In Today’s Edition

→ Ottawa’s "Canada Is Not For Sale" caps are now made in Canada

→ See some pole dancing, aerials, burlesque, and live music tomorrow at Bawdy Broadway Bodies.

→ Deals of the Day on #madeincanada bodycon dresses and winter coats

→ 🌫️ High 2° Low 0° and misty.  ☀️ 6:33 am 🌛 5:56 pm 

The Poll

Yesterday, we asked ‘How should the Osgoode ward councillor position be filled?’

69% Call a byelection
18%  Council should appoint someone worthy
4%  Leave it empty
9% Pick a name at random from the voters list

To be honest, we’re unsurprised that calling a byelection is the most popular, people hate having officials foisted upon them.

Just for discussion, we came across this story from Fargo, North Dakota.

For the past seven years, residents have selected their city officials by marking as many candidates as they like on the ballot. This isn’t ranked voting, where the candidate with the lowest votes is dropped and the votes are redistributed, it’s literally whoever gets the most votes wins.

The fact that a winning candidate doesn’t need to have at least 50 per cent of the vote isn’t important, it’s felt that winning candidates have a more broad base of support. It’s in the news because the state legislature is considering banning the system because the winners are too ‘vanilla’.

Today’s question:

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WEDNESDAY DINING + DRINKING UPDATE

•  Tonight at Cooper’s Creative Kitchen, Chef Jason Duffy curates hors d’oeuvres and cocktails for the opening of a new photography exhibition by Ottawa artist Fremich.  Chillscape: Art Series runs 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm at the Embassy Hotel and Suites
• It’s maple syrup but high end. The Sugar Shack Tasting menu night at Maker Feed Co plays out over four delicious courses, each paired with wine. Sunday April 6. $99.99 per person.
• Get a head start on Pi Day (March 14, obvs) by ordering one of the sumptuous limited edition cream pies from 3 Tarts. Choose from Coconut Cream, Mini Butterscotch, Mini Raspberry Chocolate Cream, and Mini Lemon Cream pies. Better do it soon before they sell out. Available March 13 through March 16.
• You’ve got chocolate in my pistachio! You’ve got pistachio in my chocolate! Like the old Reese’s peanut butter cup ad, TikTok influencers have declared that mixing the two flavours makes something special: Dubai chocolate.
  
  Inspired by those influencers, Yummy Waffle on Lancaster Road is now serving Dubai chocolate waffles, Dubai chocolate mini pancakes, and Dubai chocolate cheesecake. Dubai sign us up.
• Montréal’s Lufa Farms has been growing vegetables on rooftops for the past 15 years. It has now moved into Ottawa with home delivery or local pickup sites.
• Ameya Charnalia at Eat the Strip has found a Greek ‘hidden gem’ between a weed shop and an indie grocery store in Manotick. Says Charnalia of the Olive Branch, ‘It’s the kind of place where you feel like you’re getting a home-cooked meal with a level of quality that you might expect from a much bigger, more established spot’.

STATISTICS OTTAWA

OTTAWAN (HONORARY) OF THE DAY

• Fron Reilly
• The clock maker, woodworker, and artist from Guelph was asked by the head of the music programme at Carleton University, Jesse Stewart, to create an instrument that the world had never seen before.
• The Fron is a drum, suspended in 10 strings, that is played by turning a crank and playing the strings with a bow. Here’s the YouTube of of how it is played.
• Aastha Shetty at CBC

QUOTE

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• They discredited a complex and fragile competition process that aims to be fair, transparent, representative and therefore democratic

• – Université de Montréal architecture professor Jean-Pierre Chupin on the process that awarded the new National Monument to Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan contract to architect Renée Daoust, then revoked it in favour of artist Adrian Stimson. In an out-of-court settlement, Daoust’s group will receive $100,000 from the Federal government.
• The monument will be located across from the Canadian War Museum on LeBreton Flats.
• Daniel Leblanc at CBC

WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

❓ Ottawa Police are seeking help to find a missing 15 year-old girl. 

• Gabrielle Charron has been missing since March 2. She was last seen in the Viewmount Drive and Homestead Street area. Anyone with information is asked to Ottawa Police Service 613 236 1222.

  
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🗳️ City Council is leaning towards a byelection to fill the Osgoode ward seat when it becomes vacant.

•  Although Osgoode ward councillor George Darouze was elected as a Member of Provincial Parliament last week, he will not be sworn in until – probably – March 17. Until then he will remain a City councillor. Council today asked City staff to come up with a plan for a byelection in the Osgoode ward, to be debated March 26.
  
  Arthur White-Crummey at CBC
   

🚗  Slater Street Parkade

•  The owners of the partially collapsed Slater Street parkade are consulting with engineers to build a special ramp to free the 50 cars. One car owner says he had to rent a car but he can’t claim it on insurance because there is no damage on the car. Coincidentally, the federally-owned parking garage at 300 Laurier – across the street from the parkade – raised its parking rates 16 per cent the day after the collapse.
  
  Janson Duench in the Ottawa Citizen

🎩 Canada Is Not For Sale

• The Ottawa-designed ‘Canada Is Not For sale’ hats are finally made in Canada. When the hats were initally launched, Jackpine Dynamic Branding imported caps from Bangladesh and Vietnam and had them embroidered in Toronto. The toques, hoodies, and t-shirts are now made in Toronto while ball caps come  from Montréal. 
  
  Josh Pringle at CTV     Official Site  

HISTORIC OTTAWA LOGO T-SHIRTS

THE ROLLING THREE DAY CALENDAR

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WEDNESDAY

• U of O Theatre Club presents Footloose the Musical.

• Bawdy Broadway Bodies offers pole dancing, aerials, burlesque, and live music. Today through March 8.

• Expect ‘popular and folk-influenced chamber music’ at this week’s free Doors Open for Music at Southminster United Church.

• 🆓 Book your team into the Overflow Brewing Trivia night and get ready to compete hard for glory and prizes. Reservations are a must. 

• 🆓 Enjoy some exuberant scenery chewing by Alan Arkin and Christopher Lee as well as early 80s special effects in the Ottawa Bad Movie Nights screening of The Return of Captain Invincible (1983). OPL main branch.

• Arrested Development’s David Cross presents material from The End of the Beginning of the End tour.

• ByTowne Cinema: Conclave, A Complete Unknown, Parthenope

• Mayfair Theatre: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Flow

  Gigs

• Jazz Nite with Peter Woods. Bar Robo

• Lynne Hanson, Emma Lamontagne. Gladstone Theatre

• The Prime Rib Big Band 8 Year Anniversary Party. Irene’s Pub

THURSDAY

• Canadian comedian Julie Kim bings her Doing Too Much Tour to Laugh Lounge

• Help raise funds for the Ottawa Food Bank while rocking out to the Bluestone Collective and Derecho Party at the Rainbow Bistro

• You’ll hear original music alongside covers at the Folk Jam Night happening at Art House Café. Gabriel Comba & The Barn Cats perform, with guests Meadow and Dana Dufour.

• 🆓 It’s Bingo Night at Broadhead Brewery.

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

• Ottawa Little Theatre presents The Shawshank Redemption until March 15.

• Bawdy Broadway Bodies offers pole dancing, aerials, burlesque, and live music. Today through Saturday March 8.

• Road Trip: Dress your door for the warmer weather with the Spring Wreath Workshop from Perth, Ontario florist Kelly’s Flowers

• Ottawa’s most intimate concert venue, GigSpace, brings the vibe for an evening of jazz guitar with Tim Bedner and Ben Di Millo.

• Road Trip: If you’re not a member of the Rideau Lakes Horticultural Society it will cost you just five bucks to attend Plant Propagation with Paul Pietsch in Elgin.

• ByTowne Cinema: A Complete Unknown, Parthenope, The Zone: Snowpiercer

• Mayfair Theatre: Sugarcane, Dune (1984)

  Gigs

• S.G. Sinnicks. Avant-Garde Bar

• Fire and Ice with violinist Karen Gomyo. National Arts Centre

• Elizabeth Royall. LIVE on Elgin

• Kristen Martell. Red Bird

• Love and Mayhem, Albion, Saturn Sunrise. House of TARG

FRIDAY

• The Children at Gladstone Theatre.

• The Spring edition of Pique Art and Music Festival fills the spaces at Arts Court this weekend. Today’s programming kicks off at 5:00 pm and runs til midnight. If the festival’s self-description of “club futurism, intercultural ambient-electronic, jazz-hop vanguardism” piques your interest, you’ve got to go.

• Settle in for a night of down home country music as Ethan Mitchell celebrates the release of his first-ever record at Art House.

• Orpheus Musical Theatre’s production of Beautiful: the Carole King Musical continues.

• 🆓 See new works by Atticus Gordon and a group exhibition by Canadian artists at the De Montigny Contemporary Gallery Winter Edition Art Opening.

• Expect to rock out when Hellrager, Don’t Tell Sarah, and Hyena play the Brass Monkey.

• The Shawshank Redemption by Ottawa Little Theatre continues.

• The third installment of Jazz Dialogues brings Steve Boudreau, Ottawa bassist John Greggie, and renowned New Zealand-Canadian jazz trumpet player Lex French to 10,000 Hours Rehearsal Studios.

• Get up on stage at Stray Dog Brewing’s Karaoke Night.

• Students from Algonquin, La Cité, Conestoga, Fleming, Sheridan, and St. Claire compete in Ontario’s Got Talent.

• Bawdy Broadway Bodies continues.

• ByTowne Cinema: The Brutalist, Seven Veils, I’m Still Here, Nosferatu

• Mayfair Theatre: I’m Still Here, A Complete Unknown, The Room

  Gigs

• Thievery Corporation. Bronson Centre

• 80s Dance Party with DJ Remi Royale and The Underground (live music). House of TARG

• Our Lady Peace 30th Anniversary Tour. Canadian Tire Centre

• Victor Calderone. City at Night

JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING

•  Practice your French in a relaxed setting with the Alliance Française Pub Night in French. Thursday March 27 at Royal Oak Bank St.

• The elite international women of volleyball are coming to Ottawa. Cheer on Team Canada at Volleyball National League starting June 4 at TD Place.

DEALS OF THE DAY

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