HELLO OTTAWA | → Jeepers, those clouds were weird yesterday | → Sing Madonna, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis Presley, and Mariah Carey hits tomorrow | → Mayor Mark Sutcliffe talks High Frequency Rail | → ⛅ High 14° Low 7 and fog | – Martha and Darren | | STATISTICS OTTAWA | | $830,000 | – The amount of money raised for CHEO in yesterday’s Race for the Kids run. | | | | Ottawa Citizen |
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| OTTAWAN OF THE DAY | Larry O’Brien | | QUOTE | | ❝ | | | We had all the ingredients for a pretty dramatic sky |
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| – Warning preparedness meteorologist Geoff Coulson at Environment and Climate Change Canada describing yesterday’s weird cloud cover, the ones that looked like the clouds in the film Independence Daybefore the aliens invaded. The clouds are called asperitas, a ‘rare and relatively new’ formation. | | | | Marlo Glass in the Ottawa Citizen. CTV Video |
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| SPORTS | 🏈 PANDA GAME Carleton Ravens 35 – University of Ottawa Gee Gees 32, yesterday | ⚽ CPL Atlético Ottawa 0 – York United 1, yesterday | 🏒NHL Ottawa Senators 2 – Montréal Canadiens 2, last Saturday | 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 4 – Detroit Red Wings 3, last Friday | | | PLEASE SUPPORT THE OTTAWAN | THE OTTAWAN was launched in 2020 as the daily answer to the questions: What’s going on? What should I do? Where is somewhere good to eat? | Please consider joining the many other readers with a monthly, annual, or one-time donation to keep the ottawan on its mission. | All annual or one-time donations over $60 get a free ottawan or historic logo t-shirt of their choice. |
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| | WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL | Built Heritage Committee
Tuesday, October 8, 9:30 am | Designation of the Église évangélique baptiste d’Ottawa at 284 King Edward Avenue under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act Consideration of Application to Repeal By-law Designating 501 Cole Avenue under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act Application for new construction at 160 Clemow Avenue, a property designated under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act Designation of 178 Cambridge Street North under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act Designation of the Campanile Campus, 1485-1495 Heron Road under Part IV of the OntarioHeritage Act Adoption of new Heritage Conservation District Plans for the ByWard and Lowertown West HCDs
| 📋 Agenda | Ottawa Public Library Board
Tuesday, October 8, 5:00 pm | 2025 Board Meeting Schedule Central branch at Ādisōke – Service Planning Update and Impacts Semi-Annual Performance Measurement – January to June 2024
| 📋 Agenda | Accessibility Advisory Committee – Special Meeting
Tuesday, October 8, 6:00 pm | | 📋 Agenda | | WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT | 💥 Air BnB | ▪️A Gatineau woman is alleged to have caused $40,000 worth of damage to a Toronto AirBnB. The woman’s Sept. 14 to Dec. 18 2023 booking was interrupted five days early when she was arrested by Ottawa police for participating in a criminal organization, conspiracy to traffic cocaine, and possession of a loaded handgun and high-capacity magazine. The AirBnB owner was stuck with damage from the arrest, and $28,000 in cancellations because the woman’s belongings and car were left behind, making it unrentable. | | | | Saloni Bhugra and Ryan Patrick Jones at CBC |
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| 🎧 Mayor Mark Sutcliffe | ▪️Mayor Mark Sutcliffe has a new podcast interview with Martin Imbleau, the chief executive officer of VIA HFR – VIA TGF Inc. That euphonic acronym, of course, is the name of the Crown Corporationplanning a high frequency rail service from Quebec City to Toronto, via Ottawa. | | | | Team Ottawa Podcast |
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| 💰 Urban Boundary | ▪️City staff has made it easier to bring rural land into urban development: pay for it. Developers who would like to have City staff review tracts for new development can now pay $1.8 million in fees and get fast track service. Developers can get the same service for free, but it may take years. | | | | Elyse Skura at CBC |
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| | THE ROLLING 3 DAY CALENDAR | Is there an event we should know about?
Please use our easy event submission form | TODAY | | TOMORROW | ▪️Pitch Imperfect Singers present another season of inclusive singalongs, with tonight’s song list featuring belters and ballads from Madonna, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis Presley, Mariah Carey, and more. Entry fee is $10 cash, bring your own water. ▪️ByTowne Cinema: Lee,Paris, Texas, A Different Man ▪️Mayfair Theatre: 1995, The Critic, Ghostbusters Gigs ▪️Trivia Night. Royal Oak Pubs (Beechwood, Orléans), Pour Boy ▪️Fontine, Wyatt C. Louis, Neha Sin. Rainbow Bistro ▪️Noelle Francis. Stray Dog Brewing Company taproom |
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| WEDNESDAY | ▪️ The ByTowne Cinema screens Eno, Gary Hustwit’s documentary about prolific musician, artist, and producer Brian Eno. Hustwit’s other works include design documentaries Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized. https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/eno/ ▪️ Road Trip: It’s a museum with a 120 year history by day, but at this time of year Fulford Manor in Brockville is also the setting for evening ghost stories. Ghost Tours 2024 run twice nightly on Wednesdays and Saturdays through October 30. ▪️ Conductor Jessica Cottis leads guest pianist Jonathan Biss and the NAC Orchestra through two performances of a Beethoven classic opuses with a contemporary twist. ▪️ Celebrate a century of Harvest Markets at Parkdale Public Market tonight. ▪️ Identifying the theme is part of the fun at Brew Revolution’s Outside the Box Trivia night. Call the brewery to make your reservation +1 613-672-2739 ▪️ Writers Festival presents Jane Urquhart, who will be discussing her best selling novel In Winter I Get Up at Night. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Lee, Eno, A Different Man ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: The Critic, Ghostbusters, Rosemary’s Baby Gigs ▪️ Jazz Nite with Crop Circle Catalysts. Queen St. Fare ▪️ Soft Machine, Raphael Weinroth-Browne, Archivers. Rainbow Bistro ▪️ Eden Moore’s Bubblegum Pop. LIVE on Elgin ▪️ Open Mic. Pour Boy |
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| JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING | ▪️ The 2024 Get Sidified gala event will as always raise funds for Crohn’s & Colitis Canada, and will include a fashion show, silent auctions, a dessert bar, cocktails, and more. October 18 at Sala San Marco. ▪️ Les Violins du Roy turn 40 with a special concert featuring music by George Frideric Handel. October 30 at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre. ▪️ Get in the Halloween mood with The Iron Cabaret’s The Shadows… And What We Do In Them, a show with dancers, aerialists, and burlesque performers. Four performances at the Gladstone Theatre October 30 through November 2. . |
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| | BUT, ONE MORE THING … | These two items are only obliquely related to Ottawa. By which we mean they don’t mention us at all. But they do cover things on the Ottawa agenda.
First, the first Night Mayor of London, England, which invented the idea, has quit her job after eight years – and there is no plan to appoint another one. Second, CityNews’ daily podcast, The Big Story, asks ‘how did Montreal manage to take some of its streets back from the car, and what can the rest of Canada learn from it?’. | | DAILY QUALITY CONTROL | What did you think of today’s OTTAWAN? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great ⭐⭐⭐ Satisfactory ⭐ Needs Improvement |
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