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STATISTICS OTTAWA

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• – The number of hours that an Ottawa woman waited for an ambulance after tripping and breaking both her legs. At the two hour mark, an ambulance did show up – but then turned around in what the Ottawa Paramedic Service called a ‘life-threatening call’.

• Dylan Dyson at CTV

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OTTAWANS OF THE DAY

• Tanya Vick & Andrew Wilson   

• The two teachers at St Michael Fitzroy school in Fitzroy Harbour have been honoured with the inaugural River Teacher Award by Ottawa Riverkeeper for their leadership, vision, and commitment in making environmental learning come to life.

• Ottawa Catholic School Board
   

QUOTE

• Why not a duet concert featuring Alanis Morissette and Paul Anka?

– Bruce Deachman offering up an orginal idea to celebrate Ottawa’s 200th birthday, as the Ottawa Citizen columnist otherwise believes that the official bicentennial plans are a snoozefest.

• ‘Ottawa is really bad at throwing parties’

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• SPORTS

• 🏒 NLL Ottawa Black Bears 7 – Vancouver Warriors 12, last Friday

• 🏒 PWHL Ottawa Charge 1 – Montréal Victoire 3, last Saturday

• 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 7 – Las Vegas Golden Knights 1, yesterday

• 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 1 – Carolina Hurricanes 4, last Saturday

• 🏒 OHL Ottawa 67s 6 – Saginaw Spirit 0, yesterday

• 🏒 OHL Ottawa 67s 4 – Oshawa Generals 3, last Saturday

• 🏒 CHL Les Olympique de Gatineau 1 – L’Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand 4, yesterday

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  WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL

  No meetings tomorrow 

  Agenda

  

  WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

  ⛳ The City should buy the Kanata Lakes golf club to protect greenspace, says City Councillor. Kanata ward councillor Cathy Curry will bring up the possibility of acquiring the Kanata Golf and Country Club at Wednesday’s City Council meeting. Despite the current owners, Clublink, winning case after case in a bid to develop much of the land into houses, the City continues to oppose development on the golf course property. – Josh Pringle at CTV

  ↪ Kanata’s Beaverbrook neighbourhood will be studied for eligibility as a Heritage Conservation District. Beaverbrook, Kanata’s original neighbourhood, is chock full of mid-century modern homes built between 1964 and 1971.

   

  🌉 Sixty-seven positions at the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum will be cut over the next three years. The job removals are part of the Federal government’s plan to reduce the number of people on the Federal payroll. The Canadian Museum of Nature, the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, the Canada Science and Technology Museum, and the National Arts Centre are all exempted from the cuts and are not expected to lose staff. – CBC

   

  🏬 Ottawa may be on the list of new locations for a renewed Zeller’s. The company that bought all the Zeller’s intellectual property is satisfied how its single relaunched store has performed in Edmonton and is planning more. The story doesn’t say Ottawa is definitely on the list, but a retail expert muses that it would be ‘fair to assume that Ottawa would be one of those markets’.   – Marissa Galko in the Ottawa Business Journal

  
  🚨 The Province’s Special Investigations Unit has been called to explore why the Ottawa Police Service left a scene where a man was found dead. On Friday night, Ottawa police were called about a minivan that had rolled over near Bank Street and Morningside Avenue. Having no success in reaching the registered owner of the van, the police then left. The next morning, an Ottawa police officer returned and found a man dead in the snow. – Rachel Morgan at CityNews

  

  THE DAILY POLL

  Which business would you like to see return to the Capital?

  🔘 Ogilvy’s

  🔘 Freiman’s

  🔘 Beaver Lumber

  🔘 Simpson-Sears

  🔘 Other

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    Previously in ottawan polls:

  • We asked, ‘Ignoring other candidates, would you vote to reëlect Mark Sutcliffe for mayor this October?’

    • 7% Yes

    • 46% No

    • 8%  I won’t vote on principle

    • 26% What kind of stupid question is this, OTTAWAN? You have to know who else is running to decide

    • 13% If Sutcliffe is against putting a diaeresis in reëlect then he has my vote

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    Commentary

  ▪️ “He is in thrall to developers.”
  
  ▪️ “After Lansdowne 2.0 and his apparent personal vendetta against biking and closing Queen Elizabeth Drive for active use in the summer, absolutely not.”
  
  ▪️ “I had high hopes for Sutcliffe, but when [he] voted yes on Landsdowne, it is obvious he is just another Watson. He also had the chance to save the speed cameras by invoking his special powers that Ford gave him but he didn’t.”
  
  ▪️ “He’s on the right track.”
  
  ▪️ “Our current mayor has been a huge disappointment. Look at Byward - once the most vibrant part of the city, now a slum. I hate going down there now. Nothing has gotten better under his watch.”
  
  ▪️ “It’s been one bad decision after another by Mark Sutcliffe. New ways to bus, Lansdowne 2.0, Tewin ... time for a change.”
  
  ▪️ “Didn’t vote for him before because I knew he would fuck up OCTranspo.”
  
  ▪️ “Can’t get rid of him fast enough.” 
  
  ▪️ “Not a chance.”
  
  ▪️ “He didn’t get my vote the first time.”
  
  ▪️ “Didn’t vote for him the first time, and he’s shown I was right not to, so certainly wouldn’t give him a second chance ”
  
  ▪️ “I didn’t even read your other options. Just no. What a disaster.”
  
  ▪️ “Mark has been great for the City.”
  
  ▪️ “I’m not a fan. At a very basic level, too many questionable policies, abysmal funding choices and the City’s population is suffering as a result. The time for radical change in now!”
  
  ▪️ “I really need to know more about who is running and on what they are going to do for our city first before making a decision.”
  
  ▪️ “He has accomplished nothing of consequence in his term as Mayor. Time for change!”
  
  ▪️ “RTO and Lansdowne 2.0 cost him any chance of my vote. (5500 is not enough).”
  
  ▪️ “I’ll never vote for someone who boast[s] about keeping the tax low, especially when the City can’t deliver services worthy of a G7 country capital.”
  
  ▪️ “Too developer friendly. Does not push back hard enough on bad provincial decisions such as abolishing speed cameras. Has no exciting vision for Ottawa.”
  
  ▪️ “He’s a heck of a lot better than Jim Watson.”
  
  ▪️ “I didn’t vote for him the first time, I’m certainly not going to be voting to re-elect him.”
  
  ▪️ “He is the worst. I will actively campaign AGAINST his reëlection.”
  
  ▪️ “Poor decision after poor decision. No thank you.”
  
  ▪️ “Didn’t vote for him last time and he has done nothing to make me think that I should have done so.”​​​

  

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  THE ROLLING THREE DAY CALENDAR

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  ✳️ Means change from previous edition

  MONDAY

  • Campus to Stage is a new series showcasing Carleton University’s best emerging artists Nic Code, Jude Zappala, and Kent Nesrellah, at the Robo Lounge (The Glebe)

  • Improv artistes should warm up for tonight’s theme at The Wheel of Whatever: ‘Do Scenes, Get Notes’ with Rich Hilborn. 

  • 🆓  Eric Lee (piano) and Nate Mears (percussion) of uOttawa’s School of Music present a free chamber concert. Head to the NAC’s Fourth Stage; advance registration is appreciated. (Downtown)

Cinema

• ByTowne Cinema: The Voice of Hind Rajab 

• Mayfair Theatre:  Mr. Nobody Against Putin, Hard Boiled  

Gigs

• The 5-Star Monday Band. The Laff

• Karaoke Mondays. Atomic Rooster

TUESDAY

• An evening of cozy camaraderie awaits at Willow ‘Yarn’ Club, where knitting, sewing, and crocheting are all on the menu. Or, just bring a book and come for the chatting.(Richmond)  

• 🆓 The Wizard’s Tower Board Game and Chess Meet-Up Night happens every Tuesday. (Barrhaven) 

• Ottawa Senators play Colorado Avalanche at Canadian Tire Centre (Kanata)

Cinema

• ByTowne Cinema: The Year of Hind Rajab, Banff Mountain Film Festival  

• Mayfair Theatre: Nuremberg, Father Mother Sister Brother, The Running Man  

Gigs

• Trivia night. The Robo Lounge (The Glebe), The Laff (ByWard Market), Moose McGuire’s (Hunt Club), Moose McGuire’s (Orléans) Overflow Brewing Company (Alta Vista), Broadhead Brewery (Orléans)

• Vacancy, Jai Vinyl.  Avant-Garde Bar

• Nic Code's Chronology Trio. Night Oat

WEDNESDAY

• 🆓 Improvising Chamber ensemble Collected Strands performs a program of Winter Impressions: pieces that consider the ways we feel about the deep, dark days of winter. Doors Open for Music at Southminster United Church (Ottawa South) 

• 🆓 Let’s talk about death, baby: Dr. Jospeh Rogers leads a discussion about the afterlife, and how the world's faiths interpret what's to come (Rockcliffe Park)  

• Try a single Lindy Hop class with Ottawa Vintage Swing (Centretown)   

• Test your knowledge and your dabber hand at Brew Revolution’s Music Bingo Night. (Stittsville) 

• Perfect if you can't commit to a weekly course, the Ottawa School of Art Winter Workshop Wednesdays are one-evening sessions on a variety of skills. Tonight: Paining and Drawing: Symbolism and Fantasy (Orléans campus)  

• Shake off the arctic doldrums with Atlantic Firth, who play Celtic dance music at Red Bird tonight. 

• Wine Wednesday at Manor Lounge means $17 half-litres of Manor Red or White and 50% off select bottles. Not a wine drinker? Consider the $9 desserts (select menu). (Centretown/Golden Triangle) 

Cinema

• ByTowne Cinema: Closed For Minor Renovations

• Mayfair Theatre: Father Mother Sister Brother, When Harry Met Sally…, Vampyros Lesbos

Gigs

• Jade LeMac: It’s Always At Night Tour. Algonquin Commons Theatre

• Red Maple Blues. Beyond the Pale (ByWard Market location)

• The Early Set with Yves Laroche. The Robot Lounge

• Taproom Trivia. Stray Dog Brewing

JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING

• 🆓 Creative Mornings Ottawa activates 2026 with a session on Koorsoo, the Farsi word for ‘a glimmer of hope’. Presented by CKCU Station Director Lia Kiessling, the Carleton University-based community radio station will broadcast live from the venue. (Hintonburg/Mechancisville)

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• In the Ottawa Citizen, Lynn Saxberg has ‘Six overlooked ways to make the ByWard Market better’:  Take action on homelessness, learn to live without cars, fill vacant buildings, bring back a farmers’ market, connect the courtyards, and develop the fringe. 

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