HELLO OTTAWA | ✉️ Please read: Next Monday, we will be changing our email platform back to a Canadian company, Montréal’s Cyberimpact, after our six-month foray with an American-based one. | We’re warning readers all this week because changing email platforms will result in a small per centage of people having their OTTAWANs sent to the promotional folder or «shudder» spam. | If you don’t see THE OTTAWAN in your email next Monday, look in those those folders.. | | Flash giveaway | We bought two tickets to the sold-out Stew Showdown in Westboro starting at 2:00pm on Saturday … and we can longer attend. We’ll give them to one lucky reader. Simply email stew@theottawan.com by 6:00 pm today for your chance to win. Martha’s Mum will do a draw tonight with the old faithful choosin’ hat, and we’ll announce the winner in tomorrow’s newsletter. | | In Today’s OTTAWAN | → Community newspapers – in print – are still viable | → Sing Sea Shanties at Beyond the Pale Brewing. 🎵 I'se the B'y that buys the round … | → The hockey players’ association is appealing the suspension on the guy who slammed the Sens’ Tim Stutzle’s head to the ice | → Deals on coats, jewellery, and frocks | → ⛅ High -14° Low -18° and partly cloudy | – Martha and Darren | | STATISTICS OTTAWA | | 170 | The number of businesses that now come under the aegis of the Downtown Business Improvement Area after the Sparks Street Business Improvement Area tripled in size, taking in 39 blocks and changing its name. | | | | Marissa Galko in the Ottawa Business Journal |
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| OTTAWAN OF THE DAY | Jim McNeill | Forty years on, McNeill is still running the organization he founded, Ottawa Family Cinema. The society screens family-friendly films, ‘to get out and feel like you’re part of the community and enjoy a good show with everybody else’. Tickets prices start at $5 but free tickets are available for families who apply. Previously located in various homes, the Cinema has now moved to the Rideau Community Hub – the former Rideau High School – with state-of-the-art projectors and sound system. | | | | Lynn Saxberg in the Ottawa Citizen |
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| – Grand Pizzeria coöwner David Mangano, who is one of many ByWard Market business operators who say that Ottawa Bylaw officers are being too aggressive against delivery trucks | | | | Faith Greco at CBC |
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| | WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL | No more meetings this week |
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| | | WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT | 🗞️ Community Newspapers | ▪️The Manotick Messenger and the Barrhaven Independent have joined the Ottawa Voice family of newspapers. Former owner Jeff Morris, who published the Messenger for 41 years and the Independentfor 25 years has been fighting serious illness and is pleased to have the two newspapers in a good home. Ottawa Voice publishes Your Community Voice newspapers biweekly in Kanata, Stittsville, and Carleton Place / Almonte. | | | | Ottawa Voice |
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| 🏒 Sens | ▪️The National Hockey League Players’ Association is appealing the 10 game suspension of the player who slammed Sens forward Tim Stutzle’s head to the ice. Minnesota Wild forward Ryan Hartman was suspended for roughing after the Jan 25 match. The appeal goes to National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman. Hartman, who has been suspended four times prior, forfeits US $487,805 if he stays off the ice. | | | | Associated Press |
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| ➕ Related In sportswriter Bruce Garrioch’s podcast, TSN analyst Frank Corrado thinks the Sens can make the playoffs. | 🏌️♀️ Kanata | ▪️The City says it will appeal to the Supreme Court after losing its last round against a Kanata golf course operator. Back in the mists of time, the developer of Kanata and the former City of Kanata had various agreements, which the City of Ottawa – having absorbed the City of Kanata – argues requires the golf club to remain 40 per cent natural. (In this case, natural includes grass and sand traps for golf). Clublink, the current owner Kanata Golf and Country Club, has won several court rulings that say it is not obligated to obey the 40 per cent requirement. Having just lost again, the City will ask the Supreme Court to allow the appeal in March. Clublink’s plans to develop the golf course into housing would leave it 32 per cent natural. Josh Pringle at CTV |
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| 📮 Canada Post | ▪️Canada Post is laying off 50 managers across Canada, about half of whom are in Ottawa. The crown corporation blames ‘significant financial and operational challenges’. Josh Pringle at CTV |
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Please use our easy event submission form | TODAY | | TOMORROW | 🆓 Experience Indigenous films from the circumpolar North, Outdoors in a theatre made of snow, in the 9th Annual Snow Screen Unikkssqtuarniq. Tonight from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm, continuing Saturday and Sunday. ▪️ See Mickey Mouse, Belle, Moana, and Tniker Bell are but a few of the characters you’ll see on the ice at Disney On Ice: Mickey’s Search Party. Until Sunday February 9 at Canadian Tire Centre. ▪️ Sink into the immersive experience at Art House Café with Jazz in the Dark. The lights will be lower, and you have an option to wear a blindfold as you listen to music by ELK Trio. 🆓 Sing a Sea Shanty returns to Beyond the Pale Brewing 250 City Centre location. No cover, and lots of delicious beer for sale. ▪️ Check out one of the undercurrents shows at Arts Court. ▪️ Queer-owned businesses, skating drag stars, and other performers grab the spotlight in Winter Pride in ByWard Market. ▪️ The home teams face off at the Capital Hoops Classic between U of O Gee-Gees and Carleton Ravens. The Arena at TD Place. ▪️ Girls Nite Out brings the best Canadian female comedians to the Shenkman Arts Centre stage. ▪️ The Mayfair Theatre’s David Lynch Tribute Film Festival kicks off with Eraserhead, with additional screenings on February 11 and 13. ▪️ Despite the frigid temperatures, Divertimento Orchestra is calling for Echoes of Joy and Spring at Woodroffe United Church. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: The Last Showgirl, I’m Still Here, Universal Language, Detour: Ganja & Hess ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Hard Truths, Sing Sing, Eraserhead Gigs ▪️ Kasador, The New Hires, Dart Trees. Rainbow Bistro ▪️ The Beatdown, The Divetones, Taco Bandits. Dominion Tavern ▪️ Factory x Solstice featuring ATROXX, Syvyl, Switches & Stitches. City at Night ▪️ The Ed Lister Group. Night Oat ▪️ Still Water Acoustic. O’Brien’s Roadhouse ▪️ Slo’ Tom & The Handsome Devils. Stray Dog Brewing ▪️ The Bookendz. Beau’s Brewing |
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| SATURDAY | ▪️ Mickey Mouse, Belle, Moana, and Tinker Bell are but a few of the characters you’ll see on the ice at Disney On Ice: Mickey’s Search Party. Until Sunday February 9 at Canadian Tire Centre. ▪️ Visit the Lüx at Spark Street’s urban sugar shack for tunes and amazing lights. 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm ▪️ Dominion City Brewing Co’s Beer Garden on the Skateway near the Canal Ritz could not be more Ottawa: it’s skate in, skate out (but you can also walk to it from the Fifth Ave entrance); it’s a perfect rest stop after a long skate; and you can enjoy seltzer, cold beer, or the newly popular, 400 year-old tradition of fire-poked beer. The pop-up Beer Garden is open Thursdays through Sundays while the ice holds. 🆓 Enjoy more Sun Screen Unikkssqtuarniq screenings outside the Horticulture Building and Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne Park. ▪️ Your kids can design their own bank notes at the Bank of Canada Museum this weekend. Also: learn all about Viola Desmond, the face of the $10 bill. ▪️ Art House Café big 8th anniversary weekend really heats up with The Greatest Party of All Time. Dress like your fave sleb for your chance to win a vodka shot. ▪️ The Sparks Street Traditional Tea & Bannock Sampling continues, alongside art in ice carvings by Jessica Somers. ▪️ This is the final 613Flea before Valentine’s Day. Don’t miss the chance to pick up something as unique as your true love. 🆓 The 11th annual Great Canadian Kilt Skate will coincide with the first-ever kilt skate to take place in Scotland. Ottawans only have to travel to the Lansdowne Park Skating Court to take part. Kilts are not required. ▪️ Take the kids (ages 3-7) to the Lil’ Breeze Obstacle Course and then warm up with a free hot chocolate. 350 Laurier St Gatineau J8X 3W9 🆓 How about a little outdoor yoga? Happiness Habits 613 are holding the first ever SNOWGA 1 on the great lawn, er, snow at Lansdowne Park. 11:00 am to 11:45 am. It’s going ahead whtere there’s snow or shine so dress for the outdoors. It’s free but you must register. ▪️ If you want to meet new people, check out the Massive Social at 3 Brewers (Sparks and Bank). ▪️ Urban Art Collective’s Not Your Typical Valentine’s Day Market (28 Booth St at Zibi) brings local vendors of all things LOVE together, with the aim of making this your best Valentine’s Day. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: I’m Still Here, Universal Language, Eraserhead ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Flow, Sing Sing, Pulp Fiction, Saturday Night Sinema Gigs ▪️ Sharlee single release party. LIVE on Elgin ▪️ Moondoggy, Touch Grass, Joe Zappala, DJ Groovy Bob. House of TARG ▪️ AnjChito. Night Oat ▪️ Whiskey River Fever (Zach Bryan tribute). Bar Robo |
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| JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING | | | DEALS OF THE DAY |  | Arctic Bay |
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| Get hot deals on Made in Canada cold weather coats from Arctic Bay. |
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| Today only: If you need jewellery for any particular reason, Horace is discounting everything site wide by 30%. No code necessary. |
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|  | Workshop Boutique |
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| Workshop Boutique’s “Get More Canuck For Your Buck” flash sale means big savings on some fabulous womenswear from across the land. The more you buy, the bigger the discounts. |
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| | BUT, ONE MORE THING … | Regular One More Thing name Neil Saravanamuttoo is coming out with what should be a winning project: the Better Ottawa Podcast. says he’ll be having ‘long-form interviews with different people around town’ and ‘be covering all the municipal topics you would expect — transit, housing, homelessness, crime, congestion and so on’. His six minute introduction is here. |
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