HELLO OTTAWA |
→ Auditor General alleges City housing worker allied with landlords to increase rent |
→ The relaunched EU Book club lands at the Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library tomorrow |
→ We’re down to 1 per cent of eel potential in the Ottawa River |
→ 🌞 High 1° Low -3° and sunny |
– Martha and Darren |
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STATISTICS OTTAWA |
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40 |
– The number of years that the Rainbow Bistro has been serving up live music in the ByWard Market. The Rainbow nearly went under in 2021, but a collection of tech entrepreneurs, a FACTOR grant, some Provincial money, and crowdsourcing from the public has brought the venue back into the black. | | | | Lynn Saxberg in the Ottawa Citizen |
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OTTAWAN OF THE DAY |
Sean Stoqua |
The former Gee-Gee and Ottawa BlackJack has been hired by the National Basketball Association’s Oklahoma City Thunder as athletic performance coach. The Thunder were once known as the Seattle SuperSonics, whose sale to Oklahoma pretty much killed owner and Starbuck’s founder Howard Schultz’s dream of running for US president. Stoqua has a great pedigree in Ottawa sports: great-grandfather Sutherland (Suddy) Gilmour won the Stanley Cup in 1904 with the original Ottawa Senators and both grandfather Blair Gilmour and father Pat Stoqua played for the Rough Riders. | | | | John Chidley-Hill in the Canadian Press |
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| | A couple in Ottawa making $120,000 could buy a $450,000 home in Kingston—all without losing access to big-city jobs and amenities |
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SPORTS |
🏒 PWHL Ottawa Charge 3 – Montréal Victoire 4, last Saturday |
🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 3 – Anaheim Ducks 4, last night |
🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 2 – Los Angeles Kings 5, last Saturday |
🥍 NLL Ottawa Black Bears 11 – Toronto Rock 5, last Friday |
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Audit Committee
Monday, December 2, 2024 9:30 am |
2024 KPMG Financial Statement Audit Plan 2025 Draft Operating and Capital Budget – Audit Committee Office of the Auditor General (OAG) – New Global Audit Standards
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Finance and Corporate Services Committee
Tuesday, December 3 at 9:30 am |
Draft 2025 Operating and Capital Budgets - Finance and Corporate Services Committee Corporate equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging framework 2024 ward boundary review Affordable Housing Community Improvement Plan – Approval of applications for Tax Increment Equivalent Grants (TIEG’s) report Acquisition of property for Riverside South Recreation Complex and District Park Acquisition of property at 5689 Ferry Road Application for approval to expropriate lands – Bank Street Renewal, Phase 1 930 and 1010 Somerset development project – determination of land use
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Ottawa Public Library Board
Tuesday, December 3 at 9:30 am |
Presentation – Ādisōke – Building project update 2025 Draft Operating and Capital Budget estimates and four-year capital forecast Governance evaluation report and action plan 2025 Board Conference attendance
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
💸 Auditor General |
▪️The City’s Auditor General says that she has found a kickback scheme between landlords and a City housing worker. Nathalie Gougeon alleges the City housing worker was arranging for a group of landlords to be paid higher rents than average for people in a City-run housing programme, as much as 63 per cent more. She also says police have been informed but the worker is no longer employed with the City and the City has stopped business relationships with the landlords. | | | | Arthur White-Crummey at CBC |
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🪧 Salvation Army |
▪️Workers at the Salvation Army Booth Centre have voted to give their union a strike mandate. The Public Service Alliance of Canada represents 60 workers at the Centre, in roles of ‘maintenance, administration and food access, as well as addictions, mental health, and substance use counselling’. The union is looking for a wage rise, arguing that staff at the Shepherds of Good Hope make 27 per cent more than Salvation Army workers do. | | | | Marlo Glass in the Ottawa Citizen |
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𓆓 American Eel |
▪️In a council meeting, Kitigan Zibi Anishinābeg is asking for the American Eel to be declared a protected species. Up to 99 per cent of the eels are killed in the Ottawa River by man made structures such as hydro dams. The Nation would like redesigned turbines that would allow the eels to swim through, and fish ladders that would avoid dams altogether. | | | | Gabrielle Huston at CBC |
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💥 Sarsfield Road Bridge |
▪️The City says that the Sarsfield Road Bridge over the Bear Brook municipal drain may need to close if heavy vehicles don’t stop driving over it. The bridge, in a lonesome area of Orléans, was given a 10 tonne limit last year but heavy vehicles, often agricultural, continue to drive over it. | | | | Joseph Tunney at CBC |
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THE ROLLING 3 DAY CALENDAR |
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TODAY |
▪️ Just for seniors: DIYers are invited to join the Origami Ornament Workshop (ages 55+) at the Ottawa Tool Library. ▪️ Sing your heart out at the final Broadway Nights event of 2024. ▪️ 100 Women Who Care meet at Milestones (Lansdowne) to support three charities. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Maria, The Outrun, Memoir of a Snail ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Flow, The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, Saturday Night Gigs ▪️ Jinglebones - Christmas for trombones - fundraiser for Parkinson Canada. Irene’s Pub ▪️ Karaoke Mondaze. Atomic Rooster |
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TOMORROW |
Giving Tuesday (December 3) From 11:00 am – 2:00 am, The Ottawa Mission’s social enterprise, Chef Ric’s (located at 384 Rideau Street), will be serving a special Giving Tuesday green-themed meal for anyone to purchase. The colour green symbolizes hope, health, and new beginnings—values that align with The Mission’s work to support those in need. What’s on the menu? A French-Canadian green pea soup as well as a spinach pasta with a creamy garlic parmesan sauce, served with garlic bread and a kale- spinach salad with a pear vinaigrette dressing. All proceeds from the special meal go to support The Mission. Plus, if you make an additional donation at the restaurant, you’ll get a free green cupcake! $6.99 for lunch. 🆓 Catch two Carleton University Fusion Combos at House of TARG. ▪️ The EU Book Club is relaunching at the Sunnyside branch of OPL. ▪️ Digital Art Resource Centre marks World AIDS Day with Day With(out) Art, featuring Red Reminds Me, a program of seven videos exploring what it means to be living with HIV today. The presentation runs on a loop until December 6. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Maria, Memoir of a Snail, Rumours ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Flow, Blitz, Sunset Boulevard Gigs ▪️ 22nd Annual Christmas Goodie Concert National Arts Centre ▪️ Tuesday Trivia. Irene’s Pub ▪️ Jonah Yano. Club SAW |
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WEDNESDAY |
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NOW BOOKING / JUST ANNOUNCED |
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DEAL OF THE DAY |
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| Bring the beauty of the season into your home with the DIY Christmas Wreath workshop from Côté fleurs. A video with full instructions is included with the wreath and supplies. It’s $55 right now, marked down from $75. |
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 | Mini Mioche |
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| Save up to 44% on kids’ rompers at Mini Mioche, but only today. Use the code MMERRY20 to save. |
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BUT, ONE MORE THING … |
The West Ottawa Ringette Association is very upset over the nickname chosen by one of its teams, officially known as West Ottawa Ringette Association U19B MacDonald. Finding West Ottawa Ringette Association U19B MacDonald somewhat unwieldy and a nod to the fact that they are in last place, the team chose to name itself after a clumsy large seabird, the Red-Footed Booby. The Association is so displeased about having a team named ‘The Boobies’, that it has barred them from using the league logo and will not support the team’s fundraising, dedicated to breast cancer research. | | | | Katelyn Wilson at CTV |
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