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HELLO OTTAWA

This is your last chance to enter your nominations for the Best of Ottawa Awards 2023. Get them in by tonight.

The nomination round will last until the 6:00 pm EST for the categories of Dining OutShops + ServicesCultureMedia, and People + Places.

Despite the ‘Best of Ottawa’ name, nominees can also be located in Gatineau, anywhere in the Ottawa Valley, or the Pontiac region. Remember, these awards celebrate local, so if a nominee is a branch its head office must be located in the above regions.

Please help make this the best Best Of ever and make your nominations now.

 
– Martha and Darren

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

    Number 

    • 2
    • – The number of Gatineau residents who contracted measles overseas and convalesced in an Ottawa hospital. Ottawa Public Health says it has contacted everyone who was in contact with the two. (Ottawa Citizen)

    Ottawans of the Day

    • Jason Kelly, Sara Connelly, and Jean-Luc Sauvé
    • – The three graduates of Algonquin College’s animation program are the majority of the animation team for Netflix’s kid show Hilda, created at Ottawa-based Mercury Filmworks. (Shane Lamarche-Silmser in the Algonquin Times)

    Quote 

    • Certainly there are commercial interests at play between … RTG and Alstom. These interests are — and should remain — at their table. Not ours
    • – OC Transpo general manager Reneé Amilcar on the squabblng between the two major O Train contractors is hindering a solution for derailment issues (Elyse Skura at CBC)

    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

    🛻 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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    Wednesday

    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

    Lasclay, the Montréal brand that manufactures products made from Milkweed, is discounting delicate prints of the plant that will look perfect with your Fall decor. Buy monochromatic 8x10” prints for $9 plus tax and shipping. 

    Get small batch skincare at 40% off in the Fall Blowout Sale at Ash & Posy.

    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

    the ottawan is written and edited every work day by Martha and Darren.

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