STATISTICS OTTAWA

NUMBER

• 50

• – The number of years the students’ radio station at the University of Ottawa has been on the air. Monday will be its final day of live broadcasting.

• Two years ago, the student body voted to drop financial support of the station, at that time $5.00 per student. 

• CHUO 89.1 FM will instead broadcast prerecorded shows and music until its broadcasting license ends next year.

• Nathan Fung at CBC

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OTTAWAN OF THE DAY

• Ela Day-Bédard

• The 20 year-old civil engineering student at the University of Ottawa has been drafted by San Francisco of the Women’s Pro Baseball League.

• The four teams in the league, which will begin its inaugural season next May, are as yet unnamed. They are taking a page from the Women’s Professional Hockey League, which played its first season monikorless.

• Joshua Marano at CTV
   

QUOTE

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• If you drive to Montréal to fly somewhere, you’re showing up as a data point that supports the Montréal market, which encourages airlines to add service there rather than in Ottawa

• – Ottawa Tourism president and chief executive office Michael Crockatt on why locals need need to support new routes created by Porter, Air Canada, and Air Transat. Use them or lose them, in other words.

• Mia Jensen in Ottawa Business Journal

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• SPORTS

• 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 3 – New Jersey Devils 4, yesterday

• ⚽ As the Canadian Premier League champions, Atlético Ottawa will face Major League Soccer’s Nashville SC  in Round One of the 2026 Concacaf Champions Cup next February.

• Yes, the SC in Nashville SC refers to Soccer Club – no Football Club for them.

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  WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL

  No more meetings this week

  Meetings and Agendas

  

  WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

  🫰 The group building the new Sens arena at LeBreton Flats has hired lobbyists in case of ‘opportunities’. Team owner Michael Andlauer says ‘There’s been no discussions about any type of funding’. The group – which is mostly owned by the Sens but has other investors – say the lobbying is to keep government informed of the arena’s ‘economic impact and where the opportunities lie’. – Guy Quenneville at CBC  

   

  ⚕️ A private surgery clinic has been approved for Ottawa by the province. The standalone clinic will provide orthopedic surgeries and will be owned by the group of surgeons who have already been operating privately out of the Ottawa Hospital’s Riverside campus on weekends. The location is as yet unknown but is expected to open next year. – Elizabeth Payne in Ottawa Citizen 

   

  ⚜️ French services provided by the province will be expanded in the areas surrounding Ottawa. Ontario is requiring its agencies and partners in Renfrew County and the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry to provide services in French. – Ted Raymond at CTV 

   

  ♻️ New apartment buildings in Ottawa will need to arrange private recycling for the next five years. Starting January 1, by provincial mandate, the City is out of the recycling business which will now be handled by the paper and packaging industry. But new buildings with more than six units are excluded for the next five years, meaning they’ll have to make arrangements on their own.  – Natasha Baldin in Ottawa Citizen

  Josh Pringle at CTV has a good explainer of all the changes here – bottom line, you mostly don’t need to do anything different. But there is something we hadn’t noticed before: Beer cans and wine bottles will no longer be accepted in the recycling bin. They need to go back to the LCBO.

  

  THE DAILY POLL

  Do you return your beer cans and wine bottles to the LCBO?

  🔘 At 10¢ each? I’d be crazy not to

  🔘 At 10¢ each? I can’t be bothered

  🔘 I assumed that the City fetched them from the recycling bin and collected the money

  🔘 To be honest, it never occurred to me until now

  🔘 I’m a teetotaler

  • 
    Previously in ottawan polls:

  • We asked, ‘How many books do you read annually?’

    • 17% At least one per week

    • 38% At least one per month

    • 19% At least one per year

    • 14% I have read a book, I promise

    • 12% Read? I think you meant ‘listen to’, didn’t you?

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    Commentary

  ▪️ “Reading is one of my favourite pastimes but I never seem to have time. I can’t wait until I do so that I can become a voracious reader again.”
  
  ▪️ “As a person with ADHD, I find it difficult to stick to one book at a time, which means it takes more reading sessions to get through each one. Right now, I have at least four novels on the go.”
  
  ▪️ “Shout out to the Bookmobile! Love that it stops so close to my home.”
  
  ▪️ “I love the Ottawa library system and am a regular user. Probably there every 2 weeks. I don’t buy books because then I have to give them away and sometimes that's hard to do, otherwise they just take up space and gather dust in the house.”
  
  ▪️ “I am working on a PhD, so the reading is constant. Now, if the question were about reading *for fun*, my answer would be quite different ...”
  
  ▪️ “Funding the Ottawa Public Library is the BEST use of my tax dollars (in addition to Garbage pickup!).”
  
  ▪️ “I typically read 75-80 books a year.”
  
  ▪️ “I’m a voracious reader. I was one of those kids that read with a flashlight under my covers. My biggest problem is I will finish a book no matter how much I dislike it. My nightstand has three books going right now and my Kobo has even more in the queue.”
  
  ▪️ “😬”
  
  ▪️ “What a perfect way to escape day to day life!”
  
  ▪️ “I have something like 1500 continuous days reading on my Kindle app.” 
  
  ▪️ “I’ll probably have read a hundred books by the end of this year.”
  
  ▪️ “In addition to the 2 books that I read most months, I listen to at least one 12+hour audiobook a month.”
  
  ▪️ “I love checking out ebooks from the Ottawa Library.”
  
  ▪️ “I read every single day and go through one or two books a week. I could not afford to do this if it were not for our amazing Ottawa Public Library!”
  
  ▪️ “Big jump between one per month and one per year. Probably about five or six per year.”
  
  ▪️ “Around 100 every year, including physical books, comics and audiobooks (which all count as reading because it's a leisure activity and there are no rules).”
  
  ▪️ “I read each night in bed, reading 15 or 16 books a year.”
  
  ▪️ “I am an equal opportunity bookist: hardcover, softcover, kindle, library books, love them all as my constant holding pattern of book stacks can attest.”​​​

  

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  THE ROLLING THREE DAY CALENDAR

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  ✳️ Means change from previous edition

  WEDNESDAY

  • Visit Canadian artisans at the Originals Christmas Craft Sale at EY Centre, today through Sunday (Airport).  

  • Flautists Four! peform music by McIntyre, McMichael, and Guiot at the noontime, by-donation Doors Open for Music today (Old Ottawa South). 

  • L’Harmonie des saisons perform Handel's Messiah in Christ Church Cathedral. Presented by Music & Beyond (Downtown). 

  • Take a trip on A Sentimental Journey to the Parajanov Planet, a documentary about the life and art of filmmaker and artist Sergei Parajanov. (Old Ottawa South) 

  Cinema

  • ByTowne Cinema: One Battle After Another, Exhibition on Screen: Caravaggio  

  • Mayfair Theatre: The Baltimorons, Bugonia 

  Gigs

  • Sean Desman, Jamie Fine. Bronson Centre Music Theatre

  • Jazz Jam with the Beeched Wailers. Irene’s Pub

  • Upstairs Neighbours, Perry & The Wobbly Pops, Runner Up, Delusions. House of TARG

  • The difficult to categorize but highly entertaining The Storyville Mosquito by Montréal's Kid Koala settles in for a series of shows at National Arts Centre. (Downtown)    

THURSDAY

• Coyote Watch Canada will present an information session to learn how to co-exist safely with the animals in suburban settings. No registration necessary. (Kanata)

• Wear your cutest vintage holidaywear to A Very Retro Holiday Sip & Shop with Curious Times Collective (Wellington West)  

• The streets will be filled with rapidly moving Santas and elves in Run Ottawa's Annual 5K Light Run in support of Ottawa Food Bank. Register now and meet at Ottawa city Hall at 7:00 pm (Downtown). 

• Bring your Christmas list to the Glebe Glimmer Holiday Shopping Night along Bank St (The Glebe). 

Cinema

• ByTowne Cinema: Sentimental Value, Ciné-Club d'Ottawa: En Fanfare, Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind. 

• Mayfair Theatre: The Baltimoreans, Tangerine 

Gigs

• Mulch, Carences, The Dark Plains. House of TARG

• Virginia to Vegas, The New Hires. SAW Centre

• Aversed, Ghost of a King. Avant-Garde Bar

• Think you know a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun from ZuZu's petals? Prove it at Christmas Trivia on Broadway (Fisher Glen). 

• Experience a winter wonderland blending sparkling lights with vibrant Indigenous traditions at Mādahòkì Farm. You’ll find family-friendly festivities such as the Trail of Lights & Traditions, an Indigenous Craft Market, interactive beaded earring and ornament workshops, and cozy Indigenous Christmas feasts all waiting for you. Thursdays through Sundays until December 28 (Green Belt).  

FRIDAY

We don’t want to get into the why of it, but we don’t have Friday events today.

Or Just Announced.

Or Deals of the Day.

We’ll have them tomorrow.