Official plan moves to last stage; Confederation Line may return in November; Ottawa hits 90% first-dosed

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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

HELLO OTTAWA

The Official Plan

Last night, a special joint meeting of the planning committee and the agricultural and rural affairs committee approved the Ottawa Official Plan.

This is the first official plan created since Ottawa amalgamated with all sorts of rural areas and oddball independent jurisdictions in 2001.

The plan is about one thing: development, smoothing the way for approving more towers in urban areas and more sprawl in rural areas.

It's not done yet but the full council will vote on it next week.

Read the Official Plan for yourself here.

We'll see you tomorrow – Martha and Darren

?️ Is there something that Ottawa should know about? Email to us at [email protected]. We read every single comment.

It's time to make your nominations for the Second Annual Ottawan Best Of Ottawa Awards as voted by the public

We launched the Best of Ottawa Awards this time last year as a pandemic local business booster and it was tons of fun. So we're doing it again.

This is the NOMINATIONS ROUND.

We've listed a bunch of categories from best tacos to best City Councillor to best patio. Your job is to make the nominations, which we'll do until this Sunday October 24th at 11:59pm.

From the nominations we'll take the top five* and put them to the vote of the public.

The winners and the runners-up get a frameable certificate (you may have seen last year's at businesses around town).

As for you, complete the nominations and we'll draw a name for a $100 Gift Card to use at an Ottawa business.

We're broad-minded about what counts as an Ottawa business: we define it as a business located anywhere in the Ottawa Valley and the Outaouais, including, of course, the cities of Ottawa and Gatineau. For chains, their headquarters must be here.

Click Here For The Nomination Round

Feel free to pass around the link, and on social media, please use #BestOfOttawa2021

* Last year we found that some categories just did not have five good nominees, other categories were too close to cut down. So we'll be somewhat flexible on this.

STATS

Weather: ☀️ Mainly Sunny. High of 16°, low of 7°

Number: 4. Where Ottawa lies on Orkin Canada’s annual list of the top 25 rattiest cities in Ontario – the cities where the company had the most rat removals. Ottawa was #12 last year, so, congratulations? Toronto is number one. [Daily Hive]

Honorary Ottawan of the Day: David Merpaw. The Cornwall endurance athlete is running 100 km today from Ottawa's Terry Fox memorial to Terry Fox Park in his hometown. Merpaw is raising money for Cornwall Comfort Quilts, volunteers who make and donate free lap quilts for cancer patients. [County Weekly] [Cornwall Comfort Quilts]

Quote: ‘Fill jar every night. Drink freely when thirsty and upon arising and retiring. Average eight or more glasses’ – Sean Campbell of the Diefenbunker Museum of Cold War History, reading off the instructions of a 1912 ceramic pot, called a Revigator, recently found in their collection. The Revignator, advertised as a healthful product, emits a full year’s worth of the acceptable dose of radiation in just one hour. It will be passed on to Canadian Nuclear Laboratories in Chalk River, which collects radioactive objects manufactured prior to the 1960s. [Atlas Obscura]

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

Data is from this morning, comparisons are with Friday

ONTARIO

cases	change	deaths
595,235	? 373	9,815 ?0

? Eligible people with one dose		87.5%
? Eligible people fully vaccinated		83.1%

Ontario COVID Page Ontario Vaccine Rates

QUEBEC

cases	change	deaths
420,129	?410	11,449 ?5

? Eligible people with one dose		89.9%
? Eligible people fully vaccinated		85.7%

Quebec COVID Page Quebec Vaccine Rates

OTTAWA

cases	change	deaths
30,527	?41	602 ?1

? Eligible people with one dose		826,780 (90%)
? Eligible people fully vaccinated		77,531 (85%)

Ottawa Public Health Ottawa Vaccination Rates. Ottawa Wastewater

OUTAOUAIS

cases	change	deaths
14,167	?52	222 ?0

? Number of doses of vaccine

595,819

As of October 13, 2021 Updated Weekly

? Eligible people with one dose		86.4%
? Eligible people fully vaccinated		82.5%

Outaouais Public Health Quebec Vaccination Rates

EASTERN ONTARIO HEALTH UNIT

cases	change	deaths
5715	?30	117?0

? Eligible people with one dose		165,126 (90.2%)
? Eligible people fully vaccinated		156,360 (85.5%)

Eastern Ontario Health Unit Eastern Ontario Health Unit Vaccination Rates

COVID-19 NEWS

⭕ Check it out – 90 per cent of people eligible for their first dose of COVID19 vaccine have been vaccinated! In Ottawa-Carleton District School Board schools, 92.6 per cent of staff are fully immunized and it's 93.7 per cent in Ottawa Catholic School Board schools. Those who live sort of south East of Ottawa in the Eastern Ontario Health Unit have been 90 per cent of first dose since last week.

⭕ Pfizer has officially requested that Health Canada approved their COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages of 5 to 11. The dose would have about one-third the potency of the regular jab. [CityNews]

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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

▪️The Confederation Line could return in a limited capacity in early November, says City Manager. Steve Kanellakos has written to the City Councillors that seven trains plus a spare could be running in early November if the trains maintainers, Rideau Transit Group, complete their vehicle inspections. The system normally runs with 15 trains. [CBC]

▪️Ottawa’s landfill will be full within 15 years unless something is done. The City plans to deal with it by encouraging recycling and, more likely, diverting trash to private garbage dumps and averting our eyes. [Ottawa Citizen]