Friday, 15 September 2023

Today

☀️ Sunny
High 23° Low 6°
🌞 6:41 am🌛7:14 pm

Tomorrow

🌤️ Mix of sun and cloud
High 23° Low 8°
🌞 6:42 am🌛7:12 pm

 

HELLO OTTAWA

  • The City has scheduled three open houses about the zoning process. The new official plan and the new mandated rules for cities to create more housing means that zoning laws will change.
  • The Zoning By-law sets out rules for:
  • • How tall buildings can be
  • • Where different types of housing and businesses are permitted
  • • How much soft landscaping and space for trees is required
  • • Where parking spaces can be located

  • The first one is tomorrow, at Nepean Sportsplex: 9:30 am to 12:00 pm.

    The next two are September 20 at City Hall 5:30 to 7:30 pm and 
    September 23 at the Ray Friel Recreation Complex 2:30 to 5:00 pm.
  • – 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 years since rapid transit was introduced to Ottawa. In September 1973, two bus-only lanes opened on Rideau Street. Eventually, 71 buses on 19 routes would get exclusive lanes. By comparison, 64 years ago, the last streetcar ran in Ottawa. (Charles Akben-Marchand in Centretown Buzz)

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CITY HALL AGENDA

Board of Health
Monday, September 18, 2023 at 5:00 PM

  • Chair of the Board of Health Verbal Report
  • Medical Officer of Health Verbal Report
  • Ottawa Public Health’s 2023-2024 Respiratory Season Preparedness Plan
  • 2022 Annual Report and Attestation to the Ministry of Health
  • Operating and Capital Budget Status Report for Q2 2023 – Board of Healthfor the City of Ottawa Health
  • Delegation of Authority – Contracts Awarded for the Period of January 1 to June 30, 2023
  • 2024 Ottawa Board of Health Meeting Schedule
  • Chronic Disease Prevention: Restricting Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Beverages to Children: Health Canada Consultation

📋 Agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

✈️ Grand Theft Airplane

  •  Someone stole a small plane then immediately crashed it at Rockcliffe airport yesterday. One man was arrested and taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries. Two other planes were damaged. (CBC)

⛺ Housing

  •  The mayor of Gatineau will bring up her city’s growing homelessness problem at Québec summit. The number of people without homes in 2022 was five times the rate of 2018, with shelters overflowing. Mayor France Bélisle will be attending a summit held by Québec municipalities on the reality of homelessness in different regions.  (Robyn Miller at CBC)

✏️ OC Transpo

🙃 City Parks

🛻 Convoy on Trial

Convoy co-organizers Chris Barber and Tamara Lich are currently on trial for their parts in the Convoy siege. We’ll mention when something interesting happens.

  •  The videos that the court has been shown all week long, mostly social media but some newscasts, are to determine if any can be entered as evidence. No decision has yet been made.
  •  The defence showed videos of Chris Barber asking supporters to stay peaceful and respect law enforcement. They also showed a video of former Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford. who came to Ottawa to support the Convoy, saying the words ‘Hold the Line’, arguing that the phrase is a support for Charter rights not for criminal acts. (David Fraser at CBC)
  •  The Ottawa Citizen is live blogging the trial.

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BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

BlogTO is telling Torontonians to go over to Eganville and hang out at the Bonnechere Caves. We Darren didn’t know about the Bonnechere Caves! Located 100 feet underground, the caves were carved out of solid rock by acidic waters from a vast sea during the Paleozioc era. There are fossils on the walls and bats hanging from the ceiling. Good call, BlogTO.

THE END

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