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We’ve written about Secondhand Stories before, when new collections of books were dropping, but it was not until today that Darren noticed what Secondhand Stories’ actual purpose is: it’s a used bookstore that raises money for a rescue chicken sanctuary.*

You could not make up something more the ottawan than that.

Right now is Secondhand Stories' online auction, its largest fundraising campaign of the year.

Funds raised will ensure the forgotten fowls make it through the winter.

Check out all the items in the auction on the Secondhand Stories Instagram

Chocolate Advent Calendar Giveaway

It’s your last chance to enter for the chocolate advent calendar giveaway.

Martha‘s mom will draw one name each for the following Purdy’s chocolate advent calendars tomorrow morning.

• Santa's Lodge Advent Calendar: email chocodraw@theottawan.com

• Braille Advent Calendar: email brailledraw@theottawan.com

• Vegan Advent Calendar: email vegandraw@theottawan.com
 

– Martha and Darren

🎄Ongoing Christmas Reminders

•  Our ongoing Christmas Market list If you looked at it before, look at it again, we’ve rejigged it to a day-by-day format until Christmas Eve. After that, for some reason, no one wants to have any more markets. Also, we're adding to it daily, so keep reading. Ottawa and environs are Christmas-Market-Palooza.
•  2023 Canadian-made advent calendar list
•  We’re still compiling our Locally Made Gift Guide for next Monday. Please send your nominations for a locally made item to 'giftguide@theottawan.com'.
•  You know what would also make a nice Christmas present? An historic Ottawa logo t-shirt. Sales will certainly help make our Christmas nicer.

TODAY’S LINE UP

•  Ottawa Stats
•  Food + Drink Update
•  City Hall Agenda
•  What Ottawa is Talking About
•  Events
•  Deals of the Day

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FOOD + DRINK UPDATE

•  Gongfu Bao’s Vegan Night next Wednesday November 29 is a one-night-only affair promising an exclusively vegan menu, available for dining in and taking out, from 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm. 365 Bank St.
•  Ameya Charnalia at Eat the Street loves eateries tucked away at the back of grocery stores, which is why he keeps going back for the  chicken biryani and goat biryani at Amma's Biryani on Merivale Road, inside Silk Road Foods.
•  Three restos made it to Canada’s Best 100 list as worked out by Open Table. Alice on Adeline Street, Atelier on Rochester Street, and Perch on Preston Street. Make your reservation quick for Alice, it is closing in January.
•  If you have been feeling peckish for a pasty or desiring a pudding like an Eccles cake, sticky toffee, or spotted dick, the brand new British Pride Bakery has opened at the corner of Stittsville Main and Carp Road. Innit.

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CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall.
 

No more meetings this week.

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

👤 Central Experimental Farm

•  City staff are concerned about shadows over the Experimental Farm from a proposed development. The three towers to be built on a strip mall housing the world’s first Lone Star Texas Grill is across Baseline Road, south of the Farm. The City rubber stamped a previous development that may cause shadows on the Farm despite public outcry. (William Eltherington at CTV)
  
  ➕ Related A consultant cited by the Ottawa Airport as justifying clearcutting the red pines on Hunt Club Road denies saying that. Also, it turns out the Airport would like to develop the land.

🚨 Niagara Falls International Rainbow Bridge

•  The couple involved in the fiery crash at the US border in Niagara Falls, NY had come to Ottawa for the KISS concert. Their $300,000 Bentley was seen driving at 100 miles per hour when it lost control and crashed into the US border station. Neither passenger survived. Tuesday’s KISS concert was cancelled after co-founder Paul Stanley came down with an illness the band describes as the flu. (Scoop Harrison at Yahoo)

⛺ Homeless Measures

•  City Council has directed staff to investigate using large, military-style tents to house people on the street this winter. Using the Heron Road community centre for shelter may add 200 beds but it is feared that may not be enough. (Arthur White-Crummey at CBC)  

🚨 Ottawa Police Service

•  An Ottawa Police Service constable who attempted to gain video footage of a break and enter has been found guilty of discreditable conduct under the Police Service Act. Mohamed Mohamed, who was at the time under medical leave, showed his badge and attempted to view surveillance footage of a condo break in, accompanied by the break-in subject. The condo president refused, saying he would only give it to the investigating officer. It was later learned that the break-in was a cover to remove one kilogram of fentanyl and a large sum of cash from the subject’s apartment. (Trevor Pritchard at CBC)

🌉 Chief William Commanda Bridge

•  After some backtracking, there may be some use of the Chief William Commanda Bridge this winter. The City closed the bridge yesterday for winter, shocking the public with the news that the bridge was not meant for four seasons. The City said snow removal equipment and salt would ruin the wooden decking and corrode the iron but now said that if it can find a trail groomer, it may be reopened when there is enough snow.  (Arthur White-Crummey at CBC)
  
    

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EVENTS

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Today

•  Take a break from the stress of the season with a free virtual concert at the NAC this evening. Alexander Shelley will conduct Strauss tone poems well as new music commissioned by the NAC, and guest soloist Felix Klieser will perform Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4.
•  Give the gift of locally produced art. The 39th annual Ottawa School of Art’s Holiday Fundraising Art Sale opens this evening (5:00 pm to 8:00 pm) and continues over the weekend. All art is by OSA students and faculty.
•  Prison Dancer: The Musical is a retelling of the 2007 viral video from a Filipino prison. Family friendly with an R&B, pop, and house soundtrack. At the National Arts Centre Babs Asper Theatre until December 2.
   
•  Ottawa Dance Directive and Series Dance 10#49 present performances by Montréal’s Speakeasy (Loop It) and Belinda McGuire of Toronto and Brooklyn (Waltz, Slaughterhouse, Requiem), tonight through Saturday at Odd Box, 2 Daly Avenue.

•  The Canadian Museum of History opens its doors to more than 80 exhibitors at the Museum’s Christmas Market, today through November 26 (Sunday).

•  The European Union Film Festival continues with films from Latvia (Soviet Milk / Mātes piens) and Romania (Mikado / Marocco).

•  Ottawa Children’s Storytelling Festival runs until Friday at Ottawa Public Library Nepean Centrepointe branch, schools, and the Odawa Native Friendship Centre.

•  Get in a holiday mood with a visit to the Magic of Lights drive-through experience at Wesley Clover Parks (through January 6, 2024). Your entire carload will get to see lighting displays of holiday scenes and life-size characters.

  Gigs
   
•  Clean Cuts: Jon Deck and Friends. Beyond the Pale
   
•  Dennis Bouwman and Guests. LIVE on Elgin
   
•  Lives Like Skyscrapers, Area Resident, Raphael Weinroth - Browne
   
•  A Spark of Art with L U E L L A. Spark Beer
   
•  Irene’s Thursday Blues Sessions. Irene’s Pub & Restaurant
   

•  Sound of the Shell, Castle Black, 86 It. Avant-Garde Bar

•  Charlotte Cornfield. National Arts Centre Fourth Stage

•  Garrett Warner. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

Tomorrow

•  You can only buy photography prints by diploma students at SPAO’s Open House; they’re not available online. That’s a pretty special gift, in our opinion. The Open House runs this evening from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
•  InnerGenerational is a one-night-only event that considers the experiences of second-generation immigrants as they find their place in Canada. NAC Fourth Stage, 8:00 pm.
•  Ottawa Christmas Market opens for the 2023 season with a Tree Lighting Ceremony at Lansdowne Park. After that, shop the more than 45 vendors under the twinkling lights, visit with Santa, and enjoy a cocktail. Weekends until December 23.
•  It’s free to enter the Indigenous Markets: Black Friday event from 12:30 pm to 7:30 pm at 240 Sparks St. Meet the artists and do some Christmas shopping, with vendors from jewellery to art.

•  There’s more local shopping at the Gloucester Night Market festive edition. 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm at 1980 Ogilvie Road.

•  Cross the mighty Ottawa River and meet more than 55 vendors at the Marché de Noël du Vieux-Aylmer / Christmas Market in Old Aylmer. This evening from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm, continuing Saturday and Sunday.

•  Prison Dancer: The Musical is a retelling of the 2007 viral video from a Filipino prison. Family friendly with an R&B, pop, and house soundtrack. Continuing at the National Arts Centre Babs Asper Theatre until December 2.

•  If the words ‘vintage’ and ‘Christmas’ give you the warm fuzzies, the City of Ottawa has a seasonal event for you. The Cumberland Heritage Village Museum’s annual festive experience will take you through a 1920s and 30s village and feed you gingerbread cookies by the bon fire. Opening today and continuing until December 17. Register ($25.50 per person) on the City of Ottawa website.

•  Doors Open for Music at Southminster’s artistic director Roland Graham’s Ottawa Choral Workshops presents the dramatic Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, at Southminster United Church, 15 Aylmer Ave.

•  The European Union Film Festival continues with films from Croatia Carbide (Garbura), Germany (Till the End of the Night / Bis ans Ende der Nacht) and Estonia (Kalev).

•  The Canadian Museum of History opens its doors to more than 80 exhibitors at the Museum’s Christmas Market, until November 26 (Sunday).

•  Ottawa Children’s Storytelling Festival runs until Friday at Ottawa Public Library Nepean Centrepointe branch, schools, and the Odawa Native Friendship Centre.

  Gigs
   
•  Troubadours Tom Savage & Brock Zeman. Motel Chelsea
   
•  NecroticGoreBeast, Harvested, Pessimistic, Maou Mindu. House of TARG
   
•  John Allaire. Glebe Central Pub
   
•  Double Experience. Rainbow Bistro
   
•  Howlin’ Circus. LIVE on Elgin
   
•  Marc Decho Quartet. Montgomery Scotch Lounge
   
•  Crash Test Dummies. Bronson Centre
   
•  Wine Lips, Mr. Power, Banezean. Club SAW
   
•  Atlantis Jazz EP release party. Irene’s Pub & Restaurant

Saturday

•  Musicians at all stages of their careers will learn something at the YOU and the Music Business Workshop. Presented by at the Ottawa Music Coalition. 1:00 om to 4:00 pm at Coworkly.

•  Enjoy Santa Claus Parades in Orléans and Carleton Place.

•  Perfect Books will repair to the Manx Pub for esteemed editor and author John Metcalf’s 85th birthday celebrations. The festivities get underway at 5:00 pm with readings, toasts, and storytelling on the agenda.

•  Indulge your creative side with a visit to Hintonburg Pottery Studio’s Holiday Open House.
   

  🛷 Road tripping:

•  Visit the charming town of Perth for Once Upon a Christmas, where you can take a horse drawn wagon ride through the quaint streets, enjoy hot chocolate, and shop all day long.

•  Arnprior’s new revitalised four lane bowing alley Steelheads and Strikes is holding a Community Pay What you Can day from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm.

•   The Brockville Christmas Market runs today and tomorrow from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm
  
  Gigs
   

•  SDBC Taproom Concerts Presents Rory Taillon. Stray Dog Brewing Company
   
•  Little Bones (Tribute to The Tragically Hip). Overflow Brewing Company
   
•  Dance Mix 2001. House of TARG
   
•  John Allaire. Quinn’s
   
•  Single Release Party: Vavlvehead, Pretty Good, February Hate Club. Rainbow Bistro
   
•  Chloe Laberge & The Seasons Album Release with Louis Venne. Irene’s Pub & Restaurant
   
•  Latin Fiesta. Mavericks

   

DEALS OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

Darren’s mom lives in an area where the cable company is in a dispute with Corus Entertainment and thus all of Corus’s channels have been removed – including the W Channel with all its terrible predictable microbudgeted delightful Christmas fare.

But CTV is still on the air, and it has tons of filmed-in-Ottawa Christmas films coming up, including Catch Me if you Claus on Saturday and An Ice Palace Romance on Dec 22. 

The Ottawa Film Office has the full list of filmed-in-Ottawa Christmas crackers here but most won’t be shown here. Sorry Mom, they'll be broadcast on channels in the USA. 

 🐔 *Of course Martha knew about the chicken sanctuary. It's awesome. 

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