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Friday, 20 October 2023

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🌧️ Light Rain
High 17° Low 10°
🌞 7:24 am🌛6:09 pm

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HELLO OTTAWA

Last night we visited Signatures Handmade Market at Aberdeen Pavilion and took were impressed by the wide range of Canadian made products, crafts, pantry items, decor, jewellery, clothing, and Christmas decorations for sale – even perfumes and mystery novels. Overflow Brewing beer and Dunrobin Distillery cocktails were also available. If you are looking for original Christmas and Hanukkah gifts, the Market is open until Sunday night.

But travelling back on the Queensway, we were astonished to see the mile long single file lane eastbound near Metcalfe. Because of the Percy Street bridge closure, traffic had to be shuttled off of Highway 17 – and it's going to be annoying drivers all the way until 6:00 am Tuesday.

CBC traffic reporter Doug Hempstead has published very detailed alternatives, which is a must-read if you are going to try and traverse the city this weekend.

However, if you are comfortable at home, you can watch the always fascinating installation of the bridge live on video.

– 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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    • $10,000
    • – The minimum bid for your own previously-owned OC Transpo double decker bus on GovDeals.ca. The buses are 2012 editions with over 400,000 km. (Josh Pringle at CTV) (Make a bid)

    Ottawans of the Day

    • Brigitte Larsen, Irene Harding, David Harding, and Shanna Harding
    • – The cofounders of Freedom Dog Rescue run a unique program: palliative care for dogs at their end-of-life. The dogs are not available for adoption but are cared for and given proper medicine until the end. (Caelan Foye in Capital Current) (Donations)

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    • Kanellakos was a great leader

    • – New city manager Wendy Stephanson in a Q&A when asked how she will lead compared to her predecessor, Steve Kanellakos, who disgraced himself over the launching of the O Train.
    • Asked about her priorities as city manager, Stephanson says ‘My priorities are really around re-establishing trust with council and with our communities as well ... When you look at the public inquiry (into LRT) and the release of the inquiry report, that was the breaking point.’
    • So, no denial there ... (Joanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen)

     

    CITY HALL AGENDA

    What’s going on at City Hall.

    No more meetings this week.

    WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

    🚨 Le Service de police de la Ville de Gatineau

     The Gatineau police are asking students from across Gatineau to name their new anti-juvenile delinquency mascot (left). Each classroom will be allowed to submit one name, with the winning class  invited to an Olympiques de Gatineau match accompanied by police officers and that guy (left). (William Eltherington at CTV)

     

     🏒 The Sens

    •  New Sens owner says his ‘gut feel’ is that the people and politicans want a new arena downtown. In another indication that taxpayer money may be needed to pay for the privately-owned team’s arena, Toronto billionaire Michael Andlauer said ‘it's important to listen to the fans. It just so happens our fans live in Ottawa-Gatineau area and they're also taxpayers’.  (Josh Pringle at CTV)

      ➕ Related Mayor Mark Sutcliffe suggests that a new arena could be built on the land of a low use Federal building.

    🏎️ Queen Elizabeth Driveway

    •  Mayor Mark Sutcliffe is trying a new tack to increase car use of the Queen Elizabeth Driveway. Despite voting for the Ottawa official plan that requires a lessening of traffic on the Driveway, the Kitchissippi resident has posted a form on his personal website looking for people who support more traffic. (Josh Pringle at CTV) (Sutcliffe website)

    👩‍🌾 National Capital Commission

    •  The National Capital Commission spent $8 million to build a Rideau Hall barn. To be fair, it’s pretty deluxe: it’s a zero-carbon, two-level structure. The 70 roof-mounted solar panels should create enough power to offset the electrical needs of nearby Stornoway, home to Pierre Poilievre, leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition says the Commission. (Bryan Passifiume in the National Post)

    🚨 Ottawa Bylaw

    •  The former Ottawa Bylaw officer-turned-Mountie fired for sex crimes is under a new investigation. Andrew Seangio, who was once literally a poster boy for Algonquin College’s police foundations program while he was a Bylaw officer, is accused – but not charged – of yelling ‘police, stop her’ to a bystander about a female cyclist on a BC trail. The bystander knocked the cyclist off her bike, breaking her arm. The now ex-Mountie is serving two years in the Ottawa jail for his previous BC crimes. (Gary Dimmock in the Ottawa Citizen)

    🛌 Housing

    •  The new housing development between Hazeldean Road and Abbott Street East in Stittsville has options for six bedrooms. The story is basically an ad for Minto’s Abbott’s Run development but the six bedroom angle is interesting. Developers deliberately building for multiple generations in one house on a large scale is a new trend. (Anita Murrey in the Ottawa Citizen)

    🛻 Convoy Trial

    •  Convoy coörganizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are on trial for their acts in the Convoy siege.
    •  Ottawa Police Service constable Nicole Bach, who liaisoned with Barber, testified that Barber had suggestions on how to refuel trucks and noted that some Truckers had babies with them. She said that Barber suggested that most of the trucks could move out of residential areas to staging sites but leave trucks on Wellington Street for optics.
    •  She said Barber said that it was important that New Edinburgh resident Prime Ministre Justin Trudeau acknowledge the Convoy.
    •  The CBC notes that Bach was wearing ‘a blue and red plaid shirt with jeans’ because, we suppose, it took so much flack on describing Zexi Li’s attire the other day. But they forgot that this is something that they ostensibly normally do, when they reported constable Isabelle Cyr’s testimony Wednesday.

      (David Fraser at CBC)
       

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    EVENTS

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    Tomorrow

    •  The Ottawa Ski, Snowboard & Travel Show is back at the EY Centre today and Sunday. Shop the deals on gear and passes, get info about resorts across Canada and the USA, and get fitted by pro on-site experts.
    •  Vintage Pop-Up 613 was going to appear tomorrow but the forecast rain has postponed it. The next Vpop613 will be November 4 in Westboro.
    •  Friends of the Central Experimental Farm are holding a Used Book Sale at Dominion Arboretum. Today and Sunday, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Building 72, Arboretum, east of the Prince of Wales roundabout.
    •  Manotick’s One World Bazaar hosts a charity market in support of Cornerstone and Habitat for Humanity’s Ottawa ReStore, with shopping, great food, stage performances and talks, and plenty of opportunities to support the two organizations. Today and tomorrow at 6110 MitchOwens Road, Manotick.
    •  Broken Stick Brewing and Hammond Golf and Country Club present Hammond Oktoberfest, featuring German food, great craft beer, and live music. Wear your best lederhosen and dirndl!
    •  Square Lemon is back with the Spooktacular Craft Market, which costs nothing to enter, offers shopping with a great group of more than 40 vendors, and even promises a free workshop on site.
    •  Catch traditional dances from the Indian subcontinent in Woven Journeys: A Concert of Silk Road Heritage Dances at Meridian Theatres at Centrepointe. PWYC with a suggested donation of $20.
    •  Experience a local craft brew that you haven’t tried before at Renfrew Craft Beer and Food Truck Festival this Saturday October 21. If you get hungry, food vendors will cover everything from BBQ to cotton candy.
    •  Urban Art Collective is a busy place on Saturday night. There’s Unsociably High’s EP Release Party, and the UAC Art Hub is taken over by artists Tiffany Wallace (@creativespanky) and Brendog Bartlett with the Vernissage for @brendoogbartlett’s new exhibition “Life in Boxes” happening at the same time. Out in the parking lot you’ll find carnival games and you can dance to the beats in the art shop. 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm at 1088 Somerset St. W.

    Music


    Sunday

    •  Soupalicious Ottawa 2023 supports Debra Dynes Family House. BYOS (bring your own spoon) and slurp your way through delicous soups created by Ottawa's best chefs. Sunday from 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm at Carleton Heights Community Centre, 1665 Apeldoorn Ave.
       
    •  The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi is a French play, in English. The play follows a francophone man, who after years of silence, can speak again, but his words are in the wrong language. Tuesday through Sunday until October 29. GCTC.
       
    •  Pumpkins after dark continues at Wesley Clover Parks.
       
    •  Visit Elgin Street Market for the penultimate time of 2023 this Sunday. Boushey Square, Waverley at Elgin.
       
    •  Every Sunday is Family Funday at The Ottawa Pinball Arcade. From 11:00 am to 4:00 pm enjoy unlimited play on pinball machines and classic arcade games. $15 for everyone aged 12 and over; each child under 12 who is accompanied by a paying adult pays $5. 2559 Baseline Road.
       
    •  Blunders and Beauties is a 45 minute walking tour of Centretown. Tour leader Jack Hanna explains big mistakes by bureaucrats and builders as well tidbits about the Nature Museum and other landmarks both standing and long gone. Free.
       
    •  There’s something about a Sunday afternoon in the Fall, and how it’s the best time to attend in person concerts. Whether you take your Mom, your new lover, or your best friend, it’s just…pleasant. Anyway, this Sunday you can experience that pleasure at Epiphany Anglican Church, where the Bertrand-Furtado Duo will perform a Fall piano and vocal concert. 1290 Ogilvie Road.
       
    •  The third Ottawa Game and Toy Exchange brings 40 vendors to the Preston Event Centre from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. 523 St. Anthony St.
       

      Music

    •  Bonecat. Atomic Rooster

    •  Road Apples, The Tragically Hip tribute band. Meridian Theatres at Centrepointe

    •  The Sunday Night Revue. Irene’s Pub

    •  Delicately Off-Balance EP release. LIVE on Elgin
       

    Monday

    •  The School of Fish drop-in Improv Workshop will accept absolute beginners as well as seasoned improv-ers.  The workshop is at Arts Court.
       
    •  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 this weekend’s impending rainy weather, Aventure Outaouais must postpone the Grape Harvesting Tour at the beautiful Fragments winery in Ripon, Québec to Monday October 22 or 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

       

    Just Announced / Now Booking
     

    DEALS OF THE DAY

    Get unlimited free shipping across Canada and the USA from Stanfield’s, until 11:59 pm on Sunday (October 22). Even better: there’s no minimum spend.

    Dot and Lil’s Tea Cup Candles: Until Sunday, receive a free Camelia Sinensis Camomile tea with the purchase of one of their Tea Cup Candles.

     

    There are plenty of Made in Canada deals to be found on the sale pages at i love tyler madison. For example, the Lily Satin Midi Skirt is $57.50 (reduced from $115) and available in four colours (albeit in limited sizes).

    Receive a free stylish wooden soap dish with every purchase from Beaver and Wood, while supplies last. Use the code SOAPDISH at checkout.

    BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

    The only pin-up calendar that you’ll need is raising money for the Stittsville Food Bank. Photographer Jacinta Cillis-Asquith has created the calendar featuring twelve alluring months of local critters: January – Downy Woodpecker, February – Snowy Owl, March – Baby Red Fox, April – Robin and Baby, May – Humming Bird, June – Red Cardinal, July – Deer (Fawn), August – Snapping Turtle, September – White-Footed Mouse, October – American Goldfinch, November – Canada Geese, and December – Blue Jay.

    Cillis-Asquith hopes to raise $3,000 for the food bank. Calendars can be purchased at Holy Spirit Catholic Church or online. (Use code STITTSVILLE for free Stittsville delivery. Everyone else, just pay the postage. The difference goes to the food bank.) (Ollie Williams at Cabin Radio)

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