighbours crowded around the table. on that and suggest that it also takes evening she once again upped the to Percy Taverner Park, which By late afternoon the pumpkins had a village to create some magic – well ante by suggesting that 400 pumpkins became the carving and staging area either been carved or claimed to a village and a visionary who can would be a great number rather for the rest of the operation. be taken home and finished in the picture an enchanted night filled with than the 300 from the year before. Saturday had been set as the comfort of a warm house. But even candlelight glowing from pumpkins Of course there were grumblings first day of carving and even in the with all the pieces ready there was carved into exquisite pieces of art. that the number was impossible and miserable, on again, off again rain, still a lot of work ahead. Neighbours This year it certainly took a that doing the 300 had pushed the villagers came out and, magically, and friends were still needed the village to create Pumpkin Alley, limit, but magically when the pick- over half the pumpkins were carved next afternoon to place the pumpkins which has now become a must-see up of the pumpkins happened from and wrapped safely under tarps and as if by magic, despite work and on Halloween night. The magic all Fosters Family Farm there were 400 until their big debut. It was quite school, a crew of proud artists came begins with a visionary and a vision, delivered onto the faithful doorstep incredible that at any given time the out to set the stage. and as is often the case with great of key helpers Dave and Ada. Two three long tables were full of people There is no question that it was happily chatting and cutting away. a beautiful display of artistry and This year, not only to ensure all the creativity and you could argue that pumpkins would be done, but also to all the magic is hearing the oooohs broaden the community involvement, and aaaaahs as those walking through Ott cast her invitation net wider the enchantment discover a new Yarn Forward & Sew-On than the friends and neighbours delight. You could also confidently 581 Bank Street, Ottawa. (At Pretoria Ave) Tel (613) 237-8008 from adjoining streets. As owner and rightly say that it’s magical and director of Long Bay Camp, how someone can carve a perfect Your local source for hand knitting yarn and Arts by the Lake, Ott is no stranger Trumpkin, or that someone would q u a l i t y s e w i n g m a c h i n e s to recruiting and supporting student create a sequence from the beloved volunteers. In keeping with her desire fairytale “Jack and the Beanstalk.” We would like to thank all our to involve the youth, she approached You could also see the magic that a local schools offering to give young teen would spend her weekend customers for your ongoing volunteer hours to those interested designing and carving a family of support and wish you all the in helping out. To help members snowmen, and that it’s magical of the community be involved Ott, how there could be a bookcase of very best for the festive season. along with dear friend Joy, produced “pumpkin books” fashioned after a poster outlining the times that each books. Books written not only by step and stage of the Pumpkin Alley one award-winning novelist, but five, extravaganza would take place. who all live within a block radius of Despite an impressive turnout on one another! a rather uninspiring (weather-wise) No doubt there is something first day of carving, there was still indescribably magical about much to do – and the deadline was wandering through Pumpkin Alley looming – Halloween doesn’t exactly for the first time. The almost serene wait for anyone- even great talent! quiet in the air as those enjoying stop So on the Saturday night, after the and pause to marvel at the sight. But carved pumpkins had been safely I’d like to argue that Pumpkin Alley tucked away and the ones waiting has become more than this exquisite were lined in a row ready for the next show on October 31st. It has become morning, Ott left out a half dozen or a gathering place. It has brought so pumpkins on the tables. Beside neighbours and friends together. It them were some tools and the next has become a community building thing you know, there it was again, experience, where all involved feel a little bit of magic! By 7:00 the invested and, for me, that really is following morning the pumpkins the true magic. Mind you having said were all carved and left to join the all that there is, like other great tales, pile – sort of like “The Elves and the a happy ever after, the very next Shoemaker” - leave out the materials and the tools and the next thing you Continued on pg. 19 The OSCAR l December 2016 Page 19

Pumpkins By Susan Atkinson

Pumpkins growing big and round scattered in fields colour the ground.

From tiny seeds the pumpkins grow bright orange globes lined in a row.

Big ones, small ones warmed by the sun ready to choose for Halloween fun.

Picked and brought over to the park for a pumpkin party until it’s dark.

Witches faces and teeth that grin carved into thick, orange pumpkin skin.

Snowmen, the famous, Prime Ministers galore Trumpkins, cityscapes and so much more.

Jack-o-Lanterns shining bright vision to the programming and cabins and grounds of Long Bay with candles that flicker with eerie scheduling of Long Bay Camp Arts Camp. Visit the website www. Cont. from pg. 18 light. by the Lake. The Camp is entering longbaycamp.ca or Facebook its 10th season and promises to be page to find out more about all the morning, POOF – all 400 pumpkins On Halloween night come to Pumpkin as magical and inspiring as it is amazing opportunities Long Bay were gone – off to a good home Alley every year. There is no doubt that has to offer and what maybe in where they will become fodder for for the best display in the Ottawa the creative spirit that lies behind store for 2017. a local farmer’s pigs! Valley. It’s now time for Ott to turn her Pumpkin Alley transcends into the

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FILM REVIEW Poitras and Glen Greenwald - all the while concerned that he could be arrested on espionage charges and deported back to the US. Snowden eventfully took refuge in Russia, where he now lives in exile. If the plot sounds familiar, it is. Poitras made Snowden’s story into a riveting documentary, Citizenfour in 2014, which won the Best Documentary Feature Oscar at the 2015 Academy Awards. Reportedly, the director Oliver Stone asked Poitras to delay the release of her Snowden (the film) dramatizes these doc so both films could be released events, but does not break any new simultaneously. ground. The result is an entertaining The role of Edward Snowden drama, which wraps with a 2016 is performed by the 35-year old interview Stone conducted with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The love the real life Edward Snowden in of his life is played by the 25-year Moscow. In my opinion Citizenfour old Shailene Woodley – a tepid on was a much better film than screen relationship which was far Snowden. from convincing. Rounding out the In 2015 the US Federal Court star studded cast, Melissa Leo plays found the NSA surveillance program Laura Poitras, Zachary Quinto plays unconstitutional. Snowden’s Glenn Greenwald, Tom Wilkinson supporters spawned a movement Snowden plays journalist Ewen McAskill and calling on outgoing US President International Film Festival (TIFF). Nicholas Cage plays Hank Forrester, Barack Obama to pardon him Reviewed by Tony Wohfarth The Snowden storyline is well a former US Intelligence official. (https://www.pardonsnowden.org/) documented. He joined the US Snowden is based on a book prior to leaving public office. Edward Snowden was a contractor Marines after 9/11, but was unable to by Luke Harding. The screenplay Snowden was released for the US National Security Agency complete basic training due to a bad was written by Oliver Stone and commercially on September 16 and it (NSA) who turned whistleblower, leg. Snowden aced the exams to join Kieran Fitzgerald. Stone is a veteran is currently screening in Ottawa. This leaking classified information the CIA, and was tutored for a career filmmaker, best known for directing makes it eligible for consideration for and exposing the extent of US in cyber espionage. He was stationed Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987) an Academy Award at the 2017 Oscar government metadata mining and in Hawaii with the NSA when he and JFK (1991). Awards. The running time is 134 surveillance. His life story is told went public in 2013 and fled to Hong Was Snowden a villain or a patriot? minutes. sympathetically and theatrically in Kong with his exposé, where the film Citizenfour examined this terrain, a biopic, Snowden, which had its begins. In a hotel room, Snowden and began the process of critical Tony Wohlfarth is an Ottawa-based world premiere at the 2016 Toronto was interviewed by journalists Laura reflection about Snowden’s legacy. freelance writer. He covered the 2016 TIFF on behalf of The Oscar.

Brewer Pond Underwater Highlights

A turtle in the Rideau River. IMAGE FROM VIDEO BY THE FISH ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION PHYSIOLOGY LABORA- TORY AT CARLETON UNIVERSITY By Brendan McCoy

This summer, a student from the Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Laboratory at Carleton University monitored the new culvert that connects Brewer Pond to the Rideau River for use by aquatic species. Hours of video footage captured several smallmouth bass, various sunfish, snapping and painted turtles, muskie, beavers and other species using the culvert and the habitat around it. Watch a video on YouTube for some of the highlights. Go to https://youtu.be/hPcXCYKuLYk or search for “Brewer Pond Culvert to Rideau River.” The OSCAR l December 2016 Page 21

Bring in the New Year Scottish Style By Don Cummer under contractual obligation not to release the name of the act until later Should auld acquaintance be forgot? in December, but believe me, lovers Not when OOS neighbours and of Scottish music won’t want to miss friends get together for another great this!” New Year’s Eve celebration at the Across from the Aberdeen Pavilion, Aberdeen Pavilion. at the Horticulture Building, New For the third straight year, the Year’s revelers can get a preview Scottish Society of Ottawa will host of portions of the Scottish Diaspora its “Hogman-eh!” celebration across Tapestry that has been touring the the canal at Lansdowne Park. As in world and will be exhibited through past years, thousands of people are the month of January at the Metcalfe expected to gather in the old “Cattle Branch, Ottawa Public Library. Castle” to bring in the New Year with For many families, one of the best live music, dancing, fireworks, and features of the annual Hogman-eh! special entertainment for the kids. party is the tradition of ringing in It’s free. (Now there’s a deal to the new year twice. The first time is warm the inner Scot that resides in all midnight in Scotland, or 7 pm here in of us!) Ottawa. That means that families can And it’s warm. While others might bring their children to a full-fledged Pipers from the Glengarry Pipe Band at last year’s event. brave the weather to ring in the New New Year’s Eve party, complete Year up on Parliament Hill, Hogman- with music, dancing, face-painting, seating, entrance to a special area include Hogman-eh!, the annual eh! offers the option of enjoying LED light performers, jugglers and where they can meet the musical Robbie Burns dinner, and the Third the celebration indoors at Aberdeen magicians, plus a New Year’s Eve performers, complimentary coat Annual Sir John A’s Great Canadian Pavilion – with perhaps a visit to the countdown. Then they can go back check, cocktails and appetizers in Kilt Skate. Lansdowne Park Skating Rink. home early enough to get the kids the Milestones VIP Lounge, and Whether you have Scottish blood Food and alcoholic beverages will back to the babysitter and bed. various other items of swag that will in your veins, or whether New Year’s be available for sale, and once again The second count-down to make this a memorable night. More Eve is a chance to bring out the inner Milestones Restaurant will offer midnight goes by Ottawa time, and information can be obtained at www. Scot that lives in all of us, Hogman- whisky tasting. will include the traditional singing thescottishsocietyofottawa.com. eh! is going to be the place to ring in The musical lineup has always of Auld Lang Syne followed by This year’s Hogman-eh! will 2017. fireworks in Lansdowne Park. have a special feel to it, as it is been a big draw for Hogman-eh!. Don Cummer is a long-time resident Entrance to the Aberdeen one of the first events in our city Bobby Watt, whose band Ecosse is a of Old Ottawa South and a frequent pavilion is free to everyone, but to mark Canada’s 150th birthday. perennial favourite at the celebration, contributor to OSCAR. He’s a those who want to upgrade their A proclamation from Mayor Jim is also responsible for lining up the member of the Scottish Society of New Year’s Eve experience are Watson will also announce that entertainment. “Our headliner act Ottawa, and is already making plans invited to purchase a VIP package January 2017 will be “Scottish this year is one of the biggest names for the Third Annual Sir John A Kilt for $75. They will enjoy select Month” in Ottawa, which will in Celtic music,” he said. “We’re Skate on the Rideau Canal.

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John Corby’s WW 2 Croydon Raid my life, and what have I got to show has come,” but the bomb went right for it? You’ve got to get an educa- over my head and burst in the street tion.” So, I said all right, I’ll plug behind. I got showered with all kinds away at it. My problem was I was of debris, bricks and concrete. The absolutely hopeless at mathematics; guy was still shouting – “RUN” - and anything to do with math was beyond I picked myself up, but it was hard to me. Hello? I’ve done OK. My father run because I was shaking so much. had a saying - “Better to be born I did get into the shelter and they sat lucky than rich.” There’s a corollary me down until I could stop shaking. to that, which is “Better to be born Everyone was equally scared; there lucky than smart.” That was me. were about twenty-five of us in there. In 1940 there was a government All Hell was breaking loose over- program designed to give potential head. There were Hurricanes chasing conscripts some mechanical back- Messerschmitts at treetop level, guns ground, so they could be funneled firing, but we couldn’t see anything. into the army, navy or air force; they The shelter had a ventilation tower, a would have some skills and not just square thing with slots in it, and with be square-bashing, cannon fodder one guy standing on another guy’s types. I was working in another in- shoulders, he could see outside. It’s teresting place, that’s a story in itself, wonderful how quickly sheer terror but I thought, - this program is some can change to curiosity. opportunity; at least I’ll get some When we came out, it was a scene John Corby on his new Royal Enfield motorcycle, in 1947. elements of a trade. It was at Rol- of utter chaos; there was dust and By John Corby lot along the way. The town I was lason Aircraft in Croydon; they were smoke, the gas mains in the streets a civilian aircraft repair unit and they had been set on fire, sending gouts of with Bruce Grant born in, Kingston-on-Thames, was the home base of Hawker Aircraft. were doing this on a contract basis flame up into the air, people running Corby is an old friend, now in his There were just two big concerns for the government. When the war all over the place, fire engines and nineties. He told me this story and I in town; one was Hawker and the broke out, there weren’t any civilian ambulances. There were twenty-some wrote down his words for OSCAR. other was Hodgson’s Brewery. The aircraft to repair, so that’s why they people killed that day, and two weeks It’s best to read it with his British school I went to, Tiffin Boy’s School, got this deal. later another raid killed forty-three expression. had some kind of arrangement with So, we were instructed in the people. Hawker’s, which was just down the proper use of a drill press and a hack We didn’t know, of course, how A scholar I am not! I was an only street. saw and assigned to a row of work extensive the raid had been and I was child and my parents were intensely I walked past the factory to go to benches. They gave you a piece of worried all the way home if I would disappointed that I was not university school. I would have just loved to go 1/4” plate out of which you had to find my house still standing. I arrived material. I barely scraped through in there, but my father was adamant, fashion a 3” square. You had to cut home all covered with dust and dirt; high school, although I learned a - “NO! - I worked with my hands all a 1” square hole in the centre of it. the house was still there, and my Then you had to make a 1” square mother demanding to know “Where plate to fit into the 1” square hole. in blazes have you been?” So, I told When you finished it, the joint had her the story. to be blind to light in all 4 positions. That’s my personal recollection of Not too many people were able to the affair; the experience called on do that. This was a standard training me to do some research and fit the project all around the world. I never raid into the bigger story: got mine finished because there was The raid took place on August 15th this vast explosion, no warning, no 1940. At about 1820H radar images sirens, just one big colossal bang and confirmed by the Royal Observer the whole side of the building caved Corps showed a large formation in and all the overhead pipes and of enemy aircraft heading in the girders just fell down on the guys at Croydon direction. The sirens were the benches. There was screaming sounded in Croydon town, but not and yelling; my mates and I were for- at the airport for unknown reasons tunate because we were on the other (hence my experience). The invad- side, right near the door. ing force was Erprobrungsgruppe IF YOU’RE THINKING OF BUYING OR SELLING, We all made a dash for the door (Special Operations Unit) 210, led WE ARE YOUR “OLD OTTAWA” EXPERTS. and just as we got there, I was the by Hauptman Walter Rubensdorffer, last as usual, there was another big comprising fourteen Me 110’s and We have loved living in Old Ottawa explosion. It blew us all back in, nine Me109’s, armed with a mix South & Old Ottawa East for over down the concrete stairs where the of 250 kg bombs and incendiaries. 50 years combined, and are proud heating plant was. I was under the Rubensdorffer was a Swiss who had to announce our partnership. others and I got my back hurt. I joined the Luftwaffe not for ideologi- discovered years and years later that I cal reasons but because he was mad had two fractured vertebrae and they about flying. A poor choice that; he had healed up. I had a back-ache of should have stuck with banking. He Call us today at course, but when you’re eighteen you was shot down and killed along with think nothing about these things. his crew as they raced for home. 613–238–2801 I went outside where we had a All together the raiders lost seven brick shelter, half in the ground with aircraft, almost a third of their num- earth piled over the top, a ber, while the RAF got off scot-free, staggered entrance so a bomb blast though several of their Hurricanes couldn’t go directly inside. Everyone were damaged, one with a tree else had gone into the shelter; I was branch through the wing! The whole out there by myself. This fellow was affair only lasted about ten minutes; Beth Everson Ilia Fabbri shouting at me – “RUN RUN RUN!” the all clear was sounded at 1930H as [email protected] [email protected] And here comes this Messerschmitt. I the last of the enemy aircraft cleared could see the pilot’s head silhouetted the coast; we heard that all right. 165 Pretoria Ave., Proud supporters of: against the sun, both cannons go- Ottawa ON, K1S 1X1 ing. I could see the flashes from the Bruce Grant, retired Engineer, Independently Owned and Operated, Brokerage Layabout and occasional writer is a Not intended to solicit properties currently listed for sale or buyers under contract front of the wings and then a bomb came off. I thought “My last hour resident of Old Ottawa South. The OSCAR l December 2016 Page 23

NEWS Celebrating the First Year A Solution to the Bee Crisis? of New Life in Canada By Georgina Hunter from the Honourable Catherine McKenna at an event in Windsor Park. Old Ottawa South residents are invited to Although the financial and formal spon- an open house hosted by the Ottawa South sorship ends this month, the committee Committee for Refugee Sponsorship and will still remain in close contact. Thanks to Trinity Anglican Church to celebrate the the friendships made with the volunteers, one-year sponsorship of the Alsebaee fam- an informal support system will stay in ily of Syrian refugees. place. OSCAR readers will be familiar with Over this past year, the committee has the story of Jehad, Nirmeen and their four continued its dedication to refugee spon- young children, twins Mohammad and sorship. Applications are being proceessed Abdullah, son Zaid, and daughter Lyana, by the federal government for a young thanks to accounts of their new lives in 20-year-old Syrian refugee in Beirut; and Canada that have appeared here since their for a Syrian family of four that includes arrival in Ottawa last December 22. a widowed mother with her two teenage The celebration takes place on Saturday, boys as well as her own mother, also a December 17 from 2 pm to 4 pm at Trinity widow, who are refugees now in Lebanon. Church located at: 1230 Bank Street, on The committee is grateful for the funds the corner of Cameron Avenue. donated to date; however, more funds are “The Alsebaee family has flourished still needed. Additional funds will allow thanks to their friendly, hardworking na- the committee to sponsor also a Syrian ture and resilient attitude. They arrived in neurosurgeon now in Lebanon with his winter, adapted to cold and snow; studied two pre-teen children. The doctor is a wid- By Declan McCoy English while the three oldest children at- ower, his wife, a pediatician, having died tended school,” says Arran Thorpe, Trinity last year in Syria. The Buzz is a student-run Junior Achievement company at Anglican Church priest. Donations qualify for an income tax Glebe Collegiate Institute. Our product, the Bee Hotel, is an This has been a year of milesteones for receipt. Please make cheques payable to artificial habitat providing solitary bees with a shelter to raise the family, from a first Canadian winter Trinity Anglican Church with “refugee their young, and increase the chances of surviving the winter. through their first Canada Day on the sponsorship” in the memo line and mail We are devoted to aiding the declining bee population, who Hill and, especially for the kids, the first to Trinity at: 1230 Bank Street, K1S 3Y3. are responsible for pollinating 70% of the world’s crops. To time they went out trick or treating on Donations will also be welcome at the support our company, check us out on Facebook (facebook. Hallowe’en. They especially treasure the open house. com/thebuzz.ja), Instagram (Thebuzz.ja) and visit our warm welcome they received this summer website www.beesthebuzz.com

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Communicating a Sense of Place: The Photography of Patrick Nantel

Patrick Nantel always has his camera with him to capture that special moment. Patrick Nantel’s 2017 calendar looks at Ottawa’s changing seasons. PHOTO BY ED KUCERAK PHOTO BY PATRICK NANTEL By Ed Kucerak at our community through the lens I kind of forgot about it for a number just have to be there at the right of his camera, I spoke to him at of years. time and sometimes you just have to Patrick Nantel waited two years until his Aylmer Avenue home about his However when I was studying wait. Sometimes in the night scenes the conditions were right to capture approach to photography. biology in university, I discovered when I wanted someone walking by his stunning photograph Bank Canal that it was a great tool to document or a bicycle to go by I have to wait Bridge on a Foggy Night. It is one Q: (Ed Kucerak) What first the work that I was doing by because I’m waiting for the right of his most popular photographs at attracted you to photography? taking pictures of the specimens composition. For instance, there is shows and exhibits. A: (Patrick Nantel) I started very and the places where I was doing one photo of the Bank Street Bridge Nantel is an amateur photographer young just playing with a small my sampling. While studying that’s very popular. It was shot at the who works as a science advisor camera. I dreamed of being a mushrooms, I also took pictures of night when it was foggy. So I waited at Parks Canada. He grew up in journalist. I would go out in my plants and trees and rediscovered the two years and when the conditions Montreal and has lived in Old Ottawa neighbourhood and take pictures of enjoyment of taking pictures beyond were right, I was ready. South for the past 13 years. Wanting cats and of my friends playing and the purpose of documenting my to learn more on how Nantel looks doing tricks with their bicycles. Then specimens. Q: What influence did Japanese In the last 6 years I have been poetry have on your photography? taking pictures almost on a daily A: It’s a bit of a coincidence in the basis. I go to work by bicycle and way I discovered Japanese poetry and always have with my camera with its aesthetics. I went to Japan once me and if anything attracts my and I was really fascinated by the attention I can stop and take some culture and the Japanese aesthetic. It pictures. really inspired me. But to what extent did it influence in what I see, I don’t Q: What is it that you are trying know. Maybe it is nurtured in my to convey and look for when you love of nature. take a photo? It’s like I said, it’s this harmony A: I discovered through time what that you sometimes see between I was trying to communicate is a nature and people, nature and sense of place. I was interested in architecture or just a special moment the harmony between architecture that happens like the picture I took and trees for instance, the of people walking in the Woodbine aesthetics, the general design of the Place alley taking their children to landscape. I really love the Bank school. I found there was something Street Bridge, the canal bridge, quite poetic in that because it’s a especially at night. One of things special moment, it’s a special place. that I like about it is the kind of organic form or design that it has Q: Can you tell me about your with the trees around it. I think it recent projects? is a nice integration of architecture A: I recently published a book and nature. Probably it wasn’t called Ottawa’s Haikus: A Visual designed that way but it happens to Exploration of the Seasons in be well integrated. Canada’s Capital. It is a visual I often look for contrast expression of the seasons. Most of especially in the fall and in the the images come from around the spring. I like the diversity of canal, the Experimental Farm, the shapes and colours, it’s often Ottawa River, the Rideau River what attracts me. I also look for and where there is this interaction interesting lighting especially for between architecture and nature and portraits or sometimes when I want humans and nature. Also I produced to photograph a tree I would wait a calendar for 2017 that looks at until the end of the day or I would the changing seasons and relates to go early in the morning just to get a Japanese aesthetics of being sensitive certain light or colour or angle. to the change and rhythms of nature.

Q: Do you need to have a lot of To see Patrick Nantel’s online photo patience as a photographer? gallery or to purchase his book or his A: Yes you need a lot of patience calendar for 2017 visit his website at and chance also. Sometimes you www.photo-sensible.com. The OSCAR l December 2016 Page 25

COMMUNITY UPDATE

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOURISM • Innovation Centre at Bayview Yard: Grand Opening Fall 2016 • Year-long sesquicentennial Celebrations in 2017 • $ 2.2 Billion in building permits • Hosted 1300 One Young World Summit delegates • Provincial funding secured for Stage 2 LRT from 196 countries • Confederation Line to open in 2018 • Tourism Summit held for industry leaders - Beyond 2017 • Education and the Economy Summit held • Ottawa Art Gallery opens in 2017

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FINANCIAL DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENT • Ottawa River Action plan underway • 2.5% or lower tax promise kept every year • Planted trees and built community gardens across the City • Maintained front line community services • Converting City streetlights to green LED technology • Moody’s triple A credit rating • Record Investments in active mobility infrastructure

COMMUNITY SAFETY HELPING PEOPLE • Hired 25 new police offi cers this year and another 25 in 2017 • Record Investments in Affordable Housing and accelerated 10 year Housing Homelessness Plan • Increased the number of Paramedics • New EquiPass low income transit pass introduced for 2017 • Created and implemented the Gang Exit Strategy • New recreation facilities opened across the City • 20 additional red light cameras installed

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HEALTH AND WELLNESS Live Free and Die Loving By Maureen Fallis, felt music played as a testament mercifully? Have we kept our hearts our days in our own special way … Surround Circle Yoga to a life well lived. It truly was a open? Have we lived freely and loved fully expressed, transparent, truthful, beautiful ceremony in celebration of fully? Have we shared our greatest and free. Sooner or later this present a generous, humble, kind, and loving gifts? moment is going to be our last. If I was going to die in a year, a man. I pray, if I should die before I sleep, As a yoga teacher and mentor, month or even a day from now, I Stephen Levine, author of A Year these words would be my farewell my work involves helping people would prefer to leave with nothing to Live: How to Live This Year As song… “Maureen had a zest for life, gain greater strength and flexibility. undone or unsaid. If It Were Your Last, suggests, “The she was curious and courageous, she I support individuals going through Not so long ago, I attended a single most mitigating factor when expressed herself without apology, stressful times to embrace their memorial service for a man who I someone has time to prepare for she was vigorous, warm, responsive, vulnerability, acknowledge their knew only by circumstance. Going death, is that there seems to be less engaging, creative, and passionate. fears, and courageously explore their seemed like an honourable and concern with heroics than with clarity Maureen embraced life and lived options. I create and hold safe sacred neighbourly thing to do - I was glad and compassion. They do not require fully, she was a compassionate force space for individuals to discover I went. While walking home with a the orchestra to play their theme to be reckoned with.” their purpose and potential, achieve friend later in the afternoon we got as they exit, although several have Of course it wouldn’t be right emotional balance, and experience to talking and he said, “It is such mentioned almost ecstatically that or natural to leave out some of transformation. a tragedy”. Of course it was sad. I they could hear it tuning up!” the messy bits, the challenges and was sad. What struck me, however, Even though we may not struggles which are part and parcel To find out about private coaching/ was how inspired I felt … so much see death coming can we still of who I am. But we don’t need to mentoring, and our 2017 programs so I had an urge to write about my die in peace? Have we healed go into that! I write these personal at Surround Circle Yoga, please feelings. our disappointments? Have we sentiments because I have a need to call 613-327-4627 or go to www. Never before had I heard such acknowledged our pain and forgiven say that we all have a choice to live surroundcircleyoga.com. poignant words spoken and heart-

FINANCIAL PLANNING A Life Insurance Primer By Bob Jamieson, CFP permanent life insurance:

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HEALTH AND WELLNESS Celebrating the Holidays in Moderation By Susan McDonald

The holiday season is officially upon us and we are all busy making plans with family and friends. Our celebrations for the season might fill both our calendars and our stomachs, but there are ways to ensure that you remain relaxed and healthy over the holiday season no matter how hectic it may be. Here are some ideas to share guilt-free in the holiday cheer by being mindful of food, fitness and festive fun.

Stay Fit and Get Moving Not only will staying active help you burn off those extra calories consumed at parties, it will also November 2014 Ad Proof help you feel less stressed about A FITWOMAN class. PHOTO BY SARA MCCONNELL the holidays. Your calendar may be already jam packed with events and hold the whipped cream. This doesn’t family plans, but try to schedule in mean you can’t enjoy your glass of time for a fitness class, a swim at an eggnog, just be aware of what’s in it. indoor pool or a winter hike with the erneSt jOhnSOn family. Your mind and body will be Focus In on the Fun thankful for it. Now is time for festive spirit and to enjoy the moments with loved AntiqueS Enjoy Food Without Overindulging ones. You won’t want to calorie Having a snack before leaving count the entire holiday season, but for a party will help you resist the switch up some traditional food- temptation to overindulge. Try fruit, heavy traditions for non-food ones. soup or veggies with hummus to Instead of concentrating on baking curb those hunger pains. If you crave holiday treats with the kids, take the something sweet at the end of a meal, opportunity to make crafts, wreaths try not to overload your plate with and holiday decorations. You can appetizers or the main meal. Save also get out the board games to keep room knowing that you want to have you entertained or browse through a sweet bite at the end of the meal. your local paper or community group Choose a smaller plate and resist website to find some events in your the urge to pile it up. Take the time neighbourhood that you all can get to enjoy the flavours of the season. out and enjoy. Stop and chew - it will make you The holidays are about spending feel satisfied and full more quickly. time with the people you love but we Remember that moderation is key. all know that the focus on delicious The only thing at the table that should treats is also something we love and be stuffed is the turkey! that’s okay! Remember to enjoy When it comes to holiday cheer everything in moderation and keep in the form of a beverage, alcohol moving and you’ll have plenty of is laden with sugar. Try to curb joyful fun this season! additional weight gain over the holidays by paying close attention to Susan McDonald lives in Old Ottawa those sneaky calories in your drinks. South. She is a certified personal One glass of wine can pack up to 130 trainer, an expert in the area of pre calories! Non-alcoholic drinks can and post-natal fitness, and the owner www.ernestjohnsonantiques.com also be sugar and calorie heavy. A of FITMOM Ottawa. FITMOM Ot- specialty coffee can have up to 300 tawa classes will run on a modified calories. Think twice before loading schedule in December so that we can 613-741-8565 up on these sweet drinks or ask to all spend some time with our families over the holidays. Bought, Sold and Appraised

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TASTY TIDBITS FROM TRILLIUM BAKERY The Fine Art of Playing with Dough By Jocelyn LeRoy you have a good starter, sourdough is pink or green, throw them out and usual diet. probably the easiest bread to make. try again. This happens occasion- Why has poetry eschewed Its flavor is distinct and exciting. The ally. You will come to distinguish Yeast The monks used to say, “To The rapture and response of food? starter contains micro-organisms that an “off” sour smell from a healthy wait on yeast is to feed, keep house, What hymns are sung, what praises cause the bread to rise and give it the one. The latter will not make you keep it warm, clean the air, empty said characteristic sour taste. They make gag: it’s alive and ready to make its garbage and cater to its whims. To home-made miracles of bread? the bread more digestible, allowing delicious, healthful bread. Getting angry at its failings does not - Louis Untermeyer us to absorb more of the many nutri- help. Providing patient, loving care ents. Ingredients and food for growth, does.” I have learned through the years, and To make bread, dissolve yeast in especially in the early days when I Making the Starter Wholegrain flour contains all the lukewarm water (90º to 105ºF). At worshipped the long-gone, out-of- elements of the whole grain, particu- higher temperatures the yeast be- print guidance from bread-making Method 1: larly the “germ.” This is that part of comes frantically active and soon monks, that bread makes itself. By • Combine 1 to 2 tbs. yeast (or the kernel from which the new grain exhausts itself. At lower temperatures your kindness, with your help, with X tbs. dry yeast) with 2 ½ cups would sprout if planted; therefore, it becomes dormant. Below freezing, imagination streaming through you, warm water, 2 tsp. honey or sugar, it’s the most life-giving, life-contain- yeast barely respires. with dough under hand, you are 2 ½ cups of flour. ing part of the grain. It’s higher in Yeast needs oxygen to breathe and bread-making itself. Which is why • Cover and let the mixture ferment vitamins and essential oils than other simple sugars to eat. Although some bread-making is so fulfilling and re- for 5 days, stirring daily. The start- parts of the grain. simple sugars are present in flour, warding. er may be kept indefinitely in the because of the action of enzymes Making bread is essentially simple. fridge, although it is probably best Wholewheat flour provides the ba- on more complex starch molecules, It can be done basically with only to use it once a week or so. sic foundation of bread. With a deep, some sweetening is added for the three ingredients. • If liquid rises to the top during full-flavoured, hearty wheat taste, it yeast to dine on. Living yeast turns storage, stir it in again. contains all the elements of the wheat oxygen and sugars into carbon diox- Yeasted Bread • The starter is mixed with flour and kernel, flour, bran and germ. This ide and alcohols. The carbon dioxide Yeasted bread is made principally water to form a sponge (similar flour has a fresher taste and higher trapped in the glutinous network in with wheat flour, which gives bread to the sponge for yeasted bread), nutritional properties than flour dough is what makes bread rise. its distinctive elastic texture. Other which then sits overnight. produced from high-speed milling Take care that the carbon dioxide grains do not have the gluten content • By morning the entire mixture is because of the lower temperatures of and alcohols do not build up so much of wheat, but they can be incorpo- sour. Remove some of the sponge stone-grinding. that the yeast suffocates and dies in rated into the bread to give varia- to replenish the starter before its own wastes. Punching down the tions in texture, taste and nutrition. other ingredients are added. To Oil makes a richer-tasting “cakier” dough or otherwise working with Rye, corn, millet, barley, rice, oats, replenish, fill a jar or crock (not bread. Cold-pressed oils are likely it releases gaseous byproducts and buckwheat and quinoa may be used. metal) half-full. The starter will to be higher in essential fatty acids freshens the air. The yeast dies when Further variation of flavor and texture rise as it sits. Cover and keep re- than regular commercial oils, most of the bread is baked. involve use of milk, eggs, oil, butter, frigerated. By this time, the starter which are highly-refined, clear, light, sugar, honey or molasses. and the sponge both have the nearly colourless. By contrast, oils in Our Practices at Trillium Once the dough is ready for bak- consistency of thick mud. the raw state are cloudy and tend to In our kitchen we have used since ing, they are many ways to shape and smell strongly of the plant of deriva- our beginning in 1980 a natural, bake it. Make the basic bread once, Method 2: tion. They are more “oily.” untampered flour: Marquis brand, a and you will be ready to tackle any • Take any sour food such as 2-day- Once again, it’s a question of com- derivative of Red Fife, in our bread- recipe for bread. Give it your time, old or older rice, cereal, fruit or mercial value versus human welfare. making. It is non-GMO, with nothing attention and a little love. milk and mix it with 2 ½ cups The more highly refined and pro- added or removed; we believe it’s wholewheat flour and enough wa- cessed oils keep better, often with the the healthiest choice of wheat flours, Sourdough Breads ter to make the dough spongy. use of preservatives, and are “purer,” miles apart from the highly pro- Sourdough breads are a wonder of • Cover and let sit 3 to 4 days, so they are more practical for ship- cessed, denatured commercial wheat. nature – something sour can make stirring daily, until a sour smell ping, storing and selling to a public Trillium uses only small amounts of bread rise and taste delicious. Once arises. that generally prefers the cheaper, yeast and sourdough starter. We will • If at any time these mixtures turn sanitized product. soon expand our varieties of real, fla- vourful sourdough breads. As for oil, Sweetenings tend to stimulate the we use non-GMO pure canola oil, AKES ARE B appetite. Honey or molasses is used and sparingly at that. As for salt, we RUITC AKE S F D ! in most recipés of quality. Unfiltered, use even less, and it’s unrefined sea MA ST unblended, uncooked honey contains salt. There are no milk or dairy prod- RI H more enzymes and minerals than ucts in Trillium’s wheat breads. As C E regular commercial honey. Molas- for spelt, we use only 100% organic H T TRILLIUM ses, particularly blackstrap, contains spelt in breads and other items.

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BAKERY minerals including iron. Blackstrap the adventure of discovering the

Cranberry Port has a strong, distinctive taste. Honey magic and fulfilment of making A versatile gem to pour or molasses makes bread pleasantly bread from scratch. It’s a rewarding over roasted chicken fragrant as well as sweet. endeavor, and it somehow clears our or warm brie. busy heads, slowing us down even Sugar, particularly white sugar, for a short while. 1181 Bank St. (2 blocks south of Sunnyside) lacks nutrients but offers calories. Of course, Trillium will be happy 613-730-1316 Consumption tends to create an to do it for you. Come in the morning Plum pudding, rum-balls, sugarplums, and overabundance of sugar in the body, and smell the fragrance; munch on a melt-in-your mouth shortbread cookies, eventually resulting in less energy hot whole-grain roll right out of the spiciest whole-grain and gluten-free cute and possibly inflammation and other oven. A perfect way to start your day. gingerbread boys, reindeer, snowflakes and ills. Happy Holidays. Dates or raisins may replace some teddy bears. Minced pies and tarts, “sans of the sweetening of sugar. Jocelyn LeRoy is the owner/manager suet” for sure. of Trillium Bakery in Old Ottawa Salt offers unique benefits. Sea salt South since 1980. or unrefined salt contains numerous trace elements often lacking in the The OSCAR l December 2016 Page 29

SECOND THOUGHTS Technology and Thought By Richard Ostrofsky already see that it is tremendous. The World Wide Web is realizing the ancient dream of a Universal There is a school of anthropology known as Library. Cell phones and texting seem to draw Cultural Materialism, founded by Marvin Harris, people more tightly into their relationships and with a debt to Karl Marx. Its central principle is groups while physically isolating them to some that the technology and material infrastructure extent. If historians are correct in seeing moveable of a society, what Marx called “the means of type (Gutenberg’s invention) as one of the causes production,” is usually the most significant driving of the Protestant Reformation, there is every reason force behind the evolution of a culture. This school to believe that the Internet and the cell phone will have consequences equally dramatic. has its adherents and its critics, but I am neither. be three brothers with complementary business Technology impacts thought in yet another I think that technology is a significant driving skills: One is very good in money matters – in way by shaping the games that people play: the force, but not the only one; and in this piece, I buying supplies and stock, pricing items correctly, stakes they play for, the rules they play by, and the just want to speculate a little on the nature of that raising and accumulating capital. The second is knowledge and skills that they must cultivate to relationship: between the tools that people work a terrific salesman. Customers trust him, and he play successfully. Before the Industrial Revolution, with and the thoughts they think. The question is has wonderful rapport with them. He understands physical strength and stamina were huge assets ancient, as the following Chinese parable (from what they like and what they are looking for. The both for working men and fighting men, but Chuang Tzu) suggests: third has superb technical skills in some area – literacy was a skill for specialists. Today, functional When Tzu Kung went south . . . he passed fine carpentry, watch repair, or grooming dogs. literacy is indispensible for everyone, and one through Han-yin. There he saw an old man engaged Amongst the three of them, but not as separate can hardly get a paying job without some post- in making a ditch to connect his vegetable garden individuals, they have the capability to start and run secondary education or training. Without basic with a well. He had a pitcher in his hand, with a successful business. literacy, one cannot read the instruction manual and which he was bringing up water and pouring it To actually run such a business, something rules of use for modern tools and equipment. One into the ditch, great labour with very little result. further is needed: the brothers must evolve cannot even get a driver’s license. “If you had a machine here,” cried Tzu Kung, sufficient metaknowledge about the skills and “in a day you could irrigate a hundred times your knowledge that the others have, and about their present area. The labour required is trifling as integrity and reliability. They need to know who compared with the work done. Would you like to How do “the means of can do what, and who can be counted upon for have one?” “What is it?” asked the gardener. “It is what. When there is a problem to solve, or a a contrivance made of wood,” replied Tzu Kung, production” influence the task to perform, they need to know whose skills “Heavy behind and light in front. It draws up water will be needed – and that the needed skills will as you do with your hands but in a constantly structure of society and then be available and properly deployed in the joint flowing stream. It is called a well sweep.” interest of their partnership. Then they can allocate Thereupon the gardener flushed up and said, “I the feelings and world views of responsibilities as needed, and run their business. have heard from my teacher that those who have its participants? Is it possible The subtle point here is that technological cunning implements are cunning in their dealings, change affects the existing ‘climate’ of transactive and that those who are cunning in their dealings that this influence is some- knowledge and metaknowledge because it will have cunning in their hearts, and . . . [become] require new learning from at least some members restless in spirit and not fit vehicles for Tao. It is times a pernicious one...? of the society, and will create new incentives, not that I do not know of these things. I should be threats and interests. In a word, change creates ashamed to use them.” uncertainty, which degrades mutual reliability. Now, I feel no such shame, and I doubt that This is not to say, like Chuang Tzu’s farmer, that Beyond the knowledge requirements and the you do either. I am writing this piece on a laptop technological change is bad, but that it comes at a games that come with a new technology, there are computer, not with a fountain pen – still less with social cost which will have to be paid somehow. a stylus on a clay tablet. Nonetheless, I think this the living standards and folkways of the people ‘parable of the well sweep’ asks an important who use the items that it can now produce, or have Richard Ostrofsky, formerly of Second Thoughts question and raises a valid concern: How do “the become newly affordable. For individual persons, Bookstore in OOS, now lives in Montreal near his means of production” influence the structure of at least in the short run, the objective results are daughter and grandchildren, but still writes his society and then the feelings and world views of pretty clear: By any measure, the contributions monthly column for OSCAR on whatever catches its participants? Is it possible that this influence of technology have been helping people to live his interest. www.secthoughts.com. is sometimes a pernicious one, as that gardener’s healthier, longer, more prosperous lives. teacher believed? These are the questions I wish to Yet the gardener’s teacher has some valid raise. concerns; and it may be that the populist anger Most directly, technology changes people’s which is now conspicuous almost everywhere in worldviews when it provides new tools of the world reflects somehow what the Taoist master observation: the telescope and microscope in would say: That those who are not “fit vehicles for the 17th century, the DNA sequencer and Large Tao” are always looking out for Number One – Hadron Collider (for example) today. New tools of promoting themselves and taking every advantage observation allow people to see things that were they can, at no matter whose expense. They are completely unknown before, enabling them to racked by envy, no matter how rich and powerful perform new experiments, which in turn, force the (or poor and vulnerable) they are; and they can construction of new theories. The worldview of a never be at peace with themselves. They are physicist, biologist or psychologist today, as I am deeply corrupt, in the precise sense that integrity, writing this, is incomparably more sophisticated authenticity and fellowship are lost to them. They than was the case even 50 years ago when I was a are indifferent to social decay and to degradation student; and the ideas and questions of “the man in of the environment. They can love no one and the street” have been shifted as well. nothing but themselves. I doubt that all these evils Insofar as Marshall McLuhan was correct that could stem just from using a well sweep to water “the medium is the message,” new communications your garden, but when efficiency, effectiveness and technology also has direct, sensual consequences profit are the only values in your consciousness, for the ways that people think. Television you surely do become a kind of monster. broadcasting came in after the Second World War In 1985, a psychologist named Daniel Wegner when I was a kid; my generation was the first to be pointed out that when people work together, or affected by it. The personal computer, the Internet, just spend a lot of time with each other, they create and the cell phone have been major innovations in a pool of knowledge – ‘transactive knowledge,’ my lifetime, and each one has had major impact on he called it – which no one holds on their own, the ways that people access information and talk and which may not be written down anywhere, and deal with each other. The long-term impact of but which can be shown to exist as something these new media cannot be known yet, but we can shared between them. A simple example might Page 30 The OSCAR l December 2016

POETRY Starlings For Now By Susan McMaster By Colin Morton You are not inconsolable. Outside my office window They walk in and out of your life until You know how it feels flocks of black starlings without noticing you begin to rely to go out of people’s lives and fall from roof and chimney, on them, going in and out. You notice not come back. Sometimes it is cross flocks of white flakes when you realize some have gone deliberate. Usually though tossed sideways from clouds out of your life one last time and you it is this same daily passing of things heavy behind. The birds won’t see them again, or if you do, (our minds always on what we cut their own diagonals, it is lifetimes later on a busy corner are about to receive). head up wind, and neither can find a thing you want And there are always others, swoop and land and lift again to say more than anything else right now walking in and out of your life, but lately from the crab trees and so you say goodbye. you notice it a little more, you begin and the banks shaking hands, even with friends, of municipal rowan hugging, touching, lingering in doorways at the foot of the road talking about nothing much, anything, that edges the cliff -- not wanting to say goodbye just yet. black confetti wings -- handfuls of stars -- From How to Be Born Again (Quarry Press). thrown over trucks POETRY WANTED! and sewers and bins. Submissions of original poems by Old Ottawa Silent as paper behind the sealed glass South writers are welcome. Please send up where I look in. to 3 poems, no more than 30 lines long, and a 1-line bio to the Editor at OSCAR@ Susan actually likes snow in OOS. oldottawasouth.ca From Paper Affair (Black Moss 2010).

COMPUTER TRICKS AND TIPS Protect Yourself Against Ransomware By Malcolm and John on the computer hard disk and years ago was quickly crushed by a fashioned way – manually. You Harding, of Compu-Home “encrypts” (scrambles) your data consortium of anti-virus publishers connect your backup device to files, making them unintelligible and the FBI, but the version rampant your computer immediately before and useless. The publisher of the at this time has so far proved running the backup software, and Who Is The Enemy? ransomware then sends you an email, invulnerable. then disconnect it as soon as the A relatively new and very offering to sell you a code that will backup is complete. This frustratingly pernicious form of virus is the unencrypt your files. This is usually What Is The Problem? defeats some of the convenience of latest scourge of all computer a very short-term offer and you must First is the utter frustration of the software that comes with modern users, from private individuals to make a decision to pay the ransom or having been victimized and facing backup devices. We have become large institutions. Usually, the virus to lose your data, within a day or so. the fact that you are going to have used to being able to designate the infects your computer as a result Any sort of data, from documents to to pay an exorbitant amount (often data folders that are to be backed of you having clicked on a link or images to music to spreadsheets to more than $1500 US) to get your data up on a daily, weekly or monthly downloading an attachment, in a tax records, is vulnerable. A previous back, or to lose all of that personal schedule, and then simply to spot- bogus email. The malware installs form of ransomware a couple of and/or business information. Second check periodically to be sure that the is the actuality that you cannot be backups are happening as expected. sure that you are dealing with a Instead, you now have to remember “legitimate” crook who will really to do the backup manually, and to send you the code to unencrypt your disconnect and set aside the device files, or an “unscrupulous” villain when the process is complete. who will simply cut and run with On the other hand, this strategy your money. keeps an additional copy of your data separate from your computer What Traditional Protection system(s) and you do have the Doesn’t Work? security of knowing that everything Anti-virus utilities are not is secure and that you will be $1500 foolproof, either because they are not richer if the crooks do come calling. up-to-date, or because the malware does not have the characteristics of a Go to compu-home.com/blog for an traditional virus. The usual insurance, archive of our columns (including backing up one’s data automatically this one) and lots more tech-related on an external device or into an articles. There is a space right after account on the cloud is futile, each item for you to make comments because the ransomware infects and suggestions, and ask questions. any device that is connected to the You can even sign up for automatic computer, and the backup data on the updates. Have a look at compu-home. external device or the folder on the com/blog soon or call us at 613- cloud, will be corrupted also. 731-5954 to share your opinions and suggest subjects for future columns. Well Then, What Does Work? Our email address is info@compu- The best (and for now the only) home.com. strategy is to back up the old The OSCAR l December 2016 Page 31

DESIGN DILEMMAS Is it Christmas Already!?

The Central Art Garage, with an exhibit of photos by Amalie Atkins. PHOTO BY VANESSA RIDDELL

By Vanessa Riddell Chris Solar A local carpenter and furniture Here are some Christmas present maker, Chris produces some of the ideas from some interesting local most artful custom made furniture places and some truly talented pieces. While Chris does not have individuals. inventory on hand, lead times, Opening January 2017 depending on the item and quantity, Spots for children aged 2-4 Bess Fraser can be about 4 weeks. Chairs, A local, Bess is a talented graphic benches, lamps, mirrors, tables and designer and artist. Her line drawings sideboards are all part of Chris’s in particular are whimsical, abstract repertoire. To find out more go to: and playful. Bess is currently focusing www.christophersolar.com. on Canadian farm animals, wildlife, and landscapes. For more information Framed! and contact info go to: www.bessyart. A local shop, situated at 1075 ca. Bank Street, Framed! is a fantastic framer for anything you want framed. Central Art Garage Framed! also stocks small to larger priced gift items. Their buyer, A cool frame shop and gallery run Registered Early Childhood Educator (R.E.C.E) Jennifer, has a great eye and the store by a local OOS resident. Danny’s 18 years working with children in a variey of capacities. frames ARE art, in and of themselves. is always stocked with beautiful little If you have recently purchased art and gifts, great for hostesses, friends and need it framed, consider this option. family. Charlie Harper calendars Quality childcare in Old Ottawa East are always a big seller. For more The framing schedules are usually Lilia Fick, R.E.C.E • 613-567-5150 • NatureNurturePlaycare.ca booked a few months in advance information go to their web site: and cost anywhere from $300-$1500 www.framed.ca. depending on the size and wood selection. Central Art Garage also Studio Sixty Six sells art works by artists like Jessica An art gallery located at 66 Muriel Bell and Amelie Atkins. Currently St #202. Studio 66 has some of Ottawa’s Only exhibiting at Central Art Garage is the most interesting collections of Kristiina Lahde from Toronto. Check emerging artists’ works. Their current Children’s Bookstore! it out online at: centralartgarage.com. show “Unholy Objects” is a collection of beautiful and fun objects, textile • Fun and Fabulous Gift Ideas Christopher Griffen wall hangings, ceramic sculptures and for Teachers and Kids other art objects. To find out more go An amazing local artist, his cement • Holiday hours in December: drawings and sculptures dot the to: www.studiosixtysix.ca. Ottawa landscape and remind us of Thursdays and Fridays the natural world. Christopher has Happy Holidays everyone! recently returned from Iceland and is open until 8pm Vanessa is a local Interior Designer producing work inspired by that trip. and stager and lover of art. To find For more information go to: www. 1018 Bank St. (across from out more, contact her at info@sachi. christophergriffin.ca. ca or go to www.sachi.ca Lansdowne Park) 613.232.7406 www.kaleidoscopekidsbooks.ca Page 32 The OSCAR l December 2016

SUNNYSIDE LIBRARY PROGRAMS Sunnyside Branch OR portes ouvertes Wednesdays, 2:00 - 4:00 pm, Ottawa Public Library Thursdays, 10:15 am (30 min.) Fridays, 3:30 – 5:00 pm / Les September 14 – December 14 1049 Bank Street, Ottawa October 20 - December 8 vendredis, 15h 30 – 17h A Word in Arabic 613-730-1082, September 16 – December 16 / 16 Join us once a month to learn a few Adult Services, ext 22 Family Storytime (Bilingual) septembre – 16 décembre words in Arabic while discussing Children’s Services, ext 29 Stories, rhymes and songs for Arabic culture and customs children of all ages and a parent or Home-Schoolers’ Happening throughout the Middle East. Get a CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS caregiver. Join us for an afternoon of board taste of this fascinating language Drop in. games, LEGO, cards & fun for home- and culture, shared by a diverse Maker Mondays / Lundi créatifs Contes, comptines et chansons pour schooled children and their families, population of 420 million people on (Ages 8 & up / Âgés de 8 ans et plus) les enfants de tout âge et un parent ou happening every week! Drop-in / earth. Play, build, create, cut, fold, knit, gardien. Programme portes ouvertes Wednesday, 6:30 – 7:30 pm, draw & so much more with our new Programme portes ouvertes. Thursdays, 12:00 – 3:00 pm / Les December 7 low-tech mobile maker station! / Wednesdays 10:15 am / Les jeudis, 12h – 15h Joue, construis, crée, découpe, plie, mercredis 10h15 (30 min.) September 15 – December 8 / 15 Ingenious Talks (Faculty of tricot, dessine et pratique une foule October 19 – December 7 / 19 septembre – 8 décembre Engineering & Design, Carleton d’autres activités avec notre nouveau octobre – 7 décembre University) poste mobile de création à faible TEEN PROGRAMS Ingenious Talks is offered by technicité! Silly Saturdays at Sunnyside / On Carleton University’s Faculty of Mondays, 3:30 pm (60 min.) s’amuse les samedis à Sunnyside TAG (Teen Advisory Group) Engineering and Design that engages September 12 – December 12 Each week there will be board Attention Sunnyside Teens! Join our the community in discussions of games, Lego, crafts or another new Teen Advisory Group and have a timely and innovative ideas in Babytime activity. / Chaque semaine il y say in which programs, activities and engineering, design and technology. For babies and their parents or aura des jeux de société, Lego, du services will be offered to youth and Wednesday, 6:30 – 7:30 pm, caregiver with stories, rhymes, songs bricolage, ou une autre activité. Drop also help plan and implement them. December 7 and games. 0-18 months. Drop In. in / Programme portes ouvertes. Ages 14-18. To join, stop by the Tuesdays, 2:15 pm (30 min.) Saturdays, 1:00 pm (180 min.) branch or apply at Ottawa.ca Conversation en français October 18 - December 6 Les samedis, 13 h (180 min.) Friday, 4:00 – 5:00 pm, Improve your spoken French and September 17 – December 17 / 17 December 9 meet new friends in a relaxed setting. Toddlertime septembre – 17 décembre Intermediate level required. For toddlers and a parent or caregiver Totally Tubular Tuesdays Thursdays, 6:30 – 7:30 pm, with stories, rhymes, songs and Block Party / Ça dé “bloc” (Family An open, inclusive, fun place to hang September 15 – December 15 games. Ages 18-35 months. Drop In. program) out, meet people, procrastinate, play Please choose only Tuesday or Building Boom: show off your games, explore your artistic side, or Ebooks and More: Drop-in Help Thursday for each session. architectural creativity with Lego®. just be! Open to all 13 to 18 yrs. Sessions Tuesdays, 10:15 am (30 min.) Archiboum! Architectes en herbe, à Tuesdays, 4:00 – 5:30 pm Drop in with your device to October 18 - December 6 vos Lego®! Drop-in / Programme September 13 – December 13 troubleshoot or to learn about different types of digital content ADULT PROGRAMS you can download from the library website: ebooks, audiobooks, The Writing Workshop magazines, movies, music and more. An opportunity for writers of fiction, Fridays, 3:00 – 5:00 pm, non-fiction, poetry, and experimental December 2 & 16 forms to gather. Our emphasis will be on developing works-in-progress Weekly Drop In Meetings for 2017 for publication. The workshop will Projects provide writers with encouragement As the 150th anniversary of and constructive criticism from their Confederation in 2017 draws near, peers. Author/Facilitator: Michael F. some Canadians are suggesting we Stewart: http://michaelfstewart.com mark the occasion with projects Monday, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, large and small, focused on our past, December 12 present or future. A workshop for people to discuss, brainstorm or work English Conversation Group on their projects. Practice English and meet new Saturdays, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, friends in a relaxed and friendly September 24 –December 17 environment. Beginner level welcome! ADULT BOOK CLUBS Tuesdays, 5:30 – 7:00 pm September 13 – December 13 Second Friday Adult Book Club Meet new people and join in Knit & Knatter stimulating discussions on selected Have you always wanted to learn to titles in a friendly and relaxed knit or improve your skills? Come atmosphere every second Friday of to Sunnyside and bring your knitting the month. Newcomers are welcome. needles and yarn to begin or share December title: A House in the Sky your project. Enjoy conversation and by Amanda Lindhout a cup of tea while you knit! Drop-in. Friday, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, Wednesday, 12:30 – 2:30 pm, December 9 December 14

Conversations Among Canadians In this program, we will continue to share our experience, knowledge, reflections and ideas relevant to life in Canada, past, present and future, doing so with a sense of community among Canadians and with others in the world. The OSCAR l December 2016 Page 33

BOOK REVIEW

Sweet Days and Sour,father of by the People’sRafal Republic Pomian of story revolves around Chen’s mission the East and the West. Believable China. The back cover explains that and the lengths he will go to achieve dialogue moves the story along the novel is about “a rogue dictator it. It also involves the developing smoothly and quickly, alternating (who) gains power in China and sets romance between doctors Mary between light hearted banter and his sight on destroying the Canadian Wiggins and Ed Domanski, as well serious discussions of those creating and American way of life.” as Chen Yunwei’s use of seduction the chaos and others trying to Central characters in the novel to gain political power. Along the uncover the reasons behind odd, include Chen Yunwei, founder and way we learn about hospital life, of unexplained incidents, including the leader of a group based in China Mary’s interest in toxic substances, many mysterious deaths, suddenly called Greys who wants to take over and eavesdrop on a discussion about occurring across North America. the Chinese government when that Rasputin’s ability to survive attempts The book’s ending draws together country is in turmoil; Lao Pengyou, a to poison him. all pieces of the puzzle in China, Buddhist monk living a solitary life in The mystery begins when Canada Canada and the United States. a remote part of China who many of is used as a testing ground before Sweet Days and Sour is Rafal the main characters visit for advice; the Greys strike their real target - the Pomian’s first novel. He lives in the three doctors in Canada who work at USA. Glebe where he and his late wife ran the Ottawa Hospital - Mary Wiggins, Interest and suspense is created a successful bed and breakfast called who is head of Pharmacology, her when key figures, first in Canada then By the Way after he retired from a 28- colleague Ed Domanski, head of in the United States, begin dying of year career in the federal government. Radiology, and their boss Philip unexplained but similar ailments, all His book can be found at Octopus Reviewed by June Coxon Yip. Secondary figures include involving blood clots. Books on Third Avenue, Singing government officials in all three Pomian convincingly weaves real Pebble Books on Main Street, Perfect Sweet Days and Sour is an interesting countries. The author has included a situations like the threat of Quebec Books on Elgin, or directly from the novel of mystery and intrigue, set in convenient list of the key players and separation in Canada and race riots author. China, the United States and Canada. their professions in the first pages of and the Occupy Movement in the As noted at the beginning of the the book which is particularly useful United States, into his fiction and Sweet Days and Sour, by Rafal book, its title comes from a favourite for referring to the Chinese characters draws a parallel between China Pomian, 2016, Baico publishing, song of Mao Zedong, the founding while reading the story. potentially annexing Taiwan. 225 pages. Set sometime in the future, this Most chapters alternate between

AROUND TOWN Art Lending Of Ottawa presents on our website donations page. consult www.ottawabrahmschoir.ca Orkidstra is an organization its winter exhibition of visual and 819-568-8169. that provides youth from under- arts. Lease, lease to purchase Join Coro Vivo Ottawa in a festive served communities with musical or purchase original fine art at celebration of spirit featuring Ottawa Newcomers Club. Our club opportunities. Join us at 7:00pm on reasonable prices. Local artists. the work of John Rutter in an is a social organization which helps December 10th at Academic Hall Large selection. Saturday, December arrangement of African-American women new to our city, (or those Theatre (135 Séraphin-Marion, 3rd. 10:00am -5:00pm. A Festive spiritual music centred on seven who have experienced a significant University of Ottawa)! The concert Sale is included at this show. Small spirituals arranged for choir and life change), to adjust by meeting will feature young talented classical pieces for sale only at $100 or less. mezzo-soprano soloist. Presented women of similar interests and to musicians from all over Ottawa. After RA Centre (Outaouais Room), East under the skillful baton of Antonio develop friendships by participating the concert, there will be a reception entrance, 2451 Riverside Drive. Llaca, each piece is familiar in a variety of group activities. More and a silent auction with items from Free admission. Free parking. www. and well-known, but Rutter’s information about us, and what we local businesses. The concert is by artlendingofottawa.ca interpretation makes them fresh and do, can be found on our website at: donation so feel free to come and just new. Other seasonal, renowned and ottawanewcomersclub.ca enjoy the music! Christmas Bazaar. MacKay United favourite spirituals are included in Church, Saturday, December 3rd. a program to welcome the holiday The Ottawa Orchid Society meets Ottawa StoryTellers, “Walking from 12 noon - 4:00 pm. season. December 9th and 10th, every third Sunday from Sept to May, in a Winter Wonderland.” 7pm on 39 Dufferin Rd, corner of Mackay Orleans United Church (1111 Orleans from 1:30 pm to about 4:00 pm, at Tuesday, December 13, at The Tea St. Featuring Bake Table, Preserves, Blvd.) 7:30 pm. $20 (free for children the Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Party, 119 York St. With Lynda Joyce Attic Treasures, Books/CD’s/ Vinyl, under 14). Road. Please renew your membership & Kim Kilpatrick. Pass-the-hat Accessories, Jewellery, Vintage/ ($25). Beginner classes sometimes donations accepted. Retro/Couture ladies clothing, Furs, Just Voices Choir is on the lookout available, for details pls check in Christmas decorations and fresh for new members! Just Voices is a Spike www.ottawaorchidsociety.com/ Holly. More info. 613-749-8727 community-oriented activist choir spike_list.html. in Ottawa. Do you love to sing? Friends Of The Central Are you passionate about social and Ottawa Quakers hold a largely Experimental Farm Annual environmental justice? Consider silent Meeting for Worship, Sunday Non-dinner Event is back - until joining Just Voices! We meet every mornings at 10:30am, 91A Fourth December 31st. Not a single Wednesday (Sept-June) from 7-9 pm Avenue in the Glebe. Newcomers person will show up and we will at the Bronson Centre, 222 Bronson welcome! be delighted! By purchasing tickets Avenue. See: www.justvoices.ca to this fundraising event that will Operation Sub Zero. The Ottawa never take place, you will help the Ottawa Brahms Choir presents a Police Service is partnering with the Friends sponsor numerous activities celebration of Mozart at its Christmas Ottawa Youth Services to provide in support of the Ornamental Gardens concert on Sunday, December 4th warm clothing for youth this winter. and the Arboretum on the Central at 3 pm at St. Thomas the Apostle We will collect adult clothing Experimental Farm. Individual seats Anglican Church, 2345 Alta Vista for young men and women until $25. Couples $50. Family $100. Drive, under direction of Christopher December 15. Donations of new Table of Six $150. Community $500. Askwith and accompanist Svetlana or used, but still in good condition, Your support is greatly appreciated Logigan. Reception following coats, sweaters, boots, socks, hats, and your donation is tax deductible. concert. Tickets $20 at door, $18 mitts and scarves can be dropped You can contribute by downloading in advance from choir members, off at select Ottawa Police stations Annual Non-dinner invitation Non- Secretariat of St. Thomas the Apostle including 474 Elgin Street. The souper annuel and then following the Church, as well as Compact Music., winter clothing will be distributed by mailing instructions. Or use PayPal Leading Note. For further info please the Youth Services Bureau to clients. Page 34 The OSCAR l December 2016

OPINION Comments on an Environmental Study Report: Airport Parkway and Lester Road Widening Environmental Assessment Study By David McNicoll political parties, nor proximate legal and Climate Change, Ontario for rou- ate that the ESR is not there to assess opposition, nor a public and ac- tine approval. But Canada also must the environment. It’s there to support In the City of Ottawa, Council countable relationship with the two turn over greenspace for this expan- a road expansion, while simply offer- recently okayed a so-called Environ- constitutional bodies of Canada (the sion and has its own environmental ing various design options. Or as the mental Study Report (ESR) which province of Ontario and Canada). assessment law. Further, Ontario and ESR (Appendix B, Annex 7) stated, advocates a $90 million road expan- This ESR was carried out in ac- Canada have an Agreement on Envi- it’s there “to conduct a desktop sion on public and partially federal cordance with the requirements for ronmental Assessment Cooperation review of the existing natural heri- land on the way to the Airport. This a Schedule ‘C’ project under the (2004). It’s all part of the (supreme) tage features to support the Airport intended road project is part of a Municipal Class Environmental As- rule of law in the legal fiction of Parkway and Lester Road Widening Transportation Master Plan which in- sessment Act (EA). Section 2 of this Canada. Environmental Assessment.” And cludes many such projects including law gives its purpose as “the better- In plain language, a road anywhere the report notes that “no significant the massive light-rail projects. Both ment of the people of the whole or on the planet forces changes (e.g. adverse environmental effects are the goals and process appear routine, any part of Ontario by providing for climate, biodiversity, energy use, expected to prevail after mitigation.” even boring, but to me they are both the protection, conservation and wise temperature, emissions, hydrologi- And, notwithstanding the projected critically wrong. management in Ontario of the envi- cal cycles and so on) over unknown doubling of the lanes out to the air- Thus at this latitude and longitude, ronment.” At this point I will point geographic and time scales. Com- port, the ESR itself is able to further Council is the legal entity which out that I’m not a lawyer, so reader plexity aside, the situation screams state the project “will have negligible speaks for the citizens and lays out beware. out for real data over time. Scientific minimal impact on local air quality.” the land-use of the community. But Council now passes this Report on (academic) research into the effects In their evaluation of the natural strangely, this Council has neither to the Minister of the Environment of roads has been rather negative features of the site, the research- for decades, so I was curious about ers carried out seven days of Field the current state of environmental Surveys (3.3) in addition to the assessment in Ottawa, Ontario, “background information search and Canada. And super skeptical (too literature review to gather data.” long a story). But their investigation - includ- Unfortunately, the city of Ottawa, ing such sections on, for example: notwithstanding its $3 billion/year Species at Risk, Significant Wood- Operating Budget, moves through lands, Seasonal Concentration Areas, time and space without serious Specialized Habitats, and Species of (mega) data. So there is no baseline, Conservation Concern - produced no (rigorous) tracking of this part no serious concerns for the project. of the planet’s reality. Put another And the dozen or so paragraphs of way, the “Site” for this road expan- Section 6.0 Preliminary Constraints sion (about 16 hectares), the “Study Assessment and Next Steps can be For a comprehensive overview, Area” surrounding the road expan- characterized with the following please visit our web site: sion (about 250 hectares) and Ottawa quote “following completion of the itself (about 279,000 hectares) in final design, and impact assessment, www.sandyhill.ca or call which the road expansion is to take if necessary, mitigation measures Nathan Gurnham at (613) 832-1717 place, currently have something in should be proposed to reduce or common – effectively no serious eliminate potential impacts.”

GMSOHouseGROscarDec16.pdf 1 2016-06-07 9:18 AM data over time. It renders any (envi- And finally, in Section 7, Annex 7, ronmental) assessment problematic Limitations and Use of the Report, (to be kind). And places a deep the ESR notes “no assurance is made test on any one-off environmen- regarding the accuracy and complete- tal assessment to supply suf- ness of these data.” So this project ficient and necessary data for an will fit easily into the absence on site acceptable decision theory. natural heritage management plans And so in my terms, the ESR and the general lack of provincial lands in a fractured human interest in shaping land use in eastern structure with poor accountabil- Ontario, unlike southern Ontario ity and only scattered data. Any- (which has four land-use plans under way, I strolled up to Carleton revision). University’s library for a gander In terms of decision theories, the at the ESR and a cappuccino. Environmental Study Report contains C The ESR itself is heavy, a overarching bias towards the road

M intimidating and boring. Three project. It is driven by what can be

Y binders, roughly 500 pages, lots called ideological beliefs, perhaps of drawings of roads of course, using words like congestion and CM and a massive, and promising, growth. But the decision is not driven MY Table of Contents. Yet there by real mega data. It may be adequate

CY are no authors’ names given on law but it’s poor science.

CMY the title page (as in not accept- Ironically, the EA Act doesn’t able science). I spent most of contain words like climate or climate K my time (about five hours over change in it, or for that matter words three days) buried in the sup- like congestion or growth, so go porting reports of Appendix B, figure. Nevertheless, perhaps rather largely in the 7th Annex (Natu- awkward for the Minister of Envi- ral Heritage Assessment Exist- ronment and Climate Change, both ing Conditions). Then a further Ontario and Canada. six hours writing. For the humans living in the cur- Sadly, the promise of the rent legal fiction of Canada, it’s Table of Contents, while tagging deadly. Sadly, this road expansion various laws, doesn’t lead very will just be another ignorant nail in far. It didn’t take long glancing our coffin. through the binders, to appreci- The OSCAR l December 2016 Page 35

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Carleton Receives $26.4 Million CU75 Countdown Fall Convocation Carleton Corner is written by Boost Carleton is counting down to the Carleton welcomed 1200 graduates Carleton University’s Department Carleton University’s goal of official launch of celebrations for its to the alumni fold during two of University Communications. As reducing energy consumption 75th anniversary year. Fall Convocation ceremonies on your community university, Carleton while expanding research on green This is an opportunity to celebrate November 12th. Distinguished has many exciting events of interest technologies and smart environments the enduring vision of the citizens Research Professor Emerita Elaine to Old Ottawa South. For more got a $26.4-million boost on Nov. who opened the original college in Keillor was awarded the degree of information about upcoming events, 7. The announcement was made at 1942 to serve the community. Today, Doctor of Music, in recognition of please go to carleton.ca/events. Carleton by Catherine McKenna, Carleton has grown into a leading her extraordinary contribution to MP Ottawa-Centre and minister of post-secondary institution that Canadian music as a performer and Environment and Climate Change, has provided a unique educational teacher. The afternoon ceremony along with Ontario Attorney General experience to more than 130,000 awarded Elder Thomas R. Louttit Yasir Naqvi. Of the total funding, graduates over seven decades. with a Doctor of Laws in recognition $22.5 million is coming from the On Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, of his wise leadership and service to federal Strategic Investment Fund, please join us at the launch event in the community as an Elder. while Ontario is providing $3.9 the University Centre Galleria. This million. Carleton is contributing an will be an exciting occasion that additional $23.5 million for a total will provide details about the events investment of $49.9 million. planned throughout 2017. Page 36 The OSCAR l December 2016

CHRISTMAS Southminster Kids Perform a Play Within a Play By Julie Ireton In the play, kids aged seven to twelve, take on a variety of roles and The kids at Southminster Church ask some honest and tough questions are challenging Old Ottawa South about why we should help people in to help pack the church on Sunday, our community. December 18th at 10:30 am to raise Centre 7’s “Out of the Cold” money for “Out of the Cold” dinners. dinner is offered every Saturday Once again, the Southminster kid’s night in the winter in the basement of church is preparing a unique and Southminster Church and all money entertaining pageant that goes well raised when the kids pack the church beyond the traditional Christmas story on pageant day will be donated to this of Mary, Joseph and Jesus to present charity. a play within a play. The production, Last year, the Southminster kids which can be appreciated by both help raised more than $3000 on their young and old, will take an inside pageant day to help in the sponsorship look at how Old Ottawa South’s of a refugee family. Centre 7 provides people with warm We look forward to seeing you on meals from October to March every Sunday, December 18th at 10:30! year.

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J Valley Quilters Guild (OVQG) is shut-ins in our community to create a A N ICE getting ready to celebrate! This winter little lasting gift for them.” marks their 5th year of contributing As Bau St-Cyr from Meals on HE ND quilted placemats to the Ottawa Meals Wheels puts it, “the clients are always very appreciative for receiving such a ER S O on Wheels program. This program delivers nutritious meals, daily check- nice meal and visit on Christmas day.” N ins, and comfort with a smile to Interested in contributing placemats central Ottawa residents who might of your own? The best size is otherwise not be able to remain in approximately 13 inches by 18 their own homes. inches, in washable fabrics. They Each year, OVQG contributes can be seasonally themed or just about 100 beautiful quilted placemats hand made with care! OVQG has to be delivered along with the free collected 40 so far this year, and will Christmas Meal on December 25th. be accepting placemats until the end This meal is a collaborative effort of our December 5th meeting at the St. among many generous donors, Anthony Soccer Club off of Preston including Moe Attalah of the Elvis (523 St. Anthony Street). Sighting Society, The Newport Janice started quilting in grade Restaurant, Home Instead Senior 11 when she grew too big for her Care, The Ottawa Riverside Kiwanis childhood quilt, and is now Publicity Club, as well as several Quilting Coordinator for the Ottawa Valley Groups and Girl Guide and Brownie Quilters Guild. She grew up as a units. Girl Guide making special gifts for The quilted placemats are a great the Meals on Wheels recipients, and opportunity for quilters of all ages and is delighted to be contributing to the abilities to cheerfully contribute to the placemats as an adult. well-being of the Ottawa community. Mara Praulins, the charity quilt

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By Kristine Burr prices, so many in the community are Eric Coates. With a lineup like pitching in with innovative ways to this, it is bound to be a memorable There is a new opportunity this supplement funds contributed via 23 afternoon. The reading will take place holiday season to spread a little central Ottawa churches (including at 3:00pm on Sunday, December 11th cheer and enjoy an afternoon of several in Old Ottawa South), school in Knox Church’s sanctuary (Elgin at entertainment at the same time. On food drives and individual donors. Lisgar). The organizers are inviting December 11th, a special dramatic In October, over 140 people turned everyone in the Emergency Food reading of Charles Dickens’ “A out for a very successful Walkathon Centre’s catchment area to join them Christmas Carol” is being presented that raised more than $12,000 for the in supporting a cause that helps many at Knox Presbyterian Church on Elgin Emergency Food Centre, and also of our neighbours in central Ottawa. Street, in support of the Centretown highlighted the importance of food Tickets ($15 for adults and $5 for Emergency Food Centre. security for many in the central part of children) will be available at the As many readers will know, the our city. door or through Eventbrite. This is a Emergency Food Centre, located This year’s production of A “bring the whole family” event and a at 507 Bank Street, is an important Christmas Carol will feature a number wonderful way to launch the holiday resource to quite a few of the people of well-known readers, including season. Parking is available under City living in central Ottawa. This year, Mayor Jim Watson, CBC’s Rita Celli Hall at a flat rate of $2. the Food Centre has been struggling and Alan Neal, actor/playwright Pierre Kristine Burr is a long-time resident of to meet higher demand and rising Brault and GCTC Artistic Director Old Ottawa South.

Family-Friendly Christmas Concert By Nadine Dawson will enjoy this afternoon of carols and Merry Christmas (arr. Arthur songs designed to lift a weary spirit Warrell), the rousing Jingle It’s time to STOP shopping, and start and launch the season’s festivities. Bells (arr. Philip Goldman), and SINGING! Cantata Singers of Ottawa, under the the inspiring Hodie, christus To celebrate the season, Cantata direction of Andrew McAnerney, will ntaus est (Healey Willan), to the Singers of Ottawa and special guests, perform a selection of festive pieces more introspective melodies of Cathedral Brass, Ottawa Children’s from both the sacred and secular Silent Night (arr. John Rutter), Choir, and Caroline Leonardelli, traditions. The program interprets Huron Carol (arr. Robert invite you to join them in a Family many facets of the Christmas season, Anderson), and Jesus Christ the Christmas Spectacular. Young and old from the infectious We Wish you a Apple Tree (Elizabeth Posten). McAnerney is in his second season with Cantata Singers of Ottawa. He is also the Artistic Director of Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal and the Anglican Chorale of Ottawa, PHOTO BY NADINE DAWSON and has performed in 28 in Royal David’s City and Le premier countries with both amateur and Noël, then rise to the excitement of professional choirs, including the Adestes Fideles, Hark the Herald, Les Tallis Scholars. anges dans nos campagnes, and Joy Ottawa Children’s Choir, under to the World, before challenging your the direction of Jamie Loback wits with the interactive, 12 Days of and accompanied by Caroline Christmas. Leonardelli, will perform Cathedral Brass plays regularly Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of at Notre-Dame Cathedral, and Carols. Composed in 1942 when has accompanied the choirs of the Britten was at sea travelling from University of Ottawa and École the United States to England, secondaire publique De La Salle. Ceremony of Carols comprises 11 This Christmas, consider stepping movements for three-part treble out of the frenetic pace of holiday chorus, solo voices, and harp. The preparations, gathering together your text, derived from The English family and friends, and entering into Galaxy of Shorter Poems, is sung in the spirit of harmony as we welcome Middle- and Early Modern English, the season with joyful song. (No as well as Latin. auditions required!) Both Loback and Leonardelli are Family Christmas Spectacular takes well known in Ottawa - Loback for place on Sunday, December 18th at his involvement in numerous choirs 3:00pm at St. Joseph’s Church, 174 for both children and adults, and for Wilbrod St. Tickets are available at the his position as Director of Music at door, or may be purchased in person at St. Joseph’s Parish, and Leonardelli The Leading Note or Compact Music. for her work as a JUNO- nominated To purchase tickets online, or to find concert harpist, renowned soloist, out more information about Cantata and chamber musician. Singers of Ottawa and its 53rd season, Cathedral Brass, a quintet made please visit cantatasingersottawa.ca. up of players from the Central Band Children under 12 are free! of the Canadian Forces and the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, will Nadine Dawson is a resident of Old 3 trees exotic gifts play Christmas Medley, featuring Ottawa South, and a member of silver jewellery favourite holiday tunes. They will Cantata Singers of Ottawa. fabulous fashion also lead the audience in a sing- like us on Facebook at 3 Trees along, in both French and English, like us in person at 202 Main St. complete with trumpet descant and fanfare. Warm up with Once The OSCAR l December 2016 Page 39

GREEN DREAMERS

Planting for 2017 PHOTO BY JILL ANDERSON

By Winnie Pietrykowski

On Tuesday, October 18th, junior and senior kindergarten students from Hopewell Public School planted daffodil and tulip bulbs in the public garden bed near the children’s playground. Among the bulbs planted were Canada’s official tulip, Canada 150, in celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017. Assisting our eager young gardeners were JK/SK teachers Jill Anderson and Lesley Kathnelson, and the Green Dreamers of Old Ottawa South.

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