HELLO OTTAWA |
→ The Planning Committee has approved more roadbuilding for a subdivision |
→ Strangely enough, the Comic Strippers event tomorrow involves both |
→ OTTAWAN Kids – vote now to name a snowplow |
→ ⛅ High 10° Low 5° and partly cloudy |
🎉 Giveaway: We’ve got a pair of tickets for the Ottawa Wedding Show at the EY Centre on October 26 and 27. |
If you’ve got a wedding in your future you won’t want to pass up the opportunity to meet with caterers, photographers, and other experts, enter giveaways and contests, check out the bridal fashion options, and much more. For a chance to win the tickets, tell us the open hours of the show on Saturday October 26. Send your answer to weddingshow@theottawan.com by this Thursday October 17 at 6:00 pm. We’ll announced the winner in Friday’s newsletter. |
– Martha and Darren |
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STATISTICS OTTAWA |
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30% – 40% |
– The increase in business that some downtown shops are reporting now that Federal public employees are in the office an extra day per week. | | | | Rebecca Zandbergen at CBC |
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PEMBROKER OF THE DAY |
Jolan Wong |
- The Paralympian bronze medalist – who earned the award in sitting volleyball – received the key to the City of Pembroke Sunday. It was Canada‘s first participation in the sport. | | | | Dylan Dyson at CTV |
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| ❝ | | | With a little imagination, though, he could turn this into an event. Some of those people might well go for a drink and a bite to eat after watching the show in a park. That would contribute to the night economy that he’s supposed to be working on. |
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– ‘The Voter’ in Bulldog Ottawa lamenting the missed opportunity by Ottawa’s new Night Mayor to promote viewing of the spectacular light show last week, maybe followed by some late night dining. | | | | Bulldog Ottawa |
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SPORTS |
🏈 CFL Ottawa RedBlacks 12 – Montréal Allouettes 19 last night |
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🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 8 – Los Angeles Kings 7 last night |
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🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 1 – Montréal Canadiens 4 last Saturday |
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
No meetings tomorrow |
📋 Agendas and meetings |
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
🚧 Sprawl |
▪️The City’s Planning Committee has approved a new subdivision in Barrhaven West. The plan will create 11 new streets, 98 single-detached units and 421 townhomes. A park is also proposed. | | | | Ottawa Construction News |
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🚊 O Train |
▪️The Trillium line test is on a roll. The train’s reliability hit 99.4 per cent Friday, and 100 per cent Saturday and Sunday. That makes an average of 99.6 per cent reliable since last Monday, the system needs 98.5 per cent to pass. | | | | William Eltherington at CTV |
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🏒 Ottawa Charge |
▪️Ottawa’s Professional Women’s Hockey League team, Ottawa Charge, has released its schedule for the next season. The first match will be an away game on November 30 against Montréal Victoire. The league has also increased the number of games to 30 from 24. | | | | Natasha O’Neill at CityNews |
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♯ Capital Music Awards |
▪️The Ottawa Music Industry Coalition is seeking jurors for the 2025 Capital Music Awards. The coalition is seeking a wide range of applicants, from ‘seasoned moguls to savvy bloggers’. The deadline is November 5. | | | | Ottawa Festivals |
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THE ROLLING 3 DAY CALENDAR |
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TODAY |
🆓 ArohaFest continues at National Arts Centre with folk dance by Indrani Choudhury and Mohiniyattam dance by Swathi Sreedharan and Nishita Alex. ▪️ Broadhead Beer’s Birthday Trivia will be as fun as regular trivia, but with an added 13th anniversary vibe. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Lee, The Apprentice ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Girls will be Girls, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, The Thing Gigs ▪️ Tuesday Trivia. Irene’s Pub ▪️ Trivia Night. Pour Boy, Royal Oak Pubs (Beechwood) |
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TOMORROW |
▪️ Male strippers and improv collide in the hilarious show The Comic Strippers. ▪️ Tonight ArohaFest encounters Kathak Dance, with Anjali Patil & Company performing. $25. ▪️ Watch as mysterious, acrobatic beings explore the Shenkman Arts Centre in Machine de Cirque: La galerie. ▪️ Plosive Productions and Sunny Ryan Productions present a double bill of works by Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor. See Bob Run and Never Swim Alone run at the Gladstone Theatre until October 26. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: The Apprentice, Japanese Film Night - Itomichi, Lee ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies Gigs ▪️ Otis Strange. Rainbow Bistro ▪️ Hania Rani. Bronson Centre ▪️ Open Mic. Pour Boy ▪️ The Peter Hum Trio. Montgomery Scotch Lounge |
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THURSDAY |
▪️ Listen to the premiere of Westboro-raised Frank Horvat’s work ‘Almost Homeless: Ottawa’ as well as other exciting new compositions at the Ottawa New Music Festival. Today and tomorrow at the Alma Duncan Salon, Ottawa Art Gallery. ▪️ Crack Up Comedy Festival stops In Ottawa tonight bringing Evan Carter, Ava Val, Kamar Babar, Ryan Zeitz, Simone Holder, and Trevor Thompson to the stage. ▪️ Get a taste of ArohaFest with the free performance of Bharatanatyam dance by Jegatheeswaralaya Fine Arts Centre, Seena Nair and Anitha Varun, 6:00 pm at the NAC’s Peter A. Hernndorf Place. ▪️ Part science fiction, part sublime discovery, Symbiotic explores the potential for art and science to come together to showcase the interdependency of all living things. Until October 31 at SPAO and Canada Agriculture and Food Museum. ▪️ Screening at the ByTowne Cinema tonight. FAQ follows young Dong-chun as she discovers a magical bottle while navigating myriad after-school activities. Part of the Ottawa Korean Film Festival. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Lee, Ottawa Korean Film Festival (OKFF): FAQ, The Apprentice ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Girls Will Be Girls, Calm Beneath Castles Gigs ▪️ OK Naledi. The Laff ▪️ Noise Hotel, Areans, Joey Bird. Rainbow Bistro ▪️ Jay Willow. LIVE on Elgin ▪️ Mark Crissinger. Irene’s Pub |
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JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING |
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DEALS OF THE DAY |
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BUT, ONE MORE THING … |
So Ottawa’s kids 16 and under have made their nominations to name 24 snow plows. Now is the time for those 16 years and under to vote for their choices. If you have one of those in your house, have them vote here. The winning names will be announced October 24. |
For the curious, the nominees are: |
Austin Plowers | Blizzard Boss | Blizzard Wizard | Boots | Croque-neige | Dashing Through with the Plow | Dragon de Glace | Drift Destroyer | Edward Blizzardhands | Fast and Furious | Flurrious George | Frosty the Snowplow | Good SnOmens | Han Snow | Icy | It’s Giving Snow | Jon Bon Snowvi | Pacman Contre la Neige | Plowalicious Plowmeister | Plowasauraus Rex | Plowie ManSel | Płowy McPlow | Płowy McSnow Plow | Plowder | |
| Pokie the Plow | Polar Bear | Sizzler | Shaved Ice | Sherlock Snowmen | Shiver Me Blizzards | Sir Plows a Lot | SnoMore | Snow Big Deal | Snow Hunter | Snow Monster | Snow Cloud | Snow Removers 2,000 | Snowbi Gon Kenobi | Snowly | Snowmageddon | Taylor Drift | Snowpy | The Icebreaker | The Snow Excavator | Tim Snowtons | Winter Wonderplow | You Don’t Snow Me | You’re a Blizzard, Harry |
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