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

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Sports

• 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 4 – Buffalo Sabres 6 last night

CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall.
 

Light Rail Sub-Committee
Friday, October 27 at 9:30 am

Stage 2 Trillium Line and Confederation Line update

📋 Agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

⚡ Rubbish Plan

•  Twelve of 18 mayors in the Pontiac have voted to give $120,000 to Deloitte to create a waste-to-energy incineration. The plan envisions a $450 million plant that would burn garbage to create electricity. The plant would need 400,000 tons of garbage per year. The Pontiac region currently produces about 5,000 tons annually. The region says that it will ask areas like Pembroke, Renfrew County, and Ottawa for their garbage. Ottawa just approved paying $8 million per year to ship its garbage to a private landfill. (Dylan Dyson at CTV) 

⚕️ Federal Public Employees

•  The new extended health care package for Federal employees is going so poorly that a Parliamentary committee is looking into the fiasco. The standing committee on government operations and estimates is looking into how the change to Canada Life Assurance Company last July for 1.7 million public employees and retirees has gone so wrong. (CBC)
  
  Some examples from only this week:
•  Public employees complain that they have been waiting months for reimbursements. (Catherine Morrison in the Ottawa Citizen)
•  A public service employee with gastroparesis – which paralyzes the intestines and requires her to survive on formula through a tube – has had her post Canada Life claims denied as not covered. (Kimberley Molina at CBC)
•  After a child was brain damaged after nearly drowning, items that were formerly covered by her parent’s previous insurer like feeding equipment, a wheelchair, a medical bed, and an airlift are being denied by Canada Life. (Kimberley Molina at CBC)

💸 Lansdowne 1.0

•   New calculations show that the payout to the City for the first Lansdowne deal will be reduced by a further $55.4 million. The deal, which lasts until 2052 was originally expected to pay the City $544.7 million but after yearly losses it is now down to $270.6 million. (Arthur White-Crummey at CBC)

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EVENTS

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Today

•  Check out In the Shadows, the analogue photography exhibition at Art House. Tonight’s Vernissage takes you behind the scenes to learn from the Deep Dark Squid Lab photographers about their process, their inspiration, and their experience.
•  Giggles4Health host Joke-a-oke at Hintonburg Public House. If you’ve got a joke or silly story to tell, take the stage. Costumes welcome.
•  Candlelight Concerts will be even more atmospheric than usual, given that the program is all spooky sounds of Halloween. Candlelight: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics at Knox Church will take you through pieces like the theme from John Carpenter’s Halloween, the Time Warp from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, even good old – and haunting – Tubular Bells (from The Exorcist).
•  Join a virtual lecture in the City’s Wildlife Speaker series about those major celebrities of Halloween: bats. Dr. Christina Davy of Carleton University will tell all about the bats that inhabit Ottawa.
•  Pumpkins After Dark continues its scary run at Wesley Clover Parks. Get inspiration for this year’s Jack O’Lantern as you view more than 10,000 carved pumpkins, watch pumpkins being carved in real time, and enjoy the tastes of the season.
•  The Ottawa International Writers Festival presents Waubgeshig Rice in conversation with Adrian Harewood. They’ll be discussing Rice’s new book Moon of the Turning Leaves. Also at the Festival tonight, a panel conversation about care, community and belonging with Governor General’s Award winner Darrel J. McLeod, Danuta Gleed Literary Award winner Zalika Reid-Benta and Booker Prize nominee Elaine Feeney.
•  The town of Carleton Place opens its doors this evening and every Thursday night until November 23. Fall in Love with Carleton Place invites everyone to explore the town's Heritage Downtown Shopping and Dining district. From 5:00 pm until late.
•  Have your costume judged by comedians in the Horrible Show at Calabogie Brewing’s Kanata taproom. Food and drink packages are available.

Music

•  Chopin for CHEO Charity Concert. Freiman Hall, Pérez Building, University of Ottawa

•  World Music: Huu Bac Quintet. Richcraft Theatre, Shenkman Arts Centre

•  Rocktoberfest Day 1. Rainbow Bistro

•  Kid G. Club SAW

•  Salt-o-ween: Halloween Drag Show. House of TARG.

•  LBM Trio. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

•  Jenn Grant. Babs Asper Theatre, NAC

•  Jean-Michel Pilc, Ira Coleman, Rich Irwin. Red Bird Live

•  Joey Cool and ReadyRockDee. Cafe Dekcuf

•  Open Mic. Stray Dog Brewing

•  Irene’s Blues Sessions. Irene’s Pub

•  Karaoke Thursdays. Atomic Rooster

Tomorrow

•   ByWard Market is transformed as the 2023 Day of the Dead Festival takes over. There will be plenty to do, see, eat, and drink, and it’s billed as an experience for the entire family. Today through Sunday.
• It's Blingo Night at Pour Boy on Somerset. On top of the gaming fun, there'll be food and drink specials. 
•  Stittsville Haunted Heritage Tours run every Friday and Saturday evening at 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm until November 11. Spooky! 1549 Stittsville Main St.
   
•  Out of the Box Fibre Artists are holding Fall Fling, a show that will double as a holiday shopping event.
   
•  Get down at Overflow Brewing’s Disco Inferno.
   

•  Pumpkins After Dark continues its scary run at Wesley Clover Parks. Get inspiration for this year’s Jack O’Lantern as you view more than 10,000 carved pumpkins, watch pumpkins being carved in real time, and enjoy the tastes of the season.

•  Let’s get rolling at the Hallowheel Roller Party at the Horticultural Building, presented by Ottawa Quad Rollerskating Club
  
  
  Music

•  Dan Mangan. Bronson Centre Theatre

•  Dominique Fils-Aimé. Babs Asper Theatre, NAC

•  Geneviève Racette, Cinzia, and the Eclipse. Avant-Garde

•  Area Resident and Saint Clare. Irene’s Pub

Saturday

•  Support the work of Ottawa Kitten Rescue at the Halloween Pet Costume Contest and Fundraiser. If your pet is okay with traveling and wearing a costume, bring it along for a photo op at Healthy Pets, 420 Bank St. from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
   
•  Canada Agriculture and Food Museum welcomes families to a day of fun, food, and learning. See the demo in the Bat Cave (but not with live bats, obvs, as they’ll be sleeping at the time), make some crafts, learn about pumpkins, prepare for the chills of the Spooky Barn, and a whole lot more. 9:30 am to 4:00 pm at 901 Prince of Wales Dr.
   
•  Play the Halloween Heist game at Billings Estate National Historic Site. Take the self-guided tour and follow the clues. Costumes welcome. $25 per family.
   
•  The Ottawa Wedding Show’s Fall Edition promises advice, inspiration, and experts. At the EY Centre today and tomorrow.
   
•  Vintage Pop-Up 613’s Mystic Market returns to Westboro for scarily fun shopping. It’s happening as part of the Wickedly Westboro event happening throughout the neighbourhood (see next item). More than 45 vendors will be selling the cool stuff, Jacqui Du Toit will be telling spooky tales, and EcoFauna will have animals on site to meet and learn about. It’s all happening from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm in two parking lots at the corner of Richmond and Churchill.
   
•  The Wickedly Westboro Spooky Scavenger Hunt 2023 has taken over Richmond Road all month and this Saturday, the fun ramps up to include Trick or Treating stations for the kids. Some of the area’s businesses are also taking part; look for “Trick-or-Treaters Welcome” signs in shop windows. You’ll also see magician, a witch, a juggler, and a balloon artist. 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. 
   
•  There's more fun for kids at Art Haven Kanata. Dress the kids in costume and take them for a morning of snacks and crafts – and pottery painting, of course.
   
•  Urban Art Collective’s Night Market turns spooky. It’s a market, a costume party, and an all around fun evening. Get your photo taken by Algonquin Photography Students at the Photo Booth.
   
•  It’s the Annual Halloween Costume Party at the Log Farm. Do all the usual fun things at the farm, but in costume.
   
•  Out of the Box Fibre Artists are holding Fall Fling, a show that will double as a holiday shopping event.
   
•  Pub 101 becomes Purge 101 in a Halloween event designed to get everyone on the dance floor.
   

Music

•  Taylorween Taylor Swift Dance Party. The Show

•  Hawksley Workman with Murray A. Lightburn. Babs Asper Theatre, NAC

•  Open Mic. Happy Goat (Main St)

•  Baby Richman, Central Station, Pettycache. LIVE on Elgin

•  Don’t Call her Betty. Moose McGuire’s

•  Good to Go. Irene’s Pub

•  X & Y Coldplay tribute band. Overflow Brewing Co

•  Hippie Halloween. Atomic Rooster

•  The Fugitives. First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa

•  Halloween Horror Bash Night 2. Dominion Tavern

•  Rocktoberfest. Rainbow Bistro

•  Crius Saxophone Quartet. Gigspace
   

Just Announced / Now Booking

•  A road trip plus a film screening equals a fabulous Sunday afternoon: Mississippi Mills Film Society is about to launch, having worked with Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to bring films to the area. All films will take place at St. Andrew’s United Church in Pakenham, and proceeds will support the church as well as the Mississippi Mills Public Libraries in Pakenham and Almonte. On October 29 see Driving Madeleine, and on November 26 watch To Kill a Tiger. Both of these films will have English subtitles.
   
•  Eology Ottawa’s Eco Gala on November 4 will celebrate local environmental and climate action with vegetarian and vegan canapés, speakers, live entertainment and dancing.

DEALS OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

Legendary Ottawa musicians the Five Man Electrical Band are mostly remembered now for Absolutely Right and their international hit, Signs, but we have to thank TruthDig for unearthing Werewolf as one of the website’s Music to Die For: An All Hallows Eve Top 40. 

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