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26 June 2024
🚨 Ottawa Police Service
🤑 O Train
- City Council has authorized a secret settlement to somebody over stage two O Train construction. Who is being paid? Secret. How much? Secret. Is it for the east, west, or south extension? Secret. Does the City owe or is it getting paid? Secret. (Blair Crawford in the Ottawa Citizen)
🛫 Ottawa International Airport
- Air Canada has a new route to Tulum, Mexico this winter. Air Canada is increasing frequencies on some winter routes, flying twice per week to Tampa, four per week to Orlando, and six per week to Fort Lauderdale, and four to Punta Cana. The new Tulum route will fly weekly. (Pax News)
💥 Cars Driving into Houses
- A fourth car has driven into a house this month. This one was in Coulson Court in Kanata, yesterday. The others were Deerfield Drive near Algonquin College last Friday, and a double home-crash day June 7 on Allanford Avenue and Uplands Drive. When we first started publishing the ottawan in 2020, we commented at the time that there seemed to be an unusual number of vehicles crashing into buildings in Ottawa. Our observation seems to be holding up. (Josh Pringle at CTV)
🏒 The Sens
- The Sens have released a photo of its jersey for the next season. The jersey is designed by specialist sports designer Fanatics, and will be manufactured by SP Apparel in St-Hyacinthe, which has made National Hockey League uniforms for 50 years. (Josh Pringle at CTV)
➕ Related Tim Baines in the Ottawa Citizen has a Q&A with former scout Grant McCagg on how the Sens may handle the upcoming NHL draft.