In Today’s Edition → The crisis-laden Phoenix payroll system replacement is delayed by the election → Learn how to Build a Square Planter Box tomorrow → Deal of the Day at Indigenous-owned Loftan jewelry → ❄️ High 0° Low -5° and patchy snow. ☀️ 6:29 am 🌛 7:41 pm |
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- – The amount of money a man was fined April 3 for dumping motor oil in Greely West Park. The man also complied with a request to dig up and replace the soil.
Ted Raymond at CTV
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Planning and Housing Committee
Wednesday, April 9 at 9:30 am - Zoning by-law amendment 609, 611, 613 and 615 Parkview Road
- Zoning by-law amendment – 433 Lyon Street North
- Zoning by-law amendment - All lands within the downtown core, inner urban, outer urban and suburban transects
- 2024 annual report pursuant to the Building Code Act
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Joint Planning and Housing and Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
Wednesday, April 9 at 1:00 pm - Update on the Provincial Planning Statement 2024 consistency review
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
🗳️There are now 91 candidates running in the Carleton riding, one of whom is Conservative Party leader and incumbent Pierre Poilievre. That's an additional 12 candidates over what we wrote yesterday. The deadline has now passed for announcing candidacies. – Natasha O’Neill at CityNews ⮑ A decision to move from the crisis-laden Federal payroll system, Phoenix, has been delayed yet again because of the election. – Matteo Cimellaro in the Ottawa Citizen
🏒 Ottawa Charge forward Zoe Boyd has been suspended for one game for an illegal check to Boston Fleet forward Alina Muller last week. – The Canadian Press
🚌 The Ottawa Transit Riders group wants the public to show support for a plan by River ward councillor Riley Brockington. Brockington has made a proposal for the upcoming transit committee meeting that ‘OC Transpo create a plan to achieve bus reliability targets agreed to by OC management, as part of a common benchmark used by the public transit industry’. The idea is that with real data, City Council and the public can understand if OC Transpo is performing as it should. – Ottawa Transit Riders
⚖️ A group of condo owners in the Glebe want a judge to dismiss their condominum board and appoint an administrator. A majority of the units are owned by a company that also owns a nearby retirement home, resulting in the company having effective control of the board of directors. The residents argue that their condo is being run as an ‘offshoot’ of the retirement home. The company disagrees with the rebels. – Andrew Duffy in the Ottawa Citizen |
The Poll Yesterday, we asked, ‘Which professional sports team in Ottawa do you support the most?’ 43% Ottawa Senators 18% Ottawa Charge 17% Ottawa Redblacks 1% Ottawa Blackjacks 1% Ottawa Black Bears 11% Atlético Ottawa 1% Nepean Ravens 2% Ottawa Rapid 7% My heart is with a non-Ottawa team Take yesterday’s poll with a grain of salt because we accidentally left out the Ottawa Titans baseball team. It was there but then it got lost when we decided to group all the teams with ‘black’ in their name together. Also, two per cent for the Ottawa Rapid is also pretty impressive considering that the women’s professional soccer team has yet to play a match.
Today’s poll:
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What, exactly, is the ‘vibe’ of Ottawa? |
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✳️ Means change from previous edition TUESDAY Sample tasty mouthfuls from more than 15 of the neighbourhood’s top eateries at Taste of Little Italy Ottawa. 9th Hour Theatre Company launches Gleanings, a new public forum for “nuanced discussion about complex ideas and issues relating to arts and culture, theology, and the social sciences.” Tonight’s presentation starts with a professional reading of a new dramatization of Crime & Punishment followed by a discussion. All right, Gilmore Girls fans, now’s your time to shine. Take your smartest squad to the Prescott for Trivia Night. If you think you can’t sing, it doesn’t matter at Pitch ImPerfect Singers events. Everyone is welcome to belt out the tunes, which this time around range from Backstreet Boys’ Shape of My Heart to Barry White’s You Are the First, the Last, My Everything. The Festival du Film de l’Outaouais continues at Cinema 9. ByTowne Cinema: The Way My Way, The Friend, Princess Mononoke: 4K Restoration (subtitles) Mayfair Theatre: No Other Land, The Penguin Lessons, Thank You Very Much Gigs Trivia Night: Pour Boy, Moose McGuire’s (Orléans), Irene’s Pub
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Bibliophiles: grab more of the good stuff at great prices as Mutchmor Public School’s biggest fundraiser of the year gets underway. The Mutchmor Book Saleis open today and tomorrow from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm and again open this weekend (check hours). Rooted: Wassim Aboutanos and Jouman Abdallah take you on a lyrical and poetic journey anchored in the melodies of the Middle-East that travel through France and settle in Canada. National Arts Centre Fourth Stage. Learn something new at Ottawa Tool Library’s Demo Night: Introduction to 3D Printing Silent Book Club stops at Anina’s Café. Bring your reading material and be sure to buy a drink and a snack from the venue. Comic, “professional idiot”, and author Steve-O brings his new tour “Super Dummy” to the Bronson Centre. Play Food & Wine, in partnership with Boires and In Wines We Trust, will be hosting a Domaine du Clair Obscur Burgundy Wine Dinner on April 10. Guests will test natural wines from Burgundy alongside a three course menu from Executive Chef Shane Brown. Workshop boutique’s Spring Trunk Sale begins at its new location: Next Door Market & Event Space. - Check out the crystals, minerals, gems, and fossils at the Ottawa Rock and Gem Show. Kids under 5 get in free. Until Sunday at EY Centre.
Ottawa’s best tiny music venue, GigSpace Performance Studio, welcomes Tim Bedner and Kevin Barrett. ByTowne Cinema: The Friend, Ciné-Club D’Ottawa: Je verrai toujours vos visages, Ciné-Club d’Ottawa: Àma Gloria Mayfair Theatre: No Other Land, You [Romance], Thank You Very Much
Gigs Matt Gower, Michael Peterson, Libby & Cal. LIVE on Elgin Class of 91: Futura Free, Listen Up Kid, Red Light Run. House of TARG Omnivide, Inner Turmoil, Luridity. Dominion Tavern Lensky, Dan Porter. Avant-Garde Bar Dystoh, The Brothership, Mo The Pro. The 27 Club
JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING Broadway Across Canada’s 2025-2026 season brings hit musicals and a hilarious whodunit to the National Arts Centre. The line-up includes Mrs. Doubtfire, Clue, &Juliet, Mouline Rouge! The Musical, and Mamma Mia!, the latter of which is back by popular demand. Subscription packages go on sale Thursday morning (April 10).
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