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KARAOAKE NIGHT at the Stray Dog Brewing Company, 501 Lacolle Way. Come sing your heart out with old and new friends, and enjoy some cold beers, delicious snacks with a side of good times! Music starts at 9 p.m.

SDBC TAPROOM CONCERTS PRESENTS Bluegrass Night with Crooked Creek at the Stray Dog Brewing Company, 510 Lacolle Way in the Taylor Creek Business Park. Tickets $10 available at straydogbrewing.ca.

TRIVIA NIGHT from 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday night at the Royal Oak Pub Orléans. Free to play. Prizes for the winning team! The Royal Oak Pub is located at 1981 St. Joseph Blvd. near Jeanne d'Arc. For more info visit facebook.com/RoyalOakPubsOrleans.

MUSIC BINGO at the Orléans Brewing Co. from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. hosted by Shine Karaoke. Free to play with consumption. The Orléans Brewing Co. is located at 4380 Innes Rd. across from Precision Automotive.

TRIVIA NIGHT from 6:30 p.m. at the Stray Dog Brewing Company. Exercise your grey matter before it turns to mush over the holidays. Reservations are a must to secure your spot. Send your team name and number of people to info@straydogbrewing.ca. The Stray Dog Brewing Company is located at 501 Lacolle Way in the Taylor Creek Business Park.

QUEENSWOOD HEIGHTS WINTER FESTIVAL from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Queenswood Ridge Park, 346 Kennedy Lane East. Sledding and snow-based games at St. Helen's Anglican Church. Face painting, skating and free hot chocolate. Presente by the Queenswood Heights Community Association.

FÊTE FRISSONS celebration at the Shenkman Arts Centre from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. featuring art and dance workshops, demonstrations and performances. Fun for the whole family. For more info visit shenkmanarts.ca.

COMPLETE BILLBOARD LISTINGS

City council green lights purchase of Carlsbad Springs landfill site
Fred Sherwin
Jan. 16, 2026

Ottawa city council has given staff the go ahead to negotiate, enter into and finalize an agreement to purchase the Capital Region Resource Recovery Centre, located on Boundary Road between Devine Road and Hwy. 417.

The 373 acre site is currently owned by Taggart Miller Environmental Services. Although the site went through the necessary Ontario Ministry of Environment approval process in 2017, it has remained unused since then.

During the development of the city’s new Solid Waste Master Plan last year, purchasing an existing site was one of the options put forward to deal with city’s future waste management needs.

The city’s current landfill site on Trail Road is expected to reach its maximum capacity within 10-15 years. It would take at least that long to find a new site and go through the necessary approval process.

Purchasing the Boundary Road site eliminates the need to start from ground zero and the political ramifications and fallout that inevitably ensue. It is still not known how much the Boundary Road site will cost, estimates put the price tag at between $250M and $450M.

The motion to purchase the site passed by a margin of 20-5, with Orléans East-Cumberland councillor Matt Luloff aand Orléans South-Navan councillor Catherine Kitts among the five councillors who voted against.