Thursday, November 30 2023

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HELLO OTTAWA

Giveaway

We have five pairs of tickets to the Signaures Originals Christmas Craft Sale at the EY Centre, Wednesday December 6 through Sunday December 10. With more than 175 vendors, you’ll find a Canadian-made gift for everyone on your list.

For your chance to win one of these pairs of tickets, send an email to Signatures@theottawan.com with the answer to this question: What was the inaugural year of the Signatures Originals Christmas Craft Sale?

We’ll put all correct answers into a draw and announce the winner on Monday (December 4). The deadline to submit your response is Sunday night December 3 at 11:59 pm.

– Martha and Darren

 

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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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  • $250 – $1000
  • – The value of microgrants given out by the Ottawa Arts Council ‘to provide financial support to the Ottawa region’s cultural sector through small cash infusions’. (Ryan Pepper at Apt 613) (Full list)

Ottawan of the Day

  • Michael Wood
  • –  The Ottawa resident made a suggestion at the City’s Emergency Preparedness and Protective Services Committee last May that people should be able to reach 911 in other cities by calling Ottawa’s 911. This would be useful in cases when a friend or relative knows of someone in distress somewhere else – especially as there is no way to call another jurisdiction’s 911 directly.
  • Reader, the City went for it and now Ottawa 911 will transfer an emergency call to 911 centres across North America*. (Ted Raymond at CTV)

    * We tried to find out what ‘across North America’ means but were not successful. All 911 services in Canada, US, and Mexico? A patchwork of cities? We don’t know.

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  • Park inside a garage if available or block your vehicle in tightly against a second, less sought-after vehicle

  • – From a Tweet this morning by the Ottawa Police Service that advises people to buy a second, crappier car if they want to prevent car thefts.

 

CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall
 

No meetings tomorrow

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

☎️ 988

  •  The new 988 mental health emergency number is open and the Distress Centre of Ottawa is part of it. The Federal government has created the nationwide 988 phone – or text – service to help anyone in crisis or knows someone in crisis. The 988 number is available 24 hours per day, in both English and French. The Distress Centre of Ottawa, which has provided a similar service for the capital region for 50 years, will be one of the centres answering the calls. (William Eltherington at CTV) (988.ca)

🔍  Federal Public Employees

  •  Thirteen Federal departments have software tools that can extract personal data from their employees' phones or computers. The various software tools can retrieve â€˜text messages, contacts, photos, travel history, a person’s internet search history, deleted content and social media activity’. Some departments say they use it only after gaining a warrant, some say it is for internal investigations for fraud, others say it is for ‘security purposes’. The president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada says she has ‘grave concerns’.

    The departments and agencies concerned are: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, Canada Revenue Agency, Global Affairs Canada, Shared Services Canada, Competition Bureau Canada, Transportation Safety Board of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Correctional Services Canada, Canada Border Service Agency, Department of National Defence, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

    (Brigitte Bureau at Radio-Canada)  

🏈 Ottawa RedBlacks

  •  The RedBlacks will play a special regular-season match in a non Canadian Football League city, Victoria. â€˜Touchdown Pacific’  will be played Saturday, Aug 31 at Royal Athletic Park in British Columbia’s capital, with an expansion of the stadium to 14,000 seats from 10,000. The RedBlacks' opponents will be the BC Lions, naturally. (Canadian Press)

🚨 Man Identified

  •  A man who drowned in the Ottawa river six years ago has finally been identified. The man, born in 1966, was identified through Forensic Genealogy DNA testing and no foul play is suspected. Ontario Provincial Police have notified his family but will not be releasing his name. (Josh Pringle at CTV)

🛻 Convoy News

Convoy co-organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are currently on trial for mischief and intimidation, amongst other things, over the Convoy occupation.

  •  Chris Barber’s lawyer presented more newly released text messages, some showing that the former premier of Saskatchewan, Brad Wall, was in contact, giving reasonable advice. (David Fraser at CBC) 
  •  The Ottawa Citizen is live blogging the trial.

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DEALS OF THE DAY

Full Cycle’s Black Friday Sale is extended until December 4.

Tofino Towel’s Black Friday savings are here until December 3. Save up to 75%.

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

The general opinion of the ottawan is that drones are annoying and no one should feel guilty about swatting them out of their backyards with a broom. But we have to admit that Les Dalzell is an artist of the form. His drone videos of old Ottawa Valley railway lines, landmarks, and defunct stations are amazing, like this one of a train crossing the 1893 Ottawa, Arnprior, and Parry Sound Railway bridge in Galetta. Watch his videos at Farmer Drone on YouTube.

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