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Tuesday July 2, 2024

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☁️ Scattered Clouds
High 27° Low 13°
🌞 5:18 am🌛8:54 pm

Tomorrow

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High 27° Low 16°
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HELLO OTTAWA

  • Ottawa Bulldog turned us on to this: Kitchissippi ward councillor Jeff Leiper has created a calculator on his website that shows how the proposed zoning changes would affect your address.

  • It's a little finicky but you enter the length and width of your property, choose your current zoning, and voilà, the maximum number of new units that can be built at your address is shown.

  • If you don't know your zoning, enter your address on this City page and it will tell you. If you live in a rural area, somehow live in an industrial park, or up a tree somewhere, Leiper did not consider your needs and your zone won't be considered. For everyone else, it should work.

  • Try out the calculator here.

  • – Martha and Darren

STATS

    Number 

    • $1.50
    • – The amount contract workers in Ottawa are being paid per delivery from a company contracted by viral fashion business Temu. Many drivers are now complaining that they are not being paid at all. (Stu Mills and Emma Weller at CBC)

    Ottawan of the Day

    • Hala Najm
    • – The 61 year-old hairdresser completed a decades-long dream: collecting her high school diploma.  (Joseph Tunney at CBC)

    Quote 

    • “

    • As someone who has been diagnosed with depression and frequently struggles to keep my mood elevated, Ottawa’s sunshine brought more than light into my life

    • – Vancouverite Alex Dines, who is now a Carleton University Master of Journalism student, gives an exit interview before she leaves Ottawa. (Alex Dines in Capital Current) 

    Sports

    • ⚽ CPL Atlético Ottawa 4 – Hamilton Forge 3 last Friday
    • 🏀 CEBL Ottawa BlackJacks 90 – Calgary Surge 100 last Saturday
    • 🏈 CFL Ottawa RedBlacks 24 – Hamilton Tiger-Cats 22 last Sunday
    • ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 10 – New Jersey Jackals 5 last Friday
    • ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 3 – New Jersey Jackals 2 last Sunday

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    CITY HALL AGENDA

    What’s going on at City Hall

    Planning and Housing Committee
    Wednesday, July 3 at 9:30 am

    • Official Plan amendment and Zoning By-law amendment – 265 Catherine Street
    • Zoning By-law amendment – 10 Empress Avenue North
    • Official Plan amendment and Zoning By-law amendment – 3030 St. Joseph Boulevard
    • Official Plan amendment and Zoning By-law amendment – 70 and 80 Woodridge Crescent
    • Demolition Control By-law amendment
    • Official Plan monitoring – 2022 draft baseline report
    • 2022 annual development report

    📋 Agenda

    Committee of Adjustment - Panel 1
    Wednesday, July 3, 2024 at 1:00 PM

    • 37 Ella To permit a reduced lot area, rear yard setback and rear yard area for the construction of a long semi-detached dwelling.
       
    • 1112 Lisgar and 1 Maple To permit the expansion of a legally non-complying building or structure for the reconstruction of a semi-detached dwelling.
       

    • 514 Churchill Avenue North To subdivide the property into two lots to create one new lot for residential development. The existing triplex is to remain on the other lot.

    • 48 McNaughton To permit a front facing attached garage for the construction of a single detached dwelling.

    • 90, 92 Prince Albert To subdivide the property into two separate parcels to create separate ownership for each half of the semi-detached dwelling currently under construction.

    • 253 Mackay To permit increased height and reduced side and rear yard setbacks for the construction of ground level and partial third storey additions to the existing long semi-detached dwelling.

    • 304-308 Donald To permit an increased lot area and reduced parking for the construction of a three-storey, 31-unit low-rise apartment building.

    • 998 Colonel By To permit an addition to the existing legal non-conforming dwelling.

    • 370 Princeton To subdivide the property into two lots for two, three-storey, eight-unit low-rise apartment dwellings, with reduced lot width, lot area, and corner and interior side yards, and an increased number of dwelling units and building height.

    • 469 - 471 Catherine Validation of Title Application

    📋 Agenda

     

    WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

    ⚕️ Hawkesbury Hospital

    •  The doctor charged in 2022 with the deaths of four seniors at Hawkesbury and District General Hospital has been acquitted. Dr Brian Nadler had been charged with first degree murder each of four seniors under his care in the hospital. Nadler had always maintained his innocence, with his lawyers arguing that the four seniors had died of COVID 19. The Crown presented no evidence at the trial, resulting in the acquittal. (Marlo Glass and Aedan Helmer in the Ottawa Citizen)

    💽 Corel

    • The co-creator of the WordPefect word processing programme has died in Utah, aged 76. This is a stretch for an Ottawa connection, but don’t worry, we’ll get there. Bruce Bastian was a graduate student in 1979 when he helped create one of the first successful word processing programmes for the Utah city of Orem. Somehow, he kept the copyright and WordPefect dominated offices for years until Microsoft Office came along. In 1996, Ottawa software behemoth Corel bought it, powering years of success then later, not so much. Corel changed its name in 2022 to Alludo. (Curtis Booker in the Daily Herald) (You can still buy WordPerfect)

    🛻 Convoy News

    •  A man acquitted from charges in the Convoy occupation has been ordered to be retried. Evan Blackman was charged with mischief and obstructing police but was acquitted at his trial last October, in part, because the judge ruled that he may not have known that the police had ordered everyone to leave. The appeal judge disagreed, and said that by kneeling in front of the police, he was being obstructive. (Blair Crawford in the Ottawa Citizen)

    🗳️ Goldie Ghamari

    •  The Member of the Provincial Parliament for Carleton, Goldie Ghamari, has been booted out of the Progressive Conservative caucus by Premier Doug Ford. Ghamari had taken a video meeting with British campaigner Tommy Robinson who has been convicted of assault and rails against immigrants and Islam. Robinson is in Canada for a cross-country speaking tour. Ghamari, who immigrated to Canada from Iran, says she was unaware of Robinson’s history and met with him to discuss ‘Canada's recent decision to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity’, a position they both support. (Faith Greco at CBC)

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    Today

    • Not only does Manor Lounge welcome teams of up to six to play in its Trivia Tuesday evenings, but the venue’s Happy Hour actually starts after the competition ends, at a grown-up 9:00 pm. 
       
    • ByTowne Cinema: Fancy Dance, World UFO Day (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (subtitled) 
       
    • Mayfair Theatre: Challengers, Thelma, Rock ’n’ Roll High School 


      Gigs

    • Beauxmont. National Arts Centre

    • Rory Taillon. The Folk Collusion (757 Ch. Riverside, Wakefield, QC)

    Tomorrow

    • Sugar cookies and beer: it’s not an impossible dream. Enjoy a Sand & Sugar Cookie Decorating Class at Broadhead Brewery. A drink ticket is included with all the cool stuff you’ll learn about decorating sugar cookies and the hands-on experience you'll get. 1680 Vimont Court Unit 106, Orléans K4A 3M3. 
       
    • Eddy’s Diner is promising a comedy evening of ‘Canada Day Mayhem’ on Wednesday July 3. Visit 777 Bank St. K1S 3V5

       

    • Road Trip: It’s Vinyl Night at Arnprior’s Cold Bear Brew Co. 

    • Ridge Rock Brewery’s Trivia night is 10 rounds of five questions, all relating to a Secret Theme. Will your team guess the theme? 421 Donald B. Munro Drive, Carp. 

    • ByTowne Cinema: The Great Escaper, In a Violent Nature

    • Mayfair Theatre: Thelma, Challengers, I Used To Be Funny 

      Gigs

    • Nate Silva and Dumis9ne. The Shed

    • Ken Seeley Duo. The Cheshire Cat

    • Lonesome George. National Arts Centre

    • Steve Finney, Alain M. Afterlight

    • Beauxmont. The National Arts Centre

    • Lawrence Maxwell, Oddeline. LIVE on Elgin

    Thursday

    • Rainbow Bistro welcomes Day 1 of the sixth edition of Sitting on the Outsides Fest, a local DIY punk and hardcore celebration. The $25 ticket will get you into tonight's show to see Cell Death (from Charlottetown), The Hell (Cleveland, USA), Wet Specimens (Albany) Science Man (Buffalo) and many more. The festival continues all weekend at various venues around town. 
       
    • It’s Thursday so Urban Art Collective is back with another edition of Hintonburg Night Market. 1088 Somerset St W. K1Y 3C6 
       
    • ByTowne Cinema: Tuesday, Valley of Exile with Director Q&A, Don’t Go Into The…Series: Blair Witch Project 
       

    • Mayfair Theatre: Challengers, Thelma, Rock ’n’ Roll High School 

      Gigs

    • The Lionyls. National Arts Centre

    • SHIRLEY, Baby Richman, Alexander Bella. House of TARG
      Leeroy Stagger. Red Bird

    • An Evening of Surf and instrumental Music. LIVE on Elgin

    Just Announced / Now Booking

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    DEALS OF THE DAY

    The Stylegarage Canada Day yard sale will get you up to 50% off, but only while supplies last. They’ve got deals on “new-in-box sofas, sectionals, beds, dining tables, storage, desks, stools, end tables and more.” 

     

    Save up to 25% off in the Nova Scotia Fisherman Canada Day Sale. 

     

    Find deals of up to 30% on Beth Richards swimwear until July 5. No code necessary. 

     

    Prices are reduced by up to 50% in the François Beauregard sale. 

    BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

    The National Film Board has created a showcase of Canadian films for its library to mark Canada Day. It's divided into provinces and territories but we are quite keen on this 11 minute 1949 film, A Capital Plan, about how ‘Ottawa became the capital city of true beauty and dignity we know today’.

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