8 December 2021
Weather: ❄️ A few flurries. High of -5°, low of -13°
Number: 92. The number of years that Ottawa’s last furrier has been in business. The Cooper Street business is closing up shop. [Ottawa Citizen]
Ottawan of the Day: Kat Plouffe. Plouffe is the creator of Only ,a subscription-based organic period product supplier that delivers reusable and compostable items every month. [Ottawa Business Journal]
Quote: ‘It’s always great to see a stumbling, random weirdo completely disrupt an institution that loves to think of itself as proud and upstanding, and that’s exactly what the Senators, founded in 1992, do when they can sneak away with a win against a franchise that’s won the Stanley Cup 24 times’ – Lauren Theisen, in her Defector article Canada’s Funniest Team, The Ottawa Senators, Are Up To Their Old Tricks. [Q+A with Lauren Theisen of Defector]
Sport: NHL Ottawa Senators 3 – New York Islanders 5, last night