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Tuesday August 6, 2024

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Today

☁️ Overcast Clouds
High 23° Low 13°
🌞 5:53 am🌛8:23 pm

Tomorrow

☁️ Broken Clouds
High 24° Low 12°
🌞 5:54 am🌛8:22 pm

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HELLO OTTAWA

  • In today’s ottawan:

    → Keep boiling your water, Aylmer

    → Free wine tasting

    → Unattractive tomatoes on sale

– Martha and Darren

STATS

Number

  • 3
  • – The number of years since an awkward, weirdly-shaped bass guitar was stolen from the School of Rock on Orléans. A musician in Westboro found the guitar lying on a lawn last month, and posted its picture on Facebook to find its owner. (CBC)

Ottawan of the Day

  • Hennessy Roppovalente
  • – At 21 years of age, Roppovalente is the Ottawa Blackjacks player personnel and strategy coordinator, recruiting and scouting players. (Jackie Perez at CBC) 

Quote 

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  • We have lots of actual human intelligence on tackling the crisis of the unhoused; this becomes performative to make it look like we’ve done something when in fact we haven’t

  • – Architect Toon Dreessen on a report that the City has teamed up with a Carleton University researcher to use artificial intelligence to identify people at risk for homelessness. (Twitter) (Ottawa becomes the latest city to turn to AI to help it predict chronic homelessness)

Sports

  • ⚽ CPL Atlético Ottawa 1 – Calvary FC 2 last Saturday
  • 🏀 CEBL Ottawa BlackJacks 90 – Scarborough Shooting Stars 73 last Friday
  • 🏀 CEBL Ottawa BlackJacks 91 – Niagara River Lions 94 last Sunday
  • ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 4 – Québec Capitales 7 last Friday
  • ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 1 – Québec Capitales 3 last Saturday
  • ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 4 – Québec Capitales 5 last Sunday

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CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall

Election Compliance Audit Committee 
Champlain Room, 110 Laurier Avenue West 

  • The Election Compliance Audit Committee scheduled for today has been adjourned until a future date.

📋 Agenda


Committee of Adjustment - Panel 1
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 at 1:00 PM

  • 167 Powell – To permit a front-facing attached garage and increased driveway gradient for the construction of garage beneath the existing dwelling.
  • 633 Edison – To subdivide the lot into three parcels of land with reduced lot areas, landscape buffers, rear yard setbacks, increased driveway width and building height for the construction of a detached dwelling and a semi-detached dwelling.
  • 87 Mann – To permit an increased number of dwelling units for the conversion of office space into four new residential dwelling units.
  • 82, 84 Norman, 117 Pamilla – To permit relief from Zoning By-law section 144(8) for the construction of a two-storey dwelling containing a studio space.
  • 18 Elliot – To permit a front yard parking space, a front-facing carport and reductions in parking space length, rear yard setback and interior side yard (west) setback.
  • 946 Colonel By – To permit increased building height and a reduced rooftop terrace setback for the construction of an addition on top of the existing dwelling.
  • 309 Montfort – To permit reduced lot areas, front yard setbacks, a corner side yard setback and a recessed façade area for the construction of a semi-detached dwelling.
  • 263 St. Laurent – To sever the lot for four townhouse dwellings with reduced lot areas and increased building height. 

📋 Agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

♨️ Aylmer 

  •  City residents are steamed that they must boil water for a sixth day. While the City told the reporter of the article that the reason for the water boiling is that testing found E. Coli, the City’s website doesn’t say why 10,000 residents must do it. (Faith Greco at CBC)

    ➕ Related Some Aylmer residents think the new garbage trucks are rubbish. New trucks with robotic arms started in May, and since then there have been 4,330 reported complaints of uncollected bins.

🚊 O Train 

  •  OC Transpo is now cutting Monday to Thursday evening service on the O Train starting August 26. 
  •  Train service will now be cut in half from every 5 minutes to every 10 minutes, between 6:30 pm and 9:30 pm. The agency previously annouced the halving of service Monday to Thursday between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm. OC Transpo says the cut is because of reduced demand. (Marlo Glass in the Ottawa Citizen)

🚌 Ottawa Student Transportation Authority

  •  Four months after he started, the general manager of the Ottawa Student Transportation Authority has left. The previous interim general manager will take over for the beleaguered agency. Last year’s school year began in farce, as 7,500 families were unable to send their kids to school due to a lack of drivers. (Joanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen)

💦 Pepper Spray

  •  A 16 year-old girl was sent to hospital after pepper spray was set off in Rideau Centre Saturday. The shopping centre was evacuated as a precaution. Ottawa Police Service is seeking to identify the people who set off the spray. (Toula Mazloum at CTV)

❤️ Transplant Games

  •  The 10th Canadian Transplant Games are in Ottawa this week. The athletic event welcomes those who have received transplants as well as family members and donors. (Ottawa Citizen) (Schedule)

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Today

  • Broadway Across Canada brings Cameron Mackintosh’s Les Misérablesto the National Arts Centre tonight through Sunday August 11. Seen by millions since it opened in 1985, the show’s new staging has the Huffington Post calling it “Les Mis for the 21st Century”.

  • 🆓 Moneka Arabic Jazz plays the Wood Terrace at the National Arts Centre. Tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 pm. 

  • Ottawa Skeptics (as well as atheists, humanists, and freethinkers) are meeting at The Lieutenants Pump for friendly conversation. 

  • ByTowne Cinema: Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles (Tell Me Why These Things are So Beautiful), North by Northwest - 65th Anniversary Screening, Kneecap

  • The Mayfair Theatre: The Fabulous Four, Widow Clicquot, The Shining 

     

  • Gigs

  • Trivia Tuesday. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

  • Open Stage. Red Bird

  • 90s Trivia Night. The Prescott

Tomorrow

  • Hit musical Les Misérables continues its limited run (until Sunday, August 11) at the National Arts Centre.

  • 🆓 The Nepean Concert Band plays Andrew Haydon Park at 7:30 pm. Bring your own lawn chair. 

  • 10 rounds, five questions, and one uniting theme; can your team guess what that is? Compete for glory at Outside the Box Trivia, from 7:30 pm at Beyond the Pale Brewing Company (250 City Centre Ave Bay 106, Ottawa, ON K1R 6K7). Call (613) 668 2337 to reserve your table. 

  • 🆓 Moneka Arabic Jazz plays the Wood Terrace at the National Arts Centre. Tonight at 7:30 pm.

  • Les Grands Feux du Casino Lac-Leamy returns to the region. It’s not just about fireworks, however. From 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm attendees will enjoy multi-sensory programming including fantastic food, digital and art installations, live performances, and more.Tickets from $16.60
     

  • ByTowne Cinema: Crossing, Touch, Kneecap

  • Mayfair Theatre: Widow Clicquot, The Fabulous Four, MaXXXine

     

  • Gigs

  •  Trivia. Royal Oak Pub Bank St. @ MacLaren and Orléans

  • Trivia Night. Café Dekcuf

  • The Prime Rib Big Band. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

  • Suspersonic Heats Band. Atomic Rooster

  • Jazz Nite with Justin Duhaime. Queen St Fare

Thursday

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    Learn the West Coast Swing with a lesson and social dance, all in one night and all for $15 at the door. Presented by Rideau Swing Collective. 7:30 pm at the Bridge Public House, 1 Donald St K1K 4E6 (Centretown).

  • Ottawa’s newest weekend market pops up for a Thursday evening shopping experience. Shop, dine and enjoy a cocktail at the Greely Good Night Market from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm at 5770 Bank St, Ottawa, ON K4P 1B9. 

  • Les Misérables continues its limited run (until Sunday August 11) at the National Arts Centre.

  • ByTowne Cinema: Thelma, Crossing, Blade Runner: The Final Cut

  • Mayfair Theatre: The Fabulous Four, Widow Clicquot, MaXXXine 

    Gigs

  • Irene’s Blues Sessions. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

  • Sheridan Ruitin. LIVE on Elgin

  • Moonfruits, Nyx and Lightsmith. Red Bird

  • Karaoke Thursdays. Atomic Rooster

  • Woods of Light. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

  • Yes Ma’am. House of TARG

  • Nate Silva. Overflow Brewing

 

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DEAL OF THE DAY

 

Heartbeet Farm is selling 15lbs of “seconds” tomatoes (imperfect, unattractive, etc.) that are perfect for preserving and canning for just $30.

Save up to 50% in the Province of Canada Summer Sale. 

Save money over single tickets with a subscription to Ottawa Pops Orchestra’s new season.

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

Former Ottawa Citizen associate business editor James Bagnall has written a new book, Telecom Tornado: tales from the frontlines of Canada’s capital, outlining the rise and fall of local tech giants, including JDS Fitel, Nortel, and BNR. It’s painful reading – in 2000, Nortel was worth $300 billion, it’s now bankrupt and little more than an inspiration for a t-shirt.

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