Tuesday May 10, 2022

Stats – 10 May 2022

Weather: ☀️ Sunny. High of 25°, low of 13°. 

Number: $44,000. The amount of extra money that the Progressive Conservative riding association  paid Nepean MPP Lisa MacLeod annually. MacLeod was already being paid $165,850 annually as a cabinet member, plus $2,300 per month for housing. [Ottawa Citizen

Ottawan of the Day: Maurice Moore. The musicians is one of five who won a 2021 SOCAN Foundation Black Canadian Music Award. [The Charlatan]

Quote: ‘It’s institutional. There’s four concrete walls and a steel door’ – John, describing living with his family and two dogs in the dilapitaed Richmond Plaza Motel, where they had to wait before they could housed through Ottawa Community Housing. [CBC]

Sports: AUDL Ottawa Outlaws 21 – Boston Glory 19, last Friday

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