HELLO OTTAWA |
→ The CRTC raffled off chances to win an assigned workspace |
→ A new season of Art Battles launches at Overflow Brewing Company |
→ Take a look at the proposed designs for a new Alexandra Bridge |
→ 🌧️ High 21° Low 11° and light rain |
– Martha and Darren |
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STATISTICS OTTAWA |
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One Month |
– The amount of time in a private office the Canadian Radio-Telecommunication Commission offered Federal public employees as a prize in for participating in the Government of Canada Workplace Charitable Campaign. Employees could also win one week in the secretary general's office or a chance to cut their director’s necktie. Federal workers are not given assigned seating these days. | | | | Estelle Côté-Sroka and Campbell MacDiarmid at CBC |
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OTTAWANS OF THE DAY |
The Angelique Francis Band and summersets |
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QUOTE |
| ❝ | | | If you want Montréal, go to Montréal. If you want Ottawa, you live in Ottawa. |
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SPORTS |
⚽ Atlético Ottawa 1 – Halifax Wanderers 1 last Sunday 🏒 Ottawa Senators 2 – Pittsburgh Penguins 5 last Sunday (pre-season) 🏈 Ottawa RedBlacks 16 – Saskatchewan Roughriders 29 last Saturday |
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Ottawa City Council
Wednesday, October 2 at 10 am |
Petition received requesting re-installation of gates and that Garfield Park is fully designated under the Dogs-in-Park Designation Policy as a “Fenced Off Leash Dog Area”. Responses to Inquiries - Vicious Dogs - Waitlist for Swimming Lessons Policy Framework for Voluntary Donations for Community Benefits – Working Group Report Office of the Auditor General (OAG) – Road Renewal Program Value for Money Audit Office of the Auditor General (OAG) – Investigation of OC Transpo Bus Maintenance Office of the Auditor General (OAG) - Semi-annual Report on Follow-Up Procedures Office of the Auditor General (OAG) – 2024-2027 Audit Work Plan for the Ottawa Police Service Long-Term Care Person-Centred Care Update Update to the Community Safety and Well-Being Plan: Incorporation of the former Crime Prevention Ottawa Community Partnership Capital Programs Annual Report Snow Plow Contractor Licensing Review Idling Control By-law Review 2024 Tax and Rate Operating and Capital Budget Q2 Status Draft Statement of Investment Policies and Procedures for Prudent Investor Standard Public Services and Procurement Canada Presentation – South Block Project Trim Road Community Safety Zone Zoning By-law Amendment – 2050 Provence Ave City Clerk – Summary of Oral and Written Public Submissions Summary of Oral and Written Public Submissions for Items Subject to the Planning Act ‘Explanation Requirements’ at the City Council Meeting of September 18, 2024
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📋 Agenda |
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
📋 National Day For Truth and Reconciliatio |
To commemorate National Day For Truth and Reconciliation, two tributes were unveiled yesterday. ▪️A six-metre Indian Residential School Memorial Monument has been dedicated at the Museum of History. Created by artist Stanley C Hunt, the monument represents the children who went missing, and died, in the residential school system. | | | | Kimberley Johnson at CTV |
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▪️The Indigenous Medical Garden was unveilled at the University of Ottawa at Roger Guindon Hall. The garden will be used by the Faculty of Medicine ‘to demonstrate medicinal plants used in healing ceremonies’. | | | | Toula Mazloum at CTV |
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🏫 Ottawa-Carleton District School Board |
▪️The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is delaying its planned changes to autumn 2026. A report from the Board was expected last Friday, outlining plans to remove separate special needs programmes and integrate them in to mainstream classes and change French immersion delivery. The Board believes that French immersion schools are funded inequitably to other schools. Massive parental blowback has caused the Board to declare the need for ‘additional consultation’. | | | | Joanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen |
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🚧 24 Sussex Drive |
▪️The National Capital Commission has completed gutting the interior of 24 Sussex Drive. The abatement and decommissioning work removed all heritage items and cleaned up years of mice and vermin infestation. The house will now be maintained in its existing condition until the Federal government decides what to do with the Prime Minister’s official residence. | | | | Josh Pringle at CTV |
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🪆 Alexandra Bridge |
▪️Three designs have been released for the rebuilding of the Alexandra Bridge. Called “Echo’, ’Motion’, and ‘Rendez vous’, it behooves THE OTTAWAN to admit that all three look pretty good. ‘Echo’ is a central pedestrian and bikeway, with the auto lanes hanging off each side, ‘Motion’ has three small arches, and ‘Rendez Vous’ is one big arch, one small. But just look at the pictures. | | | | Blair Crawford in the Ottawa Citizen |
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THE ROLLING 3 DAY CALENDAR |
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TODAY |
▪️Seniors for Climate will be holding a Flash Mob followed by a roundtable discussion featuring Suzuki Elders, Climate Action for Lifelong Learners, Grand(m)others Act to Save the Planet, Climate Legacy, Seniors for Climate Action Now!, and For Our Grandchildren. Knox Presbyterian Church (120) Lisgar St) on National Seniors Day. ▪️You could make tacos at home, or you could skip down to Flora Hall for Taco Tuesday and fine craft beer. On the menu: $5 tacos, with new meat and vegan options each week. 🆓 There’s a full evening of poetry at Club SAW. At 6:30 pm hear Lagos-based poet Nnadi Samuel read from his new chapbook Biblical Invasion BC, followed by readings from Ottawa’s new English and French Poets Laureate, David O’Meara and Véronique Sylvain . At 8:30 pm three renowned Ottawa poets, Amanda Earl, Christine McNair and Sandra Ridley, do readings in what is being called a Poetry Cabaret. ▪️ByTowne Cinema: The Critic, Girls Will be Girls, The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man ▪️Mayfair Theatre: Good One, The Critic, Body Double Gigs ▪️Trivia Tuesday. Irene’s Pub ▪️Trivia Night at Broadhead Brewing ▪️Whose Live Anyway? National Arts Centre ▪️Fontine, Wyat C. Louis, Neha Sin. Rainbow Bistro ▪️Death From Above: You’re A Woman, I’m a Machine 20th anniversary tour with Teen Mortgage. Bronson Centre Music Theatre |
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TOMORROW |
🆓 As part of Ottawa Architecture Week, Carleton University alumna Heather Dubbeldam will speak about her practice’s built work, design research and advocacy efforts. 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at Ottawa Art Gallery. |
▪️Digital Arts Resource Centre will screen Abraham Côté’s documentary My Indian Name on a loop through October 4. |
🆓 You’ll cringe, but not necessarily with fright, at the Ottawa Bad Movie Nights screening of The Bat (1959). Ottawa Public Library main branch, 6:30pm to 8:30 pm. |
▪️ByTowne Cinema: Girls Will Be Girls, The Substance |
▪️Mayfair Theatre: The Critic, Good One, Night of the Comet |
Gigs |
▪️Wine Lips. House of TARG |
▪️The Ottawa Pocket Jazz Band. Bar Robo |
▪️The Prime Rib Big Band. Irene’s Pub |
▪️Champagne Weather. LIVE on Elgin |
▪️Soft Machine. Rainbow Bistro |
▪️The Gladsome Gentlemen. Red Bird |
▪️Powerglove. The Brass Monkey |
▪️Trivia nights: Cafe Dekcuf, Beyond the Pale Brewing, Bicycle Brewing, Royal Oak Pub (318 Bank St., Hunt Club) |
THURSDAY |
▪️Indulge in a five-course fine dining meal of Indigenous culinary delights, created by National Arts Centre sous-chef and Resident Chef Chris Commandant. During Kaie:ri Niwekenhnheke: Four Seasons, the courses will be paired with wines from British Columbia’s Nk’Mip Cellars, North America’s first Indigenous-owned winery. ▪️Paper Moon Theatre presents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street for four performances only. Tickets from $59. Babs Asper Theatre at the National Arts Centre. ▪️Grammy and Tony-nominated baritone Norm Lewis sings Broadway hits with the NAC Orchestra. ▪️The 168th edition of Metcalfe Fair opens this evening. 🆓 The 2nd annual Minoshkite Indigenous Music & Arts Festivalshowcases some of Canada’s top Indigenous artists and performers. Presented by the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund (DWF), ELMNT FM, and Canada’s Music Incubator. 7:00 pm at The Bronson Centre Music Theatre, 211 Bronson Ave. K1R 6H5 ▪️Paint brushes at the ready: A new season of Art Battles launches at Overflow Brewing Company. ▪️ByTowne Cinema: The Critic, Ciné-Club d’Ottawa: Sur la terre comme au ciel, Ciné-Club d’Ottawa: Bernadette ▪️Mayfair Theatre: Good One, The Critic, Night of the Comet Gigs ▪️Mark Green. Irene’s Pub ▪️Camp Saint Helene. Avant-Garde Bar ▪️Ally Fiola. Montgomery Scotch Lounge ▪️Begonia. National Arts Centre ▪️Alanna Stirling. The Rainbow Bistro ▪️UDO. The Brass Monkey ▪️Trivia Night. Ridge Rock Brewing (Carp) ▪️Ash Ravens. LIVE on Elgin ▪️Tom Wilson (Tehohàhake Trio). The Bronson Centre |
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JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING |
🆓 Interiors fans and those about to embark on a renovation should set aside Sunday October 6 for the the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association RenoTour Parade of Homes. You’ll take yourself from one end of Ottawa to the other to view nine remodel and have the opportunity to meet the pros.
▪️Hear Canadian War Museum Chief Historian Dr Tim Cook speak about the North American experience during the Second World War. The lecture is based on his book The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War. $10. Thursday, October 24. |
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DEALS OF THE DAY |
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| Two pound bags are 20% off at Equator Coffee |
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BUT, ONE MORE THING … |
A graduate student at Carleton University is using wastewater from beer brewing to generate electricity. After beer is brewed and kegged, the yeast and hops left over are composted leaving a brown liquid that is sent down the drain. Seyedomid Ahmadinejad took leftover liquid from Dominion City Brewing Co. back to his lab to extract biogas which can be used to generate electricity. |
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