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Ottawa Jazz Festival is trying to raise $400,000 by Dec. 1. The festival reported $3.6M in revenue and $3.7M in expenditures for the year ending Aug. 31, 2024.

A Reddit post is sharing the city's mayoral election results mapped out, and the early read is another urban-suburban split. The full map and methodology aren't in the post itself.

A man has been charged in an assault that left a victim unconscious in a ditch outside the Canadian Tire Centre. Police were called on Oct. 22.

Arsenal v Liverpool viewing party this Sunday, doors open at 10am at Deacon Brodies. The Liverpool supporters group is watching there, so get in early.

Yesterday between 8am and noon the temperature jumped from -0.8°C to 16.6°C, a 17.4-degree swing. A Reddit weather poster says it's Ottawa's biggest 4-hour jump since April 2014, but there's no official confirmation yet.

Heads up: a fake email is going around pretending to be from the City's Recreation department, offering teams a priority deal on sports fields. Delete it and don't click the links.

Official 2026 Ottawa election results are up on the city site. A quick look shows no big shifts, and there's a full poll-by-poll spreadsheet if you want to dig in.

Someone on Reddit spotted a bright meteor or bolide streak across the north-west sky around 1:04am. Nobody else has confirmed it yet, so it's an unverified sighting for now.

someone on r/ottawa is looking for an artist who does landscape paintings to commission a birthday piece. Ottawa or nearby towns, style matters more than price.

Vision Zero Ottawa is asking people to log near-miss pedestrian and cyclist incidents, since the city isn't collecting that data itself. Worth a look if you've had a close call.

65 charges came out of a two-night Ottawa south police project, and one redditor is glad but still wants speeding cameras back.

Barrhaven this morning: Flagstaff and Borrisokane. A new Pharmasave just opened at 652 Flagstaff in the Nukk Borrisokane mall, and a resident says truck traffic on Flagstaff has jumped a lot this year.

A Reddit post is asking whether a Zombie Walk or Halloween parade is happening in Ottawa this year. The last one anyone remembers was in 2012, and nobody has posted a date yet.

Ottawa in a wheelchair: a partial wheelchair user says the city is pretty manageable with a manual chair. Airport tip: ask for help when you deplane.

Anyone remember the Halloween nights at Whispers in Westboro? No cover, costume contests. Someone's looking for that same chill vibe this year.

Ottawa's going all out on selling its nightlife. Someone on r/ottawa flagged it, and the city's own plan says nightlife spending hit over $1.5 billion in 2019.

someone on r/ottawa is looking for a way to get involved in a schizophrenia study at The Royal. they're recruiting people with schizophrenia who don't have auditory hallucinations, contact is BrainLab@theroyal.ca.

a poster on r/ottawa is asking how the PQ's pledge to scrap the time change would affect Ottawa-Gatineau. the post has no details yet, just the question.

someone's asking for custom cake spots that can do a specific colour theme on a $60 budget. no location given so folks will need to chime in with their area.

a poster on r/ottawa shared a weekly real estate recap for the city. the post itself is just a link, so the figures are not in view here.