HELLO OTTAWA |
→ Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has weighed in on a company in Ottawa’s longest running strike |
→ Experience le désert mauve and Paul Viven live at Club SAW tomorrow |
→ Watch for our guide to Christmas Gift Guides in tomorrow’s Ottawan |
→ 🌦️ High 10° Low 4° and patchy rain |
– Martha and Darren |
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STATISTICS OTTAWA |
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$13.8 million |
– The amount of money that the Federal government is paying to a private company to operate co-working spaces around Ottawa, for Public Services and Procurement Canada employees. Toronto’s LAUFTwill open its first location in Gatineau next month. Eligible employees can choose to use the co-working space on the new extra day they are now required to be in the office, rather than going to their actual office, which may not have any desks available. | | | | Catherine Morrison in the Ottawa Citizen |
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(HONORARY) OTTAWAN OF THE DAY |
Joshua Gautier |
- The 22 year-old Niagara Falls resident is the champion of the 30th Canadian Boccia Championship, held at Ottawa’s RA Centre over the weekend. Boccia is ‘a sport of precision and strategy similar to lawn bowling’ run by the Canadian Paralympic Committee. | | | | Sport Information Resource Centre |
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| | In its new 20-year urban forestry management plan, the City of Ottawa has committed to combat a growing problem: tree inequity |
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– The lead paragraph in the CBC story ‘Why do Ottawa's racialized and low-income neighbourhoods have fewer trees?’. The City wants 40 per cent of Ottawa space to covered with a tree canopy but newer, more car-centric parts of Ottawa have fewer trees than the older areas. After a new survey, the City hopes to have tree coverage rates mapped out by next year. | | | | Gabrielle Huston at CBC |
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SPORTS |
🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 0 – Carolina Hurricanes 4, last Saturday |
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Environment and Climate Change Committee
Tuesday, November 19 at 9:30 am |
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Agenda |
Accessibility Advisory Committee
Tuesday, November 19 at 6 pm |
Budget 101 Lansdowne 2.0 North Side Stands Accessibility Design Parks and Facilities By-law Review Accessibility Office Update
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Agenda |
Also the asking-permission-to-renovate-your-dining committee, Committee of Adjustment meets at 9:00 am and 1:00 pm. |
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
☢️ Strikes |
▪️The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has made an order against a company involved with Ottawa’s longest running strike. The Commission has ordered Best Theratronics Ltd to ‘cease operations of any particle accelerators it possesses and the use of any nuclear substances that are required for manufacturing’. Located on March Road in Kanata, the company makes devices used in cancer radiation therapy. Forty employees have been on strike for 201 days. | | | | William Eltherington at CTV |
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➕ Related The City says that just because Canada Post is on strike, you still need to pay your utility bill. Even if you have not received it. |
🚨Ottawa Police Service |
▪️Two cousins of active Ottawa Police Service officers have been charged in a large drug bust that arrested 17 people. The brothers are cousins to two of the five Ottawa police officers who launched a lawsuit against the Service last year, which alleged the Service ‘racially discriminated against them and illegally wiretapped them and their family members in 2021’. | | | | Shaamini Yogaretnam at CBC |
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➕ Related An Ottawa man has been ordered to pay $35,000 for causing a wildfire near Calabogie last June. The man pleaded guilty in court. |
🏒 Ottawa Charge |
▪️A few Ottawa Charge matches will be held in cities without Professional Women’s Hockey League teams. The Charge will meet Montréal Victoire in Quebec City on January 19, Minnesota Frost in Raleigh on March 7, Boston in St Louis on March 29, and Toronto in an as-yet unnamed city on February 16. | | | | Karissa Donkin at CBC |
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✈️ Ottawa International Airport |
▪️WestJet is increasing the number of flights to both Calgary and Edmonton next summer. Flights to Calgary will increase to 26 per week, and Edmonton will see 13 flights. | | | | Josh Pringle at CTV |
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THE ROLLING 3 DAY CALENDAR |
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TODAY |
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TOMORROW |
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WEDNESDAY |
▪️ Doors Open for Music at Southminster (DOMS) returns with Present at the Opera! The concert starts at noon. ▪️ Tonight’s European Union Film Festival screenings: Family Therapy (Slovenia), Rowing Across the Atlantic (Lithuania). ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Blitz, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Anora ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Lee, Black Box Diaries, The Substance Gigs ▪️ Mike Even with Amanda Mabro. LVE on Elgin ▪️ Bytown Ukulele Group BUG Jam. Red Bird ▪️ Ruby Waters What’s the Point tour. Bronson Centre Music Theatre |
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NOW BOOKING / JUST ANNOUNCED |
▪️ At the Ottawa Urbanism Book Club, Better Buses, Better Cities. How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit by Steven Higashide will be discussed at the Sunnyside Library. 6:15 pm, November 25. ▪️ Thirteen Strings’ seasonal concert The Joy Of Christmas will get you in the festive mood with music, dance, and help from Ottawa Children’s Choir. Tuesday December 3. ▪️ Mayor Mark Sutcliffe will host the Mayor’s 22nd Annual Christmas Celebration at Ottawa City Hall in support of the Ottawa Food Bank. Saturday, December 7 at City Hall. |
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DEAL OF THE DAY |
| Until 11:59 pm tonight, save 20% on the Bare Living Collection at Bare Knitwear |
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BUT, ONE MORE THING … |
A print of the 300 year-old ‘Beaver Map’ has sold for $3,700 at auction in New York. The map, so called because of the extra care the artist took of illustrating a few dozen beavers working away in the corner, depicts Britain’s North American holdings in the early 1700s. Here’s a decent view of the map. |
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