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•  10 Gifts Under $20
•  10 Local Experiential Gifts for Hard-to-Buy-For Loved Ones
•  Our constantly revised Christmas Markets, Festivals, and Parades page 
•  2023 Canadian-made advent calendar list
•  10 Made in Canada Christmas Gifts.
•  9 Locally Made Christmas Gifts. Please send your nominations for a locally made item to 'giftguide@theottawan.com'.
•  You know what would make a terrible Christmas present? An historic Ottawa logo t-shirt that is delivered long after Christmas day. Valentines Day delivery will be more appropriate.

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

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Sports

• 🏒 PWHL Ottawa 1 – Boston 3 (preseason) last Thursday, the first ever match
• 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 5 – Detroit Red Wings 1 last Saturday

CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall
 

No meetings tomorrow.

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🚊  O Train

•  Slow progress on signalling, train control, and communications systems on the Trillium Line is delaying everything else. A report prepared for the City's Transit Commission and Light Rail Subcommittee blames installation of the communication systems of the Stage 2 north-south Trillium Line extension for delaying training, staff recruitment, and maintenance readiness. Ominously, the report says there may be ‘a requirement for additional time to prepare for launch’. (Ted Raymond at CTV)

🚫 Parking

•  The City is considering a new system to dispute parking tickets without going to court. People who wish to dispute a parking or speed camera ticket would meet with a City-appointed staff member who can uphold, dismiss, or reduce the fine. The member’s decision would be appealable to another City staffer. Toronto and Waterloo have both switched to this system. Proponents say it simplifies and speeds up the process, opponents argue that letting the body that issued the tickets also judge its own fairness can lead to bias. (Arthur White-Crummey at CBC)

🚌 School Buses

•  Vicky Kyriaco has officially departed the Ottawa Student Transportation Authority. The former general manager was in charge when 7,500 students learned that they would not have bus service at the start of this school year. Later, in an acrimonious online meeting, Kyriaco had West Carleton ward councillor tossed Clarke Kelly out. Kyriaco has been on leave of absence since October 3. (Joanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen)

👕 Uniqlo

•  Clothing brand Uniqlo will open a second store in Ottawa next spring. The new location will be at the Bayshore Shopping Centre. The chain already has one in the Rideau Centre. (William Eltherington at CTV)

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EVENTS

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Today

Find Ottawa’s most comprehensive – and ever-expanding – list of Christmas Markets, Festivals, and Parades on our website.

•  🕎 Day five of Hanukkah. You can donate to the 5th Annual Rabbi Bulka Chanukah Toy Drive here. There is actually an Amazon wish list of wanted toys.
•   “One lump or two?” Serious tea drinkers will be interested in the Billings Estate National Historic Site’s planned 2024 exhibition entitled Steeped in Tea: Ottawa Tea Cultures and Rituals. The organization is looking for loans of photographs, stories, and objects that reference the consumption and social aspects of tea, anything ritual-related, and family treasures that have been handed down throughout the generations. You have until this Friday, December 15 to apply.
•  The Ottawa Street Markets Farm Store is open as usual today from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm (and Wednesday and Friday). Get fresh produce, dairy, meat and poultry, tofu and more.
•  Catch the impossibly good looking Cary Grant and Loretta Young, and the rather droll David Niven (and also kind of cute), in The Bishop’s Wife at the Mayfair tonight at 7:15 pm.
•  New animated feature The Boy and the Heron, from Japanese animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki, plays at the ByTowne Cinema at 6:30 pm.
  
  Gigs

•  Karaoke Mondaze. Atomic Rooster

•  Open Mic Night. Art House Café

•  Jazz Jam with the Beeched Wailers. Irene’s Pub & Restaurant

   

Tomorrow

•  Canada Centennial Choir’s Magnificat opens the choir’s 56th season. Tuesday December 12 at Woodroffe United Church.

•  Improve your skills with Life Drawing at Art House Café.
  
  Gigs

•  Half Cocked Trivia Night. Atomic Rooster

•  Noise/Experiemental show featuring Amarior, Girl Circles, Kronikov, Pity the Heel. Avant-Garde Bar

•  Trivia Tuesday. Irene’s Pub and Restaurant

•  Open Stag with Clarissa Fortin. Red Bird Live

•  Open Mic Night. LIVE on Elgin

Wednesday

•  Doors Open for Music presents a noon program of Holiday Jazz.

•  Groove to the jazzy seasonal tunes from A Charlie Brown Christmas as they’re played live by the Rousso Quarter. By candlelight at the Gladstone Theatre.

•  Enjoy an evening of board games at the Prescott.
  
  Gigs

•  Left to Suffer, Chamber, Tracheotomy, Mouth Breather. Rainbow Bistro

•  Rare Groove Wednesdays. Atomic Rooster

•  Spark Trivia with DJ Geoff Paquet. Spark Beer

•  Pretty Good, Maybury, Talia Aoude, Corduroy Moon, Franki. House of TARG

•  Eden Moore’s Slay Bells. LIVE on Elgin

•  Holly Cole: A Swinging Chrismas with the NAC Orchestra. NAC South Hall

•  Tyler Keeley’s Urban Campfire (December Edition). Red Bird Live

•  The Follow Ups, the Valveenus, Audio Visceral. Avant-Garde Bar

•  Climate Pub(lics). Irene’s Pub & Restaurant

•  Trivia Night. Pour Boy

Just Announced / Now Booking

•  Here’s a refined Foodie Gift Idea: Restaurant e18teen’s 4 Chefs, 4 Plates event on Wednesday January 17 is a four course fine dining meal hosted by Chef David Godsoe and includes a welcome drink and wine pairings. $225 per person plus gratuity and tax.

•  Maker Feed co has invited the Santa to brunch this Sunday December 17. The meal will be kid-friendly pancakes and candy, but don’t worry, the bar will be open for parents. There are three sittings to choose from.

•  Get through the February blahs with a nighttime snowshoeing adventure. Pinhey’s Point Historic Site will run Friday nights in February, and anyone aged 15 and over can take part. You must register in advance.

•  The Cumberland Heritage Village Museum will be teaching introductory Hand Quilting techniques on Saturday February 10 and Sunday February 25, from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm.

•  The ByWard Market District Authority is now accepting applications for community events, festivals or marketing events to take place in the Market in 2024.

DEALS OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

In The Athletic, Sean McIndoe and Ian Mendes have 20 Maple Leafs versus Senators moments that would have gone crazy on social media had it existed at the time. 

20. City council tries to ban Leafs jerseys at Senators home games (2001)
19. Clark ends the original playoff series (2000)
18. Cross scores a crushing OT goal (2001) Video
17. Fisher forces Game 7 (2004) Video
16. Barrasso swears on live TV (2000)
15. The Sundin overtime goal (2001) Video
14. Hossa highsticks Berard (2000)
13. Domi vs. Arvedson (2003) Video
12. ‘Stumpy’ scores the rivalry’s first playoff OT winner (2000) Video
11. Roberts’ triple-OT winner (2002) Video
10. Joseph vs. Mick McGeough (2002) Video
9. Persson’s hit on Domi (2002) Video
8. Ottawa city council vs. Bob Cole and Harry Neale (2001)
7. The flu game (2004)
6. Alfredsson and Melnyk guarantee victory (2004)
5. Nieuwendyk lights up Lalime (2004) Video
4. Alfredsson’s mock stick toss (2004) Video
3. Chara vs. McCabe (2004) Video
2. Tucker vs. the bench (2003) Video
1. Alfredsson’s hit on Tucker (2002)

In each, the writers give Siskel & Ebert-style comments as the ‘Ottawa View’ and the obviously wrong ‘Toronto View’

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