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title: Suspect identified in purse-snatching, Ottawa police say
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<p>Ottawa police say the suspect in a purse-snatching from an elderly woman on St. Laurent Boulevard on March 6 has been identified as a young person.</p>
<p>In a release on March 26, police said the suspect attempted to steal the purse and, when she refused, he assaulted her and grabbed the purse.</p>
<p>The suspect fled on an OC Transpo bus heading toward Industrial Avenue.</p>
<p>The victim’s credit card was later used fraudulently at a nearby store, police say.</p>
<p>The identity of the suspect is protected from publication under terms of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.</p>
<p>Police said the investigation was continuing.</p>
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<p data-async>Hasty is also among the Ottawa, U.S.A. residents I recently spoke with to learn: a) if they were aware of their president’s intentions to make Canada <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "America\u2019s 51st state", "target_url": "https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/donald-trump-once-again-says-he-wants-canada-as-the-51st-state", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/donald-trump-once-again-says-he-wants-canada-as-the-51st-state">America’s 51st state</a>; b) what they thought of the idea; and c) if they understood how much angst it was causing up here in the Great White North.</p>
<p>Were I to neatly distil their responses into a word or two, it would be “some,” “not much” and “not much.” If we’re hoping that our fellow Ottawans — the American kind — might come to our aid in a pinch, we might want to recalibrate those thoughts. For one, they’ve got plenty on their plates already. And secondly, they’re not taking the threat of annexation too seriously; that’s just Trump being Trump, they say.</p>
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<p>“Unfortunately, his way of negotiating is to bully someone for 100 per cent and get away with 20 per cent. That’s just the way that he operates. So the question then is, what is he really after? It’s bait for something else, and the question is what’s it bait for? No one thinks that the 51st state is real, but they also know that there is something else in it, and he has not been clear as to what that is.”</p>
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<p>The Illinois Ottawans are well aware of their Canadian counterparts. When the Ottawa Senators play the Chicago Blackhawks in Chicago, the Ottawa (Illinois) Visitors Centre sponsors the games on WGN radio, urging listeners to think of, and visit, their local Ottawa.</p>
<p data-async>Hasty is aware of the <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "booing of the U.S. national anthem", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/sports/boos-at-bell-centre-feb-16-2025", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/sports/boos-at-bell-centre-feb-16-2025">booing of the U.S. national anthem</a> by Canadians; of the “Elbows Up” campaign and such tariff countermeasures as pulling U.S. alcohol from liquor store shelves in Canada; and of how tariffs and counter-tariffs affect area farmers.</p>
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<p>“But when we hear of (Trump) referring to Trudeau as governor, we just kind of roll our eyes,” he said. “Like, ‘OK, buddy, whatever. You’re being a jerk, but that’s who you are. Let’s move on.’”</p>
<p>Hasty believes that information on how annexation threats are affecting Canadians isn’t reaching many Americans, at least not those who get their news from right-leaning sources.</p>
<p>“But I am in full support of you guys, just knowing where our nation will be over the next four years.”</p>
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<p>“The people I’ve talked to would probably say that’s not even a real thing. Even Trump supporters would say that.</p>
<p>“I don’t think a lot of people have given that much thought other than to think that it doesn’t sound realistic.”</p>
<p>Barichello was upset about the anthem-booing — not so much that Canadians did it, but that the news coverage in the U.S. failed to contextualize the incidents and reporters didn’t speak with the booing Canadians to ask why they were doing it.</p>
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<p>“I think it has zero chance of ever happening,” he said. “Would I want it to? I’d never given it any thought.</p>
<p>“Most people voting for Trump knew who he was, you know, that he likes to talk. Most people would just like him to do his job and keep his mouth shut.”</p>
<p>Except for a misplaced bomb threat that was phoned in to their municipal offices during the 2022 truck convoy occupation in Ottawa, Canada, Ottawans in Ohio, Meyer said, don’t have much of a sense about Canada or Canadians, let alone Canada’s capital. Additionally, while he’d heard of Canadians booing the U.S. national anthem, he was otherwise unaware of Canadians’ reaction to the threats of annexation.</p>
<p>“I’m sure they don’t like it. It would be my gut feeling that nobody in Canada cares much for (Trump) right now.”</p>
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<p>“I am assuming most have just dismissed the comments, if they have heard them at all,” she said in an email. “Personally, I don’t think that would ever happen — I don’t see how it could.”</p>
<p>But she has other fires to put out, she said, including fighting executive orders that could severely impact how her city funds major projects. “We definitely have our focus elsewhere.”</p>
<p>That’s true for other Ottawas, too. A woman who, as a municipal employee with the town of Ottawa, Wisc., asked that her name not be mentioned, said she’d heard Trump talk about annexing Canada, but assumed he was joking. “But maybe he’s not,” she conceded. Regardless, she said it’s not an issue that people there are discussing. “It’s more the bigger picture,” she said. “People either like what Trump is doing or they don’t.”</p>
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<p>Artist Bobby Barnett, who lived in Ottawa, Ky., for a dozen years before recently relocating elsewhere in the state, also doesn’t take the threat to Canada’s sovereignty seriously.</p>
<p>“I just kind of laugh it off,” he said. “I don’t think anything will come of it. (Trump) comes off as a threat, but we really think it’s more of a shock-and-awe sort of empty threat to get corporations to move back into the country.</p>
<p>“We have a very limited world view here,” he added. “In Kentucky, everybody watches the news, everybody hears the rumours and sees all the posts. And then we turn our TVs off and close our computer lids, and we’re worried about making sure our paycheques are there at the end of the week.</p>
<p>“We’ve got enough problems here that I don’t understand why you’d want to take on Canada’s issues as well. Everybody’s got their own problems and we’ve got more than enough here to spend his four-year term dealing with.”</p>
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<p>Maybe they’re right; maybe there’s nothing to all this annexation talk. Then again, it’s not their identity that’s being threatened over and over again. Perhaps I should call up residents in Texas, which was annexed in 1845, to see what they think. I couldn’t find an Ottawa there, but there is a city named Canadian (pop: 2,200). Stay tuned.</p>
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<p>Ontario Provincial Police say two guns were seized, as well as about $113,000 worth of suspected illicit drugs and more than $187,000 in cash, following a multi-agency drug trafficking investigation in Ottawa and the surrounding area.</p>
<p>OPP said the Provincial Guns and Gangs Enforcement team began the investigation in Ottawa late in 2024.</p>
<p>Between March 3 and March 5, a combined police force including specialized OPP teams and members of the Sûreté du Québec, Ottawa and Gatineau police as well as Canadian Border Services Agency executed six search warrants on residences in Ottawa, Gatineau and Renfrew, and three vehicle search warrants.</p>
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<p>Police seized two firearms, about 1.17 kilograms of suspected cocaine, about eight grams of suspected fentanyl, more than 150 tablets of pregabalin (a strong painkiller), more than 390 tablets of alprazolam, an anti-anxiety drugs, more than 100 hydromorphone tablets and $187,419 in cash.</p>
<p>Police also seized two vehicles, nine cellphones, digital scales, pepper spray, luxury jewelry, two money counting machines and packaging materials.</p>
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<p>Fairouz Cafe on Clarence Street is to close in mid-April so that its owners can open three new food-and-drink businesses in the National Capital Commission-owned space.</p>
<p>“We’re trying to embrace a new style, a hybrid hospitality space,” co-owner Tony Garcia says.</p>
<p>His Middle Eastern restaurant is to have its last service on April 12. Garcia hopes that just a few weeks later in the Fairouz space he will be able to open a steakhouse called Sussex &amp; Co. and a cocktail bar called Little Sussex. A third brand, a burger business called Burger Bar, is to open later this year, according to his plan.</p>
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<p>The cocktail bar will be in the front of Fairouz’s space, while the steakhouse will be in the rear and include the rear patio. The side patio will become the burger business, Garcia says.</p>
<p>“We’ve survived through trucker things and the pandemic, we have wonderful regulars,” Garcia says. “But there comes a time when you make a decision. The world is changing.” The idea behind the hybrid business is to attract more customers with three concepts and price points.</p>
<p>Garcia says business at Fairouz has been “up and down” and “quite unpredictable” in recent years. In the first few years after the COVID-19 pandemic, Fairouz’s patios were full, but he also thinks that tourist traffic is down in the ByWard Market.</p>
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<p data-async>While business in the ByWard Market has been inconsistent, Garcia says he wants to stay there. He’s encouraged that <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "Live Nation Canada is to open a spacious night club next year", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/life/byward-market-nightclub-live-nation", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/life/byward-market-nightclub-live-nation" target="_blank">Live Nation Canada is to open a spacious night club next year</a> about three blocks from his Clarence Street location. He thinks Ottawa Tourism and the ByWard Market District Authority can improve the fortunes of the neighbourhood’s businesses.</p>
<p>“I think the timing is right to offer a couple of different concepts,” Garcia says.</p>
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<p>Fairouz opened in the spring of 2016 as a Middle Eastern fine-dining restaurant in Centretown on Somerset Street West. A year after it opened, Fairouz appeared on the “Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants” list.</p>
<p>But, following the initial disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, it relocated to Clarence Street and re-launched in October 2020 as a more relaxed eatery, Fairouz Cafe, where its food was also available for takeout and delivery.</p>
<p data-async>The Fairouz name goes back to the 1990s on Ottawa’s restaurant scene. The first Fairouz was located at 343 Somerset St. W., and that was the address of the fine-dining iteration of Fairouz that Garcia and his business partner Hussain Rahal opened in 2016. <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "Trofi", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/life/food/local-food-reviews/dining-out-in-ottawa-trofi-offers-upscale-greek-dining-with-prices-to-match", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/life/food/local-food-reviews/dining-out-in-ottawa-trofi-offers-upscale-greek-dining-with-prices-to-match" target="_blank">Trofi</a>, a Greek restaurant, now occupies that address.</p>
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<p>Ottawa Public Health has begun monitoring wastewater for evidence of measles in the city as the highly infectious disease continues to surge throughout Ontario.</p>
<p>That makes Ottawa one of the only communities in the province and across Canada using wastewater as a possible early warning signal for measles. Ottawa Public Health says the tool is promising for detecting measles, but the research is limited and “many unknowns remain”.</p>
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<p>There have been no cases in Ottawa so far this year but Dr. Gregory Rose, who is director of infection prevention and control at Queensway Carleton Hospital, warns that it is only a matter of time.</p>
<p>“It is inevitable we will have cases in Ottawa,” Rose said, noting the size of the ongoing outbreak in the province. “The likelihood is that we will definitely see exposed people and quite possibly infected people in the very near future. In my years, we have not had this kind of burden of disease in the province.” Queensway Carleton, he said, is geared up to watch for potential cases and isolate patients.</p>
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<p>Ottawa has been a leader in wastewater testing, pioneering it early in the pandemic to monitor COVID-19 levels. It is one of the only communities in the province that maintained a wastewater testing program after the province cancelled funding last year. Ottawa Public Health regularly monitors testing results for influenza, RSV and COVID-19.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, as the measles outbreak expanded in Ontario, public health officials also began getting regular reports of wastewater testing for the virus that causes measles, said Robert Delatolla, the University of Ottawa researcher who has led the wastewater surveillance program in the city that is now supported by OPH and CHEO in addition to research funding.</p>
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<p>Delatolla said his lab has been doing measles testing for research purposes since late 2023 and has gone back to test earlier samples as well. Several times, the test indicated weak signals of the measles virus in wastewater, but subsequent testing indicated that was as a result of people getting vaccinated. The vaccine contains a weakened form of the virus. It is designed to trigger an immune response but is not strong enough to cause the disease. It also has a different genetic makeup than the wild virus that is infecting people in Ontario.</p>
<p>Delatolla says that tells researchers that the test is highly sensitive and should be able to pick up measles in the city’s wastewater with a small number of infections, something that could give public health officials a heads-up to prevent broad spread.</p>
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<p>His lab is currently testing for measles three times a week and reporting to Ottawa Public Health weekly. So far there has been no evidence of the virus in wastewater.</p>
<p>Dr. Michelle Foote, associate medical officer of health at OPH, notes that wastewater testing has yet to be “validated” in Ottawa to see how well it detects the strain of measles currently circulating in Ontario. But, if wastewater surveillance proves effective at detecting the wild virus circulating in Ontario “detection would reiterate the importance of prevention measures, including ensuring that one’s measles vaccines are up to date.”</p>
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<p>Delatolla says he has heard from other researchers and health officials who have said they wish they still had access to wastewater surveillance data to track measles.</p>
<p>He said the goal of wastewater testing was to prevent the spread of infectious diseases by having an early warning signal to take public health measures. He said wastewater surveillance should be able to help pinpoint parts of the city, or even buildings, where an infection was present.</p>
<p>Queensway Carleton Hospital infectious disease specialist Rose, meanwhile, said QCH was screening for patients in the emergency department who could potentially have measles, but has not had any positive cases. Testing required to confirm measles has to be sent to Toronto, and results can take several days.</p>
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<p>He noted that one in five patients with measles has to be admitted to hospital. One in 20 patients will develop measles pneumonia, one out of 1,000 children who are infected will develop encephalitis, and the death rate from measles is about one in 1,000. Measles can also eliminate immunity to other illnesses. And one infected person can spread measles to up to 18 people who are vulnerable.</p>
<p>Rose says it is frustrating to see the return of a serious and potentially deadly disease that can be prevented by a highly effective and safe vaccine.</p>
<p>His message to members of the public is: “If there is any doubt about your vaccination status, get vaccinated.”</p>
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<p>Trustees are to discuss the revised proposal at a board meeting on April 8.</p>
<p>The school locator is an online tool allowing families to input their addresses to find their children’s community schools.</p>
<p data-async>When the current locator was released on Feb. 28, outlining proposed boundary changes as part of a wide-ranging elementary program review, it <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "set off a firestorm and sparked pushback from parents", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/news/ocdsb-parents-shocked-school-boundaries", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/news/ocdsb-parents-shocked-school-boundaries">set off a firestorm and sparked pushback from parents</a>, ranging from email campaigns to complaints to the Ontario Ombudsman.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, director of education Pino Buffone told trustees that planners were working day and night on the revisions. He said he wanted to release the revised proposals in sync with the new school locator so people would be able to “see where they now stand.”</p>
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<p>“To ensure that we thoroughly consolidate, analyze and incorporate the feedback received, and to allow for any updates to the proposed school locator, we have decided to delay the release of the next report,” Pernari said.</p>
<p>The process has been valuable and “every piece of information that we receive will be considered,” Buffone said.</p>
<p>Buffone told trustees he wanted to provide some time for the board of trustees as a governance body and members of the public to have an opportunity to comment on the revised proposals before providing the board with a series of recommendations for the board of trustees to consider.</p>
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<p>“We’re working diligently to bring a report forward that reflects what we heard in the feedback. We’ve always said that this wasn’t a fait accompli, that we would be looking at what we heard,” he said.</p>
<p>Trustee Lyra Evans failed in an attempt to add a trustee discussion about feedback to the school board agenda on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Under the Education Act, trustees can’t have that kind of discussion during in-camera meetings. She’s still hoping there is still time for that kind of public discussion.</p>
<p>Trustee Lyra, who prefers to go by her first name, said she had heard from people who opposed the proposed boundary changes and closing alternative schools, as well as from those who believed the proposed changes would benefit their children’s schools.</p>
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<p>“I have people who say, ‘This is great. We want greater equity. We want French immersion in our school.'”</p>
<p>But she adds that it is important to make the decision soon. There’s a window of opportunity for renovations in the summer while students are out of school, for example.</p>
<p>“Long periods of uncertainty are not good for organizations,” she said.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Trustee Nili Kaplan-Myrth said she would be asking to fellow trustees for an extension for the consultation process at the next board meeting on April 8.</p>
<p>“I’m asking for at least four weeks from that date,” she said.</p>
<p>Consultations with families over the past year have focused on the underlying philosophy behind the program changes, but not on the grade configuration changes and school boundaries, she said.</p>
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<p>There has not been enough time to figure out how to provide French immersion at every school as well as to respond to community concerns about changes to grade configuration and boundary changes,” Kaplan-Myrth said.</p>
<p>She wants to see that the recommendations include French immersion at every disadvantaged school as well as a proposal that takes grade configurations and boundary changes into consideration.</p>
<p>But she is also seeking feedback specifically from the most disadvantaged and marginalized populations. Racialized and lower socioeconomic communities are disproportionally affected by the current grade configurations, Kaplan-Myrth said.</p>
<p>“We’re only human beings. How can I consult with everybody on these new proposals and get disadvantaged populations to provide feedback?”</p>
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<p>Ottawa police are asking for public assistance to identify a suspect involved in an attempted carjacking on March 13, 2025, in the 1900 block of Baseline Road.</p>
<p>The victim was returning to his parked vehicle at about 2:25 p.m. when he was approached by a man who demanded that he hand over the car keys. The suspect then assaulted the victim, striking him a number of times in the face.</p>
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<p>During the altercation, the suspect pulled out a dark-coloured handgun and threatened to shoot the victim.</p>
<p>However, the suspect fled the scene without further attacks on the victim.</p>
<p>The suspect was last seen getting into the passenger seat of a black Nissan Rogue with no licence plates that sped away from the scene. He was described as a Middle Eastern man wearing a black balaclava, a black hooded top and red pants.</p>
<p><span><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Meanwhile, in a separate news release Wednesday afternoon, police said f</span></span><span><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">ive people, including two adult males and three youths, were arrested Tuesday night after an attempted carjacking.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">The five were charged jointly charged with robbery and assault with intent to steal.</span></span></p>
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<p><span><span>The incident occurred shortly after 10 p.m. in the 1300 block of Carling Avenue. A victim walking to their vehicle was approached by the suspects, who brandished firearm in an attempt to steal the car.</span></span></p>
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<p><span><span>Police said another similar carjacking, this one in the 1200 block of Carling Avenue. is also being investigated.</span></span></p>
<p>There were no further details are available on either carjacking event.</p>
<p>Anyone with information about the incidents was asked to contact the Ottawa Police Service robbery unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5116.</p>
<p>Anonymous tips can be made to Crime Stoppers toll-free at 1-800-222-8477 or online at crimestoppers.ca.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="article-subtitle">The purchase of the 223-acre parcel on Ferry Road, near Fitzroy Harbour, was approved unanimously by councillors on Wednesday.</p>
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<p data-async>Ottawa city council unanimously approved a motion to <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "buy a 223-acre parcel of waterfront land", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-acquiring-farm-2-million-bargain-rural-councillors-dont-buy-it", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-acquiring-farm-2-million-bargain-rural-councillors-dont-buy-it">buy a 223-acre parcel of waterfront land</a> for conservation purposes, but was divided on whether to sell a portion of the land for private development.</p>
<p>The parcel, located at <span>5689 Ferry Rd. near Fitzroy Harbour, will cost the City of Ottawa $1.95 million. </span></p>
<p data-async>Wednesday’s vote came after council voted in January to <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "defer the acquisition decision until the end of March", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-council-defers-decision-2-million-conservation-parcel", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-council-defers-decision-2-million-conservation-parcel" target="_blank">defer the acquisition decision until the end of March</a>. At the time, some councillors thought the land was too expensive, while others called it a bargain.</p>
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<p>City staff have been eyeing the land for decades. Previously, administration said acquiring the land represented a rare opportunity to purchase an “ecologically significant” property that included mature forests, meadows, wetlands and a cabin constructed in 1835. Administrators also said the parcel may potentially be an Indigenous archeological site.</p>
<p>“We’re looking to balance the need and desire to purchase lands in the rural area to satisfy our environmental goals, and at the same time, we’re looking at ensuring that the fiscal side of this equation is looked after, and I think we have that. I’m hoping that council today will vote unanimously to purchase the property, because we make the plan better,” Rideau-Jock Coun. David Brown said at Wednesday’s council meeting.</p>
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<p>Councillors also unanimously approved a clause to direct city staff to explore the possibility of applying for a conservation easement to ensure natural areas were free from development. They also approved a clause directing city staff to pursue a management agreement or land transfer “at a nominal price” to reduce the city’s long-term operating costs on the parcel.</p>
<p>Riverside South-Findlay Creek Coun. Steve Desroches said the acquisition would be a good first step to see if other lands could be turned over to conservation authorities.</p>
<p>“This might be a really good model to see if there’s some other lands that we should be turning over to conservation authorities because they do things like put in, you know, bird boxes and different habitat things. We don’t have a program for that here. The city’s position is just don’t touch it, and that’s fine, but I think that the residents do appreciate when there’s some active conservation efforts there that align with our environmental objectives,” Desroches said.</p>
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<p>But councillors were divided on whether city staff should proceed with severance applications for the Ferry Road property to establish two separate secondary lots for private sales. City administration told council on Wednesday that any revenue generated from the sale of the lots — which would be around two acres each — would be directed to a special account to fund future conservation efforts on the farmland. Management partners will be able to access those funds once the land is transferred.</p>
<p>It would cost the city $80,000 “on the high end” to sever, market and sell the lots, staff said.</p>
<p>Knoxdale-Merivale Coun. Sean Divine raised concerns about negative ecological impacts if the lots were severed and sold.</p>
<p>Debbie Stewart, the city’s general manager of strategic initiatives, said the secondary lots would not be located on ecologically sensitive areas. A land survey and an environmental impact assessment survey would be conducted before the lots were severed.</p>
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<p>“We would be looking at (severing the lands) that have the lowest value, likely fronting Ferry Road itself, but that work needs to be undertaken to determine the lands that are best suited for that purpose, bearing in mind the direction that council is providing through this motion, if it’s adopted,” Stewart said at Wednesday’s council meeting.</p>
<p>Divine also voice concern about the demand for those two lots and whether the city would be able to sell them.</p>
<p>“So, if I understand it correctly, we would be pursuing the sale, and so for a while the city would be acting as as landlords, if not realtors, for those two small separate lots. We already have heard that there’s no anticipated market for those and so I don’t know, theoretically, how long the city might be acting as a landlord-realtor for those two properties. I don’t know if there are costs for the city to act in that manner,” he said.</p>
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<p>Capital Coun. Shawn Menard raised similar concerns.</p>
<p>“I think it’s just strange that we’re here because the rhetoric at the time was that these lands would be protected in perpetuity by not buying them, that they were just going to be protected by the existing zoning. And now we’re saying, ‘Yeah, buy them, but then sever off and develop a portion of them.’ It just … it’s not making sense to me,” he said.</p>
<p>West Carleton-March Coun. Clarke Kelly countered Divine’s claims, saying there was a demand for homes in the area. The costs to build a home in the rural area would be the responsibility of the homeowner and not the city, he said.</p>
<p>“If you think back to the pandemic and the great desire for people to leave the suburbs and the urban area to come and enjoy life in rural Ottawa, the demand was huge. It’s still there, of course, not as heavy as it was during the pandemic,” Kelly said.</p>
<p>In the end, council voted 19-5 to proceed with the land-severance applications. Menard and councillors Marty Carr, Jeff Leiper, Rawlson King and Jessica Bradley voted against.</p>
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title: June byelection to be held for Osgoode council seat
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<p>Residents of Osgoode ward will go to the polls on June 16 to elect a new city councillor.</p>
<p data-async>On Wednesday, Ottawa city council approved a plan to hold a byelection to fill the vacancy created by the <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "resignation of George Darouze", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/news/george-darouze-resignation-ottawa-councillor", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/news/george-darouze-resignation-ottawa-councillor">resignation of George Darouze</a>, who was elected as an MPP for the Carleton riding in the Feb. 27 Ontario general election.</p>
<p>Those interested in running in the byelection will be able to submit nomination papers starting Thursday, March 27. The deadline to withdraw or enter the race will be on Friday, May 2 at 2 p.m.</p>
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<p>Residents will be able to vote in advance polls on Friday, June 6, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on election day Monday, June 16, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Residents opting to vote in-person can vote in any polling station in the ward on both days. They can also vote by mail or by proxy.</p>
<p>Official results are to be available on Tuesday, June 17.</p>
<p>Osgoode had <span>23,354 eligible electors in the 2022 municipal election, and around 46 per cent of them cast ballots.</span></p>
<p>City staff estimates the byelection will cost $522,491 to administer, according to a report.</p>
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title: &amp;#039;Potent&amp;#039; ice storm forecast for eastern Ontario this weekend
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<p>Environment Canada is warning of a “potent” ice storm hitting eastern Ontario and the Outaouais this weekend.</p>
<p>The agency issued a special weather statement on the afternoon of March 26 for the entire region, noting the increasing likelihood of a “widespread, prolonged freezing rain event,” though the exact location had not yet been determined.</p>
<p>“The swath of maximum ice accretion is still uncertain at this point, but confidence is highest for areas of central and eastern Ontario between Parry Sound and Kingston,” their advisory said.</p>
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<p>Most areas could be hit by between five and 15 millimetres of freezing rain, but some could see more than 20 millimetres.</p>
<p>The weather agency said the poor weather was likely to begin late Friday and continue through Monday, and warned of possible utility outages, slippery surfaces and broken tree branches from ice buildup.</p>
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<p><span data-sanitized-class="published-date__since">Published Mar 26, 2025</span>  •  <span data-sanitized-class="updated-date__since">Last updated 3 days ago</span>  •  <span data-sanitized-class="published-date__word-count">4 minute read</span></p>

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<p>Angela Joya is unsure if she will still be employed in the coming months. She has two young kids at home and a fresh mortgage that began only three years ago.</p>
<p>Joya, who is the president of the Canadian Association of Professional Employees’ Local 552 at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, is just one example. A colleague on a temporary contract was let go with 30 days notice and now is without work, but with a mortgage and three young kids.</p>
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<p>“Day after day, what do we do now?” Joya asks, reflecting on the past weeks and months at IRCC. “Write Kudo cards saying goodbye to people? It feels like a funeral procession non-stop because people are leaving and all we do is sign Kudo cards.”</p>
<p data-async>Joya spoke to the Ottawa Citizen on Wednesday after a rally at the courtyard of the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada building at 300 Slater St. A plastic table was being folded up after feeding around 75 union activists who rallied to oppose <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "the 3,300 job cuts", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/news/more-than-3000-jobs-to-be-cut-from-ircc-says-union", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/news/more-than-3000-jobs-to-be-cut-from-ircc-says-union">the 3,300 job cuts</a> to the department announced in January. A majority of those positions were in the National Capital Region, confirmed <span>Ruth Lau MacDonald, a Public Service Alliance of Canada regional executive vice-president. </span></p>
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<p>That amount was around 25 per cent of the department, a guillotine-style cut to its workforce. Joya also told the Ottawa Citizen that another 2,000 workers would see their salaries severed to lower brackets.</p>
<p>The Ottawa Citizen contacted IRCC to confirm the salary cuts, but the department did not respond by publication deadline.</p>
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<p>Snow slowly descended and two brutalist towers cast a cold shadow on the courtyard. Joya interrupted the interview to speak to a union colleague packaging up leftover pizza. That colleague is pregnant and is now facing a layoff, just like Joya.</p>
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<p>There’s still much uncertainty for the full-time workers who received letters from IRCC. It’s unclear how many and who among them will make it through the workforce reduction under a program bargained by public-service unions to ensure continued employment if it is available.</p>
<p>The cuts to IRCC point to a complex and human cost to the ballooning and popping of the public service. It’s an example of the fissures public-sector workers can fall into because of larger political forces, particularly at the tail end and beginning of political cycles. Take, for example, the sharp turn by previous immigration minister Marc Miller after a backlash over student visas and the temporary worker program.</p>
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<p>Before the immigration policy change, the departmental plan for IRCC published in February 2024 showed an expected reduction of 119 full-time employees.</p>
<p>Joya said IRCC was the first department to be hit by significant workforce cuts, meaning Wednesday’s rally could become the first of many for public-service unions. Still, no other departments are expected to deal with cuts as sudden and as large as those to IRCC.</p>
<p>The breach past the fiscal guardrails set by then-finance minister Chrystia Freeland brought pressure to cut to a government on the precipice of a re-election campaign. Programs were also set to sunset, leaving many public-service workers without roles in government.</p>
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<p>It’s a significant shift for public-service workers, who had largely only known growth in their teams, salaries and life opportunities since Justin Trudeau took office as prime minister in 2015.</p>
<p>Now their future possibilities in the public sector seem to be shrinking with the size of the service itself. It remains a question on how a leaner IRCC and public service writ large will handle one of the biggest geopolitical historical shifts since the Second World War.</p>
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<p>“When America starts vomiting up its refugees, like it is right now, when they drive more wars to create more refugees, when we need to delink from the American economy, and we’re going to need skilled workers from around the world to help build the next chapter for Canada, that is a terrible time to start gutting the federal public sector, and especially people that you’ve already trained,” Prier said.</p>
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<p>Workers at IRCC are in fight-or-flight mode, she said. They’re checking LinkedIn and Google for job postings. Grievances have been filed for what Prier calls a haphazard rollout.</p>
<p>“Honestly, it just scares the hell out of me to think that, with the crises on the way around the world, we’re not going to be prepared to respond,” Joya said.</p>
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title: Multiple Ottawa firefighters receive minor injuries in Stittsville blaze
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<p>Multiple firefighters received minor injuries while battling a blaze on Fernbank Road in the Stittsville neighbourhood on Wednesday afternoon, Ottawa Fire Services said.</p>
<p>A news release said a 9-1-1 caller reported grey smoke coming from the roof of the single-family home in the 5000 block of Fernbank just before 1:30 p.m.</p>
<p>Because there are no hydrants in that area of Ottawa, firefighters shuttled water to the scene from an off-site source.</p>
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<p>Despite dealing with hazards such as propane tanks on site, the fire crews declared the blaze under control just past 5:30 p.m., or about four hours after it was initially reported.</p>
<p>An Ottawa Fire Services Investigator was assigned to determine the cause and point of origin of the fire, while a “fire watch” was set up to have a truck remain on scene to monitor for possible flare-ups.</p>
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title: Today&amp;#039;s letters: Just how realistic are promises to cut taxes?
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<h3>Tax-cut pledges are utterly short-sighted</h3>
<p>Alas, the race to the bottom has begun. Who will cut taxes the most in our present federal<br>election? Nobody seems to care what the consequences will be when taxes are reduced.<br>The politicians don’t think that far ahead.</p>
<p>The public may want lower taxes but the politicians should remember that the public also doesn’t want services cut.  Parents howled recently when the OCDSB, in an attempt to address a $20-million deficit, considered cutting 150 jobs as it recommends significant changes to elementary programs.</p>
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<p>Nobody wants to make the sacrifice so that our programs in health care, education and the environment are properly financed. More money in our pockets, they say.  How very short-sighted that is.</p>
<p>Don Paice, Ottawa</p>
<h3>Caring schools would be a good legacy</h3>
<p>Pino Buffone, the director of education for the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, and his colleagues should be ashamed of themselves for the haste and insensitivity with which they are pushing forward the Elementary Program Review.</p>
<p>It is all very well for them to want English and French streams in every school. Would understanding all students’ needs not be a better goal? Instead, they are uprooting children at a young age by making them change schools at age 8. They are closing special education classrooms filled with children who are thriving and happy. They are adding students with high needs to classrooms whose teachers are already stretched beyond their limits. They are putting children, who previously walked to the community school, on buses.</p>
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<p>I ask: to what end? Surely striving for strong community schools with care and concern for the mental health and stability of children in our ever-changing world is a legacy of which everyone could be proud.</p>
<p>Karen Adams, Ottawa</p>
<h3>Candidates: Explain how you’ll get it done</h3>
<p><span>To all candidates in the federal election, please do not incite us with the rhetoric of catchy slogans but inspire us with meaningful explanations of how you intend to do what you propose.</span></p>
<p>David H. Gray, Ottawa</p>
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<p>The Ottawa Hospital has apologized to a researcher and physician after an independent investigation confirmed she had been the victim of a campaign of bullying and harassment by two male physicians as well as sexual harassment by one of them.</p>
<p>“On behalf of TOH (The Ottawa Hospital), I am very sorry for your experience,” the hospital’s chief of staff, Dr. Virginia Roth, wrote to Dr. Marisa Azad. “Not only does this conduct contravene TOH policy, but it falls far short of our expectations for collegial and respectful professional interactions.”</p>
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<p>The letter was addressed to Azad in late January after the completion of an independent investigation based on allegations she made last July.</p>
<p>Roth wrote that the hospital would take “corrective actions” against the two physicians — Dr. George Grammatopoulos and Dr. Hesham Abdelbary, both orthopedic surgeons — who breached the hospital’s ethical code. <span>Allegations against two other physicians were dismissed.</span></p>
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<p>Among other things, the investigation found that Azad was the victim of a repeated pattern of harassment undertaken by two physicians. That included “retaliatory action” that involved attempts to interfere with her professional relationship and research work with a Winnipeg company on phage therapy, attempts to exclude her from doing certain patient rounds and, in one case, “a form of resistance with respect to Dr. Azad’s use of their shared laboratory space.”</p>
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<p>The investigation mentions the two physicians found to have harassed Azad asked at least two other doctors not to work with her following the bacteriophage study as part of a “retaliatory action.”</p>
<p>The investigation also concluded that Azad was subject to conduct by Grammatopoulos that “meets the definition of workplace sexual harassment.” That included placing his hands on her thighs without her consent during a clinic, referring to her as a girl and making comments about her physical appearance that had “sexual undertones.”</p>
<p>Azad is an infectious disease physician and researcher at The Ottawa Hospital who specializes in treating periprosthetic joint infections (PJIs). She made headlines for groundbreaking bacteriophage (or phage) therapy treatment last year.</p>
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<p>In collaboration with the Winnipeg company Cytophage Technologies Inc., Azad made use of an old therapy that deploys viruses, called phages, to fight bacterial infections. The therapy is gaining new attention during a period of growing antibiotic resistance.</p>
<p>Azad’s last-ditch experimental treatment for a 79-year-old Ottawa-area resident with a severe joint infection is believed to be the first time in Canada that phage therapy has been successfully used to treat a periprosthetic joint infection (involving an artificial joint) after all standard treatments failed. The patient who had been through multiple unsuccessful treatments and surgeries to treat the infection has said she believes the experimental treatment saved her life.</p>
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<p>While Azad was continuing to work on that treatment, according to the investigation, she was being subject to bullying and harassment in her workplace.</p>
<p>The investigator quoted the hospital’s anti-bullying policy, calling the behaviour by both physicians part of a “repeated pattern of intentional, direct or indirect behaviour (aggressive or passive), whether verbal, physical or otherwise, by one or more staff members against another staff member or group staff, which could reasonably be regarded as undermining the individual’s right to dignity at work.”</p>
<p>Among other findings of the investigation was that Grammatopoulos engaged in “retaliatory action” toward Azad following her bacteriophage study in the spring of 2024 by initiating and leading an effort to exclude her from periprosthetic joint infection rounds — during which she provided care to patients with periprosthetic joint infections (involving artificial joints) along with a member of the orthopedic surgery division.</p>
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<p>The investigation also found that Grammatopoulos made a statement that was “threatening and/or coercive in nature in response to Dr. Azad’s advice that she would continue to forge ahead with the collection of samples for her research.”</p>
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<p>In one of his final columns for Ottawa Life magazine, Ryan Lythall wrote about his decision to get another tattoo.</p>
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<p>Instead, Lythall spent the first 19 years of his life in CHEO, lobbied for the right to live outside an institution and became, in March 1994, one of the first in Canada to live independently on a portable ventilator. He set up in a Centretown apartment.</p>
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<p>It led him into a life of activism.</p>
<p>He campaigned for better Para Transpo service, wheelchair access to Bluesfest and in 2018 launched a mayoralty campaign to highlight the city’s serial inaccessibility. Lythall’s campaign led to a column in a community newspaper, then Ottawa Life magazine. He used that platform to educate readers about the lives of disabled people while highlighting problems with housing, accessibility, disability incomes, health care and Para Transpo.</p>
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<p>Lythall died last week from the lung damage caused by his lifetime of mechanical ventilation. He was 50 years old.</p>
<p>Jerry Fiori, past chair of the Ottawa Disability Coalition, said Lythall was a trailblazer who demonstrated the importance of focusing on what people with disabilities could do instead of what they could not.</p>
<p>“We will miss his expertise, his strength of character, and his energy, which gave us the power to advocate for change,” Fiori said.</p>
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<p>“Ryan was hilarious, but also unrelenting,” Troster said. “He faced tremendous challenges in his life, but still used his voice to advocate for a better city.”</p>
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<p>Ottawa Life founder and publisher Dan Donovan hired Lythall as a columnist six years ago because he recognized him as a fine writer with a unique voice. “His intellectual strength was in every article he wrote,” Donovan said. “He was a powerful voice, and I learned a lot from him. I think we all did.”</p>
<p>Lythall’s sister, Gillian Underhill, said her brother’s resilience was rooted in a determination to experience life.</p>
<p>“Ryan never gave up because he had too many adventures planned and too many things he looked forward to,” Underhill said.</p>
<p data-async>Months before he died, <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "Lythall wrote about his dream of buying a wheelchair-accessible", "target_url": "https://www.ottawalife.com/article/where-do-i-roll-from-here/", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://www.ottawalife.com/article/where-do-i-roll-from-here/">Lythall wrote about his dream of buying a wheelchair-accessible</a> van to explore small-town Ontario and the rest of Canada.</p>
<p>Underhill said her brother learned advocacy from their mother, Irene, who fought long and hard for his right to the services that gave him independence. “He just wanted the same things you and I have,” Underhill said. “He strived to be like everyone else. He fought for that.”</p>
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<p>He loved music, gaming, movies, socializing and comedy. In Lythall’s final hours in hospital, a nurse accidentally referred to his older sister as his mother, and he nearly died laughing.</p>
<p>“He thought it was the funniest thing ever,” said Underhill, one year older than her brother. “He always had that twisted sense of humour.”</p>
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<p>Lythall also suffered anxiety and PTSD from his childhood experiences in hospital, where he saw friends die, sometimes in a bed next to him.</p>
<p>“I learned at a very young age how to deal with loss and death, but, at the same time, to be grateful for not only my life, but life in general,” he wrote.</p>
<p>That perspective allowed Lythall to embrace each day with gusto despite challenges that would crush other people.</p>
<p>To end his columns, he would often write: “Until next week, stay safe and keep on rolling.”</p>
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<p>Ottawa residents in western neighbourhoods remain without power Thursday after what Hydro Ottawa describes as a loss of supply from the provincial power grid.</p>
<p>Shortly before 8 a.m., the utility said 5,700 clients are without power in areas of Kanata, Centrepointe, Trend Village, Arlington Woods and Craig Henry areas.</p>
<p>Hydro Ottawa estimates power will be restored by 9:30 a.m.</p>
<p>Police and Hydro remind motorists to treat intersections without power as a four-way stop.</p>
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title: Police seek girl, 12, missing since Wednesday
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<p>Ottawa police are seeking assistance in finding a 12-year-old girl last seen at the Rideau Centre at about 8:50 p.m. Wednesday night.</p>
<p>Police and her family are concerned for her health and safety.</p>
<p>Hannah Sabourin is described as being of Indigenous heritage, about five feet four inches tall with a slim build and long black hair.</p>
<p>She was last seen wearing a blue hoodie, blue jeans and white sneakers.</p>
<p>Anyone with information about Hannah’s current whereabouts is asked to call Ottawa police at 613-236-1222.</p>
<p>Anonymous tips can be made by calling Crime Stoppers toll-free at 1-800-222-8477 or at crimestoppers.ca.</p>
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title: Ottawa man charged after allegedly bilking friends in investment scam
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<p>A 39-year-old Ottawa man faces several fraud charges in connection with what police call a “fraudulent investment scam,” that allegedly defrauded friends and acquaintances of more than $240,000.</p>
<p>In a release, police said Timothy Laflamme ran the alleged scam between December 2023 and September 2024.</p>
<p>Police said Laflamme allegedly approached victims and offered them an opportunity to invest with a company that he described as a real estate platform, presenting himself as a qualified investor.</p>
<p>Laflamme then allegedly used the money collected to cover personal expenses and investments in cryptocurrency, police said.</p>
<p>Laflamme appeared in court Wednesday on charges of:</p>
<ul><li>Eight counts of Fraud Over $5,000</li>
<li>Two counts of Fraud Under $5,000</li>
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<p>Dr. Thomas Frieden, an epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist who is now president and CEO of <span>the non-profit Resolve to Save Lives,</span> said the “abrupt and chaotic” funding cuts to global and domestic health care programs, research and services will make the U.S. and the world less healthy and less safe.</p>
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<p>Frieden said the cuts will increase health risks around the world and lower the health of Americans.</p>
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<p>That risk from broad health and research cuts in the U.S. will directly impact Canada, he warned, in the form of more infectious diseases crossing the border from the U.S. and from around the world because of dramatic domestic health cuts as well as U.S. cuts to global health.</p>
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<p>“We are hearing about moves day by day which will affect immunization globally and will affect influenza tracking, polio virus, TB, HIV, malaria and so much more, and could lead to the deaths of millions of children. These are chaotic, not well thought out, and essentially pulling the rug out from partnerships that have been built over the years and decades.”</p>
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<p>Frieden called the situation both an opportunity and responsibility for Canada to do more.</p>
<p>“There is the potential for Canada, which has been a strategic and generous partner in global health initiatives, to do even more. As an American, it is hard for me to ask you to do that, given what our government is doing, but the fact is there are huge challenges around the world and there is going to be a need to mitigate the damage.”</p>
<p>He said investing in global health pays dividends, but acknowledged that the gaps left by the U.S. exit from global public health efforts will leave gaps that will be difficult to fill.</p>
<p>Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health reporter with the New York Times who was also part of the panel, said Canada could fill a growing gap for trustworthy information about health.</p>
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<p>“We are hearing that HHS (Health and Human Services) and the federal government are going to be centralizing all communications and, as you may know, our health secretary is not a big fan of vaccines. I think Americans will want other sources of information, and that is a void Canada could fill by providing easy-to-access information for Americans.”</p>
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<p>“We are very much actively watching and preparing for what the tariffs will mean,” said Jones, who noted that Ontario recently announced the addition of 49 MRI machines across the province. “We don’t make MRI machines in Ontario, so that has a direct impact. Many of these machines are already in place, but there are a number that are going to be heavily impacted by tariffs.” Much of the medicine procured by the province will also be affected, she said.</p>
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<p>She said the province is looking at what industries and manufacturing it can boost or bring in to the province.</p>
<p>Furey agreed that supply chain issues and tariffs will put pressure on provinces and territories, for which health is the biggest budget item.</p>
<p>“But he said there is another issue provinces should focus on — the fact that growing numbers of people, in both the U.S. and Canada, no longer subscribe to evidence-based medicine.</p>
<p>“There is fundamentally a shift in the societal thinking about healthcare in the United States, and we are not immune to that here in Canada either. We as leaders, as physicians, as service providers, as journalists, we need to make sure that we are continuing to instill trust in the system itself.”</p>
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<p>Furey said the impacts of the Trump administration have also increased Canadian pride and pride in the public health system, but people are also demanding that the health system be more robust and modernized.</p>
<p>“The public is demanding it evolves to meet a modern Canada and some of that requires investment.” Furey said he believes Canada is facing a generational opportunity to “own who we are” to protect Canadians’ values and to strengthen the health system.</p>
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<p>Here’s everything Ottawa voters need to know about the 2025 federal election.</p>
<h3>Who are the party leaders?</h3>
<p>Mark Carney, 60, took over as head of the Liberal Party in early March after winning a leadership race that followed the resignation of Justin Trudeau. Carney was born in the Northwest Territories and grew up in Alberta before studying at both Harvard and Oxford University. He worked in the Canadian finance department and private industry before serving as governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England. He joined Trudeau’s economic growth task force in 2024.</p>
<p>Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, 45, was born in Calgary and attended the University of Ottawa before being elected in the Nepean-Carleton (now Carleton) riding in 2004 at the age of 25. Under former prime minister Stephen Harper, Poilievre served as minister of employment and social development. He succeeded Erin O’Toole as head of the Conservative Party in 2022 following a leadership race.</p>
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<p>Jagmeet Singh, 46, replaced Tom Mulcair as NDP leader in 2017. Singh attended high school in the United and graduated from Western Ontario (now Western University) and York University’s Osgoode Hall law school. He was a criminal defence lawyer before he was elected to the Ontario legislature as an MPP, and later became federal NDP leader. He has represented the riding of Burnaby South since 2019.</p>
<p>The Green Party has chosen to have Jonathan Pedneault and long-term leader Elizabeth May be co-leaders. Pedneault will, however, serve as the party’s public face and will represent it in campaign debates. Pednault, who will turn 35 during the campaign, is running in the Montreal riding of Outrement. May has represented the riding of Saanich<span>—Gulf Islands since 2011. </span></p>
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<p>Yves-François Blanchet, 59, won the Bloc Québécois leadership in 2019. A former member of Quebec’s National Assembly, he represented the Parti Québécois from 2008 to 2014. He has represented the riding of <span>Beloeil—Chambly since 2019. </span></p>
<p>Neither Carney nor Poilievre has led a party through an election campaign, while Singh, Blanchet and May have all done so.</p>
<h3>How many ridings are there in Canada? What’s the breakdown by province and territory?</h3>
<p>There are now 343 ridings in Canada, up from 338 in the 2021 election. Ontario, with 122 seats, contains 35.6 per cent of all ridings in the country. Quebec has 78 seats (22.7 per cent). Between them, that’s an even 200 seats.</p>
<p>There are 43 seats in British Columbia, 37 in Alberta, 14 each in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, 11 in Nova Scotia, 10 in New Brunswick, seven in Newfoundland and Labrador and four in Prince Edward Island. Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut each have one representative in the House.</p>
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<p>To win a majority government, one party would need to capture at least 172 seats.</p>
<h3>What was the count from the 2021 federal election?</h3>
<p>The Liberals, then led by Trudeau, were re-elected to a minority government after winning 157 seats. The Conservatives, headed by O’Toole, captured 119. Interestingly, the Conservatives actually had a larger share of the popular vote (34.3 per cent) than the Liberals (33.1 per cent). The Bloc Québécois, with Blanchet in charge, claimed 32 seats (7.6 per cent), followed by the NDP’s Singh (24 seats, 16 per cent) and the Green Party led by Annamie Paul (three seats, 6.6 per cent).</p>
<h3>What are the Ottawa-area ridings?</h3>
<p>Take note. In one way or another, there have been boundary adjustments to more than 300 ridings in Canada following redistribution necessitated by varying population growth in regions.</p>
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<p>Ottawa is not exempt. Some lines have been redrawn slightly and names have changed.</p>
<p>The redrawn ridings include Orléans, Ottawa-Vanier-Gloucester (previously Ottawa-Vanier), Ottawa South, Ottawa Centre, Nepean, Carleton, Ottawa West-Nepean and Kanata (was Kanata-Carleton).</p>
<h3>So how do I find out who is running for which party in my area?</h3>
<p data-async>Of course, colourful signs on lawns and around intersections are one indication. The Elections Canada website — <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "elections.ca", "target_url": "http://www.elections.ca", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="http://www.elections.ca/" target="_blank">elections.ca</a> — is also a great starting point. To find who is up for office in your area, follow the Elections Canada prompts to punch in the list of candidates and their party affiliations.</p>
<h3>What’s unique about the Carleton and Nepean ridings?</h3>
<p data-async>The national leaders of both the Liberals and Conservatives are running for office in those districts, which border each other. Poilievre is aiming to win his eighth consecutive election in Carleton. Carney, meanwhile, <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "is running in an election for the first time, in Nepean", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/carney-chooses-to-run-in-nepean-for-upcoming-election", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/carney-chooses-to-run-in-nepean-for-upcoming-election" target="_blank">is running in an election for the first time, in Nepean</a>. Liberal Chandra Arya has represented Nepean as its MP since 2015, <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "but he was disqualified", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/news/liberals-revoke-nepean-mps-nomination-federal-election", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/news/liberals-revoke-nepean-mps-nomination-federal-election" target="_blank">but he was disqualified</a> by the party from running again on March 23.</p>
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<h3>So Carney replaces Trudeau. When was the last time the leader of a ruling party stepped down before contesting an election?</h3>
<p>In 2003, then prime minister Jean Chrétien was feeling heat from within the Liberal Party and was facing the threat of an internal leadership review amid a bitter feud with Paul Martin, his former finance minister.</p>
<p>Chrétien resigned and Martin took over, eventually winning the 2004 election over the Conservatives headed by Stephen Harper, but with a reduced minority in Parliament.</p>
<p>In 1993, Kim Campbell took over from Brian Mulroney as Progressive Conservative leader, becoming Canada’s first and only female prime minister. In the election later that year, the PC’s were reduced to a mere two seats from the 154 they had before the election was called.</p>
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<h3>Thanks for the history. So how do I know if I’m eligible to vote?</h3>
<p>Canadians 18 or older — approximately 28 million — should receive postcard-sized voter information cards in the mail. The information comes from being included in the National Register of Electors, which was established in 1987. The file is constantly updated based on changing addresses, new voters (children becoming adults, new Canadians) being added and dropping those who have died.</p>
<p>The voter information card includes each voter’s name and information and their polling location. Voters should take those to their polling stations on election day.</p>
<h3>What other ID is needed?</h3>
<p>Any official Canadian government-issued document that includes a photo, name and address is acceptable. So, too, is a driver’s licence. Failing that, two pieces of alternative ID are required, one of which must include the voter’s name, photo and address. Examples include a birth certificate, student ID card or a government cheque, income tax assessment, Social Insurance Number card or vehicle insurance statement. The ID must be in either English or French, with the exception of Nunavut, where Inuktitut is acceptable.</p>
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<p>They must be original copies and electronic information on mobile devices is okay. The one exception where photocopied information is allowed is for electors living in long-term or retirement facilities.</p>
<p>A full list of acceptable documents is listed on the www.elections.ca website.</p>
<h3>What do I do if I can’t vote in person on election day?</h3>
<p data-async>Don’t worry about it. Stuff happens. Fortunately, there are other options. From now until April 22, registered voters can exercise their right by going to their local Elections Canada office, which can be <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "found on the website", "target_url": "http://www.elections.ca", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="http://www.elections.ca/" target="_blank">found on the website</a>. From Friday, April 18, through to Monday, April 21, advance voters can also perform their civic duty at assigned polling places listed on the website. Those locations should be posted after April 1.</p>
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<p data-async>Additionally, it’s possible to vote by mail. In that case, though, you must apply before April 22 through a form available at <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "www.elections.ca", "target_url": "http://www.elections.ca", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="http://www.elections.ca/" target="_blank">www.elections.ca</a>.</p>
<h3>Do all Canadians exercise their right to go to the polls?</h3>
<p>Many people sit on the sidelines.</p>
<p>It will be intriguing to see if the numbers increase this time, considering all the tariff and annexation threats from Trump. There’s a wave of Canadian pride in the air and the No. 1 campaign issue is protecting Canada from our southern neighbours.</p>
<p>In 2021, 62.6 per cent of eligible Canadians voted, which was down from 67.0 per cent in 2019 and 68.3 in 2015, but it should be noted that some COVID-19-related restrictions were in place then.</p>
<p>The all-time low came in 2008, when Harper’s Conservatives claimed victory with only 58.8 per cent of eligible adults voting.</p>
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<p>In contrast, the best turnout was in 1958, when Progressive Conservative leader John Diefenbaker won a resounding majority government over Lester B. Pearson’s Liberal party.</p>
<h3>What’s the breakdown by age group?</h3>
<p>Generally speaking, Canadians become more engaged in voting the older they get. In the 2021 election, 74.9 per cent of eligible voters between 65 and 74 went to the polls, but the numbers steadily drop from there. In the 18-24 camp, only 46.7 per cent of those with the opportunity chose to vote in 2021.</p>
<p>Elections Canada is trying to make it easier for that demographic to vote and will introduce “Vote on Campus” programs at 119 post-secondary campuses between April 13 and 16.</p>
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