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GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, OTTAWA Most of us are stuck at home and the shops and restaurants of Ottawa are suffering. If you can afford it, make this weekend your splurge weekend. You don't have to cook yourself – you can get something fantastic delivered. Even the City has created a useful page aggregating all the businesses that are still open. To remind you of the before times, here is the ottawan‘s Best Of Pandemic food choices to make this weekend a little more tasty. — Martha and Darren
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STATS Weather: High of 8° with a few showers Number: 250. In dollars, the amount that VISA and MasterCard will now allow to be tapped by card, raised from $100. [The Globe & Mail] Ottawan of the Day: Russel Potvin, Waste Collection Operator. “Our truck can’t go through the Tim Horton’s drive-thru. So when we’re on a break we walk through the drive-thru since that’s the only option.” [City of Ottawa] Quote: “Because you're not looking for the guy with the six-pack who goes to the gym and eats boring chicken and quinoa. Now you might be looking for someone to hang out and enjoy pizza and Netflix with you, someone to hibernate with — your quarantine buddy. Or maybe somebody who you want to go through a doomsday scenario with — the next epidemic.” – Melissa Guenette on dating in isolation [CBC]
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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE There have been 252 cases of COVID 19 in Ottawa, an increase of 58 since yesterday, and 7 deaths. New clinic for people with respitory problems but not necessarily COVID 19 opens in Bells Corners [CBC] Essential workers are still waiting for daycare in Ottawa [CBC]
+ Related The Ottawan’s Guide to Navigating COVID 19 |
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IN OTHER NEWS The Wu Tang Clan donates to the Ottawa Food Bank, thank to a plea by Mayor Jim Watson and the world is now so much weirder [CBC] Advocates sound alarm over COVID-19 limiting access to contraceptives, abortion [Ottawa Matters] Airbnb asks government to bail out hosts in Canada [ThinkPol] Gatineau transit authority to cut service by 50 per cent starting Monday [Ottawa Citizen] Alberta suspends environmental reporting requirements over COVID crisis [Ottawa Matters] Strangers are Zoombombing Zoom meetings [NPR]
LIVESTREAMING
2pm Nova Scotia singer/songwriter Mo Kenney from the NAC 2:00 pm Mike Monteiro speaks about the craft, ethics, and business of design [Quarantine Book Club] Free ticket needed 3:00 pm Spellbinding mood musicians Smoke Fairies [Facebook] 7:30 pm Victoria indie rocker Kathryn Calder [YouTube] Until 5 April Wild, a play about a nobody who is now America’s Most Wanted: a man who humiliated his country with one touch of a button. [Hamstead Theatre]
THINGS TO DO ⚾ Watch all eight hours of Ken Burn's documentary, Baseball [PBS] ? Learn to play guitar, taught by [Fender]
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