HELLO OTTAWA | → The buyers of the Eastboro development have all had their agreements cancelled | → Head to Perth for the intriguingly-titled The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Revised) (Again) | → The City has lost its appeal to prevent a Kanata golf course from being developed into housing | → Deals of the Day on pre-loved Frank & Eileen fashion and Vodkow beverages | → ☀️ High -8° Low -16° and sunny | – Martha and Darren | | WEDNESDAY DINING + DRINKING UPDATE | Foodie Valentine’s Day Part II ❤️ Order your stay-at-home Valentine’s Day meal from Red Apron, who have romantic options for Thursday February 13 and Friday February 14. ❤️ Every Valentine’s Day budget is accommodated at Peace by Chocolate, from a single LOVE bar ($6.25) to the epic Chocolate Lovers Box ($205). ❤️ Road trip: The Vintage Crate in Arnprior offers a range of treats by Canadian brands like Newfoundland Chocolate Company, Tealish Fine Teas, Sloane Tea, Christy’s Gourmet Gifts, fraktals, and I Like Chocolate. You can also order online. ❤️ Stubbe Chocolates’ Canada is Not For Sale bars will make any heart beat faster. Find them in-store today and online this evening. ❤️ You can now buy Fine Chocolate by Ludwig at both locations of Thyme and Again. Other Drinking and Dining news ▪️ What’s for dinner tonight: BAMM Snack Shack is serving up Lasagna crafted with noodles, savoury house-ground beef, espresso mascarpone, house-made rosemary garlic ricotta, BAMM’s specialty cheese blend, fresh herbs, BAMM’s pasta sauce and a slice of fresh baked garlic bread. So, that’s what’s for dinner tonight. ▪️ Finally: Pearson Street Smashburgers 'N Melts has an opening date. Get ready to fill your boots - and tummies - on January 29 at 1460 Cyrville Road. ▪️ Ottawa’s comfort food specialists Chances ‘R on Woodroffe have opened a sister location at 540 Montreal Road, giving East Ottawans the same access to cozy meals all day long (including breakfast until 4:00 pm). ▪️ The Chefs of Westboro Village are holding their first-ever Stew Showdown on Saturday February 8. Ticket holders can sample stews from The Barley Mow, Brassica, Clocktower Brew Pub, Lexington Smokehouse & Bar, The Piggy Market, and Trio Bistro and Lounge and vote for the People’s Choice winner. Early bird tickets are on sale now, with proceeds benefiting Westboro Region Food Bank. ▪️ Road Trip: This week we learned about another fine local podcast: Cafépreneurs is produced by Café Joyeux in Rockland Ontario. In their latest episode they cover “Decoding Coffee Roasts: Light, Medium and Dark Explained”. More than a café, these folks roast in-house, hold community events, and carry a wide range of food items including plant-based and gluten free treats. ▪️ Sorry but guns and booze are off the menu at Savanna Lounge on Besserer St. Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario and Ottawa Police Service officers discovered two guns in an after hours party at the restaurant January 12. Savanna Lounge has had its alcohol license suspended. ▪️ At Eat the Strip, Ameya Charnalia was craving ‘fresh, flavourful kebabs, creamy hummus, and homemade flatbreads’. He found them at Mr Samoona Grill & Bakery on Lamira St, where he found the prices on ‘an absolute steal’. |
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| | STATISTICS OTTAWA | | $4,000 | The amount in fees that a man in Arnprior is being charged after Ottawa Police Service recovered his stolen truck, had it towed to a storage yard, then did not inform him. A letter from the Ottawa Police Service was dated November 26, a week after Canada Post workers went on strike, and postmarked December 16. The man says that neither the Service nor the towing company contacted him. | | | | Guy Quenneville at CBC |
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| OTTAWAN OF THE DAY | Julia Weagle | After 30 years of curling, Weagle will make her first Scotties championship appearance appearance – representing Nunavut. She and her teammates at the Iqaluit Curling Club were the only team in the territory to register, guaranteeing their appearance. | | | | Martin Cleary in the Ottawa Sports Pages |
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| QUOTE | | ❝ | | | I have seen the future, and it is adequate |
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| – Ottawa resident David Maclaren who left uninspired after attending an information session for Lansdown 2.0. ‘Honest to God, it looks like the football stadiums in Texas where they play high-school football.’ | | | | Bruce Deachman in the Ottawa Citizen |
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| | WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL | Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
Thursday, January 23 at 10:00 am |
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| Referral - Acquisition of property at 5689 Ferry Road Zoning By-law amendment – 3057 (3031) Greenland Road Zoning By-law amendment – 6980 Mansfield Road (6985 Bleeks Road) Zoning By-law Amendment – 1450-1468 Bankfield Road and 5479, 5485 Elijah Court Official Plan and Zoning By-law amendments for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) All way stop control – Parkway and Sale Barn
| | | WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT | 🖋️ Federal Public Employees | ▪️A freedom of information request found that Federal workplace managers had concerns there wasn’t enough workspace and computers for workers required to add another day in the office. Managers also complained about the cleanliness of their buildings. | | | | Estelle Côté-Sroka and Andrew Foote at CBC |
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| 🏠 Eastboro | ▪️All 108 buyers of houses in the Eastboro project have had their contracts terminated. The developer, Ashcroft Homes, lost the unfinished project last autumn when it when the Royal Bank put it in receivership. The potential buyers had put down deposits of $54,000 to $80,000 five years ago, which is now in the control of the receivers. Depending on how much money is available and the sale of the project the deposits may be returned but the potential buyers will not be able to purchase the finished homes at 2020 prices. | | | | Andrew Duffy in the Ottawa Citizen |
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| ⛳ Kanata | ▪️The City has lost its appeal against a Kanata golf course owner that wants to convert the greens to housing. The former City of Kanata made a deal with a developer in 1981 that required 40 per cent ‘open space’. That developer also created the Kanata Golf and Country Club, later selling the club to ClubLink. At issue was whether the agreement meant green space in Kanata must be 40 per cent plus the golf course, or that the golf course itself could be subdivided and was not included in the 40 per cent rule. The Ontario Superior Court said it was the latter and that no-one could be forced to run a golf course in perpetuity. The City appealed this decision but has now lost. | | | | CBC Appeal Decision |
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| 🎓 Ottawa Catholic School Board | ▪️The latest school system to have its computers accessed by hackers is the Ottawa Catholic School Board. Like dozens of schools across Canada that use the US-based Powerschool computer system, the Board says that data of all students since the 1998-1999 term may have been accessed. The Board says social insurance numbers and credit card info was not made available but names, addresses, ages, internal student numbers, and grades were. The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, and Ottawa’s public and Catholic French school boards say that they were unaffected. | | | | Ted Raymond at CTV |
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| | THE ROLLING 3 DAY CALENDAR | Is there an event we should know about?
Please use our easy event submission form | TODAY | ▪️If you’re over the age of 45 and want to meet people without the pressure of speed dating, be at Mandarin Restaurant (150 Katimavik Road) on Wednesday night. ▪️ Bring your doggo to the pet-friendly Stray Dog Brewing for Taproom Trivia. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: The Room Next Door, Good Morning, Soundtrack to a Coup d’État ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: Anora, A Real Pain, Vampyros Lesbos Gigs ▪️ Branford Marsalis. National Arts Centre ▪️ Celtic Celebration featuring The Women of Fiddle. Red Bird ▪️ Adema Manoukas Octet. National Arts Centre ▪️ Monthly Pinball Tournament. House of TARG |
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| TOMORROW | | FRIDAY | ▪️ The 2025 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Qualifier is here. The winner of this Slam will represent Urban Legends Poetry Collective at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam, the annual national competition held in Vancouver BC in April. The winner will also receive $750 towards travel costs. ▪️ Salesman in China continues at the National Arts Centre. ▪️ Get drunk with power at Amuse Bouche Variety, where the audience gets to decide which of the performing comedians will headline a future show. Tickets are $5. ▪️ Road Trip: Visit Cornwall for the Aultsville Film Fest, tonight through Sunday. ▪️ Road Trip: Billed as a show that both lovers and haters of the Bard can get behind, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Revised) (Again) is two hours of hilarity. Studio Theatre Perth. ▪️ Hintonburg Pottery’s Wheel Beginner course is a six-week session for those with no experience. ▪️ The Ottawa Home and Remodeling Show continues at EY Centre. ▪️ Deacon Brodies’ Burns Night Celebrations are authentic, with Wild Call of the Pipes, haggis, and other Scottish shenanigans. Reservations are recommended. ▪️ Meanwhile, Moose McGuire’s Huntclub enters the spirit of Robbie Burns Day with a menu with highlights like the Glasgow Mule cocktail, Tattie Soup Cup (tatties are potatoes, btw), and Scottish Steak Pie. The menu is available until Sunday. ▪️ ByTowne Cinema: The Brutalist, The Room Next Door ▪️ Mayfair Theatre: The Substance, The Last Showgirl, Vampyr Gigs ▪️ Laylit Dance Party. SAW Centre ▪️ Fireball Kid. Rainbow Bistro ▪️ Otis Strange. Red Bird ▪️ Richard Page & Ella Malleau. Night Oat ▪️ Sum 41. Canadian Tire Centre ▪️ umberlune and Julie Stella. Art House Café ▪️ 80s Dance Party with DJ Remi Royale and One Vision. House of TARG ▪️ The Start. Heart & Crown Preston St. ▪️ Sussex. The Prescott ▪️ Forever Foreigner. Overflow Brewing Co. |
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| JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING | | | DEALS OF THE DAY |  | Vincent |
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| If you’re a fan of the made-in-LA brand Frank & Eileen, this sale is for you. On Friday January 24, Ottawa shop Vincent will be holding a special in-person sale of 60 pre-loved Frank & Eileen pieces ranging in size from XS to XL. A share of sales will be donated to an LA charity helping those affected by forest fires. Doors open at 11:00 am at 444 Preston Ave (near Carling). |
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| There are lots of deals from Vodkow this coming weekend. Whether shopping online or at one of several pop-ups, you’ll receive a free 250ml of Vodkow Cream in the flavour of your choice when you purchase two 750ml bottles. The Almonte-based distillers are also offering $5 off Eggnog Cream and $10 off Festive Fourpacks. |
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