Stats – 14 April 2022

14 April 2022

Weather: ?️ Showers. High of 16°, low of 2°. 

Number: $5 million. The amount of a donation to the University of Ottawa, one of the largest individual philanthropic gifts it has ever received. The Susan, Perry, Taylor, and Nicholas Dellelce Legacy Fund will go to the law school, seeding a renovation and expansion of Fauteux Hall and funding a Dean. [Eureka Alert

Ottawan of the Day: Marko Curuvija. The filmmaker has produced Moving Day, documenting the day over 200 people living in a Victoria park were forced to leave by the City, many having lived there for over a year. Moving Day is at the Mayfair Theatre this evening. [Ottawa Citizen]

Quote: ‘And no screens. I love it’ – Musician Elizabeth Bruce – half of Libby & Cal – on Ottawa's newest live music venue, Old Ottawa South’s Red Bird. [Capital Current]

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