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🌞 6:51 am🌛4:41 pm | | Wow, after hundreds of nominations and thousands of votes we have declared the 96 award winners and runners-up in Restaurants, Shops + Services, Culture, Media, and People + Places. The results are unimpeachable. Here are the people’s picks for the Best of Ottawa 2023.
Scotiabank Closure Darren has a condition that we don’t mention that often but it’s relevent in this case. Darren is from the West Coast. That means that the lack of numbered streets in Ottawa confuses him, as does the idea of a population that manages to get up before noon. So when he wrote yesterday that the Scotiabank in Orléans would be closing next July, he meant the Osgoode branch which, if one had any Ottawa nous at all, one would realize are not the same place. Thank you to all those readers who pointed out the error. Please just pat Darren on the head and overlook this affliction of his. | - Ottawa Stats
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- – The hourly rate required to live in Ottawa ‘and enjoy modest participation in civic and cultural life’, according to the Ontario Living Wage Network. This rate is a 12 per cent increase over last year. (Guy Quenneville at CBC)
Ottawan of the Day - Brady Tkachuk
- – The captain of the Sens took his own team’s fans to task after the audience at Canadian Tire Place booed them off the ice over a 6-4 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning Saturday.
- ‘I understand that they’re (a) passionate fan base, and I understand that they love it, but when you face adversity, you don't turn your back on the guys out there.’
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That’s correct - – Don Herweyer, the City’s general manager of Planning, Real Estate and Economic Development, when asked – for the second time – if there would be an in-between period where a parcel of Lansdowne land would not be owned by the City but by the developer. (Neil Saravanamuttoo in The 613)
| | What’s going on at City Hall.
Ottawa Police Services Board – Special Meeting – Budget Tabling
Wednesday, November 8 at 8:30 am - Draft Operating and Capital Budgets 2024
📋 Agenda
Ottawa City Council – Budget Tabling
Wednesday, November 8 at 10 am
- Draft Operating and Capital Budgets 2024
📋 Agenda Ottawa City Council – Special Meeting on Lansdown
Wednesday, November 8 at 1pm • Special meeting to discuss Lansdowne 2.0. This meeting replaces a previously scheduled meeting that was to be held next Friday. | WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT | 🏗️ Housing - The Federal government has selected some of its Ottawa properties to be converted to residential use. The plan will see 1,600 new homes created. The locations are:
• 307 homes at the former CFB Rockcliffe
• 600 homes on Carling Avenue
• 710 homes on Booth Street
(William Eltherington at CTV) 🚧 Algonquin College - Algonquin College has given traditional Anishinaabe names to all four streets on campus. The new names for the previously unnamed roads are Wajashk Private, Nigig Private, Adjidjàk Private, and Wàbisheshì Private, which translate to Muskrat, Otter, Crane, and Marten, respectively. Previously, people on campus used 1385 Woodroffe for a street address and a building number to be more specific. (Mathew Dicsi in the Algonquin Times)
⚽ Atlético de Madrid Winter Camps - The parent club of Atlético Ottawa is taking registrations for kids to learn soccer the Atlético de Madrid way. Boys and girls from 7 to 13 are eligible for the training the first week of January in both Ottawa and Gatineau. (Atlético Ottawa)
🎸 Bluesfest - We’re always making light of the fact that the CityFolk fest has a lot of non-folk acts and the Jazz Fest brings in a lot of music that is a long ways away from jazz, but thankfully Bluesfest will always keep the mission on track, right? Headlining next July’s Bluesfest will be Mötley Crüe, playing that heavy metal for which the blues are famous. Tickets go on presale tomorrow morning (Nov 8) at 10:00 am. (Ottawa Festivals)
✡️ Israel / Gaza - A 29 year-old man has been arrested for threatening a Rabbi. Idan Scher, the Senior Rabbi of Congregation Machzikei Hadas, received a phone call Friday, threatening the lives of all Jews. An unnamed suspect was arrested by Ottawa and was arraigned yesterday. (Ted Raymond at CTV)
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Thursday Just Announced / Now Booking - Thirteen Strings’ Annual Christmas Concert will feature Ottawa’s own soprano Mireille Asselin in a program that ranges from Baroque favourites to 20th century composters Gerald Finzi and Healey Willan. Tuesday December 5 at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre.
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