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Monday, December 11 2023

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❄️ Light Snow
High 1° Low -7°
🌞 7:32 am🌛4:19 pm

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HELLO OTTAWA

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TODAY’S LINE UP

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

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OTTAWA STATS

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    • $618 million
    • – The predicted cost of providing water and sewer to the Tewin subdivision, $396 million and $222 million respectively. City staff write that they continue to work on the asumption that the developers of Tewin will pay for it, not the City. (City of Ottawa)

    Ottawan of the Day

    • Dr. Ian Stiell
    • –  30 years ago, the now semi-retired doctor was one of the authors of The Ottawa Rules, the most used guidelines in determining ankle injuries. The Rules have been given new life with the rise of pickleball. (Ken Warren in the Ottawa Citizen)
    • There are now smartphone apps for The Ottawa Rules: iPhone and Android.

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

      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


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      DEALS OF THE DAY

      Get $10 off the price of the Nocturnal Snowshoeing Adventure by Aventure Outaouais, when you use the code GATINEAU10OFF.

      Save 20% on Katrin Leblond party dresses.

      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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