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• In today’s ottawan:

  → Dog doo doesn’t belong in some bins, says City

• → Ottawa athletes head to Paris for the Paralympic Games Paris 2024

  → What does Rob Schneider have to say about the Convoy?

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• 50¢
• – The deposit for each reusable container supplied by Ottawa-headquartered Farm Boy in a new initiative. The eco-friendly containers at its salad and hot bars were developed by a startup that was created by University of Waterloo chemical engineering students. (Retail Insider magazine)

Ottawans of the Day

• Bianca Borgella, Trinity Lowthian, and Brianna Hennessy
• – The three will be representing Canada at the Paris 2024 Paralympics in sprinting, wheelchair fencing, and canoe respectively. (Andrea Bennett at CityNews)

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• The City of Ottawa encourages flushing pet waste down the toilet

• – Jennifer Therkelsen, Ottawa's acting director of bylaw services, in a written statement after residents near Whooping Crane Park in Riverside South complained of new signs on bins barring animal waste. Therkelsen says that dog waste can also be wrapped in paper and placed in home green bins. (Joseph Tunney at CBC)

Sports

• ⚽ CPL Atlético Ottawa 3 – Pacific FC 0 last Saturday
• ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 1 – Québec Capitales 7 last Friday
• ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 2 – Québec Capitales 1 last Saturday
• ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 1 – Québec Capitales 2 last night

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CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall

Committee of Adjustment - Panel 3
Tuesday, August 20, 2024 at 9:00 AM

• 2822 Bart’s – To construct an addition on the west side of the property with reduced rear yard area and high-water setbacks.
• 6980 Mansfield – To subdivide the property into two parcels to create a new lot for a surplus farm dwelling.
• 6208 Nick Adams – To subdivide the property into two parcels to create two lots for future residential development.
• 422 Keatley – To convey a portion of the property to the abutting property owner to the west at 5391 Madawaska Boulevard.
• 1500 Thomas Argue – To subdivide the property into two parcels to create a new lot for existing building on Huisson Road and to permit received setbacks between buildings, from lot line for an accessory building and to permit frontage onto a private street.
• 1126 Cope – To permit a driveway to occupy 60 per cent of the front yard.
• 612 Smith – To subdivide the property into two separate parcels of land to create one new lot for future residential development and to convey a portion of land to the abutting property to the south.

📋 Agenda
 

Committee of Adjustment - Panel 2
Tuesday, August 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM

• 2458 Cleroux – To permit a reduced lot width and interior side yard setbacks for the construction of a three-storey, 17-unit 2019 Kings Grove –
• To permit reduced corner side and rear yards and increased deck and garage projections for the construction of an addition containing an attached garage.
• 1 Sunny Brae – To permit construction of a detached double car garage and other accessory buildings on the property with a reduced rear yard, and increased floor area for accessory structures, projection of a garage entrance, and driveway width.
• 1542 Chatelain – To permit an automobile service station in the existing industrial/commercial building.

📋 Agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🌊 Ottawa Beaches

• Mooney’s Bay, Britannia Beach, and Petrie River beaches are closed today due to high levels of E. Coli but Petrie East Bay is still open. We didn’t intend on having a daily E. Coli update but it's proven necessary. (Daily Safety Report)
  
  The NCC Riverhouse Swimming Dock is also still safe.

♨️ Chelsea

• Chelsea is again under a boil water advisory. Residents are asked to boil water for one minute before using it, this goes for water for pets as well. The town remains under a state of emergency from storm damage 10 days ago. (Jenna Legge at CBC)

🌈 Capital Pride

• The Ottawa Hospital and CHEO have withdrawn from the Capital Pride Parade after the organization published its ‘Statement in Solidarity with Palestine’. CHEO president Alex Munter said the participating would ‘send a message of exclusion, which is the opposite of what we believe’.
  
  Munter has been grand marshal of the Pride Parade three times and was the first openly gay politican in Ottawa when he served on the regional council in the 90s.
  
  The Ottawa Hospital said that it ‘would not be responsible for us to send staff, physicians, their family and friends, as well as patients to this event’.
  
  Mayor Mark Sutcliffe announced his withdrawal from the event last week.
  
  Capital Pride began Saturday and ends with the parade on August 25th.
  
  (Ted Raymond at CTV) (Capital Pride Statement)
  
  ➕Related Ottawa Carleton District School Board trustee Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth is also withdrawing from the Pride Parade, and wants the Board to do the same. 

🥅 Lacrosse

• Players from the Nepean Knights have been wrongfully prevented from playing at the Junior ‘A’ level in Toronto, says coach. Head coach and co-owner Matt Firth says a ‘spectacular web of protests, appeals, tribunals, improper filings, fines, questions of authority, rights to attend hearings, [and] whether those hearings should have taken place’ have kept his local players from playing on Toronto team as they have been deemed, in one instance, as non-local. (Jackson Starr in the Ottawa Sports Pages)

📺 CJOH

• Transmission of the CTV Ottawa news has been disrupted because of the flooding in Montréal. The modern world has consolidated work into hubs, in this case, the directors and camera controllers all remotely work in Montréal, leaving the local station in a lurch. CTV says it will run short newscasts which are rerun over the hour. (CTV News)

💼 Diplomatic Neighbours

• Canada has declared the Ugandan high commissioner ‘persona non grata’ for ‘uncouth behaviour’. Joy Ruth Acheng was seen on social media in an angry confrontation with protestors against the Ugandan government in Toronto. In February, the high commissioner’s heritage-protected residence in Rockcliffe was demolished without a permit. The Ugandan High Commission itself operates out of the Hilton Garden Inn on Sparks Street. (Umara Kashaka in the Kampala New Vision)

🛻 Convoy News

• American actor Rob Schneider thinks that the Convoy was treated inconsiderately. ‘I will consider an apology when you apologize for what you did to those truckers, of not supporting those people who are risking everything to drive all the way across the country, shut the country down, so that this tyranny could end’, he told the eponymous host of the Tucker Carlson show. Schneider is known for his run on Saturday Night Live and Deuce Bigalo, Male Gigalo. (Twitter)

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EVENTS

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Today

• Mary Ellen MacLean facilitates ElderQueers (2SLGBTQIA+) Storytelling Workshop over the course of this week. The National Arts Centre Fourth Stage, 1 Elgin St. 

• 🌈 The Capital Pride flag was raised at Ottawa City Hall at 10:00 am. 

• ByTowne Cinema: Nos belles-sœurs (Our Sisters-in-Law), My Penguin Friend, Longlegs 

• Mayfair Theatre: Close to You, Sabrina, The Terminator, Caligula: The Ultimate Cut 

  Gigs

• Open Mic Night. Art House Café

• Windoc, Ethereal Tomb, TERMINATor, Moratorium (All-ages rock show). Rainbow Bistro

• Bluegrass Mondays featuring The Monroe Sisters. Red Bird

• Pretty Archie, The Gladsome Gentlement. Irene’s Pub

Tomorrow

• The Standard Bread Company building, which houses the studios of Enriched Bread Artists, turns 100 years old today (August 20, 2024). The artist studios' Board of Directors invites everyone to venerable building at 951 Gladstone Ave K1Y 3E5 to help celebrate from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm. 

• 🆓 Bring a picnic dinner and catch Cirquonscient’s Strathcona Summer Faerie Picnic. The talented aerial artist collective will gratefully accept donations. 25 Range Rd K1N 8J7 

• Shake up your Tuesday with Drag Night Kanata at Pure Kitchen. Host Eden Moore will be joined on stage by BJ Stroker, Freya Frostbite, and Morgan Mercury. 499 Terry Fox Dr., no. 55. K2T 1H7 

• 🆓 Aviva Chernick and the Serena Quartet perform reimagined Judeo-Spanish folk music that is sung in Ladino, Hebrew, Yiddish, and English. Chernick and her band play the National Arts Centre’s Wood Stage tonight and tomorrow night. Bring your own lawn chair. 

• ByTowne Cinema: Nos belles-sœurs (Out Sisters-in-Law), Sing Sing: Premiere Screening, Longlegs 

• Mayfair Theatre: Close to You, Widow Clicquot, Caligula: The Ultimate Cut 
  
  Gigs

• Open stage. Red Bird

• Trivia Night. Pour Boy

Wednesday

• 🆓 Aviva Chernick and the Serena Quartet perform reimagined Judeo-Spanish folk music that is sung in Ladino, Hebrew, Yiddish, and English. Chernick and her band play the National Arts Centre’s Wood Stage tonight and tomorrow night. Bring your own lawn chair. 

• Go back to the 60s, 70s, and 80s as Nostalgia Festival hits LeBreton Flats. Tonight’s line-up: Dreamer plays Supertramp hits starting at 7:30 pm followed by Pink Floyd Niagara at 9:30 pm. 

• Quick! Before summer slips away, enjoy a cool treat on the patio at Red Apron, where you’ll be served an ice cream sundae in one of four flavours for $9.95 (Rainbow, Chocolate Overload, Carrot Cake, and Vegan Nanaimo). $5 from every Rainbow sundae sold will be donated to the Centretown Community Food Centre. 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm at 410 Gladstone Ave, Ottawa K2P 0Z1 

• ByTowne Cinema: Sugarcane, Cinema Slumber Party: Dirty Dancing, National Anthem 

• Mayfair Theatre: Close to You, Widow Clicquot, The Terminator 

  Gigs

• Jazz Nite with Sage Reynolds Trio. Queen St. Fare

• Bytown Ukulele Group JAM. Red Bird

• Michael Munnik - Ottawa Homecoming Show. LIVE on Elgin

• Open Mic. Pour Boy
   

Long Runs

• Come From Away, presented by Mirvish Productions, Junkyard Dog Productions, and NAC English Theatre continues at the National Arts Centre until Sunday September 1.

• The Capital Fair continues from 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm until August 25.

• A Company of Fools' production of Macbeth ends this week. 

• Duck under the big top as Paranormal Cirque’s acrobats, illusionists, and other mysterious beings bring you to the edge of fear. Until August 25 at St. Laurent Shopping Centre. 

Just Announced / Now Booking

• The next event from Kanata Dance is coming up on Saturday Aug. 24th, with the theme ‘Hawaiian Dance’. "The Kanata Dance Club is a non-profit organization of volunteers organizing the longest-standing monthly Saturday dance in Ottawa for people over 40. Our DJ plays many music styles, and we welcome anyone who enjoys dancing. All level dancers are welcome. Bring your friends or come to make new friends!” August 24. $16 in advance, $18 at the door."

• Spaces are limited in the Heritage Ottawa walking tour of LeBreton Flatsthis Sunday, August 25. 

• 🆓 Seven Year Itch – Stray Dog Brewing Company's Seven Year Anniversary Party will take over the brewery's parking lot on Saturday, September 7 with amazing beer and great friends. Food provided by Valley Sausage and Lucy's Hot Fries. Music by Matthew Palmer, LoveBomb, and DJ Kam.Bring your well behaved pooch for the Best in Show dog contest. The event is family friendly.

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DEAL OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

The people of Lyndhurst demand that Hammy the pig be returned home. The villagers, who live an hour south of Ottawa, are supporting resident Greg Rajewski, who was required by the Leeds & Thousand Islands Township to move his porcine pet of 10 years.

Rajewski, who lives on disability payments, has been forced to pay the fine of $1,700 in installments. Hammy is currently living elsewhere.

The neighbours have started a Go Fund Me for the fine, and a petition to bring the homesick hog home.

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