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In Today’s Edition
– Martha and Darren
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The number of complaints about idling vehicle that have been received by Ottawa ByLaw in the first nine months of 2025. However, only eight tickets have been issued.
In Ottawa, it is against the law to allow a vehicle to idle more than three minutes when the temperature is between 0° and 27° or 10 minutes when the temperature is colder than 0° or warmer than 27°.
OTTAWANS OF THE DAY
The four University of Ottawa medical students have formed Medical Monkeys, a group to crochet monkey dolls for kids staying at CHEO. Each monkey has a 3D printed prosthetic of a type that would be helped at the children’s hospital.
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– Gatineau Park visitor JP Le Maitre on his discovery of freshwater jellyfish in Lac La Pêche.
Rising temperatures have resulted in the phenomenon of jellyfish being found in lakes all across the country.
SPORTS
🏈 PANDA Carleton Ravens 20 – University of Ottawa Gee Gees 14, yesterday
🏈 CFL Ottawa RedBlacks 13 – Saskatchewan Roughriders 20, last Friday
⚽ CPL Atlético Ottawa 3 – Calgary Valour 3, yesterday
🏒 NHL PRESEASON Ottawa Senators 3 – Montréal Canadiens 1, last Saturday
🏒 OHL Ottawa 67s 4 – Erie Otters 1, last Saturday
🏒 OHL Ottawa 67s 4 – Erie Otters 1, last Saturday
🏒 OHL Les Olympiques de Gatineau 2 – Sherbrooke Phoenix 6, last Friday
🏒 CHL Les Olympiques de Gatineau 2 – L’Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand 1, yesterday
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No public meetings tomorrow
🏐 Fifty lockers containing free basketballs, volleyballs, and frisbees have been installed in parks across the city. The City has partnered with Swiss-based company Equip Sport and Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities to make the equipment available for free to the public.
To open a locker, download the app. No credit card is need.
⚡ Hydro One removed a rural Internet company's equipment from power poles, cutting off a swath of Lanark County users. The small Community Fibre Company provides high speed Internet to rural users by signing up enough customers for an area, then stringing fibre cable to serve them. Hydro One says removing the equipment from poles was a safety matter, while the Internet company says it is actually a billing dispute . – Taylor Clark at Inside Ottawa Valley
🏵️ At today’s Built Heritage Committee, City staff will be recommending against declaring part of Wellington Street West a heritage district. Proponents say the area between Somerset Street West and Parkdale Avenue, including parts of Fairmont, Melrose, Sherbrooke, and Rosemount avenues have numerous heritage buildings. City staff say it does not meet the seven criteria, although individual buildings might. – Paula Tran in the Ottawa Citizen
↪ City Council will debate transferring the O Train to the Province at Wednesday’s council meeting. Having the Provincial regional train company, Metrolinx, take over the system was a campaign promise of Premier Doug Ford.
Should the City of Ottawa transfer the O Train to Metrolinx ?
Previously in ottawan polls:
We asked, ‘Do you have a family doctor?’
Commentary
▪️ “I count myself lucky, we have a great doctor and she works at a wonderful clinic.”
▪️ “Yes, I was very lucky to find a Doctor, after mine retired during Covid.”
▪️ “I live in Aylmer. Family doctor??? What's that?”
▪️ “I am very lucky to have a family doctor. And a good one, at that!!”
▪️ “I only have a family doctor via a side door – another health care provider asked her to take me on. Otherwise I’d still be going to a walk-in when a certain doctor is on. Which works if your body understands it can only be sick on those days.”
▪️ “Got lucky when my original Doctor retired.”
▪️ “I belong to a family health team. Thank the gods.”
▪️ “After mine retired, I found one a 30-minute drive from my home 3 years thereafter. It’s a terrible system and I resorted to online referrals through my spouse’s work benefits when I actually needed something.”
▪️ “I am very, very grateful.”
▪️ “Very lucky! My old Dr retired and managed to find a British Dr to replace her! This Dr is amazing! Way ahead and diagnosed a health condition that the old Doc missed!!! :)”
▪️ “I lost my family doctor of more than 30yrs in 2020 when the clinic she worked in closed and she retired. I was fortunate to follow up on some names she gave me and was able to be accepted by another doctor.”
▪️ “When we moved to Ottawa in 1998 family doctors were already scarce. I took a day off work and called every doctor office til I was given a referral.”
▪️ “I thank my lucky stars everyday for having found a Francophone young doctor 6 years ago when I moved to Ottawa.”
▪️ “I have one but I find the the whole system extremely stressful to navigate.”
▪️ “I have an outstanding doctor whom I’ve seen for many years but she’s nearing retirement age so I’m worried if I’ll be able to find a new doctor when that happens.”
▪️ “And thankfully, she is much younger than me so hopefully I don’t have to find another one, ever.”
▪️ “I am VERY lucky. My GP is retiring but has added a new doc to his multi-physician office who will be covering most of his patients while she transitions in and he transitions out.”
▪️ “I am so fortunate, she’s great!!”
▪️ “LOL as if.”
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✳️ Means change from previous edition
Is your garden just too bright and cheery? Is it crying out for dark and moody plants? Get the lowdown on the Goth Garden trend tonight at the Manotick Horticultural Society's The Goth Garden & Full Moon Experience + Late Fall Design Show And Goth Costume Party. Non-members may attend for a $5 entry fee.
🆓 Artists of all levels are invited to a two-hour Powwow Life-Drawing session at the National Arts Centre (Fourth Stage), this evening from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
Beyond the Pale’s City Centre location has moved Insider Trading night to Mondays. From 5:00 pm to closing, the price of beer will rise and fall with demand.
Tickets go on sale today for the Canadian Museum of Nature Open House, on Saturday October 18. Go behind the scenes at the museum's research and collections facility in Gatineau. The tickets are free, but you'll need one to get in.
ByTowne Cinema: Eleanor the Great, The Smashing Machine Audition
Mayfair Theatre: The Roses, Peak Everything, Edgar Allen Poe’s The Oval Portrait
Gigs
East Coast Voices. LIVE on Elgin
Max McNown. Bronson Centre
Karaoke Mondays. Atomic Rooster
There are only a few tickets left for the Thanksgiving Cookie Decorating Class and Wine Tasting at Domaine Perrault.
Humanist Ottawa and the Centre for Inquiry Canada’s monthly meet up, Skeptics in the Pub is a space for atheists, free thinkers, humanists, and good, old fashioned skeptics to meet up for thoughtful conversation.
ByTowne Cinema: The Smashing Machine, The Killer
Mayfair Theatre: Peak Everything, The Roses, Chain Reaction
Gigs
Quarter Cocked Trivia. Atomic Rooster
Guy Major. Night Oat
Trivia Tuesday. Manor Lounge, Barley Mow Orléans, Barley Mow Merivale
Listen up, all of you ‘singular sensations’ with big time dreams. Ottawa Vintage Swing’s Chorus Line course doesn't require experience; you just need the desire to learn synchronized routines with a group of other dancers and have fun doing it. Wednesday nights in Sandy Hill.
Double your pleasure at Ottawa Pinball Arcade. First: play all you want for $20,including all taxes and fees, from 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Once you've played your fill, head to the adjoining Cassette Listening Bar, an all-vinyl café-bar experience with a small plate menu and a woodgrain vibe.
Ottawa Rapid FC play Vancouver Rise FC at TD Place.
ByTowne Cinema: Eleanor The Great, The Smashing Machine, Audition
Mayfair Theatre: The Roses, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Oval Portrait
Gigs
Open Mic Night and Rare Groove Wednesday. Atomic Rooster
Chris Ronald, Nathan Smith, Sam Wood. Art House
Witchrot, Subsun, Altar of the Fuzz. Dominion Tavern
Jazz Jam with the Beeched Wailers. Irene’s Pub
Monsters of Schlock, Neil E. Dee. House of TARG
The Grogans. 27 Club
There are only a few weeks left to view the Art for Wilderness: Last of the Wild Rivers exhibition at La Fab sur Mill in Chelsea. The show brings together 10 artists to interpret "one of the last free-flowing, undammed tributaries in the Ottawa River watershed." The show closes November 2.
Meet the experts in maritime fun at the 50th annual Ottawa Boat & Outdoors Show, February 19-22. Tickets $16 now or $18 at the door.
Elizabeth Payne in the Ottawa Ctizen has a good, long piece on how the National Capital Commission wants a new reputation, and a different Ottawa, and is doing it ‘one swimming dock, one red chair, one breathtaking vista at a time’.
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