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Tuesday, March 4 2025

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HELLO OTTAWA

In Today’s Edition

→ City Council to decide how they will replace Osgoode councillor George Darouze, who was elected as an MPP

→ There are still tickets left to see David Cross at the Bronson Centre tomorrow

→ Deal of the Day on #madeincanada furniture

→ ❄️ High 1° Low -5° and partly cloudy.  ☀️ 6:35 am 🌛 5:55 pm 

 

The Poll

Yesterday, we asked ‘How difficult would your life be if your car was one of the fifty trapped in the Slater Street parkade?’

19% Not at all – OC Transpo’s buses and trains take me everywhere I need, on reliable schedules
70%  Somewhat – some parts of my life are convenient to transit, other parts are nowhere near the closest bus stop
11%  Wouldn’t notice – I have another vehicle

There was one clear result: readers thought we didn’t include enough options. A more considerate newsletter would also have included walking, no access to transit at all, cycling, and something sarcastic about the shameful service of Para Transpo.


Today’s question (jump to the What Ottawa is Talking About section first for the background):

How should the Osgoode ward councillor position be filled?

Call a byelection

Council should appoint someone worthy

Leave it empty

Pick a name at random from the voters list

We welcome any comments ‘hello@theottawan.com’

 

– Martha and Darren

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STATISTICS OTTAWA

    NUMBER 

    • 11,000
    • – The estimated number of students that will be required to change schools in September 2026 if planned boundaries changes by the Ottawa Carleton District School Board are implemented.
    • Joanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen

    OTTAWANS OF THE DAY

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    • No decision is permanent. The things that once brought you purpose can go on the back burner if they no longer fulfill you—and you can always come back to them

    • – Kathleen Edwards on turning her back on music, opening her Quitters coffee shop in Stittsville, then returning to music once again. Edwards begins a North American tour in April.
    • Faces magazine

    SPORTS

    • 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 4 – Washington Capitals 5 last night

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    WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL

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    📋 Meetings and Agendas

    WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

     

      🗳️ City Council will have a special meeting tomorrow to discuss how to handle being one councillor short.

      •  Osgoode ward councillor George Darouze was elected as a Member of Provincial Parliament last week. When he is sworn in to the legislature, he will no longer be a City Councillor, leaving the City one member short. Council has the option of either calling a byelection or, like it did with a vacancy in Kanata North, appointing a councillor.

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        ➕ Related Today’s meeting of the City’s Finance and Corporate Services committee voted down a proposal for the City to stop tweeting on Twitter.

      ☢️  Best Theratronics Ltd

      •  Best Theratronics Ltd did not bargain with employees in good faith, rules the Canada Industrial Relations Board. After over nine months on strike, Unifor workers agreed to a new contract. Eleven Public Service Alliance of Canada workers are still on strike. The company makes medical devices involving radiation.

        Campbell MacDiarmid at CBC

      🏒 Professional Women’s Hockey League 

      •  Ottawa Charge forward Tereza Vanišová not only took part in the Professional Women’s Hockey League’s first-ever on-ice fight, she and her opponent have inspired a rule change. As the rulebook says ‘fighting is not part of the PWHL’s game’, there was no set penalty for brawling (Vanišová and Boston Fleet’s Jill Saulnier were cited for ‘roughing’ by referees). The new rule is a five minute penalty and removal of the player for the rest of the match for misconduct.

        Hailey Salvian in The Athletic

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      ✳️ Means change from previous edition

      TUESDAY

      • ✳️ Octopus Books’ Reading Club convenes at the shop tonight. Bring your latest reading material and a short synopsis.

      • All aboard the world of miniature railroads. The temporary exhibitions hall at Canada Science and Technology Museum becomes transformed by tiny trains, tracks, and landscapes by members of Ottawa Valley HOTRAK Club. Included with your museum admission.

      • Orpheus Musical Theatre’s production of Beautiful: the Carole King Musical runs at Meridian Theatres @ Centrepointe until Sunday (March 9).

      • ByTowne Cinema: A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Detour: Bound

      • Mayfair Theatre: Sugarcane, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Blackenstein aka Black Frankenstein

        Gigs

      • Federico Albanese. National Arts Centre

      • Trivia Night. Moose McGuire’s Orléans


      WEDNESDAY


      FRIDAY


      JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING

      DEALS OF THE DAY

      If you’re on the hunt for big or even mid ticket items for your home, there are deals to be had on the Made in Canada pages at Dufresne.

      BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

      Here’s a tradition we don’t normally think about: the annual Rideau River ice blasting. Since the 1890s, the City goes onto the ice, clears the snow, and, well, blows things up. The procedure helps prevent spring flooding.

       

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