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Thursday, May 8 2025

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HELLO OTTAWA

In Today’s Edition

→ LeBreton Flats apartments to be warmed and cooled by sewage

→ Last Voices of the Second World War opens at the Canadian War Museum tomorrow

→ Deals of the Day fashion on beer, tools, and sundresses with pockets

→ ⛅ High 12° Low 4° and partly cloudy  ☀️ 5:41 am 🌛 8:18 pm 

Mother’s Day

Some additional Mother’s Day ideas are:

🌹 The City suggests a City of Ottawa gift certificate that can be used for ‘courses and camps, drop-in activities and memberships’, including City of Ottawa-owned theatres.

🌹 Stop by Bicycle Craft Brewery for a cold one and shop for a Mother's Day bouquet from Riverfront Florals. Available today through Sunday while supplies last. 

🌹 Perth Brewery is taking pre-orders on Beer & Bouquets, featuring a locally grown organic bouque from Plush Petals and a can of beer.

🌹 Bring your own box – and cash — for the plants you’re going to buy at the Mother’s Day Weekend Flower Market & Potted Plant Sale in the impossibly attractive town of Almonte.

🌹  Inside Ottawa Valley suggests Mother’s Day High Tea at the Navy League in Carleton Place, Art in the Attic at Almonte Old Town Hall, a train ride at the Railway Museum of Eastern Ontario in Smiths Falls, the Eastern Ontario Craft and Gift Mother’s Day Market in Grenville, Mom’s Garden Day in Rideau Lakes, and Canthooks Mother’s Day Brunch in Calabogie.

– Martha and Darren

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    • – The increase in passengers who rode the O Train last weekend when OC Transpo dropped the price to zero. Line 1 was the favourite with 102,250 riders, 34,000 travelled on the new Lines 2 and 4. Para Transpo also saw an increase of 4 per cent in ridership.
    • Josh Pringle at CTV
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    GATINOIS OF THE DAY

    • Rémi Allen

    • The graphic artist was selected as the designer of Outaouais Tourism’s new line of shirts and totes highlighting the Outaouais itself, Petit Nation, Gatineau, Pontiac, Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, and Collines-de-l'Outaouais

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    • The convoy definitely cost him a lot. He should have stayed the hell away from it

    • – Dalhousie University political scientist Lori Turnbull, who says now former Member of Parliament from Carleton Pierre Poilievre was split between allying with people inclined to vote Conservative across the country and ‘defending the interests of his constituents, many of whom were public servants’.
    • – Elizabeth Payne: ‘Losing Carleton: Poilievre's defeat in rural Ottawa was years in the making’

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    WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL

    No more meetings this week

    Meetings and agendas

    WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

    🌊 Who would like a nice cool dip in Dow’s Lake? While the National Capital Commission has just installed a new recreational dock for kayaks, paddleboards, and other non-motorised craft, swimming is still banned at the lake. But that may change this summer: the Commission is conducting water tests and, if the water doesn’t make people ill, unsupervised swimming may be allowed. – Josh Pringle at CTV
     

    🔥 Hydro Ottawa and a new rental development at LeBreton Flats have launched a new company to make heat from sewage. The LeBreton Community Utility Partnership is a coöperation between Hydro Ottawa’s Envari division and the Odenak development. The Partnership will use heat pumps from wastewater to warm and cool the project, entirely without fossil fuels. – City of Ottawa
     

    🚗 Fourteen Honda Civic owners in the East End have had their airbags stolen. The Ottawa Police Service says that the cars were otherwise undamaged, with most owners reporting no additional items stolen. The Service doesn’t mention it in the news release, but the thefts are because the airbags are easily sold – and presumably easy to remove – with a value at dealerships of around $1,200. It also only applies to new model Hondas. That 1975 Honda Civic that Darren drove in high school is safe for many reasons, one of which being it didn’t have any airbags. – Ottawa Police Service


    🚨 Gatineau Police have opened a doorbell camera registry of residents and businesses. Similar to a project the Ottawa Police Service created a few months ago, the idea being that if an incident happens, the Police know whom to ask for video. Registration does not automatically give the video to police, the camera owner still controls who gets to see it. – Joanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen  Gatineau Police Camera Page

    DAILY POLL

    The Poll

    Last time, we asked ‘What should residents of Chelsea be called?’

    26% Chelsois and Chelsoise

    0% Chelseacois and Chelseacoise

    29% Chelski

    16% Chelseaite

    16% Chelois, Cheloise, Chelseas

    6% Not Wakefielders, Pas de Wakefielders

    6% Other

    Unfortunately, no one who chose ‘other’ gave a better suggestion.

     

    Today’s poll: Dow’s Lake may open for swimmers this summer.

    Which other body of water should be opened for swimming?

    Rideau Canal

    Morrison’s Quarry

    Under the Wakefield bridge

    Carlington Heights Reservoir

    Other (mail us at: pool@theottawan.com)

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    ✳️ Means change from previous edition

    THURSDAY

    FRIDAY

    • ✳️  The Canadian War Museum will honour Second World War veterans with a new exhibition, Last Voices of the Second World War (May 9 2025 to January 18, 2026). The exhibition integrates more than 60 intensely personal and powerful perspectives from veterans of the Second World War and their family members in an intimate and warm exhibition space. Through a rich array of interview excerpts and quotes, artifacts, artworks, photographs, and design elements, visitors will embark on a compelling and poignant exploration of a broad range of experiences of life after conflict. 

    • The Ottawa Children's Festival continues. 

    • It is sad news that independent theatre organization TACTICS is closing down. However, there’s a full weekend ahead of remembrance and celebration of all that the independent theatre organization did in its 12 years of existence. The TACTICS Sunset Season Festival will include readings, performances and tributes, all taking place at LabO, 60 Waller St. 

    • 🆓 As the Canadian Tulip Festival gets underway, give yourself a free, self-guided tour of the gardens. Then, plan to watch one of the two free moviesscreening at the festival: Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (4:00 pm) and Twisters (8:00 pm) Check out the 1-800-Got-Junk? Upcycle Garden, made completely of, you guessed it, recycled materials.

    • See more than 200 quilts on display at the Ottawa Valley Quilters Guild The Valley Blooms Quilt Show. The show continues tomorrow. Nepean Sportsplex, $10 admission. 

    • The Children’s Festival continues at Lansdowne Park.

    • Twilight fans will be dressing up, talking back to the screen, and possibly swooning under the vampy influence of it all as the ByTowne Cinema runs Breaking Dawn - Part 1. 

    • Poet, actor, and singer/songwriter Tom Waits’ catalogue is explored and reinterpreted in Songs from a Drunken Piano. 

    • It’s Royal Oak Orléans turn to host Trivia Feud, where teams compete just like on the TV show. 

    • Kiwan Farms Season Opening (3485 Hawthorne Road off Hunt Club) will have Mother’s Day Specials (think hanging baskets) amongst the locally grown produce. 

    • ByTowne Cinema: Bonjour Tristesse, Maurice, The Way, My Way, Interactive: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

    • Mayfair Theatre: Bob Trevino Likes It, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Kryptic 

      Gigs

    • Neon Ghosthouse, F!TH, Cardamom Years, Nakedburn. Rainbow Bistro

    • Adrenaline 001, Arise, Hard Techno. City at Night

    • Global Holocaust, Genetic Error, Acid Rot, Chilopoda. Dominion Tavern

    • Lucky Songs Songwriters’ Round with Chrisine Graves, Elle Sherlock, and John Carroll. Meow! That’s Hot

    • Sworn Enemy, Brick by Brick, War Nerve, Hyena. House of TARG

    • German Sparkle Party. White Rabbit
       

    SATURDAY

    JUST ANNOUNCED/ NOW BOOKING

    • Elevator Theatre Company’s production of the Broadway musical Next to Normal will run for 10 performances only. May 14-24 at the Gladstone Theatre. 

    • Saint Brigid's Centre for the Arts throws open its doors for a "Weekend at Brigid's", a two-evening celebration in a stunning heritage building. Book a ticket for The Manhattans (Friday May 16), ELK Trio (Saturday May 17) or get yourself a weekend pass. 

    • The Ottawa Kennel Club Dog Show (May 23-25) is like Christmas for dog lovers. It's free to go, but you'll be asked for a donation to the Canadian Guide Dogs. Parking is $5. No dogs allowed except those registered in the events (and service dogs).

    MOST CLICKED FROM THE PREVIOUS OTTAWAN

    1. Thailicious Food Truck
       
    2. Perch restaurant
       
    3. Cô Châm restaurant
       
    4. Linden Pizza
       
    5. Baccanalle’s signature beef patties for ByBlacks Restaurant Week

    MADE IN CANADA DEALS OF THE DAY

    Lilikoi's new Pocket Sundresses come in 16 colours. Use the code SPRINGDRESS10 to 10% on them today only. 

    Busy Bee Tools's Save the Tax Event means you'll grab deals on more than 56 tool brands starting at 8:30 am on Saturday (May 10). 

    Moms will save $1 on their beers when they visit Whiprsnapr on Sunday. 

    BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

    The Mainstreeter, the community newspaper of Old Ottawa East, has delved into its archives and found this 2003 article by historian Rick Wallace. The article goes so far back in the area’s history that not only is it just called Ottawa East, but, before that, it was known as Archville and Spenceville.

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