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SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2014:
The Hintonburg Happening is a nine day art, music, fashion and food festival that kicked off Saturday, June 21, 2014 at Somerset Square. It was just one of the many festivals that took place in Ottawa on the weekend of June 21-22, 2014.
READ MORE: Photos from all the festival madness in Ottawa this weekend
This was only one of the moments featured during a week in the life of the capital as captured by the Citizen’s photojournalists, June 21 to 27, 2014.
Dancers perform at the Summer Soltice Aboriginal Festival at Vincent Massey Park on Saturday, June 21, 2014.
If Ottawa doesn’t shake its reputation as The City That Fun Forgot after this weekend, then its critics can fairly be damned, as the past few days in the nation’s capital have seen the perfect storm of festivals descend upon us as never before.
Parks seemed to sprout flags, face-painters and beer tents like weeds. Musicians everywhere blew on horns as a thousand barbecues fired up simultaneously. Drummers drummed, dancers danced, geese a’laid and lords a’leapt.
READ MORE: Ottawa comes of age as city explodes in festivals
SATURDAY: Kieran Murphy, 5, and a superhero friend at the CHEO Teddy Bear picnic at Rideau Hall on Saturday, June 21, 2014.
If your favourite furry friend has been feeling poorly, CHEO has the cure today at the annual Teddy Bear Picnic at Rideau Hall.
The popular family event has all kinds of events and activities at the Governor General’s residence.
But by far the most popular spot is the B*A*S*H* (Bear Ambulatory Surgical Hospital) Tent, where specialist surgeons take care of minor repairs to the kids’ favourite stuffed friends..
READ MORE: Teddy bear emergency room is open at Rideau Hall
The Bad Plus played TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Saturday, June 21, 2014 at Dominion Chalmers Church.
Stravinsky was intrigued by jazz and borrowed from its stylings for his Ebony Concerto, the Praeludium for Jazz Band and Piano-Rag Music, although these works all came several years after 1913’s Rite. The Bad Plus — Ethan Iverson on piano, Reid Anderson on bass, and David King on drums and percussion — return the favour with a more-or-less faithful transcription of Stravinsky’s ballet score.
READ MORE: The Bad Plus’ muscular and ambitious Jazz Fest show does Stravinsky proud
SATURDAY: Ottawa’s inaugural 2014 Glow Fair took place over the weekend of June 21-22, 2014, encompassing eight city blocks on Bank Street from Slater to Gilmour streets. The festival included extended patios to in-street games and tournaments, demonstrations, live performance arts and music and DJ’s.
The two-night inaugural festival on Bank Street had a lot of buskers, beats and bodies. But not much glowing.
Aside from neon-coloured costumes, the traffic lights did most of the brightening between Slater and Gilmour streets.
Still, the event brought a huge crowd to the oft-quiet Bank Street.
READ MORE: Nothing really glows at Glow Fair
SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014:
The Destroyers killed their 500 m mixed finals Sunday, June 22, 2014 at the 21st Tim Hortons Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival. After winning, the team took a moment to show some appreciation to the drummer with a couple good splashes of water.
Paddlers hit the water hard Sunday at The 21st Tim Hortons Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival which took place this past weekend at Mooney’s Bay Park.
READ MORE: Photos: Dragon Boat Races
Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers hit the main stage at TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Sunday, June 22, 2014 in Confederation Park.
The hollywood funnyman put on a bluegrass concert that was brimming with jokes. Or was it a comedy show punctuated by bluegrass tunes? We’re not entirely sure.
But regardless, the entertainment value was off the charts. The 68-year-old silver-haired fox picked away at his banjo almost as effortlessly as he knocked off the one-liners.
Wisecracks about a touring entourage that includes a botox doctor and celebrity lookalike earned chuckles early in the show.
READ MORE: Steve Martin kills it at the Ottawa Jazz Festival
MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014:
Police leaders from regional, municipal, First Nations police services, the Ontario Provincial Police, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police attended the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police’s (OACP) 63rd Annual Meeting held at the Chateau Laurier on Monday, June 23, 2014.
Police chiefs from across Ontario gathered in the nation’s capital Monday for the annual general meeting of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police to discuss the future of policing.
The meeting, bringing together about 200 of the 1,500-member association, was expected to host “candid, important discussions” on a range of issues affecting not only law enforcement but the communities they police, Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau said.
Over three days, chiefs were to hear from their peers and experts in various fields before voting on resolutions on Wednesday.
READ MORE: Ontario police chiefs set for ‘candid, important discussions’ at annual meeting
A guardsman sneaks a peek as the Ceremonial Guard conducted their first official parade Monday morning, June 23, 2014 with an inspection and welcome speech from Governor General David Johnston.
There was lots of sunshine and cool breezes Monday morning as Governor General David Johnston conducted the annual Inspection of the Ceremonial Guard on the grounds of Rideau Hall, and members of the public were on hand to watch the pageantry.
The inspection kicks off Relief of the Sentries season, when members of the Ceremonial Guard march out every hour from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., to take up their posts at the Rideau Hall’s front gate.
READ MORE: Governor General David Johnston inspects the Ceremonial Guard
Author and historian Arlene Chan examines an old printing press stored in the Canada Science and Technology Museum collection that was used by a Chinese newspaper.
The news of September 1978 lives on in an Ottawa museum in the form of rows of tiny metal pieces of lead with Chinese characters — a front page of Toronto’s Shing Wah Daily News.
Arlene Chan saw the historic typeset page Monday, and the vintage press that carried daily news to thousands of Chinese Canadians from 1930 to 1978.
The Cox Duplex press and the final front page it printed are now stored at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.
READ MORE: Vintage Chinese press holds Canadian history
Michael Barton’s son, Sam, took part in a study that has led to the world’s first guidelines for kids with concussions.
Sam Barton was doing what children do every day — playing in gym class — when “somebody fell on somebody,” in his father’s words, and the 10-year-old banged his head on the floor.
There were no visible bumps or bruises, no signs of nausea, but Sam complained of a headache and feeling off, so his parents took him to the doctor. There he was diagnosed with a probable concussion. Tests the doctor did later, as part of research at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, confirmed that not only did he have a concussion but that the knock had affected his ability to concentrate and his muscle strength, among other things.
Sam, now 11, is one of hundreds of local children who suffer from concussions every year — 900 of them show up at the CHEO emergency room alone.
READ MORE: First guidelines for kids with concussions unveiled by CHEO
Susan Tedeschi, left, Derek Trucks, centre, and Maurice Brown of Tedeschi Trucks band perform on the main stage at the 2014 Ottawa Jazz Festival on Monday, June 23, 2014.
On a steamy night in Confederation Park, the Tedeschi Trucks Band gave the audience at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival a sumptuous feast of musical styles, served by a Grammy-winning group that was full of supremely talented musicians.
At the heart of the beautiful melange of soul, blues, funk, Southern rock and, yes, even a touch of cosmic jazz was the husband-and-wife team of Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, two highly respected American singer-songwriter-guitarists who put aside their individual careers a few years ago to join forces in one glorious supergroup.
Without a doubt, the golden-haired duo have the songs and stage presence to carry a show on their own, but happily it seems they don’t believe in stripping things down. Even in these economically trying times, they travel with an extended band comprised of two drummers, three horn players, a bassist, keyboardist and a pair of backup singers. In all, there were 11 people on stage, a lineup worthy of the main stage of any major music festival.
READ MORE: Tedeschi Trucks Band serves up superb show
Firefighters battle a three-alarm blaze at St. Thomas School in Crystal Beach on Monday, June 23, 2014.
Ottawa firefighters responded to a three-alarm blaze at an abandoned school in the Crystal Beach area.
Shortly after 9 p.m., firefighters were called to the former St. Thomas Catholic School at 9 Leeming Dr. Heavy smoke poured from the building and a second alarm was called.
Firefighters needed to ventilate the building to increase visibility. Once inside, however, they encountered heavy smoke and more crews were called the the scene.
READ MORE: Firefighters tackle blaze in abandoned school
TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014:
An umbrella-toting woman crosses the patio at the World Exchange Plaza on Tuesday, June 24, 2014.
It was a wet day on Tuesday, June 24 — Ottawa residents coped with the rain, many with extensive use of umbrellas.
READ MORE: Photos: Wet Tuesday in Ottawa
TUESDAY: Ottawa Redblacks President Jeff Hunt, right, and CFL Commissioner Mark Cohon, centre, meet Redblack mascot Big Joe, before attending a luncheon on Tuesday, June 24, 2014 where the players on the team were introduced.
Windmill held a second public consultation Tuesday, June 24, 2014 for its Domtar lands and Chaudière Island development plan, the 3D model of which is pictured here.
At a public consultation for the Domtar lands and Chaudière Island development plan Tuesday, Windmill announced the proposed development has been named one of seven “EcoDistricts Target Cities” by Clinton Global Initiative America.
Developments in these cities are being spotlighted as “models for next-generation urban revitalization,” according to the organization. Other cities on the list included Atlanta, Boston, Cambridge, Denver, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Sustainability is a major part of the plan, temporarily named “The Isles.”
READ MORE: Proposed Domtar development named a ‘model’ for urban revitalization
Delbert Nelson of Delbert and the Commotions performs on the main stage at the 2014 Ottawa Jazz Festival on Tuesday, June 24, 2014.
David’s Angels performed on the Fourth Stage of the National Arts Centre and Delbert and the Commotions performed on the main stage at the 2014 Ottawa Jazz Festival on Tuesday, June 24, 2014.
READ MORE: Photos: Tuesday at Jazzfest
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2014:
Tent city in Gatineau, near the Robert Guertin Arena. The city is considering removing the campers but Luc Villemaire, director of Le Gite Ami, says there are too few spaces in local shelters to properly provide services.
But for Luc Deschenes, it’s just home.
He’s been in the tent city for just over a month. He travelled from Maniwaki to stay at the short-term shelter, Le Gite Ami, which limits stays to 15 days per month.
After his first stint, Deschenes bought a tent and he has been living in a makeshift tent city near the shelter with his girlfriend ever since.
Deschenes, who is facing charges of trafficking crack, plans to stay until September, when he hopes his Ottawa court matters are done.
Gatineau Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin says he’s worried mainly about possible violence at the site, behind the 55-bed adult short-term shelter near the Robert Guertin Centre.
READ MORE: No one knows what to do with the violence-filled tent city that’s popped up behind a Gatineau homeless shelter
Gordon and Kathleen Stringer’s daughter Rowan died after hitting her head playing rugby a year ago.
As Kathleen and Gordon Stringer were organizing the funeral and coming to grips with their 17-year-old daughter Rowan’s death last year, they received an unusual phone call from a stranger.
Chris Nowinski, executive director of the Sports Legacy Institute in Boston, had read about the Barrhaven teenager’s death after a high school rugby game, and wanted her brain for research.
The request might have surprised her parents, but they didn’t balk. Anything, they felt, that could expand the understanding of what caused Rowan’s death and help to prevent similar deaths or serious injuries in the future “we fully support.”
READ MORE: Ottawa teen died of ‘second impact syndrome’
Robin McMillan talks to reporters following a court appearance by accused sex-offender Kelly Jones at the Ottawa Court House, June 25, 2014.
In often harrowing detail, tearful sexual assault victims recounted to an Ottawa court Wednesday how their lives have been devastated by former Ottawa minor hockey and baseball coach Kelly Jones.
Jones had pleaded guilty to a series of predatory sexual offences against 11 children between the early 1970s and 1997.
He committed his two first offences when he was barely 16 and has admitted that there are 15 other children he abused but who he will not name.
Crown prosecutor David Elhadad is seeking a sentence of 11 to 12 years’ imprisonment for 58-year-old Jones.
READ MORE: Victims of hockey coach Kelly Jones speak about the legacy of sexual abuse
Mike Maguire is the only man so far registered to challenge Jim Watson for mayor.
Mike Maguire, the only person so far registered to challenge Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson in the Oct. 27 municipal election, officially launches his campaign on Thursday.
After placing fifth in 2010, he’s back, campaigning for fiscal restraint at city hall and commuter rail service to the suburbs.
READ MORE: Mike Maguire launches campaign to be Ottawa’s next mayor
Engineering professor Leonard MacEachern of Carleton University, along with his team of students, has developed technology that by using a band similar to a tensor bandage, only with high tech sensors and worn on the thigh while cycling or running, an athlete can reduce injury by being able to track things like lactic acid build up, etc. They can then adjust their work out.
What started out as a personal quest to lose weight has turned into a cutting edge opportunity for one Carleton University professor and his team.
A little over eight years ago, Leonard MacEachern, a professor in the department of electronics, went from flabby to lean. Perhaps even a little too lean.
“I lost half my body weight. I looked like a stick,” he said. “I started lifting weights, and I realized that there is no product out there that allows you to measure muscle activity and growth.”
MacEachern, who used heart rate monitors as a key component in his weight loss, surveyed the market for comparable devices that could allow a person to monitor muscle contractions, lactic acid buildup and other key indicators that could help him to get more out of each of his workouts while avoiding injury.
READ MORE: Wearable computing has arrived, thanks to Ottawa’s GestureLogic
Dianne Reeves performs on the Main Stage during the 2014 Ottawa Jazz Festival.
Before you heard Dianne Reeves in Confederation Park Wednesday night, you probably thought you knew how the Fleetwood Mac hit Dreams went. How about the Peter Gabriel song In Your Eyes, or that old jazz tune Stormy Weather?
Reeves, the four-time Grammy winner, made you think again. Thanks to forward-thinking and funky arrangements, and her own majestic voice and presence, these and other songs were reinvented and made to sound new again.
She and her powerhouse group made vivid, exuberant music that was always creative but highly accessible, upbeat and entertaining, too.
READ MORE: Jazzfest review: Dianne Reeves uplifts with vocal thrills, deep grooves
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2014:
Andy Thacker knows that saving a life is a team effort, but the 19-year-old Mother Teresa High School grad is thankful that he could play a role in one such life-or-death drama in Barrhaven on Wednesday night.
Andy Thacker knows that saving a life is a team effort, but the 19-year-old Mother Teresa High School grad is thankful that he could play a role in one such life-or-death drama in Barrhaven on Wednesday night.
Thacker was coaching his team of 11- and 12-year-olds in an East Nepean Little League playoff game when, in the top of the sixth inning, he heard a sickening “thud” nearby. A man had collapsed in a heap next to the field.
Thacker immediately stopped the game and ran to assist. A woman was already giving first aid to the man, but Thacker could see that the man had gone into a seizure. The woman called for a defibrillator.
READ MORE: Quick-thinking coach credited with ‘defib’ save at ball game
A man is silhouetted against a fluttering OPSEU flag at a rally out front of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre on Thursday, June 26, 2014.
Ottawa jail guards complain that the overcrowded Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre is a “powder keg” with a “toxic” work environment and are demanding the province spend more money on staff, training and rehabilitation programs for prisoners.
“When there is triple bunking in a eight-foot by eight-foot cell with one inmate sleeping on the floor, a jail is going to become a powder keg,” jail guard and Ontario Public Service Employees Union local 411 president Denis Collin told a crowd of about 50 guards and other staff at a rally outside the Innes Road jail Thursday. “Our jail is a powder keg.”
Collin said conditions at the provincial jail are deteriorating, with tensions running high and staff feeling “demonized” by their own employer and the public for doing a difficult job in the often volatile and increasingly violent institutions.
READ MORE: Ottawa jail guards rally against ‘toxic’ work environment
THURSDAY: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation, including, from left: Queen’s University student Tyler Lively, CTF’s director Gregory Thomas and Porky, the waste-hating pig) held a cap-and-gown ceremony on Parliament Hill Thursday, June 26, 2014. The diploma from “Screwed U” was to bring attention to some of the most wacky grants handed out by the federal government’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for research.
#3 Brett Maher practices his kick during the Redblacks’ practice on Thursday, June 26, 2014 at Keith Harris Stadium at Carleton University.
Oh baby, what a couple of weeks for Brett Maher.
The 24-year-old kicker played impressively for Winnipeg in Canadian Football League pre-season games on June 9 and 14, but was released on June 16 because of the number of “national” and “international” players on the Blue Bombers’ roster.
On June 17, he flew into Ottawa, signed with the Redblacks, and had one full practice and a short “run-through” before handling field goals and kickoffs against the Montreal Alouettes on June 20.
READ MORE: Brett Maher getting another kick with Redblacks
Al Pacino performs on the National Arts Centre stage on Thursday, June 26, 2014.
Acclaimed and Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino delivered a career full of stories to the National Arts Centre on Thursday, June 26 for an evening of conversation.
READ MORE: Photos: A night with Al Pacino
Verdine White, Philip Bailey and Ralph Johnson. Earth of Wind & Fire play the Main Stage on Thursday, June 26, 2014 during the 2014 Ottawa Jazz Festival.
“Looks like we’re going to have a party in here tonight,” declared Earth, Wind & Fire singer Philip Bailey as he surveyed the crowd at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival early in the band’s headlining performance on Thursday.
In truth, by the time he made that statement, the festivities were well underway. Thousands of fans had already streamed into Confederation Park, lined up for beverages and were dancing in the grass. It was one of the biggest and liveliest crowds in the festival’s history — even the folks in the lawnchair contingent were on their feet swaying to the funky beat and clapping their hands in the air.
And why not? The enduring appeal of Earth, Wind & Fire stems from their ability to create a celebratory atmosphere with a heady mix of soul, funk, jazz and rock. On a beautiful summer night, the feel-good spirit was impossible to resist. Throw in the strong possibility that it may have been the band’s Ottawa debut (according to Bailey), and it was a must-see show.
READ MORE: Concert review: Earth, Wind & Fire at TD Ottawa Jazz Festival
FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2014:
FRIDAY: Flashmob of young schoolchildren at York Street Public School on Friday, June 27, 2014 greeted the delegation of the prestigious One Young Worldsummit. Ottawa is bidding to host the prestigious One Young Worldsummit in 2016 and the conference’s site selection committee is currently in Ottawa.
A judge stayed charges against dairy farmer Ian Conklin on Friday, June 27, 2014, three months before he was set to stand trial.
A judge has stayed charges against a dairy farmer who spent more than three years behind bars insisting he was innocent of allegations he conspired with a senior member of the Hells Angels to traffic cocaine.
The stay came after a more than four-year legal odyssey that saw 49-year-old Ian Conklin charged along with Ontario Nomads member Mario “Five Cent” Sincennes and several others in January 2010 as part of a large-scale covert police operation dubbed Project Beckenham.
The investigation by the Biker Enforcement Unit of the Ontario Provincial Police resulted in the seizure of a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of drugs, a machine gun and silencer, multiple handguns and tens of thousands of dollars in cash and property. It resulted in lengthy prison sentences for Sincennes and his top lieutenants after they pleaded guilty.
READ MORE: Charges stayed against farmer who spent more than three years in jail
FRIDAY: Jovon Johnson (DB) chugs back some water during the long, hot practice, as the Ottawa Redblacks held their first practice ever at the new TD Place stadium at Lansdowne Park on Friday, June 27, 2014.
Maybe there will be a home-field advantage, maybe not.
What was plain to see on Friday, though, was that their first practice at TD Place stadium had boosted the spirits of Ottawa Redblacks players.
That was particularly so for four Ottawa-area players on the roster, but also for one of the few Canadian Football League veterans who played at the old Lansdowne Park facility then known as Frank Clair Stadium.
READ MORE: Redblacks finally at home, and it feels so good
FRIDAY: A cyclist navigates St. Patrick Street on Friday, June 27, 2014.
When community groups in Vanier and New Edinburgh learned this summer’s $2.3-million resurfacing of St. Patrick Street didn’t include plans for much-needed bike lanes, they were mad.
St. Patrick is a crucial link for people getting between Vanier, New Edinburgh, Manor Park and Rockcliffe Park, and the ByWard Market, Centretown and Gatineau. But with a speed limit of 60 km/h and the roadway pocked with potholes, the 1.2-kilometre stretch of road is a cyclist’s worst nightmare
“It’s kind of your urban, off-road experience, except with fast-moving traffic,” is how the Vanier Community Association’s Sarah Partridge described it.
And yet all the city was going to do was repave the road, paint some sharrows — shared-lane markings — and install a bike lane on just a small portion of St. Patrick.
READ MORE: New path proposed for St. Patrick Street cyclists
Charlie Musselwhite, left, performs with Ben Harper on the Main Stage at the Ottawa Jazz Festival on Friday, June 27, 2014.
Charlie Musselwhite performed with Ben Harper on the Main Stage at the Ottawa Jazz Festival on Friday, June 27, 2014.
READ MORE: Photos: Friday at 2014 Ottawa Jazz Festival
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The Hintonburg Happening is a nine day art, music, fashion and food festival that kicked off Saturday, June 21, 2014 at Somerset Square. It was just one of the many festivals that took place in Ottawa on the weekend of June 21-22, 2014.
READ MORE: Photos from all the festival madness in Ottawa this weekend
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This was only one of the moments featured during a week in the life of the capital as captured by the Citizen’s photojournalists, June 21 to 27, 2014.
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Dancers perform at the Summer Soltice Aboriginal Festival at Vincent Massey Park on Saturday, June 21, 2014.
If Ottawa doesn’t shake its reputation as The City That Fun Forgot after this weekend, then its critics can fairly be damned, as the past few days in the nation’s capital have seen the perfect storm of festivals descend upon us as never before.
Parks seemed to sprout flags, face-painters and beer tents like weeds. Musicians everywhere blew on horns as a thousand barbecues fired up simultaneously. Drummers drummed, dancers danced, geese a’laid and lords a’leapt.
READ MORE: Ottawa comes of age as city explodes in festivals
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SATURDAY: Kieran Murphy, 5, and a superhero friend at the CHEO Teddy Bear picnic at Rideau Hall on Saturday, June 21, 2014.
If your favourite furry friend has been feeling poorly, CHEO has the cure today at the annual Teddy Bear Picnic at Rideau Hall.
The popular family event has all kinds of events and activities at the Governor General’s residence.
But by far the most popular spot is the B*A*S*H* (Bear Ambulatory Surgical Hospital) Tent, where specialist surgeons take care of minor repairs to the kids’ favourite stuffed friends..
READ MORE: Teddy bear emergency room is open at Rideau Hall
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The Bad Plus played TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Saturday, June 21, 2014 at Dominion Chalmers Church.
Stravinsky was intrigued by jazz and borrowed from its stylings for his Ebony Concerto, the Praeludium for Jazz Band and Piano-Rag Music, although these works all came several years after 1913’s Rite. The Bad Plus — Ethan Iverson on piano, Reid Anderson on bass, and David King on drums and percussion — return the favour with a more-or-less faithful transcription of Stravinsky’s ballet score.
READ MORE: The Bad Plus’ muscular and ambitious Jazz Fest show does Stravinsky proud
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SATURDAY: Ottawa’s inaugural 2014 Glow Fair took place over the weekend of June 21-22, 2014, encompassing eight city blocks on Bank Street from Slater to Gilmour streets. The festival included extended patios to in-street games and tournaments, demonstrations, live performance arts and music and DJ’s.
The two-night inaugural festival on Bank Street had a lot of buskers, beats and bodies. But not much glowing.
Aside from neon-coloured costumes, the traffic lights did most of the brightening between Slater and Gilmour streets.
Still, the event brought a huge crowd to the oft-quiet Bank Street.
READ MORE: Nothing really glows at Glow Fair
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SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014:
The Destroyers killed their 500 m mixed finals Sunday, June 22, 2014 at the 21st Tim Hortons Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival. After winning, the team took a moment to show some appreciation to the drummer with a couple good splashes of water.
Paddlers hit the water hard Sunday at The 21st Tim Hortons Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival which took place this past weekend at Mooney’s Bay Park.
READ MORE: Photos: Dragon Boat Races
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Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers hit the main stage at TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Sunday, June 22, 2014 in Confederation Park.
The hollywood funnyman put on a bluegrass concert that was brimming with jokes. Or was it a comedy show punctuated by bluegrass tunes? We’re not entirely sure.
But regardless, the entertainment value was off the charts. The 68-year-old silver-haired fox picked away at his banjo almost as effortlessly as he knocked off the one-liners.
Wisecracks about a touring entourage that includes a botox doctor and celebrity lookalike earned chuckles early in the show.
READ MORE: Steve Martin kills it at the Ottawa Jazz Festival
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MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014:
Police leaders from regional, municipal, First Nations police services, the Ontario Provincial Police, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police attended the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police’s (OACP) 63rd Annual Meeting held at the Chateau Laurier on Monday, June 23, 2014.
Police chiefs from across Ontario gathered in the nation’s capital Monday for the annual general meeting of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police to discuss the future of policing.
The meeting, bringing together about 200 of the 1,500-member association, was expected to host “candid, important discussions” on a range of issues affecting not only law enforcement but the communities they police, Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau said.
Over three days, chiefs were to hear from their peers and experts in various fields before voting on resolutions on Wednesday.
READ MORE: Ontario police chiefs set for ‘candid, important discussions’ at annual meeting
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A guardsman sneaks a peek as the Ceremonial Guard conducted their first official parade Monday morning, June 23, 2014 with an inspection and welcome speech from Governor General David Johnston.
There was lots of sunshine and cool breezes Monday morning as Governor General David Johnston conducted the annual Inspection of the Ceremonial Guard on the grounds of Rideau Hall, and members of the public were on hand to watch the pageantry.
The inspection kicks off Relief of the Sentries season, when members of the Ceremonial Guard march out every hour from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., to take up their posts at the Rideau Hall’s front gate.
READ MORE: Governor General David Johnston inspects the Ceremonial Guard
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Author and historian Arlene Chan examines an old printing press stored in the Canada Science and Technology Museum collection that was used by a Chinese newspaper.
The news of September 1978 lives on in an Ottawa museum in the form of rows of tiny metal pieces of lead with Chinese characters — a front page of Toronto’s Shing Wah Daily News.
Arlene Chan saw the historic typeset page Monday, and the vintage press that carried daily news to thousands of Chinese Canadians from 1930 to 1978.
The Cox Duplex press and the final front page it printed are now stored at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.
READ MORE: Vintage Chinese press holds Canadian history
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Michael Barton’s son, Sam, took part in a study that has led to the world’s first guidelines for kids with concussions.
Sam Barton was doing what children do every day — playing in gym class — when “somebody fell on somebody,” in his father’s words, and the 10-year-old banged his head on the floor.
There were no visible bumps or bruises, no signs of nausea, but Sam complained of a headache and feeling off, so his parents took him to the doctor. There he was diagnosed with a probable concussion. Tests the doctor did later, as part of research at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, confirmed that not only did he have a concussion but that the knock had affected his ability to concentrate and his muscle strength, among other things.
Sam, now 11, is one of hundreds of local children who suffer from concussions every year — 900 of them show up at the CHEO emergency room alone.
READ MORE: First guidelines for kids with concussions unveiled by CHEO
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Susan Tedeschi, left, Derek Trucks, centre, and Maurice Brown of Tedeschi Trucks band perform on the main stage at the 2014 Ottawa Jazz Festival on Monday, June 23, 2014.
On a steamy night in Confederation Park, the Tedeschi Trucks Band gave the audience at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival a sumptuous feast of musical styles, served by a Grammy-winning group that was full of supremely talented musicians.
At the heart of the beautiful melange of soul, blues, funk, Southern rock and, yes, even a touch of cosmic jazz was the husband-and-wife team of Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, two highly respected American singer-songwriter-guitarists who put aside their individual careers a few years ago to join forces in one glorious supergroup.
Without a doubt, the golden-haired duo have the songs and stage presence to carry a show on their own, but happily it seems they don’t believe in stripping things down. Even in these economically trying times, they travel with an extended band comprised of two drummers, three horn players, a bassist, keyboardist and a pair of backup singers. In all, there were 11 people on stage, a lineup worthy of the main stage of any major music festival.
READ MORE: Tedeschi Trucks Band serves up superb show
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Firefighters battle a three-alarm blaze at St. Thomas School in Crystal Beach on Monday, June 23, 2014.
Ottawa firefighters responded to a three-alarm blaze at an abandoned school in the Crystal Beach area.
Shortly after 9 p.m., firefighters were called to the former St. Thomas Catholic School at 9 Leeming Dr. Heavy smoke poured from the building and a second alarm was called.
Firefighters needed to ventilate the building to increase visibility. Once inside, however, they encountered heavy smoke and more crews were called the the scene.
READ MORE: Firefighters tackle blaze in abandoned school
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TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014:
An umbrella-toting woman crosses the patio at the World Exchange Plaza on Tuesday, June 24, 2014.
It was a wet day on Tuesday, June 24 — Ottawa residents coped with the rain, many with extensive use of umbrellas.
READ MORE: Photos: Wet Tuesday in Ottawa
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TUESDAY: Ottawa Redblacks President Jeff Hunt, right, and CFL Commissioner Mark Cohon, centre, meet Redblack mascot Big Joe, before attending a luncheon on Tuesday, June 24, 2014 where the players on the team were introduced.
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Windmill held a second public consultation Tuesday, June 24, 2014 for its Domtar lands and Chaudière Island development plan, the 3D model of which is pictured here.
At a public consultation for the Domtar lands and Chaudière Island development plan Tuesday, Windmill announced the proposed development has been named one of seven “EcoDistricts Target Cities” by Clinton Global Initiative America.
Developments in these cities are being spotlighted as “models for next-generation urban revitalization,” according to the organization. Other cities on the list included Atlanta, Boston, Cambridge, Denver, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Sustainability is a major part of the plan, temporarily named “The Isles.”
READ MORE: Proposed Domtar development named a ‘model’ for urban revitalization
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Delbert Nelson of Delbert and the Commotions performs on the main stage at the 2014 Ottawa Jazz Festival on Tuesday, June 24, 2014.
David’s Angels performed on the Fourth Stage of the National Arts Centre and Delbert and the Commotions performed on the main stage at the 2014 Ottawa Jazz Festival on Tuesday, June 24, 2014.
READ MORE: Photos: Tuesday at Jazzfest
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2014:
Tent city in Gatineau, near the Robert Guertin Arena. The city is considering removing the campers but Luc Villemaire, director of Le Gite Ami, says there are too few spaces in local shelters to properly provide services.
But for Luc Deschenes, it’s just home.
He’s been in the tent city for just over a month. He travelled from Maniwaki to stay at the short-term shelter, Le Gite Ami, which limits stays to 15 days per month.
After his first stint, Deschenes bought a tent and he has been living in a makeshift tent city near the shelter with his girlfriend ever since.
Deschenes, who is facing charges of trafficking crack, plans to stay until September, when he hopes his Ottawa court matters are done.
Gatineau Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin says he’s worried mainly about possible violence at the site, behind the 55-bed adult short-term shelter near the Robert Guertin Centre.
READ MORE: No one knows what to do with the violence-filled tent city that’s popped up behind a Gatineau homeless shelter
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Gordon and Kathleen Stringer’s daughter Rowan died after hitting her head playing rugby a year ago.
As Kathleen and Gordon Stringer were organizing the funeral and coming to grips with their 17-year-old daughter Rowan’s death last year, they received an unusual phone call from a stranger.
Chris Nowinski, executive director of the Sports Legacy Institute in Boston, had read about the Barrhaven teenager’s death after a high school rugby game, and wanted her brain for research.
The request might have surprised her parents, but they didn’t balk. Anything, they felt, that could expand the understanding of what caused Rowan’s death and help to prevent similar deaths or serious injuries in the future “we fully support.”
READ MORE: Ottawa teen died of ‘second impact syndrome’
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Robin McMillan talks to reporters following a court appearance by accused sex-offender Kelly Jones at the Ottawa Court House, June 25, 2014.
In often harrowing detail, tearful sexual assault victims recounted to an Ottawa court Wednesday how their lives have been devastated by former Ottawa minor hockey and baseball coach Kelly Jones.
Jones had pleaded guilty to a series of predatory sexual offences against 11 children between the early 1970s and 1997.
He committed his two first offences when he was barely 16 and has admitted that there are 15 other children he abused but who he will not name.
Crown prosecutor David Elhadad is seeking a sentence of 11 to 12 years’ imprisonment for 58-year-old Jones.
READ MORE: Victims of hockey coach Kelly Jones speak about the legacy of sexual abuse
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Mike Maguire is the only man so far registered to challenge Jim Watson for mayor.
Mike Maguire, the only person so far registered to challenge Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson in the Oct. 27 municipal election, officially launches his campaign on Thursday.
After placing fifth in 2010, he’s back, campaigning for fiscal restraint at city hall and commuter rail service to the suburbs.
READ MORE: Mike Maguire launches campaign to be Ottawa’s next mayor
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Engineering professor Leonard MacEachern of Carleton University, along with his team of students, has developed technology that by using a band similar to a tensor bandage, only with high tech sensors and worn on the thigh while cycling or running, an athlete can reduce injury by being able to track things like lactic acid build up, etc. They can then adjust their work out.
What started out as a personal quest to lose weight has turned into a cutting edge opportunity for one Carleton University professor and his team.
A little over eight years ago, Leonard MacEachern, a professor in the department of electronics, went from flabby to lean. Perhaps even a little too lean.
“I lost half my body weight. I looked like a stick,” he said. “I started lifting weights, and I realized that there is no product out there that allows you to measure muscle activity and growth.”
MacEachern, who used heart rate monitors as a key component in his weight loss, surveyed the market for comparable devices that could allow a person to monitor muscle contractions, lactic acid buildup and other key indicators that could help him to get more out of each of his workouts while avoiding injury.
READ MORE: Wearable computing has arrived, thanks to Ottawa’s GestureLogic
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Dianne Reeves performs on the Main Stage during the 2014 Ottawa Jazz Festival.
Before you heard Dianne Reeves in Confederation Park Wednesday night, you probably thought you knew how the Fleetwood Mac hit Dreams went. How about the Peter Gabriel song In Your Eyes, or that old jazz tune Stormy Weather?
Reeves, the four-time Grammy winner, made you think again. Thanks to forward-thinking and funky arrangements, and her own majestic voice and presence, these and other songs were reinvented and made to sound new again.
She and her powerhouse group made vivid, exuberant music that was always creative but highly accessible, upbeat and entertaining, too.
READ MORE: Jazzfest review: Dianne Reeves uplifts with vocal thrills, deep grooves
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THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2014:
Andy Thacker knows that saving a life is a team effort, but the 19-year-old Mother Teresa High School grad is thankful that he could play a role in one such life-or-death drama in Barrhaven on Wednesday night.
Andy Thacker knows that saving a life is a team effort, but the 19-year-old Mother Teresa High School grad is thankful that he could play a role in one such life-or-death drama in Barrhaven on Wednesday night.
Thacker was coaching his team of 11- and 12-year-olds in an East Nepean Little League playoff game when, in the top of the sixth inning, he heard a sickening “thud” nearby. A man had collapsed in a heap next to the field.
Thacker immediately stopped the game and ran to assist. A woman was already giving first aid to the man, but Thacker could see that the man had gone into a seizure. The woman called for a defibrillator.
READ MORE: Quick-thinking coach credited with ‘defib’ save at ball game
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A man is silhouetted against a fluttering OPSEU flag at a rally out front of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre on Thursday, June 26, 2014.
Ottawa jail guards complain that the overcrowded Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre is a “powder keg” with a “toxic” work environment and are demanding the province spend more money on staff, training and rehabilitation programs for prisoners.
“When there is triple bunking in a eight-foot by eight-foot cell with one inmate sleeping on the floor, a jail is going to become a powder keg,” jail guard and Ontario Public Service Employees Union local 411 president Denis Collin told a crowd of about 50 guards and other staff at a rally outside the Innes Road jail Thursday. “Our jail is a powder keg.”
Collin said conditions at the provincial jail are deteriorating, with tensions running high and staff feeling “demonized” by their own employer and the public for doing a difficult job in the often volatile and increasingly violent institutions.
READ MORE: Ottawa jail guards rally against ‘toxic’ work environment
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THURSDAY: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation, including, from left: Queen’s University student Tyler Lively, CTF’s director Gregory Thomas and Porky, the waste-hating pig) held a cap-and-gown ceremony on Parliament Hill Thursday, June 26, 2014. The diploma from “Screwed U” was to bring attention to some of the most wacky grants handed out by the federal government’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for research.
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#3 Brett Maher practices his kick during the Redblacks’ practice on Thursday, June 26, 2014 at Keith Harris Stadium at Carleton University.
Oh baby, what a couple of weeks for Brett Maher.
The 24-year-old kicker played impressively for Winnipeg in Canadian Football League pre-season games on June 9 and 14, but was released on June 16 because of the number of “national” and “international” players on the Blue Bombers’ roster.
On June 17, he flew into Ottawa, signed with the Redblacks, and had one full practice and a short “run-through” before handling field goals and kickoffs against the Montreal Alouettes on June 20.
READ MORE: Brett Maher getting another kick with Redblacks
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Al Pacino performs on the National Arts Centre stage on Thursday, June 26, 2014.
Acclaimed and Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino delivered a career full of stories to the National Arts Centre on Thursday, June 26 for an evening of conversation.
READ MORE: Photos: A night with Al Pacino
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Verdine White, Philip Bailey and Ralph Johnson. Earth of Wind & Fire play the Main Stage on Thursday, June 26, 2014 during the 2014 Ottawa Jazz Festival.
“Looks like we’re going to have a party in here tonight,” declared Earth, Wind & Fire singer Philip Bailey as he surveyed the crowd at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival early in the band’s headlining performance on Thursday.
In truth, by the time he made that statement, the festivities were well underway. Thousands of fans had already streamed into Confederation Park, lined up for beverages and were dancing in the grass. It was one of the biggest and liveliest crowds in the festival’s history — even the folks in the lawnchair contingent were on their feet swaying to the funky beat and clapping their hands in the air.
And why not? The enduring appeal of Earth, Wind & Fire stems from their ability to create a celebratory atmosphere with a heady mix of soul, funk, jazz and rock. On a beautiful summer night, the feel-good spirit was impossible to resist. Throw in the strong possibility that it may have been the band’s Ottawa debut (according to Bailey), and it was a must-see show.
READ MORE: Concert review: Earth, Wind & Fire at TD Ottawa Jazz Festival
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FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2014:
FRIDAY: Flashmob of young schoolchildren at York Street Public School on Friday, June 27, 2014 greeted the delegation of the prestigious One Young Worldsummit. Ottawa is bidding to host the prestigious One Young Worldsummit in 2016 and the conference’s site selection committee is currently in Ottawa.
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A judge stayed charges against dairy farmer Ian Conklin on Friday, June 27, 2014, three months before he was set to stand trial.
A judge has stayed charges against a dairy farmer who spent more than three years behind bars insisting he was innocent of allegations he conspired with a senior member of the Hells Angels to traffic cocaine.
The stay came after a more than four-year legal odyssey that saw 49-year-old Ian Conklin charged along with Ontario Nomads member Mario “Five Cent” Sincennes and several others in January 2010 as part of a large-scale covert police operation dubbed Project Beckenham.
The investigation by the Biker Enforcement Unit of the Ontario Provincial Police resulted in the seizure of a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of drugs, a machine gun and silencer, multiple handguns and tens of thousands of dollars in cash and property. It resulted in lengthy prison sentences for Sincennes and his top lieutenants after they pleaded guilty.
READ MORE: Charges stayed against farmer who spent more than three years in jail
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FRIDAY: Jovon Johnson (DB) chugs back some water during the long, hot practice, as the Ottawa Redblacks held their first practice ever at the new TD Place stadium at Lansdowne Park on Friday, June 27, 2014.
Maybe there will be a home-field advantage, maybe not.
What was plain to see on Friday, though, was that their first practice at TD Place stadium had boosted the spirits of Ottawa Redblacks players.
That was particularly so for four Ottawa-area players on the roster, but also for one of the few Canadian Football League veterans who played at the old Lansdowne Park facility then known as Frank Clair Stadium.
READ MORE: Redblacks finally at home, and it feels so good
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FRIDAY: A cyclist navigates St. Patrick Street on Friday, June 27, 2014.
When community groups in Vanier and New Edinburgh learned this summer’s $2.3-million resurfacing of St. Patrick Street didn’t include plans for much-needed bike lanes, they were mad.
St. Patrick is a crucial link for people getting between Vanier, New Edinburgh, Manor Park and Rockcliffe Park, and the ByWard Market, Centretown and Gatineau. But with a speed limit of 60 km/h and the roadway pocked with potholes, the 1.2-kilometre stretch of road is a cyclist’s worst nightmare
“It’s kind of your urban, off-road experience, except with fast-moving traffic,” is how the Vanier Community Association’s Sarah Partridge described it.
And yet all the city was going to do was repave the road, paint some sharrows — shared-lane markings — and install a bike lane on just a small portion of St. Patrick.
READ MORE: New path proposed for St. Patrick Street cyclists
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Charlie Musselwhite, left, performs with Ben Harper on the Main Stage at the Ottawa Jazz Festival on Friday, June 27, 2014.
Charlie Musselwhite performed with Ben Harper on the Main Stage at the Ottawa Jazz Festival on Friday, June 27, 2014.
READ MORE: Photos: Friday at 2014 Ottawa Jazz Festival
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