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TODAY’S LINE UP

•  Ottawa Stats
•  City Hall Agenda
•  What Ottawa is Talking About
•  Events
•  Deals of the Day

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OTTAWA STATS

Ottawan of the Day

• André Longtin
• – After his wife Wendy Brandts died of cancer in 2022, Longtin rallied her friends to get her unpublished novel, The Inextinguishable Dream, delivered. A launch party will be held at the Working Title Kitchen March 24.  (Gabrielle Huston in the Ottawa Citizen) (Buy online)

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• We also made mistakes when we communicated key information about the tragic deaths. That is an inherent risk of the fast paced and timely communications we strive to deliver to Ottawa residents

• – A statement from the Ottawa Police Services attempting to explain how it described the knifings in Barrhaven as a ‘mass shooting’, misidentifying the name of the presumed killer, and issuing five different emails correcting the names and ages of the family members. (David Fraser at CBC)

Sports

• 🏒 PWHL Ottawa 4 – Montréal 1 last Sunday
• We printed the scores backwards yesterday. Ottawa won on Sunday against Montréal. Our apologies. Thank you to those fans who notified us.

CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall

Police Services Board Policy and Governance Committee
Virtual meeting at 2:30 pm

• Implementation of Board Requirements Under the Community Safety and Policing Act

📋 Agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

💰 Old Tickets

•  Thousands of people have had their credit scores lowered after the City brought a in debt collector for old tickets. The City hired Financial Debt Recovery in January to recover unpaid tickets and has subsequently referred 103,000 unpaid Provincial Offences Act fines and 3,000 unpaid water bills to the credit bureau. Many people are upset as they say that they have not been contacted, as they should be, before being reported to the credit bureau. Others say that they never received a notice from the City in the first place. (Austin Lee at CTV)
  
  Smart cookies at Reddit Ottawa have some good suggestions if you are affected:
  
  1. Call the City and request email copies of the tickets or bills, and if you pay online, request the email proof of payment.
  
  2. If the debt is over seven years old, it should not be on your credit report whether you have paid it or not as that is against the law. Make sure to open a dispute with Trans Union to remove it.
  
  3. Do not contact the collection agency as it will reset the seven year clock. You can pay the City directly.
  
  4. You can file a complaint against the City here and make a complaint against Financial Debt Recovery here.

🐝 Bus Stops

•  City staff give stinging rebuke to bus stop bee hive plan. Barrhaven West ward councillor David Hill had proposed that bus stops have roof gardens that encouraged bee pollination. City staff said that flat bus stop roofs were being phased out for sloped roofs and suggested planter boxes may be more viable. (Arthur White-Crummey at CBC)

🚨 Sûreté du Québec

•  The person who was found unconcious and in a serious condition in the Campbell’s Bay jail cell has died. Quebéc’s police watchdog has not yet identified who the person is or why they were arrested. the ottawan notes the effort made to not mention the sex of the person but has no further information. (Ted Raymond at CTV)

🚗 Highway 416

•  A lost driver intentionally drove the wrong way on highway 416 in hopes of someone calling the police. The driver became hopelessly lost near Kemptville and, having no other means of communication, turned around in the lane. He was charged with dangerous driving but not arrested, and no, he was not imparied. (William Eltherington at CTV) 

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EVENTS

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Today

•  The Carp branch of OPL invites drop ins to its Get Crafty evening from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

•  Check out Scenes from a City, a new analog photography group exhibition at Spark Beer. Be part of the vernissage tonight from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

•  Happy Hour at Spark Beer is every Tuesday through Friday from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Save $2 on full pours.

•  ByTowne Cinema: Jumanji, Io Capitano, Anatomy of a Fall, All of Us Strangers

•  Mayfair Theatre: The Boy and the Heron, 500 Days in the Wild, Perfect days, Escape from New York

  Gigs

•  Trivia Tuesday. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Conductive Comedy (9:00 pm-ish). Spark Beer

•  Life Drawing. Art House Café

•  Trivia Night. Pour Boy

Tomorrow

•  International Film Festival of Ottawa opens with a Red Carpet screening of Seven Veils, followed by a Q & A with its director and writer, Atom Egoyan. Also showing: Heat Spell, a 14 minute short from Quebéc.

•  American-Irish supergroup Cherish the Ladies appear at Meridian Theatres @ Centrepointe for one night only.

•  ByTowne Cinema: Jumanji, Anatomy of a Fall, The Player, Io Capitano

•  Mayfair Theatre: Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse, Perfect Days, The Boy and the Heron, One from the Heart: Reprise.

  Gigs

•  Arm’s Length’ the Wax Bodega Tour. Club SAW

•  Girls to the Front with host Kristine St. Pierre and guests KJ Thomas and Erin Marcellina. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Jon VW. Broadway Bar & Grill

•  Arm’s Length. Club SAW

•  Open Mic. Pour Boy

Thursday

•  The Ottawa Improv Festival (March 14-16) brings performers from home and abroad to town edge-of-your-seat theatricality, learning, and fun. Watch as these fearless thespians create shows on the fly, using suggestions from the audience. If you want to hone your own skills, purchase your place at one of the OIF’s performing and writing workshops. Tickets for the festival, which takes place at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, start at $30.

•  The International Film Festival of Ottawa continues with I Used to be Funny (Canada), Dead Cat (Québec) and Driving Mum (Iceland, Estonia) and The Company We Keep (Québec).

•  Candlelight Concerts are back with a Tribute to Coldplay, performed by a solo pianist.

•  Musique 3 Femmes, whose mandate is to present operas by female composers, present Opéra d’aujourd’hui at the Pavillon Pérez Building, U of Ottawa School of Music. 10:45 am to 12:45 am.

•  Bytowne Cinema: The Muppets Take Manhattan, Io Capitano, Ciné-Club d’Ottawa: La nuit du 12, Anatomy of a Fall

•  Mayfair Theatre: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, 500 Days in the Wild, Perfect Days, One From the Heart: Reprise

  Gigs

•  D12. Bronson Centre

•  Allison Russell with Aysanabee. National Arts Centre Babs Asper Theatre

•  James Keelaghn, Jez Lowe. Red Bird

•  Irene’s Blues Sessions. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Mööse Knuckle Boylesque. LIVE on Elgin

•  Boogie ON, Dance Along Silent Disco. House of TARG

•  Board Game Night. Ottawa Trans Library

Just Announced / Now Booking

• Broadway Across Canada presents Cameron Mackintosh’s Les Misérables at the National Arts Centre August 6-11 2024. Tickets go on sale Monday March 18.

•  Proceeds from Maker House’s Ukrainian Easter Egg Workshop on March 26 will support Folk Camp Canada.

• IODE Laurentian Chapter and 3 Wild Women present the So Chic Fashion Show & Luncheon at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club on April 27. The retailer will have clothes to purchase at the event, which is raising funds for the Inuuqatigiit Centre for Inuit Children, Youth and Families.

DEALS OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

Persons with disabilities advocate – and 2018 candidate for mayor – Ryan Lythall is writing a series of his life, each week in March. It starts will his first twenty years living at CHEO, to independence in his own apartment, and his political awakening. 

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