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HELLO OTTAWA

We’d like to thank you for all the kind emails wishing us good health. Luckily for us, we’re only suffering from the seasonal flu but we appreciate the good thoughts immensely.

As we slowly emerge from being housebound, this first edition of 2024 is wetting our appetite for everything Ottawa. What will we all discover this year?

– Martha and Darren

    TODAY’S LINE UP

    •  Food + Drink Update
    •  Ottawa Stats
    •  City Hall Agenda
    •  What Ottawa is Talking About
    •  Events
    •  Deals of the Day

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    FOOD + DRINK UPDATE

    OTTAWA STATS

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      Ottawan/Gatinois of the Day

      • Alluna Nadalynn Djenar Mahanandra and Mylan Lagacé
      • –  The two were the first babies born in 2024 in Ottawa and the Outaouais, respectively. (Josh Pringle at CTV)

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      Sports

      • 🏒 PWHL Ottawa 3 – Montréal 2 last night
      • 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 3 – Vancouver Canucks 6 last night

      CITY HALL AGENDA

      What’s going on at City Hall
       

      No meetings until January 16.

      WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

      🗞️ Le Droit

      •  After 100 years in print, Le Droit has gone digital only. The French language newspaper had changed from six days per week to Saturdays only in 2020. The final print edition was December 30.  (CBC)

      🏒 The Sens

      •  Steve Staios has been appointed as the permanent general manager of the Ottawa Senators. Staios had been in the position as a temporary replacement since November when he took over from former general manager Pierre Dorion. (CBC)

      🚊 O Train

      •  O Train is back in service after pieces of the ceiling in the tunnel at St-Laurent Station fell onto the track. After an inspection, engineers decided that the tunnel was safe and transit resumed. Carina Duclos, City's acting general manager for infrastructure, says there was a ‘separation of the paste layer at the surface, creating an unbonded layer with the main slab’. ( Andrew Foote and Priscilla Ki Sun Hwang at CBC)

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      EVENTS


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      Today

      •  Wednesday is vinyl night in the Cold Bear (Arnprior) taproom.


        Gigs

      •  Open Mic Night. Glebe Central Pub

      •  Open Mic Night. Waterfront Pub (Carleton Place)

      •  Open Mic Night. Brass Monkey

      •  Prime Rib Big Band. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

      •  Pinball Women Ottawa January Tournament. House of TARG

      •  Trivia Night. Royal Oak pubs

      •  Taproom Trivia. Stray Dog Brewing
         

      Tomorrow

      •  Get a new perspective about happiness. Learn how to transform the mind in order to gain wellbeing at Happiness From A Different Source: How Meditation Changes Everything. The talk will be led by Gen Kelsang Thekchen, a Kadampa Buddhist monk. Tickets $20 (or $25 at the door). Kailash Mital Theatre, Carleton University 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm.

      •  OttawaMusicals is back after a three year absence with Sleeping Beauty: An Annual Panto (tonight through January 7).

        Gigs

      •  Blues Sessions with Guest Host Jameson Mackay. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

         

      Friday

      • OttawaMusicals is back after a three year absence with Sleeping Beauty: An Annual Panto (today at 2:00 pm plus performances on Saturday and Sunday). 

        Gigs

        Jesse Greene Band with Mista Choops. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

        $2 Bill. Avant Garde Bar

        Barrow Gang. Atomic Rooster

        Rhythm Method. Carleton Tavern
         

      Just Announced

      DEALS OF THE DAY

      Cheekbone Beauty is offering 25% off Courage Cream Lip and Cheek Gift Sets.

      BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

      Will Pavia at the Times of London has become interested in Ottawa’s search for a Night Mayor. It’s kind of a fun article. Sure, it brings up the old Allan Fotheringham quips of ‘the  City that fun forgot’ and ‘Sparta on the tundra’ but it also talks to current residents, including a ‘globe-trotting doctor of emergency medicine and a musician’ who loves that Ottawa is ‘a gateway to Nunavut’ and the artist who says Ottawa ‘is not that far from Toronto but you have a difference in the wind chill’.

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