Search

Previous Newsletters

Tuesday, January 9 2024

Instagram    Twitter   View in Browser

Today

❄️ Snow
High 0° Low -9°
🌞 7:41 am🌛4:37 pm

Tomorrow

🌧️ Rain and snow
High 3° Low -3°
🌞 7:41 am🌛4:38 pm

See the 8 day forecast at the ottawan weather

 

HELLO OTTAWA

It’s a daytime winter weather parking ban tomorrow in Ottawa. Keep your car off the streets between 10:00 am and 7:00 pm or face a tow and ticket.

The City has a list of (paid) parking and (free) community centre lots if you need somewhere to move your vehicle.

In Gatineau, today is the first day of keeping your car off the street between midnight and 6:00 am in Gatineau for snow ploughing until the end of March.

That's Sunday to Friday. On the weekend, cars must be off the street from 3:00 am to 6:00 am.  But wait: you can buy your way out of it. A winter parking permit is sold by the City for $97.75.

– Martha and Darren

    TODAY’S LINE UP

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

    FORWARD the ottawan TO A FRIEND

    OTTAWA HISTORIC LOGO T-SHIRTS

    Classic Nortel T-Shirt

    Northern Electric was founded in Montréal in 1895, growing into one of the world’s largest and most important telecom companies. Nortel hung up the phone in 2013. It's campus on Carling Avenue became the new home of the Department of National Defense.

    Help support the ottawan by buying one of our historic logo t-shirts.

    BUY A HISTORIC LOGO T-SHIRT

    OTTAWA STATS

      Number 

      • $5,000
      • – The minimum amount of a grant through the City’s Community Economic Development Funding Programme. Applications open today for requests between $5,000 and $100,000 for Ottawa non-profits to create jobs or to create for-profit businesses. Applications will be accepted until Friday, February 9 at 4:00 pm. (City of Ottawa)

      Ottawan of the Day

      • Akane Shiga
      • –  The forward is the youngest player in the Professional Women’s Hockey League and its only player from Japan. (Candance Maracle)

      Quote 

      • “

      • While there could be good reasons as to why Vietnam would appear more frequently on this list, omitting to highlight other countries or events where there were many victims due to communism would risk an even stronger reaction from Vietnam

      • – Unnamed Canadian diplomats in an analysis of the Victims of Communism memorial, set to be unveiled downtown this year. Some have noted that Vietnam appears prominently on the memorial, more than other countries. Others note that the Soviet Union was a Second World War ally, and Canadian commandos assisted communist Yugoslav partisans fighting the Nazis. (David Pugliese in the Ottawa Citizen)

       

      Sports

      • 🏒 PWHL Ottawa  – Boston last night. Postponed due to wicked weather.

      CITY HALL AGENDA

      What’s going on at City Hall
       

      No meetings until January 16.

      WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

      🏫 Ottawa Carleton District School Board

      •  School trustee Nili Kaplan-Myrth is appealing her sanction by the Board. The board barred Kaplan-Myrth from attending the next meeting and from sitting on committees for the next three months after the Integrity Commissioner ruled that she had violated the Board’s code of conduct. A decision on the appeal must be made within two weeks. (Joseph Tunney at CBC)

      📚 Re-Read Books

      •  Stittsville’s Re-Read Books has a new location, two minutes away. Staff and reader volunteers moved 20,000 books to the new shop at 1626 Stittsville Main Street. (Lesley McKay in Stittsville Central)

      THE OTTAWAN T-SHIRT

       

      Wear the only be-logo-ed t-shirt authorized by the ottawan itself.

      BUY AN OTTAWAN T-SHIRT

      MORE FROM THE OTTAWAN

      EVENTS


      Is there an event we should know about?
      Please use our easy event submission form
       

      Today

      •  You’re a creative and you need help building your brand - Digital Arts Resource Centre’s How to Build Your Creative Brand with Storytelling can help. The course runs four Tuesdays starting tonight (January 9)

      •  Think you know your 90s trivia? Get yourself to Orléans Brewing for the 90s Pop Culture Trivia event.


        Gigs
         

      •  Open Mic Night hosted by Vic. LIVE on Elgin

      •  Open Stage Tuesdays. Red Bird

      •  Life Drawing. Art House Café

      •  Ottawa Prog Ribs present Afterlight Takeover. Afterlight

      •  Trivia Night. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

      •  Trivia Night. Barley Mow Westboro

      •  Trivia Night. Moose McGuire’s Orléans

      •  Trivia Night. Pour Boy

         

      Tomorrow

      Thursday

      •  Bring your best trash talk to the Beyond the Pale Sens Chirp Meet-up. The Sens vs. Sabres game will be on the screens, the fine craft beer will be pouring, and there are prizes to be had.


        Gigs

      •  Laura Gagnon and Fabien Malenson. Overflow Brewing

      • Trivia Night. Whiprsnapr Brewing

      •  Thursday Blues Sessions. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

      •  Redfox. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

         

      Just Announced

      • Savvy Company’s first virtual event for January will gather together Ontario cheeses, meats, and wine or cider to create The Magic of Cheese and Charcuterie. Once you’ve booked, you’ll be sent an event box with all the items you’ll need to create your own charcuterie platter. From $79 per person. January 25 at 7:00 pm. Book by tomorrow Wednesday January 10 to save $20.

      • Muslim Mix and Mingle Rollerskating for Young Professionals. Followed by cozy coffee and hot chocolate vibes. Saturday Jan 13, $16.99.

      DEALS OF THE DAY

      Stanfield’s has Made in Canada base layer Upcycle Collection leggings in men’s and women’s sizing for $35.

      LumberJill Apparel is giving away a pair of mittens with purchases of $199 or more.

      BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

      That Ottawa-based Russian activist will get her Canadian citizenship after all.

      Maria Kartasheva was in the middle of her citizenship ceremony when she was pulled out by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, who said she was ineligible because she had been convicted of a crime in Russia. The Russian law she was convicted under, in abstensia, was criticizing the armed forces, something that does not have a Canadian equivalent. Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller says Kartasheva has been invited to become a Canadian.

       

      RAPID RESPONSE QUALITY CONTROL

       

      What did you think of today’s ottawan?

      ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  Great

      ⭐⭐⭐   Satisfactory

      ⭐  Needs Improvement

      THE END

      the ottawan is written and edited every work day by Martha and Darren.

      Is there something that Ottawa should know about? Email to us at hello@theottawan.com. We read every single comment. 

      We’ll see you tomorrow.

      Subscribe

      Forward this edition of the ottawan to someone.

      Missed an edition? View our archive here.

      Historic Ottawa Logo T-Shirt shop

      •