HELLO OTTAWA |
→ Some of the Ottawa Public Library main branch's biggest art pieces won’t be moving to Ādisōke |
→ Full moons rising at Live on Elgin tonight |
→ West Carleton ward councillor should be sanctioned over daycare dustup, says Integrity Commissioner |
→ ☀️ High 6° Low -2° and sunny. Environment Canada warns freezing rain may be possible overnight. |
– Martha and Darren |
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GIFTS THAT GIVE BACK |
🎁 A donation to the Trans Canada Trail will benefit you and everyone else who enjoys discovering the longest multi-use trail system in the world. 🎁 Give the gift of cozy: For every pair of #madeintoronto Slouchy Sockspurchased, Province of Canada donates one pair to homeless shelter. 🎁 With a membership to Heritage Ottawa, the recipient enjoys newsletters, a discount on walking tours, discounts on select publications, advance notification of field trips and forum, and exclusive invites to members-only events. 🎁 For cinephiles: Canadian Film Institute memberships offer savings on tickets to the European Union Film Festival, Ottawa Canadian Film Festival, International Film Festival of Ottawa, and Ottawa International Animation Festival. 🎁 Gaze at a different hero every month when you purchase the 2025 Ottawa Firefighter Calendar. 🎁 Purdy’s Dear Santa bar is a scrumptious slab of milk chocolate with tiny bits of salted butter toffee for crunch. $2 from the sale of each bar will be donated to a partnering children’s hospital foundation that is chosen based on the address of the buyer. $6 each. | | | | Do you have a suggestion for a locally sourced Christmas gift? Please email it to us at giftguide@theottawan.com |
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STATISTICS OTTAWA |
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$22 million |
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➕ Related In its bid to find $820,000 for transit revenue, the City is now proposing to raise the Senior’s bus pass by only 60%, instead of the theatrical 120% it previously suggested. |
Also, free senior Sunday rides would be cancelled under the new budget. Right now, seniors pay $49 per month for a pass and ride free Sundays and Wednesdays, the new pass would be $78. |
VANKLEEK HILL-ER OF THE DAY |
Robert Irwin |
The journalist was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Farm Writers’ Federation in Halifax over the weekend. With his co-awardee Don Stoneman of Bancroft, the two ‘covered stories across the spectrum including farm animal welfare, stray voltage and its effects on livestock, the Ontario government’s decision to end the Slots at Racetrack program, the role of women in farming, neonicotinoids, sewage spills and bypasses from urban sources and more. They also covered farmer mental health issues years before it was given a place of prominence in mainstream farm discussions’. | | | | James Morgan in The Review |
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– Rene Price, son of artist Art Price whose gigantic ceiling chandelier – Centre of the Universe – hangs in the Ottawa Public Library main branch. The Library owns a substantial number of public art pieces but only half of them will move to the new joint Ottawa Public Library/Library and Archives Canada building, Ādisōke, in 2026. The chandelier and two large mosaics by Gerald Trottier are amongst the art not moving. If the new owner of the main branch doesn’t want to keep them, the Library will sell them, give them away, or return the pieces to the artists’ estates. | | | | Bruce Deachman in the Ottawa Citizen |
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SPORTS |
🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 3 – Vancouver Canucks 4, last Saturday |
🏒 PWHL Ottawa Charge 6 – Boston Fleet 1, last Friday (pre-season match) |
🏒 PWHL Ottawa Charge 3 – Montréal Victoire 6, last Thursday (pre-season match) |
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Community Services Committee
Tuesday, November 26 at 9:30 am |
Deferrals - OCC 2024-07 – Seasonal recruitment of lifeguards Draft 2025 Operating and Capital Budgets – Community Services Committee Status update – Community Services Committee inquiries and motions for the period ending November 13, 2024
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Agenda |
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
💥 Current and Former City Councillors |
▪️The City integrity commissioner says West Carleton ward councillor Clarke Kelly should be sanctioned for a scene at a daycare last July. Karen E Shepherd found that Kelly’s actions ‘amounted to bullying and intimidation’ towards the owner and staff of West Carleton Kids Korner Daycare. The daycare is next to Kelly’s ward office and the two had many previous encounters over noise complaints by Kelly, which came to a head last summer. We didn’t see this before, but the Ottawa Citizen previously referred to the event as the ‘kerfuffle in Kinburn’, which we love. | | | | Blair Crawford in the Ottawa Citizen |
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▪️Former Somerset ward councillor Catherine McKenney has won the nomination to be the Ontario’s NDP candidate for Ottawa centre. McKenney was on city council 2014 to 2022, and came in second for mayor in the most recent civic election. Current Ottawa Centre Member of Provincial Parliament Joel Harden plans to run Federally for the NDP in a riding to be determined. | | | | CBC |
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🚊 O Train |
▪️The entire O Train system will be shut until 12:30 pm on Sunday, December 1 to test out Stage 2 software. A replacement bus service will run starting at the usual time of 8:00 am. | | | | Josh Pringle at CTV |
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🥫 Food Bank |
▪️The Ottawa Food Bank has issued a ‘a declaration of emergency’, warning it may need to cut food distribution 20 to 50 per cent next year unless it receives more funding. Chief Executive Officer Rachael Wilson says the number of users of the food bank has grown 90 per cent over the past four years. | | | | Josh Pringle and Kimberley Johnson at CTV Donate |
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➕ Related The University of Ottawa has launched a ‘free food alert’ app for its community notifying them of leftovers from conferences, ceremonies, events, and meetings at the uni. The previous procedure was to throw out the food. If you have an @uottawa email address, you can sign up here. |
⛸️ ByWard Market |
▪️Ivanie Blondin won gold, silver, and bronze at the speed skating World Cup over the weekend. On Saturday, Blondin took gold in the women’s 3,000 metre long track competition. Then she raced twice yesterday, winning silver in the women’s mass start and bronze in mixed sex with Yankun Zhao, a medal first for Canada in the event. The Speed Skating World Cup was held in Nagano, Japan. | | | | The Canadian Press |
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➕ Related The bijou synthetic ice rink has opened at ByWard Market. It’s open 10:00 am to 8:00 pm daily, regardless of temperature, and you can use your regular skates. |
🛻 Convoy News |
▪️Convoy siege coörganizer Pat King has been found guilty of five charges. On Friday, we wrote that King had been found guilty on two charges, but the judge convicted him of three more after we sent out THE OTTAWAN. King was found guilty of ‘two counts of disobeying a court order and one each of mischief, counselling to commit mischief, and counselling to obstruct a public or peace officer’. He was acquitted of four other charges, ‘three of intimidation and counselling to commit intimidation, and one of obstructing a public or peace officer’. King will be sentenced in January and could face 10 years in prison. | | | | David Fraser at CBC |
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THE ROLLING 3 DAY CALENDAR |
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WEDNESDAY |
▪️ This week’s Doors Open for Music at Southminster features American Jazz from the 1920s to the 1940s. 12 noon at Southminster United Church or online. ▪️ Tonight’s screenings at European Union Film Festival: Hilma(Sweden), A Blue Flower (Croatia) ▪️ Support those brave enough to step on the Yuk Yuk’s stage in the New Talent Showcase, tonight and tomorrow night. 🆓 Help Overflow Brewing celebrate its sixth birthday and support the Ottawa Hospital at the same time. Enjoy live music, free appetizers, prizes, drink specials, and a special silent auction. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Bird, Paradise is Burning, Detour: Jackie Brown ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Blitz, The Godfather Part II Gigs ▪️ Small Fish Comedy and Variety Show. Irene’s Pub ▪️ Bobby Watt and Ecosse: Celtic Celebration. Red Bird ▪️ Forest Blank. Bronson Centre |
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NOW BOOKING / JUST ANNOUNCED |
▪️ Road Trip: Take some time off in the middle of the festive season with the Winter Solstice Mother & Daughter retreat care of Wild Grounded Retreats in Pembroke. Saturday, December 21. |
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DEAL OF THE DAY |
| Save a massive 42% on Mini Mioche Mystery Gift Bags. Choose the age range of the child for whom you’re shopping, and in short order you’ll receive a bag of adorable #madeincanada clothes to fit. |
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| Almanac proposes that November 28 be dubbed BAKE FRIDAY, and is offering discounts on: | Multi-purchases of flour and grain (1 bag will save you 10%, 2: 15%, and 3: 20%) | Baking books (30% off) | Merch (tees, quarter zip tops, and Dad hats are 15% off). No code is necessary. |
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| Save 25% on coffee and find deals on loose tea and tea bags at Equator Coffee’s Black Friday event. |
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BUT, ONE MORE THING … |
Ottawa Rewind’s Andrew King has the story of the Lighthouse Dance Hall, which was the place to be on a summer Saturday night in South Ottawa during the 30s, 40s, and 50s. Located in Long Reach, just south of Kars on the Rideau River, the Lighthouse sometimes accommodated 400 dancers per night, featured the Cliff Wilkes Orchestra (PDF, last page) as the house band during the 50s, and was only reachable by boat. It closed as a venue in 1967 but still exists as a private residence. |
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