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EMC news - Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley said pro-posed changes to federal rid-ings will split his community into two electoral districts.

The Ontario Federal Elec-toral Boundaries Commis-sion, one of 10 set up across the country, has proposed 15 new electoral districts for

Ontario including a Carleton-Kanata riding, to bring the provinces total to 121.

The proposed changes would see West Carleton split from the current rid-ing of Carleton-Mississippi Mills and replaced with a Carleton-Kanata riding. An area between Terry Fox Drive and the Carp River all the way from Castlefrank Road to Palladium Drive has been

included in the riding of Ne-pean-Carleton.

But the new Carleton-Kanata riding should include all of Kanata, said Hubley, who is asking the Ontario Federal Electoral Boundar-ies Commission to consider moving the western boundary line from Terry Fox Drive to the Carp River.

We need to be careful about splitting communities,

said Hubley.By using Terry Fox in-

stead of the Carp River as the boundary, what they do is cut out the houses by Sobeys (located near Terry Fox and Hazeldean Road); they cut out the (Kanata Recreation Complex) and the Sensplex...and that area, and they were moving it to Stittsville.

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Riding needs revamp: Couns.

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We rememberThousands of people turned out for the Remembrance Day ceremony held at the Kanata Cenotaph in Village Green on Nov. 11. Residents lined all sides of Colchester Square to watch a parade of cadets, police, RCMP and Canadian service men and women march to the beat of the drums. For the story and photos, see page 31.

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EMC news - Business groups see a new tax-holiday plan as a way to boost job cre-ation in Orlans and on Carling Avenue, but some councillors worry the strategy could put other areas of the city at a dis-advantage.

As part of a broad update to the citys economic develop-ment strategy presented to the fi nance committee on Nov. 6, the citys director of economic development and innovation, Saad Bashir, revealed a plan to provide tax incentives for businesses to come to areas that need economic stimulus or redevelopment.

While these community improvement plans were pitched as a new citywide policy, some councillors were troubled that city staff had al-ready chosen Orlans and part of Carling Avenue to benefi t from the program before out-lining the selection criteria or details about the way the pro-gram would work.

Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley dissented on the re-port because he felt the plan to defer taxes for business that set up in Orlans would disad-vantage other areas of the city, including his ward.

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Hubley delivered his rec-ommendations during a public hearing hosted by the boundaries commission at Ottawas Hampton Inn and Conference Centre on Nov. 5 and 6.

Kanata North Coun. Mari-anne Wilkinson, who also spoke at the meeting, took Hubleys recommendation one step further, asking the commission to consider mov-ing the western boundary of the Carleton-Kanata riding to Huntmar Road.

I said follow the old Kanata boundary, she said, adding the boundary should move along Highway 417 to Palladium Drive then travel along Huntmar Road until it reaches Maple Grove Road, continue along the Carp Riv-er until it hits Terry Fox.

Stittsville Coun. Shad Qa-dri said the boundary should

be left at the Carp River.Youre going to add an-

other piece of property to that boundary or another piece of land to that boundary which is not necessary.

Qadri said he is more con-cerned with the names being proposed for the ridings in his area.

In the one we will be in, in Stittsville, its going to be called Carleton what is Car-leton? he asked.

Why not call it Ottawa and maybe take a large ur-ban/suburban component of that riding which is either Stittsville or Riverside-South call it Ottawa-Stittsville or Ottawa-Riverside.

NEW BOUNDARIES

Under the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act, the commissions main aim in redrawing boundaries is to divide the province into

electoral districts as close to the average population as reasonably possible.

The population of a district should remain within 25 per cent of the average once con-sideration is given to commu-nities of interest or identity, and historical and geographic factors.

A commission can depart from the 25 per cent guide-line to deal with extraordi-nary circumstances.

The commission makes fi nal decisions about where the electoral boundaries will be located after consultation, giving the public and MPs an opportunity to express their views and participate in the process.

To consult the proposal online, visit www.federal-redistribution.ca, to obtain a copy, call the commission at 1-855-747-7224 (toll-free).

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EMC news - The usual sus-pects turned out for the citys fi nal round of budget consul-tations at the Mlacak Centre in Kanata on Wednesday, Nov. 7.

But there werent that many of them.

Half the seats in the meet-ing hall were empty, with most of the audience made up of city staff, lobbyists and members of special interest groups.

Thats been about the same in other public meet-ings, Mayor Jim Watson said after the evenings question-and-answer session wrapped up.

Generally, when people feel comfortable and the bud-get is balanced and you dont see deep cuts or big spending, you dont get as many people out, he said. I think its a re-fl ection of the fact that weve worked hard to come forward with a budget that is gener-ally acceptable, because its the lowest tax rate in six years and we havent gone through any slashing and burning of any vital public service pro-grams.

Fewer than 20 residents at-tended the west-end budget meeting, the fourth of four consultations held across the city to discuss Ottawas draft budget for 2013.

The meeting was attended by senior staff including city manager Kent Kirkpatrick,

as well as councillors Allan Hubley, Marianne Wilkinson, Mark Taylor, Eli El-Chantiry, Scott Moffatt and Rick Chi-arelli.

BUDGET

The evening began with a presentation by Watson and city treasurer Marian Simulik about the draft budget, which is scheduled to go to council for a vote on Nov. 28.

The suggested 2.09 per cent tax increase for the municipal tax rate is the lowest in six years and translates to a $67 hike on the average urban ho-meowners tax bill. For rural residents, the increase is 1.98 per cent, or $50 on an average rural homeowners bill.

This is, as the mayor men-tioned, the lowest tax-sup-ported budget that weve put in front of council in some time, she said.

It also falls below the mark set by council to keep all tax increases below 2.5 per cent.

Simulik said the proposed tax increase does not include consideration of this years Municipality Property As-sessment Corporations reas-sessment of property values across the province.

The city will deliver a tax policy report in April, which will adjust how much resi-dents will pay next year.

The draft budget also calls for a transit fee increase of 2.5 per cent, $3.5-million in sav-ings through staff reductions and an $11 cut to urban resi-dents garbage fee, a result of the citys new biweekly col-lection system.

The city has also reduced the number of its consultants by half and frozen recreation fees.

Ivan Levac, a director of the National Capital Heavy Con-

struction Association, asked if council would introduce a one per cent capital tax levy and increase this years tax rate to 2.5 per cent, using the ad-ditional money for road repair and infrastructure renewal.

Watson said the city is spending $340 million over the next three years on infra-structure through its Ottawa on the Move program on top of the citys base infra-structure budget.

The money will pay for up-grades to roads, sewers, side-walks, culverts and cycling facilities.

All of this work has been delayed for a long period of time and we see from time to time infrastructure failing and as a result were trying to play a little bit of catch up.

The recent sinkhole on highway 174 in Orlans shows how crucial it is to maintain infrastructure, said Watson.

But the mayor refused to support a levy because he said it failed to keep the pressure on politicians to keep costs under control.

Its not a levy, its a tax its not an optional thing.

The previous city council led by former mayor Larry OBrien produced budgets with large tax hikes because it tacked items onto its wish list without making correspond-ing cuts, said Watson.

Politicians are not good at taking money out of a bud-get, he said.

The city is waiting for the federal governments next round of federal infrastructure funding, said Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson.

This is a national prob-lem, she said. Its not a City of Ottawa problem.

Watson said the city must balance the need for infra-structure renewal in the older

parts of the city with the need for expansion of roads, fi re stations, libraries and other infrastructure in growth ar-eas.

Most of the other com-ments at the consultation ei-ther congratulated city coun-cil on suggested spending levels in the 2013 budget or offered a few helpful tweaks or suggestions.

Gary Sealey, president of the Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association, sug-gested the city provide an on-line list of expenditures ward by ward.

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Senior city staff and west-end councillors listen to and outnumber members of the public who turned out for the fourth and fi nal round of budget consultations, which was held at the Mlacak Centre in Kanata on Nov. 7.

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WEST DISTRICT

Some of the highlights of the budget for the west dis-trict are:

$975,000 to fi ght the em-erald ash borer problem.

New and expanded parks including Hidden Lakes Park, Romina Park and a new park in the village of Carp.

Road resurfacing on Bay-

shore Drive (between Rich-mond Road and Woodridge Crescent); Woodroofe Ave-nue (between Richmond and Sir John A. Macdonald Park-way), Kilmaurs Side Road (between Woodkilton and Dunrobin roads); Meadow-lands Drive (between Wood-roofe and Merivale Road.)

Sidewalk renewal on McKitrick Drive.

Work on implementing the West End Flood Investi-gation Action Plan continues with $20 million in infra-structure improvements put in place in 2013 fl owing from the 2012 budget.

Money for the Earl Grey and Kanata Centrum under-pass underneath Terry Fox Drive and a new grade sepa-

rated section between the Terry Fox Transitway Sta-tion in the east and Didsbury Road in the west.

Money for the design plan of the March Road park-and-ride.

$1 million for the Kizell Pond Pathway, a new trail system to be built north of the Beaver Pond.

Renewal of sections of the Ottawa-Carleton Trail, from Ashton Station to Fitzgerald Road.

Opening of the Richcraft Recreation Complex in 2013.

Introduction of an Older Adult Portal, providing on-line service for seniors.

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EMC news - Construc-tion on a stretch of Hazeldean Road will see the area reduced to one lane of traffi c in each direction beginning on Nov. 8 and tentatively ending in mid-

December.The westbound lanes on

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modate the construction.The two left-turn lanes on

Terry Fox Drive at the Ha-zeldean intersection will be re-duced to single turn lanes.

Construction work on the intersection at Hazeldean and Terry Fox is set for the week-end of Nov. 17 and traffi c fl ow

will be controlled by the Ot-tawa police, said the city in a press release.

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When I meet with busi-nesses, how can I convince them to come to Kanata if we are paying them not to? Hub-ley asked.

He wanted to defer the re-port until Bashir could give more details about the eligibil-ity criteria, but the committee voted against a delay.

His colleague, Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson, disagreed.

Deferring it helps stagnate economic development in our city, she said. Its extremely important now.

Mayor Jim Watson had a short speech prepared to speak in favour of the plan. He said the idea is a good experiment to try, and some-thing the city has never done before.

While it would be nice to give incentives for the whole city, its not practical to have community improvement plans everywhere, Watson said.

We have to focus on areas that need help, he said.

G louces t e r-Sou thga t e Coun. Diane Deans also ex-pressed concerns about the plan. Still, she voted in sup-port of the report.

This is a slippery slope, she said. I dont like where this is goingmaybe the mar-ket should be the driver.

Deans said the criteria used to choose the areas that get a community improvement plan will be its success or failure and supporting the program without seeing those criteria made her uncomfortable.

Kitchissippi ward resident Kevin ODonnell ran down to city hall during the meeting to speak because he was so op-posed to the tax holiday.

The city should be focused on ensuring all businesses have a chance to prosperbut whether they prosper or fail is up to the market, he said, adding its not appropriate for the city to be in the business of picking winners.

The city should invest in things that really attract busi-nesses to invest here, such as a good transit system and in-frastructure, ODonnell said. Gloucester-South Nepean Coun. Steve Desroches made the same point.

If were giving away mon-ey for taxes, are we going to have enough to provide the

stuff that really incents busi-nesses to come here, like tran-sit? he asked.

Innes Coun. Rainer Bloess said the city isnt shovelling cash at anyone and added that it is diffi cult to justify investing in transit and infra-structure if there is no busi-ness development happening in an area. Its a chicken-and-egg problem, he said.

Community improvement plans are permitted by the provincial government and have been used in Hamilton, Kitchener, London, Niagara Falls and Windsor. There are two types proposed for Ot-tawa: plans that foster urban revitalization through grants for businesses that repair or rehabilitate existing employ-ment areas, and employment-related plans that help create jobs in areas where residential growth has outstripped job creation.

That is the case in Orl-ans, where the ratio of jobs to households is 0.5 far lower than the citywide target of 1.3 local jobs per household.

Its unclear why Orlans has lagged behind, said Jamie Kwong McDonald, executive director of the Orlans Cham-ber of Commerce.

She said the east-end com-

munity has a lot to offer, in-cluding an educated, bilingual workforce.

Very few people actu-ally stay in Orlans and work there, she said. There is a lot of excitement (about the proposed plan) in the busi-ness community in Orlans...There are some that have been stalled and this initiative is very exciting for them.

The two proposed locations would be part of a fi ve-year pilot project, but Bashir said he would likely be ready to expand the program to differ-ent areas after observing how it works in Orlans and on Carling for six months.

Once the programs are up and runningwith eligibility criteria, if we feel comfortable with it, I would see no rea-son not to expand it further, Bashir said.

Information on the Carling plan including the boundar-ies of the area is sparse.

It will be an urban revital-ization plan, and more infor-mation is forthcoming, ac-cording to a city report.

Bay ward Coun. Mark Tay-lor has been working towards an economic development plan for the area by meeting with local businesses for the past several months.

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THIS WEEKS POLL QUESTIONHow should the city encourage growth in job-depressed areas?

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The pace of change is exhausting. Theyre changing the passport, changing the $20 bill, closing the ServiceOntario machines and starting Christmas music later at Shoppers Drug Mart. So much to learn, so little time.

Lets start with the last one. An unantici-pated wave of common sense swept over the business community, resulting in a decision by a major retail chain to hold off on the Christmas music until at least after Remembrance Day.

You might not even have noticed that it was missing in the days after Halloween. But maybe you did. Maybe you were walking through the drugstore with an odd little feeling that something was just a bit off. Then you realized, right there in the razor blades aisle, that the song playing was Raindrops Are Falling on My Head, not Jingle Bell Rock.

Somehow you resisted the urge to com-plain. When you learned the reason why, you might even have applauded. Christmas music, particularly the cheery commer-cial kind, can wait until after we have had time to think about the costs and sacrifi ces of war. Who knows, maybe the idea will catch on, more businesses will adopt this practice next year and we can be spared Frosty the Snow Man until there is actual frost.

Meanwhile, there are gains and losses in the war against technology. Example: fancy new passports coming which will be full of iconic Canadian images and

iconic Canadian politicians, not all of them Conservative.

The passports will also have the inevi-table chip in them, electronic rather than edible. The chip will have an antenna, which isnt as alarming as it sounds. You can still put it in your pocket, but you can also wave it at a scanner which will then know everything about you.

Apparently the scanner wont know more about you than a person could, from reading whats printed on the passport, but in our society we now like our machines to know as much as possible.

People less so. Thats why the Ontario government put machines in most of the shopping centres, allowing you to do such things as renew your car registration with-out having to be in contact with a human being. Those machines were actually quite effi cient and enabled you to skip long line-ups. For some reason there werent long line-ups at the machines.

The lack of a lineup might have been due to more people doing their govern-ment business online. Still, it is worth keeping in mind that when you deal with a human being rather than a machine you might be helping human beings stay employed.

Speaking of which and apologies for the lame transition Queen Elizabeth is more fully employed on the new $20 bill than she was on the old one. The bill, is-sued last week, has her image on it three times, compared to the old bills one. Theres the big portrait on the front of the bill and smaller images peering out from those metallic strips front and back.

On the new $50, which was issued in March, the three images are of Mackenzie King, so this one is defi nitely an improve-ment.

Six Queens will get you a new passport, which you can wave at a scanner and it will know everything about you. Is life great or what?

War against progress continuesCHARLESGORDON

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Council is selling a plan to offer businesses a tax holiday to locate in Orlans and along part of Carling Avenue as a way to stimulate economically depressed areas in the city.

Lets call it what it really is: a bribe.

Businesses who cash in on this offer will split an estimated $20 million in property tax refunds over fi ve years.

Innes Coun. Rainer Bloess

says the city isnt shovelling cash at anyone, adding that its diffi cult to justify transit and infrastructure investment in an area with no business development growth.

Its a chicken-and-egg problem, he said.

The councillor has chosen the correct metaphor, but drawn the wrong conclusion.

If council wants to encour-age business development in the city, it should provide good transit and infrastruc-ture, build communities that

allow residents to live, work and play without a commute.

That doesnt mean forfeit-ing $20 million in potential tax revenue.

Thats property tax money which should help the city pay for services and infra-structure in the area.

Councils $20-million plan offers a temporary tax defer-ral, but no other tangible and permanent inducements that businesses value.

If the city wants to encour-age economic development in

the east end, it should consid-er fast-tracking construction of light rail to Orlans.

The pilot program put before council last week was light on details.

There was no accompany-ing eligibility criteria just the names Orlans and Car-ling Avenue.

The project was snuck in front of the citys fi nance committee, buried in a mound of other reports.

Using Bloess chicken-and-egg analogy, which

should come fi rst? A decision to forfeit $20 million in prop-erty taxes or a sound plan based on study and sober discussion?

To be fair, council has done a lot to encourage economic development in Ottawa this term.

It transformed OCRI into Invest Ottawa and created a plan to encourage entrepre-neurship.

But over the past two weeks it has come up with two ill-conceived and unfair

economic development plans. Last week, council agreed to offer special treatment to larger businesses that set up shop in Ottawa basically putting small businesses at a comparative disadvantage.

Councils tax holiday has the same effect, pitting ward against ward.

A plan that bribes busi-nesses to locate in a particu-lar ward is unfair, unwise and ill-conceived.

Coun. Diane Deans called the plan the start of a slippery slope, suggesting economic development should be mar-ket driven.

Taxpayers would likely agree.

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EMC news - More than 80 seniors gathered at the Kanata Seniors Centre for a Remem-brance Day ceremony on Nov. 8.

Lt. Col. Scott Murphy, who grew up in Katimavik and is now stationed with air force staff at National De-fence Headquarters in Ottawa, placed a wreath on behalf of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Murphy also spoke about the sacrifi ces made by Cana-dian service men and women

throughout history, from the War of 1812 to the war in Af-ghanistan.

Today we gather here to remember men and women who put themselves in harms way to preserve freedom, said Murphy.

Moria Green, the Kanata Legions poppy campaign chairwoman, said, By wear-ing a poppy you are demon-strating you have not forgot-ten those who have made the ultimate sacrifi ce.

Following the ceremony, the seniors gathered for a spe-cial luncheon.

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emC news - the city stands to gain more than an extra mil-lion dollars from a new slots revenue sharing agreement with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.

While city staff said the new money-sharing formula is simply an extension of the existing agreement the city has with OLG, at least one councillor approached it cau-tiously.

in the context of an ongo-ing debate over a location for a possible new casino in Otta-wa, Konxdale-merivale Coun. Keith egli asked if approving the agreement would box us in for a new casino that could be located in Ottawa.

the answer from the citys top lawyer, Rick OConnor, was no, and that satisfied the finance and economic devel-opment committee on Nov. 6. the committee unanimously approved the agreement.

One question that OConnor couldnt answer was how the funding formula would ap-ply to the possible addition of table games at the citys only current gambling facility.

if the Rideau Carleton Raceway is the proposed ca-sino location, does this impact on our ability to gain revenue from the addition of gaming tables in addition to slot rev-enue? egli asked.

While OConnor said he didnt know the answer yet, but would be asking OLG about that, representatives from OLG have already con-firmed to media that the rev-enue-sharing agreement only applies to slots and money made from gaming tables would not be shared.

Over the past five years, the city has received between $4.3 and $4.4 million annually from 1,250 slot machines at the Rideau Carleton Raceway. the new agreement would add $1.3 million more a year to the citys coffers if slot revenue remains the same.

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Gifts from grandmothersKanata Grandmothers Together members So a Anderson, left, Ruth White, Dale Crichton and Doris McIlroy, sell handmade gifts at the Hazeldean Mall on Nov. 10. The group, which raised more than $800 with the craft sale, is raising funds for the Stephen Lewis Foundations Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign, which helps grandmothers in Africa raising children who lost their parents to HIV/AIDS.



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List of chores was very longThere was a price to pay for being the youngest in the fam-ily. I was given, I thought, more than my share of chores, all because Mother thought they were easy jobs and ones I could handle. All because I was the smallest of the five children, but also the youngest.

It was my chore to keep the wood box in the kitchen filled.

It was a job I hated be-cause never once did I carry in the wood from the summer kitchen that I didnt end up with splinters in my hands and often in my arms.

But Mother thought it was

an easy chore and one of which I was quite capable of handling.

Another job that fell on my shoulders was making sure the water under the ice box accumulated in a white granite basin, was emptied.

Only once I remember for-getting about it, and having it overflow all over the kitchen floor.

That meant I had to get down on my hands and knees and mop the entire kitchen floor. I never forgot to check the basin for melted ice after that.

Making the toast for break-fast was another job Mother thought I was quite capable of handling. Of course, there was no electricity on the farm back then, so a wire rack was

placed over the fire in the Findlay Oval.

It held four slices of bread and I couldnt take my eyes off it for a second or the toast would burn.

The penalty for this error in judgment was my having to eat the burnt toast.

The fact that my hateful brother Emerson did every-thing in his power to have me burn the bread, had me so nervous, I was a complete wreck by the time everyone had their toast.

As soon as I got home from school, and had changed into my play clothes, I was also expected to go out to the hen house and gather the eggs.

I used a wicker basket and had to be very careful to handle the eggs carefully, because many of them would be sold in Renfrew on the Saturday. Large eggs sold for 15 cents a dozen, but if they were cracked, you were lucky to get a nickel. My sister

Audrey, older than I by about 11 years, often didnt use the basket.

Like Mother, Audrey would bunch up the bottom of her apron and carry the eggs that way.

And never once do I ever remember her cracking an egg.

I tried it one day with my apron, but with disastrous results.

I had to go out behind the hen house and get ride of the ones I managed to break before Mother saw what I had done. It was back to the basket for me!

There was a job, however, I felt very privileged to be given.

After the milking was done at night, the milk was moved by stone boat, in big milk cans, into the summer kitchen.

It was my job to place a square of clean cheese cloth over each can and then sink on the lids tightly.

I could never figure out why we used the cheese cloth, but it was a necessary part of the job.

The next morning, before my chore with the toast

began, I would take the big brown baking bowl and the little tin strainer out to the summer kitchen to one of the milk cans.

Using the strainer, I would skim off the cream that would settle over the night to the top, and put it into the bowl, so that everyone would have a helping of rich cream for their porridge.

I liked this job because Mother and I had a ritual that never varied all the time we lived on the farm in Renfrew County.

I would bring the bowl of cream into the kitchen and say to Mother, as I did every morning,

A miracle happened overnight, Mother. Last night that milk was white, and this morning it is the colour of gold. Its a miracle Mother.

And I would wait for the answer that never varied.

Its not a miracle Mary thats just good old fashioned Renfrew County magic.

We would both laugh, never tiring of the ritual that went on day after day, every morning of my life as the youngest in the family, on that farm in Northcote.

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EMC news Ottawa resi-dents visited the Overbrook Community Centre on Satur-day, Nov. 10, to learn self-de-fence tactics taught during the

Second World War and watch original top-secret training footage used during the war.

Most recruits received only eight to 12 hours of hand-to-hand combat training in class-es of up to 600 people during the Second World War before

moving on to their next lesson in basic training.

Thats not a lot of time, said Cris Anderson, an expert instructor in Second World War self-defence techniques.

Anderson, who partnered with John Collins Jiu-Jitsu,

said they wanted to tie in with Remembrance Day since it landed on the weekend.

We wanted to do some-thing to tie into Remembrance Day, said Collins. It puts ev-erything in perspective.

Anderson taught a vari-ety of self-defence strategies, including close-armed and close-quarter combat.

I think this is a time of year when people have more thought to what people went through, he said. Its our tribute to those who went through the war.

Anderson said training had to be quick and effective in order for the troops to grasp and retain the lessons.

The techniques are de-signed for the beginner, he said. Its got to be simple; its got to be fast.

Anderson first became in-terested in the combat tech-niques after reading about a Second World War spy school in Oshawa, Ont.

It sounded like something that interested me, he said.

So he went about learning and absorbing as much infor-mation as he could, from his-tory books and veterans of the war.

I only know this much, he said, holding his thumb and pointer finger close together, of what they (the veterans) know.

Julie Ethier said its im-portant these techniques are taught to the younger genera-tions or else they will be lost.

It reminds me that World War II, that era, how little time ... they had to be trained for the situation, she said. Its part of history thats getting harder and harder to hang on to.

As the veterans of the Sec-ond World War pass away, so too does their knowledge.

If I dont show this, its gone, said Anderson, whose class also collected items for the Ottawa Food Bank. These things disappear ... a part of our history disappears with it.

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Its a relatively new indus-try to Canada. In Ontario, fi sh culture goes back to about 1866, but it was only in 1962 that changes to the Game and Fish Act permit-ted raising of commercial fi sh for stocking waterways and later for human con-sumption.

Ontarios initial 16 fi sh farms have grown to more than 200 today.

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You can buy them at retail outlets, farmers markets or at the farm gate in several forms: whole dressed, fi llets or smoked.

To prepare for storage, soak in salted water for 30 minutes to remove the natu-ral slippery, protective coat-ing.

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EMC news - Karen Mc-Crimmon, a former candidate in the Carleton-Mississippi Mills riding, has jumped into the federal Liberal leadership campaign.

McCrimmon, a retired lieu-tenant-colonel, was expected to announce her bid for the partys top job on Nov. 14 at the Kanata Holiday Inn.

Best known for being the first woman to command a Canadian Forces Air Force squadron 429 Squadron Trenton she lost to Carleton-Mississippi Mills MP Gordon OConnor in the 2011 federal election. OConnor, also a veteran, won with 57 per cent of the vote to McCrimmons 24 per cent.

In a press release announc-ing her intention to seek the party peadership, McCrim-mon called for co-operation.

Like you, Karen is a proud Canadian, the release says. Karen knows that respon-sible leaders must work as a team to realize our nations full potential.

Her campaign slogan is Karen for Canada, with the website address karenforcan-ada.ca.

As commanding officer of 429 Squadron, which flew C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, McCrimmon and her crews carried out many

humanitarian and military operations around the globe. She served in the Gulf War, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and was also a senior staff officer at NATO headquarters in Ger-many.

In 1995, the Constance Bay woman was awarded the Or-der of Military Merit, one of the highest peacetime military awards. She is the mother of two grown children.

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McCrimmon for the top job are Justin Trudeau, David Merner, David Bertschi, Alex Burton, Deborah Coyne and Jonathan Mousley.

The new leader will be elected in Ottawa on April 14.

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Public lands in Ontario are used for a variety of activi-ties. Everyone in the forest needs to be aware others may be nearby, and stay visible.

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EMC news - A support group for Chinese seniors is helping them integrate into Canadian life and meet new friends something many found daunting before join-ing the Kanata Chinese Se-niors Support Centre.

Family was the over-whelming reason many of the seniors immigrated to Can-ada. Once here though, they said they were lonely and found it hard to meet people when they didnt speak or un-derstand English.

The life here is very lonely, said Ming Hua Ai, through a translator. She moved to the country in 2009 with her husband Zhi Guo Li to be near their only daugh-ter.

Ai said there were no peo-ple who spoke her language where she lived and having little English comprehension, it kept her from venturing out. Then her daughter came across the website for the Kanata Chinese Seniors Sup-port Centre.

She wanted us to have more activities, said Ai. Meet people and make friends.

The support centre is where she met Wen Jean Ho, founder of the group.

Shes very kind and very helpful; very strong, very special and very concerned for senior people, said Ai about Ho.

Ho was laid off from her full-time job last year, and in-stead of giving up, she threw herself into running the sup-port centre, said Ai.

We learn how to be strong and how to face problems and how to handle diffi culties from her, said Ai. She cares so much about seniors...She respects everyone and give us the dignity to be a senior.

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Ho launched the Chinese seniors support centre this past March. The Kanata Chi-nese Seniors Support Centre is a non-profi t organization

that aims to establish, de-velop and maintain a support hub for Chinese seniors in Kanata and the surrounding areas.

I see the need, said Ho about launching the centre. People need a bridge, a ve-hicle to help them connect with the community.

The support centre pro-vides opportunities for its members to socialize, volun-teer in the community and be active.

Weekly activities include fi tness classes, crafting, Eng-lish lessons, seminars, health

and wellness sessions, day trips, volunteering in the community and supporting other events.

Hua Qing Yang moved to the country one year ago to be with his daughters family. A former surgeon and profes-sor at a medical university in China, Yang said he found it diffi cult to adjust to life in Canada.

When I was in China I was so busy with my work. But here I hardly have any-thing to do, he said. I feel like Im useless after so many years in surgery.

Through the centre, I began to feel like a person again. I can use my skills to help people.

He has held workshops on health and wellness for mem-bers of the group.

Through the seniors cen-tre I was able to share my medical knowledge with the centre, said Yang.

Fu Lian Zhe moved to Canada with his wife Aidli Zhang 25 years ago to give their children a better life.

I came to Canada for our children (to) go to universi-ty, said Zhe. The former en-

gineer picked up a job work-ing at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier, where he had the opportunity to serve Queen Elizabeth II.

Being a part of the support centre keeps his body strong, he said, because the group organizes different activities, like dancing and ping pong.

Everyone here has a sto-ry, said Ho.

Currently, the support cen-tre has around 80 members, but they are looking to add more. As well, the centre is looking for volunteers to help run the programs, such as

English classes, event plan-ning and more.

Adele Muldoon has volun-teered since the summer, and even though she only speaks English, she said its wonder-ful being able to help.

Its a lot of fun and very rewarding, she said.

The group meets at vari-ous locations in Kanata and Stittsville on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. For more information on the Kanata Chinese Seniors Sup-port Centre, visit KCSSC.org, email [email protected] or call 613-656-2324.


Members of the Kanata Chinese Seniors Support Centre say the group has been instrumental in helping them adjust to their new life in Canada.

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EMC news - Audiences in Barrhaven can brace them-selves for a special perfor-mance: a one-woman play about a young girl faced with scoliosis.

The play, entitled Brace, is the story of Rebecca Steele who plays a dozen characters to portray her experiences as an adolescent with the disease that causes an abnormal cur-vature of the spine.

Thanks to the Curvy Girls chapter in Ottawa, the play will hit the stage at Long-fi elds-Davidson Heights Sec-ondary School on Nov. 30.

The Ottawa Chapter of the Curvy Girls was founded in

part by Merivale High School student Danielle Denisko. The group meets once a month to discuss everything from what its like to wear a hard, plas-tic brace to medical appoint-ments, surgery and peer pres-sure.

Andrea Lebel, a physio-therapist who went into the fi eld because she dealt with scoliosis as a teen, said the idea for the group came after she met a mother in Barce-lona.

Her daughter was part of the Long Island Curvy Girls and she talked so much about the benefi ts, I realized it would be good if the girls could get support from each other, Lebel said.

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