Hello Ottawa
In Today’s Edition
→ Ten OC Transpo bus routes may have added service to compensate for the Federal employee return to office mandate
→ There are book fairs, garage sales, and much more on Ottawa Day weekend
→ The Deal of the Day is big discounts at Canada Beading Supply
– Martha and Darren
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OTTAWAN OF THE DAY
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Win Beecroft
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The Second World War codebreaker and retired Ottawa Civic Hospital worker celebrated her 106th birthday at the Château Laurier, ahead of the actual day July 2.
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‘What keeps you so young?’, people ask. ‘I said two eggs a day!’
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– Katie Griffin at CTV
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QUOTE
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He walked a hard road and can now be at peace. Hats off and glasses raised to an old comrade!
– Musician Bruce Cockburn’s words in tribute to renowned folk singer David Wiffen who recently died, aged 84.
– Joyce MacPhee in Apt 613
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SPORTS
⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 3 vs Brockton Rox 2, yesterday
Tonight
⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans at Trois-Rivières Aigles
Saturday
🏀 CEBL Ottawa BlackJacks at Vancouver Bandits
⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans at Trois-Rivières Aigles
Sunday
⚽ NSL Ottawa Rapid at Vancouver Rise
⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans at Trois-Rivières Aigles
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL
Emergency Preparedness and Protective Services Committee
Monday, June 15 at 9:30 am
- Status Update – Emergency Preparedness and Protective Services Committee Inquiries and Motions for the period ending June 4, 2026
- Ottawa Paramedic Service 2025 Annual Report
- Licensing By-law Review and Re-enactment
- 9-1-1 2025 Annual Report
Agenda
Ottawa Board of Health
Monday, June 15 at 5:00 pm
- Ottawa Public Health’s Financial Stability
- Verbal Report - Response to City of Ottawa Motion Re: Establishing a Wastewater-Based Early Warning System for Toxic Drug Supply Monitoring in Ottawa
- Response to Notice of Motion: Kanata Lakes Golf Course Redevelopment
Agenda
Whose flag is flying at City Hall today? Phillipines, Russia, United Kingdom (Tomorrow)
City Hall flies the flag of embassies and high commissions on their national days.
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT
💰 The City is joing the federal Clean Fuel Regulations Program, a scheme that lets municipalities sell credits when they change transporation from fossil fuels to clean energy. The City thinks it can raise $1.3 million selling credits this year, and $450 million in 2027 when all 350 electric buses are in use. – City of Ottawa
↪ OC Transpo is installing natural gas generators at its garage on St-Laurent Boulevard to charge those 350 buses during ‘peak demand periods’ to save money and during power outages.
🚚 Ten OC Transpo bus routes may have added service to compensate for the Federal employee return to office mandate. The Federal government shared home and work data with OC Transpo to help the agency make its decisions.
The routes affected are:
- 5 (Elmvale-Waller).
- 8 (Gatineau-Dow’s Lake).
- 13 (Gatineau-Tunney’s Pasture).
- 24 (Chapel Hill-St. Laurent).
- 61 (Stittsville-Tunney’s Pasture).
- 62 (Stittsville-Tunney’s Pasture).
- 63 (Briarbrook-Tunney’s Pasture).
- 66 (Innovation-Tunney’s Pasture).
- 74 (Tunney’s Pasture-Limebank).
- 75 (Cambrian-Tunney’s Pasture).
– Arthur White-Crummey at CBC
↪ Don’t forget that O Train Lines 2 and 4 are closed tomorrow and Sunday for maintenance. A rail replacement service bus will be running between stations.
✉️ If your postal code is K1B, K1G, K1H, K1J, K1K, K1C, K1E, or K1W, you are on the list for a community mailbox. Canada Post has announced that it will be moving millions of addresses way from home delivery to community mailboxes over the next few years. K1B, K1G, K1H, K1J and K1K are scheduled for community mailboxes by July 2027, while K1C, K1E, and K1W are set for August 2027. – Ted Raymond at CTV
🪵 If you were looking to bid on the Château Montebello, the deadline has been extended until June 22. The resort, known as the ‘world’s largest log cabin’ is in a bankruptcy sale, with the winner originally expected to be known earlier this week. A local group made up of Ottawa Sens Michel Andlauer, Devcore Group chief executive Jean-Pierre Poulin, and Le Nordik spa founder Martin Paquette has already made a bid. – Olivia Belovich
🥅 We promised to keep you up to date in Heated Rivalry news no matter how tenuous the connection to Ottawa. As much as as we tried, we couldn’t find any connection at all on this item – but it’s really cool. It’s a half-written, half illustrated article in the New Yorker about the music used in Heated Rivalry and its Québec-born-but-not-anywhere-near-Gatineau director. – Zoe Si in the New Yorker
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THE DAILY POLL
How do you handle the heat?
▪️ “Always excited for a reason to celebrate!”
▪️ “I’ve been a little disappointed in the lack of any celebrations. Who better than the City of Ottawa and even the federal government to put on walking tours. Example- Where else would we learn about our street names and why they were named?”
▪️ “Our transit system, although new, behaves like a doddering 200 year old.”
▪️ “Though the city has not clearly announced anything ... sigh!”
▪️ “I plan to ingest edibles as I do every Saturday but this Saturday it will also be 613.”
▪️ “Yes, I think I will celebrate this milestone as I don’t think I’ll be around to celebrate the next 300 year milestone.”
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THE ROLLING THREE DAY CALENDAR
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✳️ Means change from previous edition
FRIDAY
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✳️ City of OM’s yoga sessions and workshops are now open at the RA Centre.
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The Peter Hum Quartet plays a Greatest Hits show of original jazz at the Robo Lounge. $10. (The Glebe)
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It’s Riverside’s turn to host City of Om Movement + Wellness Festival. Find all the yoga sessions, vendor market, and Hyrox Simulations, at the RA Centre.
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🆓 Osgoode Porchfest 2026 starts with an Open Mic tonight at No Go Cafe before the porches open up tomorrow.
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The unbelieveble truth is that Pique turns 20 this weekend, despite having been around for just five years. The festival’s knowledge forum at Arts Court, Topique, is led by artists and makers from around the world and explores equity, sustainability, and collective futures in the arts. Meanwhile, tonight’s Pique Opening Party at Gridwrks is a collab with Laylit. (Downtown)
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Also turning five: Fiesta Cubana Fest 2026 at Horticulture Building and Bronson Centre . If it's Cuban food, music, and culture you're looking for, book your ticket now. (The Glebe)
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Are you calling in sick this afternoon? Hintonburg Public House will be screening the Fifa World Cup Opening Ceremony featuring Ottawa’s own Alanis Morrisette, starting at 1:30 pm. (Hintonburg)
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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 continues today with Camp Kazoo for little festival goers, while Joyce N’sana, LGS, and Jupiter & OKWess perform on the MainStage. (Downtown).
Cinema
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ByTowne Cinema: Agatha’s Almanac, L’Inconnu de la Grande Arche (The Stranger of the Great Arch), The Piano Teacher, Moulin Rouge! With Live Burlesque
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Mayfair Theatre: Calorie, The Art of Adventure, Ichi The Killer
Gigs
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Yassin & Sean Terrio, River City Junction. Rainbow Bistro
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Tin Constellations, Quiet Skies. Art House
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Heart Education Time, Rooty Naky and the Rootables, Chambered by the Gates. Avant-Garde Bar
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Psykkore. Avant-Garde Bar
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Boy Band Story. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Ottawa
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Danny Sylvester Duo. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Ottawa
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IllScarlet 20th Anniversary of EPdemic. Bronson Centre
SATURDAY
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✳️ 🆓 Now in its 34th year, the Glebe’s Art in the Park will bring more than 170 artists to the green spaces of Central Park, along with food and drink vendors, live entertainment, and plenty for the kids to see and do.
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✳️ You’ll also find art in Hintonburg today, as the 20th Arts Park gets underway in Parkdale Park. Check out the artisans, games, food and drink, music, henna tattoos, demos, and the annual Art Throwdown.
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✳️ The Bookish Market and Jane Austen Tea is a romantic affair with vendors selling art, books, and bookish goods at Osgoode Township Museum. Plus: try your hand a heritage games on the lawn. (Osgoode / Vernon)
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✳️ 🆓 Check out the vehicles and educational workshops from sustainability innovators at Green Fair Ottawa.(Overbrook)
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✳️ City of OM’s yoga sessions and workshops are now open at the RA Centre.
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The Sidewalk Sale Yarn Blowout, with its bags of yarn at special prices and its Pride and Father's Day "Post Card Bar" of graphic snail mail cards, will draw creative and crafty folks to Motif Boutique from noon to 5:00 pm. If you purchase, write on and address one of the aforementioned postcards, the shop will put it in the mail for you. (Hintonburg)
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Like Butter vintage is taking over the Heart Breakers Pizza parking lot for The Mini Marché. It's one day only of curated outdoor vintage shopping with home decor, fashion, jewelry, art, and up cycled fashion. (Westboro)
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Fiesta Cubana Fest 2026 continues today at Horticulture Building and Bronson Centre. (The Glebe)
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🆓 You can travel to the countries of the European Union just by visiting Cultural Fair today at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau.
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You’ll find more than music at Osgoode Porchfest’s 2026 Block Party. From kids games and hot dogs to airbrush tattoos and the Bounce House, it's all about fun.
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Ottawa Chamber Orchestra plays Carleton Dominioin-Chalmers Centre tonight and Aprnprior’s St. John Chrysostom Church on Sunday (June 14), with a program entitled The Artist and The Muse. Works include Symphony No. 3 by Farrenc and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade.
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Ottawa Music Industry Coalition’s City Sounds Live will provide the backdrop to your shopping in the Glebe today from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.
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Bicycle Craft Brewery is offering Happy Hour Pricing all day to celebrate Ottawa Day (6/13). You’ll also find those warm weather staples: hot dogs and ice cream on the patio. (Industrial)
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Pique #20 continues at Arts Court. (Downtown)
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The All Voices Community Choir is preparing to depart on a tour to Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, to experience the Baltic approach to choral music, and to demonstrate Canada's choral traditions. Get a taste of the music they're taking on the road at tonight’s ‘Hey and Away We Ride’ concert. (Nepean)
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Alta Vista Market opens for the season this Saturday June 13. For an extra special opening day, April Spirit will provide a backdrop of live music. It's all happening from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm in the yard at St Thomas The Apostle Church. 2345 Alta Vista Dr
Garage Sales
Cinema
Gigs
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Funk Yo Self. Irene’s Pub
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Sway. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Ottawa
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Skylar Radmore Duo. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Ottawa
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The Hunt Club, This Hell With You. LIVE on Elgin
SUNDAY
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Ottawa South Eco-Action Network and Friends of Paul Landry Park will work together at the Spring Buckthorn Removal Work Bee, to remove Common Buckthorn seedlings and trees. Many hands make light work; if you can spare some time between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm to help remove this invasive species - as well as invasive Garlic Mustard, invasive Burdock, and invasive Dog-strangling Vine - you'll be welcome. (Hunt Club)
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🆓 Shop from approximate 100 farm, artisan, Barrhaven BIA vendors as the I Love Barrhaven Market 2026.
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Good food, beer, and … books. Do some book and gift shopping at The Spaniel’s Tale Bookfair at Beyond the Pale’s City Centre location from noon to 5:00 pm
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High Fidelity All Vinyl Day Party No. 7 is an early evening, all-LP set at Fono. Tickets are limited and going fast.
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Runners and walkers will be participating in 1K, 5K , and 10K events during Kanata Race Day. The events support the Richcraft Recreation Complex Kanata.
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The Concert Band of Kanata performs Jukebox! a new piece that shines a spotlight on Canadian composer and arranger Robert Buckley. (Nepean)
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Art in the Park continues (The Glebe)
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Wubs & Wear is a clothing swap and shop for ravers, upstairs at Pour Boy pub (Chinatown)
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Say good bye to the weekend with smooth and smoky jazz tunes care of Don Washington, Jamie Holmes, and Hammond B3 Blues Night at the Robo Lounge. The Glebe)
Cinema
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ByTowne Cinema: Ugetsu, Agatha’s Almanac, Sudden Fury (with Director Q&A), Another World
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Mayfair Theatre: Captains of the Clouds, Calorie, Mean Streets
Gigs
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Going Somewhere Tour. Bronson Centre
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The Convertibles (matinée). Irene’s Pub
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Kent album release party, with special guest Asia Ruby. Art House
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Tim Hicks. Bronson Centre
MONDAY
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🆓 The Powwow Workout is 45 minutes of high-intensity fun that incorporates powwow dance steps. 12:00 at the National Arts Centre Canal Lobby (Downtown).
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Do not let Monday be your Waterloo. The family friendly, feel good vibe of ABRA Cadabra - the Music & Magic of ABBA will give you a lift that will last all week. (Nepean)
Cinema
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ByTowne Cinema: L’Inconnu de la Grande Arche (The Stranger of the Great Arch), In a Lonely Place, Renoir
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Mayfair Theatre: The Art of Adventure, Captains of the Clouds, Ichi The Killer
Gigs
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BUT, ONE MORE THING ...
THE OTTAWAN had never heard this before today, so shame on us, but tomorrow is 6/13 – or Ottawa Day – named in tribute to our local area code.
The City has created an interactive map of events happening on Ottawa Day and asks that you use #JourOttawaDay on your social media posts.
Culture website Apt 613 has also adopted 6/13 for celebration, as it marks 17 years of publishing with an afternoon party at Fono, featuring ‘Timekode for a day of dancing, door prizes, BBQ, vinyl, and birthday cake!’
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THE OTTAWAN is written and edited every working weekday by Martha and Darren.
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