The city’s promises about active transportation and safe, walkable neighbourhoods ring hollow when parents are told their children cannot safely walk a few hundred metres to school. This came front and centre earlier this year when the Ottawa Student Transportation Authority’s new “Community Hazard Zone” designation formally recognized what residents have been reluctant to admit to until recently: our neighbourhood has been abandoned. Children who should be walking to Devonshire Community Public School, Cambridge Street Community Public School, and St. Anthony Elementary School are now being offered bus service because the neighbourhood is deemed a risk to “student security and peace of mind,” a devastating admission. It means the failure of municipal and provincial systems – policing, bylaw enforcement, public maintenance and outreach, alongside health and housing – has been translated into a policy that changes how children move through their own community. Ottawa Citizen

One person was under arrest after the University of Ottawa lifted a security lockdown on Friday, April 10. Read More Ottawa Citizen

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The arrival of refugees to Canada from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos was designated a national historic event in 2023. It is considered by the Canadian government to be of historical importance as it showed how, after the end of the Vietnam War, Canada accepted nearly 200,000 refugees as they fled persecution, according to the federal government. Ottawa Citizen

Tkachuk took a tripping penalty in the first, but when he came out of the box, he set up Stutzle for a breakaway and threw a cheeky pick on the backchecking Mackie Samoskevich to ensure his teammate went in all alone. Tkachuk was most at fault on the 3-1 goal, failing to cover Jesper Boqvist in the slot. The second line had some dominating shifts in the first and third period, toying with an uninspired Panthers team, and the captain, as per usual, was difficult to muscle off the puck along the walls. Tkachuk had the secondary assist on Batherson’s goal, and recorded one shot and two hits in 17:13. Ottawa Citizen

“TOH has implemented a series of measures to reduce budget pressures, find savings and preserve health-care positions. These include offering early retirement for those who are eligible, freezing and eliminating vacant positions, implementing innovative ways to provide care that are more efficient, returning to pre-COVID funded levels of staffing, freezing travel and moving to a more economical provincial group benefits plan,” the hospital statement said. Ottawa Citizen

Thomas Chabot has pulled off a medical miracle. Read More Ottawa Citizen

If a service starts outside Ottawa boundaries, but ends in Ottawa, it’s under provincial jurisdiction. There are already examples of transit services that start in towns outside Ottawa, but end in the city. In the Toronto area, transit users often use a combination of GO Transit, a provincial service, and the TTC municipal service. Ottawa Citizen