Tuesday, February 18 2025 |
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In Today’s Edition → Ottawa folksinger cancels Kennedy Center gig in protest → Ceremonial First-Tapping of maple syrup season tomorrow afternoon → Local Deals of the Day: Flour from Almanac, seedlings from Juniper Farm, coffee from Bridgehead, and a shipping deal from Aurelius Fine Olive Oils & Balsamic Vinegars → ☁️ High -13° Low -19° and partly cloudy. – Martha and Darren |
NUMBER - $1.1 million
- – The amount of fines levied on car owners who defied the winter parking bans over the past week. Ottawa ByLaw issued 10,678 tickets for cars that remained in parking lanes.
- Josh Pringle at CTV
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There are those people perhaps thinking there’s an option here to just pause everything, and that that will cost nothing to the city, but that’s incorrect – it’s going to cost us a lot of money if we do nothing. - – Mayor Mark Sutcliffe in a Q & A, after The Mainstreeter newspaper said to him ‘the readers we’ve heard from see Lansdowne 2.0 as a costly and risky venture, and one lacking in vision’.
- Sharing Lunch with ... Ottawa’s Mayor Mark Sutcliffe
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SPORTS - 🏒 PWHL Ottawa Charge 2 – Toronto Sceptre 3 last Sunday
- 🥍 NLL Ottawa Black Bears 18 – Albany FireWolves 9 last Saturday
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Planning and Housing Committee
Wednesday, February 19 at 9:30 am - Presentation - The Housing Dashboard Demonstration
- Zoning By-law Amendment – 256 Rideau Street and 211 Besserer Street
- Zoning By-law Amendment – 35 MacKay Street and 71 Thomas Street
- Application for new construction at 35 MacKay Street, a property designated under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act, located in the New Edinburgh Heritage Conservation
- Zoning By-law Amendment – 2040 Arrowsmith Drive
- Zoning By-Law Amendment – 1020 and 1070 March Road, 1345 March Valley Road, and part of an unaddressed parcel abutting 1345 March Valley Road with PIN 045271025
- Zoning By-law Amendment – 250 Forestglade Crescent
📋 Meetings and agendas The Committee of Adjustment also meets at 1:00 pm |
WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
🐶 Ottawa Humane Society - The Ottawa Humane Society announces the ‘Sheltering Animals From Emergencies’ programme to help people keep their pets. The Society says that when people are in crisis, pets are often abandoned as they are not welcomed in homeless shelters, women’s refuges, or due to financial issues. The SAFE programme will house the pets in foster homes until their owners can taken them back. ‘By helping the person, we help the pet,’ says the Society.
Lesley MacKay in Stittsville Central Donate
🗳️ Gatineau City Hall - One year after resigning as mayor of Gatineau, France Bélisle has published a book about why she did it. At the time, Bélisle said it was a toxic atmosphere but would not take questions. Bélisle says there was a conflict with other elected officials, and she was there for duty but some others were there for power. She says that she wrote the book to help other elected people ‘not to feel so lonely’, like she had felt. Her book, L'heureuse élue: Témoignage d'une mairesse démissionnaire – ‘The lucky one:
Testimony of a resigning mayor’, was published this week.
CBC
🎸 Our American Cousins - Ottawa singer-songwriter Amanda Rheaume has pulled out of her first ever invitation to the the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Rheaume made the decision to drop her April 5 appearance in protest of US president Donald Trump’s firing of the Centre’s chairman and having himself placed in the position instead. Rheaume will perform at the National Arts Centre May 8.
Lynn Saxberg in the Ottawa Citizen
🐟 Pakenham - A landowner is Pakenham has been ordered to make $1 million in repairs for destroying a fish habitat. Fisheries and Oceans Canada took the landowner to court after an attempt to build a pond blocked the native Brook Trout from access to their habitat on the Indian River. The work will be overseen by the Federal government.
William Eltherington at CTV
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TUESDAY WEDNESDAY 🆓 Today’s program at Doors Open for Music at Southminster is Madrigalia.See it in person or online from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Maple Syrup Season is nearly here. The Ceremonial First-Tapping at Agroforestry Centre (2627 Bedell Road, Kemptville) is a partnership with North Grenville’s Indigenous Advisory Circle and On The Bend Sugar Shack. 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. Art Haven presents Watercolor Workshop: Beautiful Birch Trees with artist Patricia. No experience necessary. $65. 🆓 Ottawa Storytellers bring their Open Mic to the Sunnyside Library Branch(1049 Bank St) from 7:00 pm to 8:20 pm. Controlled Damage, the story of Viola Desmond, continues at National Arts Centre’s Babs Asper Theatre. The Children, a black comedy about love and marriage in the face of disaster, begins its run at Gladstone Theatre. Nepean Sailing Club’s Winter Speaker Series presents Racing J133s on the Atlantic. Learn how to prepare the boat, crew and strategy for success. Bytowne Cinema: Check before heading out; may still be closed due to technical difficulties Vermiglio, Slumber Party: Sleepless in Seattle, 2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animated Mayfair Theatre: Nickel Boys, Babygirl, Resevoir Dogs Gigs Open Mic. Atomic Rooster, Pour Boy Jazz Jams with the Peter Hum Trio. Night Oat Bancroft, Dvořák, Beethoven & Clara-Jumi Kang. National Arts Centre Aysanabee. The 27 Club Jazz Nite with Slo E. Queen St Fare Trivia. Brew Revolution
THURSDAY
Bring your current reading material to Absinthe Café for some quiet time this afternoon at the Silent Book Club Meetup. 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. The Children continues at The Gladstone Theatre. Controlled Damage continues at National Arts Centre’s Babs Asper Theatre. 🆓 You need to register for your place at Art House Café Music Trivia night. 🆓 It’s all fun and games at Broadhead Brewing’s Bingo Thursday. Indulge your love of thrillers and mysteries at Westboro Books’ Thursday Murder Book Club. $34.99 for the book and book club session (Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight) Bytowne Cinema: Check before heading out; may still be closed due to technical difficulties I’m Still Here, 2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action, Detour: Deep Cover Mayfair Theatre: Babygirl, Nickel Boys, Wild at Heart
Gigs Irene’s Blues Sessions. Irene’s Pub Comedy Night. Pour Boy Trivia. Ottawa Sailing Club Sonic Souvenir. House of TARG The Healey Brothers. The Rainbow Bistro Dear Rouge, Bleeker. Bronson Centre Ramsay’s Quintet. Night Oat Karaoke Thursdays. Atomic Rooster
JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING |
It’s Real Bread Week, an international celebration of local, independent bakeries that bake their own bread. To mark the occasion, Almanac is offering a pair of deals: 15% off its flour and grain. Get a free 1 kg bag of any flour when you purchase a bread book (put the bag of flour in your cart alongside the book, and the discount will be applied automatically)
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Today and tomorrow only, save 20% on bags of coffee at Bridgehead. |
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The Ottawa Citizen put up a pretty fun quiz over the weekend to test your knowledge of Ottawa history. It was part of a question, not the answer, but THE OTTAWAN didn’t know Barrhaven was named after farmer Mel Barr. Also, Martha’s mom was delighted to hear mention of the Britannia on the Bay streetcar, a line she rode many times as a teenager. |
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