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>> Stu: good morning. I'm stu mills. You're listening to "ottawa morning." it's friday, may 24th. [ ] [ Shouting ] >> Stu: this spring, athletics ontario is touring the province to find the next generation of competitive runners and they're coming to ottawa. We'll get up to speed on the search for ontario's fastest kids. >>> The author of a new historical fiction set in ottawa nearly 200 years ago details how gritty and violent bytown could be right around the time the rideau canal was finishing construction. [ ] >> Stu: it's 11 minutes after 6:00. Cloudy out there. 14° is the current temperature. You'll have some cloud through the morning and then also some northwesterly winds gusting to 40 km/h through the midday. 21° is the high. And saturday cloudy through the morning and 24°. And sunny 25° and sunny is the expected situation for sunday. David gerow joins us with news headlines. >> David: ontario remains at odds with the federal government over charges for infrastructure. Although they are a little bit closer to secure funding for affordable housing. Elyse skura will have an update at the bottom of the clock. >>> New information obtained by cbc news shows the audit that led to an ottawa hospital lawsuit with explosive allegations about a fraud conspiracy involving taxpayers and two managers cost taxpayers more than $500,000. Amanda amanda amanda phefer will have the details. >> Stu: doug hempstead with traffic. >> Doug: there will be a lot of closures starting today. >> Stu: I saw the stacking of the barriers. They're piling up. >> Doug: I've been hearing about this race for well over a year now because my partner designed all the graphics, all the colour scheme and all that stuff. >> Stu: she's celebrating in her own way. It's a 50th anniversary so a lot to design. >> Doug: it's been a lot of stuff to do. >> Stu: I love her stuff. >> Doug: and also the great glebe garage sale. >> Stu: the super bowl of thrifting. >> Doug: everyone calling friends, can I park. >> Stu: can I park my gentlemen lappy in your clemo estate. >> Doug: they're going to see a roughriders game. >> Stu: $5 and no in and out privileges. >> Doug: pretty quiet on the major routes. No problems on the eastbound or westbound 417 headed downtown, the 174 all clear. Looking good coming in from gatineau. I did the first mow of the sod. >> Stu: you and I spoke about it last week. >> Doug: my little stamp is looking good. >> Stu: you must be relieved. >> Doug: I can't bring myself to let the dogs go back. It looks nice. >> Stu: the grass is nice and will be brown later. >> Doug: dog diapers is my new business. >> Stu: 14 minutes past 6:00. This is "ottawa morning." the canadian grief alliance is working on an action plan to help those grieving right across the country. Earlier this week they released the results of a national survey asking nearly 4,000 people about their experiences with grief. To explain more about the survey and to tell us more about the supports, we reached paul adams, the co-chair of the canadian grief alliance. >> Good morning. >> Stu: can you tell us more about the results of the survey. You asked canadians about their experiences of grief. >> Right. And I suppose the biggest take aways are number one about half the people who were grieving told us that they did not feel adequately supported in their grief. And one of the key things that I think that the survey identified was that 83% told us that they wanted to be asked about their grief, asked about their loss. And we're not talking only about bereavement. Sometimes there are other forms of grief. Over 90% of people said they

wanted to be asked how they could be helped. So there is this big gap between the way people want those around them to respond to their suffering and the way that many of us do. You know, I'm guilty of that too. You think somebody's lost a spouse or a child, somebody's maybe lost a pregnancy, somebody's -- somebody in their family has alzheimer's, we sort of steer away from those issues because we feel awkward about them, but really grief is a very isolating experience. Most of the people that we talked to wanted to be asked about it. They wanted to have conversations about it. They wanted to share their grief. And that puts a burden on the rest of us to support them. But I think it's really important that we realize that stepping up instead of stepping back is actually often the right thing to do. >> Stu: and what are the nuts and bolts of the right thing to do in that moment. I mean, people want to talk it sounds like your survey tells us, but do they want their grief recognized or do they want to talk about what they lost? What are they looking for? >> One respondent in our survey said don't ask me how my son died. Ask me how he lived. You know, when somebody is grieving -- and I got into this in part because I lost my wife to breast cancer some years ago. >> Stu: yes, I read that, sorry. >> Thank you. But it was a whole -- it was a foreign country to me and it was very different than I expected. But one of the things that's important is that you want to remember the person. Just as they wanted to be remembered before they passed. And so it's important -- people say, say their name. Like, ask me about the person and not just about the tragic ending, but the whole life. >> Stu: with regard to other sorts of grief experiences, lesser grief -- the loss of a job or there is an essay in "the globe and mail" today, don't shame me for grieving my cat. >> Right. >> Stu: perhaps somewhere else on the grief spectrum, but they are there. What are the other good ways to support people in those moments? >> Well, I think what we need to recognize is that grief is a normal response to profound loss and what is a profound loss to you or me depends on our values and what we care about in life. So somebody may feel a very deep grief about the loss of a marriage or somebody might feel a great -- one of the things that came up in our survey is a lot of people were feeling grief over the loss of physical or fundamental function. You don't have to die to feel -- somebody who can be living with physical disability particularly with aging or you may have somebody in your life who has alzheimer's and you're grieving that person as they gradually fade from who they were. The number one source of grief in our survey was bereavement, for sure. The loss of a loved one. Number two was anticipatory grief expecting the loss. Number three was pet loss. I'm not a pet person, but there's somebody in my life who's alone, doesn't have a spouse or family who had a dog who they were very close to for 10 years and that loss was a profound loss. I think we need to be attuned better to the losses -- the experiences that other people are having which maybe we don't naturally understand because it's really what means the most to them, not what means the most to you or what you think they should care about. >> Stu: that's exactly the point, what it means to the person. Paul adams, very good to get your thoughts. I appreciate your time here. >> Thanks, stu. >> Stu: that was paul adams, co-chair of the canadian grief alliance here in ottawa. [ ] [ ] [ ]

[ ] >> Stu: 20 minutes after 6:00 and 14°. As the sun comes up, you'll feel it's a little fresher than it was yesterday. Partly cloudy today. Some more cloud through the morning and northwesterly winds too. There comes the freshness. 20 km/h gusting to 40 km/h. High today of just 21°. Overnight clear and down to 8° in ottawa. Saturday a fresher day for running with 21° the high. Sunday if you're in the big race, 27° and lots of sunshine. That's the temperature for sunday. Right now it's partly cloudy and 14°. [ ] >> Stu: well, athletics ontario is looking for our province's fastest kids. Starting this weekend they are touring from city to city right across ontario to find them, including brockville and ottawa next month. For more details we reached paul osland, C.E.O. of athletics ontario. >> Good morning, stu. >> Stu: why are you setting out to find ontario's fastest kids? >> Well, we did this program many years ago. It was very successful. The last time it ran was in 2012. It accumulated in toronto at the toronto international track meet with usain bolt. That's a name that many people are familiar with, the fastest man in the world. It was a huge success back then. Kids loved it. Kids loved to be running. We want to look and find our future olympians. We decided to resurrect this. It was closed down in 2012 due to a lack of funding and this year we were successful with athletics canada getting a grant from the federal government through the sport for all program. We were able to get some funding so we could resurrect this program. We hope to have it going much further into the future and just basically get some kids out there running who love to run. It is more than a schoolyard activity. >> Stu: what age of kid are you targeting? >> We're targeting kids 12 and under. Any kids 12 and under are welcome to come to the meet. We're starting this weekend in london at a meet which is also the kickoff to the national track and field tour which is athletics -- all of canada's major track and field athletes looking to find spots at the olympics. It's a great synergy. >> Stu: kids under 12, I'm picturing the talent surge for fast kids not yet 13. I gather there are lots of short-distance events, not putting kids out there for the 3,000 or 5k events. What kind of talent do you find when you set out to look for it like this? >> Well, that's a great question and of course that's why we are targeting 80 and 100-metre distances. Kids at that age should be running short, not really long distances. In 2012 the winners for the men and females was miles daily. Miles today is down in tennessee running at the ncaa regional championships and was also recently wearing the canadian vest down in the bahamas as part of a world relay championships. Briana gail has been an extremely succeful ncaa competitor as well. >> Stu: and people who are running knowledgeable will wonder when they were under 12 what were their 100-metre times. Can you give me a sense of how fast a kid we're talking about. Is this a sub-14? What do we got here? >> That's a good question. Sub-14 would be good. We could even see some SUB-13s. >> Stu: wow, that's fast. How do the races in the cities you're visiting work? What happens? >> What happens is any kid can participate. They can go to the athletics ontario website. Look for the city closest to them. We're starting in london, going to windsor, guelph, hamilton, brockville, sudbury, ottawa, toronto. The final meet in toronto on july 5 with every winner from each of those meets will be invited to go to toronto on july 20th where there will be the final meet which is at the open

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