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• In today’s ottawan:

  → While Ottawa is welcoming the Ironman Canada next year, a BC city has a downcast farewell.

  → Dunk your friends tomorrow at Parkdale Market's 100th birthday

  → Richard Nixon’s lucky escape in Ottawa.

– Martha and Darren

STATS

Number

• 30
• – The number of years that Chamberfest has presented classical music programming in the capital. This year’s edition runs July 25 to August 8. (Audrey Gunn in Capital Current) (Chamberfest)

Ottawan of the Day

• Nancy Huggett
• – The poet is the 2024 recipient of the RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award, the oldest new voice at age 66. Huggett's experience as a full-time caregiver for her daughter, who has Down syndrome, was inspiration for her poetry collection, Revelation. (Faith Greco at CBC) (Excerpt from Revelation)

Quote

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• All athletes know, there’s a time to say goodbye and find new challenges

• – Penticton, BC mayor Mayor Julius Bloomfield as the Ironman Canada triathalon prepares to run its final event in that city. Ironman Canada is moving to Ottawa and will run its first event here next summer. (Logan Lockhart in the Penticton Western News)

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CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall

Committee of Adjustment
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 1:00 pm

• 53 Willow - To permit a reduced lot width for the construction of a 3-storey low-rise apartment building containing 10 units
• 1071 Heron - To permit increased building heights and reduced front yards, soft landscaped areas, lot widths and lot areas, and a reduced side yard setback, for the construction of a 3-unit townhouse 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

📋 Agenda

Ottawa Investment Board
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 10:00 am

• Update on the Draft Statement of Investment of Policies and Procedures

📋 Agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🚌 Westboro Bus Crash

• Ontario’s chief coroner has called for an inquest on the 2019 deaths of three people in a bus crash at Westboro Station. The driver was charged with three counts of dangerous driving causing death and 35 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm but was acquitted on all counts. Three people were killed and almost two dozen people seriously injured when the bus hit a shelter overhang. The City has paid out $23 million in civil claims. (Jenna Legge at CBC)

⚖️ Rideau Hall Gate Crasher

• The man who crashed the gates of Rideau Hall in an attempt to arrest Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been granted statutory release. Corey Hurren, who was armed with a rifle, was upset over COVID 19 restrictions and the ban on assault-style weapons. He was sentenced to six years in prison in 2021, but has been out on day parole since 2022. (Darren Major at CBC)

🌊 Ottawa Beaches

• Britannia, Petrie East Bay, and Petrie River beaches have high E. coli warnings today. Very few people are likely to consider swimming today in the rain, but if you are so inclined you may wish to wait a few days. (William Eltherington at CTV)

⚕️ ByWard Market

• A full time paramedic has now been stationed at ByWard Market. One from a pool of 13 Ottawa Paramedic Service paramedics will always be on duty seven days per week, 12 hours per day. The first week of service saw 65 calls. (Elizabeth Payne in the Ottawa Citizen)

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Today

• 🆓 The National Arts Centre’s Wood Terrace Series are free concerts each Tuesday and Wednesday night. This week, the Okavango African Orchestra brings the music and you should bring a chair.
   
• A Company of Fools open air theatre is back, this time bringing a fresh take on Shakespeare's Macbeth to the stage. Catch the play tonight at JT Bradley’s in Navan.
   
• Today at Music and Beyond: Duo Muller-Laporte, Anita Pari & Jaeyoung Chong, Constantinople, Nuit Blanche.
   
• ByTowne Cinema: June Zero, Challengers, MaXXXine
   
• Mayfair Theatre: Tuesday, L’été dernier (Last Summer), In a Violent Nature.

  
  Gigs

• Trivia Night. Pour Boy

• Open Stage. Red Bird

• The Crane Wives. Bronson Centre

• The Oxbow Trio. National Arts Centre

• Trivia Tuesday. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

Tomorrow

• Dunk your friends and raise money for Parkdale Food Centre at Parkdale Public Market’s 100th birthday party. The Dunk Tank is by donation (at least $5, please) and is joined by a Photo Booth, kids’ games, and live music at the Pat MacLeod Community Stage in Parkdale Park from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm. 366 Parkdale Ave.
   

• Carp Fairgrounds become a drive-in bingo hall on Wednesday nights in July. The gates open at 5:30 pm with play starting - rain or shine - at 7:00 pm. 3790 Carp Road.

• 🆓 The National Arts Centre’s Wood Terrace Series are free concerts each Tuesday and Wednesday night. This week, the Okavango African Orchestra brings the music and you should bring a chair.

• Festi Biere Gatineau takes over Hôtel Casino du Lac-Leamy today through July 27. It’s obviously about the great selection of beers from Québec and beyond but there’s so much more: a Ferris wheel, live music, dancing, even a pool for cooling off. Daytime and evening sessions available.

• A Company of Fools open air theatre is back, this time bringing a fresh take on Shakespeare's Macbeth to the stage. Catch the play tonight at Bel Air Park (Nepean).

• Tonight’s Music and Beyond Closing Gala is a program of music requested by audiences.

• ByTowne Cinema: A Little Something Extra (Un p’tit truc en plus), Jaws, MaXXXine

• Mayfair Theatre: L’été dernier (Last Summer), Tuesday, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

  Gigs

• Open Mic Night. Pour Boy

• Jazz Night with Gerri Trimble

• Jazz James with Peter Hum Trio. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

• Focused, Pady Paystub, Sule in Ottawa. Avant-Garde Bar

• Bytown Ukulele Group JAM. Red Bird

• Eden Moore’s Huanted Christmas in July. LIVE on Elgin

• Disco Town - Dave Smith Youth Center fundraiser. House of TARG

Thursday

• Don’t despair because Bluesfest is over; Kemptville Live Music Festival starts up Thursday July 18 with a lineup that includes Burton Cummings (July 19), Dean Brody (July 20), and Glass Tiger (July 21), plus guests.
   
• Stop by Urban Art Collective’s parking lot to see who’s selling cool stuff and who’s playing live music at the Hintonburg Night Market. 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm at 1088 Somerset St. W.
   
• 🆓 Spark Beer has created a lively new pilsner in collaboration with Side by Side Weekend (July 26-27, see Just announced / Now booking, below). The limited release beer will be available at the festival, but if you just can’t wait you can get your mitts on one this Thursday (July 18). Even cooler: that same night at Spark Beer, Side by Side weekend passes will be for sale at $10 off. If you need a final reason to drop by Spark Beer, they’ll have stone fired pizza on hand as well. 702 Somerset St. W from 8:00 pm.
   
• 🆓 William Street becomes the ByWard Night Market, with Cinq à sept musicians serenading you while you shop and eat. From 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm on William Street between George and York.
   
• Drag icons Saltina Shaker and Sunshine Glitterchild return with their guests to Heart & Crown in Barrhaven for a show you won’t soon forget. If you want in on the action, during the second set audience members can take part in the dance battle for the chance to win prizes. This show is 19 and older. Tickets from $17.31. Find the fun at 3161 Strandherd Drive #300 Ottawa, ON K2J 5N1
   
• A Company of Fools open air theatre is back, this time bringing a fresh take on Shakespeare's Macbeth to the stage. Catch the play tonight at Lansdowne Park in the Glebe.
   

• Festi Biere Gatineau continues at Hôtel Casino du Lac-Leamy in Gatineau (until July 27).

• ByTowne Cinema: Challengers, Thelma, MaXXXine

• Mayfair Theatre: Tuesday, In a Violent Nature

  Gigs

• The Liquor Store. Rainbow Bistro

• Passarim. National Arts Centre

• Nick Posthumus and the Soft Maybes. LIVE on Elgin

• Indie Thursday - The Rambles. Overflow Brewing

• Supernatural Buffalo. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

   

Just Announced / Now Booking

•  Catch the best indie bands from Ottawa and beyond at Side by Side Weekend, Friday July 26 through Sunday July 28 at Club SAW. Day and Weekend passes are on sale now.

• 🆓 Bowman’s Bar & Grill celebrates that favourite of many a beer enthusiast, the IPA, on Thursday August 1. Enjoy beer from eight local breweries, listen to live music, and take your chances on the raffle. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the W.E Gowling Parents Council for the new school’s new Play Structure. Be sure to walk, cycle, or take transit to the event, or park on neighbouring streets, because the IPA Day Parking Lot Party will take over the bar’s entire lot. Admission is restricted to those 19 and older. 8 Viscount Ave, Ottawa, K1Z 7M7

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DEALS OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

Chris Iorfida at CBC News has the tale of how US president Richard Nixon was the target of an assassination plot – and, had it occured, would have been carried out in Ottawa. American citizen Arthur Bremer was thwarted at the time by anti-Vietnam war activists blocking his view.

Bremer, who may have been the inspiration of Travis Bickle in the film Taxi Driver, was later sentenced to 53 years in prison for shooting Alabama governor George Wallace. Bremer was released for good behaviour in 2007 and is currently alive and living in Maryland. 

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