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Ottawa City Hall. The City of Ottawa has put its new draft official plan up for public input. Since 2003, a few years after the city we know today was created in amalgamation, Ottawa has had the same official plan. Since early 2019, the city has been working on creating a new plan from the ground up. ...

Photo: An inside look at Ottawa’s Combined Sewage Storage Tunnel, tweeted by Mayor Jim Watson in 2018. At a ceremony today, the City celebrated the official start of operations of the Combined Sewage Storage Tunnel, a major investment to protect the health of the Ottawa River. ...

Alex Trebek, Jeopardy host and University of Ottawa alumus, has passed away at the age of 80. The broadcaster had announced last year that he had stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Trebek graduated uOttawa in 1961 with a degree in philosophy and received Key to the City from Mayor Jim Watson in 2016. ...

Sylvain de Margerie, Chef Kent Van Dyk and Chef Joe Thottungal on the packaging line for Food for Thought Ottawa. (Photo via FFTO) (Via Food For Thought Ottawa) After being closed for months, the main kitchen at the Fairmont Château Laurier (FCL) will soon be alive again with the aromas and sounds of thousands of meals prepared in partnership with Food for Thought Ottawa (FFT). ...

Larry Murray, Grand President of The Royal Canadian Legion Dominion Command, presents a cheque to Caroline Dromaguet, Acting Director General of the Canadian War Museum. Copyright Canadian War Museum 2020-0028-001-Dm. (Via Canadian War Museum) During the Remembrance period, the Canadian War Museum is an important place to learn more about Canada’s military history and to remember Canadians’ service, sacrifice and loss. ...

Face masks will remain mandatory on transit and enclosed public spaces until at least early next year. Masks will remain mandatory throughout the rest of 2020 and into early 2021. City Council today approved extending the Temporary Mandatory Mask By-law. The by-law requires masks be worn on transit and in enclosed public spaces to help limit the spread of COVID-19. ...

“Snow Mist” At Portage Bridge Park, Ottawa. Photo by @DMacOttawa via Twitter. Ottawans woke up on Monday not only to a chilly temperature, but some snow as well. Not unusually, as Rolf Campbell at Ottawa Weather Records notes. Late October is a normal time for first snowfall in Ottawa — although it always catches us offguard nonetheless. ...

Three local writers were honoured with the prestigious Ottawa Book Awards at a recent virtual ceremony, hosted by Mayor Jim Watson. Each were awarded a prize of $7,500. Henry Beissel received the Ottawa Book Award in the English fiction category for his collection of poems Footprints of Dark Energy (Guernica Editions Inc. ...

(Via the Centretown BUZZ) Ottawa’s most central community paper, The Centretown BUZZ, celebrates its 25th anniversary this month. In its honour, the City of Ottawa has proclaimed October 19 “Centretown BUZZ Day”. The BUZZ published its first issue in October 1995 and has continued to cover the Centretown neighbourhood (downtown, Ottawa River to the Queensway, Rideau Canal to LRT line 2) ever since. ...

(Via the Province of Ontario) In consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health, the Public Health Measures Table, and local medical officers of health and other health experts, the Ontario government is introducing additional targeted public health measures in the Ottawa, Peel, and Toronto public health unit regions. ...