HELLO OTTAWA | → London is back on the flight map from Ottawa, innit. | → The 80s return to town this Friday night. | → Places to eat, and other dining and drinking news | → ☀️ High 7° Low -2° and sunny | 🍫 It’s Giveaway time. You have until tomorrow to enter to win one of three Purdy’s chocolate advent calendars. Martha‘s mom will draw one name each from her choosin’ hat for the following Purdy’s chocolate advent calendars on Friday morning. Braille Advent Calendar 📧 Email brailledraw@theottawan.com with the subject line "Pick me please (Braille)" for your chance to win the Braille Advent Calendar Vegan Advent Calendar 📧 Email vegandraw@theottawan.com with the subject line "Pick me please (Vegan)" for your chance to win the Vegan Advent Calendar
And, for OTTAWAN Members only, an extra prize: Holiday Reindeer Advent Calendar 📧 Email chocodraw@theottawan.com with the subject line "Pick me please (Member)" for your chance to win the Holiday Reindeer Advent Calendar. Note that only Member supporters of the Ottawan may enter this one; if you’re not already a member you can sign up here before you enter the giveaway (All entries are limited to Ottawa / Gatineau and environs only – we’re not going to drive to Vancouver to drop off a calendar, Mom.) |
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| – Martha and Darren | | WEDNESDAY DINING + DRINKING UPDATE | ▪️ Congratulations to Le Cordon Bleu Ottawa Culinary Arts Institute, which won the award for North America’s Best Culinary Training Institution at the World Culinary Awards for the third year in a row. 🆓 Bier Markt Ottawa is turning 10! Join the party for beer samples, DJ tunes, prizes and more. ▪️ Keep brekkie simple on your frantic Christmas morning: Around the Block Butcher & Market’s Holiday Breakfast Box contains two dozen eggs, smoked bacon, breakfast sausage and local maple syrup. It’s available for pick up on December 22, 23, or 24 (or ASAP if you need it now). ▪️ The Great Stray Dog Chili Challenge returns for edition 5 with a head to head competition (and voting by customers) from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm on Sunday November 24. ▪️ Peter Hum in the Ottawa Citizen says that after three visits to Sultan Ahmet Turkish Cuisine, he has been consistently impressed with ‘the calibre of its reasonably priced food and its attentive service’. The resto is located in the former Clocktower Brew Pub on Bank Street.
Hum’s side quest to eat every sweet pastry in Ottawa continues apace, this time it is the sfogliatelle and lobster tail pastries at Pasticceria Gelateria Italiana on Preston Street.
▪️For the first time in 25 years, residents in Old Hull again have a grocery store, the very popular Saveurs – Épicurier urbaine. ▪️In his Ottawa Business Journal My Ottawa profile, former mayor and first president of the Sens, Jim Durrell, reveals that he prefers to eat at Vittoria Trattoria and Babbos Cucina in Manotick. ▪️Jane Staples in Ottawa Life has four wines with which to hibernateon these cold November nights: Badel Ivan Dolac Mali 2019 (Croatia) LCBO, Pierre Sparr Grande Réserve Gewürztraminer 2022 (Alsace) LCBO, Mega Spileo Malagousia 2022 (Greece) LCBO, and Plantaze Monte Cheval Vranac 2020 (Montenegro) LCBO. ▪️Ottawa’s second Chipotle opens tomorrow at 5671 Hazeldean Road in the former location of Benny & Co. A third location will open on Innes Road in Orléans later this year. The first one is at the Rideau Centre. Grown Up Advent Calendars: 🗓️ Ottawa classic Nita Beer Company’s 2024 Craft Beer Calendarfeatures a daily beer surprise from local and Ontario-based partner breweries. Each can is disguised labeled with a QR code so you will only know what you’re drinking when you scan the code on the appropriate day. 🗓️ Sweeten every day of Advent with the brightly coloured calendar from La boîte à bonbons. 🗓️ Stubbe Chocolate’s Advent Calendar is a mix of milk, dark, white, caramel and ruby chocolate. 🗓️ Union 10 Distilling Co’s Christmas Cocktails Advent Calendar will introduce you to a range of 500 ml bottles of Canadian artisan spirits. Even better: It’s available at early bird pricing right now. 🗓️ Reid’s Distillery in Toronto has an Advent Calendar for the G&T lover. Shipping is available. 🗓️ If you live in downtown Ottawa (or other Ontario locations) you can opt for free delivery of your Matron Fine Beer 2024 Holiday Advent Calendar. 🗓️ Not an Advent Calendar, but Perth Brewery is offering its Seasonal 12 Beers of Christmas, for pick up or delivery. |
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| | STATISTICS OTTAWA | | 3.9% | | OTTAWAN OF THE DAY | Kenzie Lalonde | - Lalonde became the first female TV play-by-play voice for a National Hockey League team in Canada when she called the Sens – Leafs match yesterday on TSN. As a kid, ‘Lalonde would ride her bike around her neighborhood, trying to get drivers to honk their horns during games whenever the Senators would score’. | | | | Julian McKenzie in the New York Times |
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| | The winter closure of the Chief William Commanda Bridge is a reminder of how Ottawa treats itself like a three-season cottage |
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| | WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL | French Language Services Advisory Committee
Budget Tabling – Thursday, November 14 at 6:30 pm | | Agenda | | WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT | ✈️ Ottawa International Airport | ▪️Air Canada announces a plan to revive the Ottawa – London route next March. Air Canada cancelled all European routes from Ottawa during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and since then the only flight to Europe has been Air France to Paris. Initial plans are one flight per day on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays between March and October. Flights will be to Heathrow airport. | | | | Alice Henderson in Business Traveller |
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| ⚕️ Drug Crisis | ▪️Two community health centres have proposed to open Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment hubs. Somerset West and Pinecrest-Queensway community health centres made the proposals yesterday, requesting millions from the Provincial government. Unlike supervised consumption sites, of which the Province has shut down 10, these treatment hubs would operate more as detox centres with ‘community spaces, extended-hours primary care, multiple mental health, and substance use treatment options’. | | | | Arthur White-Crummey at CBC |
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| ❄️ Camp Fortune | ▪️Camp Fortune has started its artificial snowmaking for the skiing season. Last year, the ski hill opened on its earliest date in four years, November 30. This year, an announcement will be made November 28 about opening day. | | | | Josh Pringle at CTV |
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| ⛽ Heritage Committee | ▪️The City’s Heritage Committee has approved $500,000 to restore the old Champlain Oil gas station on Richmond Road. Built in 1937, the building has a unique outer design but the interior has long been gutted. A developer has previously announced plans to move the building, construct a nine storey residential building, then move it back. City Council will need to approve the grant. Fun fact: Champlain Oil is the company to which the grandfather of New Edinburgh resident Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sold his collection of gas stations in 1932 for $1,150,000, becoming the general manager of the merged company. | | | | Natashia O’Neill at CityNews |
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| 🚧 Road Closure | ▪️Conroy Road between between Johnston Road and Thurston Drive is closed in both directions until tomorrow night at 8:00 pm.The closure is due to work on the Canadian National Railway line. | | | | Alex Black at CityNews |
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| 🎭 Artists Sought | ▪️Bluesfest and CityFolk have opened applications for July (Bluesfest) and September (CityFolk). The two fests are seeking musicians who live in that region between Sudbury and Kingston, and Montreal and Toronto. (Details here) | ▪️The Company of Fools is seeking actors for next summer’s run. The link has some Shakespeare to prepare for the audition. (Details here) | | OTTAWA HISTORIC LOGO T-SHIRTS |  | Classic Nortel |
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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 | 🆓 Ottawa area artists will be wise to attend the Legal Information for Professional Artists workshop, which will outline topics like copyright and protecting your work, licensing agreements, and safeguarding your rights. Presented by Ottawa Arts Council. ▪️ Sandy Hill Life Drawing features a live model. $10 or pay what you can. ▪️ Play for the cash prize at the Café Dekcuf Trivia Night. Host Nick Harrison will quiz you and your team about pop culture, academia, and, well, trivia. ▪️ DJ Geoff Paquet leads the Trivia Night at Bicycle Craft Brewery ▪️ Road Trip: Do some festive shopping and enjoy live music in downtown Gananoque. Participating businesses will have special deals and treats. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Anora, Blitz ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: The Godfather Gigs ▪️ Voodoo Sometimes’ “Not All Who Wander” single single tour. Rainbow Bistro ▪️ Mellow Casualty. House of TARG ▪️ Same Counsineau Trio. Queen St. Fare ▪️ Girls to the Front Songwriters Circle featuring Mali Leona, Shaemara, Ok Naledi. Irene’s Pub ▪️ Bearings, Broadside, Unwell, Stateside. The Brass Monkey ▪️ Trivia night. Royal Oak Pubs (318 Bank St., Centrepointe, and others) |
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| TOMORROW | ▪️ Motown Soul offers up a full menu of great music by Diana Ross & The Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, and many more. Tonight and tomorrow at Shenkman Arts Centre. ▪️ A new show has been installed at Art House Café, Not The Death I Was Expecting by Toni van Eeden {PARTYGIRL}. Vernissage tonight from 7:00 pm. ▪️ Get a head start on your festive decorating and make a pair of folksy gnomes. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Anora, Blitz ▪️ Mayfair Theatre. The Outrun, The Substance Gigs ▪️ Tyler Shaw. Algonquin Commons Theatre ▪️ The Consequents, Altar of the Fuzz, Afraid of Grace. Rainbow Bistro ▪️ KJ Thomas. Irene’s Pub ▪️ Dennis Ellsworth. National Arts Centre ▪️ Loversteeth. House of TARG |
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| FRIDAY | 🆓 At last: an opportunity to check out the building on Carling that always has fun messages on its sign. Organizers of Salon Des Bananes’ Peeking In - Art Exhibition in the Loen Design Studio say of tonight’s Vernissage “We promise there will be great art, lively conversations, and even food and drinks on Friday! And some other cool stuff too!” ▪️ The 39th European Film Festival, featuring screenings from each of the 27 members states, is an in-person event with screenings, speakers, and receptions (before or after select film showings). Single tickets, six-film passes, and a full EUFF pass are all on sale now. November 15-30 at the Alma Duncan Salon, Ottawa Art Gallery. ▪️ The Hospice Care Ottawa annual Homes for the Holidays Home Tour will fill your head with ideas for your most stylish Christmas ever. This year the tour visits seven homes across Ottawa, each styled by designers and florists. Today (November 15) through 17. $50. ▪️ The exhibition Outside the Lines: Celebrating Women War Artistsinspires the Art Battle Ottawa at Canada War Museum. ▪️ Otherworld Treasures at 1889 Baseline Road is staying open until 7:00 pm for a Holiday Jewellery Pop-Up Sale. ▪️ Divertimento Orchestra’s Fall Concert is A Tour of Europe. ▪️ The Grand Reveal Burlesque Show is a glamorous tease of a show plus a vendors market all in one. Shenkman Arts Centre in Orléans ▪️ Road Trip: The Prescott Fire Department presents the 2024 Light Up the Night Parade. ▪️ Queen St Fare hosts the monthly Queers and Beers. ▪️ The Stittsville Business Association’s Stittsville Spree is a chance to win $1000 to spend in the area. To be in with a chance for the big prize, spend at least $100 in the area between November 15 and December 31. ▪️ The 50th anniversary season continues at GCTC with the world premier of Beowulf in Afghanistan by Laurie Fyffe. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Antra, Blitz, Rumours ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Black Box Diaries, Lee, Terrifier 3 Gigs ▪️ Rick Holmstrom Trio. Red Bird ▪️ Games We Play: She’s the Girl Tour. The 27 Club ▪️ 80s Dance Party. House of TARG ▪️ Better Lovers: The Highly Irresponsible Tour. Bronson Centre ▪️ Dave Bignell. Irene’s Pub ▪️ New Wave Dance Party with The Underground. The Prescott ▪️ Outskirts - Tribute to Blue Rodeo. Overflow Brewing ▪️ The LebBreton FlatBellies. Main Street Pub |
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| | DEAL OF THE DAY | | Fireplace Centre & Patio Shop |
| Need some cosy time but your fireplace is lacking? Check the dealsat the Fireplace Center & Patio Shop | |
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| | Save 25% on tickets to the 50th anniversary edition of the Originals Christmas Craft Fair at EY Centre December 4-8. | |
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| | Barware (groovy jiggers, delicate garnish tongs, pouring spouts, etc.) and glassware is 25% off at Split Tree. | |
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| | BUT, ONE MORE THING … | Lynn Saxberg in the Ottawa Citizen details the day-by-day events that occurred after 30-year Château Laurier employee Bruno Lair discovered that Yousuf Karsh’s Winston Churchill portrait was missing, including general manager Genevieve Dumas’ verification of the fake signature with a handwriting expert, the week that passed before the Ottawa Police Service became interested, and the photo by CBC reporter Paul Hunter that narrowed down the date that the swap happened. The portrait was eventually sold by Sotheby’s in London to an uninvolved Italian collector, who turned it over to the Canadian embassy in Rome. | The rehung portrait will be unveiled at a ceremony on Friday in the newly renovated Zoe’s Lounge. | While many copies of the portrait were made while Karsh was alive, he donated the negative to Library and Archives Canada in 1992 and no further reproductions are permitted. | | | DAILY QUALITY CONTROL | What did you think of today’s OTTAWAN? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great ⭐⭐⭐ Satisfactory ⭐ Needs Improvement |
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