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HELLO OTTAWA

The House of PainT is in jeopardy and needs financial support.

This year‘s 20th Anniversary Festival celebrating and elevating hip hop was curtailed in August due to flooding and an event that normally draws thousands saw hundreds instead.

To return in 2024, House of PainT is hoping to raise $20,000. You can help the young artists here.


Chocolate Advent Calendar Giveaway

Purdy’s Chocolates have given us three boxes of chocolate-y Advent Calendars, each of which we’re going to give away to a festive ottawan reader. We’ll let Martha’s mom pick three winners from her drawing hat on Friday morning.

One is Santa's Lodge: email chocodraw@theottawan.com to get into the draw.

One is a Braille Calendar: email brailledraw@theottawan.com to get into the draw. (We're not going to limit this to braille readers only by the way)

And one is an advent calendar of vegan chocolates: email vegandraw@theottawan.com to enter that draw.
 

– Martha and Darren

🎄Ongoing Christmas Reminders

•  2023 Canadian-made advent calendar list
•  Our ongoing Christmas Market list
•  We’re still compiling our Locally Made Gift Guide. Please send your nominations for a locally made item to 'giftguide@theottawan.com'.
•  You know what also would make a nice Christmas present? An historic Ottawa logo t-shirt. Sales will certainly help make our Christmas nicer.

TODAY’S LINE UP

•  Ottawa Stats
•  City Hall Agenda
•  What Ottawa is Talking About
•  Events
•  Deals of the Day

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OTTAWA STATS

CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall.
 

Ottawa City Council
Wednesday, November 22 at 10 am

• Application to alter the former Hintonburg Pumping Station, 5 Onigam Street, a property designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act
• Designation of the Bronson Centre, 211 Bronson Avenue under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act
• 2023 City of Ottawa Community Improvement Plan Program Review
• Stage 2 LRT Contingency Funding and General Operational Budget
• Updated Ottawa Community Lands Development Corporation Name, Mandate, Policies and Procedures
• Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-Law Amendment - 384 Arlington Avenue
• Amendments to the Corporate Business Case and Project Management Policy and Framework
• Acquisition of 170 Colonnade Road
• Application for demolition and new construction at 110 York Street, a property designated under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act as part of the ByWard Market Heritage Conservation District
• Zoning By-law Amendment - 253, 255 and 257 York Street and 78 and 80 Nelson Street
• Winter Maintenance Quality Standards Review
• Councillor Leiper – Installation of All-Way Stop Control at Intersection of Spencer and Huron
• Councillor Leiper - Wellington Village 30km/h Gateway Speed Zone
• Councillor Kavanagh - Implementation of 30 km/h Gateway Speed Limit in Belltown
• Councillor Dudas - Installation of a protected left turn phase at the intersection of Innes and Viseneau
• Barrhaven Centre Park-and-Ride Lot Removal

📋 Agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

⚕️ University of Ottawa

•  University of Ottawa resident doctor suspended for social media posts on the Israel – Hamas conflict. Without naming the doctor, the Faculty of Medicine says a person was suspended for violating the College of Phsysicians and Surgeons of Ontario’s professional standards. People who say that the doctor was censored for his pro-Palestine views have launched a petition. Someone else who accuses the doctor of anti-semitism has captured his Instagram posts in an article here. (William Eltherington at CTV)

🚲 Percy Street underpass

•   Neighbours in Centreville hope that an underpass closure to cars will become permanent. The underpass at Percy Street and the Queensway has been pedestrian and cycle-only since the bridge was replaced in October. Resident Jamie says of the increased number of cyclists, ‘If you make a street safer to bike on, more people will bike on it’. (Alayne McGregor in Centretown Buzz)

🪚 Ottawa International Airport

•  The Ottawa International Airport will start clear cutting a forest on Hunt Club road. The four hectares at 400 Hunt Club Rd is made up of deliberately planted red pine intended for use as telephone poles, The airport says the trees must be removed for the safety of the plot as it has been neglected over the years. There are no safety concerns over airport operations. (Nicole Williams at CBC)

💰 Tourism Growth Program

•  FedDev Ontario has a few million dollars to spread around on tourist development in the region. Eligible businesses – anything supporting tourism except restaurants and hotels really – can apply for no-interest loans, or if they are non-profit, no payback loans. (Ottawa Festivals)  

🛻 Convoy News

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are on trial for their role as co-organizers of the Convoy.

•  The Crown has finished its arguments against the duo. The defence will make some motions next week before presenting its case when the trial begins again on November 27. (David Fraser at CBC)
  
  ➕ Related The Ottawa Citizen is liveblogging the trial.

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EVENTS

The event submission form seems to be broken. Email your events to us at ‘events@theottawan.com’ while we fix it.

Today

•  Visit the Ottawa Public Library Main Branch for a free screening of Force Majeure.
•  The European Union Film Festival continues with films from Austria (Elfriede Jelinek: Language Unleashed / Elfriede Jelinek - Die Sprache von der Leine lassen) and Bulgaria (Mother / Майка).
•  Ottawa Children’s Storytelling Festival runs until Friday at Ottawa Public Library Nepean Centrepointe branch, schools, and the Odawa Native Friendship Centre.
•  Get in a holiday mood with a visit to the Magic of Lights drive-through experience at Wesley Clover Parks (through January 6, 2024). Your entire carload will get to see lighting displays of holiday scenes and life-size characters.
  
  Gigs
•  An Evening of Luscious Sin. Rainbow Bistro
   
•  Trivia Night. Pour Boy
   
•  Open Mic. LIVE on Elgin
   
•  Trivia Tuesday. Irene’s Pub & Restaurant
   
•  Alanna J. Brown. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

Tomorrow

•   The European Union Film Festival continues with films from Finland (Rap and Reindeer / Revontulten räppäri) and Slovakia (107 Mothers/ Cenzorka)

•  Ottawa Children’s Storytelling Festival runs until Friday at Ottawa Public Library Nepean Centrepointe branch, schools, and the Odawa Native Friendship Centre.

•  Get in a holiday mood with a visit to the Magic of Lights drive-through experience at Wesley Clover Parks (through January 6, 2024). Your entire carload will get to see lighting displays of holiday scenes and life-size characters.
  
  
  Gigs

•  The ‘Hopefully It Has Snowed Already’ Show with MJ & The Beetus, Grace & Siji, Clara Davis. LIVE on Elgin
   
•  Trivia Night. Café Dekcuf
   
•  Tamblyn Band Album Release Party. Irene’s Pub & Restaurant
   
•  Red Bird’s Celtic Celebration. Red Bird Live
   
•  Pinball Women Ottawa November Tournament. House of TARG
   
•  Trivia Night with DJ Geoff Paquet. Spark Bee

Thursday

•  Ottawa Dance Directive and Series Dance 10#49 present performances by Montréal’s Speakeasy (Loop It) and Belinda McGuire of Toronto and Brooklyn (Waltz, Slaughterhouse, Requiem), tonight through Saturday at Odd Box, 2 Daly Avenue.

•  The Canadian Museum of History opens its doors to more than 80 exhibitors at the Museum’s Christmas Market, today through November 26 (Sunday).

•  The European Union Film Festival continues with films from Latvia (Soviet Milk / Mātes piens) and Romania (Mikado / Marocco).

•  Ottawa Children’s Storytelling Festival runs until Friday at Ottawa Public Library Nepean Centrepointe branch, schools, and the Odawa Native Friendship Centre.

•  Get in a holiday mood with a visit to the Magic of Lights drive-through experience at Wesley Clover Parks (through January 6, 2024). Your entire carload will get to see lighting displays of holiday scenes and life-size characters.

  Gigs
   
•  Clean Cuts: Jon Deck and Friends. Beyond the Pale
   
•  Dennis Bouwman and Guests. LIVE on Elgin
   
•  Lives Like Skyscrapers, Area Resident, Raphael Weinroth - Browne
   
•  A Spark of Art with L U E L L A. Spark Beer
   
•  Irene’s Thursday Blues Sessions. Irene’s Pub & Restaurant
   

•  Sound of the Shell, Castle Black, 86 It. Avant-Garde Bar

•  Charlotte Cornfield. National Arts Centre Fourth Stage

•  Garrett Warner. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

Just Announced / Now Booking

•  The Ottawa Fringe Festival in partnership with Playwrights Guild of Canada presents New Play Tuesday - Play Connect Reading, taking place during undercurrents festival (February 7-17 2024). Submit a French or English play of up to 90 minutes for the chance to have it performed at a reading. The deadline to apply is December 1.
   
•  It’s also time to apply to perform at the 2024 Ottawa Jazz Festival. Musicians in Ottawa and Gatineau are invited to apply by January 15, 2024.

DEALS OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

As Ottawa Bulldog puts it, ‘one of the greatest love affairs in pop music history was that of folksinger Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash of the Hollies’.

‘The two iconic musicians first crossed paths when The Hollies performed in Ottawa. After the show, they got acquainted, and Mitchell played some of her material to Nash, immediately capturing his attention. He once described the evening as “magical on so many different levels” and revealed she treated him to 15 pieces from her songbook.’ 

Joe Taysom in British culture mag Far Out writes about it.

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