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Canadian Independent Bookstore Day is just around the corner, and there are two upcoming ways to win great prizes.

First, the Ottawa Indie Bookstore Crawl returns after a successful launch last year. The event involves touring around Ottawa’s these fine indie shops to collect stamps on a specially designed card: Books on Beechwood, Mill Street Books, Perfect Books, Singing Pebble Books, The Spaniel's Tale, Westboro Books, Octopus Books, and World of Maps. Collect the stamps from Friday April 26 to Sunday April 28 to be entered into a draw to win a $200 Ottawa indie bookstore shopping spree.

The other way to win is on the big day itself: simply shop at any of the above stores to be in with a chance to win $1000 from indiebookstore.ca.

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Ottawan of the Day

• Jerome Watters
• – The bus driver for OC Transpo has received an award from the transportation agency for his 45 years of service without an accident. (Ottawa Citizen)

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• Elgin is the best candidate

• – Ottawa resident Stephen Hickson in Twitter response to Knoxdale-Merivale ward councillor Sean Devine’s question about which would be the best streets to be car free this summer. Devine was riffing on the news that Montréal is making 11 street car free this year. (Sam Houpt at CTV)

Sports

• 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 5 – Montréal Canadiens 4 last Saturday
• ⚽ CPL Atlético Ottawa 2 – York United 1 last Saturday

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CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall

Environment and Climate Change Committee
Tuesday, April 16 at 9:30 am

• 2024 Financial Plan for the Renewal of the Municipal Drinking Water License, Pursuant to Ontario Regulation 453/07
• Residential Stormwater Retrofit Pilot Program: Rain Ready Ottawa

📋 Agenda

Accessibility Advisory Committee
Tuesday, April 16 at 6 pm

• Idling Control By-law Review
• O-Train Operations Transition to Push-Button Doors
• 2024 City of Ottawa Municipal Accessibility Plan Update Report
• Accessibility Advisory Committee – Workplan 2024-2026

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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🌊 Ottawa River

•  The Ottawa River Planning Board is warning residents in low lying areas to be wary of floods. While water levels in Ottawa, Arnprior, and Gatineau are normal for this time of year, the water levels up river are much higher. (William Eltherington at CTV)

🚨 Ottawa Police Service

•  An Ottawa constable has pleaded guilty for assaulting a 13 year-old boy with mental health issues. Police took the boy to CHEO after responding to a call from his mother, who reported the boy was violent and not taking his meds. At the hospital, the boy continued to verbally insult the constable, who then assaulted the boy for 10 minutes in front of a nurse and the other constable. The Crown wants a 30-day conditional sentence order with house arrest, while the constable wants a conditional discharge and community service. (Joseph Tunney at CBC) 

🚊 O Train

•  The western extention of the O Train could open by 2027, says City. This is the bit of the line that will run from Tunney’s Pasture west to Moodie Drive, with a spur to Algonquin College. It was planned to open in 2025. See some nice pictures of the tunnel in the story. (Marlo Glass in the Ottawa Citizen)

🚲 E-Bikes

•  An entrepreneur’s dream of an all e-bike service in Hawkesbury has been quashed by provincial law. Sylvin Laramée had applied twice to Hawkesbury council to run the service, which he says is popular in France. Council deferred to the Ontario Provincial Police which said that e-bikes are not considered motor vehicles and only drivers of motor vehicles can receive compensation as taxi drivers under the Public Vehicles Act. Hawkesbury is about one hour east of Ottawa. (James Morgan in The Review) (Turtle – an example of an e-bike taxi service in Paris)

🏠 Hintonburg

•  An over 100 years-old house in Hintonburg gets renovated. Usually in these stories there are an abundance of photos – not in this case. (Kitchissippi Times) 
  
  ➕ Related Now this story of the gutting of 24 Sussex Drive does have plenty of pictures, however. 

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EVENTS

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Today

•  Happiness Habits 613 presents Happiness Book Club tonight at the Sunnyside branch of OPL.

•  Although there’s no need to dress ‘fancy,’ A Very Vine Improv Show Spring Fling declares that the night will be “tasteful” and the laughs will be “delightful.” Tickets $10.

•  Find out why photographer Curtis Perry has been called ‘an artist with the camera’ (Sarah Slean) in his exhibition State of Play at Art House Café.

•  Tonight’s Teen Movie Night screening at the Sunnyside Library is Jumanji. 6:15 pm in Room 1B.

•  ByTowne Cinema: La chimera, Wicked Little Letters

•  Mayfair Theatre: The Old Oak, The Taste of Things, Enter the Clones of Bruce

  Gigs

•  Bluegrass Mondays featuring Tyler Comeau and Highway 10. Red Bird

•  Rock Star Karaoke. The Heart & Crown Barrhaven

•  Open Mic Night. Art House Café

•  Karaoke Mondaze. Atomic Rooster

Tomorrow

•  Pack a pencil and a sketchpad for Art House Café’s weekly Life Drawing session from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm.
   
•  Green Knight screens at the Ottawa Public Library Main Branch’s Free Movie Night. 6:00 pm in the Auditorium. (For mature audiences.)
   
•  What’s for dinner tonight? Save 50% at Soca Kitchen on Paella Tuesdays. 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
   
•  DJs Aberdeen (from Montréal) and Uppercut (from Trois Rivières) take over Berlin Nightclub, transforming an otherwise ordinary evening into a proper Techno Tuesday.
   
•  ByTowne Cinema: Wicked Little Letters, La chimera, Limbo
   
•  Mayfair Theatre: The Taste of Things, The Old Oak, Enter the Clones of Bruce

  
  Gigs

•  Trivia Hall of Fame. Irene’s Pub Restaurant, Royal Oak (Bank & Gloucester, Orléans, Hunt Club at Uplands, Centrepointe)

•  Outside the Box Trivia. The Barley Mow Westboro

•  Stampeders play One More Time at Meridien Theatres @ Centrepointe.

•  Open Stage. Red Bird

•  Trivia Tuesday. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Seinfeld Trivia Night. The Prescott

Wednesday
 

It’s National Canadian Film Day. Watch a Canadian film!

• 🎞️ The Cumberland Branch of the Ottawa Public Library will be showing films to celebrate.
  
  🎞️ Digital Arts Resource Centre presents Rustic Oracle at 11:00am, 1:00 pm, and 3:00 pm.
  
  🎞️ Catch The Wanted 18 at The Workers Museum, presented by Films4Falasteen
  
  🎞️ OPL’s Elmvale Acres branch will screen Hey, Viktor!
  
  🎞️ At OPL’s HAzeldean branch, watch A Bear Named Winnie
  
  🎞️ North Gloucester OPL branch screens L’arracheuse de temps
  
  🎞️ Watch Score: A Hockey Musical (2010) at the St. Laurent OPL branch
  
  See the full list of screenings at National Canadian Film Day
   

•  Ottawa Little Theatre’s production of Grand Horizons continues until May 22.

• Learn about Walkable Ottawa’s plan for its new 15-Minute Neighbourhoods program and how you can help. Meet at Equator Coffee (412 Churchill Ave North) ofrom 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm.

•  ByTowne Cinema: La chimera, Free – National Canadian Film Day: Donald Shebib’s Goin’ Down the Road, Wicked Little Letters

•  Mayfair Theatre: The Old Oak, The Taste of Things, Enter the Clones of Bruce

  Gigs

•  Pretty Good Band with Special Guests Zeelle & Baby Richman. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Ottawa Musicians Mixer. LIVE on Elgin

•  Rare Groove Wednesdays. Atomic Rooster

•  April Game Dev Show’N’Chill. Avant-Garde Bar
   

Just Announced / Now Booking

• Ottawa Pops Orchestra’s final concert of the season will be a surprise. That’s right – we don’t know who’s performing what. Be at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre at 7:30 pm this Saturday (April 20) for the big reveal.

• Get creative with Flower to the People’s Flower Crown Frenzy: Let Out Your Inner Flower Child Workshop. Friday April 26.

• Ottawa Writers Festival 2024 Spring edition: the venue has changed to Library and Archives Canada (395 Wellington Street), and additional food and drink partners will be on board include local craft beer. Otherwise it’s the same great festival with panels, guest authors, virtual tickets available for events you an’t attend in person, and an onsite bookstore provided by Perfect Books. Single tickets and passes are both available now. The festival runs May 2 - May 5.

• City of OM is booking volunteers for the festival on May 31 - June 1. In exchange for your time, you’ll receive a General Pass festival ticket, a limited edition t-shirt, a nutritious lunch, and a gift from Saje Wellness.

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BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

Charlie Senack in the Kitchissippi Times has a look at what the National Capital Commission’s archeology teams have found digging through LeBreton Flats. Senack points out that because of the great fire in 1900, much of the City’s history and archives were lost.

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