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Wednesday, June 4 2025

HELLO OTTAWA

☀️ High 33° Low 13° and sunny ☀️ 5:16 am 🌛 8:47 pm 

 

In Today’s Edition

→ Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth resigns as OCDSB trustee

→ Resto reviews of Thilaks and secret door Tredici, craft breweries map update

→Deals of the Day on linen homewares from Cedar and Vine bedroom furniture from Silk and Snow

– Martha and Darren

WEDNESDAY DINING + DRINKING UPDATE

STATISTICS OTTAWA

    NUMBER 

    • $10.8 billion
    • – The predicted gap in funds to pay for aging drinking water, transportation, and solid waste infrastructure over the next ten years according to a report presented at the City’s finance and corporate services committee.
    • Olivia Grandy in Capital Current

    OTTAWAN OF THE DAY

    • Marie-Eve Sylvestre

    • The University of Ottawa’s dean of civil law has been appointed as the 31st president and vice-chancellor of that institution. Sylvestre will begin her five year term July 1.

    • Ottawa Business Journal

    QUOTE

    • So much of our expansive green space all over Ottawa has been overrun

    • – Alta Vista ward councillor Marty Carr lamenting how invasive species like buckthorn and garlic mustard have spread across Ottawa, threatening to get out of control.
    • Carr wants the City to initiate a programme like Toronto’s Nature Stewardswhich trains volunteers to recognize and remove invasive plants.
    • Gabrielle Huston at CBC 

    SPORTS

    • ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 4 – Brockton Rox 17 last night

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    WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL

    Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
    Thursday, June 5 at 10:00 am

    • Presentation - Planning, Building and Development Services Department - Transportation Master Plan – Rural Lens – Verbal Update

    • Engineer’s Report Wilson-Cowan Municipal Drain Amendment
      Rural Community-Building Grant Program – Grant Application Review

    • Street Closure - Road Allowance between Lots 10 and 11, Concession 4, Geographic Township of Torbolton, former Township of West Carleton

    • Referral - Municipal Support Resolution for the South March BESS Project

    Agenda

    WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

    🦉 Ottawa Carleton District School Board trustee Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth has resigned her position. Kaplan-Myrth says the board is ‘entrenched in internal toxicity’ and ‘driven by external forces with a goal to undo human rights and social justice work’ and that the code of conduct has been ‘weaponized’ against her.  – Guy Quenneville at CBC

    ↪ ‘Why I resigned as a trustee from the OCDSB’ – Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth in the Ottawa Citizen


    🏅 Nominations for the Order of Ottawa have opened. Up to 15 residents will received the award, which recognizes ‘those who have made significant contributions through their professional endeavours, to life in the city in any of the following areas: arts and culture, business, philanthropy, health care, education, public service, labour, communications and media, science, sports and entertainment, and other fields that benefit Ottawa’.

    Nominations will be accepted until September 3 on the Order webpage. – City of Ottawa 


    💸 Capital ward councillor Shawn Menard wants a referendum over Lansdowne 2.0. Menard suggests having the referendum during the 2026 civic election. As it is right now, the City will tender bids for building a new north stand for the stadium and replacing the arena with a smaller one. The City has not asked for nor received quotes on how much it would cost to renovate the existing stadium and arena.  – Kate Porter at CBC
     

    🚨 An Ottawa Police Service constable has been demoted from First Class to Second Class for 14 months as punishment for being convicted of drunk driving. Under the Police Service Act, Constable Serge Fortin was dinged for ‘one count of being convicted of an offence under the Criminal Code’ and ‘undermining the public trust’. Fortin was stopped at an Ontario Provincial Police checkpoint in 2024. – Ottawa Citizen

    DAILY POLL

    The Poll

    Last time, we asked ‘Would a Bank Street subway be a good idea?’

    65% Yes

    21% No

    12% Now we’re just making up O Train routes? Count me out.

    1% I have a better idea


    Reader, the 1% did not tell us what the better ideas would be.

     

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    FRIDAY

    • From the Accordion Show at 6:00 pm to the DJ ALAMUSIC set from 9:30 to 10:30 pm, there's entertainment for the entire family on the Italian Week Ottawa stage. 301 Preston St. 

    • Ottawa's new choir Bold Voices presents Music Down in My Soul, a program of pieces by Black composers. 

    • 🆓 Shop for unique items by Métis, Inuit, and First Nations makers at the Summer Indigenous Art Market. National Arts Centre from 3:00 pm to 9:30 pm. 

    • Manotick's Dickinson Days are filled with food, parades, live music, and fireworks. 

    • 🏳️‍🌈  The theme of this year's Youth Pride Prom is Enchanted Fairytale

    • The ByTowne Cinema's screening of Chicago is preceded by fabulous burlesque from Frisqué Femme Productions

    • Guitars and Gasoline Festival celebrates motorsports and music with a 100% Canadian line up including Blue Rodeo, Josh Ross, Theory of a Deadman, and more. Tent sites, yurts for glamping, and RV spots are all available. 

    • In Volleyball Nations League - Women's, Dominican Republic faces Netherlands at 4:00 pm, and Serbia takes on Japan at 7:30 pm. 

    • ByTowne CinemaJane Austen Wrecked My Life, Secret Mall Apartment, Chicago with Frisqué Femme Burleseque 

    • Mayfair Theatre: One to One: John & Yoko, Friendship, American Psycho 

      Gigs

    • AnjChito. Night Oat Café

    • Afro Jazz (Vol 2). First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa

    • Uncle Strut. LIVE on Elgin

    • Backseat Dragon. Rainbow Bistro

    • Nature Pleads Revenge, Concessions, Bury The Past, The Jenova Projekt, Under the Influence. Dominion Tavern


    JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING

    • The 2025 Perth Kilt Run is a mere 17 days away. Make sure your kilt is back from the dry cleaners in time to take part in what is, after nearly 10 years, still a Guiness World Record smashing event. 

    • You'll find more than just beer at Carlton Place's Beer Fest on Friday June 27. Food, games, live music, and a craft market will all be waiting at CP Market Pavilion and parking lot (7 Beckwith Street) from 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm (last call at 10:15). 

    • Ottawa On Tap Beerfest in Bells Corners will feature your favourite breweries from across Ottawa as well as a few from out of town. Saturday July 5 from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm. 

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    MADE IN CANADA DEALS OF THE DAY

    BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

    In its next step to destroy and replace Ottawa’s loveliest bridge, the National Capital Commission has released conceptual drawings of what the Alexandra Bridge replacement would look like on a bright sunny day with lots of pedestrians and cyclists and few cars. There is a feedback form at the bottom for comments.

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