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Radar Message Board Program in your neighbourhood

In 2020, the City of Oshawa introduced the Council Directed Radar Message Board Program to improve road safety on local streets with reported speeding concerns.

Things to know:

• Each Radar Message Board Device is equipped with radar technology to detect the speed of approaching vehicles.
• The Radar Message Board records and displays vehicle speeds back to motorists.
• This traffic calming tool is an educational instrument designed to increase motorist awareness and safety.
• These signs do not take photos...

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Test your smoke alarms during Fire Prevention Week, October 6 - 12

Oshawa Fire Services is reminding families to regularly check smoke alarms to ensure they are in full working order. This year’s Fire Prevention Week runs from October 6 to 12 and the theme is “Smoke Alarms, make them work for you!”

This year’s focus on working smoke alarms comes in response to National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) data, which shows that most home fire deaths occur in homes with no working smoke alarms. Having working smoke alarms in the home reduces the risk of dying in a...

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TeachingCity Oshawa releases Annual Snapshot highlighting local collaborative projects

The City of Oshawa and its education and research partners – Durham College, Ontario Tech University, Trent University Durham GTA, and the University of Toronto’s Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering – are pleased to announce that the TeachingCity Oshawa 2023/2024 Annual Snapshot, detailing accomplishments from the partnership’s seventh year, is now available online.

Notable applied research, experiential learning and curriculum-based projects featured in the Annual Snapshot include:

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Marking the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2024

September 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. It is a day to acknowledge the painful legacy and harms caused by residential schools and honour the children who never returned home, the survivors, as well as their families and communities.

Oshawa is situated on the traditional and treaty territory of the Mississaugas and Chippewa Anishinaabeg and is covered by the Williams Treaties. As the present day home to the greatest number of Indigenous peoples in Durham Region,...

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