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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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Sports

• 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 1 – Carolina Hurricanes 1 last night
• 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 5 – Philadelphia Flyers 2 last Saturday
• 🏈 CFL Ottawa RedBlacks 27 – Toronto Argonauts 40 last Saturday

CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on tomorrow at City Hall.

Environment and Climate Change Committee 
Tuesday, October 17 at 9:30 am

• Presentation – Service Line Warranties of Canada
• Residents’ Petition for the Installation of Sanitary Sewer Infrastructure as a Local Improvement in Taunton Place
• Commemorative Tree in Capital Park - Councillor Menard

📋 Agenda

Accessibility Advisory Committee
Tuesday, October 17 at 6 pm

• Budget 101
• Accessibility Office Update

📋 Agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

📻 University of Ottawa

• University of Ottawa students vote to defund their radio station and its Public Interest Research Group. The students’ union allowed 10 referendum items directly from students to go to a vote. 
  
  The students voted with their wallet: cease funding CHUO FM ($4.99 each), stop funding Ontario Public Interest Research Group ($4.10 each), and reduce the Students’ Union basic fee by 11.37%.
  
  They did vote for new levies to spend $3 each on a future bar, $4 each for a student hardship fund, $1 each for free student printing, $0.97 each to partially fund the U of O Volunteer Crisis Response Team’s operations, and $0.75 each to go towards decolonization initiatives on campus. 
  
  Students voted down the creation of a $1 each levy that would fund the activities of the Muslim Students’ Association.
  
  (Amira Benjamin in the University of Ottawa Fulcrum)

🚞 Stittsville

• There is a new railway-themed walk along the Trans Canada Trail in Stittsville. A team from the City of Ottawa, Goulbourn Museum, and the Goulbourn Township Historical Society have created a series of panels on the area’s railway history. Scan the QR codes, and voice actors give more detail. (Lesley McKay at Stittsville Central)

🌊 Brewery Creek

• The National Capital Commission plans to develop Gatineau’s Brewery Creek. The plan includes four residential buildings and public space with access to the water. The land between Brewery Creek, rue Montcalm, and rue Wright spent decades in industrial use and will require decontamination starting in 2024. (Natalia Goodwin at CBC)
  
  ➕ Related Some Ottawa councillors oppose allowing four residential units on a lot in return for Provincial money as their wards are special.

🛻 Convoy News

• OC Transpo business projects and events co-ordinator Natalie Huneault testified that 150 bus stops were removed from service during the Convoy siege. 
• Other residents and business owners testified that customer numbers dropped, there was excessive noise, and there was a smell of exhaust from idling trucks. The defense argued that none of this was directly linked to defendants Chris Barber and Tamara Lich. (David Fraser at CBC)

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EVENTS

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Today

• Ottawa International Writers Festival Presents author Kathy Reichs with host Brenda Chapman. At St. John the Evangelist Church, 154 Somerset St. W. $25. 
• Wise guys and class clowns take note: the Introduction to Stand Comedy (Monday Nights) begins tonight at Absolute Comedy Ottawa. Over six weeks you’ll learn the basics of writing and performing a stand up comedy set. $333.35. 
• Don’t be depressed that it’s Monday. Sing your angst out onstage at any of the fine Open Mic events around town:
  
  🎤 Atomic Rooster Open Mic stage
  
  🎤 Art House Cafe
  
  🎤 LIVE on Elgin
  
  If you prefer to stay in your seat, head to LIVE on Elgin for A Very Spooky Improv Show

Music

• Soft Machine plus Raphael Weinroth-Browne. Rainbow Bistro

• Bluegrass Mondays feat. Tyler Comeau and Highway 10. Red Bird Live

• TV Moms, Passenger Process, SugarBomb! Avant Garde Bar

• Artists from the Indonesian label Yes No Wave Music. Club SAW

   

Tomorrow

• Raise funds for Ottawa Rabbit Rescue with The Jackalope watercolour event. $40. Royal Oak Pubs Stittsville (6160 Hazeldean Road).
• Spark Beer welcomes Prof. Wendy H. Wong for the launch of her new book We, The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at 702 Somerset St. W. 
• It’s Movie Night at the Ottawa Public Library (Main branch). Watch Akira Kurasawa’s classic High and Low. Free, 6:00 pm.

Music

• Cat Clyde with Joe Abbott and Valley Girls. Rainbow Bistro

• Empathy Test with Nite. Café Dekcuf

• Bologna Colorado with the Desert Island Big Band. LIVE on Elgin

   

Wednesday

• Enjoy Authentic Flamenco featuring Yolanda Osuna at the intimate Gladstone Theatre tonight, tomorrow night, and Saturday (Friday night is already sold out).
  
    

  Music

• Stephen Runge. Southminster United Church

• Bytown Ukulele Group. Red Bird Live

• The John Carroll Show. The Laff

• The Tea Party and I Mother Earth. Bronson Music Centre
   

Just Announced / Now Booking

• The rescheduled Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert is November 9 ... 2024. If you have tickets, they’ll be honoured. If you can’t make it, you have 30 days to request your money back.
   
• The first headliner of Bluesfest 2024 has been announced, and this can’t be right – he’s actually a blues performer, Tyler Childers. Bluefest returns July 12.
   
• There’s less than a week until Soupalicious Ottawa 2023, in support of Debra Dynes Family House. BYOS (bring your own spoon) and slurp your way through delicous soups created by Ottawa's best chefs. Sunday October 22 from 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm at Carleton Heights Community Centre, 1665 Apeldoorn Ave. 
   
•  Have you made your Halloween plans yet? Get your costume ready for Sparkoween 2023 and you just might win a prize. You’ll also enjoy drinks and dancing with tunes courtesy of DJ Geoff Paquet. Saturday October 28 at Spark Beer, 704 Somerset St. West. 
   
• The Ottawa Writers Festival presents Jann Arden in conversation with Alan Neal, in a discussion about Arden's debut novel The Bittlemores. November 10 at the Chateau Laurier Ballroom. 
   
• The Festival of Small Halls continues this weekend with concerts in Delta, Brockville, Darling Township, Lyndhurst, Spencerville, Westmeath, and Winchester Ontario.

DEALS OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

Ben Andrews at CBC looks at the nearly two hundred year run of the Perth Courier newspaper, which ceased publishing one month ago. Stories mentioned include the most famous one about 1943’s mammoth cheese.

THE END

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