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Tuesday February 13, 2024

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Today

❄️ Snow
High 2° Low -7°
🌞 7:08 am🌛5:25 pm

Tomorrow

☁️ Scattered Clouds
High -5° Low -10°
🌞 7:06 am🌛5:27 pm

See the 8 day forecast at the ottawan weather

 

HELLO OTTAWA

Ottawa Public Health has introduced a new free, online training course teaching people how to prevent and treat drug overdoses.

Dr Vera Etches says Overdose Prevention and Response Training is ‘a self-directed, 20-minute course online and it's mainly targeted to people who are school staff, business owners who are wondering what to do, health-care professionals and community and social services staff who interact with people who may need more support’. But it's open to anyone who wants to know.

The course can be found here.

– Martha and Darren

 


Our Valentines Guides

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❤️ Romantic Gift Ideas for Your Valentine

❤️ 5 Food Gifts and Dining Ideas for Valentine’s Day

 

    TODAY’S LINE UP

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

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    OTTAWA STATS

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      • Eight storeys
      • – The height of the planned new building being constructed by the Shepherds of Good Hope at 216 Murray St. The new building will include housing for 48 Indigenous people who are homeless and spaces for services. The Shepherds had just received $1 million from the Taggart Parkes Foundation and is currently fundraising for the rest. (Ottawa Citizen) (Donate)

      Ottawan of the Day

      • Dr. Kerri-Anne Mullen
      • – Mullen is a scientist and director of the Canadian Women’s Heart Health Centre at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Today is Wear Red Canada Day, the sixth anniverary of the campaign awareness about women’s heart health. ‘Historically 70 per cent of research on heart and vascular diseases has been done on men’, she says. (Elizabeth Payne in the Ottawa Citizen) (Wear Red Canada)

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      • I would dress in several layers in an attempt to stay warm but there were still many times where I was close to tears because I was in so much pain from the cold

      • – Danica Coote, a student at Canterbury High School in Urbandale, who was one of many to tell of unreliable OC Transpo service to the Ottawa Transit Commission. (Nickolas Pietrobon in Capital Current)

      CITY HALL AGENDA

      What’s going on at City Hall

      Planning and Housing Committee
      Wednesday, February 14 at 9:30 am

      • Zoning by-law amendment – 1346 Avenue Q
      • Zoning by-law amendment – 56 and 58 Capilano Drive

      📋 Agenda

      WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

      🏘️ Housing

      🖥️ Federal Public Service

      •  A hacker has accessed data from the insurance provider of Federal Public Service workers deployed overseas. MSH international Canada discovered the cybersecurity incident last Friday but as yet does not know what information may have been seen. Overseas workers may have delays in claims as the webpage for the insurance provider remains offline. (Safiyah Marhnouj at CBC)

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      EVENTS


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      Today

      •  Learn to dance and enjoy a romantic evening with your partner at the St-Valentine’s Dance Date Night at Arthur Murray.
         
      •  Start the evening off at ByWard Wine Market, which is hosting a "5 à 7" event celebrating wine and romance. Love is in Season will offer participants six wine samples as well as cheese, focaccia and sweets.
         
      •  Enjoy a sugary sweet evening at Overflow Brewing, with the We Go Together Cookie Decorating Class. There will be beer, too.
         
      •  If this is the year you learn how to build stuff, you’ll need to know the safety stuff first. Ottawa Tool Library’s WorkSpace Safety 101 is the prerequisite required in order to borrow their equipment.
         
      •  Kanata Theatre’s production of the suspenseful drama Mauritius continues at the Ron Maslin Playhouse until February 17.
         
      •  Tickets are available for the romantic comedy It Had To Be You tonight through February 17. Gladstone Theatre.
         
      •  ByTowne Cinema: Ferrari, Galentine’s Day: Thelma and Louise (Free for members only)
         
      •  Mayfair Theatre: Freud’s Last Session, The Braid (aka La Tresse), Zombie

        Gigs
         

      •  Trivia Night. Pour Boy

      •  Trivia Tuesday. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

      •  Brother Elsey, Nick Posthumus, The Soft Maybes. Rainbow Bistro (limited free tickets at the door)

      •  Open Mic Night. LIVE on Elgin

      •  Trivia Night. Jack Astor’s Kanata

      •  Comedy Night. Pub 101

      •  Friends Trivia Night. The Prescott

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      DEALS OF THE DAY

      Snag a bargain at the Ecologyst Warehouse Sale. The Canadian-made slow fashion brand is offering deals from 30% to 70% off shirts, pants, hats, and more.

      BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

      Yes we have the 67s, the Ottawa Senators, and now the new Professional Women’s Hockey League team but the Goulbourn Township Historical Society wants us to remember the history of ‘Goulborn on Ice’ at the Art Space Wall at the Stittsville Branch of the Ottawa Public Library.

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