STATISTICS OTTAWA

NUMBER

• $30,000,000

• The value of the four year contract extension that Sens centre Shane Pinto negotiated with the team, an average of US $7.5 million  per year.

• Bruce Garrioch in the Ottawa Citizen

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OTTAWAN OF THE DAY

• Elizabeth Payne 

• The longtime health reporter for the Ottawa Citizen has been honoured with the Medical Journalism Award by the  Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians.

• In particular, she was noted for her ‘coverage of increases in hallway medicine, the impacts of pandemic funding cuts on Ottawa hospitals, as well as how new AI tools could reduce risks for heart attack patients’.

• Natasha Baldin in the Ottawa Citizen 

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• Thank you, and goodnight

• – The final line of an Instagram post by tennis champ Gabriela Dabrowski as she announces her professional break-up with doubles partner Erin Routliffe of New Zealand. 

• Together, the pair won three titles this year at Stuttgart, Cincinnati and the US Open. 

• The Canadian Press

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  SPORT

• 🏒 OHL Ottawa 67s 2 – Kingston Frontenacs 1, yesterday

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  WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL

  Ottawa Police Service Board Policy and Governance Committee
  Friday, November 14 at 10:00 am

  • Investigations and Reports Under Section 81 of the Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019
  • CSPA Update: Policies Le-001 Community Patrol, LE-003 Crime, Call and Public Disorder Analysis

  Agenda

  

  WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

  🪖 The Department of Defence is hoping that Federal public employees will bolster the reserves to 300,000 members. Although she is now walking the idea back a bit, Chief of the Defence Staff General Jennie Carignan was working on a plan to train public employees to handle firearms, drive trucks and fly drones in case of mobilization of the supplementary reserves. – David Pugliese in the Ottawa Citizen 

   

  🫰 Why not make a financial donation to the City, asks the City? On the draft budget page of the website, the City has added a link to the ‘City of Ottawa Contribution Program’, asking residents to donate $5 to $25,000 to support programs and services. In most cases, it will be tax deductable.  – City of Ottawa Contribution Program

  ↪ Ottawa Police Service says it needs a 5 per cent increase in its budget – $26.1 million – because its crime clearance rate is dropping. ‘Crime clearance’, a term of art which means crimes that are reported and result in a charge, is now 26 per cent (as of 2024), the second lowest in Ontario’s 12th largest municipalities. 

   

  🗑️ The City is considering buying a private landfill at the intersection of Highway 417 and Boundary Road. The Capital Region Resource Recovery Centre is 475 acres and already pre-approved to accept 450,000 tonnes of waste annually. The landfill is coöwned by the Taggart development people, and no purchase price has been mentioned. The City’s current landfill,  Trail Road, is expected to have 10 to 15 years of life left in it. – Josh Pringle at CTV

  

  THE DAILY POLL

  Will you be making a donation to the City of Ottawa?

  🔘 Yes, funding needed services by donation is much more fair than by taxation

  🔘 No, if they City needs the funds it probably should collect it in taxes or fees

  🔘 It’s only fair that property owners get cut a break with money from my hard work

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    Previously in ottawan polls:

  • We asked, ‘What do you think of a 2.5% increase in transit fares?’

    • 9% Transit users need to pay their fair share of running the service

    • 52% It's counterproductive and results in people avoiding transit

    • 6% It’s a 2.5% increase in a service that comes nowhere near where I live

  • 
    Commentary

  ▪️ “They just increased it! And we’re in an affordability crisis??”
  
  ▪️ “Mediocre Mark thought OSEG was a more deserving recipient of citizens money rather than transit.”
  
  ▪️ “There are municipalities that have made transit free as helps the disadvantaged and reduces traffic. What’s cheaper, free transit or expensive road construction?”
  
  ▪️ “If you want people to use transit, it must be affordable.”
  
  ▪️ “Public transit is a service, not a profitable program. The more we try to push costs onto consumers, the less useful the service becomes. Which is, of course, exactly what Sutcliffe wants.”
  
  ▪️ “The cost of transit has far outpaced inflation. It used to be convenient, affordable, and reliable. It is no longer affordable or reliable, and contracture of bus and train runs is decreasing convenience. What’s the cost increase getting me?”
  
  ▪️ “Demand for the service will not increase with a fare increase. It needs to be more affordable, not less.”
  
  ▪️ “Current city leadership seems to have a knack for making the worst possible choice at every turn.”
  
  ▪️ “I live not far from work but not close enough to walk. As it stands now driving and parking is comparable to taking the lrt.”
  
  ▪️ “My husband and I are infrequent transit users. Even at current rates, a round trip for 2 is $16.00. Parking, even downtown, is usually less than that for 2 or 3 hours. Plus transit takes double the time. We need more buses!”
  
  ▪️ “No train service just after 1st snowfall ... no explanation at Tunney’s pasture ... no R1 buses ... horrible service. How dare they ask for more without giving what was promised.”
  
  ▪️ “Each time Ottawans see these types of increases, it is time to remind themselves which councillors voted ‘yes’ to spend $440 million on a smaller arena and north side stands at Lansdowne.”
  
  ▪️ “Transit should be free.”
  
  ▪️ “Prices keep going up while service keeps getting worse. With recent changes, the closest stop to my house is now 1 km away (and I don’t even live in the suburbs), which resulted in decreasing my use of public transit.”
  
  ▪️ “It’s time to make public transit both reliable and free. It’s an essential service, the same as public education, Fire Department, and Police Services.”
  
  ▪️ “The police can definitely do without that extra 5%. It should go to transit improvement and *decreasing* the fare to stop OC transpo’s death spiral from service that gets simultaneously more expensive and worse every year.”​​​​

  

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  THE ROLLING THREE DAY CALENDAR

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  THURSDAY

  • ✳️  Kind Winter Fest, the cannabis-friendly marketplace with more than 30 weed brands, opened yesterday at Aberdeen Pavilion. During today's Day 2, check out the brands, get some free swag, and maybe score in the merch giveaways. You'll also find food, drink, and artisan vendors at the event.

  • 🆓 If you’ve got money questions that you’re too embarrassed to ask, check out Making Bank: Money Skills for Real Life with author Shannon Lee Simmons. It’s aimed at tweens, teens, and their parents.  

  • View works by Rah Eleh, Kite & Alisha B Wormsley, Adrienne Matheuszik, Komi Olafimihan, Isabella Salas, and Kira Xonorika in the new exhibition And I  Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways. Vernissage tonight from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. 

  • Minoshkite Ingenous Music & Arts Festival has expanded to two nights, and tonight's opener features Amanda Rheaume, Mimi O'Bonsawin, Aspects, and Qattuu. Pay What you Can (suggested ticket price $10).   

  • Get your nosy neighbour hat on and check out Homes for the Holidays / Les Maisons des fêtes today through Sunday. While you view gorgeous homes impeccably decorated for the season, you'll be raising funds for Hospice Care Ottawa. 

  • Looking to start a new improv troupe? The Thursday Jam Bake Meet and Mingle is for you. 

  • You have just a few more chances to catch Babette’s Feast at the Gladstone Theatre. 

  • ByTowne Cinema: Nuremberg, Restoration: Lifeforce

  • Mayfair Theatre: Train Dreams, Weapons
    
    Gigs

  • Terry Baine. Rainbow Bistro

  • CKCU Funding Drive Party with Bird Dog, The Retrospects, and radio hosts spinning vinyl. House of TARG

  • Hawksley Workman. National Arts Centre

  • Ian Sherwood. Red Bird

  • Rox Anne. Night Oat 

  FRIDAY

  Darren and Martha attended an event featuring Crispin Hellion Glover (of Back to the Future and River's Edge fame) around 30 years go in Vancouver, at which time, if memory serves, he presented a slide show and an intriguing film. The passing of time has not dulled our impression of a strange (but fun) evening. He’ll be at the Mayfair Theatre tonight and tomorrow night for the Canadian premiere of his new work No! YOU'RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a Distance, and we’re pretty sure it's going to be another memorable evening.  Actually, Glover will be in town all weekend so he can also present a 35mm screening of It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. on Sunday November 16  and What Is It? on Monday November 17. 

  • ✳️  Catch the magic of the Christmas Tree Lighting in downtown Kemptville from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. 

  • ✳️  Eat something incredible at Crave Food and Wine Festival. 

  • The new exhibition of Sarah Tomkins paintings, Roman Candle, opens with a figurative bang at de Montigny Contemporary from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm  

  • Road Trip: Aside from the two floors of vendors, the Christmas Market at the Maple Leaf - Almrausch Club in Carlsbad Springs has a German food vibe, including an outdoor Wurst Hut. Tonight from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm (continues tomorrow and Sunday) 

  • On the second night of Minoshkite Indigenous Music & Arts Festival, you'll experience Reuben and the Bullhorn Sisters, Sebastian Gaskin, Drives the Common Man, and Siibii live.  

  • Today's another chance to swoon over Homes for the Holidays / Les Maisons des fêtes (today through Sunday). 

  • Tonight and every Friday night until December 19, the Gloucester Centre gets festive with the Gloucester Holiday Night Market (4:00 pm to 8:00 pm).  

  • This year’s tickets to Crave Food and Wine Festival come with a sheet of sample tickets (a $10 value) and access to the show floor, with its themed sections, culinary and mixologist demos, masterclasses, and live music. Rogers Centre, today from 4:00 pm (continues tomorrow).  

  • Velvet-voiced Laurence Wall narrates Once Upon An Orchestra: A Concert of Music Storytelling, by Divertimento Orchestra. 

  • Second show added: Wrap yourself in Celtic Canadiana vibes as East Coast Experience visits Stray Dog Brewing Co for a standing room only shindig. 

  • Across town Bytown Sea Shanty Collective return to Beyond the Pale (City Centre location) for another rousing singalong. 

  • You have just a few more chances to catch Babette’s Feast at the Gladstone Theatre. 

  • ByTowne Cinema: Nouvelle Vague, Wrong Husband (Uiksaringitarau), Drunken Cinema: Back to the Future

  • Mayfair Theatre: Left-handed Girl, No! YOU’RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a Distance

    Gigs

  • Reuben and the Bullhorn Singers. Bronson Centre

  • Justin Duhaime and Friends. Night Oat

  • The Forgotten Ones. Carleton Tavern

  • Simbasol. City at Night

  • Siibii. Avant-Garde Bar

  • 80s Dance Party with DJ Remi Royale. House of TARG

  • Pimienta Latin Jazz. Irene’s Pub

  SATURDAY

  • Update your gear at the Mount Pakenham annual community ski swap 9:00 am - 5:00 pm and Sunday 10:00 am - 3:00 pm. 

  • Catch the inaugural Ottawa Outdoor Film Festival from the comfort of the ByTowne Cinema. 

  • Although it’s been serving already, Gloucester’s newest Equator Coffee gets a grand opening shindig from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Enjoy specials, live music, and vendors. 

  • It’s a big day at Re-Read Used Books in Stittsville: from 10:00 am the shop will be selling its popular Book Advent Calendars. 

  • 🆓 Not ready for the glitz of the festive season? Go analogue and enjoy the November Puzzle Social at Greenboro Community Centre. It's a friendly event but there are also "mini speed puzzle challenges" if you're feeling competitive. 

  • Tuck into the second day of Crave Food and Wine Festival

  • ByTowne Cinema:  Wrong Husband (Uiksaringitara), Albert Number One, Outdoor Ottawa Film Festival, Nouvelle Vague 

  • Mayfair Theatre: Left-Handed Girl, No! YOU’RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a Distance. 

    Gigs

  • Acrobat (U2 tribute band). Hard Rock Ottawa

  • The Strumbellas. Bronson Centre Music Theatre

  • St. Stephens, Tilda. LIVE on Elgin

  • Allan Rayman, Hannah Vig. Overflow Brewing Co

  • Guest Room Status, Dart Trees, Avec Plaisir, Weekend Goodbye. Rainbow Bistro

  • Abigail Lapell. National Arts Centre Fourth Stage

  • Kurtis Conner. National Arts Centre Southam Hall

   

  Support local artisans at these Christmas Markets and Craft Fairs: 

  • Glebe Craft & Artisan Fair today and tomorrow  

  • 🆓 613Flea is inside Aberdeen Pavilion today. Shop one of a kind things and treat yourself to something yummy from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.  

  • Road Trip: The German Christmas Market continues in Carlsbad Springs.

  • 🆓 Ritchie’s Famous Christmas Bazaar brings more than 100 local vendors to the corner of Ottawa Street and Eagleson Road in Richmond.  You'll also find a festive greenhouse, seasonal drinks, and all the winter greenery you'll need to decorate your house in style. Continues tomorrow. 

  • 🆓 The Log Farm opens up for the Annual Christmas Market, with 50 vendors on site. Free parking. 

  • 🆓 Buy handmade knitted, crocheted and wood items at Salvation Army Christmas Craft Market.

  • National Capital Artisans’ Holiday Magic Craft Show 1-Day  is so big it fills two gyms at Lester B. Pearson school. 

  • 🆓 Sleep in and check out the Nostalgic November Market: At the Warehouse, by Urban Art Collective. 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm at the Iconic Warehouse (28 Booth St) 

  • Source locally made crafts and art at Sandy Hill’s One and Only Arts & Crafts Fair 2025 

  • Visit the lovely Community Centre at 175 Third Ave for the Glebe Craft & Artisan Fair. 

  • Road Trip: La Fab Sur Mill's first-ever Youth Holiday Market showcases the work of young artisans and crafters. 

  • 🆓 The tropical greenhouses will be dressed in seasonal finery at the Robert Plante Greenhouses 3rd Annual Holiday Market. (Continues tomorrow.)

  • Road Trip: Enjoy a day in the country at the Perth Christmas Farmers Market.  

   

  Take the littles to a Santa Claus Parade:

  • Cornwall 

  • Kemptville Rotary Santa Claus Parade 

   

  Find big deals at these Christmas bazaars:

  • Danish Club of Ottawa Annual Christmas Bazaar 

  • Knox United Church

  • Trinity United Church 

  • Orléans United Church 

  • Christ Church Bells Corners  

  • First Unitarian 

   

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  • Wear something special for the Tutored Holiday Cocktail Party with mixologist Ihab Mouma at The Hyde on Thursday November 27. 

  • Get in the spirit of the season at Christmas With Music and Beyond on December 21.  

  

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  Tobias Lütke, the chief executive officer of local mom and pop business Shopify, is number four on Maclean’s 2025 rich list. Lütke, of course, abandoned Ottawa for Toronto a few years ago but we’re not going to let go of him that easily. It’s estimated he is worth $19.1 billion.

  At number 37, the Lalji family from Vancouver with a mere $5 billion is also worth mentioning as they own the Château Laurier. 

  

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