In Today’s Edition → The Westboro Bus Crash inquest began today → Dining + Drinking update: Made in Canada Easter chocolate → Deals of the Day: Meatings treats and Made in Canada phone cases → 🌦️ High 1° Low -7° and light rain. ☀️ 6:41 am 🌛 7:33 pm |
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WEDNESDAY DINING + DRINKING UPDATE |
- The owners of Fairouz Café in the ByWard Market will close the modern Middle Eastern café April 12 and replace it with three restaurants: a steakhouse called Sussex & Co, a cocktail bar called Little Sussex, and a burger bar called Burger Bar.
- It’s Maple Weekend in just a few days, and to celebrate the Canadian Museum of history’s Panaorama Café is offering a Sugar Shack Brunch on Sunday.
For road trippers, Inside Ottawa Valley has listed all the sugar shacks between here and Pembroke.
Robyn Miller at the CBC talks politics with local syrup makers, asking about the Federal election and tariffs.
- In the Ottawa Citizen, Peter Hum wants to be ‘charitable rather than cynical’ about Buvette Daphnée but he was disappointed in his two visits to the resto as he knows it is capable of much more.
Hum says that if you are looking for the Montréal-style wine bar that Buvette Daphnée promises, Soif Bar à Vin is right there in Gatineau. - At Eat the Strip, Ameya Charnalia found Polish sausages on a bun in an industrial park for under $6. Adams Sausages make their products on site, are only open weekdays, and don’t take credit cards.
- In Apartment 613’s Best Bites column, Hannah Manning and Kiersten Vuorimaki eat at Wilf & Ada’s (‘After putting our name down, [we] popped around the corner to grab a pre-brunch coffee at Arlington Five. [I]f you don’t finish your drink before your table is ready, you’re welcome to bring your Arlington Five mug over with you to Wilf and Ada’s’), The SconeWitch (‘I got the ham and gruyère on an herb & onion scone with a side salad for under $10’), and Ten Fish (‘I was shocked at the size of the menu for the size of the kitchen’).
🐣 A short list of Made in Canada Easter Chocolate Local Elsewhere in Canada |
NUMBER - 48
- – The number of frozen egg rolls, plus 500 millilitres of plum sauce from Ottawa's Golden Palace restaurant, brought in a carry on with Air North. ‘I have never found an egg roll comparable to them anywhere, and certainly not in the Yukon,’ said the passenger.
The CBC asked passengers who regularly fly to the far north what they bring with them: others said they brought albino corn snakes, one hundred Big Macs, and a live chicken.
Isabel Ruitenbeek at CBC
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OTTAWANS (HONORARY) OF THE DAY |
SPORTS - 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 2 – Buffalo Sabres 3 last night
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
Thursday, April 3 at 10:00 am - 2024 annual report pursuant to the Building Code Act
- Zoning By-law amendment – 3973 Yorks Corners Road
- Official Plan and Zoning By-law amendment - 4200 March Road
- Amendment to the ATV, ORV and Snowmobile By-law to expand ATV systems in south Ottawa
- South Bear Brook Wetland Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law amendment
Agenda
Ottawa Police Service Board
Human Resources Committee Meeting – Thursday, April 3 at 1:00 pm - Development of a diversity plan pursuant to section 37(1)(e) of the Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
💥 Westboro Bus Crash - The Provincial public inquest into the Westboro bus crash began today. The panel, comprised of five civilians, is not seeking to assign guilt or impose penalties but to hear testimony from witnesses and make recommendations on how to prevent similar tragedies in the future. Three passengers died, 50 were injured, and tens of millions of dollars was paid out by the City in claims after an OC Transpo double decker bus hit the overhang of a Westboro transitway bus shelter in 2019.
The inquest can be streamed here.
Guy Quenneville at CBC
🎞️ ByTowne Cinema - The ByTowne Cinema wants your opinions on its membership programme and what films you would like to see. And don’t be one of those people who only suggest high-brow films because you think they should be shown yet you never ever go to one.
Mayfair Cinema
🎓 Algonquin College - Algonquin College is cancelling its academic upgrading courses as part of its fight to fix an upcoming $93 million deficit. Academic upgrading courses are for students who wish to go on to college or university but don’t have the required credits. The College finds itself in a financial bind after the Federal government severely cut back visas for international students, a lucrative source of income for post secondary institutions across the country who charge premium prices to foreign learners.
Joanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen
🏒 Canadian Tire Centre - The new name for the Canadian Tire Centre will be ... the Canadian Tire Centre. The naming rights deal for the Sens arena expires this year but the team has chosen to stick with Canadian Tire rather than put it up for auction. Worth an estimated $1.5 million to $2 million per year, the Kanata arena has been sponsored by Canadian Tire since 2013.
Bruce Garrioch in the Ottawa Citizen
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Using our 5th birthday as a launching pad, we’re planning to expand our merch store. So today’s poll is about that:
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THE ROLLING THREE DAY CALENDAR |
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✳️ Means change from previous edition WEDNESDAY 🆓 Pianist Roland Graham plays J. S. Bach’s Italian Concerto and French Overture at Southminster United Church. Noon to 1:00 pm. 🆓 Writer Matthew A. MacDonald, PhD presents a public lecture on ‘Antiqua et Nova,” the Catholic Church’s document on the relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligence. Another season of Bad Night at the Movies draws to a close with a screening of Creepers. OPL Main Branch 6:30pm. “Strike A Chord” Artists’ Alley brings poetry, music, an art action, and a photo booth under one roof to raise money for Rideauwood Addiction and Family Services. Your ticket to the Jazz Dinner at Brookstreet Hotel includes a two course meal, two sets of jazz, and complimentary parking. Presented by Ottawa Jazz Festival. Hummingbird Hall’s Open Mic has a drum kit, bass, guitar and amps for you to use. Nepean School of Music, 900 Greenbank Road ByTowne Cinema: The Penguin Lessons, Restoration: Swept Away, Miséricorde (Miseriecordia) Mayfair Theatre: I’m Still Here, The Way, My Way, Ghost Dog: The Way of The Samurai Gigs Acoustic Rooster. Atomic Rooster Jazz Nite with Peter Hum. Bar Robo Bluegrass Wednesdays: Handsome Molly. Red Bird Trivia Night: Arts Court, Bicycle Craft Brewery, Overflow Brewing, Stray Dog Brewing Vinyl Night. Tooth and Nail Brewing Open Mic. Pour Boy Catching Rain, GreenWing, Mama Mush, Zeelle. House of TARG
THURSDAY
Shop with more than 145 artisans from across Canada at the Originals Spring Craft Sale. EY Centre today through Sunday. The Cold AF Comedy Tour at Yuk Yuks features Bobby Knauff and Mark Menei, two of Thunder Bay’s best comics. Experience the Oscar winner Anora at Anina’s Café’s intimate screening. $5 per person advance, $7 at the door. Bourbon, schmourbon. Sample four Canadian whiskies at Hintonburg Public House. $50 per person which includes, 4 whiskys, 4 small cocktails, a bar snack & the guided tasting. Classic rockers Heart play Canadian Tire Centre. Create a Ukrainian Easter Egg (Pysanky) with Ottawa Tool Library. 🆓 Artists Teresa Cullen and Robert Marchessault collaborate on Lumenos, an exhibition of prints achieved with sunlight and photo-sensitive paper rather than cameras. ByTowne Cinema: Miséricorde (Miseriecordia), The Penguin Lessons, Detour: Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979) Mayfair Theatre: The Way, My Way, Ottawa Film Society Private Screenings Gigs Bloodshot Bill with Eddie Gazel. House of TARG Weekly Blue Grass (1:00 pm). Carleton Tavern Bingo Thursday. Broadhead Brewery Beer and Bingo. Calabogie Brewing (Kanata taproom) DJ Night. Orléans Brewing Co 80s and 90s Trivia. Broadway Bar & Grill Chris Zimmerman & The Weather, Vinyl Hero, Phasez, Señorita Sin. Rainbow Bistro Paco Dvoi Alt Folk Trio
FRIDAY
There are still good tickets available for this evening’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet performance of Jekyll & Hyde. 🆓 The Fifty-Five Plus Lifestyle show has ideas for vacations, health, living, and more. Best of all: it’s free. You might win an authentic Easter egg at the Ukrainian Pysanka Bingo event. Meet more than 145 Canadian craftspeople and artisans at the Originals Spring Craft Fair. At the EY Centre until Sunday. Watch a pair of slight of hand artistes battle it out in Dueling Magicians. Canadian über comic Ron James plays Yuk Yuk’s tonight through Sunday. Gender-nonconforming people are welcome to sign up to the Scribblin’ in the Margins open mic event by Urban Legends Poetry Collective and The Other Hill. ByTowne Cinema: Armand, No Other Land, The Friend, Princess Mononoke: 4K Restoration (Subtitled) Mayfair Theatre: Parental Consent Gigs Sister Luck (tribute to the Black Crowes). Overflow Brewing Co Niko Moon - These are the Nights Tour. Bronson Centre Motherland, Alturna, HotSkins. The 27 Club The Ed Lister Group. Night Oat David James Allen, Kojak, Valley Girls, Riley Burns. LIVE on Elgin Ryan King. Broadhead Brewing.
JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING
Cedar & Vine’s Learn How to Sew Your Own Capsule Wardrobe retreat (April 24-26) takes place in the brand’s lovely brick headquarters in Weyburn, SK. Listen as Thirteen Strings brings voices and instruments together for When Angels Speak, a concert of Easter-friendly J. S. Bach music. Friday April 11 at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre.
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The National Capital Commission has published a handy guide on coexisting with coyotes, good information to be had for a growing number of people in suburban Ottawa. However, the Commission neglects to stress that the ACME catalogue should be kept away from coyotes by all means. |
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