HELLO OTTAWA | → The ByWard Market wants to install a synthetic ice rink | → If you have been sleeping too well, the Creepy Doll Museum opens tomorrow | → Former City Councillor Catherine McKenney is seeking the NDP’s nomination for the Federal Ottawa Centre riding | → ⛅ High 16° Low 1° and sunny | – Martha and Darren | | STATISTICS OTTAWA | | 90 by 20 | – The size in feet of a synthetic ice rink proposed for ByWard Market. The exact location is still open but the pedestrian section of William Street is a candidate. | | | | Dave Charbonneau at CTV |
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| OTTAWANS OF THE DAY | Sandra Ridley, Huda Mukbil, and Sébastien Pierroz | | QUOTE | | ❝ | | | I think we'll continue with our plans. And if there's a new step in the process where we need to go to the provincial government, then that's what we’ll do |
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| – Mayor Mark Sutcliffe acquiescing to a proposed law by Premier Doug Ford that cities will be prevented from removing automotive lanes for bike paths without provincial approval. | | | | Elyse Skura at CBC |
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| | WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL | Ottawa Police Service Board Finance and Audit Committee
Friday, October 18 at 10:00 am | | 📋 Agenda | | WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT | ♻️ ReUse Ottawa | ▪️Neighbourhoods in the centre of Ottawa will soon be part of ReUse Ottawa, a pilot project to reduce packaging. Patrons of restaurants and grocery stores will be able to borrow free reusable containers which they will return for reuse. The initial areas will be Centretown, the ByWard Market, the Glebe, Old Ottawa South, Mooney's Bay, Alta Vista, Greenboro, South Keys and Blossom Park. | | | | Ted Raymond at CTV |
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| 🚧 OC Transpo | ▪️The O Train will have massive closures between Oct 19 and November 3. The City says that the closures are for required maintenance work. The days are:
Saturday, October 19 and Sunday, October 20 Line 1 will be closed between Blair and Tremblay stations all day. Tuesday, October 22 and Wednesday, October 23 Line 1 will be closed between Blair and uOttawa stations from 11 pm until the end of the service day. Saturday, October 26 and Sunday, October 27 Line 1 will be fully closed between Blair and Tunney’s Pasture stations all day. Tuesday, October 29 and Wednesday, October 30 Line 1 will be closed between Blair and uOttawa stations from 11 pm until the end of the service day. Saturday, November 2 and Sunday, November 3 Line 1 will be fully closed between Blair and Tunney’s Pasture stations all day. | | | | City of Ottawa |
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| 🗳️ Ottawa Centre | ▪️Former City Councillor Catherine McKenney is seeking the NDP’s nomination for the Federal Ottawa Centre riding. The former mayoral candidate represented ward from 2014 to 2022. | | | | CBC |
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| 🚊 VIA Rail | ▪️The City is halting plans to create a multiuse pathway connecting Tremblay Station with The Trainyards by going through the VIA Rail station. The CIty says it is halting its plans because it does not know what VIA Rail plans for the future. | | | | Josh Pringle at CTV |
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| 🐈 Dragnet, Cat Edition | ▪️Ottawa Police are looking for the public’s help in identifying the person who is suspected to have absconded with Nacho, the cat. Nacho was taken from an Orléans Pet Valu Sept 27 and recovered a few days later. | | | | Toula Mazloum at CTV |
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| | THE ROLLING 3 DAY CALENDAR | Is there an event we should know about?
Please use our easy event submission form | TODAY | ▪️ More than 20 vendors will be selling locally made and vintage goods at the Next Door at Night Market tonight from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ▪️ Dave Meslin, author of how-to-fix-democracy book Teardown will be live at a screening of his show Unrigged. 5:30 pm, Ben Franklin Place, 101 Centrepointe Drive. ▪️ Signatures Handmade Market brings 130 makers and artisans to Aberdeen Pavilion this weekend. ▪️ Listen to the premiere of Westboro-raised Frank Horvat’s work ‘Almost Homeless: Ottawa’ as well as other exciting new pieces at the Ottawa New Music Festival. Today and tomorrow at the Alma Duncan Salon, Ottawa Art Gallery. ▪️ Crack Up Comedy Festival stops In Ottawa tonight bringing Evan Carter, Ava Val, Kamar Babar, Ryan Zeitz, Simone Holder, and Trevor Thompson to the stage. ▪️ Get a taste of ArohaFest with the free performance of Bharatanatyam dance by Jegatheeswaralaya Fine Arts Centre, Seena Nair and Anitha Varun, 6:00 pm at the NAC’s Peter A. Hernndorf Place. ▪️ Part science fiction, part sublime discovery, Symbiotic explores the potential for art and science to come together to showcase the interdependency of all living things. Until October 31 at SPAO and Canada Agriculture and Food Museum. ▪️ Screening at the ByTowne Cinema tonight. FAQ follows young Dong-chun as she discovers a magical bottle while navigating myriad after-school activities. Part of the Ottawa Korean Film Festival. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Lee, Ottawa Korean Film Festival (OKFF): FAQ, The Apprentice ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Girls Will Be Girls, Calm Beneath Castles Gigs ▪️ OK Naledi. The Laff ▪️ Noise Hotel, Areans, Joey Bird. Rainbow Bistro ▪️ Jay Willow. LIVE on Elgin ▪️ Mark Crissinger. Irene’s Pub |
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| TOMORROW | ▪️ Road Trip: Brockville comes alive for Ladies’ Shopping Night with swag, photo ops, limo rides, giveaways and major retail therapy. ▪️ On the topic of shopping, there’s lots of it at the National Women’s Show, plus food and drink, entertainment, and demos. ▪️ Speak to psychics, palm readers, numerologists, and Tarot card readers at Ottawa Psychic and Crystal Fair. ▪️ Tonight’s ArohaFest programming — including Kathak dance by Aroha Fine Arts and Garba dance and workshop by the Gujarati Cultural Association of Ottawa — is free. ▪️ Halifax-based cellist, composer, and improviser India Gailey, Montreal-based percussionist David Brongo, and Ottawa-based harpist Michelle Gott perform their latest compositions at Ottawa New Music Festival. ▪️ Enjoy a season-appropriate visit to the Creepy Doll Museum, which is spending a couple of spooky days at House of Commons Studio. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Widow Clicquot, The Outrun, Rumours, Boo-Tone Burlesque: Bram Stoker’s Dracula. ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: A Different Man, Lee, Häxan Gigs ▪️ Slo’ Tom & The Handsome Devils. Irene’s Pub ▪️ Aeroforce: A Tribute to Aerosmith. Overflow Brewing ▪️ River City Junction. Rainbow Bistro ▪️ Terra Spencer. Red Bird ▪️ Live Animals. Café Dekcuf ▪️ Emblematics. Avant-Garde Bar |
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| SATURDAY | ▪️ Road Trip: Visit 20 vendors at the first-ever Vintage and Collectibles Show by Pembroke Vintage Chic Boutique. Find midcentury kitchen and dining items, video games, vinyl, VHS, and cassettes, retro Christmas decor, vintage clothing, and more. 🆓 Get ready for the season at the Ottawa Ski Snowboard and Travel Show. ▪️ Urban Art Collective’s Furry Friend Market is the place to shop for treats, toys, and accessories from local vendors. ▪️ It’s true you’ll find locally crafted goods of the candle, beauty, stained glass, baked treats, pet supplies, herbal remedies, and clothing varieties at the Haunted Halloween Craft Show; however, we are compelled to tell you that there will also be trick or treating. Bring the kids, wear the costume. 🆓 Head to Greely for Horsehead’s Hootenanny, a pop-up of vintage shopping, live music, and yummy food. 5770 Bank Street (on the site of Greely Good Market). ▪️ Road Trip: Spend a pleasant afternoon checking out the Red Trillium Studio Tour, a self-guided driving excursion to artists’ studios in West Carleton. ▪️ Road Trip: The very small Switzer’s House of Beer in Arnprior officially opens today with its Backyard Beerfest. Tickets are still available for the 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm session, but they won’t last long. ▪️ Next Door’s Formal Wear Pop-Up Fundraiser marries your passion for previously loved special occasion outfits with your desire to help Cornerstone Housing for Women. Today only from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. ▪️ You’re bound to bag a bargain at the Riverside United Church Book Nook Sale. 9:00 am to noon at 3191 Riverside Dr. ▪️ Road Trip: It’s theatre, darling, with an added road trip vibe. The Smiths Falls Station Theatre presents Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace until October 26. ▪️ Whiprsnapr is pulling out all the stops as they ring in 10 big years in business. There’s family fun from 12:00 to 4:00 pm and then the grownup party begins. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Ottawa Korean Film Festival: The Sin, Widow Clicquot, The Outrun, Rumours ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Lee, Hävan Gigs ▪️ 4DAYWKND, Futura Free. Rainbow Bistro ▪️ Darkspeed Live. Queen St Fare ▪️ The Angelique Francis Band. Irene’s Pub ▪️ Mari Millano. Club SAW ▪️ AnjChito. Sonny’s Bar and Grill ▪️ The Start: Ultimate 80s Night. Overflow Brewing Co. ▪️ Galleon 40th Anniversary Party with Where’s Mike? The Brass Monkey |
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| | BUT, ONE MORE THING … | It’s not just urban sprawl that is engulfing Ottawa. Phragmites australis, an aggressive invasive species, is strangling marshland across the city. | | DAILY QUALITY CONTROL | What did you think of today’s OTTAWAN? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great ⭐⭐⭐ Satisfactory ⭐ Needs Improvement |
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