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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• 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

• From mini eggs in a range of flavours (you had us at Hazelnut Praline) to the Mega Egg, there’s a chocolate Easter treat for all appetites at Hummingbird Chocolate Maker. 

• While you’re replenishing your supply of Elbows Up bars, check out Stubbe Chocolates’ Easter collection of, among other treats, little eggs, origami bunnies, and a chocolate hen or rooster.

• You’ll be smitten with the artistic chocolate chicks, ducklings, and eggs made by Clayton Creative Chocolates.

• Mail an Alicja Confections Postcard Chocolate Bar anywhere in Canada for $1.94.

• It’s not easy to choose a bunny from the Anne Stubbe collection, but the Small Bunny - Floppy would probably win a “most adorable Easter chocolate” competition.

Elsewhere in Canada

• Purdys has great assortment of bunnies and eggs, and we love the lavender-hued keepsake tin of chocolate bon bons.   

• The Newfoundland Chocolate Easter Kit has plenty of treats to hide.

• Get a free sticker with the Hipster Bunny Mini Box from Rhéo Thompson Candies.

• Choose a classic solid chocolate bunny in your choice of milk or dark, a salted caramel egg (or hazelnut), or a bunny on a stick from McGuire Chocolate Company.

• Desbarres’ incredibly stylish L’il B 65% dark chocolate bunny with a strawberry is perfect for the minimalist household.

• Peace by Chocolate thoughtfully organizes its Bunny Boxes of Easter treats by budget. You can spend as little as $42 for the Baby Bunny Box, or drop $109 for the Easter Biggest Bunny Box.

• You won’t find Easter-ccentric treats at Vancouver’s Good Chocolatier but you will get healthy cacao bars that are crafted in an inclusive workspace for neurodiverse adults.  

• It’s not going to be easy to choose a treat from Laura Secord’s impressive Easter collection, but we believe in you.

STATISTICS OTTAWA

OTTAWANS (HONORARY) OF THE DAY

• The Sport Club Fair Play hockey team of Innsbruck, Austria

• The ‘beer league hockey team’ made up of players who ‘are aging too quickly’ is barnstorming Canada and play the Ottawa Selects today at the Jim Durrell Recreation Centre.

• Dylan Dyson at CTV 

QUOTE

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• There will be winners and losers

• – RE/MAX Hallmark Eyking Group realtor Josh Eyking on how changes to school boundaries by the Ottawa Carleton District School Board will affect house prices.
• Joanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen

SPORTS

• 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 2 – Buffalo Sabres 3 last night

WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL

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

DAILY POLL

The Poll

Yesterday, we asked, ‘I remain an OTTAWAN subscriber because the newsletter ...’

62% Tells me what Ottawa is Talking About

32% Lists interesting things to do today, tomorrow, and the day after

2% Posts Deals of the Day on Canadian-made items and promotions from local businesses

0% Celebrates Ottawans of the Day

1% Publishes always-accurate and trusted sports scores

3% Other

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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.

DEALS OF THE DAY

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