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We've spent the weekend tabulating the nominations for the ottawan 2023 Best of Ottawa Awards and franky, we're amazed by some of the nominations this year. Nominated businesses come from a much wider spectrum across the City and many more Gatineau suggestions than we’ve seen in previous years.

Get ready to start voting tomorrow.

– Martha and Darren

TODAY’S LINE UP

•  Ottawa Stats
•  City Hall Agenda
•  What Ottawa is Talking About
•  Events
•  Deals of the Day

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• 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 2 – Detroit Red Wings 5 last Saturday

CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall.
 

Ottawa Police Services Board
Monday, October 23 at 4 pm

• National Capital Area Crime Stoppers: semi-annual report
• Chair’s verbal report
• Chief’s verbal report
• 2024 Ottawa Police Services Board meeting schedule
• New board policy – communications and information sharing within the board
• Board staffing strategy
• Request for Auditor General to conduct an overall risk assessment audit of the Ottawa Police Service
• Attendance at the Canadian Police Association and Canadian Association of Police Governance shared governance summit: "Pressures on Policing - A Shared Perspective"
• RCMP special constable appointments and delegated authority: 1 Million March 4 Children events
• Lease agreement for unit 107, 55 Rideau Street
• AXON – replacement of VideOversight
• Renewal of memorandum of understanding between the Ottawa Police Services Board and the City of Ottawa (Transportation Services)
• Safe workplace program – annual update 2023
• 2023 Workplace Investigations Office – annual report
• Complaints report – part V, Police Services Act – third quarter 2023
• Performance report - second quarter 2023
• Legal Services report: third quarter 2023
• Board monitoring requirements status report: third quarter 2023
• Outstanding board inquiries and motions: October 2023
• Letters of commendation – October 2023

📋 Agenda
 

Community Services Committee
Tuesday, October 24 at noon

• Update: Social Assistance modernization and Employment Services transformation
• Commemorative naming proposal – Mary Tsai Park
• Commemorative naming proposal – Crain Park
• Motion of which notice has been previously given – geographically equitable distribution of access to resources and social services
• Motion of which notice has been previously given – community garden action plan review and update
• Motion of which notice has been previously given – Lowertown Community Resource Center relocation

📋 Agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🤕 The Ottawa Hospital

•  Two units at the Ottawa Hospital’s General campus have been found to have water with legionellosis. Legionellosis is the bacteria that includes Legionnaire’s Disease and Pontiac fever, which, while causing sickness, is generally not life threatening. Legionellosis was also found in the hospital two years ago. (CBC)

🛷 2024 Snowsuit Fund

•  Donations are currently being accepted for the Snowsuit Fund. Over 6,000 snowsuits have been provided so far this year by the Fund, which usually expects to supply 16,000 of them to cold kids. The fund asks for donations of $45 to buy the suits, and charges eligible parents $10. (Jackie Perez at CTV) (Donate)

📺 CJOH, Here’s to You

•  Congratulations to CTV Ottawa for being recognized with two journalism awards Saturday.  The Radio Television Digital News Association of Canada awarded the Breaking News Large Market gong in the digital category for coverage of the Convoy and the TV Newscast Large Market award for coverage of the 
  derecho storm. (Ted Raymond at CTV)

💸 Lansdowne 2.0

•  The Lansdowne 2.0 project may not even make it out of committee, says Ottawa Bulldog. The Bulldog is basing their info on a third party’s secret poll and is not naming any names, so take all of this with a grain of salt. But by The Bulldog’s reckoning, the November 2 special joint meeting of finance and planning committee would have 10 ‘no’ votes to seven ‘yes’ votes, which would prevent the Lansdowne 2.0 proposal from even making it to a Council vote. If it did make it to council, Bulldog’s unnamed tipster says the vote would be ‘15’ councillors voting no and ‘10’ (with the mayor) voting ‘yes’. (Ken Gray in the Ottawa Bulldog)
  
  ➕ Related The Bulldog points out that a report for Friday’s light-rail subcommittee says the Trillium Line has been pushed back to 2024, with no month or even season given, leaving the possibility that it could stretch into 2025. (The Report)

🛻 Convoy Trial

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are on trial for their actions in the Convoy siege.

•  The testimony of Ottawa Police Service constable Nicole Bach was paused after the defense asked how text messages from that period  had been deleted from her phone. Bach said she received an email that she was due to upgrade her phone but didn’t know that it would delete data.
  
  The defense had previously believed that only one other officer, Constable Isabelle Cyr, had information deleted by an upgrade. The defense is asking for the unredacted emails from the Ottawa Police Service to both officers about the upgrade.
•  Unlike the CBC, the Canadian Press did not describe what Bach was wearing.
•  The trial will resume Thursday.
  
  (Laura Osman in the Canadian Press)
   

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EVENTS

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Today

•  Dr. Jillian Horton will engage in a live conversation with Brittlestar, the internet comedy star/dad, as part of the NAC’s Arts, Medicine & #Life podcast series. Free on the NAC’s Fourth Stage.
•  Adults aged 50+ are invited to bring their general knowledge to the Stittsville branch of the Ottawa Public Library’s Trivia Night. 7:00 pm.
•  How many times have you seen Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone? If you answered more than twice, you’ve allowed it to live rent free in your brain, so you might as well test your knowledge at the Boston Pizza Barrhaven Movie Trivia night. Bring a team of up to six, for a cost of $10 per team.
•  The School of Fish drop-in Improv Workshop will accept absolute beginners as well as seasoned improv-ers. Arts Court.
•  Canadian Authors Association hosts short story writer Brenda Chapman at the Beaverbrook branch of OPL (Meeting Room A).
   
• Canadian Authors Association (NCR) hosts short story writer Brenda Chapman at the Beaverbrook branch of OPL (Meeting Room A).
   
• Here’s a good one for the early week: combine grape-harvesting with a call for help. Due to last weekend’s rainy weather, Aventure Outaouais must postpone the Grape Harvesting Tour at the beautiful Fragments winery in Ripon, Québec to today (Monday October 22) or tomorrow (Tuesday October 23). Save $5 on the tour, which includes your transportation to and from pickup spots in Ottawa and Gatineau, around three or four hours of harvesting for the winery, your lunch (with wine, natch), your guide, and more. Plus, you can shop for wine to take home. Sounds like a great day out.
   

Music

•  Concession. Red Bird Live

Tomorrow

•  Professional storyteller and Welshman Daniel Morden brings Homer’s The Odyssey to life at Arts Court. Presented by Ottawa StoryTellers.
•  The Gatineau Valley Historical presents a talk by Dr. Jean-Luc Pilon, who explores the archeological evidence pointing to the cultural significance of the area between the mouth of the Gatineau River and the Chaudière’s Falls. An Ancient Cultural Landscape in the Heart of the Capital Region begins at 7:00 pm at the Centre Wakefield La Pêche.
•  Get ready to sing your favourite tunes at the ABBA Night, presented by Pitch ImPerfect Singers. Bring $10 cash to take part. Trinity United Church, 1099 Mainland Ave.
•  The CBC’s The Debaters comedy show visits Ottawa tonight and Wednesday. Just think, sometime in the future you could hear your very laughter on the radio. Meridian Theatres at Centrepoint.

Music

•   World Music: Huu Bac Quintet. Richcraft Theatre, Shenkman Arts Centr

•  Kid G. Club SAW

•  Dan Mangan. Bronson Centre Theatre

•  Open Mic. LIVE on Elgin

•  The Folk Collusion. Le Hibou (Wakefield)

  Full Band Karaoke. Lowertown Brewery

  Brit Floyd: 50 Years of Dark Side Live in Ottawa. TD Place

   

Wednesday

•  Start the day with a visit to the Bytown Museum, which is celebrating its 106th birthday starting at 11:00 am. Admission is free.
   
•  A conversation between Shelagh Rogers and author Helen Knott opens the Ottawa International Writers Festival. In her memoir, Becoming a Matriarch, Knott explores grief and the true meaning of matriarchy.
   
•  Learn the basics of royal icing decoration in Scary Sugar, a 1.5 hour Sugar Cookie Class class by Capital Cookie Company. At the end you’ll get a box of cookies to enjoy at home. It’s all happening at Overflow Brewing Company, 2477 Kaladar Ave. $75 per person.
   
•  Cover band extraordinaire – and devoted gamers — F8-Bit plays Video Game Music Live: Halloween Edition at House of TARG. $10 cover.
   
•  The CBC’s The Debaters comedy show visits Ottawa tonight. Meridian Theatres are Centrepoint.
   

  Music

•  Jazz Nite with Jazzmin-T. Queen St. Fare

•  Whale and the Wolf, Varitones, Emi Jeen. Rainbow Bistro

•  Suicide Silence, Chelsea Grin. Bronson Music Centre
   

Just Announced / Now Booking

•  The new documentary 299 Queen Street West chronicles the launch of Toronto’s – and Canada’s – MuchMusic channel from the point of view of the on-camera talent, the VJs. Along with the screening, the event will include an interactive session with some of those very VJs, live and in person. Saturday October 28, ByTowne Cinema.
   
•  Boney M plays Meridian Theatres @ Centrepointe on Tuesday December 5. We have a feeling that this is one of those concerts where ticket holders will be on their feet all night.
   
•  The National Ballet of Ukraine plays the NAC’s Southam Hall for just two performances on January 21, 2024. The program will include excerpts from Le Corsaire, Giselle, and Don Quixote, with traditional Ukrainian dance.

DEALS OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

Ottawa Tourism has released a new niche itinerary:  How to have the best bachelorette weekend in Ottawa. They do get into specific locations – way too many for us to list – but your bachelorette and bachlorette-adjacent weekend would consist of: Day 1: Brunch, spa, and a night on the town, Day 2: High tea, manicures, and wine, and Day 3: Drag brunch, wellness, and dinner. That's a three day weekend, Ottawa Tourism, and we don’t get many of those. On the other hand, whatever, just call in sick.

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