In Today’s Edition → City drops plan to build freeway through park → Sample the flavours tomorrow at Taste of Little Italy Ottawa → Deals of the Day on Navy Bike Ride, Army Run, and summer wear → 🌤️ High 9° Low -1° and mainly sunny. ☀️ 6:31 am 🌛 7:39 pm
Environment Canada has a weather advisory for this evening: Heavy snowfall with total accumulations of 5 to 15 cm. |
📅 Membership Drive Day 1 of 5 It’s time for our twice-yearly membership drive, kind of like how the Watertown PBS station does it, except we won’t be offering any Monty Python episodes to tempt you. No, we’ll be very low key about it. Our members help keep THE OTTAWAN alive and we’d like to continue for a very long time. These very uncertain times for most at the moment – we certainly don’t want to guilt anyone into extra expenses. We’ll continue to remain free of charge for everyone to learn more about what is going on in the Capital every day. But if you can help to support our work, $5, $10, $25 per month makes a world of difference. We'd welcome you to join us as an OTTAWAN member. Comments? Questions? Send them to ‘hello@theottawan.com’ – Martha and Darren |
NUMBER - 79
- – The number of candidates that are running in the Carleton riding, up from five in the 2021 election. Seventy three use the same registered agent. Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre is one of the 79 candidates, and the incumbent.
Josh Pringle at CTV
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SPORTS - 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 4 – Columbus Blue Jackets 0 last night
- 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 3 – Florida Panthers 0 last Saturday
- 🥍 NLL Ottawa Black Bears 6 – Rochester Knighthawks 12 last Saturday
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Ottawa Public Library Board
Tuesday, April 8 at 5:00 pm - Presentation – Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Association
- 2025 Ottawa Public Library Board work plan
- Service delivery framework – Service strategies
- Semi-annual performance measurement – July to December 2024
Agenda
Accessibility Advisory Committee
Tuesday, April 8 at 6:00 pm - Provincial and Federal Accessibility Plan Updates
- Adoption of Accessibility Advisory Committee Procedure By-law and Mandatory Policies for Advisory Committees
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
💰Now that Ontario’s annual ‘Sunshine List’ of public employees who earn more than $100,000 per year has been released, the Ottawa Citizen has listed five of Ottawa’s highest paid staff. City manager Wendy Stephanson, $450,000 Ottawa Police Service constable Daniel Montsion, $410,000. Montsion was in the news after he was charged with manslaughter over the 2016 death of Abdirahman Abdi. He was found not guilty. Ottawa Police Service chief Eric Stubbs, $371,323.25 Ottawa Community Housing chief executive Stéphane Giguère, $375,000 OC Transpo general manager Renée Amilcar, $355,629.37
Mayor Mark Sutcliffe is the 22nd highest paid public employee in City Hall, at $213,000 per year. – Marlo Glass in the Ottawa Citizen
🚨 A 31 year-old man has been arrested several hours after a lockdown and hide order was placed on the Parliament buildings yesterday. The as yet unnamed man entered the East Block, which mostly houses offices for senators, and started making threats. No weapons were found. – Craig Lord in The Canadian Press
🏎️ THE OTTAWAN initially thought this was an April Fools' story but the City had planned to run a four-lane freeway through People’s Park in Alta Vista. That idea has now been cancelled. New data in the 2025 Transportation Master Plan figures that running a new freeway through the park won’t have significant effect on congestion in the area. – Paula Tran in the Ottawa Citizen ⮑ Kitchissippi councillor Jeff Leiper points out that the same 2025 Transportation Master Plan has changed the proposed Carling corridor from a tram to a rapid bus service. – Bulldog Ottawa
🌊 The Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority has upgraded its flood watch to a flood warning. The warning covers all homes near rivers and creeks from the banks of the Ottawa River south. The authority advises those at risk to prepare for basement flooding, road closures, and possibly evacuation. – Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority Flood Status ⮑ Somerset ward councillor Ariel Troster is providing award certificates for ‘Centretown Drain Heroes’, those upright citizens who take it upon themselves to keep storm drains clear. Requests can be sent to ariel.troster@ottawa.ca – Facebook |
The Poll Yesterday, we asked, ‘Are you planning a garden (indoor or outdoor) this year?’ 74% Yes 24% No 2% I’m growing a collection of fast food wrappers in my back seat, that should count
Today’s poll:
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✳️ Means change from previous edition MONDAY TUESDAY Sample tasty mouthfuls from more than 15 of the neighbourhood’s top eateries at Taste of Little Italy Ottawa. 9th Hour Theatre Company launches Gleanings, a new public forum for “nuanced discussion about complex ideas and issues relating to arts and culture, theology, and the social sciences.” Tonight’s presentation starts with a professional reading of a new dramatization of Crime & Punishment followed by a discussion. All right, Gilmore Girls fans, now’s your time to shine. Take your smartest squad to the Prescott for Trivia Night. If you think you can’t sing, it doesn’t matter at Pitch ImPerfect Singers events. Everyone is welcome to belt out the tunes, which this time around range from Backstreet Boys’ Shape of My Heart to Barry White’s You Are the First, the Last, My Everything. The Festival du Film de l’Outaouais continues at Cinema 9. ByTowne Cinema: The Way My Way, The Friend, Princess Mononoke: 4K Restoration (subtitles) Mayfair Theatre: No Other Land, The Penguin Lessons, Thank You Very Much Gigs Trivia Night: Pour Boy, Moose McGuire’s (Orléans), Irene’s Pub
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