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hadami 244 days ago
Jadwiga “Zsa Zsa” Dziedziczak, who has been terrorized by bedbugs at her Ottawa Community Housing apartment off and on for several months now, is finally moving. The housing agency has been trying to relocate the 60-year-old woman to another building since she was hospitalized for two weeks late last fall. The woman, who is a Polish immigrant and speaks little English, overdosed on sleeping pills she was using to help with the stress of having bedbugs in her Wurtemberg Street apartment. The unit was fumigated several times before the overdose. While she was in hospital, the city’s public health department examined her apartment, but found no evidence of bedbugs, according to Ottawa Community Housing. When she returned home from the Montfort Hospital in early December, the apartment did seem to be free of the problem, but, according to her friend, Yolande Desjardins, the bedbugs were back and biting within 10 days or so. Desjardins says Dziedziczak is moving to an Ottawa ...
hadami 314 days ago
Reply Reply to all Forward Close Help From: Adami, Hugh (ott) Sent: Mon 1/19/2009 9:12 AM To: Adami, Hugh (ott) Cc: Subject: Attachments: View As Web Page Scores of Ottawa residents, including teachers and a retired principal, have offered to drive a 12-year-old Vanier girl to her Centretown school for the duration of the transit strike. The plight of Savannah Holloway, a Grade 7 student at Glashan Public School on Arlington Avenue, was featured in Sunday’s Public Citizen column. One Citizen reader, who has been renting a car for the strike, also offered to help, as did other readers with pledges of money to help pay for cabs to and from school. Lori Holloway, Savannah’s mother, said her daughter was back at school Monday, and shouldn’t have ...
hadami 349 days ago
If you think support is waning among bus drivers over their strike, then you have another thing coming. Pickets outside OC Transpo's offices and main garage this morning made it clear that they will not ask their union to go back to the bargaining table until the city withdraws its demand for more control over scheduling. Mayor Larry O'Brien suggested a return to bargaining in a letter to drivers Sunday. Pickets say there are absolutely no cracks developing among the 98 per cent of those who originally gave their union a strike mandate, almost entirely over the scheduling issue. Drivers calling radio talk shows to say they want to go back to work and think the city's offer is fair, are from the two per cent who voted against the strike mandate, the pickets said today, or those who didn't even bother to vote in the first place.
hadami 349 days ago
Hello there, My name is Mel Wright and as a student, on a low income budget, this strike is crippling me. I live on a shoe string budget from paycheck to paycheck and as i live in the Hog's Back area walking to work at College Square is out of the question. For the past three day's i've had to reley on taxi's to get to my exam's at Algonquin College and to get to and from work on time. As the strike enter's its fifth day tomorrow i've already spent over a hundred dollers on taxi's and its only going to go up. While i am angry at the driver's, i'm also angry at the city for it's indiffrence. There will be no Christmas gifts for my family from me this year, because the extra money has gone into taxi's. Tell me does no one care about the citzans at all? Two and a half hours to get across the bridge and home to Orleans. Not bad, as we were coming from the ski hill, a luxury on a Thursday. But as a student, I have no car. And with no way to get to work ...
hadami 352 days ago
Reply Reply to all Forward Close Help From: Adami, Hugh (ott) Sent: Fri 12/12/2008 4:07 PM To: Adami, Hugh (ott) Cc: Subject: Attachments: View As Web Page It is stereotypically easy for the media to focus on the outrage and emotion in a dispute and bypass the core issue. Once again the Ottawa Media missed the cause of the OC Transpo strike and went directly to the obvious effect. Having worked for many years with an unpredictable schedule in the Hospitality business I always commiserated with bus drivers who I knew had even worse hours to work. It is especially helpful that you focused on the knock on effects like absenteeism and understandably low morale that come about when people are treated like machines. Once again Larry O and his team ...
