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HELLO OTTAWA

• In today's ottawan:

  → We’re number 1010 in US/Canada tech talent! Or, in regular numbers instead of binary, we’re number 10

• → Car number five crashes into Ottawa house

• → Get ready for Ottawa Charge, the new handle of the formerly nameless Ottawa Professional Women’s Hockey League team

– Martha and Darren

STATS

Number

• 10
• – Where Ottawa lies on CBRE’s list of the top 50 tech talent markets in the US and Canada. Last year, Ottawa was in 11th place. Number one is the San Francisco Bay area, Toronto is number four. (The CBRE list) (Ottawa details)

Alternating Ottawans (honorary) of the Day 

• Matthias Lüttenberg and Tjorven Bellmann
• – Married couple Lüttenberg and Bellmann are the new co-ambassadors from Germany, a first for Canada. The couple will rotate their duties, with one being diplomatic in the Golden Triangle while the other looks after their kids back home. They’ll switch every eight months. (Christian Paas-Lang at· CBC)

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• The situation we’re in is the equivalent of buying a new house based on a salary that you were expecting to earn and a mortgage you can afford and then losing your job and living on a reduced income when at the same time interest rates are going up

• – City of Ottawa Deputy Treasurer Isabelle Jasmin explaining to City Council how the City got its finances wrong. (Blair Crawford in the Ottawa Citizen)

Sports

• 🏈 CFL Ottawa RedBlacks 41 – Toronto Argonauts 27 last Saturday
• 🏉 AUSSIE RULES Ottawa Swans (Women) 57 – High Park Demons 21 last Saturday
• 🏉 AUSSIE RULES Ottawa Swans (Men) 8 – Toronto Eagles 70 last Saturday
• ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 2 – Québec Capitales 7 last night
• ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 6 – Québec Capitales 10 last Saturday

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CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall

Built Heritage Committee
Tuesday, September 10 at 9:30 am

• Referral - Designation of 50 Carruthers Avenue under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act
• Consideration of Objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate 149 Rideau Street, under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act
• Consideration of Objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate 156 Rideau Street (including street addresses 152, 156-158 Rideau Street), under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act
• Consideration of Objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate 198 Rideau Street, under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act
• Consideration of Objection to the Notice of Intention to Designate 217 Rideau Street, under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act
• Application to demolish 227-229, 231-233 and 235-237 St. Patrick Street, properties designated under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act
• Application for demolition at 7 Crescent Road, a property designated under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act as part of the Rockcliffe Park Heritage Conservation District
• Designation of 200 Fifth Avenue under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act
• Designation of 218 Cantin Street, 224 McArthur Avenue, 297 Dupuis Street and 159 (also known as 149) and 381 Montréal Road under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act
• Designation of 123 Metcalfe Street under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act
• Heritage Register Removals Report 2024
• Updates to the Heritage Grant Program for Building Restoration
• Status Update – Built Heritage Committee Inquiries and Motions for the period ending August 23, 2024

📋 Agenda

Ottawa Public Library Board 
Tuesday, September 10 at 5 pm

• Presentation – Digital Content at OPL
• 2023 Financial Statements
• Second Quarter 2024 Financial Status Report
• Ottawa Public Library Emergency Plan
• 2024 Fund Development Update
• 2024 American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition – Trustee Catherine Kitts’ Report
• In Camera Items:
• Labour Relations or Employee Negotiations, to receive a Labour Relations Update
• Personal Matters about an identifiable individual, to discuss the Chief Librarian and CEO’s Mid-Year Review

📋 Agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🚌 Transit

• Neither of Gatineau and Ottawa’s transit agencies will add buses for the return-to-office mandate of Federal employees. The return to the office for a third day – fourth for executives – began today. Société de transport de l'Outaouais says that it would have been better organized if the Federal government had told them in advance, as they need a year in advance to work out routes. OC Transpo believes that it has enough capacity. (Gabrielle Huston at CBC)

❄️ Name that Plow!

• The City has launched its first ‘Name that Snowplow’ campaign. Open to kids 16 and under, and inspired by similar campaigns in Scotland and Minnesota, the City will select 24 names for snowplows in the 24 wards. Let’s decide as a community now that ‘Plowy McPlowface’ and ‘Mr Plow’ are automatically disqualified. (Name that plow)

🏫 Ottawa Carleton District School Board

• The new high school in Stittsville now has an opening date. Maplewood Secondary School missed the first day of classes but will now start accepting students Sept 17. The City has still not issued a certificate of occupancy but is expected to do so before Sept 11. Parents of eligible students will receive an email from the board before opening day. Current Grade 7 and 8 students have been taking classes at DA Moodie Intermediate School in Bells Corners, while Grade 9 students take classes at home. Grades 10 through 12 will be added in future years. (Ted Raymond at CTV)

🌳Old Growth Forest

• Residents in Arnprior want to stop a religious group from selling off 20 acres of old growth forest. National historic site Gillies Grove Park lies next to the untouched land, which an organization of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate wants to sell to a developer. Residents saved Gillies Grove itself in the 90s. (Dylan Dyson at CTV)

💥 Cars Hitting Houses

• Yet another car has crashed into a house. It happened yesterday at 4:00 am in Sandy Hill. The last time that we mentioned this was Aug 29. By our count, this is the fifth crash-into-a-house of 2024. No one was injured. (Josh Pringle at CTV)

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EVENTS

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Today

• The prizes up for grabs at tonight’s 100 Women Who Care Ottawa at Milestones Lansdowne include gift baskets, art, two tickets to Harvest - A Feast for Fall, coaching, and - from a participating doctor - 20 units of Botox. If you’re unfamiliar, 100 Women Who Care Ottawa meet up four times a year to socialize, network, and hear from three deserving local or national charities, after which they pick one to support with a minimum $100 donation. To date the organization has donated more than $400,500 CAD. 

• 11 O’Clock Numbers is the theme of this months’ Broadway Nights Ottawa’s Musical Open Mic and Sing A-Long. “An 11 O’clock Number is a theatre term for that big, show-stopping song that usually happens late in Act 2, typically sung by a major character that comes to an important realization.” $15 per participant. 

• ByTowne Cinema: Dernière Danse (Last dance), Nos beels-sœurs(Sisters and Neighbors!), Close Your Eyes

• Mayfair Theatre: Across the river and Into the Trees, His three Daughters, Repo Man 
  
  Gigs

• Jazz Jam with the Beeched Wailers. Irene’s Pub

• Karaoke Mondaze. Atomic Rooster

• Conquer Divide, Civilian, Burn the Evidence, Sovereign Council. The Brass Monkey

• Acoustic Coffee House. Red Bird

Tomorrow

• National Arts Centre Orchestra and National Arts Centre Dance present UAQUE, a “meditative dialogue between dance, visual arts and music” with Artistic Director and Choreographer Andrea Peña, Photographer Edward Burtynsky, and Music Director and Conductor Alexander Shelley. Tonight and tomorrow night in National Art Centre’s Southam Hall. Tickets from $31. Arrive early on both nights (at 6:45 pm) for the bilingual pre-performance talk. 

• Cock Show 2024 continues at Atomic Rooster: experience the best rooster art you’ll see all year until October 13. 

• ByTowne Cinema: Close Your Eyes, 2024 Cat Video Fest, Didi 

• Mayfair Theatre: His three Daughters, Across the River and Into the Trees, Cuckoo 

  Gigs

• Trivia Tuesday. Irene’s Pub

• 200 Stab Wounds, Zero State, Mortal Rites, Blood Moon Occultation. Rainbow Bistro

• Open Stage. Red Bird Live

Wednesday

• Ticket sales end at 8:00 am this morning for the chat between Governor General’s Award-winning novelist Kim Thúy and Canada’s 1996 Gold Medal Olympic champion Doovan Bailey. Tickets from $20 for members, up to $100 for a Meet-and-Greet. Museum of History. 

• 🆓 Doors Open for Music Southminster is back for another season of free lunchtime concerts. This week, Montréal pianist Fiona Wu plays a solo recital of J.S. Bach’s final composition, The Art of Fugue. The program begins at 12:00 pm or you can watch on YouTube. 15 Aylmer Ave at Bank, K1S 5G4 

• It looks like the weather’s going to be fabulous for CityFolk Festival, today through Sunday at the Great Lawn, Lansdowne Park. The Beaches headline the TD Stage at tonight’s opening show, with guests Softcult and Päter. Meanwhile, Hawksley Workman plays the Fasken Stage. Tickets from $58. 

• Kanata Theatre’s production of Peter Shaffer’s Lettice and Lovage opens the new season at the Ron Maslin Playhouse. Single show tickets and five-play subscriptions are available. 

• UAQUE continues at the National Arts Centre. 

• ByTowne Cinema: L’étoile filante (The Falling Star), Wings of Desire, Didi 

• Mayfair Theatre: Across the River and Into the Trees, His Three Daughters, Repo Man 

  Gigs

• Spoon. Bronson Centre

• Drag me to Live! LIVE on Elgin

• Supersonic Hearts Band. Atomic Rooster

• An Evening with Daniel O’Donnell. National Arts Centre

• Petunia & The Vipers album release. Rainbow Bistro

• The Prime Rib Big Band. Irene’s Pub

• Tyler Kealey’s Urban Campfire. Red Bird

• Stick&Bow. Richcraft Theatre, Orléans

Long Runs

• Cirque du Soleil ECHO continues in Gatineau until September 22. 

• The University of Ottawa created the Department of Visual Arts 50 years ago. The Ottawa Art Gallery commemorates those five decades with the exhibition Art School Confidential, until September 22.

Just Announced / Now Booking

•  Fifteen years of knitting; ninety pounds of yarn; one man’s artistic and spiritual journey. The Knitting Pilgrim is a multidisciplinary one-man show from Kirk Dunn combining storytelling, image/video projection, and three huge, knitted panels that look like stained glass windows, breathtaking to behold in person! Free, but a suggested donation of $15 is suggested. 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm on Friday September 13 at St. Andrew’s Church 

• If you’re finding it difficult to come down from last weekends Ottawa ComicCon, mark Sunday September 15 on your calendar. The Ottawa Nostalgia Collectible Show will have comics, signs, toys, vinyl records, trains, and vintage items of all kinds. 9:00 to 3:00 pm at Nepean Sportsplex. $8 entry fee (free for children 12 and under). 

• Pick up a new skill from Recreated Designs on Somerset St. W. Learn everything from decoupage to selling your creations on line. 
   

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DEAL OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

It’s one thing for the Ottawa Citizen to run a story on where you can find public washrooms in Ottawa. It’s even better that they send a staff photographer to take photos. It’s a chef’s kiss that they made one of the kids in what’s left of Postmedia’s tech department make an interactive map of said toilets.

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