Hello Ottawa
In Today’s Edition
→ The Parti Québécois promises to reject the Alto highspeed rail project if they win
→ Enjoy greatest hits and lesser known gems at pianist Dave Draves’ monthly Elton John Hour at the Robo Lounge tomorrow
→ The Deal of the Day: tickets to Aero Gatineau Ottawa
– Martha and Darren
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It is statistically improbable that we could have the amount of rain on RedBlacks game days that we’ve had over the past three or four years
– President of Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group Mark Goudie after ‘tons and tons’ of RedBlacks fans moved from their rain-exposed seats to the covered north side.
As part of Lansdowne 2.0, the north side will be rebuilt without covering from the elements.
– Michael McBean in the Ottawa Citizen
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SPORTS
Tonight
⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans vs Brockton Rox
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL
City Council
Wednesday, June 10 at 10:00 am
- Annual General Meeting of the Shareholder of Ottawa Community Housing Corporation (OCHC)
- Motion – Councillor D. Hill – Request for Provincial Action on Lithium-Ion Battery Safety
- Ottawa Fire Services 2025 Annual Report
- Councillor’s Report (Councillor S. Plante) – Strengthening Protections Against Construction Encroachment and Enforcing Committee of Adjustment Conditions
- 2026 Capital Adjustments and Closing of Projects - City Tax and Rate Supported
- 2026 Q1 Tax, Transit and Rate Supported Programs Operating and Capital Budget Status Update
- Long Range Financial Plan - Tax Supported Capital
- Paramedic West Deployment Facility – Procurement Process for the Public Private Partnership
- Municipal Land Strategy – Surplus Land Declaration and Authority to Transfer City-Owned Lands for Housing (Third Round)
- Affordable Housing Community Improvement Plan – Applications for Tax Increment Equivalent Grants (TIEGs) Report
- Declaration of Surplus and Sale of 1601 Prince of Wales Drive to Carillon Co-operative Housing Incorporated
- Zoning By-law Amendment - 500 and 508 Edgeworth Avenue
- Housing Accelerator Fund Fourth Tranche Delegated Authority
- Status of amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006
- Official Plan Amendment - Coordinating Municipal Servicing Infrastructure and Subdivision Approvals
- Lease Financing Agreements 2025
- Clean Fuel Regulations Program
- 2025 Procurement Year in Review
- 2025 Investments and Debt Report
- 2026 Annual Asset Management Progress Update
- Ᾱdisōke Project Update – Shared Facility in Partnership with Library and Archives Canada and the Ottawa Public Library
- 75 Nicholas Street – Option to Purchase and Restrictive Covenant
- 7579 Springhill Partial Disposal for Conservation Co-ownership
- Review of Eligibility Criteria for Municipal Housing Facility By-law – Housing Acceleration Plan Action Item 34
- Preston Street Business Improvement Area (BIA) – Boundary Adjustment
- Intent to Designate Cyrville Business Improvement Area (BIA) – BIA Formation
- Integrated Orléans Community Improvement Plan – Application by 12259095 Canada Inc., as general partner for Société en commandite Joyce, 211 Centrum Boulevard
- Zoning By-law Amendment – 8370 Campeau Drive
- Ontario Land Tribunal Settlement – Official Plan Amendment 34 – Exhibition Lands
- Summary of Oral and Written Public Submissions for Items Subject to the Planning Act ‘Explanation Requirements’ at the City Council Meeting of May 27, 2026
Agenda
Whose flag is flying at City Hall today? None
City Hall flies the flag of embassies and high commissions on their national days.
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT
🚄 The Parti Québécois promises to reject the Alto highspeed rail project if they win. Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says Alto is a ‘fiasco’ and Québec will withdraw from it if his party wins. Polls have the Parti Québécois in the lead for autumn’s election. While Alto is a Federal project and is not in partnership with Québec, the province could throw up various roadblocks if it was minded to. – Alex Ballingall in the Toronto Star
↪ Despite the Parti Québécois, Québecers in general are in favour of Alto, with 65 per cent supporting and 17 per cent opposing.
🎂 Bars and restaurants can apply to the City for a letter to apply to the province to extend their hours for Ottawa’s 200th birthday. Expecting that residents won’t want Saturday, September 26 to end, the City has declared it a ‘day of municipal significance’. Bytown was established on September 26, 1826.
Bars and restaurants can apply to the City – here – with a request for a ‘letter of municipal significance’ which is then sent to the provincial Alcohol and Gaming Commission – here – with a request to extend hours past 2:00 am.
The City notes they they will take up to 30 days to reply and that the Alcohol and Gaming Commission may also take up to 30 days to reply. – City of Ottawa
🏵️ The owner of the Sens is part of a group bidding to buy the Fairmont Château Montebello from bankruptcy. The ‘world’s largest log cabin’ was ordered for sale after its Chinese owner, China Evergrande, went bankrupt.
The Fairmont hotel chain has continued to operate the 21 acre resort throughout under contract, but neither owns the property nor has any part in bankruptcy proceedings.
Joining Michael Andlauer are Gatineau’s Devcore Group chief executive Jean-Pierre Poulin and Le Nordik spa founder Martin Paquette. – Aedan Helmer in the Ottawa Citizen
🏗️ The Federal government has moved to the next step for the destruction of the Alexandra Bridge. Capital Crossing Constructors consortium, made up of Webuild Civil Works Inc, Samsung C&T Ontario 1 Inc, and Green Infrastructure Partners Inc has been selected by Public Services and Procurement Canada to ‘refine project requirements, scheduling, pricing and risk management before construction begins’.
Construction to replace the gorgeous 126 year-old bridge is scheduled to begin in 2028. – Ottawa Construction News
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THE DAILY POLL
What kind of compensation do you think OC Transpo owes its riders?
▪️ “Have my team shirt and swag ready!”
▪️ “What an absolute waste of money for an unpopular sport that few Canadians GAF about.”
▪️ “FIFA and Trump, Trump and FIFA.”
▪️ “I’ve got tickets for four games in Toronto. A World Cup in your home country is truly once in a lifetime and I cannot wait!”
▪️ “Not only could the resources have been better spent, FIFA is a dumpster fire of an organization and I'm actively against supporting it.”
▪️ “I hate to be a ‘party pooper’ but I would have loved to have seen the money spent in ON on healthcare. No offence!”
▪️ “The women’s FIFA World Cup was hosted by Canada in 2015 , so not the first time.”
▪️ “Incredible waste of public money with all the profits going to FIFA!”
▪️ “Yes, but it doesn't matter that it’s in Canada.”
▪️ “I’m excited for the World Cup to be in Canada! Can’t afford to go to any of the games though because FIFA’s surge pricing has made them unaffordable.”
▪️ “My primary team (Canada) is in and so long as they play, I’ll follow. Please let them beat the yanks. My secondary team (Italy) SOMEHOW hasn’t made the cut for the third time. But ... Canada did. Make that make sense.”
▪️ “It’s just making me glad I moved out of Toronto. Living downtown sounds like a nightmare right now.”
▪️ “Waste of cash for others to make money.
▪️ “I hate soccer. The ridiculous antics by the players pretending to be hurt and the violent fans. Much rather watch the CFL.”
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THE ROLLING THREE DAY CALENDAR
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✳️ Means change from previous edition
TUESDAY
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✳️ Enjoy Beats, Keys, & Sax: jazz, blues, soul, and more at the Doors Open for Music at Southminster noon concert.(Old Ottawa South)
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Buster’s Music Bingo costs just $5 per card. Bring your friends. (Kanata)
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FC Supra du Québec visits Atlético Ottawa for the first time (The Glebe)
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It’s New Girl Trivia at the Prescott, so be sure to bring a charged phone (but not a flip phone. Schmidt would hate that). (Little Italy)
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Wild Birds Unlimited will welcome Patty McLaughlin, education program manager at the Ottawa Valley Wild Bird Care Centre, for a session on birds, nests, eggs, and babies preparing to take flight. (Kanata)
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The latest art show at Atomic Rooster, The Album Show, is a series of artists' renditions of lp covers. Bring your art money to tonight's Vernissage; the pieces will be sold directly off the wall.
Cinema
Gigs
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Rachel Bobbit, Lia Pappas-Kemps. The 27 Club
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Gilles & The Barnburners. Night Oat
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Trivia Tuesday. Irene’s Pub
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Open Mic Night. LIVE on Elgin
WEDNESDAY
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Field Notes Jazz Duo will play originals and covers at Fono.
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Kelly Beaton, MPA, RHN, of Eat Well Be Well will host a workshop on Nutrition and the Aging Brain at Old Town Hall (61 Main Street) from 6:30pm - 8:00pm. Registration is $25. (Old Ottawa East)
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Pianist Dave Draves’ monthly Elton John Hour is all Rocket Man, from greatest hits to lesser known gems. Bar Robo (The Glebe)
Cinema
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ByTowne Cinema: Dossier 137, IXIM: El amor no tiene género (Love Has No Gender), Backrooms
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Mayfair Theatre: Silent Friend, Little Lorraine, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
Gigs
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King Falcon, Sun Dried Flies, Four Eye Muscle Man. House of TARG
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Jazz Jam with the Beeched Wailers. Irene's Pub
THURSDAY
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🆓 The RCMP Musical Ride will be going on the road shortly but first it must pass the Commissioner’s inspection this afternoon. 1 Sandridge Road (Manor Park)
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Italian Week takes over Little Italy with food and cultural events until June 21. This morning at City Hall, Mayor Mark Sutcliffe will proclaim the festival open. 11:00n am (Downtown)
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The Festival Franco-Ontarien is Canada's largest celebration of Francophone and Francophile culture outside of Québec. This year's festival starts today, with Improtéine headlining at Major’s Hill Park this evening. (Downtown).
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Thirteen Strings celebrates 50 years of music-making in the Capital with an elegant soirée at the residence of His Excellency Michel Miraillet, Ambassador of France to Canada. Thursday, June 11. (New Edinburgh)
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Saint Paul University Faculty of Philosophy prof Dr. Richard Feist is Special Guest at 9th Hour Theatre Company’s next Gleanings series event. The Beams are Creaking will start as a staged dramatic reading of the eponymous play by Douglas Anderson about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who took part in a failed assassination attempt against Adolph Hitler.
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Gigs
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August John and Sun Dried Flies. Club SAW
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The Flex, Stigmatism, Zeal, Trenchcoat, Koffin Byrth. House of TARG
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Art of the Duo. GigSpace
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Chris & Kay ft. Tessa Duc. Night Oat
JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING
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BUT, ONE MORE THING ...
Finn Hogue at Inside Ottawa Valley suggests ‘10 unique Ottawa Valley museums that prove Ontario history is anything but boring’.
Hogue’s recommendations are: Railway Museum of Eastern Ontario (Smiths Falls), Wheeler’s Maple Heritage Museum (McDonald’s Corners), Upper Ottawa Valley Heritage Center (Pembroke), the Canadian Clock Museum (Deep River), Waba Cottage Museum and Gardens (White Lake), Mississippi Valley Textile Museum (Almonte), Murray L Moore Hydro Museum (Pembroke), NHA/NHL Birthplace Museum (Renfrew), Middleville and District Museum (Lanark), and Mill of Kintail Museum (Almonte).
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THE OTTAWAN is written and edited every working weekday by Martha and Darren.
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