WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT
💸 The Federal budget proposed yesterday in Parliament plans to cut Federal public employees by 4.5 per cent – 16,000 people – over the next three years. Around 650 will be executive positions. The budget says that it will attempt to reduce most of the jobs through job cuts, attrition, and early retirements. – Priscilla Ki Sun Hwang at CBC
🔱 The University of Ottawa has cut its honours programme in Greek and Roman studies. The University says it is because of low enrollment and plans a relaunch, others say it portends the slow demise of humanities studies. – Jayden Dill at CBC
📸 Around 2,500 users of the City’s MyService Ottawa website are at risk of having their data breached after a hack. The City says that everyone affected has been contacted and that email and physical addresses may have been leaked but financial information and passwords were not. The MyServiceOttawa allows residents to check or pay various City services.– Natasha Baldin in the Ottawa Citizen
🚨 Court Circular
• Convoy co-leader Tamara Lich is appealing her conviction. Lich was found guilty of mischief last April for her part in the events of the 2022 Convoy in downtown Ottawa. She was sentenced last month to mostly a stay-at home requirement. – David Fraser at CBC
• Former Ottawa Police Service deputy chief Uday Jaswal has pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of breach of trust rather than sexual assault. The charge relates to a 2011 incident where Jaswal was accused of sexually assaulting a female colleague. – CBC
• A man charged with the murder of a missing person in Smiths Falls is also the co-owner of a property of another missing person. – Kristy Nease at CBC
THE DAILY POLL
How will the proposed Federal budget affect the Capital?
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Previously in ottawan polls:
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We asked, ‘How well do you think the “summer of drinking in the park” went?’
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Commentary
▪️ “People were doing it anyway so nothing has changed.”
▪️ “People will have behaved this year knowing it was a pilot and would be monitored. Expect different things if it is renewed for next year and probably expanded.”
▪️ “Yay!”
▪️ “If people want a drink in a park that doesn’t allow it, it takes minimal effort to do so. Let’s be honest, people were doing it long below these by-laws were in place.”
▪️ “We are told it is bad for us and then the commercials and government promote it ... putting it in corner stores and Costco. I quit drinking in Dec of 2018-best decision I have made yet!”
▪️ “Didn’t notice any difference.”
▪️ “It’s always a gamble but let’s face it, those who act irresponsibly likely would not care if drinking in a park was or was not allowed.”
▪️ “To quote a fine gentleman I once knew ... ‘I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly ...’”
THE ROLLING THREE DAY CALENDAR
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WEDNESDAY
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🆓 Doors Open for Music at Southminster presents Canadiana Celebration, with tenor Fraser Rubens and pianist Carole Weibe. Donations appreciated.
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Elevator Theatre Company’s stripped-down, concert performance of 35MM: A Musical Exhibition opens at LIVE! on Elgin for a five night run.
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A (Bad) Night at the Movies presents a groovy-looking 1967 flick called Ok Connery / Operation Kid Brother / Operation Hermano Pequeño. OPL main branch.
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The Broadway Across Canada touring production of Mrs Doubtfire continues its limited run at the National Arts Centre.
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Help Overflow Brewing celebrate their 7th birthday at a party hosted by The Velvet Duke. Expect door prizes, a silent auction, live music, lovely cocktails and locally produced beer. A portion of the proceeds will support The Ottawa Hospital.
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Knitters, bring your needles and your current project to Hintonburg Public House for the monthly KNERDY Knit Knights.
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ByTowne Cinema: It was Just an Accident, The Mastermind, Restoration: Misery
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Mayfair Theatre: Blue Moon, Queens of the Dead
Gigs
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The Beaches. Arena at TD Place
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The Prime Rib Night Band. Irene's Pub
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Freddie Dredd, Ramirez, Cursed Ottawa. Bronson Centre Music Theatre
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Bluegrass Wednesdays with the Gladsome. Gentlemen. Red Bird
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Music Bingo Night. Brew Revolution
THURSDAY
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Sample natural wines from Canada and the world at Wines by Nature 2025.
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Meet Ontario’s top winemakers and do some sipping, sampling, and shopping at Outstanding in Their Fields.
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9th Hour Theatre Company’s production of Isak Dinesen’s story Babette’s Feast opens at the Gladstone Theatre.
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Bring a pal and play some games at Art House’s regular Beats & Boards night.
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Learn the basics of decoupage at Recreated Designs.
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Laughter 4 Cancer’s Comedy Fundraiser will raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada. There will be prizes, a 50/50 draw, a silent auction, and laughs.
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Enjoy old school punk and hardcore at House of TARG’s CKCU Funding Drive Ripper #2 with Kleener, B.A.L.M. Squad, Constrictor, and Candy Says.
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Broadway Across Canada’s Mrs. Doubtfire continues at the National Arts Centre.
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ByTowne Cinema: It Was Just An Accident, The Matermind, OCAN25 - Day 1
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Mayfair Theatre: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Blue Moon, Queens of the Dead
Gigs
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The Cooper Brothers. Meridian Theatres at Centrepointe
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Majors, Holly Acres, This Disaster and guests. Rainbow Bistro
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Umberlune. Night Oat
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Bacon Tree. Danby's Roadhouse
FRIDAY
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The new ChromaQueer Film & Art Festival opens at Arts Court for three nights and two days of programming designed to forge connections and showcase Ottawa-based stories, movements, and traditions. Go for the film screenings, performances, curated lectures, Q&As, and stay for the poetry karaoke.
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🆓 Urban Art Collective closes a busy season of public experiences with the Centretown Disrupted Art Show at Wallack's Art Supplies on Bank Street. Expect live painting, creative workshops, and street photography.
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Indulge in ethical and sustainable shopping as Cobourg’s Ten Thousand Villages brings its Fair Trade Holiday Sale to the Ottawa Mennonite Church today through Sunday.
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Dig deep into the collection of gently used reading and listening material at the Rockcliffe Park Book Fair. Today through Sunday at Rockcliffe Park Public School's Queen Juliana Hall (aka the school gym).
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The creator of #dropchallenge herself, comedian Atsuko Okatsuk performs two shows at Algonquin Commons Theatre. Warning: the 9:30 pm show is already sold out (insert beat drop here).
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🆓 The cool people at Debaser bring you A Sonic Bridge: Florence Delphine-Roux (live) and Paul Jasen (talk) for a rad evening of radio art and performance.
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Do some night shopping in the magical Holiday Open House at Robert Plante Greenhouses.
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One World Bazaar turns its gaze to Germany for a weekend of Polka bands, great food and an epic quantity of shopping opportunities.
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Capital Professionals Open Mic brings together members of the Ottawa business community for a fundraising event in support of The Parents' Lifeline of Eastern Ontario.
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Forêt Capitale Forest presents ‘Comedy Night for the Trees’ at Yuk Yuk’s.
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Whether you’re a beginner or you have the moves down pat, Navan Boot Scootin’ Line Dancing will banish your work-week blues.
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Bliss out to the Nostalgia Nights trance event at City at Night.
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Broadway Across Canada’s Mrs. Doubtfire continues at the National Arts Centre.
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ByTowne Cinema: It Was Just An Accident, Nuremberg, OCAN25 - Day 2, Die My Love
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Mayfair Theatre: Train Dreams, Weapons, One Battle After Another
Gigs
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The Yodas. Barley Mow (Merivale)
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Kingfisher, Mendozaz, Bill McNeal, Tucana. House of TARG
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Umberlune. Night Oat
JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING
MADE IN CANADA DEAL OF THE DAY
BUT, ONE MORE THING ...
Historian Dave Allston has another cracking yarn in the Kitchissippi Times, the ‘incredible career of Joseph Hanrahan and his Kitchissippi abattoirs’.
RAPID RESPONSE QUALITY CONTROL
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