Tuesday April 19, 2022
Stats – 19 April 2022
Weather: ?️ Periods of rain mixed with snow. High of 4°, low of 0°.
Number: 10,084. The record setting number of Easter dinners provided by the Ottawa Mission over the past week. In 2019, the Mission served 2,659 dinners. [Ottawa Citizen]
Gatinoise of the Day: Victoria Vu Duc. The 15 year-old is celebrating the first anniversary of her restaurant, Vic & Co. Yes, this does raise more questions than it answers, but her mom is involved so it's probably all okay. [CBC] [Vic & Co.]
Quote: ‘A neighbourhood built in the ’50s would have had an average household size of eight. Those buildings now have less than half that, so that neighbourhood is a third of the population it used to be. Tripling the population of that neighbourhood now is not intensification, that’s just getting us back where we were.’ – Architect Rosaline Hill, who argues that if you want local shops and restaurants in your neighbourhood, you need to increase the amount of people. [Kitchissippi Times]
Sports: NHL Ottawa Senators 2 – Seattle Kraken 4, last night; CPL Atlético Ottawa 1 – Calvary FC 0, last Saturday
