In Today’s Edition

→ Beware, an ice storm cometh

→ The 5th Ottawa Black Film Festival opens tomorrow

→ Deal of the Day: gala tickets to assist Helping With Furniture

→ ⛅ High 9° Low -5° and partly cloudy.  ☀️ 6:52 am 🌛 7:25 pm 

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STATISTICS OTTAWA

OTTAWAN OF THE DAY

• Saelym DeGrandpré

• The artist is using traditional Inuit designs to create makeup brushes from antlers. View her work on Instagram.

• Isabel Harder at CBC 

QUOTE

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• We’re here for five years for sure

• – Sens chief executive officer Cyril Leeder on how the team will be playing at Canadian Tire Centre for at least another half decade despite plans to move to LeBreton Flats.
• Bruce Garrioch in the Ottawa Citizen

SPORTS

• Sorry, we showed an incorrect score yesterday. 
   
• 🏒 PWHL Ottawa Charge 3 – New York Sirens 6 last Tuesday

WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🥶 Ice Storms

• Environment Canada is warning that a ‘significant’ ice storm may occur over this weekend. Freezing rain is expected and that usually results in power outages. Many areas of Ottawa were without power for up to a week as a result of the April 2023 ice storm.
  
  Natasha O’Neill at CityNews

🗳️ Osgoode By-election

• Nominations have opened to run for ward councillor in Osgoode. Candidates must be citizens, at least 18 years of age, and either reside or own land in Ottawa or be married to someone who resides or owns land here. Deadline to bring the completed paperwork to City Hall is Friday, May 2, at 2:00 pm.
  
  City of Ottawa

⚕️ The Ottawa Hospital

• The Ottawa Hospital has apologized to one of its researchers for a campaign of sexual harassment and bullying by some of its staff. An independent investigation found that Dr Marisa Azad was the victim of ‘a repeated pattern of harassment undertaken by two physicians’ and ‘workplace sexual harassment’ by one of them. Azad was in the news last year for breakthroughs in phage therapy treatment, a technique that uses special viruses that only infect bacteria. 
  
  Elizabeth Payne in the Ottawa Citizen 

🦉 Newly Protected Land

• Councillors rationalized to themselves a way to purchase a 223-acre waterfront property near Fitzroy Harbour. City staff had called the property ‘ecologically significant’ and, as the Natural Area Acquisition account had enough money and authority to buy it, wanted to purchase it without the necessity of a Council vote. Some rural councillors balked, including local West Carleton ward councillor Clarke Kelly, who said it was a waste of money.
  
  Clarke eventually proposed that two small parcels, worth a few hundred thousand dollars, be severed and sold to private developers. The entire property is on sale for $1.95 million. 
  
  Arthur White-Crummey at CBC

DAILY POLL

The Poll

Yesterday, we asked ‘What is your favourite way to cross the Ottawa River?’

27% Alexandra Bridge

9% Chaudière Bridge

16% Chief William Commanda Bridge

13% Macdonald-Cartier Bridge

12% Masson - Cumberland Ferry

8% Portage Bridge

2% Thurso - Rockland Ferry

8% Portage Bridge

10% Quyon Ferry

2% Walking (Winter only)

THE OTTAWAN highly recommends taking one of those ferries, just for fun.

Today’s Poll: 

The City has a great page on being prepared for Ottawa-style emergencies, including a checklist of what you should keep on hand if you must be on your own for awhile.

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THURSDAY

• ✳️ Tonight and tomorrow from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm, bring your child’s outgrown clothing to St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Stittsville for the Eco West Enders Swap & Sew this Saturday (March 29).

• 🆓 House of TARG’s Spring Market will be like everything elese hosted by the venue: unexpected and very entertaining. Shop, play some games, and pop some cash into the donation jars for the Ottawa Food Bank.

• Tonight’s VERSeFEST Ottawa events happen at Happy Goat Laurel. $25 will get you a pass to attend all readings.

• Heart & Crown ByWard Market becomes a hoedown, with live country music and a free line dancing lesson at 9:30 pm.

• Trivia plus socializing plus beer tasting plus pizza equals a good time. 7:00 pm Boston Pizza, Conroy Road.

• Start the weekend with a visit to Orléans Brewing Co, where DJs will set the vibe.

• It’s official: Kichesippi Beer’s Craft Night has gone monthly. Bring your latest craft project and meet with other creatives over fine beer and snacks. If you don’t have anything on the go you can purchase a crochet kit on site.

• Meet other lovers of comic books and graphic novels at the Ottawa Public Library Main Branch. 6:00 pm.

• Ottawa’s Original Kings of Comedy return for one night of Laugh Lounge.

• Game Show Trivia at The Bridge Public House will test your knowledge of all things TV game shows.

• 🆓 Coffee, DJs, and thou: Visit the EveryPerson Café tonight for the first ever Baked Beats Coffee Party.

• Silent Sky continues at the Gladstone Theatre.

• ByTowne Cinema: Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Marcello Mio, Drawn In: Alice

• Mayfair Theatre: Nickel Boys, No Other Land, The Straight Story

  Gigs

• Thursday Blues Sessions with host Matthew Chaffey. Irene’s Pub

• The North Sound. National Arts Centre

• Pop Rock Riot! LIVE On Elgin

• Tap Room Trivia. Stray Dog Brewing Co

• Jeremie Albino. Bronson Centre Music Theatre

• Bedouin Soundclash. Overflow Brewing Co

FRIDAY

•  The 5th Ottawa Black Film Festival opens with a live red carpet and in-person screening of Samia at Library and Archives Canada. Pay $59+ tax to attend all screenings in person or $49 + tax for the online programme.

• The vibe is Maritimes at the Orléans Legion East Coast Kitchen P:arty.

• At Art House, the jazz flows straight out of a 1920s speakeasy.

• Get a Friday night pass for $25 for the VERSeFEST Ottawa readings tonight at Carleton University Dunton Tower 2017 and Happy Goat Laurel.

• Sing like you’re in the movies at the Pitch Perfect Sing Along with Deke Sharon (he was the Musical Director for all three films).

• The 27 Club plays indie pop, rock, punk, and new-wave from 10:30 pm til late.

• New dance music venue Gridwrks welcomes Pleasurecraft, a techno duo from Washington DC and Stockholm. With opener Madison, a rising star in Ottawa’s house music scene.

• OK Naledi performs at Queers & Beers. From 6:00 pm at Queen St. Fare.

• Silent Sky continues at the Gladstone Theatre.

• ByTowne Cinema: The Penguin Lessons, Miséricorde (Misericordia), Flashdance w/Frisque Femme Burlesque

• Mayfair Theatre: I’m Still Here, The Way, My Way, Mulholland Drive

  Gigs

• Mindful Drones, LoganWow live painting. Night Oat

• Still Youth, Never Easy, Corascene. 27 Club

• June Body, Out By Lucy, Cardamom Years. LIVE on Elgin

• Neon Ghosthouse, Sea-Red, Sourpussy, Dolonia. House of TARG

• Kristine St Pierre and Band. Stray Dog Brewing Co

• Brent Butt. Bronson Centre

• Qwan, Rockpyle, Gallowspine, Look Upon the Heart, Wormburner (short film). Avant-Garde Bar

• The Ya-Yas (Rolling Stones tribute). Overflow Brewing Co

SATURDAY

• If you’ve been accustomed to buying your Filipino rice bowls to enjoy at home, take a seat at the brand new Saboroso Bistro at 782 Eagleson Road. The storefront is becoming a dining space, shared with Chicha Sen Chan Bubble Tea.

• Update the kids’ wardrobes with items from the St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Swap and Sew.

• Road Trip: We’re pretty sure you don’t need an extra reason to visit one of the most attractive small towns in the region. If you do, Merrickville’s Makers Spring Market will offer some early Mother’s Day shopping from more than 30 vendors.

• As Ottawa Black Film Festival continues at Library and ArchivesCanada and online, the schedule ranges from a program of Narrative Shorts; films about Being Black in Canada; the feature Hanami, and the documentary Legacy: The De-Colonized History of South Africa.
   

• Pay What you Can at Swizzles for School of Bass #68.4: bass house and electro jungle. Bring a non-perishable for the Ottawa Food Bank, too.

• Nicaraguan-Canadian composer, producer, and musician Brandon Miguel Valdivia, aka Mas Aya, brings his dreamy soundscapes to SAW Centre.

• Overflow Brewing’s 80s Dance Party features a live and authentically British vibe courtesy of The Start.

• Shop the new season of ultra romantic and stylish womenswear from Rightful Owner from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm at Victoire Boutique and meet the brand’s designer Rose in person.

• Shop from the vintage experts at Vpop613.

• The Youth Infringement Festival gives Ottawa youth ages 16 to 25 a chance to develop and produce original work with the support of professional mentors. Pay What You Can.

• As Algonquin College prepares to end its Performing Arts Program, the current students are holding a performance during Youth Infringement Festival today at Arts Court. The performers are hoping past grads and staff attend. Pay What You Can.

• Which do you love better: 70s disco, or 80s music? You don’t have to choose at the All Disco All 80s All Night experience at the British Hotel in Aylmer.

• Hole-istic Heath is an educational event for LGBTQ+ people about booty pleasure and care. Join MAX Ottawa and two sexual health speakers for a vibrant afternoon of games, learning, and community!
  
  Following Hole-Istic Health, keep the good times rolling at MAX's Hole Night Long afterparty. Bring your friends, celebrate community, connection and good vibes, and dance the hole night long!

• ByTowne Cinema: Exhibition on Screen: Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874, Miséricorde (Misericordia), The Penguin Lessons, Detour: Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

• Mayfair Theatre: Rani, Through A Glass Darkly, Unforgiven, Super Secret Saturday Night Sinema

  Gigs

• Chaös, Sawmill Road, Les Ismore. Avant-Garde Bar

• One Night Stand. Bar Robo

• I, The Mountain, Tin Constellations. Irene’s Pub

• Sarah Ramsay. Art House Café

• Some Hollow Tubes. House of TARG

   

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• Build a Square Planter Box for your garden. Wednesday April 9 at Ottawa Tool Library

DEALS OF THE DAY

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