WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT
💸 Having a proper-sized hockey arena at Lansdowne 2.0 would cost up to $100 million says City Manager. City Manager Wendy Stephanson wrote a memo to City Councillors advising them that the plan was to reduce the size of the arena where the Ottawa Charge and Ottawa 67s play from 8,500 to 5,500 seats, and that changing the size would add $80 to $100 million dollars to the bill. – Josh Pringle at CTV
↪ Amy Scheer, the Professional Women’s Hockey League’s executive vice-president of business operations told the City’s Finance commitee yesterday that they were not consuted once by the City or Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group about reducing the arena’s capacity. The Ottawa Charge regularly sold out home games. – Joanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen
↪ THE OTTAWAN could not help but notice that attendance was 6,400 at the Ottawa 67s match yesterday.
⚾ Local distiller Top Shelf has created a Blue Jays cocktail, which you can enjoy as the team takes the series tomorrow 🤞. The recipe involves ginger ale, a splash of lemon juice, maple syrup, and Blueberry Moonshine. It looks pretty tasty. – Instagram
🚨 Westgate Shopping Centre will close forever after tomorrow. Ottawa’s first shopping centre was built in 1952 and was anchored by Freiman’s department store. Residential towers are planned to replace the centre. – CBC
🛒 Every week, @stromanker reviews all the local grocery flyers and posts the deals on Ottawa Reddit. This week, he highlights sirloin tip beef ($6.88/lb at Food Basics), eggs ($2.99/12 at Metro Cité des Jeunes), and rutabagas (49¢/lb at Super C). – /Ottawa
THE DAILY POLL
Will you miss the Westgate Shopping Centre?
▪️ “Metro only, rarely Superstore or Loblaws (disappointing service!)”
▪️ “Food Basics, I am shopping there to save money not for the experience.”
▪️ “I amost exclusively buy produce from Farm Boy. I buy most other things from either Independent or Metro. Then there are a few things I have to buy from specialty shops because of food allergies. So this is not a quick question to answer!”
▪️ “Farm Boy has the freshest produce and best butchery of any supermarket chain. For dry goods, I’ll go to Food Basics (whose meat isn’t great and whose produce is all over the quality spectrum).”
▪️ “I mix and match but Home Boy is where it's at. (... Farm Boy).”
▪️ “The Metro on Merivale has a great selection of fresh and frozen fish. Can’t go wrong with their Platinum beef.”
▪️ “Add Metro for meat but NoFrills is where I go for economy.”
▪️ “For everything except meat. Meat I only buy at my butchers.”
▪️ “I like No Frills especially, because they will price match for a lot of stores including Real Canadian Superstore.”
▪️ “Farm Boy and Costco for our family!”
▪️ “Costco!”
▪️ “Give me Nichols in Woodlawn any day of the week — now with an in-store LCBO!”
▪️ “(Unfortunately), Walmart because their home grocery delivery is just so affordable and I would really like to avoid having to go to a grocery ever again in possible.”
▪️ “Giant Tiger.”
▪️ “Walmart. Love their online ordering. And when they have to substitute something, they give it to you at the sale price, not the regular price, unlike most other stores. Quality has always been very good. I keep going back.”
▪️ “Walmart. It's what’s in walking distance and I don't own a car.”
THE ROLLING THREE DAY CALENDAR
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THURSDAY
Try some trivia tonight
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The Haunted Halloween Trivia night at Brew Revolution will support Holly's Haven Wildlife Rescue.
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Do You Know Your Slashers from Your Scream Queens? Bring that expertise, as well as your best squad, to Head Office Ottawa for Horror Movie Trivia Night.
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A Capital Mystery is the new anthology of stories set in Ottawa. Listen as three of the collection's mystery and crime writers read at Indigo Pinecrest, then stay for the Q&A and book signing.
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The chills continue at Ottawa Little Theatre’s Turn of the Screw.
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It’s the second performance of National Arts Centre Orchestra’s Monster Mixtape: an evening of eerie Halloween movie soundtrack music. Costumes encouraged.
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If the words ‘Eastern Ontario's Most Terrifying Halloween Attraction’ make your hair stand on end, you'd better not book the 33rd annual Cannamore Orchard Acres of Terror experience tonight.
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You’ve seen the movie, now it's time to immerse yourself in Richard O'Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, presented by ToToToo Theatre. Audience participation is of course encouraged.
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Get spooked by live actors at the Richmond Haunted House: Devils Night. All the scares are in aid of the Richmond Food Bank. Continues tomorrow.
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ByTowne Cinema: Blue Moon, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Hausu
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Mayfair Theatre: Ballad of a Small Player, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Gigs
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GreenWing, Futura Free, Bella Donna & Princess Unlucky. House of TARG
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Picnic by the Motorway. Night Oat
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Sarah McCoy. National Arts Centre
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Lennie Gallant. Red Bird
- Questionable Behaviour Trivia will turn up at Royal Oak Stittsville at 7:00 pm.
FRIDAY
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Seventeen Voyces and organist Matthew Larkin perform the haunting soundtrack to the classic silent film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Repeats tomorrow.
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Meet new people at the Halloween Social Mixer at The Office.
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There’s another chance to experience Monster Mixtape, at which National Arts Centre Orchestra plays an eerie Halloween movie soundtrack. Costumes encouraged.
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Check out the traditional food, music, and sugar skull art at the ByWard Market Day of the Dead festival.
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We’re relying on our readers to confirm if 1D Studios’ Studio B Horror, where it feels like you’re living inside a B movie, is ‘Ottawa’s most immersive haunted house’, because we’re too scared to go.
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Take a scary wagon ride through the forest, then gather your courage to explore not one but two haunted structures on site at Skreamers.
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Saunders Farm advises you to ‘bring friends you can outrun’ when you book tickets to this year’s Fright Fest.
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Tickets are dwindling for tonight’s Stittsville Haunted Heritage Tour, a 90 minute stroll down Main Street Stittsville and six spooky stories about the ancestors of the area.
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ByTowne Cinema: Dial M For Murder, The Mastermind, It Was Just An Accident, Halloween, Frankenhooker
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Mayfair Theatre: Blue Moon, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Gigs
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Desert Island Big Band. LIVE on Elgin
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80s Halloween Dance Party. House of TARG
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Social Suicide. Avant-Garde Bar
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Neon Ghosthouse. Club SAW
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Marie Patenaude Trio. Night Oat
