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They’ve reported gas price dif-ferences of up to 15 cents per litre compared to prices just outside of Kanata, he said.

“A couple cents difference across the city, no big deal,” said Hubley. “But over the last couple of weeks we’ve noticed 10 and 15 cent differences and in my mind that’s just gouging.”

Some residents have been call-ing for Hubley to introduce a by-law dealing with the price at the pump.

“That’s not our role,” he said

of the municipal government. “We don’t force prices on private businesses like that.”

Other residents are thinking of boycotting some Kanata gas sta-tions, said Hubley.

“That would be in my view very disappointing if the community had to go to that extreme to get the oil companies to provide the same product to us for the price that they charge kilometres down the road.”

While Hubley suggested resi-dents instead convey their con-cerns to gas station attendants for them to pass up the line to management, a representative for major gas companies instead encouraged customers to shop around for their gas, even if that means not giving their business to local gas stations.

As for the “gouging” – well there really isn’t any going on. At least not according to Spen-cer Knipping at Ontario’s energy ministry.

SOME GAS SOLD AT A LOSS

Knipping is a gas price ana-lyst at the Ontario Ministry of Energy who is tasked explaining why gas prices are the way they are, and assuring consumers they aren’t being taken for a ride.

“I would say that the Ottawa gasoline market is competitive and we have no evidence that there is any gouging taking place,” he said.

He based that determination on an analysis of several num-bers.

Those included the wholesale price of gas (what gas stations are paying for fuel), the tax they pay on that gas, and what the most expensive gas prices are in Ottawa currently.

The Ottawa wholesale gas price for Dec. 31 was 54.83 cents a li-tre. Adding taxes to that, it is 89.9 cents a litre.

That same day, according to OttawaGasPrices.com, the high-est price for gas was 99.9 cents a litre, at a full serve station at Is-land Park Drive and Wellington Street West.

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Sudden price changes drive drivers crazy

The Petro-Canada gas station at Hazeldean Road and Carbrooke Street, seen here, has sparked many com-plaints about local gas prices, with Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley hearing objec-tions to higher prices in Kanata compared to communities as close by as Bells Corners.

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Not including the cost of running the gas station, that owner was earning 10 cents a litre.

That’s a fair bit above the 2015 average in Ottawa, said Knipping, which is 6.2 cents a litre.

The gas price that would be in line with Ottawa’s av-erage this year would have been 96 cents per litre, but even so, Knipping said he does not consider 99.9 cents a litre to be gouging.

“It’s not unusual to have margins like that,” he said.

On the other hand, some gas stations were selling gas on Dec. 31 for 79.9 cents a litre.

“At the low price of 79.9, dealers are losing their shirt,” said Knipping.

“They are selling gaso-line for 10 cents a litre be-low wholesale cost, which means they are actually losing more than that be-cause they have to cover the operating costs of the station and provide a re-turn on investment.

“So let’s say it costs four or five cents a litre to run the station, they are los-ing 14 to 15 cents a litre on gasoline.”

“The only explanation I have for that is … those stations are in a price war,” he said.

A price war is when some gas stations price their gas below others, and then oth-er stations, in a bid to get their customers back, price their gas even cheaper.

Sometimes this is done because the gas station has other goods for sale that it can use to supplement its losses, or the cheap gas prices are a way to get cus-tomers to a store and buy other products, which is what Costco does with its gas bars, said Knipping.

Other times, it’s just in response to a loss of rev-enue, said Knipping.

Profit margins on gas are actually fairly low, he said, so stations have to sell a lot of gas to make a decent profit.

But customers will choose one gas station over another one that’s nearby over a difference of as little as .3 cents a litre.

“The higher price sta-tion will lose volume and because it is a volume busi-ness; they can’t afford that. They need to keep their revenue stream up to cover their costs,” he said.

The price war can’t last for too long as the stations involved will have to return to profitability eventually, said Knipping.

So drivers should not see prices like 79.9 as the norm, he said.

“Consumers are con-cerned about volatility especially when the price goes up sharply. But that’s almost always because there has been a price war first and they get used to that price war price,” he said.

To avoid paying higher gas prices, Knipping said consumers should search out the best prices in town

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Lisa Stillborn, the vice-president of the Canadian Fuels Association, Ontario division, agreed, saying, “Generally speaking a vol-atile market is an indica-tion of a very competitive market,” meaning lower gas prices.

The Canadian Fuels As-sociation represents some of the larger energy com-panies in Canada, which only run about 20 per cent of gas stations, she said. Independent owners and big box store gas stations are among those who run the rest.

Asked to comment on consumers interested in boycotting stations, she said, “There are some websites where people can check out gas prices and in fact we encourage people to shop around, as people would shop around for any product.”

As a way to lower gas prices in the Kanata area, Hubley said he would look into fast-tracking a Costco

gas bar that the Costco on Silver Seven Road has been considering for several years.

“I will do everything I can to move it through quickly because if that’s what it takes to get the Petro-Cans and the Ultra-mars to treat my residents fairly as they are supposed to be doing, then that’s what we’ll do is fast-track another service provider,” he said.

Knipping said a Costco gas bar would not neces-sarily lower the gas prices across Kanata.

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The temptation to “make improve-ments” to our lives is ever provocative,

especially when it comes to New Year’s resolutions. We want to be wealthier, healthier, kinder or more organized.

But when I think about radical change, I just feel bad that I’m not eating kale wraps for breakfast after my 5 a.m. yoga meditation, then eating homemade yogurt for lunch after commuting by winterized bike to work, which is mere blocks from my net zero home, which is mortgage-free.

To accomplish even one of those things would take all my focus, and doom me to failure.

My husband always talks about the value of the “ripping off the Band-Aid,” approach to things, but that just doesn’t work for me. I’ve realized that by lower-ing the bar and introducing incremental, but manage-able change, I’m much more likely to be successful, even if it takes seemingly forever.

Back in 2013, for ex-ample, I vowed I would learn to meditate. I tried a number of times over six months – I took courses, downloaded videos, read books – and frankly I failed

miserably. It made me think my goal

was too ambitious. What kind of person do you have to be to sit still for an hour and think about nothing anyway? Not me, evidently.

So about a year later, instead of meditation, I decided to look up various breathing techniques: some to help when I’m in the midst of a stressful mo-ment, others to relax me at the end of the day or when I’m about to embark on a big project. I even looked into a way to breathe when I start to feel winded during exercise.

I had more success here. The great thing about breathing practice is that you can do it anywhere. It doesn’t require the focus of meditation, yet achieves some of the same results. It took 18 months from the time I stated my goal to ac-

cepting failure and adapting to something more realistic – but I’m really good at controlled breathing now. Improvement one.

Then there was the time I decided I would save my entire salary for a year. I crunched the numbers up-side down and sideways and figured that maybe, possibly, we could be one of those rare families that could live happily on a single salary if we didn’t buy any gifts and ate a lot of beans. It turns out, even under those circumstances, we couldn’t.

I tried. I opened an e-savings account and every time I cashed a cheque or received payment from a client, I’d throw everything in there. But then somebody needed emergency dental surgery, our insurance went up, our tent got a hole in it, the engine died in the car, our daycare fees increased,

we had to go on an extra visit to see family.

You name it; we needed money to cover it.

The offshoot effect, how-ever, was that I still man-aged to save some money and get into the savings habit. Improvement two.

A friend in Vancouver is the only person I know who’s had a gym member-ship for nearly two decades straight – and one that she uses every week. Why? She tells herself that she only has to go to the gym two times per week. Anything extra is a bonus. So rather than commit to the lofty goal of doing cardio daily, she’s been able to stick to something reasonable.

I recently joined a gym for the first time, nearly a year to the day after I first established the goal to exer-cise daily. Although I do get there most days – generally five out of seven – I try not

to beat myself up on the days I can’t make it.

I think about my friend in Vancouver, and I think about the fact that going to the gym twice a week is better than not going at all for my physical and mental health. It’s been 12 weeks and I’m still into it! Improvement three.

I went from double-double to single milk in my coffee with slightly under two years of effort. I started by swapping 18 per cent cream for five per cent, and

then eventually to milk. A year after that, I stopped taking sugar in every second cup of coffee, and finally eliminated the sweet stuff entirely. Improvement four!

So make resolutions if you must, but don’t be too hard on yourself. Past performance, they say in human resources, is often indicative of future perfor-mance.

Try something new; try lowering the bar a little. Eventually, you’ll get there, one baby step at a time.

Resolve to lower the barBRYNNA LESLIE

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Refugees fleeing from the Syrian conflict and the brutality and terror of ISIS in Syria and Iraq are starting to arrive, and Canadians are showing their true

colours as a caring and welcoming nation.That spirit of caring and concern is certainly

on display here in the nation’s capital. Numerous organizations and individual residents have been working diligently to not only say hello to our new neighbours, but have also been hard at work coming up with ways to make their transition into Canadian society as smooth as possible.

For example, Elmvale Acres sisters Maya, 7, and Clara Pepe, 9, collected almost 500 plush toys for their Stuffies for Syria campaign so that the stuffed toys can be passed on to Syrian refugees who even-tually resettle in Ottawa. Or there’s east-end resident Betty Giffin, who is taking park in a nationwide effort through the Ottawa-based Kind Canada, to knit 25,000 scarves to help keep the new arrivals warm during their first Canadian winter. Ottawa residents have been very generous in trying to ease the way for the refugees to integrate into Canadian

society.The City of Ottawa has held public forums on

how to sponsor refugees, the Catholic Centre for Immigrants has been front and centre in helping co-ordinate services here, Refugee 613 is helping co-ordinate private sponsorships and the University of Ottawa has been very active as well, to just name a few of those who are rising to the challenge locally.

There are many others as well.Back on Dec. 21, the province announced

that about $1.33 million will be available to assist refugee resettlement in the Ottawa area, with the possibility of more funds in the future.

The government support is good and expected, but it is the individual efforts, such as the previously mentioned Stuffies for Syria campaign by two young children, and other efforts like it, that show the generosity that Ottawa residents have in their hearts when responding to the refugee crisis.

And that bodes well for how our community will absorb the refugees who will settle here, and how well the refugees will settle into our community and enrich our city in the future.

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It was in 1953 that Pogo, the great philosopher, first uttered the words “We have met the enemy and he is us.” More

than half a century later the words still ring true.

Not that we mean to be our own worst enemy. We are always trying to make things better and, in do-ing so, we sometimes make things worse.

The Law of Unintended Con-sequences is at play here, although many of the unintended conse-quences could be foreseen had we been forelooking.

We created the plastic bag for the convenience of folks at the super-market. Now plastic bags clog the landfills and, in many parts of the Earth, mar the scenery. The oceans are full of discarded plastic objects that pose a severe threat to marine life. We didn’t intend any of that.

And yet we keep pumping out disposable objects, the most notable of which is the single-cup coffee thingy. Imagine how many millions of these hit the trashcan each day. Imagine how many wouldn’t if people made coffee the traditional way. But it seemed like a convenient thing to have and we just didn’t think.

And so it goes, with ever-increas-ing advances for the consumer, most of them making life difficult for someone. Oops.

The Internet makes it so easy to

read news and download music. Daily newspapers are losing adver-tisers at a record rate and laying off staff. So are television stations. Musicians no longer make money selling CDs. A few get much richer, most get a lot poorer. Oops.

Uber, which everybody seems to love, is threatening the livelihood of taxi drivers, who had to make a considerable investment and submit themselves to a lot more regulation than Uber folks do. Is that what we wanted? And Uber is expand-ing into other services where the unintended consequences may be similar.

It continues. As the new year dawns, television consumers are looking forward to the era of pick-and-pay, mandated by the CRTC after years of consumer pressure. Under the new system, cable subscribers can chooses a cheaper

basic package or select – from the multitude of existing channels – a package that suits their needs, rather than receiving, as now, a number of channels they never look at.

That makes sense. Except: under the existing system, popular chan-nels, such as sports, support less popular channels with which they are bundled. So the special-interest channel that appeals to you – say, a foreign-language channel or one devoted to old movies – survives courtesy of the people who want to watch more hockey or more enter-tainment news.

When the new system comes into effect, those specialty channels are in trouble, it appears from the carefully worded comments of the people who own them. The clear in-ference is that some of them might be shut down if not enough people choose them in the pick-and-pay process.

Well and good, you might say, except that what we are seeing is reduced choice instead increased, a

system that rewards the majority at the expense of the minority. Is that what we intended?

The irony is that the much-lauded 1,000-channel universe turns out to be something that people don’t want all that much, and that our demand for more choice could give us, in the end, less.

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Ottawa’s international atom and peewee hockey tournament, the Bell Capi-tal Cup, wrapped up on Jan. 2 with local teams finishing first in 10 of 18 divisions.

The tournament, which included 262 teams playing 564 games on 23 ice surfaces across the city, ended at the Canadian Tire Centre where 18 final games were played.

Finalists played for the Al-len J. MacDonald Memorial Trophy, named in honour of a passionate contributor to minor hockey. The Bill Pat-terson Trophy, named after a CJOH-TV sportscaster and amateur sports booster, was awarded to the Stitts-ville Rams (Minor Atom A) and Nepean Fireballs (Atom House B) for their fair play and sportsmanship.

Coaches from those two teams will select a player from each team to receive the Otta-wa Senators Summer Hockey Camps scholarship to receive a week of on-ice instruction.

This year, the tournament added a special hockey divi-sion for players with disabili-ties, with 14 special hockey

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A highlight for Lawryk is taking in the final games on Canadian Tire Centre ice, he said.

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“It’s fun to watch teams step onto the ice and look up

at the size of the building and realize they are on the same ice as many of their heroes have played on,” said Lawryk.

The Atom House A finals and Atom House B finals were separated by a Sens practice, with the young play-

ers greeting the team.“They were hanging over

the railing high-fiving the players and coaches as they hit the ice,” said Lawryk.

But competitive spirits quickly took over as Bell Capital Cup play resumed, he said.

Asked what he though of local teams doing so well in the tournament, Lawryk said 10 local teams making it to the top isn’t out of the ordi-nary.

“It just goes to show that out-of-town teams traveling to the tournament will have some great competition to face.”

Teams from Europe and the United States participated along with teams from across Canada.

After 17 years, the tourna-ment has raised more than $2.65 million for charities and minor hockey.

The following 18 teams won the Allen J. MacDonald Memorial Trophy after win-ning their division:

•Major Peewee AAA – Os-hawa Generals

•Major Peewee AA – Ot-tawa Valley Silver Seven

•Major Peewee A – Ottawa Sting

•Minor Peewee AAA – Gloucester Rangers

•Minor Peewee AA – Ot-tawa Valley Silver Seven

•Minor Peewee A – Kitch-ener Jr. Rangers

•Major Atom AAA – Don Mills Flyers

•Major Atom AA – Voisins Papineau

•Major Atom A – Quinte West Hawks

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•Minor Atom A – Cum-berland Jr. Grads

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•Atom House A – Ottawa Centre Lumberjacks

•Atom House B – Aylmer Gladiators

•Atom House C – Pontiac Lions

•Girls Peewee AA – Nepe-an Wildcats

•Girls Atom AA – Barrie Sharks

17th annual international hockey tournament hosts 262 teams

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Kanata Rangers player Mollie Grabe intercepts a rebound as the Stoney Creek Sabres goalie, Megan Warrener, looks on. The teams met on the ice during the first day of Bell Capital Cup competitive play where more than 250 teams competed across the city.


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