Five tales to view in Ottawa this week
The city’s auditor common asks for your ideas on the “Freedom Convoy” profession, one particular of the major faces is back again in courtroom, and preserving an eye on the most up-to-date COVID-19 wave.
CTVNewsOttawa.ca seems at five tales to watch this week.
AG holds general public consultations on convoy reaction
The town of Ottawa’s auditor general is inquiring residents to weigh in on how the metropolis and Ottawa police dealt with the “Freedom Convoy” occupation in February.
The Ottawa Police Services Board voted in late March to talk to Nathalie Gougeon to execute the audit.
Zoom conferences will be held on Tuesday, July 12 from 5 to 7 p.m. and Wednesday, July 13 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Individuals who desire to participate will have to sign-up beforehand.
People who want to have input but really don’t want to choose component in the classes can alternatively fill out a study right until July 31.
Protesters employed large trucks and other motor vehicles to blockade downtown Ottawa for three weeks this past winter season, protesting COVID-19 community health and fitness protections and the Liberal authorities of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. All through the protest, Ottawa’s law enforcement main resigned and the makeup of the police expert services board was completely changed.
It took hundreds of officers from throughout Canada and the invocation of the federal Emergencies Act before the profession was cleared.
Ottawa citizens obtain outdoors Ottawa Law enforcement Headquarters on Elgin Street, calling on law enforcement to stop the “Liberty Convoy” demonstration close to Parliament Hill. (Josh Pringle/CTV News Ottawa)Tamara Lich returns to court docket
One particular of the principal organizers of the “Freedom Convoy” protest, Tamara Lich, has another courtroom day established for Thursday.
Lich is billed with mischief and obstructing police for her function in the convoy protest. She was arrested in Medication Hat, Alta. final thirty day period and billed with breaching her bail ailments just after she was photographed with yet another convoy organizer, Tom Marazzo, with whom she was instructed to have no call.
She is now remaining held in custody right until her trial.
Tamara Lich showing at her bail hearing by movie link from the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre on July 5, 2022. (Greg Banning)Will the summertime COVID-19 wave peak?
Health officials will be seeing COVID-19 info carefully this 7 days as one more wave of the illness is upon us.
This most current wave is currently being pushed by the Omicron subvariant BA.5, which experts say is much more transmissible and can evade immunity from past an infection.
Ottawa’s wastewater sign is on the rise, as is the screening positivity amount and the number of sufferers in hospital with COVID-19 locally.
Ottawa is also on observe to surpass the variety of COVID-19 fatalities recorded in all of 2021. As of previous Friday, Ottawa Public Wellbeing experienced claimed 216 fatalities so considerably this 12 months, in comparison to 228 in all of 2021.
Ontario’s chief professional medical officer of overall health Dr. Kieran Moore, is expected to make an announcement this week about booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine. When citizens 60 and older can get a fourth dose, the further shot is not but out there for younger adults. Moore also expressed some concern that quite a few Ontarians never ever obtained a third dose, regardless of it currently being extensively obtainable.
A passenger sporting a mask rides the O-Educate in Ottawa, Ont. in this undated photograph. (Picture by Parham Barati on Unsplash)Lebanese Fest returns
The Ottawa Lebanese Competition is again this week after a two-calendar year hiatus since of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The yearly celebration of Middle Jap tradition will be held at the St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral starting off Wednesday.
Get pleasure from foodstuff, cultural performances, artwork, crafts and more.
The competition operates July 13 to 17.
Bluesfest wraps up its return to LeBreton Flats
Bluesfest is wrapping up this week following returning to LeBreton Flats for the initial time due to the fact 2019.
The once-a-year tunes pageant is one particular of Ottawa’s major gatherings of the year and attracts 1000’s to the funds every single summer season. It was cancelled in 2020 and a more compact version was held at Lansdowne Park in 2021.
Some of the headline acts this week incorporate Marshmello on Tuesday, Alexisonfire on Wednesday, Luke Bryan on Thursday, Rage In opposition to the Machine on Friday, and TLC on Saturday.
The Nationwide closes out the festival on Sunday.
Crowds of men and women returned to LeBreton Flats for RBC Ottawa Bluesfest, back again in total after two COVID-19 cancellations in 2020 and 2021. (CTV Information Ottawa)
