HELLO OTTAWA | → Our new professional women’s soccer team has imported a coach from Denmark | → We’ve got four days of fun listed below | → Look to the skies for the light show, look to the street for the flashing lights of Ottawa ByLaw | → ⛅ High 17° Low 9° and overcast | Monday is Thanksgiving and THE OTTAWAN will take a day off, which is convenient as we’ll still be recovering from dinner on Sunday. | And to our Jewish readers observing Yom Kippur this evening, Good Yontif. | – Martha and Darren | | STATISTICS OTTAWA | | #4 and #5 | | OTTAWAN (TO BE) OF THE DAY | Katrine Pedersen | - The soccer legend and three-time Danish Women’s Player of the Year recipient is the inaugural coach of the city’s new women’s professional soccer league team, Ottawa Rapid. | | | | Ottawa Citizen |
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| QUOTE | | ❝ | | | We are disappointed we could not execute our gravy boat giveaway on Monday |
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| – Sens senior vice president of marketing and customer engagement Jeff Harrop on why the team will not be giving away specialty gravy boats to the first 10,000 fans who arrive for the game Monday. The fans will get popcorn and drink vouchers instead. The promotional items were stuck at the port. THE OTTAWAN could not find a photo of what a promotional gravy boat looks like but here is a picture of a zamboni version given way by the Detroit Red Wings last year. | | | | Toula Mazloum at CTV |
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| SPORTS | 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 3 – Florida Panthers 1 last night |
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| | WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL | Environment and Climate Change Committee
Tuesday, October 15 at 9:30 am | Solid Waste Services by-law update Drinking Water Quality Management System 2023 management review report Status Update – Environment and Climate Change Committee – Inquiries and motions for the period ending October 3, 2024
| 📋 Agenda | Accessibility Advisory Committee
Tuesday, October 15 at 6 pm | | 📋 Agenda | The Committee of Adjustment, Panel 2 and Panel 3, also meets Tuesday. | | WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT | 🛟 Heritage | ▪️The City’s Built Heritage Committee wants one of the Federal properties that is to be designated for housing, given heritage status. The Campanile Campus at 1485 and 1495 Heron Road comprises 12 buildings arranged around three courtyards and a central quadrangle. It was originally built in the 60s as a Catholic educational complex and retains its modern university look. | | | | Ottawa Construction News |
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| 🚊 O Train | ▪️The Trillium line hit 100% reliability on days three and four of testing. The new line is being tested for 14 days and requires an average of 98.5 per cent to pass. The first day was below average, at 98.3 but the system has beaten the average every day since. | | | | Blair Crawford in the Ottawa Citizen |
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| ➕ Related Premier Doug Ford says that he is still talking to the City about providing more funding to OC Transpo, but he wants the Federal government to pony up more. | 🔥 Ottawa Fire Service | ▪️The Ottawa Professional Fire Fighters' Association has launched petitions to reinstate a firefighter and pardon a captain. The firefighter and the captain faced various charges over a scuffle with a rookie at Station 47 in Barrhaven. Both were found not guilty, with the judge stating that the Crown had ‘not even come close’ to proving the allegations. Before the trial, the firefighter was fired and the captain received disciplinary action. The petitions request that both actions are reversed. | | | | Alistair Steele at CBC |
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| | THE ROLLING 5 DAY CALENDAR | Is there an event we should know about?
Please use our easy event submission form | TODAY | 🆓 Artists from Algonquin Anishinaabe First Nation from Kitigan Zibi, Canada, Colombia, and Argentina exhibit at the Multicultural Artists’s Coalition Art+ Fall Exhibition. The free Vernissage is this evening. 🆓 The uOttawa Orchestra plays Robert Rival, Sergei Prokofiev, and W.A. Mozart at St. Joseph’s Church. ▪️ Sisters Bel and Quinn sing compositions that merge jazz and Haitian rhythms, accompanied by Quinn on guitar. National Arts Centre Fourth Stage. ▪️ Join the Stittsville Haunted Heritage Tour if you dare. ▪️ Ottawa Storytellers present 9 Lives, 8 Near-Misses: life lessons from near-death events with Paul Shanker de Tourreil, Arts Club Blackbox Studio. ▪️ Road Trip: The Festival of Small Halls stops at Tweed’s Marble Arts Centre, where blues artist Suzie Vinnick performs. ▪️ Road Trip: Enjoy a BBQ turkey dog, live music, and fine craft beer at the Cold Bear Brewing Friendsgiving evening with Kyle Felhaver. 199 Madawaska Blvd, Arnprior. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Lee, The Apprentice, A Different Man, Drunken Cinema: Scream 2 ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Girls Will Be Girls, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, The Room. Gigs ▪️ Young Stitch, Vigorous, Ruckus. Rainbow Bistro ▪️ Around the Clock. Irene’s Pub ▪️ Blingo. Pour Boy ▪️ Martyr, Dopethrone, Southief, Rockin’ Enging, Hatred Reigns, Longhouse. The Brass Monkey ▪️ Mikhair Paxton. Stray Dog Brewing Co. |
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| TOMORROW | ▪️ The final flour grind of the year happens at Watson’s Mill & Dickinson House Harvest Festival in Manotick. Also on offer: tours, a scavenger hunt, games, crafts and horse and wagon rides. ▪️ Say so long for the season to Ottawa Street Markets Alta Vista Market this Saturday. 🆓 Hot apple cider, hay rides, and organic veggies for your Thanksgiving table; find them all at BeetBox Farm’s Harvest Fest. ▪️ Road Trip: The 28th annual Crown and Pumpkin Studio Tour visits the studios of more than 45 artists in the Mississippi Mills region. ▪️ Visit more than 130 vendors at the Robert Plante 1st Annual Thanksgiving Market. ▪️ Start your engines, crafters. The Great Ottawa Markets Collective Destash Market only runs for four hours. ▪️ Road Trip Shop at the only Thanksgiving Fair and Market located at a working horse stables. Fall for Merrickville costs $12 to attend. ▪️ Flora Hall Brewing’s 7th Birthday party will be epic, with DJ and live music from Funk A Tron 5000 and four special beer releases. 🆓 It’s a 613Flea Saturday at Lansdowne Park, where more than 150 vendors will be selling food, drinks, hand made, and of course, vintage. 🆓 What’s up, doc? Join the harvesting team at Ottawa Farm Fresh’s Carrot Fest. ▪️ The Latin American Heritage Celebration honors the Latin American heritage, culture, achievements, and contributions of this community in the national capital region. ▪️ The Little Farm Cart will be parked in front of Aurelius Fine Balsamic Vinegars and Olive Oils from noon to 3:00 pm. 🆓 and Pay What You Can: 2SLGBTQ+ YouthLine presents an intergenerational panel discussion in honour of its 30th anniversary. ▪️ It’s Vinyl Night at Baked Goods records. ▪️ View more local art at the Expressions of Art event by West Carleton Arts Society, happening at Carp Fairgrounds Agricultural Hall. ▪️ Discover more than 70 fashion designers and makers in person at Grande Braderie de Mode Québécoise de Gatineau, at Hilton Lac-Leamy (3 Bd du Casino, Gatineau, QC J8Y 6X4). ▪️ Road Trip: The Perth Autumn Studio Tour will visit 32 artists over four stops in the picturesque town. ▪️ Hip Hop artists from Ottawa, Montréal, and Toronto throw down for the chance to win big prizes in Oh That’s Tight: Hip Hop Dance Battle Vol 1. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Lee, The Apprentice, A Different Man ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party (Halloween Edition), Qalat, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, The Thing, Saturday Night Sinema Gigs ▪️ Bev Dun. Montgomery Scotch Lounge ▪️ Susses. Red Bird ▪️ Mecca of Stank. LIVE on Elgin ▪️ Faux Confessions. Rainbow Bistro ▪️ Fleetwood Max. Queen St. Fare |
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| SUNDAY | ▪️ Raymond Truong performs ‘Exploring Choi’s Musical World’ at MERA Schoolhouse in McDonald’s Corners. ▪️ Pick up some last minute veggies and treats for the holiday at the final Elgin Street Market of 2024. ▪️ Check out this year’s Fall colours from the chair lift at Calabogie Peaks. ▪️ Canadian Museum of Nature says goodbye to Bug Adventure after this weekend, so go now for larger than life interactive insect displays. ▪️ Road Trip: Visit the mobile petting zoo and 50 vendors, then enjoy good food and a licensed bar at the Ecotay Harvest Sunday Market in Perth. Bring cash. ▪️ This is the final Sunday to visit the regular Stittsville Market @ The Barn. 🆓 Fill your ears with the sounds of Spencer Scharf at the final Russell Community Market of 2024. ▪️ A Very Thankful Drag Brunch at Pure Kitchen Elgin is a daytime extravaganza you won’t want to miss. 🆓 13-foot skeletons provide the perfect photo op at The ByWard Market’s Harvest Market. ▪️ Ottawa Senators welcome Los Angeles Kings to Canadian Tire Centre. 🆓 Capital Trade Shows, the monthly Sports Card and Comic Book Show, returns to Nepean Sportsplex. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Lee, The Apprentice, A Different Man ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Sunday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, Girls Will Be Girls, Carrie Gigs ▪️ Andy Shauf. Bronson Centre ▪️ Saltwater Hank & Ghostly Hounds. Café Dekcuf ▪️ Phew. Club SAW |
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| THANKSGIVING MONDAY | ▪️Beyond the Pale is open and taking reservations. Apparently the taproom still has one final keg of Oktoberfest Märzen, and two more of Helles, the German-inspired lager. 🆓 The Dhwani Ottawa Choir performs during the launch of ArohaFest: Diwali Royale at National Arts Centre. ▪️ Ottawa’s newest long-form, musically-based improv group BELT Improv are the guests at A Very Fine Improv Show. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Sing-along: The Phantom of the Opera, The Apprentice, Lee ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, Girls Will Be Girls, Carrie Gigs ▪️ Tall Heights. Bronson Centre ▪️ Ken Mode, Hide, Poste, Moratorium. Dominion Tavern ▪️ The 5-Star Monday Band. The Laff ▪️ Jazz Jam with the Beeched Wailers. Irene’s Pub |
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| TUESDAY | 🆓 ArohaFest continues at National Arts Centre with folk dance by Indrani Choudhury and Mohiniyattam dance by Swathi Sreedharan and Nishita Alex. ▪️ Broadhead Beer’s Birthday Trivia will be as fun as regular trivia, but with an extra 13th anniversary vibe. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: Lee, The Apprentice ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Girls Will Be Girls, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, The Thing Gigs ▪️ Tuesday Trivia. Irene’s Pub ▪️ Trivia Night. Pour Boy, Royal Oak Pubs (Beechwood), |
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| JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING | | | | DEALS OF THE DAY |  | Singing Pebble |
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| Singing Pebble Books celebrates its 30th anniversary with a Thanksgiving Sale this weekend. Save 20% on regularly priced items and find reductions on the sale shelves. |
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|  | Dot & Li |
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| Dot & Lil has a surprise sale offering 30% off Hand + Body Creams and Perfume Oils. |
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|  | 18 Waits |
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| Save 20% on Fall Winter styles at 18 Waits. This weekend only. |
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| | BUT, ONE MORE THING … | Ottawa ByLaw officers have been patrolling Britannia Park and Petrie, looking to give out $70 tickets to people trying to view the aurora borealis the past few nights. Officially the park is closed 11:00 pm to 5:00 am. Skygazers like both because of the lessoned light pollution.
The Ottawa Citizen has pointed out this light pollution map in its aurora borealis guide to help you find the best spot. Unsurprisingly, the best views are outside the City.
If you just want to look at pictures, CTV, CityNews, and CBC have some crackers. | | DAILY QUALITY CONTROL | What did you think of today’s OTTAWAN? | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great ⭐⭐⭐ Satisfactory ⭐ Needs Improvement |
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