. : ' Ottawa, June 15, 1984 Vol. 12 No. 6 $10 for a business member- ship. These new rates were Traffic battle unanimously aCcepted. Ward Mallette, accountants for on Bronson the GCA praised Jones' hand- ling of the books. by Joan McConnell The three main areas seen At a City of Ottawa Trans- as problems for the GCA to portation Committee meeting address in the coming year on June 6, city staff recomm- are the future of Lansdowne ended a twenty-four hour pro- Park, the proposed Queens- hibition of left-hand traffic way expansion and widening turns from Bronson Avenue on- of Chamberlain Avenue, and to Fifth Avenue and Madawaska the densification of the Drive. Glebe through changes in Diana Paterson, who repre- zoning and parking regula- sented the Dow's Lake Resid- tions. Alderman Howard ents' Association at the meet- Smith feels that the GCA ing, argued for a study of brief on Lansdowne Park has traffic along Bronson Avenue become the reference docum- and fts impact on the adjac- ent for -Chose involved with ent community. the park and has already Alderman Howard Smith presents a door prize to Mary Ahearn the GCA City staff decided against at changed many annual meeting. people's think- the study but said they will ing at City Hall. A ques- bring forth a second report tionnaire regarding parking on creating turn lanes in in the Bank Street commer- that area. cial area was available at The creation of turn lanes GCA Annual General Meeting the meeting to allow resid- may involve the expropriation ents to make their needs and, of houses along Bronson Ave- opinions known to the City. by Ellen Schowalter Glebe Community Association nue. Alderman Howard Smith Mr. N. Tunnacliffe, Dir- Directors for 1984/85, see says he is very concerned The GCA Annual General ector of Planning, Regional page 25 of this issue. about any proposal which will Meeting, May 16, 1984, pro- Municipality of Ottawa- result in house expropriation duced no surprises for the Minutes of the 1983 meet- Carleton, gave a presenta- and also with any proposal 150 people present. Rob ing were unanimously appro- tion of "Planning Options which might result in making Quinn was re-elected Pres- ved. President Rob Quinn for the Region and Implica- Bronson Avenue a major traff- ident, Don Ray and Jim Mc- noted a slight increase in tions for the Glebe". This ic thoroughfare. Carthy share the Vice-Pres- membership this year. In very detailed study covering Alderman Smith says he will idency and Harold Jones re- 1984, $2,778 was collected demographic and transporta- be meeting formally with mains Treasurer. New to in membership fees, com- tion factors projected to regional staff, the Dow's the executive is Linda pared to $2,504 in 1983. the year 2001 contains sev- Lake Residents' Association Thorne, Secretary. Barbara Treasurer Harold Jones pro- eral dormant monsters of and The Glebe Community Assoc- Liddy will continue as mem- posed a fee increase, the the traffic variety. Toron- iation for further discussion bership Chairman with the first in 15 years. New fees to urban planning critic would of traffic problems in the assistance of Jean McKay. be $2 for a single Jane Jacobs' metaphor (she person, $3 area. For a complete listing of for a family and wasn't referring to the Glebe) compares "building roads to a junky's fix - Peace Resource Centre must move again you build one and you need ceived a another". One hopes the ha- by Charlotte McEwen federal grant to aspects of peace and disarm- employ three students for ament issues. It issues a bit can be kicked before The Peace Resource Centre 13 weeks each during the monthly calendar of local city neighbourhoods o.d. on has to find a new location summer on Peace Resource peace and disarmament acti- traffic. A copy of the Re- because 600 Bank Street, projects. This is, there- vities of the 50 or so gional Municipality's study the former Gospel Tabernac- fore, not a good time to be Ottawa and area peace and can be obtained from Mr. le building at the corner looking for a new location. disarmament groups. It is Tunnacliffe's office - c/o of Rosebery and Bank, is up The Peace Resource Centre, expected that the summer Chris Bradshaw, Public Part- for sale by the present own- as the name implies, pro- student employees will be icipation, Planning Dept., ers, the Native People's vides many services includ- able to do some in-depth 222 Queen Street, KlP 5Z3. Council. ing a drop-in centre for the research. The meeting ended with a The Centre has just re- general public on many The 600 Bank Street loca- draw for door prizes dona- ted tion also houses other by Bank Street Merchants. peace groups including the More work at Glebe park Peace Petition Caravan (National Office) and the Inside by Joan McConnell Residents of the area near Ottawa Peace Coalition. Nuclear winter 2 The City of Ottawa Recrea- Glebe Memorial Park, situated These groups will be facing Profile: Senator tion Department is planning at the end of Glendale Avenue, the same moving problem. Eugene Forsey 10 co spend about $3000 on erected a playstructure in Since its inception about Glebe Memorial Park this sum- the park last summer. a year and a half ago, the At the Pantry 16 mer. The work will involve Peace Resource Centre has Future plans for the park Books: The Mikveh moving the swings and slide include a paved basketball been located in the Glebe. Man .. 20 closer to the playstructure court, a skating rink, a line It is hoped that a new loca- and rearranging other items of trees along the side of tion can be found in the in the park to create a more the park which faces Chamber- Glebe. Suggestions as to architecturally pleasing and lain Avenue, and extra light- where economical space is self-contained play area. ing. available would be welcomed. NEWS Nuclear winter apocalyptic threat Foreign Affaira. In the art- by Inez Berg icle he compiles recent find- "Since the discovery of ings of east-west research the atom everything has into nuclear winter. changed except our way of Dr. Sagan finds this re- thinking." Einstein's apoc- search, and its policy impli- alyptic analysis of man- cations, of such P aramount in kind's unevolved psychology portance that he concritrates in the face of his own tech- much time in communication nological self destruction with the politically power- was demonstrated eloquently ful and the policy makers, last week by Dr. Carl Sagan, wherever possible, in a de- distinguished American ast- termined effort to mobilize ronomer, Pulitzer prize win- the political will to devel- ning author, and host/co- op mutually verifiable dis- creator of the award-winning armament measures. TV series, Cosmos. Sponsored by the Ottawa Address chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, he He even waived his custom- was in Ottawa on June 3 and ary fee in this case. 4 to address members of the After a Sunday dinner add- scientific, medical, academ- ress to 300 at the Westin ic, civil service and polit- Hotel, he spent Monday morn- ical communities on "Nuclear ing on Parliament Hill with Winter". senior bureaucrats, met with This all too real conse- Prime Minister Trudeau over quence of limited nuclear lunch at 24 Sussex Drive, confrontation renders obso- held a press conference, lete and suicidal such con- briefed MPs, and concluded cepts as limited, or winnable with an interview for CBC's nuclear war, first strike Journal. Aired three days with capability and civil defence later, his dialogue measures such as underground Mary Lou Findlay provided an shelters and population re- ironic follow up to the location. Normandy retrospective. Asked what might create the polit- ical will for disarmament, Devastation he replied candidly, "In- Nuclear winter, which could telligence in high office." result from as limited a de- Beyond outlining the eff- tonation as 500 to 2000 nuc- ects and implications of Carl Photo: Koozma J. Tarasoff and Assoc. lear weapons (a fraction of nuclear winter, he declines, Sagan the current aggregate of as other Americans it Canada 50,000), each equal to many have not, to make political ed were in favour of a ganized in February, 1983, Hiroshimas, would create the recommendations. He does, nuclear freeze. and currently numbers about following conservative however, commend Prime Min- Co-sponsors of Dr. Sagan's 80 physicians. Their next scenario: ister Trudeau's peace initi- visit were Nurses for World project will be to brief all About half the world pop- ative and encourages every- Peace, Lawyers for Social candidates in the coming ulation would be killed out- one to work, at whatever Responsibility and Science election on the medical con- right. Massive columns of level they are capable, for for Peace. sequences of nuclear war, fire containing pyrotoxins world peace. He added that Ottawa Physicians for Soc- its civil defence implica- would burn for weeks over 75 to 80% of Americans poll- ial Responsibility was or- tions, and nuclear winter. urban centres, reaching into the troposphere and destroy- ing the ozone layer. Contin- ents, covered by the dense CLAUDE BENNETT clouds of dust, smoke and MPP Ottawa South radioactive particles, would experience blockage of the The Ottawa South Constituency sun for months, causing dark- office is located at 1579 Bank ness and freezing large land Street near Heron Road (K1H 7Z3). masses below. Crops and other plant life would per- Feel free to give Jean Bushfield ish and starvation of human or Donna Houlton a call for survivors would be almost information, assistance or to certain.