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Tim Hortons in City of Ottawa Wards
This visualization represents the number violations Tim Hortons restaurants have received from Ottawa inspectors from 2009 to the first five months of 2015.
Source: Ottawa Public Health food premises inspection reports
http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/public-health-inspection-data
Ottawa Coyote Calls: Reported Sightings of Coyotes
Ottawa Coyote Calls
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Open Data Ottawa shows that there has been a decline in reported coyote sightings in the Ottawa area. However sources say that the public is simply not reporting sightings but instead taking matters into their own hands and hiring trappers, as the coyote population is in fact quite stable.
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Heather Badenoch – Rideau Valley Wildlife Sanctuary Volunteer & Board Member,and Village PR Owner Phone: 613-859-8232
Badenoch informed me that the sanctuary deals with injured and orphaned wild animals, works to prevent animal from being injured (or causing injury) and gets many calls about wildlife in urban areas. She also explained that most of the complaints about wild animals are caused because people have left food and garbage out.
Robin Horwath –General Manager of the Ontario Fur Ministry Federation
Phone: 705-254-3338
Horwath explained that the coyote population in the Ottawa area has stabilized, and even increased in some areas over the last few years, but the number of nuisance calls has increased.
He went on to explain that all coyote trappers are licensed and once captured are relocated or dispatched (euthanized).
Ontario Fur Ministry Federation official website:
http://www.furmanagers.com/#!licence/c6j7
The website explains what happens when a when the Ministry of Natural Resources receives a complaint of predation, and assures the public that it assesses the situation carefully and begins a control program.
The site states that they only employ local fully licensed trappers, who primarily use traps, and encourages people to make the effort to help avoid such issues to arise in the first place (ie. tidying up food/garbage and keeping pets and domestic animals inside).
Todd Lane –Press Secretary, Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Email: todd.lane@ontario.ca Phone: 416-314-1100
Lane informed me that there has been a slight change in the coyote population in the Ottawa area. “The coyote trend in Kemptville district, which includes the City of Ottawa, indicated numbers peaked in 2009. The index last fall was down about 27 per cent from that peak.”
Constable Lori Fahey
Email: faheyl@ottawapolice.ca Phone: 613-236-1222 x 2005
Fahey informed me that while she receives emails concerning coyote sightings, she refers people to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, the Ottawa police do not respond to calls about coyotes unless there are “exigent circumstances which would necessitate [their] attention”.
She also encourages people to avoid feeding wildlife “as it could decrease their natural fear of humans and lead to more conflicts.”
City Councilor Allan Hubley– Kanata South Ward 23
http://councillorallanhubley.ca/?page_id=4475
Hubley’s urges residents to give a detailed report of coyote sightings to three different departments: the ward’s local police office, the Ministry of Natural Resource and Forestry and finally to contact the city.
Dianne Wittner –Wildlife biologist & founder of the Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation
Fall 2010 Newsletter, Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Centre: http://wildlifeinfo.ca/newsletters/fall10.pdf
Wittner expands on the habits homeowners need to take on to avoid attracting coyotes to their home. She also stresses the importance of protecting the coyote population and their role in the food chain.
Greenbelt Official Website: http://www.ncc-ccn.gc.ca/places-to-visit/greenbelt/visitor-information
The Greenbelt “surrounds Ottawa and extends from Shirley’s Bay in the west to Green’s Creek in the east”.
Data Source:
http://data.ottawa.ca/en/dataset/2014-311-monthly-service-request-submissions
http://data.ottawa.ca/en/dataset/311-monthly-service-request-submissions
http://data.ottawa.ca/en/dataset/311-service-request-volumes
http://data.ottawa.ca/en/dataset/311-service-request-volumes
Taxes and Tuition, what you actually pay – Chris Whan final assignment
| Fees | $2,192,158 | $2,192,158 | |||
| Provincial Funding | $6,288,082 | $6,288,082 | |||
| Grand Total | $8,480,240 | $8,480,240 | Total Revenue: | $9,912,373 | |
| Percentage_Federal | 22.12% | ||||
| Percentage_Fees | 63% |
| Federal (11) | $ 3,463,865.00 | $ 3,463,865.00 | ||
| Tuition and other fees | $ 7,545,114.00 | $ 7,545,114.00 | ||
| Grand Total | $ 11,008,979.00 | $ 11,008,979.00 | Total_Revenue | $ 32,085,344.00 |
| Percentage_Federal | 10.8% | |||
| Percentage_Tuition | 23.5% |
Foreigners in their own country: the inter-provincial business dilemma
In the Beginning
“The proposal now before us [Confederation] is to throw down all barriers between the provinces – to make a citizen of one, citizen of the whole.” – George Brown, 1865
If only current inter-provincial trade regulators were so perceptive.
Our founding fathers might roll over in their graves if they were to see the state of inter-provincial trade today, laughable – or pitiful – to the extent that long haul truck drivers from certain provinces have to change tires before entering another.
Those legislators were vehemently opposed to inter-provincial trade barriers (IPTBs) and included that sentiment in the 1867 Constitution. Section 121 of the Constitution Act states that “All Articles of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any one of the Provinces shall, from and after the Union, be admitted free into each of the other Provinces.”
Legislation today
photo credit Industry Canada
The 1994 Agreement of Inter-Provincial Trade currently governs the movement of people, goods, services and investments within Canada. It is intended to reduce barriers to trade within specific economic sectors, but not much has been done to aid inter-provincial trade in 20 years.
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For Atlantic Canadians doing business across Canada, many of the old hurdles still exist. The AIT does not address problems like the lack of recognition of other provinces’ professional credentials, food safety, truck safety, provincial business registration requirements, and highly restrictive rules for selling alcoholic beverages inter-provincially.
Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) president Dan Kelley says,
“Doing business with someone in Halifax should be at least as easy for a business in Burnaby as one in Budapest.”
letter to the Premier of PEI from the CFIBAs Canada’s premiers met in Charlottetown last week, the CFIB urged them to use the Canada-EU free trade agreement as a model for modernizing trade within Canada.
“When it comes to internal trade,” the CFIB proposed, “… the current system is outdated and imposes unnecessary barriers on small businesses. In many cases, it is often easier to trade overseas than it is to trade with other provinces within Canada. CFIB recommends provincial leaders improve inter-provincial trade by empowering their trade ministers to move forward on negotiating a more open market within Canada.”
“There is a lot of red tape involved in dealing with other provinces, and that’s a big disincentive to growth,” notes CFIB executive vice-president Laura Jones. “With international trade barriers coming down, our internal trade agreements need to keep up. This is a relatively easy way to boost the economy, and should be a top priority for every province.”
Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, PEI Premier Robert Ghiz, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard.
Photo credit: Andrew Vaughn/CP
There were modest signs of movement last week in Charlottetown, but a great deal of work needs to be done to implement an inter-provincial trade agreement that benefits residents of all provinces and territories.
Importantly, the premiers agreed to undertake a comprehensive review of AIT.
Federal Industry Minister James Moore has been campaigning across Canada and wants to see “a massive change to the AIT.” He notes that federal governments collectively have negotiated more than 40 international trade agreements since ATI came into effect and says,
” It’s just patently ludicrous for us to continue and to not make sure that we are taking full advantage of all of Canada’s economic opportunities for Canadians.”
What now?
“Every rule that makes it harder to move to, or sell to, another province drives home that our “fellow” Canadians regard us as foreigners” – MacDonald-Laurier-Institute
In 2010, Brian Lee Crowley, Robert Knox and John Robson wrote Citizen of One, Citizen of the Whole for the MacDonald-Laurier-Institute (think-tank) publication True North.
They cited three reasons why it is difficult to measure the cost of IPTBs: one, they are so numerous and varied that no one has managed to list them all; two, they have such complicated effects that it is impossible to measure costs with certainty; and three, the harm they do accumulates over time in ways that are even more difficult to measure.
Jordi Morgan, Vice-President Atlantic of CFIB says, “it makes sense that an investor from Nova Scotia should benefit from investing in a small business in PEI as much as they would from investing in their home province. Why should a small business owner in Sackville, NB be restricted from accessing capital investment from a relative who lives 10 minutes down the road in Amherst?”
Jordi Morgan, photo contributed
Morgan says the barriers go beyond “business” to impact workers directly. He says that “A CFIB report released last year highlighted barriers in the area of skilled trades. Of all the trades certified in Atlantic Canada, there is not a single example of apprenticeship requirements being the same in all four provinces.”
Morgan also says that one province’s investment in inter-provincial business benefits the entire region by stimulating economic activity: “With a population of a little more than 2 million, Atlantic Canada needs to allow not only a freer flow of goods and services, but a larger pool and freer flow of private capital. The question to be asked is why we should have to restrict out-of-province investment in our home provinces?”
It makes no sense for Canada to provide greater benefits to our trading partners than to companies, workers and consumers within our country.
-John Manley, President and CEO, Canadian Council of Chief Executives, June 17, 2014
percentage of income going to top 10% of earners per province/territory
But Canadians need to be realistic. What if we’re not talking about beer, but pesticides, fracking, or chemical waste? Should any province be forced to do what others are doing, if it hurts their bottom line? There will always be exceptions. Finding a happy medium may prove to be a gargantuan task.
Atlantic Canadians and internal trade – foreigners in their own country
In the Beginning
“The proposal now before us [Confederation] is to throw down all barriers between the provinces—to make a citizen of one, citizen of the whole.” ~ George Brown, 1865
If only current inter-provincial trade regulators were so perceptive.
Our founding fathers might roll over in their graves if they were to see the state of inter-provincial trade today, laughable – or pitiful – to the extent that long haul truck drivers from certain provinces have to change tires before entering another.
Those legislators were vehemently opposed to inter-provincial trade barriers (IPTBs) and included their thinking in the 1867 Constitution. Section 121 of the Constitution Act stated that “All Articles of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any one of the Provinces shall, from and after the Union, be admitted free into each of the other Provinces.”
Legislation today
photo credit Industry Canada
The 1994 Agreement of Inter-Provincial Trade currently governs the movement of people, goods, services and investments within Canada. It is intended to reduce barriers to trade within specific economic sectors, but not much has been done to aid inter-provincial trade in 20 years.
For Atlantic Canadians doing business across Canada, many of the old hurdles still exist. The AIT does not address problems like the lack of recognition of other provinces’ professional credentials, food safety, provincial business registration requirements, and highly restrictive rules for selling alcoholic beverages inter-provincially. Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) president Dan Kelley says,
“Doing business with someone in Halifax should be at least as easy for a business in Burnaby as one in Budapest.”
letter to the Premier of PEI from the CFIBAs Canada’s premiers met in Charlottetown last week, the CFIB urged them to follow the Canada-EU free trade agreement as a model for modernizing trade within Canada.
Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, PEI Premier Robert Ghiz, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard.
Photo credit: Andrew Vaughn/CP
There were modest signs of movement last week in Charlottetown, but a great deal of work needs to be done to implement an inter-provincial trade agreement that benefits residents of all provinces and territories.
Importantly, the premiers agreed to undertake a comprehensive review of AIT.
Federal Industry Minister James Moore has been campaigning across Canada and wants to see “a massive change to the AIT.” He notes that federal governments collectively have negotiated more than 40 international trade agreements since ATI came into effect and says,
” It’s just patently ludicrous for us to continue and to not make sure that we are taking full advantage of all of Canada’s economic opportunities for Canadians.”
What now?
In 2010, Brian Lee Crowley, Robert Knox and John Robson wrote Citizen of One, Citizen of the Whole for the MacDonald-Laurier-Institute (think-tank) publication True North.
They cited three reasons why it is difficult to measure the cost of IPTBs: one, they are so numerous and varied that no one has managed to list them all; two, they have such complicated effects that it is impossible to measure costs with certainty; and three, the harm they do accumulates over time in ways that are even more difficult to measure.
Jordi Morgan, Vice-President Atlantic of CFIB says, “it makes sense that an investor from Nova Scotia should benefit from investing in a small business in PEI as much as they would from investing in their home province. Why should a small business owner in Sackville, NB be restricted from accessing capital investment from a relative who lives 10 minutes down the road in Amherst?”
Jordi Morgan, photo contributed
Morgan says the barriers go beyond “business” to impact workers directly. He says that “A CFIB report released last year highlighted barriers in the area of skilled trades. Of all the trades certified in Atlantic Canada, there is not a single example of apprenticeship requirements being the same in all four provinces.”
It makes no sense for Canada to provide greater benefits to our trading partners than to companies, workers and consumers within our country.
-John Manley, President and CEO, Canadian Council of Chief Executives, June 17, 2014
percentage of income going to top 10% of earners per province/territory
But Canadians need to be realistic. What if we’re not talking about beer, but pesticides, fracking, or chemical waste? Should any province be forced to do what others are doing, if it hurts their bottom line? There will always be exceptions. Finding a happy medium may prove to be a gargantuan task.