WOITA 180624

18 June 2024

🚑 Ottawa Paramedic Service

• The Ottawa Paramedic Service says that it is no longer running out of ambulances every day. Chief Pierre Poirier says a new dispatch system at the paramedic call centre is the reason – it’s much better at triaging patients, sending ambulances in order of urgency. (Arthur White-Crummey at CBC)

🔢 Street Addresses

• A Manotick resident wants the City to renumber his street – or his neighbour’s street – because everyone is getting confused. The man lives at 614 Ribbon Street, which is ten houses down from 614 Bridgeport. Both houses are on the same street, but as 614 Bridgepost is a corner house, it is numbered on the cross street, Deliveries, tradespeople, and the like just see the 614 on the house and consider they are in the right spot. When the City was asked why they gave a side street numbers starting with 600, the City said, ‘eh, the planner at the time had the discretion and made the decision’. (Matthew Kupfer at CBC)

🏢 Ottawa 2

• The mayor of Kemptville wants the Federal government allow workers to use the Kemptville Campus so they don’t need to commute into Ottawa. Thousands of public employees have moved outside of Ottawa to smaller towns to take advantage of remote working. The mayor hopes that the Kemptville Campus – the now closed Kemptville College neé Kemptville Agricultural School – can be considered as an alternative to driving into Ottawa for new return-to-office mandates. (Jack Richardson at CTV)