Monday August 26, 2024

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🌧️ Light Rain
High 26° Low 16°
🌞 6:17 am🌛7:51 pm

Tomorrow

🌧️ Light Rain
High 29° Low 16°
🌞 6:18 am🌛7:49 pm

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Two small tornadoes touched down south of Ottawa last Wednesday.
 

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HELLO OTTAWA

  • In today’s ottawan:

    → The 22 Federal properties that one day you may call home

  • → Today's Ottawa Craft Beer Week highlights 

  • → Get your swim in while you can, all the beaches are safe today

– Martha and Darren

STATS

Number

  • $45 million
  • – The amount of payments-in-lieu of taxes that the Federal government paid in excess of what the City budgeted according to Twitter account @SjamieIt. ‘Jamie’ went back 13 years and found that in total, the Federal government overpaid what the City was expecting. Mayor Mark Sutcliffe has been arguing that the Federal government underpays its share. (It’s Jamie on Twitter)

Ottawan of the Day

  • Natasha Bulowski
  • – The reporter spent two weeks cleaning plastics and styrofoam from the coast of British Columbia. Her group eventually collected 31 tonnes of debris. (Prince Albert Daily Herald)

Quote

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  • Of course, we can’t ignore the perceptions and the comments that are made about the public service

  • – Deputy clerk of the Privy Council Office, Christiane Fox, recognizing but denying that one of the reasons the Federal government is bringing public employees back to the office for a third day is the idea that ‘employees are taking it easy when they work from home’. (Daniel Leblanc at CBC News)

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Sports

  • 🏈 CFL Ottawa RedBlacks 27 – BC Lions 34 last Saturday
  • ⚽ CPL Atlético Ottawa 1 – Wanderers FC 1 last Saturday
  • ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 3 – Tri-City ValleyCats 2 last night
  • ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 2 – Tri-City ValleyCats 3 last Saturday
  • ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 14 – Tri-City ValleyCats 0 last Friday

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CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall

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📋 Agendas and Meetings

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🔎 Older Ottawa Plan

  • The City wants to know what older people in Ottawa think so it can develope its ‘Older Adult Plan’. The survey is pretty comprehensive, asking about streets, transportation, housing, civic and social participation, and how things should be prioritized.

    Trigger warning: the first sentence of the actual survey says ‘The City of Ottawa defines older adults as people over the age of fifty.’ (Take the Survey)

🚧 Federal Office Buildings

  • The Federal government has disclosed the 22 buildings in Ottawa that it will make available for housing. The properties will not be sold but rather leased to developers. 

    The properties can be viewed on this interactive tool.

    • Tunney's Pasture at 10 Columbine Dr.; 100 Chardon Dr.; 50 Columbine Dr.; 70 Columbine Dr; and a building at Frederick Banting, Colombine, and Tunney’s Pasture driveways

    • The Jackson Building at 122 Bank St.

    • L'Esplanade Laurier at 171-181 Bank St.

    • 552 Booth St. in The Glebe Annex

    • Edward Drake Building (former CBC building) at 1500 Bronson Ave.

    • 2670 Riverside Dr. in Hogs Back

    • Sir Charles Tupper Building 2720 Riverside Dr.

    • 875 Heron Rd. in Alta Vista

    • Federal Study Centre at 1495 Heron Road

    • National Defence Medical Centre at 1745 Alta Vista Drive

    • Five sites at 470 Tremblay Rd. near St. Laurent Shopping Centre

    • 599 Tremblay Rd. near St. Laurent Shopping Centre

    • Former CFB Rockcliffe site at 370 Codd's Rd. and 800 Winisik St.

    • Former CFB Rockcliffe site at Tawadina Road and Wanaki Road

    (William Eltherington at CTV)

🖊️ Action Sandy Hill

  • Campaigners Action Sandy Hill is looking for a new chairperson. The chairperson sets agendas, runs meetings, and represent the group in the media and in collaborative efforts. Send an email to reach to info@ash-acs.ca if you are interested in running one of Ottawa's most high profile community groups. (Action Sandy Hill)

🌊 Ottawa Beaches

  • Huzzah! All four Ottawa beaches have been deemed safe to swim in. We didn’t intend on having a daily E. Coli update but it's proven necessary. (Daily Safety Report)

    The NCC Riverhouse Swimming Dock is also open.

🚨 Canadian Museum of Nature

  • The Canadian Museum of Nature has started checking bags after receiving a threatening email last week. The threat was part of an organized campaign which also saw Jewish organizations, shopping centres, and ports across Canada threatened as well as Ottawa hospitals. (Ted Raymond at CTV)

🎞️ Hollywood on the Rideau

  • The Lifetime TV movie A Nanny’s Deadly Discovery starts filming in Ottawa next month. The plot involves a nanny who has second thoughts when she discovers the previous nanny disappeared under suspicious – possibly deadly, we don’t really know yet, but the title of the film seems to state it quite certainly – circumstances. (Harsh Vardan in The Cinemaholic) (Filmed Here at Ottawa Film)

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  • Ottawa Craft Beer Week highlights: Happy 8th Birthday to Orléans Brewing Co; Bring your squad to Stray Dog Brewery, Bicycle Craft Beer, or Brew Revolution's Taproom Trivia events; Roll the dice at Ridge Rock's Board Game Night. 

  • Fall is the perfect time to tackle those DIY jobs around the house, but do you know how to safely use big power tools like planers, table saws, and router tables? The Ottawa Tool Library has you covered with the Workspace Safety 201 Workshop. Tickets from $96.58 for OTL members, and from $120.65 for non-members.

  • Every home needs coasters. Make your own at the Craft & Draft: Coaster Creations event at Beyond the Pale. Tickets from $33.28.

  • Banish the midweek blues with Comedy at Eddy’s Diner. $5 cash cover.

  • ByTowne Cinema: Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, Sing Sing, Only the River Flows

  • Mayfair Theatre: My Penguin Friend, Between the Temples, Burden of Dreams

    Gigs

  • Jazz Nite with Crop Circle Catalysts. Queen St. Fare

  • The RockPhiles. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

  • Small Fish: A comedy and Variety Show. Irene’s Pub

  • Let Train to Ajax: Hunt Club single release party. LIVE on Elgin

  • Daniel Simonsen. Rainbow Bistro

  • Ken Seeley Duo. Cheshire Cat
     

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DEAL OF THE DAY

The End of Season Sale at Miik offers savings of up to 60% off regular prices. #madeincanada

Get yourself a new set of swim trunks or a “cabana set” from Bather, where the Summer Sale promises discounts of up to 50% off.  #madeincanada

Use the code FLEECE to save 25% on New Arrivals at Muttonhead. #madeincanada

PWHL Inaugural season gear is 25% off when you use the code THANKU25 at checkout. 

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

If you have been wondering what former mayor Jim Watson is up to, TVO’s Steve Paikin had breakfast with him. Watson serves on the boards of Internet company Terago and the Ottawa Community Housing Federation. He volunteers every Tuesday serving meals at the Shepards of Good Hope and he points out that other cities have had problems with their rail systems as well, so he thinks people should really cut him some slack. It’s been two years, c’mon! 

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