Thursday March 21, 2024
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🇷🇺 Russia
- Russia has declared that Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs is an ‘undesirable organization’. The University warns that anyone affiliated with the programme ‘could be subject to criminal punishment, including a possible prison sentence’ if they travel to Russia. (Marlo Glass in the Ottawa Citizen)
🚗 Free Hospital Parking
- Orléans South-Navan ward councillor Catherine Kitts and Alta Vista ward councillor Marty Carr want to remove free parking on a city road near the Ottawa Hospital General Campus. Lynda Lane has free parking for two hours but the duo say residents complain that hospital users are parking there. They are asking for $1.50 an hour meters. (Josh Pringle at CTV)
➕ Related OC Transpo kept back $15.1 million from its maintenance contractor due to poor performance.
🦇 Canadian Nuclear Laboratories
- Blanding’s turtle, the little brown bat and the northern long-eared bat will not be affected by the new radioactive disposal site at Chalk River. The Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ proposed radioactive waste disposal facility was required under the Species at Risk Act to gain approval from the Canadian Wildlife Service that species at risk were safe. The Service gave its approval March 18. (Natasha Bulowski in the National Observer)
🏫 Ottawa Carleton District School Board
- The Ottawa Carleton District School Board has approved creating two new staff positions for Muslim and Arab equity coaches. The equity resource team currently: ‘two graduation coaches for Black students, one instructional coach with a specific focus on support for Jewish students, three Indigenous graduation coaches, and three Indigenous student support co-ordinators as well as two student support coordinators working directly with school communities with a specific focus on supporting Muslim and/or racialized students. There is also a student support co-ordinator specializing in support for students who are trans and gender-diverse’. (Joanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen)
🗑️ Landfills
- Developer Taggart wants to build a private landfill at the intersection of Highway 417 and Boundary Road. The Capital Region Resource Recovery Centre would be run in coöperation Miller Waste Systems to take in Ottawa’s trash at a profit. The 184 hectares of property is already approved for commercial trash and recycled items but now permission for residential garbage is being sought. (Josh Pringle at CTV)
🏒 Ottawa 67s
- Former Ottawa 67s great Chris Simon has died aged 52. Simon played with the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, Washington Capitals, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, Calgary Flames, New York Islanders, and Minnesota Wild. The family says Simon took his own life and believe that he suffered for years from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease caused by head injuries. (Don Brennan in the Ottawa Sun)
