– 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.

- The two bands have been nominated in the Artist of the Year and Song of the Year categories at the Ontario Folk Music Awards, to be held in Mississauga next Sunday. 

– Ken Gray in Ottawa Bulldog, standing up for Ottawa’s honour after new Night Mayor Mathieu Grondin was quoted in the Ottawa Citizen as ‘No need to go to Montréal for a great night out’.

⚽ 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

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.

▪️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’.

▪️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’.

▪️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.

▪️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.

▪️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

▪️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