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22 Jan 2011
Ottawa Citizen
BY TOM SPEARS
WITH FILES FROM POSTMEDIA NEWS
Family members recall good times
with father
Funeral for former Mulroney staffer Michel Gratton a non-political affair
Hundreds said goodbye Friday morning to Michel Gratton, the political staffer, writer and bon vivant
who was a cultural hero for Franco-Ontarians.
CHRIS MIKULA, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
Michel Gratton’s daughters, from left, Marie-France, Valérie and Brigitte spoke at the Notre
Dame de Lourdes Church in Ottawa Friday during the funeral for their father.
For a man who spent much of his life in politics — columnist for the Sun newspaper chain, press
secretary to then-prime minister Brian Mulroney, campaigner for Franco-Ontarian rights and,
successfully, for the Montfort Hospital — it was a largely non-political funeral.
People preferred instead to remember the good times.
Just inside the door of Notre Dame de Lourdes Church on Montreal Road was a blown-up copy of an
old interview where Gratton said his ideal job would be press secretary and rock star, at the same time.
Where he said women loved him for his Kmart shoes. Where he made fun of his rotund shape: too
much sugar pie, he suggested.
Family, too, recalled the good times.
His sister, Ginette, one year older than Michel, went out with him this month to celebrate her
birthday.
“He cared for me, he watched over me,” she said. “Over a club sandwich, we would work out how to
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solve all the problems of the world.”
His daughters, Marie-France, Brigitte and Valérie, all spoke of memories as well. Sometimes they
brought laughter to the funeral.
“I still remember today the three of us sitting cross-legged on the floor, looking up in awe at my
Dad, who, sitting in his comfy chair and listening to the baseball game, would tell us funny stories or try
to instil something of important value,” Valérie said. Such as respecting other peoples, “or to never,
ever date the same guy as your sister.”
Her father, she told the crowd, “was not all work and no play.”
The girls treasured sitting around the campfire with him and his guitar at the cottage.
“It is hard to understand, Papa. Why could I not help you just once more?” she asked, crying softly.
“But God didn’t want it that way.”
Gratton was found dead in his apartment Jan. 13, of an apparent heart attack. He was 58.
Valérie recalled “educational weekends,” when he taught his daughters how to recognize birds by
their songs, and how to gather leaves, identifying them and putting them in binders.
They played board games with him. He gave them books for their birthdays.
His brother, Denis, discussed Michel’s standing as “one of the greatest, perhaps the greatest
Franco-Ontarian.” But he also recalled old family stories, and told how Michel “just had to get out his
guitar to get a party going.”
Gratton’s successful career as a journalist began in 1973, when he became a sports writer for Le
Droit. Later, he spent nearly a decade as a columnist for the Sun newspaper chain in Ottawa, at the
heart of its parliamentary bureau.
Gratton also wrote a number of books, including So, What are the Boys Saying? which dealt with
the inner-workings of the Mulroney government, and Still the Boss: A Candid Look at Brian Mulroney.
He also penned French Canadians Quebec and co-wrote Spyworld: Inside the Canadian American
Intelligence Establishments.
One of seven children, Gratton was born in Vanier, now part of Ottawa, and it has since been called
his “kingdom.”
In what some called one of his proudest accomplishments, Gratton helped prevent the closing of the
francophone Montfort Hospital in the late 1990s.
Gratton is buried in Notre Dame Cemetery, beside the church.
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22 janvier 2011
Le Droit
LES CONSERVATEURS
ONTARIENS MÈNENT UN
SONDAGE
Déjà en campagne en vue des élections provinciales du 6 octobre 2011, le Parti
progressisteconservateur (PPC) de l’Ontario veut sonder les électeurs dans le but de connaître leurs
priorités et leurs idées. La députée Lisa MacLeod a procédé cette semaine au lancement du site web
www. haveyoursayontario.ca, où les électeurs sont invités à répondre à un questionnaire uniquement
en anglais. Le PC promet de tenir compte des conclusions de ce sondage, apparemment le plus
important jamais réalisé par un parti politique en Ontario, pour donner le ton à sa campagne. Ayant
commencé à faire du porte-à-porte dans sa circonscription de Nepean-Carleton, Mme MacLeod dit que
la taxe de vente harmonisée et la hausse du coût de l’électricité arrivent en tête de liste des
préoccupations des Ontariens.
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24 Jan 2011
Ottawa Citizen
Parents should support the green bin
Re: Consultations begin for garbage pickup, Jan. 14. The main objection I have heard to bi-weekly
garbage pickup, both in this article and at least one other, is from parents of young children who do not
want to have “baby diapers sitting around for two weeks.” I implore our councillors not to make a
decision about garbage pickup based on the two to three years that children are in diapers but rather
look at what is better for the city both fiscally and environmentally.
JEAN LEVAC, OTTAWA CITIZEN
Tracy Davidson writes that learning to use the green bin hasn’t been a problem for her
family, even though she has young children, one of whom is still in diapers.
I was embarrassed for Ottawa that we did not have a full greenbin program until 2010. I am now
pleased to see the city promoting recycling and composting and encouraging citizens to divert waste
from the landfills. I am happy that our three-year-old son knows which is the paper bin and which is the
plastics bin. He likes to carry the bucket out for the green bin. We have the ability to recycle, compost
and reuse. Our family of four (with two young children, one still in diapers) produces only one kitchen
bag of garbage per week and only puts out garbage every two weeks.
I would hope that the parents of young children would encourage their councillors to make a
decision based on what is best for the city, both now and once their children have outgrown disposable
diapers.
TRACY DAVIDSON,
Ottawa
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24 janvier 2011
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PHILIPPEPHILIPPEORFALI ORFALI porfali@porfali@ledroit.ledroit.com com
Gilles Patry et Huguette Labelle
décorés de l’Ordre de l’Ontario
Des Ontariens d’exception — dont de nombreux francophones de la région — recevront cette
semaine l’Ordre de l’Ontario, le plus grand honneur décerné par la province.
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ARCHIVES, LeDroit
Gilles Patry, ancien recteur de l’Université d’Ottawa, et Huguette Labelle, qui a été
notamment sous-ministre fédérale.
L’ancien recteur de l’Université d’Ottawa Gilles G. Patry de même que l’actuelle chancelière de
l’établissement Huguette Labelle ont tous deux été admis au sein de l’Ordre, a fait savoir le lieutenantgouverneur de la province David C. Onley.
Déjà membres de l’Ordre du Canada, les deux universitaires doivent recevoir ce nouvel honneur
ensemble, jeudi à Toronto, lors d’une cérémonie tenue à l’Assemblée législative.
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« Cela me touche encore davantage de recevoir cette reconnaissance aux côtés de ‘ma’ chancelière,
car je garde des liens très étroits avec Mme Labelle », a indiqué ce week-end M. Patry, recteur et vicechancelier de l’Ud’O de 2001 à 2008, et premier recteur à être qui soit né dans la région, à Hull.
Mme Labelle a été la première femme francophone à devenir sous-ministre fédérale, avant d’être la
première femme à diriger la Croix-Rouge canadienne. Chancelière depuis 1994, la Rochelandaise
cumule également les fonctions de présidente du conseil d’administration de Transparency
International, membre du c.a. du Pacte mondial de l’ONU, conseillère externe pour la mise en oeuvre
de la Stratégie de la Banque mondiale pour la promotion de la gouvernance et la lutte contre la
corruption, entre autres.
L’auteur et promoteur de la littérature franco-ontarienne Jacques Flammand, des Éditions du
Vermillon, a quant à lui été nommé en 2009. Il recevra sa médaille lors de la cérémonie de 2011.
Également de la région d’Ottawa, Suhayya Abu-Hakima, une entrepreneure dans le domaine de la
technologie, Gail Beck, psychiatre reconnue pour son travail avec les jeunes, Mobeenuddin Hassan
Khaja de Gatineau, pour sa contribution à la promotion de la paix et de la compréhension interculturelle
entre musulmans et autres groupes religieux ont été reconnus.
Juge de paix à la Cour de justice de l’Ontario, Louise Logue figure également parmi les lauréats,
tout comme la chroniqueuse ornithologique de l’Ottawa Citizen depuis 1973, Elizabeth Le Geyt, 90 ans,
et Soeur Elizabeth Ann Kinsella, fondatrice du centre Youville, organisme caritatif d’aide aux jeunes
mères célibataires au Canada.
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LeDroitEnpartenariat - Le Droit - 22 janvier 2011 - Un « levier » de 14 millions $
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FRANÇOISFRANÇOISPIERREPIERRE DUFAULT
fpdufault@fpdufault@ledroit.ledroit.com com
Un « levier » de 14 millions $
Le maire Jim Watson est le premier à reconnaître que 14 millions $ n’enrayeront pas la pauvreté ni
l’itinérance du jour au lendemain à Ottawa. Mais il s’agit, selon lui, d’un bon levier pour aller chercher
plus d’argent des gouvernements provincial et fédéral.
ÉTIENNE RANGER, Archives LeDroit
Dans son ébauche budgétaire déposée mercredi, le maire Jim Watson propose d’investir 14
millions $ dans la lutte à la pauvreté et l’itinérance.
Dans son ébauche budgétaire, déposée mercredi, M. Watson propose d’accorder 10 millions $ à la
lutte à la pauvreté et 4 millions $ à la construction et la rénovation de logements abordables. Le maire
suggère qu’une bonne part des premiers 10 millions $ soit consacrée à des allocations au logement,
selon lui « la manière la plus rapide d’aider des gens à se loger ».
Le maire d’Ottawa entend reconduire ces 14 millions $ à chaque année de son mandat. « C’est
souvent difficile d’être pris au sérieux par les autres niveaux de gouvernements si nous ne mettons pas,
de notre côté, une somme d’argent sur la table », note-t-il.
Marion Wright, la présidente de l’Alliance pour mettre fin à l’itinérance, dit avoir bon espoir
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d’atteindre son objectif de 1000 nouvelles unités de logements abordables en 2011. Elle accueille
les investissements annoncés par M. Watson comme un signe encourageant de la part de l’hôtel de
ville.
L’an dernier, quelque 700 unités de logements abordables ont pu être créées à Ottawa, notamment
grâce à des octrois provinciaux et fédéraux. En même temps, la liste d’attente pour un logement
abordable a passé le cap des 10 000 noms. Depuis l’été dernier, les refuges pour sans-abri disent
connaître une pénurie de lits.
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LeDroitEnpartenariat - Le Droit - 24 janvier 2011 - Harper est fier du travail accompli
24 janvier 2011
Le Droit
STÉPHANIE MARIN
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La Presse Canadienne
Harper est fier du travail accompli
Le premier ministre célèbre le cinquième anniversaire de son arrivée au
pouvoir
Il y aura un sénat élu au Canada et le registre des armes de chasse sera aboli, a promis Stephen
Harper hier devant des centaines de partisans réunis à Ottawa pour célébrer ses cinq années au
pouvoir, et par le fait même, les accomplissements de son gouvernement.
LA PRESSE CANADIENNE
Devant des centaines de partisans, le premier ministre Harper a rappelé comment le Canada
a changé depuis l’entrée au pouvoir des conservateurs.
En compagnie de sa femme et de quelques ministres, M. Harper a soutenu qu’en 2011, le Canada
est devenu sous sa gouverne un pays plus uni, plus prospère et plus sûr.
Le 23 janvier 2006, en livrant son discours à Calgary peu après sa victoire électorale, M. Harper
s’était exclamé : « Notre grand pays vient de voter pour le changement ».
Cinq ans plus tard, le premier ministre se targue d’avoir réformé bien des choses, malgré une
situation de gouvernement minoritaire.
« En 2006, les gens nous donnaient le mandat de changer les choses et de brasser Ottawa, a
rappelé Stephen Harper. Nous avons tenu parole, nous avons conservé leur confiance et nous avons
réalisé nos promesses. »
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Stephen Harper a rappelé qu’en 2006, les citoyens avaient perdu foi en leur gouvernement, que les
forces armées canadiennes avaient été abandonnées et qu’au Québec, le soutien à l’indépendance de la
province montait en flèche.
Dans un discours d’une trentaine de minutes, le premier ministre a affirmé que le gouvernement est
maintenant plus propre et responsable qu’il ne l’était lorsque les conservateurs ont repris le pouvoir au
pays après les écarts des libéraux, notamment le scandale des commandites.
Et en cette période de spéculations électorales, le discours du premier ministre a par ailleurs donné
un avant-goût de ses priorités, si scrutin il y a.
Le maintien des baisses d’impôts aux entreprises pour favoriser l’emploi, la continuité des actions
vigoureuses pour réprimer le crime et les achats d’équipement militaire sont toutes des priorités qui
permettront aux conservateurs de se distinguer des libéraux, qui ont été de constants critiques sur ces
sujets lors de la dernière session parlementaire.
Sur une scène remplie de citoyens de tous âges et de toutes origines, le premier ministre a vanté
d’un ton enjoué ses réalisations en matière d’économie, réitérant que les baisses d’impôts aux
entreprises ont permis de créer de nombreux emplois et que la réduction de deux points de
pourcentage de la TPS sous son gouvernement a permis aux Canadiens de mieux s’en sortir.
« Les familles paient moins d’impôts qu’il y a cinq ans, lorsque nous sommes devenus le
gouvernement », s’est félicité le premier ministre en dressant son bilan.
Mais il a cru aussi bon de rappeler que son gouvernement n’avait pas réussi à accomplir certaines
choses en raison de son statut minoritaire.
Registre des armes
« Mais nous n’ avons pas oublié », a-t-il lancé. « Juste en passant, un jour, rappelez-vous, il y aura
un sénat élu et nous nous débarrasserons du ruineux registre des fusils de chasse », a affirmé M.
Harper d’un ton combatif.
Récupérant ainsi un sujet accrocheur pour ses troupes, elles ont d’ailleurs réagi avec enthousiasme
à cette perspective. Lors d’un vote excessivement serré aux Communes en septembre, un projet de loi
d’une députée conservatrice pour abolir l’obligation d’enregistrer les armes de chasse avait été défait.
Se projetant plus loin vers l’avenir, M. Harper a déclaré que son parti allait travailler encore plus fort
pour améliorer la vie des Canadiens, et rendre le pays à l’image de la version anglaise de l’hymne
national canadien « fort et libre ».
En reprenant le thème de la loi et de l’ordre qui lui est cher, le premier ministre a indiqué qu’il avait
bien l’intention de continuer à combattre le crime, et que l’argent dépensé pour enlever les criminels
des rues en vaut bien la chandelle.
Deux réactions aux antipodes
M. Harper a de plus affirmé que depuis cinq ans, le Parti conservateur est devenu le premier choix
des immigrants et des nouveaux arrivants, une popularité due notamment à ses politiques pour
combattre le trafic d’êtres humains et aussi parce qu’il a gardé les portes du Canada ouvertes lors de la
récession économique.
Amplement courtisés par les conservateurs, ils étaient d’ailleurs présents en bon nombre dans la
salle du centre de conférence dimanche après-midi et ont offert à ce moment à Stephen Harper sa plus
grande ovation.
Parmi les réalisations conservatrices relevées par le premier ministre dans son discours, la «
reconnaissance de la nation québécoise dans un Canada uni », mentionnée uniquement en français, n’a
suscité aucune réaction dans l’assistance.
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PHILIPPE ORFALI porfali@ledroit.com
Flirting à la sauce web 2.0
Un phénomène se propage en ligne à l’Université d’Ottawa
Dépassée, l’époque où un étudiant universitaire un peu maladroit se dirigeait vers l’avant de la
classe pour donner son numéro de téléphone à la fille qu’il trouvait de son goût. Aujourd’hui, c’est sur
le web que ça se passe.
MARTIN ROY, LeDroit
Dustin Herbison est gestionnaire du site de rencontres Like A Little pour l’Université
d’Ottawa, l’un des chapitres les plus actifs de ce nouveau phénomène.
Pourquoi risquer l’humiliation alors qu’on peut faire connaître ses intentions, par site web interposé,
en toute discrétion ? C’est l’idée derrière Like A Little, la « plateforme facilitatrice de flirt », l’un des
sites les plus consultés par les étudiants de l’Université d’Ottawa.
Le concept derrière Like A Little est plutôt simple. « Si un étudiant, gars ou fille, s’intéresse à
quelqu’un qui se trouve dans son cours ou dans le coin de la bibliothèque où il étudie, il se connecte au
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site et publie une courte description de la personne qui lui est tombée dans l’oeil, accompagné d’un
court message aguicheur », explique Dustin Herbison, étudiant en communication et l’un des
gestionnaires du site de l’Ud’O.
Reste ensuite à espérer que celle-ci se connecte au site, se rende compte qu’on parle d’elle et
décide de répondre, généralement avec un message tout aussi charmant.
Le tout se déroule dans l’anonymat le plus total.
Un message par minute
Fondé à l’Université Stanford en octobre, le site a connu une ascension monstre, avec vingt millions
de pages vues durant ses six premières semaines d’existence.
Depuis son lancement à la mi-décembre, le volet de l’Université d’Ottawa du site Like A Little de
l’Université d’Ottawa (www.likealittle.com/uottawa) est pour sa part passé de quelques centaines de
visites à ses débuts à des dizaines de milliers, pendant la plus récente période d’examen.
Des sites identiques existent pour les universités Carleton, Queen’s, et les établissements
montréalais, mais il semblerait que le site de l’Ud’O soit parmi les plus populaires.
Aucune version du site n’a été créée à l’Université du Québec en Outaouais… Pour l’instant.
« Pendant la période d’examen, où tout le monde se trouvait enfermé à la bibliothèque pour étudier
ou procrastiner, un message était publié toutes les minutes, sans arrêt, de 10 h à 23 h », assure Dustin
Herbison.
Depuis, quelques messages sont postés toutes les heures. Mais le jeune homme s’attend à ce que le
site connaisse un achalandage tout aussi effrénée qu’en décembre durant la période de mi-session qui
approche.
Et si…
« L’intérêt de la chose, c’est vraiment de voir ce qui pourrait arriver, si la personne lit le message, si
elle décide d’y répondre, si elle te trouve de ton goût, si… », explique le jeune homme, qui assure la
supervision du site avec six de ses amis. « C’est du flirt à l’état pur ». Sur le campus de l’Université, le
site ne laisse personne indifférent. « C’est bien drôle de voir à quel point la dynamique d’étude a
changé, souligne Catherine Cimon, chef de pupitre à La Rotonde, le journal universitaire francophone
de l’Ud’O. On voit souvent des étudiants qui se lancent des regards furtifs (dans les aires d’études) à la
bibliothèque, avec Like A Little d’ouvert sur leur ordinateur portatif. »
Mais cela fonctionne-t-il ? Dustin et ses amis disent connaître « quelques couples » s’étant formés à
la suite de flirt sur Like A Little.
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BY MARIA COOK
Inuit kindergarten keeps kids
connected
Children ‘maintaining their culture’
Jane Kigutaq, a cultural teacher at the first Inuit kindergarten in Ottawa, shows a picture of a
beaver to a class of four-and five-year-olds.
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PAT MCGRATH, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
The first dedicated kindergarten class for Inuit children in Ontario, opened in October and led
by teacher Beatrice Ocquaye, held an open house Friday at R.E. Wilson Public School in
Vanier. The children are learning their language and culture in a classroom on McArthur
Road.
“Does it live up north?” asks Kigutaq, wearing a baby-carrying parka and long braids.
“No!” the group sitting on the floor says in unison. “Why not?” she asks. “Because there are no
trees,” ventures one boy.
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“Because it’s too cold,” she corrects him.
Later, when Kigutaq points to a window and says “What side is this?” everybody knows the right
answer.
“North!”
The Canadian North, mostly Nunavut, is where the 15 Inuit children or their families come from.
Living in Ottawa (called simply “the south” by the parents) they are learning their language and culture
in a classroom in the Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre on McArthur Road.
“Not only are they learning their ABCs, they’re learning about polar bears and the northern lights,”
says Karen Baker-Anderson, executive director of the centre.
The kindergarten is the first fullday junior and senior Inuit kindergarten in Ontario. It opened last
October and was organized by the centre, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, and nearby
Robert E. Wilson Public School.
The children are bused from across the city.
“ This wonderful partnership, which blends the best parts of Inuit culture and language with all of
the elements of full-day kindergarten, serves as an outstanding example for other communities
partnering to serve First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children and their families,” said Jim Grieve, assistant
deputy minister for the Early Learning Division in the Ontario Ministry of Education.
On Friday, the children demonstrated some of the things do in a typical day. They sang a song in
Inuktitut, acted out a legend about stars, and learned which animals hibernate and which don’t. Two
children performed throat-singing (a game in which they make throaty sounds at each other; the first
to laugh is out).
“It’s awesome,” says Mahtoonah Arngna-Naaq, 25, whose 5½-yearold son Jayden is enrolled.
“It helps a lot,” she says. “He’s learning things he’s not able to learn in other schools. He’s learning
about his own culture and traditions, like hunting and how to survive. He loves it.”
Sue Qitsualik’s four-year-old daughter Rebecca is learning to write her name in Inuit syllabic.
Hearing Inuktitut daily reinforces her knowledge of the language.
“We mustn’t forget our history,” says Qitsualik. “It’s her culture. If I’m not there teaching her, it is
part her everyday, who she is.”
Ottawa is home to the largest Inuit population outside of the north with the number estimated to be
1,800 (the whole population of Nunavut is about 30,000). They come for work, school and medical
treatment.
“The best way to continue to have a strong resilient community is by having strong resilient children
who know their culture,” says Baker-Anderson. Feeling connected to a community helps children’s
mental health and success in life, she says. “You can imagine, moving from the north, you’re isolated
from your family, what you know, the way that you’ve lived your life. When you come here and hear
your language and eat traditional food you feel a sense of belonging.”
Kigutaq, the cultural teacher, is paid by the Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre, which receives funding
from various sources including the federal, provincial and city governments. The teacher is paid by the
school board. About 260 primary-school teachers applied for the position.
Beatrice Ocquaye, 43, was the successful applicant. She draws on her experience of moving to
Belleville, Ont. from Ghana in west Africa when she was six years old.
“Coming from a culture that is completely different, I just remember not feeling quite part of the
community,” she says. “I recall the challenges that I faced, the difficulty I had to learn how to speak
English.”
She remembers in Grade One the class talking about monkeys. One of the children said to her: “You
lived with monkeys in your house where you came from.”
It wasn’t true but the teacher didn’t correct the mistake. “I was very uncomfortable because I knew
that was not valid. I didn’t have the vocabulary to say that’s not true. I didn’t have a voice at that time.
“That’s why it’s so important for me to help the kids to have a voice so that when they go back into
the regular system, they can say, ‘No this is what our culture truly is about’ and represent it accurately
as opposed to using stereotypes and biases. I think it builds self-esteem. It builds confidence in who
you are. They’re not alone. They’re part of a community and it’s valued.”
It took just six months to organize. “I think we would all agree in Canada that we want to support
our native and indigenous people in terms of maintaining their culture,” says Barrie Hammond, the
board’s director of education.
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BY KRISTY NEASE
Barrhaven schools on high alert after
brazen sex attack on teen
Councillor Harder pleads for public to come forward with information
As news of the brazen Tuesday morning sex attack on a 16-year-old girl in Barrhaven continued to
spread Friday, nearby schools were warning their students to keep safe and police were scrutinizing one
video obtained from a Fallowfield Road Park and Ride lot where the girl was apparently dropped off.
Councillor Jan Harder also pleaded with residents to try to remember anything out of the ordinary
they may have seen or heard that day, and to call in any tips to Ottawa police.
“In speaking to (Chief Vern White on Thursday and Friday), I know the priority that this case carries
and how hard they’re working on it, and I know that they will tell us as soon as they know more,”
Harder said Friday evening.
“I just ask for everybody, if you were in the vicinity — at our first roundabout at Tartan and
Jockvale — around that time, whether you were walking or driving, if you think really hard you might
remember something.”
Police are looking for a middle-aged man after the teenager, who was walking alone on Tartan Drive
at about 9:45 a.m., was approached by an unknown man driving an older red four-door SUV with
winter tires and no hub caps, similar to a Ford Escape or Explorer. It had two front bucket seats, but
the rear seats had been removed.
The vehicle had no front licence plate. Police said the SUV may have been registered in Quebec or
the suspect could have removed the front plate to avoid being identified by the victim.
The man asked for directions, then forced the young woman into the vehicle at gunpoint. He
sexually assaulted her before dropping her off at the Fallowfield Park and Ride, police said.
The lot has security cameras, and police were scrutinizing an hours-long video taken that day for
clues, said Det. Const. David West, who is leading the case. West said Friday evening that one vehicle
with a similar description to the suspect vehicle had been identified so far, but he would not provide any
details, including whether a license plate could be seen.
The suspect is described as a man in his 40s with light brown or olive skin and black and grey hair,
standing about five-foot-six-inches tall with a medium build. He spoke English with a French accent,
had shaggy, ear-length hair, wore a beige suede coat, black work boots, glasses with thin black rims
and a gold wedding band, police said.
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Assault: No suspect yet
Police said they are following several leads, but have not yet identified a suspect.
West said police were still waiting Friday evening for a number of videos from the city, though he
would not say how many there are or where they were shot. He said he hoped to have them later
Friday evening or early this morning.
West said the sexual assault and child abuse unit has been working with neighbourhood officers,
school resource officers and patrol officers, and that numerous tips from the public have been called in.
He also said nearby areas have been canvassed.
“Barrhaven continues to be a safe community,” Harder said. “I don’t want people panicking, but I do
want them to think. If they were in Barrhaven at that time of day this week, I want them to think.
We’ve got a very good description (out there), and if you can think of anything, please do call it in to
the police. Keep an eye out, take care of each other, and we’ll look for the police chief to bring this to a
quick resolve.”
The assault, which took place within short driving distance to four high schools, shocked students
and parents.
John McCrae Secondary School issued a community alert, posted on its website. “Students are
cautioned to take proper precaution when travelling to and from school,” it reads. “Do not approach
strange vehicles if requested for directions in the neighbourhood. Travel with a friend. Police also
caution that earphones can be distracting by blocking out normal sounds. Report any unusual action
such as a car slowing down and tailing you, etc., immediately to your parent or school administration.”
St. Joseph Catholic High School issued a similar plea.
“This girl was not a student at St. Joseph Catholic High School, however, given the proximity of this
occurrence, we want you to be aware of this incident, as we are concerned for the students in our
community,” a letter from principal Steve McCabe reads. “We are working together with area schools
and our school resource officer and will be addressing the students to remind them of some safety
precautions we hope they will use. I would ask that you also speak with your son or daughter about
safety strategies, such as walking with friends when possible, using the school bus if provided, being
aware of our immediate surroundings.”
For Harder, hearing about Tuesday’s sex assault caused memories of another Barrhaven trauma,
this one from 2005, to surface.
“Certainly, Jennifer Teague comes back to everyone’s minds that I’ve talked to. That was such an
incredibly terrible time for Jennifer’s family and certainly for the community, and it’s not that many
years ago that everybody doesn’t remember that,” Harder said.
“As soon as I heard about it, that’s the first thing I thought of. Jennifer’s never been far from our
minds and our hearts over the years. … I’m not surprised that other people, that’s the first thing they
thought of, too. Her murder traumatized the entire community.”
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The buses are full
I am a regular user of OC Transpo and a student at Carleton University. The express bus service
isn’t very convenient when it comes to my schedule, so every day I drive to Terry Fox park and ride
and take the 96 to Bayview station, where I then get on the O-Train and go to Carleton. On a good day,
it takes me a little less than an hour either way.\
Jan. 19 was not a good day in any sense of the term when it came to my transportation, particularly
on my commute home.
I got out of my last class and got on the 5:22 O-Train from Carleton. I got off at Bayview and
waited for a 96. And waited, and waited, and waited.
According to the schedule posted in the small bus shelter, a 96 was supposed to come every 10
minutes. Well, I waited at Bayview for 40 minutes, and I only saw two 96 buses. The first (which,
according to the aforementioned schedule, was about five minutes late or maybe five minutes early
since the other one didn’t show up) drove by without even acknowledging us. A woman I was waiting
with for part of the time tried to call customer service from a pay phone in the bus shelter, only to be
told it was closed. She couldn’t even leave a message. Forty minutes is an extremely long time to be
waiting for a bus, especially in the cold. Two more O-Trains came in the time I was waiting for one 96.
By the time the second 96 finally came, it was about 6:10 p.m. and it was crammed full. I’m not sure
what the seating capacity is on an articulated bus, but it was packed to the gills.
While I am most upset about the poor service on the 96 route, I am also upset that as a patron who
regularly parks at Terry Fox park and ride, it is my only option. If I could park at Eagleson, I could take
an express bus such as the 62. However, I can never get a parking space at Eagleson. I’ve been there
at 8 a.m. and still been unable to get a space.
ALLIE MOORE,
Kanata
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