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Year 1, Issue 37 July 7, 2011 | 24 Pages

CENTRAL EDITION: Serving The Glebe, Alta Vista, Elmvale Acres, Mooney’s Bay and surrounding communities

ANOTHER VICTIMThe number of Glebe businesses to close since the start of the Bank Street reconstruction has risen to fi ve.

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CELEBRATION FIT FOR A ROYAL COUPLEThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, right, had the best seats in the house as they joined Gov. Gen. David Johnston and his wife Sharon, left, on the Parliament Hill stage for the annual Canada Day concert. Prince William and his new wife Kate were met with crowds of jubilant fans who fi lled Ottawa’s downtown streets on Thursday, June 30 and crowded Parliament Hill for a glimpse of the royal couple on Friday, July 1.

NCC GOES DIGITALAfter a lengthy debate, the NCC approved a pilot project that would see large digital screens placed beside the Rideau Canal.

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EN GARDEOttawa fencer Kelleigh Ryan is taking aim at the 2012 Olympic Games during the Pan American championships in Reno.

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Community groups are concerned that Centretown could be threatening to wipe away its history as it looks towards the fu-ture.

Heritage Ottawa is raising some concerns about the lack of reference to heritage in a community design plan intended to guide development in the neighbourhood for the next 20 years.

Centretown has one of the largest pro-tected heritage areas in Ottawa thanks to a

heritage conservation district the province created in 1997. It also has a city-imposed heritage “overlay” to ensure the charac-ter and scale of redevelopment in the area matches the heritage character of the neighbourhood.

But there is very little mention of that protection in the draft version of the Cen-tretown community design plan, said Leslie Maitland, the newly appointed president of Heritage Ottawa.

“We’re concerned about the inconsisten-cy between how the heritage overlay is ar-ticulated in this plan,” Maitland said dur-

ing a June 29 public meeting that was held at the Canadian Museum of Nature.

Charles Akben-Marchand, the president of the Centretown Citizens Community Association, echoed those concerns, as did Andrew Jeanes, an expert on heritage dis-tricts who works for the Ontario govern-ment.

George Dark, a consultant with Urban Strategies Group and the architect of the community design plan, said that heritage is one part of the plan that is still “unre-solved.”

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LAURA MUELLER

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A group of Glebe residents have won their fi ght to get an already-small heritage district shrunk even further, but the cre-ation of the Clemow Estate East heritage conservation district is still being viewed as a victory for advocates of preserving the area’s history.

Bill Price, a Heritage Ot-tawa representative and area resident, argued that some of the homes proposed to be in-side the district should be ex-cluded, a position that fell on deaf ears at an Ottawa Built Heritage committee meeting on June 16.

But councillors on the city’s planning committee were more receptive during their meeting on June 28. After hearing a num-ber of residents speak about why they didn’t want their homes included in the district, which places restrictions on changes to the buildings and guidelines for new homes, the commit-tee voted to trim 16 properties from the proposed district. That reduced the size of the district from 56 to 40 homes.

Melissa Viinalass was one of the homeowners who spoke against having her home includ-ed in the district. She and other residents assured the committee that she has no desire to make any changes to her house, and

she doubted that anyone who purchases homes in the area in the future would want to make signifi cant changes.

“It’s very charming as it is,” she said, adding that the large homes and small lot sizes don’t leave much room for additions or infi ll.

Anne Hyland agreed. She said her house is “not a threat” because there is no room to ex-pand it, anyway.

“I am not against the district, I am against the inclusion of my house,” she said. “It makes me feel picked on.”

Hyland said she would have rather seen her home included in a larger Glebe heritage con-servation district.

Hyland’s home is one of sev-eral that were included in the district to create a “buffer zone” around 10 homes designed by renowned architect Werner Noffke. Homes that have a view of the park were also included.

That created an inconsistent border for the proposed heritage conservation district, which is positioned around Central Park. Some of the homes along Clemow and Glebe avenues were included in the district, while their neighbours were not.

That didn’t sit well with the ward councillor, David Cher-nushenko, who asked the com-mittee to realign the district’s boundary.

With eight years of consulta-

tion on the issue, some argued it is time to make a decision on the district and move on, while others said more consultation is still needed.

“Time is of the essence,” resident John McLeod told the committee. “How long will it be before one of these houses is up for demolition?”

The committee agreed and ap-proved the district with revised boundaries. City council still needs to give it a fi nal stamp of approval.

Price said Heritage Ottawa sees the creation of the Clemow Estate East heritage conserva-tion district paves the way for more new heritage districts, particularly in the Glebe area.

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The string of bad news for Glebe-based businesses since the beginning of the Bank Street reconstruction contin-ued last week, as Wallack’s Art Supply became the latest store to close its doors.

Wallack’s, which has been operating in the Glebe for close to twenty years, is now the fi fth store to close in the area since the reconstruction work began on May 24.

The store’s owners said they decided to close their Glebe store in order to consolidate their central Ottawa business at their downtown location.

“The timing just made sense, knowing traffi c would drop off,” said Michael Wallack.

“The Bank Street reconstruc-tion helped us make the deci-sion much earlier.”

The store was one of several Wallack’s out-lets spread across the city. Prior to the closure of the store, the owners said they had start-ed to see some signifi cant drop in business.

Wallack said the decision to move was a good one that will help the downtown store meet demand for their classrooms and products. Wallack’s stores offer mixed media and other painting classes.

“A lot of our regular custom-ers that come in everyday are sad that the store was leaving, but also very welcoming of the idea of a bigger store and class-rooms and serving a larger com-munity in one area.”

Wallack’s has been serving

the Ottawa community since 1939, when Samuel Wallack went into business for himself, selling photographic supplies, picture framing and some art-ist’s materials.

In the mid-1950’s, Wallack’s expanded from the original nar-row shop on Bank Street, taking over the space next door to offer more selection as well as more display space for original art.

Christine Leadman, the ex-ecutive director of the Glebe Business Improvement Area, maintains the recent closures are a result of “attrition” and not a direct consequence of the reconstruction.

“Wallack’s made the choice to close the business, probably in line with the re-signing of a lease, and chose not to go for-ward with another long term lease,” she said.

“He is still operating on Bank Street and consolidation into one location was probably the best business decision for him at this time.”

The closure of Wallack’s comes on the heels of the Snapdragon Gallery, Marilyn’s Clothes, and Personal Concepts shutting up shop in recent weeks.

Last week, the Glebe BIA launched a new promotion cam-paign dubbed We Dig the Glebe to help market Glebe businesses and help woo more shoppers in the area.

“It is like a loyalty program – if you are down in the Glebe shopping we really appreciate your support and for coming down to the Glebe you will get a chance to win something for the effort,” said Leadman.

Residents win fi ght to shrink Clemow heritage district

Wallack’s closure latest blow to Glebe businesses

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As Central Park in the Glebe gets ready to celebrate its 100th anniversary next year, the local community association is look-ing to have the space designated as passive parkland to allow it to retain its quite passive green space.

Members of the Glebe Com-munity Association voted at a meeting on June 28 to have the structure of the park preserved as it is today.

“As the pressure to intensify this part of Ottawa continues to increase, we should make sure we protect these parks so 100 years from now our children’s children can have access to this kind of special spaces,” said Elizabeth Ballard, chairwoman of the association’s parks com-mittee.

Ballard noted that as green spaces continue to disappear in Ottawa, it was imperative to keep central park as an urban oasis.

“This park is a really treasure to all people for their enjoyment and relaxation, which explains why we want it designated a pas-sive parkland,” Ballard said.

The association is now work-ing on a detailed discussion pa-per that will help explain the im-portance of designating the park as passive parkland.

“We want it to continue be-ing a place where people can get away from urban activities for a while and relax and get back to nature,” she said.

Central Park remains the larg-est passive park in the Glebe, and the only city park located in the in the north-east quadrant of the community.

Ballard said the proposed de-

velopments at Lansdowne Park have changed the way people look at green space, thus a reason to rethink the future of parks.

The group hopes that clearly established usage guidelines and the passive park designation will be essential to maintaining the character of the park.

“We have seen some places that are in the stages of being taken away and spaces that we thought might become green are now going to be developed into commercial spaces,” Ballard said.

She hopes having Central Park designated passive parkland would stop such developments and activities in the park.

“Being a park that is within a residential area, it is not well suited for amplifi ed activities as those activities would not be consistent with the history of the park,” she said.

Declare Central Park ‘passive’: residents

Photo by Eddie RwemaGlebe-area residents hope to have Central Park designated as passive parkland, forever protected as a natural oasis amid the urban landscape.

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A plan to guide development growth in Old Ottawa East is lacking teeth, according to the area community as-sociation.

The Old Ottawa East Community Association has been working with the city and the two religious orders who occupy 30 hectares of developable land in the neighbourhood for more than four years to create a plan to guide de-velopment growth in the Main Street-area neighbourhood over the next 20 years.

But there is a discrepancy between the guidelines in a vision for the future of Old Ottawa East (called a “communi-ty design plan”), and the changes to the

offi cial plan (called a secondary plan) that would make those guidelines enforce-able, said Nick Mas-ciantonio, president of OECA.

Masciantonio said the city needs to en-sure that the com-munity vision in the plan is something the city wants to back up with rules developers must fol-low.

The major issue for the community association at this point is the lack of rules surrounding how far away build-ings must be from the roadway along Main Street – some-thing that is consid-ered key in defi ning the character of the community as it grows.

“We need this implemented so that

we get the Main Street that was shown in the pictures,” said Paul Goodkey, an-other representative from OECA.

Those concerns alarmed planning committee chair, Coun. Peter Hume, who worried that the city would be “creating a camel” but throwing last-minute changes into the plan.

Hume’s hesitation was echoed by Mi-chael Polowin, one of the consultants representing the religious orders (the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and the Oblate Fathers), whose land forms a large portion of the plan for the future growth of the community.

“We’re a little concerned about pro-posals for last-minute changes,” he said, adding that he wants his team to be kept in the loop. “I would have rather been in the loop before this meeting.”

The community design plan identi-fi es areas for redevelopment and zon-ing changes that would shape the types of residential and commercial build-ings that could be built in Old Ottawa

East over the next 20 years. The maxi-mum number of additional residents the area could accommodate in that time is 2,500; the Oblate and convent lands alone could become home to 1,500 people.

The plan isn’t perfect, said Capital Coun. David Chernushenko, but it is “probably the best (community design) plan we’ve seen yet,” he said.

Chernushenko said the plan is “as close to a group love-in as we’re going to get” and called it a “thrill” to be part of.

Polowin echoed that praise, saying “it is a lesson that if you work with key landowners and developers on the plan, the result can be better.

“The community association is very enlightened and forward think-ing about their community,” Polowin added.

Council is set to vote on the revised community design plan for Old Ottawa East on July 13.

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File photoThe Old Ottawa East community design plan will lay out guidelines for the future development of the Main Street neighbourhood, including the Oblate lands.

From HERITAGE on page 1“I don’t know that we’re try-

ing to pick an argument with the way heritage is done,” Dark said. “I think we really need to talk about this more.”

One of the problems is that the heritage overlay has been lifted and sidestepped so many times that its importance is beginning to be degraded, Dark said. Unlike many heritage districts, which have irregular boundaries de-fi ned by the heritage signifi cance of individual buildings, the Cen-tretown heritage district is a per-fect rectangle whose boundaries were drawn for geographical and political reasons, Dark said.

“That box has parts that are real (heritage), and parts that are not,” Dark said. “I’m worried that the core stuff is in jeopardy

because there is too much other stuff in there.”

An ideal solution would be to revise the boundaries of the dis-trict to make it more accurately refl ect the neighbourhood’s her-itage buildings that should be protected, but that would likely prove to be too costly of a pro-cess.

It would cost $500,000 to revise the Centretown heritage conser-vation district, Dark said. That estimate was given to him by a heritage consultant.

Both Maitland and Dark agreed that a review of the heri-tage classifi cations assigned to Centretown buildings is over-due. The city assigns a number from 1 (very signifi cant) to 4 (some heritage signifi cance) for important heritage buildings.

“Some 3s and 4s might have actually migrated up (to a Cat-egory 1 or 2 building),” Maitland said.

Dark said it’s possible that some buildings may have mi-grated the other way, Dark said, if the heritage attributes have degraded since the last review.

“But what we have to keep coming back to is that the 1s and 2s are very important,” Dark added. “We need to fi nd a way to send those signals.”

Dark committed to continuing that discussion with Heritage Ottawa as he refi nes the fi nal draft version of the community design plan. Comments can be submitted to the city until July 15, and the fi nal version is ex-pected to come to the city’s plan-ning committee in the fall.

Further revision expected before fi nal draft

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His father’s job at Claridge Homes has forced Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury to step down from representing his constituents on any issue involving the developer.

In hindsight, Fleury said he “most defi -nitely” should have sought legal advice at the beginning of his term last December, when he was fi rst learning about confl ict-of-interest law.

“Now that I understand more about declaration of interest and everything, that should have been right off the bat in December, when we started it should have been something that we dealt with.”

That decision left one Lowertown com-munity group fuming, since Fleury made the declaration only a few days before the Bruyere Street Task Force was set to op-pose a proposed fi ve-storey, 108-unit devel-opment that it claims is a threat to heri-tage buildings. The group had worked on the fi le with the councillor’s offi ce for six months, exchanging hundreds of emails and holding several meetings, said Marc Aubin, the acting president of the Lower-town Community Association.

The planning committee chose to delay the item to its next meeting, and coun-cillors Peter Hume and Jan Harder, the chair and vice chair of the planning com-mittee, have extended their support to represent the Bruyere group.

The city’s solicitor, Rick O’Connor, gave councillors a full presentation on all aspects of municipal government, includ-ing confl ict of interest legislation, during a week-long workshop in December.

“I didn’t think anything of it because I haven’t lived with my dad since many years,” Fleury said. “At that time, I didn’t perceive that link as relevant at all.”

His parents divorced when he was eight years old and although he was close to his father when he was younger, Fleury said his relationship with his father has been more distant as he got older.

“We’re sort of close sometimes, and not. We haven’t been close in the last few years,” Fleury said.

Fleury said the topic of what people’s family members do for a living came up during a casual conversation with coun-cil colleagues recently, and other council-lors advised Fleury to seek legal advice on whether he was in a confl ict.

“It was clear from the lawyer that I had to declare a confl ict,” Fleury said. “This has a direct impact to me, but I re-ally have no control over where my dad works,” Fleury said. “He is an adult, I’m an adult.”

To his knowledge, Fleury said that his father has a small role in the company that involves inspecting new houses be-fore people move in.

The councillor said he has spoken to his father since this issue arose to “give him a head’s up.”

Fleury added that concern over his fa-ther or Claridge donating money to his election campaign is unwarranted; nei-ther made a donation, as confi rmed by the councillor’s public fi nancial records.

Planning committee vice chair and Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder has taken the lead on representing the Lowertown community on the Bruyere development, with the help of the committee’s chair, Alta Vista Coun. Peter Hume.

Fleury cautioned that he is not a voting member of the planning committee any-ways, although all councillors are able to speak to a project at planning committee.

At the council level, Fleury said any items involving Claridge would likely be removed from the bulk consent agenda so he could vote on everything else, while the other members of council would vote on the Claridge item.

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The Elgin Street police headquarters will be getting $2 million in upgrades as it prepares to become the base for the criminal investigations directorate.

Approximately 2,332 square metres of space at the 474 Elgin St. headquarters will need renovation and realignment, according to a city report.

While some of the work simply in-

volves workstation relocation, there will be some demolition and construction of entire areas, rooms and the purchase of new furniture.

Approximately 740 square metres of space was vacated at police headquarters earlier this year to make way for the proj-ect, with some police operations moving to a location at 19 Fairmont Ave.

The renovations are the “critical fi rst step” that paves the way for implement-ing the 15-year strategy for CID facilities.

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File photoRideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury’s deci-sion to declare a confl ict of interest has left the Bruyere Street Task Force fuming as it means the councillor won’t be able to vote on a fi ve-storey development proposed for Lowertown.

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After an extended debate at a recent board meeting, the Na-tional Capital Commission has given its approval for a pilot project that would see digital screens installed on the exte-rior of the Ottawa Convention Centre overlooking the Rideau Canal.

The board discussed the con-cept of allowing digital screens to be installed near NCC sites across the capital region at a meeting on June 29, with NCC board members voting eight to three in favour of the screen following a two-and-a-half-hour discussion.

Marie Lemay, the commis-sion’s CEO, said the three-year pilot project could be a great ad-dition to the capital region.

“I am looking forward to see-ing it and I think it will be well received,” Lemay said.

The presentation by NCC staff member Guy Lafl amme looked at every aspect of the screens, from artistic and com-mercial opportunities to the ef-fect such screens would have on sightlines.

The initial proposal present-

ed in March looked at just one screen on the side of the conven-tion centre, but there will now be a total of three screens cov-ering a total area of 291 square metres.

Although the proposal has been approved by the NCC, there remain some Ottawa residents who are unsure they want to see such screens intruding into their views of the Parliament buildings. Iola Price, of the Rockcliffe Park Residents Asso-ciation, created a petition oppos-ing the proposal and went to the meeting hoping to see the NCC’s decision go the other way.

“I am very disappointed with this decision,” Price said. “I feel something like this would never be allowed in Washington D.C. It is not allowed in Moscow, Rus-sia. Other capitals just wouldn’t do this.”

Price had 21 signatures oppos-ing the screens and understood it may not be enough to sway the vote to opposition, however hoped that along with other let-ters and petitions it would make an impact.

Lemay wanted to assure the public that this was only a pi-lot project, something that can be altered or abandoned at any

time.Board member, Adel Ayad,

who voted against the proposal, had many reservations about the screens.

“We want a capital that is full of energy and life. And our man-date is to have a capital that will instill pride in all Canadians. I am wondering how proud Cana-dians will be if they see Pfi zer or a doctor’s convention or a Viagra

man performing his little happy dance with the parliament in the background,” Ayad said.

Richard Jennings voted for the proposal, but did so with res-ervations.

“I will vote for the pilot proj-ect, but I will be watching care-fully the reports on how it goes over the next two and a half years and it is going to have to take a lot of positive elements

for me to extend it (beyond the three years),” Jennings said.

The City of Ottawa is also cur-rently trying out a digital screen pilot project, with the clos-est screen 4.5 kilometres from downtown.

The city’s pilot project impos-es limitations on illumination, frequency, scrolling, rolling, fad-ing in and out, blinking or giv-ing the impression of movement in regards to public safety.

The digital screen proposed for the convention centre does not have such limitations at this time.

The project now moves into the evaluation process, where Lemay and Lafl amme insist all the concerns the board has will be addressed.

Ayad, however, remained un-convinced.

“Our raison d’être in Ottawa is not really like having intersec-tions like Times Square or Young and Dundas,” Ayad added. “Our raison d’être is tradition. Beau-tiful parkways, heritage, water-ways and serenity.”

City council must still vote on the pilot project.

Once up the screen will oper-ate from 6 a.m to 11 p.m every day.


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NCC approves convention centre digital screen pilot

Dear editor,It’s always disheartening to see media outlets

choose to repeat and reinforce knee-jerk arguments against public services and the unions who repre-sent the employees,.

I’m speaking of the depiction of striking postal workers as chain-smoking dinosaurs (editorial car-toon, June 16).

Canada Post is a highly profi table corporation – currently working on its 16th consecutive year of profi t – and as such even pays dividends to the federal government. Given this, it seems that the ru-mours of its death are a bit premature. Mail volumes are down slightly per household – but there are sig-nifi cantly more addresses and therefore many more households receiving mail across the country.

In this dispute, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is doing what it exists to do – protecting the rights it has negotiated for its members over the years, and ensuring that new hires are guaranteed those rights.

A major reason we have paid maternity leave is because the postal workers went on strike in the 1980s to win it. It’s how we achieve social progress. And it’s a way of ensuring that the world we leave our kids is better than the one we inherited.

Sadly, if we continue along the road to greater in-equality and keep telling people entering the work-force that they have no right to expect a healthy work-life balance, decent wages and job security, while corporate profi ts and CEO bonuses climb into the ether, we’ll continue to backslide.

Erika ShakerGlebe

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Summer is the right time for a look at the good, the bad and, yes, the ugly in the Canadian arts.

First the good: Last week, during the Ottawa International Jazz Festival, a band of young musicians rehearsed in the theatre of Library and Archives Canada, as part of the TD Jazz Youth Summit. The 17 players, high school, university and college students, were brought together from across the country. Later, they would present two concerts on the festival’s main stage.

Three seasoned pros, all Canadians, worked with them as they struggled to learn a diffi cult composition, Transit, by Darcy James Argue. The band’s musical director, Jim Lewis, a Toronto trumpeter, composer and teacher, welcomed Argue, who is originally from Vancouver but now leads a New York-based band. One of his trumpet players, Ingrid Jensen, who is also originally from British Co-lumbia, also pitched in, as well as playing fi ery trumpet solos.

The guidance was in part technical but also general – it was about breathing, it was about not playing timidly, it was about projecting authority and it was enjoyed by both sides. “I’m very appre-ciative of you guys playing my music,” Argue told them.

By the end of the 90-minute rehearsal, the piece was sounding almost as profes-sional as it would sound later that night, when Argue’s own band, the Secret Soci-ety, played it in Confederation Park.

Here was the Canadian arts scene at its best, the essential components being talented young performers, dedicated mentors and generous funders. In vary-ing degrees it can be found across the spectrum of the arts in this country. In music, theatre, dance and writing, more and more young Canadians are emerging as impressive performers, ready to take their place in the professional ranks.

Here’s the bad: Once they get to the professional ranks, they fi nd they can’t make a living. The same day the young jazz musicians were rehearsing in Ot-tawa, the SummerWorks Theatre Festival in Toronto was facing a signifi cant

loss of government grants. The federal Heritage Department’s rejection letter to SummerWorks was particularly omi-nous. It said it was looking for “tangible results, which contribute to program objectives; provide the best possible value for money; and meet the needs of Canadians.”

This is great. Government is quantify-ing art, looking at plays and music and paintings to see if they produce tangible results that contribute to program objec-tives. I think that’s one play you don’t want to see.

Meanwhile, the federal fi nance minis-ter, Jim Flaherty, was warning cultural institutions not to count on government grants. And of course they shouldn’t, but anybody who thinks the arts in this coun-try can operate without help from gov-ernment and corporate donors doesn’t know much about how the arts work, not only here but all over the world.

The unfortunate thing, here and all over the world, is that the people buying tickets, CDs, books and paintings, do not provide enough revenue to keep the cul-ture going. That’s the ugly part. The ugly part is us. Those of us who have money to spare, spend thousands on elaborate elec-tronics and home theatre systems and, relatively speaking, virtually nothing on

going out to see live music and theatre.Festival season may be an exception.

People seem capable of venturing out of the house if someone is putting on a festival nearby. Tickets and passes are relatively cheap, helped by the grants that cultural institutions are told not to count on any more. But once the summer is over, we go back inside, turn on the home entertainment system, download music for free and leave the artists to fend for themselves.

As anyone who has seen Canadian young people perform knows, we are doing a terrifi c job of training young artists. But we are doing a terrible job of supporting them. Some of that is govern-ment’s fault, but a lot of it is ours.

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Soon the historic Rideau Canal will have a new feature – a digital sign that will light up the side of the Ottawa Convention Centre for close to 17 hours a day. Of those

17 hours, half will be advertisements, possibly for such things as cars, cellphones, fast food and myriad other gizmos and gadgets.

The National Capital Commission approved the three year pilot project, which they feel will use the 291 square metres of the side of the con-vention centre to promote events, heritage and set a standard for digital signs in the city.

But only 30 minutes in a one-hour slot on the sign will be devoted to the convention centre and culture. The other half is purely profi t from private and public advertisers. Even television shows offer viewers a slightly better ratio of pro-gramming to advertising. The question remains, will the NCC take matters into their own hands and make the digital sign something worthwhile to stop and look at?

The debate at the board meeting on June 29 took two and a half hours. Two hours involved questioning whether this is right for Ottawa. Is it right for a capital? Is it right for tourists who are

skating leisurely down the canal during Winter-lude who will look up and see an advertisement for cellphones or shoes?

The board members voted eight to three in fa-vour of the project. While chief executive offi cer Marie Lemay indicated she felt this would be a great opportunity for the capital, some residents in the audience did not share her sentiment. They opposed placing such a sign beside the city’s world designated heritage site. They sat in silence as they watched the deliberations, hoping heritage would trump monetary need.

And although opposing arguments included pe-titions, questions about the future of the canal’s world heritage designation and suggestions that no other capital city would approve such a project, the board didn’t hear them because the public was not allowed to speak at the meeting.

Whether this is a money grab or a new means of promoting culture remains to be seen. Howev-er, one thing is clear – when tourists and residents are taking a leisurely skate or boat ride down the canal, the scenery will provide them ample oppor-tunity to contemplate whether the cellphone plan they have really is the best option available.

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The longer I stay on Facebook, the younger my “friends” seem to get. You see, I’ve befriended children of friends, some of

whom are entering that glorious, yet confusing time called adolescence. As I snoop through their photos, their notes, and their lists of friends, I bow my head and thank God I was not a teenager in the social media age.

That’s because, like most 15-year-old girls, I was charged with hormones and insecure in my physical appearance. I had profound infatuations with boys that I mistook for love at the time.

And I was jealous of the girls who were seemingly confi dent and popu-lar and beautiful. (Whoever said you couldn’t be smart and gorgeous didn’t know Katie D).

My friends – yes, I was fortunate enough to have some – and I used to model each others’ clothes and slab our mothers’ too-dark foundation on with a trowel to cover our acne. Lipstick was listed as the one cosmetic one of my best girl’s couldn’t go without. I, on the other hand, listed mascara, in my attempt to identify the one cosmetic that wouldn’t accentuate the prominent nose I had yet to grow into and love.

We spent way too many hours eating chips and mourning the boys we had loved and lost – within just 12 hours – from the time the crush began, to the fi nal song at teen night when he slow-danced with another girl.

We’d go home and cry and the girl-friends would tell us what we wanted to hear: he doesn’t know what he’s miss-ing; she’s a skank; it’s these loser boys that live in town. The next day we’d

write teenage angst poetry on the back of our math notes.

Once in a while we had an oppor-tunity to make a public spectacle of ourselves, like the time I published one of my teen angst poems in the yearbook, thus immortalizing my misery. But mostly the spectacle of our emotions was confi ned to a small group of sympa-thizers, our friends; our real, live, in the fl esh friends.

These emotions and experiences are the timeless representations of female adolescence. If you don’t believe me, or you don’t remember, just click on your friend’s daughter’s Facebook page. It’s all there: the insecurity; the hormones; the teen angst poetry.

And it’s often photoshopped into a single, devastating image for all her 500 friends to see. How does one stop the train wreck?

It makes me feel nostalgic and more than a little nauseated. I want to reach out to these girls and tell them to be silent.

I want to tell them that the teenage years won’t last forever and that once they start to fi nd and love themselves, adolescence will fade into the back-ground like a bad dream. And I want to pass on the wisdom of my grandmother, who told me never to document any-thing negative, including extramarital affairs, fl irtations with alcoholism, and deep-seated jealousy.

But they wouldn’t listen. Teenage girls have a need to communicate. “Take away her iPhone,” said one friend, a mother, “and you might as well cut out her heart and tongue.”

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Adults across Ottawa who have devel-opmental diffi culties will now be able to call one number for all of their support needs following an announcement by the provincial government that will see those services provided by a series of regional offi ces.

Starting July 4, the Developmental Services Ontario offi ces will be the only place adults with disabilities will need to contact for services.

Prior to this announcement, families and individuals searching for help or services would have had to call different agencies for different support systems, having to explain their individual needs over and over, often to an automated tele-phone system.

For Molly Bruce, whose 39-year-old son has developmental diffi culties, this is a day she has long dreamed would come.

“To be this long in it and still have your dream, to see this, holy cow, I wasn’t sure we were going to get there,” Bruce said. “But you know you have to never give it up and keep thinking ‘If I can keep going, keep going,’ and here it is.”

She likened the old system of trying to access services and resources to shop-ping for a dress.

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the best services and then return to the fi rst place you found – and then start try-ing to make the best deal. You felt like you were trying to sell your kid and it never stopped,” Bruce added.

This new system will offer clear eli-gibility criteria for accessing services as well as create a standard throughout Ontario which will make eligibility deci-sions consistent. Videoconferencing and mobile services will also become avail-able in the coming months as the pro-gram gets underway.

To develop this new system, the minis-try worked with many different agencies, parents like Bruce and clients of the agen-cies to fi nd the best solutions. Community and Social Services Minister Madeleine Meilleur said the new system will create a standard of care for people with devel-opmental diffi culties in Ontario.

“Instead of repeating information over and over again, now they can get it all from one place,” Meilleur said. “From one place to the next there was different ways of applying, different services and the parents were really concerned about that. Now it is transparent, fair and as-sessable.”

The program’s Ottawa offi ce will be lo-cated at 200-150 Montreal Rd., but there will also be a number of satellite offi ces throughout the region, including the op-tion for home visits.

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The federal government’s recent job cuts in the public service meant to slash the national defi cit could have a drastic effect on Ottawa’s local economy – both good and bad.

Last month, the federal government an-nounced that 687 jobs will be cut from the Public Works department over the next three years, 81 per cent of which will be lost in the national capital region, to save $98.2 million in operating costs.

Other cuts were announced in 12 other federal organizations as part of an ongo-ing strategic review to cut $2.6 billion in ineffi ciencies over three years.

These cuts and others coming in the future could have negative economic im-pacts on the region, including lower con-sumer confi dence, explained economist Alan Arcand, who works for the Confer-ence Board of Canada, a national think tank.

“The direct impact, of course, is slower and weaker growth in the public sector,” Arcand said. “But an indirect impact is also weaker consumer spending. People are nervous about their jobs and they’re going to be less likely to make big spend-ing decisions. You’ll probably see slower growth or weakness in the city’s housing sector, too.”

Larry Rousseau, national capital region president for the Public Service Alliance of Canada, said cutting this many jobs is

poorly timed given the shaky economy, and agreed the cuts could have major re-percussions for Ottawa’s local economy in the short-term.

“When there is uncertainty in the econ-omy, who’s going to want to upgrade their house? Who’s going to want to go out and buy that next thing they were thinking about? Well guess what, they’re going to put that on hold,” he said. “What we’re saying is now is not the time to have that kind of uncertainty. It can have a chain reaction, and the business community should be very concerned.”

The stress isn’t just on people’s pocket-books, either. Rousseau said the most im-mediate local impact is increased stress from lack of information.

“There’s a heightened state of stress among public servants, because we just don’t know exactly who or where will be cut next. We just know the cuts are being announced. It looks as if it will simply be a slow and steady death by a thousand cuts,” he said, noting that it’s not just PSAC union employees who are suffer-ing, or term workers who face being cut once their contract expires.

“It’s managers as well who have to deal with these situations, so it’s quite gener-alized, it’s not just a union or a manage-ment thing.”

PSAC represents 55,000 public servants in the national capital region, including 100 of the Public Works employees who will be on the chopping block in the next three years.

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More than 1,600 women from 91 coun-tries converged in Ottawa in what was billed the largest gathering of women ever to take place in Canada.

Co-hosted by Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, Women’s World 2011 is an international and interdisci-plinary congress that explores how is-sues like equality, human rights, econom-ics, labour, education, environment, and development relate to women.

“The fact that it brings together women from different sectors to meet, talk and create partnership is very important,” Caroline Andrew, co-chair of the global feminist congress.

Bringing all these leaders to Ottawa is particularly important for women in Canada who have never got a chance to go to such international conferences to share their stories with other women from around the world, she said.

The conference, which marks its 30th anniversary this year, is a unique global event intended to enhance women’s lead-ership skills and organizational capacity, support the exchange of knowledge and ideas, and foster research and action net-works on women’s issues.

“The last 30 years have been a huge transformation in the lives of women across the globe,” Andrew said.

According to a news release, an empha-sis has been placed on encouraging and supporting the participation of young women, women with disabilities, and In-digenous women.

“The meeting focused largely on ab-original indigenous women, women with disabilities and intergenerational dia-logue exploring how young and elderly women can speak to each other about the different experience and lifestyle and how they fi nd a common ground for do-ing this,” Andrew said.

A solidarity fund was set up to help bring close to 75 women from under-re-sourced and under-represented commu-nities in Canada and around the world to participate in this historic event.

The conference deliberated on differ-ent topics that range from sex traffi cking, peace building in Afghanistan, to wom-en’s philanthropy and a discussion of the hijab and the politics of accommodation.

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The provincial New Democratic Party and Green Party candidates have fi nally been named in Ottawa South, after both parties held nomination meetings over the past few weeks in preparation for the Oct. 6 election.

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Mia Doré’s summer holi-day plans are anything but ordinary.

The Sandy Hill resident will be spending two weeks later this month volunteer-ing at a children’s orphan-age in Guatemala.

Doré has spent the past several weeks trying to raise money to help sup-port the Casa Bernabe orphanage, home to more that 160 children. She hopes to raise at least $3,000 before she packs her suitcases full of medical and school supplies to take to the orphans.

This will be Doré’s sec-ond time in Guatemala volunteering with Orphan Resources International, a non-profi t group based in the United States

“The fi rst time was over-whelming, amazing, life changing and really sat-isfying,” she said, adding the visit touched her heart enough that she is really looking forward to going back again this year.

Many of the orphans have been abandoned, oth-ers abused. Each child be-longs to a loving, nurturing family made up of house parents and their own chil-dren. Together they live in houses large enough for 15-20 children of the same age group.

Doré fi rst got interested to volunteer in Guatema-la through her mother’s friend, who has an adopted daughter from Guatemala

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“My mom and I had a conversation and we thought we would go along,” said Doré.

Together with a group of other volun-teers from across Can-ada and the U.S., they will be constructing a security perimeter at the orphanage to ensure the safety of the children and to help with the day-to-day management of

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“To me, it is the feeling of giving back that moti-vates me and travelling to Guatemala is such an amazing experience.”

She said her career, which involves working with refugees and new im-migrants at the Eastern Ontario Resource Centre, has helped her appreciate the kind of struggle people go through.

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As Ottawa’s Kelleigh Ryan pre-pared for the fi nal crucial Olym-pic qualifying event of her 2010-2011 season – the Pan American fencing championships July 4-9 in Reno, Nev. – the 24-year-old was doing her best to stay calm instead of getting psyched up for such an important competition.

“I’m learning how to not be so nervous for it, so I’m just happy I’ll be competing,” says Ryan, who’s observed a different feel to competitions now that the 2012 Olympics are nearing and the qualifi cation period is under-way. “It’s hard to push that out of your head. But if you prepare for it properly, it’s fi ne.”

That’s one thing the Glebe Col-legiate Institute grad has learned over the course of her fencing career that began at a Univer-sity of Ottawa camp when she was 10 years old: the right men-tal approach and the ability to maintain composure are major ingredients to success.

As a junior athlete, Ryan never represented Canada internation-ally. That opportunity fi nally oc-curred in 2007 when she earned a spot on the national team a year-and-a-half into her senior

career.“I was always a pretty physi-

cal fencer, but I got a lot smarter at the age of 20,” Ryan explains, crediting her boyfriend, fellow Ottawa fencer Alex Martin, for helping to motivate her and bring her mental game up.

The Sandy Hill resident who trains out of the RA Centre now competes for Canada regularly on the World Cup circuit, which took her to events in Germany, Italy, Hungary, China and Rus-sia earlier this season. The Pan Am competition, which brings together the best fencers from across the Americas zone, how-ever, carries greater weight than the World Cups in the Olympic qualifi cation process.

“The other day I felt this pres-sure that I had to win this com-petition, but then I realized, ‘The best result you’ve had at the Pan Ams was a top-eight, so it’s not like you’re expected to medal,’” recounts Ryan, who’s always fought in foil since her 5’ 3” height isn’t much of a hin-drance. “(Winning an individual medal) is a good goal, I think, but I’ve realized there’s no stress or expectation to do that.”

The team event on the fi nal three days of the Reno compe-

tition is the most important in terms of qualifying for the Olym-pics, which will be decided based on the world rankings through next season.

With only one team berth in the Pan Am zone available per discipline, the Canadians cur-rently sit 12th globally (and second amongst Pan American countries) in the women’s foil rankings at 177 points, while the U.S. is sixth with 232.

“The U.S. is in a pretty good

position to get the spot,” notes Ryan, the world’s 60th-ranked women’s foil fencer. “We’re go-ing to give them a run for their money, but we’ve decided as a team that this Pan Ams, we’re going to focus on fencing our best and see where that goes.

“It doesn’t mean we don’t want to win, we certainly do,” Ryan adds, acknowledging nonetheless that her team has never beaten the U.S. “I think we could have a good bout with them. We’ve had

some really close ones and we’ve also had some bad ones.

“I honestly think that when we think about winning, that’s when we have the bad ones, so this time, we’re going in to fence well as a team, and that’s our goal.”

Although it’s one of her ob-jectives to make it, the Olympic qualifi cation picture isn’t crys-tal clear for Ryan. It’s possible the U.S. could wind up ranked in the world’s top-four, which would open up an Olympic team berth to another Pan American country, while Ryan could also earn her way to London as an in-dividual. But running all those scenarios through her mind is not high on the priority list for the 2011 Carleton Ravens female athlete-of-the-year.

“Although the Olympics would be amazing, it’s just too stressful to wrap my head around,” says Ryan, whose long-term goal is to be amongst the world’s top-16. “It’s best to look back on the experience of trying out for the Olympics and try to enjoy it rath-er than fi nding it to be a stress-ful situation, because that’s not why we’re competing. There’s no point in doing your sport if it makes you unhappy.”

Submitted photoOttawa’s Kelleigh Ryan, right, is competing for Canada at the 2011 Pan American Zonal Fencing Championships July 4-9 in Reno, Nev.

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1. Outbound sales acquisition activity to local businesses promoting digital products. 2. Plan and prioritize personal sales activities and customer/prospect contact towards achieving agreed business aims, including costs and sales - especially managing per-sonal time and productivity. 3. Plan and manage personal business portfolio according to an agreed market devel-opment strategy. 4. Manage product/service mix, pricing and margins according to agreed aims. 5. Maintain and develop existing and new customers through appropriate propositions and ethical sales methods. 6. Use customer and prospect contact activities tools and systems, and update accordingly. 7. Plan/carry out/support local marketing activities to agreed budgets and timescales, and integrate personal sales eff orts with other organized marketing activi-ties, e.g., product launches, promotions, advertising, exhibitions and telemarketing. 8. Respond to and follow up sales enquiries using appropriate methods. 9. Monitor and report on market and competitor activities and provide relevant reports and information. 10. Communicate, liaise, and negotiate internally and externally using appropriate methods to facilitate the development of profi table business and sustain-able relationships. 11. Attend and present at external customer meetings and internal meetings with other company functions necessary to perform duties and aid business development. 12. Attend training and develop relevant knowledge, techniques and skills. 13. Adhere to health and safety policy, and other requirements relating to care of equipment.

RequirementsQualifi ed candidates should possess: • Proven track record of achieving and exceeding measurable goals • Outbound B2B calling experience • Experience in managing a portfolio of clients • The ability to function in a deadline driven environment • Demonstrated superior customer relationship skills • Good communication skills, both verbal and written • The ability to work effi ciently independently or as a part of a team • Excellent organizational skills, along with a high level of attention to detail and the ability to multi-task • Working and functional knowledge of the MS Windows and Offi ce suites, as well as functional and navigational knowledge of the Internet

Interested candidates are requested to forward their resume and cover letter by July 11, 2011 to: [email protected]. Please reference “Multimedia Sales Specialist” in the Subject Line.

We would like to thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those being considered for an interview will be contacted.

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