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Ottawa Public Health is now taking booking for flu vaccinations and the new update formula for COVID-19 for certain groups.

• Health care workers and first responders
• Individuals at high-risk for influenza (flu) and/or COVID-19 related complications or hospitalization including:
  • Residents and staff of congregate living settings (eg, chronic care facilities, retirement homes)
  • Pregnant women
  • Individuals who are 65 years of age or older
  • First Nation, Inuit, or Métis people and their household members
  • All children six months to under five years of age
  • Individuals six months of age and older with underlying health conditions per NACI
  • Members of racialized and equity-deserving communities

COVID-19 vaccine appointments at Public Health Community Clinics can be booked by calling 1 833 943 3900 (TTY: 1 866 797 0007) or through the Ontario COVID-19 vaccination portal. (Remember portals? Those were the days ... )

Flu vaccine appointments at Public Health Community Clinics can be booked through the Ottawa Public Health website

The update COVID-19 vaccine and flu shots will be available for everyone else beginning Oct 30.

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TODAY’S LINE UP

•  Ottawa Stats
• Food + Drink Update
•  City Hall Agenda
•  What Ottawa is Talking About
•  Events
•  Deals of the Day

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FOOD + DRINK UPDATE

• Alice will close in January, but chef-owner Briana Kim will open her next restaurant, Antheia, in a new and hopefully larger location sometime in 2024.
  
  Antheia will be both a fermentation lab and Chef’s counter restaurant, with a nine to 13 course tasting menu. Chef Kim, who won the Canadian Culinary Championship earlier this year, says that the team will ‘explore traditional fermentation methods, innovate new techniques, and discover new flavours’. Meanwhile, Ottawans can experience Alice Restaurant’s final menu launch, ‘the Best of Alice,’ in November. 
• Peter Hum at the Ottawa Citizen crossed the river to check out the fare in Chelsea and Wakefield. He tried out the speck and hazelnut pizza at Roberto Pizza Romana, then checked into the hipsterized Motel Chelsea and like the motel café Oiseau Bleu’s cocktails but not so much the dinner, and enjoyed the comfort food at Village House.
• Ameya Charnalia at Eat The Strip approved of the Iranian menuat Chelochi Grill in the Hunt Club area.
• Kanata-based Heartee Foods has a shipping container in a parking lot downtown where it grows gourmet mushrooms. The company hopes to use their technique to eventually grow local mushrooms in the far North and the Caribbean.  

CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s coming up tomorrow at City Hall.

Transit Commission
Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 9:30 AM

• Presentation – OC Transpo update – Rail, bus, and Para Transpo
• LRT disruption – Root cause Review
• Incidents affecting LRT vehicles and services
• Sponsorship of Transit Services

📋 Agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

💸 Lansdowne 2.0

• Let’s Talk Lansdowne! is a public forum on the latest plans for Lansdowne 2.0 to be held tonight at the Horticulture Building, Lansdowne Park, 7:00 pm. You can also watch the livestream on YouTube.

🚧 Delays

• The Bronson Avenue closure extended and delays on the Thousands Islands Bridge. The Bronson Avenue closure between Laurier Avenue and Slater Street has been extended until 10 pm Friday Oct 27 because of unexpected issues with the sewer work. There will be maintenance on the Canadian Thousand Island Bridge to the States today creating delays for those seeking cheap cheese. (City of Ottawa)

🚌 School Buses

• West Carleton ward councillor Clarke Kelly has received an apology for his ouster from an online meeting with the Ottawa School Transportation Authority. In an acrimonious meeting of parents and elected officials with the Authority over the shortage of buses, the then general manager of the service kicked Kelly out of the meeting. Later that week she took a leave of absence. (Clarke Kelly) (h/t West Carleton Online)

🛻 Convoy News

• The Convoy trial judge has ruled that residents may testify for the Crown. The defense had argued that as co-defendents Tamara Lich and Chris Barber had admitted residents' lives were disrupted, the testimony was unnecessary. The judge disagreed, saying the Crown cannot be forced to accept those admissions and will let the residents speak in their own words. The trial, which had paused for a long Thanksgiving break, resumes today. (Laura Osman in the Canadian Press)
  
  ➕ Related The Ottawa Citizen is live blogging the trial.

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EVENTS

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🤼‍♂️ 🍺 GIVEAWAY: Broadhead Brewery is celebrating its 12th anniversary this week with beer, events, and good times. On Saturday October 14 Remix Wrestling returns to Broadhead's taproom at 1680 Vimont Crt in Orléans with an extravaganza that they call Back in Broadhead. It promises to be an evening of entertaining mayhem of pro wrestling featuring Sexxxy Eddy, Jonny Taco, London Lightning, Alexander Kable, to name a few. 

the ottawan is giving away a pair of tickets to Back in Broadhead for one lucky subscriber. For your chance to win the tickets, all you have to do is send us an email (contest@theottawan.com) with the answer to our skill testing question: What year did Broadhead Brewery open its doors? 

Martha’s Mom will randomly draw the lucky winner from the correct answers on Friday October 13.

Today

• Bear Grease gives the 1978 musical Grease a makeover, transforming the characters and setting into 1950s Indigenous story. The all-Indigenous cast from all over Turtle Island performs the story of Sandy, an Indigenous woman who is new in town, and Danny, a member of the Greasers gang. At the NAC’s Babs Asper Theatre October 11-14. 
• ArohaFest Navaratri Edition tales over the NAC’s Peter A. Herrndorf Place with a showcase of arts and culture of India in Canada. Until Friday October 13.
• It’s Free-Play Wednesday at House of TARG. All games are set to free-play, and there are no bands. But free-play! $10 cover. 
• Broadhead Brewery is celebrating its 12th anniversary all week with fun events and great beer. Tonight, enjoy the Meatings Pig Party with live music. 
  
  
  Music
• Anoushka Shankar. NAC
• Fall of Earth with the Grotto Cabers, Hypersex Banshee. Avant Garde
• Tyler Kealey’s Urban Campfire. Red Bird Live
• Los Gringos. Irene’s Pub
• Eden’s Elgin Birthday Bash. LIVE on Elgin

Tomorrow 

• ArohaFest Navaratri Edition tales over the NAC’s Peter A. Herrndorf Place with a showcase of arts and culture of India in Canada. Until Friday October 13 
• Broadhead Brewery is celebrating its 12th anniversary all week with fun events and great beer. Tonight, enjoy the Bigger Better Bingo in the taproom. 
• Bear Grease continues. at the NAC’s Babs Asper Theatre October 11-14. 

   

  Music

• Andrew Mah and Susan Toman. Doors Open For Music (Southminster United Church)
•  Gabriel Shonk with Lila. NAC
• Irene’s Blues Sessions with guest host Iyono Ede.
• Kingfisher, Nothing Serious, Heavy Lies. House of TARG
• MOOCH with PEAKS and Autowah. LIVE on Elgin
• Pyramid Theorem, Polychuck. Café Dekcuf

Friday

• Negotiating Borders exhibit at Club SAW (67 Nicholas St) and Korean Cultural Centre (101-150 Elgin St). Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Demilitarized Zone between South and North Korea.
• ArohaFest Navaratri Edition tales over the NAC’s Peter A. Herrndorf Place with a showcase of arts and culture of India in Canada. 
• Bear Grease continues. at the NAC’s Babs Asper Theatre October 11-14. 
• Broadhead Beer is turning 12! The brewery is celebrating all week with fun events and great beer. Tonight, enjoy the Meatings Pig Party with live music. 
• Saunders Farm turns up the terror with Frightfest Friday the 13th, with five different haunting zones, food, and drinks.
• Has it really been 20 years? For nostalgic chills, 2003’s Freddy Vs. Jason is screening at the ByTowne Cinema.  

  
  Music

• Amber, Brulez Les Meubles, DDK, Canadian Electronic Ensemble. IMOO Festival

• Carolyn Mark and Slo’ Tom. Red Bird Live

• Bumpin’ Binary. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

• Revenant Dan & the Murder Crows featuring The Mountain Gems. Irene’s Pub

• TARG Dance Mix ’93. House of TARG

Just Announced / Now Booking

• Juan Martin is one of the world’s best Flamenco guitarists and he’s playing First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa on Sunday (October 15). 
• Two independent bookstores, Octopus Books and Spaniel’s Tale, are joining forces to create a new author reading series, Authors Unbound. On Thursday (October 12), head to Spaniel’s Tale to hear Premee Mohamed and E.D.E. Bell. 
• The Cantata Singers of Ottawa launch their 60th season with with a performance of Rachmaninoff’s choral masterwork, Vespers, at St. Joseph’s Church, 174 Wilbrod St, on Sunday November 12 at 3:00 pm

DEALS OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

The beginning of the long dash indicates exactly ... silence. After 80 years, the National Research Council time signal at 1 pm on CBC Radio One has been cancelled. Last Monday was the end of the pips. CBC Ottawa news anchor Laurence Wall was the final voice of the clock.

The article is a little eliptical about the reasoning and we don’t know if money ever changed hands but the main problem is that, nationwide, people listen over AM, FM, HD, the Internet, or via relay transmitters now and each has a different time delay. Radios that get the HD signal may have up to a nine second delay. So in 2023, when all our smartphones get their time from atomic clocks, what’s the point besides nostalgia if the CBC cannot broadcast the one true time?

You can still check the official National Reseach Council time on its webpage – which even tells you how far off your computer’s clock is.

And if you are truly hardcore about using Canadian time rather than Apple or Google minutes, you can go into your time and date settings and change your Network Time Server to time.nrc.ca and have your seconds maple scented.

THE END

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