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Tuesday August 27, 2024

Today

🌧️ Moderate Rain
High 29° Low 17°
🌞 6:18 am🌛7:49 pm

Tomorrow

🌧️ Light Rain
High 21° Low 13°
🌞 6:20 am🌛7:47 pm

 

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HELLO OTTAWA

  • In today’s ottawan:

    → Is it a cattle rustle ... or a cattle drive?

  • → Today's Ottawa Craft Beer Week highlights 

  • → Make your Oktoberfest plans now. 

– Martha and Darren

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  • – The rise in sales of sesame oil, fish sauce, and rice vinegar in Iceland. Cucumbers were completely sold out. All are ingredients in TikTok star Logan Moffit’s cucumber recipe, who has been credited with the salad mania. (Brooke Kato in the New York Post)

Smiths Fallsian of the Day

  • Amanda Jordan 
  • – The CBC Music Searchlight competition has selected Jordan as its Outstanding country artist for her single ‘You Don’t Wanna Know’. Maeesha B of Ottawa was recognized with an honourable mention as Top Teen for ‘Prove It’. (CBC Music)

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  • The City is temporarily housing the calves due to an ongoing police investigation

  • – A dry but intriguing statement from Ottawa Bylaw and Regulatory Services director Roger Chapman, regarding a car discovered over the weekend at Wellington Street West and Holland Avenue, containing three calves and a dog. As the Experimental Farm confirmed that all its calves were accounted for, the police are still investigating whether this is a case of cattle rustling or just some sort of cow Uber. (William Eltherington at CTV)

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CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall

Planning and Housing Committee
Wednesday, August 28 at 9:30 am

  • Zoning By-law amendment – 2973, 2983, 3053 and 3079 Navan Road and 2690 PagĂŠ Road
  • Zoning By-law amendment – 6001 and 6005 Renaud Road
  • Zoning By-law amendment – 381 Kent Street
  • Application for demolition and new construction at 381 Kent Street, a property designated under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act as part of the Centretown Heritage Conservation District
  • Zoning By-law amendment – 9 Gurdwara Road
  • Official Plan amendment and Zoning By-law amendment – 30 Cleary Avenue

📋 Agenda
 

Election Compliance Audit Committee
Wednesday, August 28 at 2 pm

  • Memo – Updates regarding election compliance audit application deadlines for the 2022 Municipal Elections
  • Auditor’s report – Election compliance audit of the campaign finances of third party advertiser Horizon Ottawa from the 2022 Municipal Elections

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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🚨 Femicide

  • The death of a woman in Corkery is being called a femicide by the Ottawa Police Service, a first for the organization. Michael Zarbarylo has been charged with the second-degree murder of his wife, Jennifer Zabarylo. The use of the word ‘femicide’ is intended to underline when a murder is an incident of deliberate violence against women. (Natasha O’Neill at CityNews)

💃 Taylor Swift

  • The Ottawa Food Bank is raffling off two Taylor Swift tickets to celebrate its 40th anniversary, and to raise some funds. The tickets for two also include a $300 VIA Rail gift certicate to take the winners in comfort to the November 15 Toronto concert. Raffle tickets are $40 each and sales end October 7. (William Eltherington at CTV) (Raffle Ticket page)

🗳️ Kitigan Zibi Anishinābeg

  • Jean-Guy Whiteduck has been elected as the new chief of Kitigan Zibi Anishinābeg. Whiteduck previously served as chief from 1976 to 2006 and again 2015 to 2018. (Gabrielle Huston)

🅿️ Ottawa International Airport

  • The company that provides pay parking at Ottawa Airport says that hackers have breached its system, gaining access to one million customer files. Park ’N Fly says the information it kept was names, emails, and addresses but not payment information. The company runs parking at major airports across Canada. Park ’N Fly says that it emailed everyone affected but people can call 1 844 405 3577 if they have questions. (CBC)

🌊 Ottawa Beaches

  • All four City of Ottawa beaches are safe to swim today. We didn’t intend on having a daily E. Coli update but it's proven necessary. (Daily Safety Report)

    The NCC Riverhouse Swimming Dock is also open.

✏️ Outaouais

  • Five small towns will jointly hold a referendum over a proposed graphite mine 80 km north of Gatineau. Residents of ChĂŠnĂŠville, Duhamel, Lac-Simon, St-Émile-de-Suffolk, and Lac-des-Plages are worried that the mine will change their rural culture and attract more mining. Graphite is mined for uses in electric car batteries and electronics but also, in a quaint throwback, pencils. (Emma Weller at CBC)

    ➕ Related Chelsea residents have created a petition to lower the speed limit on Route105 to 50 km/h from 70 km/h.

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  • It’s the final Car Toot Bingo of the year in Almonte. Gates open at 5:30 pm and the games begin at 7:00 pm. 

  • Dull kitchen knives aren’t just a drag; they’re dangerous. Show your fingers you care: take the Ottawa Tool Library’s extremely useful Knife Sharpening Workshop

  • Ottawa Craft Beer Week highlights: Happy 8th Birthday to OrlĂŠans Brewing Co; Bring your squad to Stray Dog Brewery, Bicycle Craft Beer, or Brew Revolution's Taproom Trivia events; Roll the dice at Ridge Rock's Board Game Night. Don’t forget to have your passport stamped at each participating brewery you visit. 

  • Fall is the perfect time to tackle those DIY jobs around the house, but do you know how to safely use big power tools like planers, table saws, and router tables? The Ottawa Tool Library has you covered with the Workspace Safety 201 Workshop. Tickets from $96.58 for OTL members, and from $120.65 for non-members. 

  • Every home needs coasters. Make your own at the Craft & Draft: Coaster Creations event at Beyond the Pale. Tickets from $33.28. 

  • Banish the midweek blues with Comedy at Eddy’s Diner. $5 cash cover. 

  • ByTowne CinemaAny Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, Sing Sing, Only the River Flows

  • Mayfair TheatreMy Penguin Friend, Between the Temples, Burden of Dreams

    Gigs

  • Anna Ludlow with John Mitchell. Red Bird

  • Jazz Nite with Crop Circle Catalysts. Queen St. Fare

  • The RockPhiles. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

  • Small Fish: A comedy and Variety Show. Irene’s Pub

  • Let Train to Ajax: Hunt Club single release party. LIVE on Elgin

  • Daniel Simonsen. Rainbow Bistro

  • Ken Seeley Duo. Cheshire Cat 

Thursday

Long Runs

Just Announced / Now Booking

  • Readers, we know you love to plan, so it’s time to prepare for Oktoberfest. That means getting the lederhosen dry-cleaned and ramping up your bicep curls to be ready for stein hoisting. OrlĂŠans Brewing’s event is coming up fast on September 21, and tickets are available right now. New this year: every ticket holder gets a free t-shirt. Meanwhile, you can attend one of two sessions or buy a ticket for the whole shebang at the Cold Bear Brewing event on October 5 (bonus: it's a Road Trip to Arnprior). At Cold Bear, every ticket holder gets to keep their stein. We'll post other breweries' Oktoberfest events as they're announced. 

DEAL OF THE DAY

It’s Tuesday; do you know where you’ll get your tacos? Mona’s Taqueria has four for $13

Equator Coffee Roasters is throwing in a free Rishi English Breakfast Tea Box with every coffee subscription purchased until September 1. Btw, you’ll also save 15% on the regular price of coffee with the aforementioned subscription. 

There are sweet deals to be found on Message Factory’s sale pages, so if you have holes to plug in your summer wardrobe, now’s the time to do some shopping. For example: the Facet blue floral t-shirt dress is $60, down from $100. #madeincanada 

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

The CBC’s daily podcast, Front Burner, dedicated yesterday’s episode to ‘Canada’s public transit “death spiral”’. It deals with the issues that all big cities in Canada are having with their transit systems but they can’t help but come back to Ottawa’s self-inflicted woes. (Podcast) (Transcript)

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