HELLO OTTAWA |
Please read: We’re changing our email platform next Monday, and this may place your daily issue of THE OTTAWAN into your spam or promotions folder. |
Why? Because we’re moving back to a Canadian email platform, Montréal’s Cyberimpact, instead of the American-based one we’ve been using for the last six months. |
We’ll run this note all week as a reminder. Most people won’t see a difference but the email world is a capricious one and we never know who will get the spam treatment. |
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Mailbag Jake Davies of West Carleton Online wrote to tell us that the City’s newest island is not in the Ottawa River, as we wrote yesterday, but in the Mississippi River, a tributary of the Ottawa. We’re pleased to have a reason to use the mi-ss-iss-ipp-i chant that has been burnt into our brains since childhood. |
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→ PCs and Liberals promise to hand off the O Train to Metrolinx |
→ New York Ninja - a film that commenced production in the early 80s and was rescued and completed three years ago - is tomorrow’s Bad Movie Night film at the Ottawa Public Library |
→ Sunday service on Lines 2 and 4 is not on the agenda anytime soon |
→ Cleveland has nothing on Ottawa for a Music Hall of Fame |
→ ⛅ High -6° Low -12° and partly cloudy |
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– Martha and Darren |
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STATISTICS OTTAWA |
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The number of games that Minnesota Wild’s Ryan Hartman has been suspended for slamming the head of Sens player Tim Stützle to the ice. This is the fifth time that Hartman has been suspended. | | | | Stephen Wyno in the Associated Press |
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OTTAWAN OF THE DAY |
Dr Daniel Corsi |
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| ❝ | | | If it’s not sold out it’s darn near sold out, every single year |
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SPORTS |
🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 5 – Nashville Predators 2 last night |
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Planning and Housing Committee
Wednesday, February 5 at 9:30 am |
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Zoning By-law Amendment – 16 Anna Avenue and 1160 Carling Avenue Zoning By-law Amendment – 225 Cope Drive and 166 Shelleright Street Greenfield Residential Land Survey, Mid-2023 Update Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendments for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Motion – Councillor J. Leiper – Shelter Use in all Zones
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And as ever, another meeting of the Committee of Adjustment at 1:00 pm. |
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
🚊 Ontario Election |
▪️The O Train would be handed over to Metrolinx, say Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford and Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie. Metrolinx is the provincial crown corporation that runs the GO Trains around the greater Toronto and Hamilton areas and is recognized for its competence. Transferring the system to Metrolinx would free Ottawa of operating expenses, its debt, and the various lawsuits but also allow it to be managed effectively. | | | | Kate Porter and Campbell MacDiarmid at CBC |
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👾 Game Stores |
▪️Thieves are hitting local games stores – for things like Pokemon cards. Two locations of GameZetera in Ottawa were burgled last month; last Canada Day Daniereon in Orléans had $10,000 worth of items stolen. Store owner Danielle Lavigne says Pokemon cards are popular because their value has soared, they are untraceable, and can be easily sold on Facebook Marketplace. | | | | CBC |
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⚽ Atlético Ottawa |
▪️Atlético Ottawa is seeking interns for its Front Office Academy Programme. Both students and adults who are looking to break into the sports industry to apply. Interns will work on: • Sales and Ticketing • Partnerships Retail • Operations Marketing • Social Media • Content Creation • Team Operations • Communications • Community Development • Match Day Operations Click here for details and to apply |
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📚 Ottawa Carleton District School Board |
▪️The Ottawa Carleton District School Board has published its proposed 2025-26 calendar. School would start Sept 2 and end June 2026. The calendar also has all the professional days and school breaks – click through to read see them. |
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THE ROLLING 3 DAY CALENDAR |
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TODAY |
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TOMORROW |
▪️ Elevator Theatre Company’s production of Late Company opens tonight for a two week run at the Gladstone Theatre. The play, which is set in an Ottawa suburb, examines the effect of a tragedy on a pair of grieving families. 🆓 DJ Geoff Paquet presents Trivia Night at Bicycle Craft Brewery. 🆓 It’s a Bad Night at the Movies at OPL Main Branch. Catch the newly completed New York Ninja (started in 1984, finished in 2021 by Vinegar Syndrome Pictures) at 6:30 pm. 🆓 The noon Doors Open for Music at Southminster concert at 15 Aylmer Ave, Conversations, features Virtuoso pianist Philippe Prud’homme and flutist Pascale Margely, who will mine the expressive potential of the flute and piano pairing, playing sonatas by Hindemith, Poulenc, and Desmarais. In person and live-streamed. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: The Brutalist, Hard Truths, The Substance ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: The Room Next door, Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story, Bram Stoker’s Dracula Gigs ▪️ Jazz Nite with Crop Circle Catalysts. Queen St Fare ▪️ Chayce Beckham. Bronson Centre ▪️ Prime Rib Big Band. Irene’s Pub ▪️ Valentine’s is A Drag. LIVE on Elgin ▪️ Havana Nights. Pure Havana Dance Studio (MacLaren and Elgin) |
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THURSDAY |
JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING |
▪️ Transform just another Monday into a special event with the Carpano Cocktail Dinner at Bottega Nicastro. Chef Adam Lloyd of Town/Citizen will create a menu to be paired with Carpano cocktails crafted by Svenja Wyss. ▪️ Registration for Ottawa Tool Library’s Tinkering School one-week Summer Camps for kids aged 9 to 12 from July 14 to 18 and August 11 to 15 and teens aged 13 to 16 on July 21 to 25 and August 18 to 22 opens on Saturday (February 8). DEALS OF THE DAY |  | Olena Zylak |
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| New styles have been added to the clearance section at Olena Zylak - the gorgeous toques and tams that are crafted in Collingwood. Some are as low as 50% off. |
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| Men’s underwear at Stanfield’s is 40% off until February 10 at the Great Canadian Sox Shop. |
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