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Monday, November 20 2023

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HELLO OTTAWA

The City, the National Capital Commission, and  Parks Canada are working together on the Rideau Canal Cultural Landscape Study.

The study is asking how the 8.5-kilometre section of the canal corridor between the Ottawa Locks and the Hog’s Back Locks can continue to be a valuable resource for generations to come.

Residents are invited to participate in the study through a variety of ways:

  • complete a survey before December 8
  • participate in a virtual meeting
  • visit a pop up kiosk at the Lansdowne Christmas Market on November 25

Full details are here.

– Martha and Darren

 

🎄Ongoing Christmas Reminders

TODAY’S LINE UP

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

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OTTAWA STATS

    Number 

    • $11.4 million
    • – The budgeted amount to fix Ottawa’s potholes next year, up from $10.7 million this year. (Josh Pringle at CTV)

    Ottawan of the Day

    • Donavon O’Leary, Dana Wiesbrock, and Adrien Harpelle
    • –  The members of punk band Twisted Limbs played their first gig since the overdose death of their bandmate, Riley Taylor, last year. The House of Targ gig was a fundraiser to honour Taylor and raise funds for a scholarship in his name at Carleton University’s music programme. (Anchal Sharma at CBC)

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    • None of it's rocket science. It’s all doable.

    • – Leilani Farha, who served as special rapporteur on adequate housing for the United Nations from 2014 to 2020, on the simple things that are needed to keep people who live on the streets alive. Three people in homeless encampments have died in the region this month. (Nicole Williams at CBC)

     

    Sports

    • 🏒NHL Ottawa Senators 2 – Minnesota Wild 1 last Saturday

    CITY HALL AGENDA

    What’s going on at City Hall.
     

    Environment and Climate Change Committee
    Tuesday, November 21 at 9:30 am

    • Ceremonial presentation – Rain-Ready Program 2023
    • Referral - Council Motion - Banning of organic waste from landfills
    • 2024 Draft Operating and Capital Budget - Environment and Climate Change Committee
    • Draft Solid Waste Master Plan (Phase 3)
    • Environmental Assessment process for the expansion of the Trail Waste Facility landfill
    • Water rate structure review framework and update
    • Streamlining the provisions for distinctive trees in the Tree Protection By-law
    • Status update – Environment and Climate Change Committee – inquiries and motions for the period ending November 9, 2023
    • Motion – Councillor T. Tierney – Enbridge - St. Laurent Boulevard maintenance

    📋 Agenda

    Accessibility Advisory Committee
    Tuesday, November 21 at 6:00 pm

    • On-demand transit demonstration pilot project
    • 2024 Draft Operating and Capital Budgets - Accessibility Advisory Committee
    • Working groups updates
    • Accessibility Office update

    📋 Agenda

    WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

    ⚕️ Emergency Rooms

    •  Health Quality Ontario has worked out the waiting times for Ottawa emergency rooms. The city’s hospitals were appalling by pretty much all measures, with the average wait time in emergency rooms across Ontario being two hours.

      • Ottawa Hospital General Campus – 4.4 hours
      • CHEO – 3.3 hours
      • Queensway-Carleton Hospital – 3.2 hours
      • Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus – 3.1 hours
      • Montfort Hospital – 2.6 hours

      If you are in ambulance, you should probably request they take you to Montfort. You’ll get seen hours sooner, even if you included trip through a Timmy’s drive-through.

      (Josh Pringle at CTV)

    🏗️ Development

    •   Stittsville ward councillor Glen Gower and Mayor Mark Sutcliffe want to change Ottawa’s official plan tomorrow without any public hearings. When the Province unilaterally modified the City’s official plan earlier this year to allow development in greenbelts, it also increased the height of buildings on minor corridors from four storeys to between six and nine storeys. Now that the Province has been caught bending its own rules over development, it has returned the official plan to what it was two years ago. Gower and Sutcliffe have a proposal tomorrow to change the official plan unilaterally back to what the Province had previously changed unilaterally. (Ottawa Bulldog)

      ➕ Related A 27 storey building has been approved in Centretown by the planning and housing committee. The existing heritage five storey Legion House on Kent Street will be dismantled then rebuilt within the building. The building will have 289 residential apartments. City Council will approve or not tomorrow.

    🗞️ Lowertown Echo

    •  Actual printed newspaper the Lowertown Echo wants to hear from the public about what it needs to do to increase readership. They probably mostly want to hear from Lowertowners, but the ottawan is always amenable to promoting print. (Lowertown Echo survey)  

     

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      EVENTS

      The event submission form seems to be broken. Email your events to us at ‘events@theottawan.com’ while we fix it.

       

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      DEALS OF THE DAY

      Spark Beer has a collection of three Holiday Gift Packs for the lovers of locally crafted beer on your list. Spend $30, $50 or $100.

      Gift bundles are up to 35% off at Pokoloko.

      Get a free Essential Sleep Set (Duvet, sheets, mattress protector, and pillows) when you buy select mattresses at Endy.

      Use the code EARLYBF23 to save 15% in Aurelius’s Early Black Friday sale.

      BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

      Google Maps is sending people the wrong way down Glen Avenue. Despite the fact that the street has ‘one way‘ signs, dozens of people daily ignore them to travel the short cut – and are then stopped by uncoming traffic, leaving everyone paralyzed.

      RAPID RESPONSE QUALITY CONTROL

       

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