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Friday, January 12 2024

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Today

❄️ Light Snow
High -5° Low -18°
🌞 7:40 am🌛4:40 pm

Tomorrow

❄️ Snow
High 1° Low -9°
🌞 7:39 am🌛4:42 pm

See the 8 day forecast at the ottawan weather

Environment Canada has a Snow Storm Warning – expect 15 to 25 cm of snow overnight

 

HELLO OTTAWA

Win tickets to the Ottawa Home & Remodelling Show

Winter is here and it’s sometimes nice at this time of year to burrow under a warm throw and plan for spring renos.

The Ottawa Home & Remodelling Show is a great place to start your planning, with renovation experts on site to guide you.

We’re giving away three pairs of tickets to the show, which runs January 18-21.

For your chance to win one of the three pairs, send us an email to ohrstix@theottawan.com and the correct answer to this question: Where is the Ottawa Home & Remodelling Show January 18-21 happening?

Martha’s Mom will draw the winners’ names from her choosin’ hat on Monday and we’ll announce them in Tuesday’s newsletter.

– 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

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      • 50
      • – The number of extra seconds that it took Ottawa commuters to drive 10 km in 2023 over 2022, for a total of 15 minutes. That puts Ottawa with the 9th longest travel time out of 12 Canadian cities. Toronto is number one at 29 minutes. (Josh Pringle at CTV)

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      Sports

      • 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 3 – Buffalo Sabres 5 last night

      CITY HALL AGENDA

      What’s going on at City Hall
       

      No meetings until January 16.

      WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

      🏅 Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame

      •  The Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame requires a new home. The City of Ottawa Archives has decided to use its space in City Hall for other displays and removed all previous sports plaques without making any decisions on where they could go. There had been 273 awardees since 2013. (Koyuki Hayashi in the Ottawa Citizen)

      🗳️ Casselman

      •  Casselman council has been slapped for having secret meetings. The town, 60 km southeast of Ottawa, had a virtual meeting open to the public, then ended it wishing everyone good night. Once the public was gone, the council continued meeting for another 45 minutes. (Trevor Pritchard at CBC)

      🌽 Donovan Burey’s Weekly Grocery Store Review 

      •  Every week Donovan Burey goes through all the grocery flyers and posts the deals on Ottawa Reddit. Mortadella for $1.49/100g and pork loin at $1.77/lb are standouts. (/Ottawa)

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      EVENTS


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      Today

      •  Take your burning questions to a psychic, medium, numerologist, or palm reader at the Ottawa West Psychic & Crystal Fair. Friday through Sunday at the Best Western, Bells Corners.

      •  It’s the first Art Battle of 2024 (that we’ve heard about, at least). Head to Overflow Brewing to watch as 12 artists run 3 rounds of creative fury. There can only be one winner. $23. 73 per person.

      •  Flamingo Boutique has been acquired by the owner of Motif! and will reopen today as one new business.

        Gigs

      •  Latin Fiesta. Mavericks

      •  Barrow Gang. Atomic Rooster

      •  Redfox. Stray Dog Brewing Co

      •  Amer Rez. YukYuk’s

      •  Solstice with Cloverdale and Old West. City at Night

      •  Rolo Duo. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

      •  James Ehnes plays Bach. National Arts Centre

      •  Jeff Meleras and the Bokonons. Red Bird

      •  Distortion Dance Party. LIVE on Elgin

      •  Eric Joseph. Royal Oak 188 Bank St.

      •  Leeny Jones & the Boys EP release party with Pretty Good, Valley Girls. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

      •  Blingo Night. Pour Boy

      •  The Empties and Out by Lucy. Rainbow Bistro
         

      Tomorrow

      Sunday

      •  Artawa’s monthly meet-up in the Ottawa Art Gallery Studio is an opportunity to socialise and work on your current project in the company of fellow artists.

      •  Pure Kitchen’s Drag Brunch promises gorgeous food and fabulous performers.


        Gigs

      •   Acoustic Coffee House (afternoon). Red Bird

      •  Siaka Diabaté with Raphael Weinroth-Browne, Mars Aspen. Club SAW

      •  Broadway Unplugged (A fundraiser for Carleton Musical Theatre Society). LIVE on Elgin

      •  George Sneddon and the Heaters. Atomic Rooster

      •  The Sunday Night Revue. Irene’s Pub Restaurant
         

      (Blue) Monday

      •  Pull on your bobby socks and get ready to sing-a-long to Grease at the ByTowne Cinema. 7:00 pm

      •  The John Cassettes festival continues at the Mayfair Theatre with The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.

        Gigs

      •  Karaoke. Heart & Crown Barrhaven (3161 Stranderd)

         

         

      Just Announced

      • Almanac’s first workshop of the season, Heritage Flour Pasta Workshop from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm next Tuesday January 16, is nearly sold out. You’ll learn about heritage grains, stone milling, and techniques for noodle making. You’ll also be treated to a glass of wine and take home your own wooden pasta board and noodles. $120 per person.

      • Author Shelley Thompson will appear at Octopus Books for the launch of her debut novel, ROAR. February 6 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

      • Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and if you’re the sort that likes to give your person something locally made with love, make a plan to attend Square Lemon’s Be My Valentine Craft Market on February 10. The 40 vendors in attendance will likely be able to help.

      DEALS OF THE DAY

      Octopus Books’ Winter Kids’ Book Sale will get you 20% off all kids books in the store at 116 Third Avenue and online.

      Everything on the Stephanie Smith Clothing site (Winnipeg, MB) is 25% off.

      Grab a discount on liquid and bar soaps from local enterprise Beaver and Wood.

      BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

      Gabrielle Drolet in Maisonneuve has a long essay on how badly Via Rail is failing on the Québec – Ottawa – Windsor corridor. She’s also inteviewed on CityNews’ Big Story podcast, ‘Why are Canada’s passenger trains so slow?’

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