HELLO OTTAWA |
→ Provincial money is paying for pedestrian-only zones in ByWard Market this summer |
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→ Another Convoy organizer has been convicted |
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– Martha and Darren |
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WEDNESDAY DINING + DRINKING UPDATE |
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STATISTICS OTTAWA |
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OTTAWANS OF THE DAY |
Justin Phillips, Matt Bradley, Jack Fan, and Erica Wiebe |
The four local athletes have been inducted into the newly named Stittsville Sports Hall of Fame for football, hockey, figure skating, and wrestling, respectively. | | | | Leslie McKay in Stittsville Central |
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| ❝ | | | We shouldn’t be worrying about how to make affordable housing a profitable investment. We should be worrying about finding real, long-term solutions that take profit out of the equation |
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– Capital ward councillor Shawn Menard, who was the only member of the City’s Finance and Corporate Services committee to vote against giving a $50 million property tax break to developers who include apartments at between 81 per cent and 90 per cent of market rate. | | | | Blair Crawford in the Ottawa Citizen |
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🏒 PWHL Ottawa Charge 3 – Toronto Sceptres 2, last night |
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
Thursday, December 5 at 10 am |
Zoning By-law amendment - 3179 Carry's Side Road Zoning By-law amendment - 2808 (2850) Donald B. Munro Drive Rural Community-Building Grant Program – Grant application review Zoning omnibus amendments – Q4 2024 2025 Draft Operating and Capital Budget – Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee Status update – Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee inquiries and motions for the period ending November 22, 2024
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
💰 ByWard Market |
▪️The Province has clarified that Ottawa will get $20 million to create, amongst other things, a ‘cultural and entertainment district’. Premier Doug Ford and Mayor Mark Sutcliffe announced a $197 million Ontario – Ottawa deal last March but provided few details. Yesterday, the City said $11.8 million of the money will also be dedicated to ByWard Market improvements, including transforming ByWard Market Square into pedestrians-only during the summer and making William Street pedestrian-only year round. | | | | Josh Pringle at CTV |
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📮 Christmas Cards |
▪️Mayor Mark Sutcliffe wants to send you a Christmas card. This is on his personal website and not through the City. We’re iffy on the rules of polite society, but this probably means you need to send him one. If you do sign up, you’ll be added to his newsletter but you can always click unsubscribe. | | | | Request a card here |
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💸 Ottawa Schools |
▪️The Ottawa Student Transportation Authority says it will be short $4.6 million if the City raises student fares. While the Authority provides bus service to 76,000 students, it also hands out bus passes to 20,000 students. As the Authority has already received its funding for the year, the increased cost of bus passes will come directly from existing funds. | | | | Joanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen |
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▪️The City’s Finance and Corporate Services Committee has approved selling land in Little Italy for a new French-language school. The parcel near the planned Corso Italia O Train station would then have a park, recreation centre, and housing as well as a Conseil des Écoles Publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario school. | | | | Elyse Skura at CBC |
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🚗 Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital |
▪️The new Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital won’t have enough parking spaces, says neighbourhood group. While the new Campus is planned to have 3,000 parking spaces, the Civic Hospital Neighbourhood Association transit committee says the current hospital has 3,100 spots, yet the staff will increase by thousands. The Dows Lake O Train station is located half a kilometre away, across Carling Avenue. | | | | Charlie Senack in the Kitchissippi Times |
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🛻 Convoy News |
▪️Convoy coörganizer Steeve Charland was found guilty of mischief yesterday for his role in the Siege. Charland’s defence was that the Crown had not demonstrated that the Convoy siege was illegal. He will be sentenced in February. | | | | CBC |
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⛓️ Victims of Communism memorial |
▪️The Victims of Communism memorial will be unveiled December 12. The Department of Canadian Heritage has been planning the memorial for 15 years, but it was delayed over the past year after accusations that names of Second World War Nazis might be included. The memorial will be located at Wellington and Bay streets. | | | | David Pugliese in the Ottawa Citizen |
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THE ROLLING 3 DAY CALENDAR |
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TOMORROW |
🆓 Road Trip: Visit the site where it all started: Equator Coffee Roasters’ Christmas Open House in Almonte will have live music, activities for kids, food and coffee samples, and more. ▪️ Many businesses along the street are participating in Holiday Shopping Night in Hintonburg and Wellington Village. ▪️ If you think Christmas just isn’t the same without experiencing Handel’s Messiah performed live, we hereby prod you to book your tickets to Music & Beyond’s concert at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre. ▪️ With their influences ranging from Suicide (the electronic/punk outfit featuring Alan Vega) to Girl Guides and Moondog, self-proclaimed “living room party” band Bibi Club will transport you to a groovy world. 🆓 The National Art Gallery is always free on Thursdays from 5:00 pm to 8:00. ▪️ Road Trip: Have a jolly good time at Winter Wonderettes, a Christmas juke box musical that tells the tale of four plucky young women who work at a 1960s hardware store. Until Sunday at Perth Studio Theatre. ▪️ In person tickets to the State of Canada’s Cities Summit are sold out but you can register for the live stream in English or French. ▪️ Santa will be dropping by Tanger Outlets every Thursday through Sunday until December 22 (plus December 23-24). ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Maria, Spectacle: The Fall,Memoir of a Snail ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Blitz, Flow, The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone Gigs ▪️ 20th Century Boys Christmas Bash. Rainbow Bistro ▪️ Lavender Frost. LIVE on Elgin ▪️ Owen Riegling - The Old Dirt Road Trip. Algonquin Commons Theatre ▪️Trivia Night at the Royal Oak Pub (Beechwood) ▪️ Bingo Night. Broadhead Brewery |
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FRIDAY |
🆓 613 Holiday Night Market is back for more Friday night fun. ▪️ The Beechwood Market presents the Holiday Night Market, offering seasonal fun for adults and kids alike. 🆓 Road Trip: Visit the town of Prescott, which turns into a Winter Wonderland this weekend. It all starts tonight with the tree lighting ceremony, and continues from noon to 5:00 pm tomorrow. ▪️ Exercise your right to vote with a visit to the Château Laurier, where you’ll be tasked with nominating the People’s Choice Award in the 2024 Trees of Hope for CHEO display. ▪️ There are generous prizes to be won at the Glebe Spree. ▪️ The culinary students take over with Le Cordon Bleu's Plant-Based Soirée. ▪️ Almonte Ontario’s Hallmark Christmas movie road, aka Mill Street, is the setting for another tree lighting ceremony tonight. If this spectacle doesn’t put you in the holiday mood, nothing will. ▪️ All Voices Community Choir sings a Christmas program in When Sweet Winter Comes Again. ▪️ There’s not much time left to bag a ticket to the 2024 Digi60 Filmmakers’ Festival, tonight through Sunday at various locations. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Conclave, Obsessed with Light, Small Things Like These, Showsoppers: Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back Mayfair Theatre: Porcelain War, The Return, Silent Night, Deadly Night Gigs ▪️ Danny Rebel, The KGB, CJ Bjorn Late, and others. House of TARG ▪️ Sophie Lukacs. Red Bird ▪️ Tango Golf Tango. LIVE on Elgin ▪️ Texas King. The 27 Club ▪️ The Docs. Rainbow Bistro ▪️ Siaka Diabate. Irene’s Pub ▪️ Permanent Waves. Overflow Brewing |
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NOW BOOKING / JUST ANNOUNCED |
▪️ Create a truly special gift for someone with Wild Willy’s Plants and Flowers. The Botanical gifts: preserved and dried flowers workshop runs Thursday December 12 and Saturday December 14. |
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DEAL OF THE DAY |
 | Ottawa Home & Remodelling Show |
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| Take advantage of the half price deal on tickets to the Ottawa Home and Remodelling Show (January 23-26) |
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