HELLO OTTAWA |
→ Chandra Arya, the Member of Parliament for Nepean, will not be the next Prime Minister |
→ Feel the feels at Grey’s Anatomy trivia night tomorrow |
→ The City needs you to join a board |
→ Deals of the day on Ottawa-made intimate wear and artisanal vinegar |
→ 🌨️ High -1° Low -17° and chance of flurries |
– Martha and Darren |
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STATISTICS OTTAWA |
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$180 million |
The amount of money that OC Transpo will receive from the Federal government, in an announcement today for ‘upgrading, replacing, modernizing and maintaining public transit and its infrastructure’. The City must submit a plan on how it will spend the money between 2026 and 2036 before receiving it. | | | | Arthur White-Crummey at CBC |
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OTTAWAN OF THE DAY |
Peter Hum |
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QUOTE |
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– Rogers Community Channel 22 personality Tom Green after being asked if he wished he made more of an effort to show audiences that ‘he wasn’t an idiot, he was just playing one’. Green has a new documentary about his life on Amazon Prime Video plus a new series about his new Ottawa Valley life, Tom Green Country, also on Prime. | | | | Maya Salam in the New York Times |
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SPORTS |
🥍 NLL Ottawa Black Bears 4 – Vancouver Warriors 8 last Friday |
🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 2 – Toronto Maple Leafs 1 last Saturday |
🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 3 – Utah Hockey Club 1 last night |
⛸️ Ivanie Blondin, with her team, won gold at the women’s team sprint in the Speed Skating World Cup while Isabelle Weidemann came in fifth in the 5,000-metre event. |
🎾 Gabriela Dabrowski, with partner Erin Routliffe, have been eliminated from the Australian Open women’s doubles semis. |
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Nominating Committee
Tuesday January 28 at 9:30 am |
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Appointments to Standing Committees Appointments to Boards, External Agencies, Municipal Organizations, Council Liaisons and/or Selection Panels
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
🗳️ Federal Liberal Leadership |
▪️Member of Parliament for Nepean, Chandra Arya, has been disqualified as a candidate for Liberal leader. Arya, who promised to abolish the monarchy and said it would not matter to French Canada that he did not speak French, has not been told why he was disqualified by the party. Rockcliffe’s – we think – Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland, Karina Gould, Jaime Battiste, Frank Baylis, and Ruby Dhalla have all been accepted as leadership candidates. | | | | Peter Zimonjic at CBC |
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🏒 Sens |
▪️The Sens will be spend four or five days in Québec at a training camp, and will play two pre-season matches there. Toronto billionaire Michael Andlauer, owner of the team, says that he has no plans to move the team and he believes in ‘Ottawa – Gatineau’. | | | | Bruce Garrioch in the Ottawa Citizen |
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➕. Related Some Sens fans are upset that Spartacat, the team mascot, wore a jersey that was half Ottawa Senators and half Quebéc Nordiques. |
🏢 Tunney’s Pasture |
▪️The National Capital Commission is planning to add up to 9,000 new housing units and cut public employee office space to 7,600. The new Tunney’s Pasture plan also includes nearly 80,000 square metres of parks. The Commission made the announcement at its board meeting last Thursday. | | | | Blair Crawford in the Ottawa Citizen |
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⛪ Your Own Private Alice’s Restaurant |
▪️A gorgeous little red brick church is for sale in Fenaghvale for only $79,000. The deconsecrated St Paul’s Anglican Chapel first opened in 1874 and closed in 2023. Buyers would need to add their own heating, plumbing, and well. | | | | James Morgan in The Review ReMax Listing |
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📎 Committees and Board |
▪️The City is looking for volunteers to sit on a variety of committees and boards. The City quangos looking for warm bodies are: |
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Ottawa Board of Health Committee of Adjustment Rogers Centre Ottawa – Board of Directors Accessibility Advisory Committee Community Safety and Well-being Advisory Committee French Language Services Advisory Committee Planning Advisory Committee (Landscape Architect position)
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THE ROLLING 3 DAY CALENDAR |
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TOMORROW |
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WEDNESDAY |
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JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING |
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DEALS OF THE DAY |
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| Save on bundles at Ottawa’s own intimates brand Calita. You’ll also get free shipping until midnight tonight. #madeinottawa #madeincanada |
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BUT, ONE MORE THING … |
Yesterday, we saw a plea from the What’s Up Arnprior Facebook group asking people to come out to the Eastern Ontario Super Hockey League match between the Arnprior Rivermen and South Dundas Rockets. The poster noted that the previous match had only 61 people attend. So THE OTTAWAN did. And watched the Arnprior Rivermen – formerly the West Carleton Rivermen – get smoked by South Dundas 3 - 7. But so did 229 other people who answered the plea. It was a great afternoon. The league is an interesting creation. It’s semi-pro, featuring AHL, NCAA, and OHL players but not part of the established hockey system. Besides the Rivermen, other teams in the Capital are the Manotick Mariners, Paugan Falls Rapids, and Pontiac Senior Comets. At an average ticket price of $10 per game, it’s worth giving your support. |
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There is, however, one team in the league that THE OTTAWAN thinks is probably paying its expenses strictly on merch sales. Readers, meet the Lindsay Barncats. Who wouldn’t want this adorable logo on a t-shirt? |
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