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Good news is that power outages can now be reported online at this link. The bad news is that some bright spark at Hydro Ottawa figured that what we want to do when we report a power outage is sign up for a MyAccount to do it. 

You don't need to be a Hydro Ottawa Customer, sure, but you’ll get a Hydro Ottawa account whether you want one or not. 

For those of you who still have landlines – the only kind that work during a power outage – you can still call 613 738 0188.

Hydro Ottawa also has Apple and Android apps. Besides reporting outages, you can also view your electricity usage every day.

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

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Sports

• 🏒 PWHL Ottawa 3 – New York 4 last night

CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall

Finance and Corporate Services Committee
Tuesday, February 6 at 9:30 am

• Community Partners Insurance Program
• Information Technology Services 2024 work plan update
• Motions and directions recommended for closure

📋 Agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🐀 24 Sussex Drive

•  The tests are in: 24 Sussex Drive is rat and asbestos free. Regardless, the official residence of the Prime Minister requires $37 million to become habitable once again. Former director of communications to Stephen Harper, Andrew MacDougall, says that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau missed his chance to renovate after the high of his first election. Trudeau and family currently live in Rideau Cottage on the grounds of Rideau Hall. (Jennifer Chevalier at CBC)

🚌 Park-and-Ride Lots

•  Riverside South-Findlay Creek ward councillor Steve Desroches wants more activity on underused park-and-ride lots. Desroches suggests using the lots for airport parking with shuttle buses, but a City bylaw prevents overnight parking. He also suggested using them as pickleball courts during the summer. Stittsville ward councillor Glen Gower has suggested using them for housing. An unnamed person from the City said that as transit use grows, the lots will be used more. (Guy Quenneville at CBC)

💽 Technically Beautiful

•  Ottawa tech company Leonovus has sold all its assets to a US company for $2.5 million. That leaves the company with ‘significant amount of cash’ and a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange. However, unless the company buys or creates a new business, it will be relegated to the stock exchange’s minor leagues, the NEX Board. In 2022, Leonovus sold only $5,000 worth of its data-encryption-across-multiple-cloud-servers business. (David Sali in the Ottawa Business Journal)

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EVENTS

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Today

•  The Broadway Nights sing-along and Open Mic, which is growing more popular by the week, has moved into new digs at Club SAW. Tonight’s theme is Villains, but it's open to interpretation. $15.

•  It’s Euchre Night at the Osgoode Legion Branch 589. $5 will get you a seat at the game.

•  The OPL Main Branch is screening Korean thrillers for free each Monday night in February. Note: these screenings are not for kids. Tonight’s 6:00 pm presentation: Burning from 2018. In Korean with English subtitles.

•  Mayfair Theatre: The Boy and the Heron, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Mad Dog Morgan

•  ByTowne Cinema: Origin, Ru, Memory

  
  Gigs

•  Open Mic Night. Art House

•  Karaoke Mondaze. Atomic Rooster

•  Bluegrass Mondays featuring Open Stage, with the House Band. Red Bird
   

Tomorrow

•  Happiness Habits 613 and Ottawa City Run Club present a free run to mark Heart Month. Meet at Beyond the Pale (250 City Centre) at 7:30 pm. Everyone Is welcome.

•  If your French skills are rusty, join the French Conversation Group at OPL St. Laurent branch for conversation in a relaxed setting.

•  ByTowne Cinema: Ru, Memory, Origin

•  Mayfair Theatre: Freud’s Last Session, The Boy and the Heron, Koyaanisqatsi
  
  Gigs

•  Trivia Tuesday. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Tuesday Trivia. Broadhead Brewery

•  Charlotte Cardin - 99 Nights Tour. TD Place Arena

•  Trivia Night. Royal Oak pubs

•  Trivia Night. Moose McGuire’s Orléans

•  Pizza & Poetry. Spark Beer
   

Wednesday

•  The Doors Open for Music program is all about The French Harpsichord in Germany, with Ottawa musician Suren Barry delivering a programme of German composers influence by French music. Don't forget these are noon concerts. 
   
•  The NAC’s Hip Hop Theatre Festival continues with Twisted, a 21st century update on Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist.
   
•  ByTowne Cinema: Run, Origin, Dawn of the Sea - 4K Restoration.
   

•  Mayfair Theatre: The Boy and the Heron, Mad Dog Morgan

  
  Gigs

•  Beats & Boards. Art House

•  Prime Rib Big Band. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Vocal Jams with the Gerri Trimble Trio. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

•  Phew Pkew Pkew, MVLL Crimes. Dominion Tavern

Just Announced / Now Booking

• The Stittsville Rotary Club brings back another fundraising series of films in collaboration with TIFF. The pass for all screenings of the French, English, and Italian films is $60, and profits will fund the Rotary Club’s programs and services. February 26, March 25, April 29, and May 27 at 4:00 pm or 7:00 pm.

• Digital Arts Resource Centre’s first Night School lecture of 2024 is Being Masters of Our Stories. February 15 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Free but you must register.

• Recreated Designs’ in person workshops offer home decor projects for the creative DIYer. On Thursday February 15, learn all about painting fabric for upholstery projects.

•  The Ottawa Film Office’s popular employment event is back: 2024 Film, Television, and Animation Career Fair will offer opportunities to learn about job streams across the industry (February 29 at the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne Park). First up: a panel discussion with industry professionals, then, a job fair with reps form production companies, unions, guilds, animation studios, and more. Free but registration is required.

DEALS OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

• Gatineau readers, turn away. This item will be perplexing and inexplicable to you.

• Driver Shane Link received a $325 fine after turning right on a red light in Ottawa. Although the text on the ticket says Link drove through the red light, the included picture from the traffic camera shows him turning right. The City told Link that there is nothing it can do and he must challenge it in court. Said Link, ‘It’s just so unfair and you just feel defeated, it just sucks’. Link also made a TikTok about this.
• ➕ Related CTV has a list of the top 15 red light camera intersections by tickets issued.

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