✈️ If you need to be in Montréal in 30 minutes, and it is a Thursday, Gatineau airport has you covered. Charter air company Propair has launched a new service from the small Gatineau airport to Montréal’s Trudeau using 18 seater propeller craft. Return flights leave on Sundays. Propair has also launched Thursday and Sunday flights between Gatineau and Rouyn-Noranda.  – Davide Buscemi in Le Citoyen (In French)

❌ Queers for Palestine had yesterday’s Pride Parade cancelled. After the parade started at 1:00 pm, the group blocked the road and demanded that Capital Pride be public about its pro-Palestine values, and that Mayor Mark Sutcliffe apologize for pulling out of last year’s Pride Parade after Capital Pride published a statement promising to recognize ‘the ongoing genocide against Palestinians’. – Gabrielle Huston at CBC 

Capital Pride announced the cancellation of the parade at 3:00 pm on Instagram. Capital Pride later posted another Instagram, explaining that Queers for Pride were invited by the Grand Marshall to participate but found that they were not willing to negotiate in good faith once they had blocked the road.   

🧪 Ottawa Riverkeeper is asking the public to support its petition asking Ottawa Public Health to bring back daily water testing. The Riverkeeper says its math shows that reducing testing of water on the City’s beaches to one day out of seven leads to results that are 20 per cent false. Besides the cost, Ottawa Public Health maintains that one day per week testing is reasonable, particularly because results take a few days. – Ottawa Riverkeeper (Petition at link)

🏌️‍♀️ After two years without a title, Brooke Henderson won the Canadian Women’s Open over the weekend. The Smiths Fallsian shot a 4-under 67, one stroke better than Australia’s Minjee Lee.  – John Chidley-Hill in the Canadian Press  

🚌 The Ottawa Student Transportation Authority says that, unlike last year, it doesn’t expect any long term cancellations when the kids go back to school. Last year, around 7,500 students needed to find another way to get to school when the Authority couldn’t provide enough buses, due to a lack of drivers. The Authority provides school bus services for both the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the Ottawa Catholic School Board. – Joanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen

MONDAY

• Start the week right with some culinary self-care: book your three course, prix fixe menu lunch or dinner at Soca Kitchen for $42 per person.  

• Sharpen your funny bone at the Barley Mow (Merivale) Stand-Up Comedy Open Mic. 

• ByTowne Cinema:  Sorry, Baby, Detour: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Eddington

• Mayfair Theatre:  Souleymane’s Story, Some Like it Hot, Manhunter 

  Gigs

• Karaoke Mondays. Atomic Rooster

TUESDAY

• Canada Agriculture and Food Museum’s Memories Are Made in the Kitchen explores the traditions, objects, and stories from kitchens throughout Canada. It's included with your museum admission until September 30.

• To mark its 150th birthday, the Supreme Court of Canada is offering activities and exhibitions all year. Explore the history of the court in the special exhibit at the grand entrance until October 9. 

• Play unlimited games from 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm at House of TARG, when you pay the $12.50 + tax cover fee.  

• ByTowne Cinema: Eddington, Staff Picks: Little Miss Sunshine, Sorry, Baby     

• Mayfair Theatre: The Last Class, Shouleymane’s Story, There Will Be Blood   

  Gigs

• Quarter Cocked Trivia. Atomic Rooster

• The Havoc. Dominion Tavern

WEDNESDAY

• For a mid-week adventure, you’d have to try hard to do better than Metalachi, ‘The World's First and Only Heavy Metal Mariachi Band’ at Overflow Brewing.

• Is your Grammar Police badge polished up? Irene’s Pub hosts Glenys Marshall's Spelling Bee, with tough questions, games, and big words. 

• ByTowne Cinema: Hola Frida!, Restoration: Ikiru, 2025 Cat Video Fest 

• Mayfair Theatre: The Last Class, F1, Manhunter  
  
  Gigs

• Rare Groove Wednesdays. Atomic Rooster

• Mikhaiil Laxton, Angelique Francis Band. St Charles Market (135 Barrette St)

• Mary Shelley. Dominion Tavern

• Celtic Celebration. Red Bird

• Wednesday Night Swings with Somerset Love. Bar Robo

• The Count Ferrara, My Hill, Bttr Wrlds. House of TARG

JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING

• Ottawa City Woodshed’s October course schedule has dropped. Book fast; they usually sell out. 

• Toronto author Miriam Toews turns her gaze inward as she talks about her memoir A Truce That is Not Peace. Presented by the Ottawa International Writers Festival on September 16.