The age in years of a cabin on a 223-acre waterfront property near Fitzroy Harbour, which the City is considering buying as a conservation area. The 1835 farm has ‘high value as a wildlife and aquatic habitat, the meadows can be planted with trees, and there’s a high potential for Indigenous archaeological sites given its proximity to other sites in the area’. 

However, rural City councillors are miffed that the question on whether to spend $2 million on the property was brought up at the finance and corporate services committee rather than the rural affairs committee, which doesn't like the idea.

City Council will decide January 29.

Henry will be inducted into the Canadian Rugby Hall of Fame for her decades of refereeing, from local matches to the International Rugby Board. 

In her spare time, she is Director General of Policy, Advocacy and Government Affairs at Pacific Economic Development Canada and Director General of Office of Energy Efficiency at Natural Resources Canada.

– Ottawa Citizen columnist Bruce Deachman on the diminutive artificial skating rink installed at the ByWard Market. Local shopkeepers are calling it a ‘flop’.

Ottawa Police Services Board
Monday January 27 at 4:00 pm

▪️Monuments honouring survivors of Residential Schools and for paramedics have been approved the National Capital Commission. Canada’s Indian Residential Schools National Monument will be placed on the western terrace of Parliament Hill after a redevelopment. The space is currently a parking lot, and a statue of Robert Borden will need to be moved. A monument honouring survivors of Residential Schools was one of the 94 calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 

The national monument celebrating paramedics and honouring those who fell in the line of duty will be placed at Commissioner’s Park at Dow’s Lake. 

▪️St-Isidore, next door to Ottawa in The Nation municipality, is campaigning to be chosen as this year’s Hockeyville. The contest, run by Kraft Foods, awards a grand prize of $250,000 in arena renovations and a chance to play host to a National Hockey League preseason match. Runners-up win $25,000.

The village’s pitch page is here or watch the video submission.

▪️Ottawa Chamberfest is seeking people to serve on its board of directors. Details in this PDF.

▪️Ottawa School of Theatre is looking for counsellors for its March Break Camps. Details here, and there is a salary.

▪️The City’s Rural Affairs Committee has come up with some rules for Battery Energy Storage Systems. These systems are companies that buy electricity from Hydro One when it is cheap at night, store it in a set of batteries, then sell it back to Hydro One during the day when it is expensive. Two companies had planned to set up systems in rural Ottawa but their plans were put on hold after worried neighbours complained to their ward councillors.

The new rules say that systems should follow Hydro One’s Fire Protection Risk & Response Assessment Standard for distance away from neighbouring buildings and that Ottawa Fire Services be satisfied that effective fire and safety risk management is in place.

▪️Planners for an ‘Election Convoy’ were denied access to the Antrim Truck Stop in Arnprior by the owner. The Election Convoy wants a Federal election called and planned to do a ’slow roll‘ through downtown Ottawa to make their point. One date planned was tomorrow, January 25.

While the Antrim Truck had been used several times in the past for Convoy and Convoy-adjacent meetings, the owners are no longer interested in providing the meeting space.

Antrim Truck Stop has a great restaurant but it really should be known for its Big Rigs Bakery.

▪️ The 2025 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Qualifier is here. The winner of this Slam will represent Urban Legends Poetry Collective at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam, the annual national competition held in Vancouver BC in April. The winner will also receive $750 towards travel costs. 

▪️ Salesman in China continues at the National Arts Centre. 

▪️ Get drunk with power at Amuse Bouche Variety, where the audience gets to decide which of the performing comedians will headline a future show. Tickets are $5. 

▪️ Road Trip: Visit Cornwall for the Aultsville Film Fest, tonight through Sunday. 

▪️ Road Trip: Billed as a show that both lovers and haters of the Bard can get behind, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Revised) (Again) is two hours of hilarity. Studio Theatre Perth. 

▪️ Hintonburg Pottery’s Wheel Beginner course is a six-week session for those with no experience. 

▪️ The Ottawa Home and Remodeling Show continues at EY Centre. 

▪️ Deacon Brodies’ Burns Night Celebrations are authentic, with Wild Call of the Pipes, haggis, and other Scottish shenanigans. Reservations are recommended. 

▪️ Meanwhile, Moose McGuire’s Huntclub enters the spirit of Robbie Burns Day with a menu with highlights like the Glasgow Mule cocktail, Tattie Soup Cup (tatties are potatoes, btw), and Scottish Steak Pie. The menu is available until Sunday. 

▪️ ByTowne Cinema: The Brutalist, The Room Next Door 

▪️ Mayfair Theatre: The Substance, The Last Showgirl, Vampyr 

Gigs

▪️ Laylit Dance Party. SAW Centre

▪️ Fireball Kid. Rainbow Bistro

▪️ Otis Strange. Red Bird

▪️ Richard Page & Ella Malleau. Night Oat

▪️ Sum 41. Canadian Tire Centre

▪️ umberlune and Julie Stella. Art House Café

▪️ 80s Dance Party with DJ Remi Royale and One Vision. House of TARG

▪️ The Start. Heart & Crown Preston St.

▪️ Sussex. The Prescott

▪️ Forever Foreigner. Overflow Brewing Co.

▪️ A Scottish dance party is serious fun. The Robbie Burns Ceilidh(pronounced “KAY-lee”) by the Scottish Society of Ottawa starts with cocktails and moves on to a traditional supper, after which the dance party will kick off. 

▪️ Get down to Beyond the Pale for Discolab. 

🆓 Ottawa ComicCon Winter Edition promises the usual line up of performers from your favourite shows, vendors, autograph sessions, photo ops, panels and workshops, and more. Cosplay is encouraged. Today and tomorrow at EY Centre. 

▪️ Keep your ComicCon costume on and head to the Rainbow Bistro, where you’ll save $5 and pay $15 at the door for Close Encounters of the FUNK with Smelloship and Brothership, just for dressing up. Meanwhile, the chumps in normal clothes will pay $20. 

▪️ You’ll find more than 75 local vendors, a food and coffee truck, knife and tool sharpening, tarot card reading, and the chance to hang in the tropical greenhouses at Robert Plante’s 2nd Annual Winter Market. Dogs are welcome. 

▪️ Pay What You Can: If you’re a writer who wants some feedback in a safe space, head to The Grove for the Writers’ Salon: Works in Progress. 

▪️ Bowman’s Bar & Grill on Carling is holding a True North Party to celebrate what it is to be Canadian. Plaid, toques, and hockey jersey attire all welcomed. RSVP to avoid disappointment. 

🆓 The Historical Society of Ottawa presents a chance to hear about Editorial Cartoonist Guy Badeaux’s four decades at Le Droit. 

▪️ Vintage Pop-Up 613 brings its “sustainable vintage mall of one-of-a-kind second-hand goods” to Next Door Market & Event Space. Ends tomorrow. 

🆓 Come in out of the cold and experience 613Flea, the huge market (we’re talking 150 vendors) this Saturday. 

▪️ Drop into the Open Studio: Burlap Embroidery if you’re visiting National Gallery this weekend (or any weekend in January). The workshop is free with your gallery admission. 10:00 am to 4:00 pm 

▪️ Mystara brings a Frosty Fiesta of classic rock to the Carleton Tavern. 

▪️ Get your reno questions answered at the Ottawa Home & Remodelling Show. 

▪️ Misery: The Play continues at The Gladstone Theatre. 

▪️ ByTowne Cinema: The Brutalist, The Room Next Door 

▪️ Mayfair Theatre: The Substance, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, Saturday Night Sinema 

Gigs

▪️ The Uninvited Guests (CCR / John Fogerty tribute). Overflow Brewing

▪️ Groove Machines. Irene’s Pub

▪️ Lemmy tribute. House of TARG

▪️ Pimienta. Night Oat

▪️ Lynne Hanson. Red Bird

▪️ Murray Kinsey and Wicked Grin. The Brass Monkey

▪️ Broken Stick Brewing’s weekly Drag Bingo takes on a retro theme this week. Dress as your favourite decade.

▪️ Finnigan’s Pub is serving up drag and brunch. Your ticket includes a choice of breakfast items and a Mimosa. 

▪️ Deacon Brodies The Bard and The Barrel is a whisky tasting and a celebration of Scots poet Robbie Burns. From 4:00 pm. 

▪️ The National Arts Centre Orchestra’s Family Adventures series presents Mad. Sad. Glad: A Symphony of Emotions. The concert works its way through pieces by such composers as Beethoven, Britten, Puccini, giving you the chance to feel the feels aroused by music. While the music plays, artist Holly Carr will paint an 8-foot silk mural in real time. 

▪️ Visit Centretown United Church for a cozy afternoon of songs and music from the East Coast. 

▪️ Saginaw Spirit meet Ottawa 67s on home ice at The Arena at TD Place.

▪️ Ottawa Senators welcome Utah Hockey Club to Canadian Tire Centre. 

▪️ Beginners are welcome to the Perspective Drawing Demo at Wallacks. You’ll learn the basics so you can bring depth to your art.

▪️ Misery The Play continues at the Gladstone Theatre. 

▪️ The vintage shopping continues at Vintage Pop-Up 613 in the Next Door Market & Event Space. 

🆓 It’s Day 2 of the Ottawa ComicCon Winter Edition. 

▪️ Get your reno questions answered at the final day of the Ottawa Home & Remodelling Show. 

▪️ ByTowne Cinema: The Brutalist 

▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Flow, The Last Showgirl, Cabaret 

Gigs

▪️ Karaoke. Sonny’s Bar & Grill

▪️ Slowdive. Bronson Centre Music Theatre

▪️ Sunday Revue. Irene’s Pub

▪️ Road Trip: A lecture on Lost Lanark legacy fruit trees. Jennifer Ferris will explain how to identify heritage varieties of apple trees and talk of her quest to find one. Cornerstone Community Church, Almonte.

▪️ Rasputin’s Open Stage Spotlight features Noreen Sullivan, who interprets folk, country and roots music. The Bella Vista Restaurant 2656 Alta Vista Drive at 7:00 pm. 

▪️ ByTowne Cinema: The Brutalist 

▪️ Mayfair Theatre: The Substance, Cabaret, Life-force 

Gigs

▪️ Karaoke Mondaze. Atomic Rooster

▪️ Daisy Train Karaoke. 27 Club

▪️Ottawa Fringe’s Undercurrents Festival will bring nine works by local and national artists to the city venues around town for 10 days in February. 

▪️Frost Mercer’s Mojo Banjo: A Musical History of the Banjo is yes, full of banjo, but also jaw harp, fiddle, and song. Saturday February 8 at Westboro Masonic Hall. Presented by Ottawa’s Folk Music Society, Spirit of Rasputin’s. 

▪️The cost to participate in the 2025 Canada Army Run (Sunday September 21) is at its lowest right now, but that price will rise on February 1. 

While the demand for the ‘Canada is not for sale’ baseball caps and toques is going through the roof, none of them are made in Canada. The items were designed in Ottawa and are embroidered in Toronto, but the caps are manufactured in Vietnam, Bangladesh, and China and the toques are made in the United States. 

Aside from military, firefighter, and extreme weather uniforms, Canada has not had a significant textile industry since the 1980s.

  ➕ Related On the other hand, in case you missed our Drinking and Dining update on Wednesday, Stubbe Chocolates’ “Canada is Not For Sale” bars are made in Ottawa.