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

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OTTAWA STATS

Sports

• 🏈 CFL Ottawa RedBlacks 3 – Montréal Alouettes 29 last night 
• ⚽ CPL Atlético Ottawa 1 – Hamilton Forge 0 last Saturday
• 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 4 – Montréal Canadiens 6 last Saturday

CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s coming up tomorrow at City Hall.

Ottawa City Council
Wednesday, October 11 at 10 am

• 11.1 Zoning By-law Amendment - Part of 5134 Piperville Road
• 11.2 Zoning By-law Amendment – 5646 and 5650 Manotick Main Street to permit a restaurant with a drive through
• 11.3 Zoning By-law Amendment – 2545 9th Line Road permit a soil packaging plant with leaf and yard waste compostin11.4
• Zoning By-law Amendment to permit up to 2 additional units on fully-serviced residential lots
• 11.5 Engineer’s Report amendments to the Simpson Municipal Drain construction
• 12.1 Approve the refinancing of three Ottawa Community Housing Corporation projects
• 12.2 Community Partnership Capital Grant Programs Annual Report
• 13.1 Municipal Price Index Feasibility Review
• 13.2 Comprehensive Legal Services Report for the Period January 1 to June 30, 2023
• 13.3 Request to Waive Leasing Policy for LRT Retail Spaces for Happy Goat Coffee
• 14.1 Action Plan Status Update – Response to OLRT Public Inquiry Recommendations
• 15.1 Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment - 200 Clearview Avenue to permit a maximum permitted height of 80 metres
• 15.2 Zoning By-Law Amendment – 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 24 Hawthorne Avenue to permit a six-storey mixed-use, mid-rise building
• 15.3 Ottawa Community Lands Development Corporation - 2022 Annual Report
• 16.1 Councillor Darouze - All Way Protected/Permitted Left-Turn Signals at Intersection of Bankand Mitch Owens
• 16.2 Council Sponsors Group - Transportation Master Plan (TMP)
• 17.1.1 Conservation Authority Programs and Services Agreements
• 17.2.1 Commemorative Naming Proposal – Roger Michels Volleyball Court
• 17.2.2 Commemorative Naming Proposal – Victor Cyr Woods
• 17.2.3 Commemorative Naming Proposal – Lt. Col. Roland Ashman Park
• 17.2.4 Commemorative Naming Proposal – Dr. O.B. Wilson Park
• 17.3.1 Uncollectible Taxes
• 17.4.1 Councillor Luloff - Eastbound Permissive - Protected Left Turn on Innes Road
• 17.5.1 Summary of Oral and Written Public Submissions

📋 Agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

💸 Lansdowne 2.0

Last Friday we couldn’t link to the new report from the City about Lansdowne 2.0 because its site was down. It’s back now.

You can view the Lansdown 2.0 report here. Here are 10 illustrations of the plan.

Over the weekend, people have been picking it apart. There seem to be more negative comments than positive.

• The Alliance to End Homelessness is disappointed at the removal of affordable housing. (Andrew Duffy in the Ottawa Citizen)
• In the financial details, to meet the projective revenues, the Ottawa RedBlacks and the Ottawa 67s must – must – make the playoffs most years and increase their ticket sales.  (David Reevely on Twitter)
• The financial plan includes $500,000 per year in revenue from hotel taxes. There is no hotel in the plan nor has it been mentioned before. One Twitter user notes that at 4 per cent, this mythical hotel would need to book $12,000,000 a year in revenue to get $500,000 in tax. At $200,  that’s 170 rooms each night, every night, all year long. (Neil Saravanamuttoo on Twitter)
• Saravanamuttoo also notes that $20 million is to come from the Federal or Provincial government, neither of which has been promised. If it doesn’t come, the City is on the hook. 
  
  ➕ Related Let’s Talk Lansdowne! is a public forum on the latest plans for Lansdowne 2.0 to be held tomorrow at the Horticulture Building, Lansdowne Park, 7:00 pm. You can also watch the livestream on YouTube.

✏️ School Trustees

• Goldie Ghamari, the Member of Provincial Parliament for Carleton, wants to hear your complaints about any Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustee. She points out that the Stittsville and Riverside Secondary Schools have not been built, the Board doesn’t want a second elementary school in Findlay Creek, rudeness was shown to parents concerned about mixed-sex washrooms, a parent was barred from wearing her police uniform to career day, and the Board has shown litte interest over the lack of school buses that transport their students. If you have something to say to the MPP about the Board or trustees, tell her here. (Manotick Messenger)
  
  ➕ Related The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board overestimated this year’s enrollment by 1,600 students, leaving supply teachers who were expecting work in the lurch.

🎨 National Gallery

•  The New York Times has an overview of the decolonization wars between curators at the National Gallery. Not really any new information but a some good pointed arguments – ie, why was Canadian art placed the National Gallery but art by Indigineous people placed in the Museum of History – and some comparisons with other galleries in Canada. (Norimitsu Onishi in the New York Times)

💥 Wanton Destruction

• The Aylmer ruins at Deschênes Rapids will be destroyed, says Québec’s minister of culture. The 137 year-old ruins on the Ottawa River are the remains of a dam which helped power long-ago mills. Québec considers the ruins a danger to the public despite the attraction to white water kayakers. (Ottawa Citizen)

🚨 Elegy

• Former Ottawa Police officer Robin Easey, who championed rehabiliation, has passed away. In 1984, as a Nepean police officer, Easey and his partner were shot in a robbery at Bayshore Shopping Centre. Easey was blinded and required the use of a wheelchair. Later working for the Ottawa Police, Easey was a strong advocate for rehabilitation and support for survivors of severe trauma. He was 70. (Ted Raymond at CTV)

🚧 Rideau Street closed for 48 hours

• A one block section of Rideau Street will be closed west from the intersection of Rideau and King Edward Avenue for 48 hours starting Friday. The street will be closed to remove a construction crane. (Ottawa Citizen)

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🤼‍♂️ 🍺 GIVEAWAY: Broadhead Brewery is celebrating its 12th anniversary this week with beer, events, and good times. On Saturday October 14 Remix Wrestling returns to Broadhead's taproom at 1680 Vimont Crt in Orléans with an extravaganza that they call Back in Broadhead. It promises to be an evening of entertaining mayhem of pro wrestling featuring Sexxxy Eddy, Jonny Taco, London Lightning, Alexander Kable, to name a few. 

the ottawan is giving away a pair of tickets to Back in Broadhead for one lucky subscriber. For your chance to win the tickets, all you have to do is send us an email (contest@theottawan.com) with the answer to our skill testing question: What year did Broadhead Brewery open its doors? 

Martha’s Mom will draw the lucky winner from the correct answers on Friday October 13.

Today 

• Broadhead Brewery is celebrating its 12th anniversary all week with fun events and great beer. Tonight’s Trivia Anniversary edition is bigger and better than ever. 
• ArohaFest Navaratri Edition tales over the NAC’s Peter A. Herrndorf Place with a showcase of arts and culture of India in Canada. Until Friday October 13.

   

  Music
• Relive the Music: 50s & 60s Show. Meridian Theatres at CentrePointe
• Yukon Blonde. Club SAW
• Open Mic Night. LIVE on Elgin
• Open Stage. Red Bird Live

Tomorrow

• Bear Grease gives the 1978 musical Grease a makeover, transforming the characters and setting into 1950s Indigenous story. The all-Indigenous cast from all over Turtle Island performs the story of Sandy, an Indigenous woman who is new in town, and Danny, a member of the Greasers gang. At the NAC’s Babs Asper Theatre October 11-14. 
• ArohaFest Navaratri Edition tales over the NAC’s Peter A. Herrndorf Place with a showcase of arts and culture of India in Canada. Until Friday October 13.
• It’s Free-Play Wednesday at House of TARG. All games are set to free-play, and there are no bands. But free-play! $10 cover. 
• Broadhead Brewery is celebrating its 12th anniversary all week with fun events and great beer. Tonight, enjoy the Meatings Pig Party with live music. 
  
  
  Music
• Anoushka Shankar. NAC
• Fall of Earth with the Grotto Cabers, Hypersex Banshee. Avant Garde
• Tyler Kealey’s Urban Campfire. Red Bird Live
• Los Gringos. Irene’s Pub
• Eden’s Elgin Birthday Bash. LIVE on Elgin

Thursday 

• ArohaFest Navaratri Edition tales over the NAC’s Peter A. Herrndorf Place with a showcase of arts and culture of India in Canada. Until Friday October 13 
• Broadhead Brewery is celebrating its 12th anniversary all week with fun events and great beer. Tonight, enjoy the Bigger Better Bingo in the taproom. 
• Bear Grease continues. at the NAC’s Babs Asper Theatre October 11-14. 

   

  Music

•  Gabriel Shonk with Lila. NAC
• Irene’s Blues Sessions with guest host Iyono Ede.
• Kingfisher, Nothing Serious, Heavy Lies. House of TARG
• MOOCH with PEAKS and Autowah. LIVE on Elgin
• Pyramid Theorem, Polychuck. Café Dekcuf

Just Announced / Now Booking

• Mark your calendar for the ByWard Market’s Day of the Dead Festival, October 27-29. 

DEALS OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

A new analysis shows that Kitchissippi ward makes the most 311 calls to complain about dogs, or 50 so far in 2023. Orléans made only one call in the same period. Here are the stats from each ward.

THE END

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