Community Voice - October 29, 2020 1 A Capital Solution LLETET UUSS DDOO TTHEHE for a HHEAVYEAVY LLIFTINGIFTING Hassle Free Winter Full season contracts for as little as Double Laneway Single Laneway 6135994392 WWW.CAPITALSERVICES.CA $36.66/month +HST $32.50/month +HST 12 EQUAL PAYMENTS 12 EQUAL PAYMENTS Your CommunityVoice KANATA October 29, 2020 [email protected] 613-45-VOICE www.ottawavoice.ca [email protected] Vol. 3 No. 21 Happy Halloween Photo by Patrick Uguccioni If you’re looking for the perfect pumpkin to decorate, look no further than the Fallowfield Farms offering at the corner of Hazeldean and Eagleson Roads. You will be welcomed by Cindy who will help you find that perfect gourd to take home. 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Gateway Business Park | 300 March Rd., Suite 601, Kanata, ON K2K 2E2 tion is again asking this Gift cards Those gift cards will Phone: 613-592-6290 | amk-law.ca generous community to then be given to the ad- “help us, help them.” to be given opted family to purchase In light of COVID-19 re- their direct Christmas strictions, several chang- to adopted needs. Key Tags Help Kids! es have been made to The deadline to apply Key tags protect your keys and support the program to ensure families for to Adopt-A-Family is the health and safety of December 14, 2020. child amputees, providing them with adopters and adopted Christmas For more information artificial limbs and much more. families. about the Adopt-A- The 2020 “Adopt-A- needs Family Program con- Family Program” will use tact the food cupboard’s Order yours gift cards to support fami- Client and community online – free. lies this year. digitally adopt families outreach coordinator at In past years, adopters in need of assistance for kaitlyn.lalonde@kanata- would purchase pres- Christmas, through an foodcupboard.ca. Nikan ents and a holiday meal online donation. for their adopted family. The funds provided [email protected] 1 800 250-3030 • waramps.ca WWINTERINTER Th e Ott awa area’s premier SSTAYSTAYS retirement residence AAVAILABLEVAILABLE located nearby in the heart of Stitt svill e For more information, or to schedule a tour, please call 613-903-6949 HAZELDEAN GARDENS RETIREMENT RESIDENCE 6130 Hazeldean Road, Stittsville K2S 2M2 www.hazeldeangardens.ca 4 October 29, 2020 - Community Voice EDITORIAL We are losing ground Close to 100 Ottawa service high housing costs lead to to pass an inclusionary zoning agencies are calling on city stress for individuals and fami- by-law that ensures a fixed per- council to commit an addi- lies, affecting their physical centage of new development tional $20 million in the 2021 and mental health and result- dedicated to affordable hous- budget for more affordable ing in increased use of health ing, specifically near rapid housing units in Ottawa. and social services.” transit. Despite significant invest- Much more needs to be done. This council must put teeth ments of city money in this en- Budget 2021 is an important to its refreshed 10-year hous- velope in this term of council opportunity to make progress ing and homelessness plan there are still more than 12,000 on providing a permanent passed earlier this year to in- families on the centralized fix for thousands of Ottawa clude aggressive targets to waiting list looking for an af- families. preserve and increase the fordable roof over their heads. As the mayor and city coun- affordable housing supply, We are losing ground. cillors sit down to debate this increase access to housing The number of families ac- pandemic budget, we urge affordability and eliminate cessing an emergency over- them to address this core need chronic homelessness. night shelter has increased by in our community. We encourage our readers to more than 70 percent since We call on council to commit reach out to their councillor to 2014. at least an additional $20 mil- encourage them to get behind A city staff report on the up- lion in Budget 2021. Hopefully, this important initiative. dated 10-year housing and there will be new monies over Everyone deserves the dig- homelessness plan detailed and above current federal and nity of a roof over their heads. what is at stake. provincial funding to build We all need to be committed “It is well documented that new affordable housing. to build an inclusive, safe and poor housing conditions and Council needs to go further affordable city for everyone. Op-Ed: No political will to make streets safer tragic year for cyclists on The latest example of basic, low-cost solutions. projects each cost as little steps must be taken to Ottawa’s streets. Three this inaction occurred From 2015 to 2018, the as $1,000 to $12,000. avoid a similar event.” people were killed while on Oct. 7 at the transpor- Healthy Transportation Despite Ottawa’s leader- What we know is that cycling: Idan, Simon, tation committee where Coalition made low-cost, ship claiming it is com- people are needlessly los- and a 60-year-old man funding to improve the pop-up improvements to mitted to Vision Zero, ing their lives on Ottawa’s killed in a hit-and-run safety of 29 intersections infrastructure in several we are not seeing the roads, low-cost solutions on Laurier Avenue beside was denied. lower income neighbour- action needed to match have worked in other ju- City Hall. City staff estimated it hoods across Ottawa. the words. Vision Zero is risdictions, and Ottawa Walking to work that would cost $32 million We ‘paved’ a gravel path- the reasonable idea that currently lacks the po- morning, I saw his blood to improve safety for cy- way in a park in Heron not one person should be litical will needed to im- on the ground, beneath clists at the 29 high-traf- Gate, installed bike lanes killed on our streets. It is prove safety. the yellow caution tape. fic, unsafe intersections in Bells Corners, and the simple notion that I’ve personally con- It is an image burned in the consultants studied. put in a safe pedestrian streets can be designed cluded that we need new BY TREVOR HACHÉ my memory. It makes me The City, we are told, crossing in Bayshore. to prevent death. leadership at city hall. sad, angry, every time I just does not have the Transit riders in Vanier Vision Zero’s ethical We need people com- Idan Azrad, age 27. think about it because his money. But that is not were provided a bench rules for the people who mitted to honouring the Thirteen-year-old Simon death was preventable. true. A single three-ki- and shelter to use while design transportation dead, and those willing Khouri. Despite countless calls lometre road widening waiting for the bus. systems include that “life to improve safety on our We must remember for safety improvements, project in Barrhaven is With countless hours and health can never be streets for the living. them, honour Yourthem, and the people in power at costing more thanK $100ANATA of volunteer time, inge- exchanged for other work to ensure improve- Ottawa city hall continue million. WEST CARLETONnuity, imagination, and benefits within the soci- Trevor Haché is a mentsCommunity are made to the to fail to act in meaning- What is lacking isOTTAWA po- SOUTHa strong commitment ety,” and that “whenever Kanata resident and co- safety of our streets.Your Communityful, lastingNewspaper ways, to makeVoice litical will, imagination, to improving neigh- someone is killed or seri- founder of the Healthy The last year was a our streets safer.