CHEO calls for reinforcements as it continues to see “unprecedented volumes” of young patients, a prominent Ottawa lawyer faces new allegations of misconduct and why there are images of handshakes in parking lots in Pembroke, Ontario.
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Ottawa Children’s Hospital needs support this week as it continues to see “unprecedented volumes” of young patients with respiratory viruses.
Two groups from the Canadian Red Cross arrived at CHEO to help patients in respiratory virus season.
“This will allow some of our relocated workers to return to normal duties and the CHEO team can provide the safe, world-class care our patients deserve,” Tammy DiGiovanni, CHEO’s chief nursing officer, said in an email to CTV News Ottawa. .
CHEO has noticed an increase in respiratory virus patients this fall, forcing the hospital to cancel elective surgeries and procedures, open a momentary pediatric intensive care unit and redeploy surgical and medical care units.
CHEO President Alex Munter told CTV News Ottawa on Monday that the hospital is “experiencing call volumes that we have noticed in CHEO’s history. “
Munter says two Red Cross groups will perform clinical roles, relieving CHEO staff redeployed from other regions.
“They will be nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists and others, either dressing patients or receiving medication. “
Two occupants of a small plane were seriously injured when it crashed into the median of Highway 401 near Cornwall, Ontario. Monday night.
Ontario Provincial Police said the Cessna 150 was attempting an emergency landing on the road west of the Ontario-Quebec border when it crashed into the median.
A 26-year-old man taken to hospital via an air ambulance in life-threatening condition, the acting Ontario Provincial Police sergeant said. The plane’s other occupant, a 39-year-old man, was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The Transportation Safety Board said the aircraft had a challenge in the air and was looking to make an emergency landing on the busy highway when it struck a line of force.
Hydroelectric cars and cranes gather at a rest stop on Highway 401, just west of the Ontario-Quebec border, near the spot where a plane crashed Monday night. (CTV News Ottawa)
An Ottawa lawyer over sexual misconduct allegations had his license suspended following a hearing on issues unrelated to the Law Society of Ontario.
James Bowie had a hearing with the Law Society of Ontario on Friday as part of 3 investigations in which the Law Society says it was unable to produce data and documents despite requests between December 2021 and June 2022.
The precise nature of these cases has been revealed.
According to the documents, Bowie admitted that the affidavit established the alleged pro misconduct on the ice of the candidacy opposing him, and challenged it.
The prominent Ottawa lawyer also faces accusations of providing legal services in exchange for sexual favors and fees for sexual harassment, manipulation and assault.
In late November, it emerged that Bowie was the subject of a formal complaint to the Law Society of Ontario, alleging that he had legally introduced a woman in exchange for sexual favors.
This week, CTV News reported that Bowie faces new allegations.
CTV News spoke to women, all of whom described in detail Bowie’s behavior in which they obtained repeated and unwanted illicit messages, deliveries of cocaine and attempts to solicit sexual favors.
Ottawa attorney James Bowie is the subject of an Ontario Law Society. (Facebook)
The owner of an Ottawa Lexus left a western mall to locate men looking to borrow his SUV.
Ottawa police say the man suffered minor injuries when he confronted suspects who were going to rob him in the parking lot of Bayshore Mall.
On the same day, Ontario Provincial Police reported that four other people from the Montreal domain were facing charges similar to vehicle theft.
Ontario Provincial Police officers stopped two cars on eastbound Highway 401 near the Thousand Islands Bridge Sunday morning for a traffic violation. According to a press release from the Ontario Provincial Police, one of the cars was reported stolen.
Three other people aged 19 to 21, all from Montreal, and a 31-year-old man from Laval, Quebec, face a multitude of charges, some of which include theft of a motor vehicle, ownership of burglary instruments, ownership of a car master pass, computer knowledge mischief and possession of an imitation weapon for harmful purposes.
Ottawa Police headquarters on Elgin Street is visual in this undated photo. (CTV News Ottawa)
A new symbol in parking spaces in Pembroke, Ontario. It attracted the attention of many other people this week.
The handshake symbol you can see in some outdoor spaces of the Pembroke OPP detachment at 77 International Dr. is intended to be a network protection zone for online transactions.
If you buy something online and want to meet the user to pick it up or pay for it, the Outaouais Provincial Police says there are places you can use to ensure the protection of everyone involved.
“The purpose of the Safe Trade assignment is to create a ‘community protection zone’ in the parking lot of an Ontario Provincial Police detachment to facilitate online real estate transactions,” the Ontario Provincial Police said in a press release. “Creating a ‘protected zone’ community is about moving online transactions away from remote parking lots, non-public apartments, or other spaces and into a public place. “
Ottawa Police headquarters on Elgin Street is visual in this undated photo. (CTV News Ottawa)