In Today’s Edition → Hydro Ottawa applies for a monthly rate increase →Drunken Cinema says The Mummy Returns tomorrow →Deals of the Day: Beer from Whiprsnapr, leather goods from Erin Templeton, furniture from all three ReStore locations, and cool stuff from Pokoloko → 🌧️ High 24° Low 15° and light drizzle ☀️ 5:32 am 🌛 8:27 pm |
NUMBER - $6.08
- – The average increased amount of money per month for residents that City-owned utility Hydro Ottawa has asked for at the Ontario Energy Board. The board invites comments from customers before it makes its decision. Should it be approved, the new rates will take effect January 1, 2026.
- Ontario Energy Board
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Liam Liu The seven year-old has run a lemonade stand in Stittsville for the past week to raise money to pay for the experimental medical treatments for his friend and hockey buddy Jack Laidlaw, who has been diagnosed with Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia type 4. Laidlaw’s family has been fundraising $3 million for the gene therapy. Liu’s lemonade stand will be at the corner of Adamson Crescent and Westridge Drive, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm, today and tomorrow.
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SPORTS - ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 2 – Washington Wild Things 4 last night
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
🤖 Carleton University’s new nursing school will add learning coding and the ethical principles of artificial intelligence as an option for students. As the first Bachelor of Science in Nursing programme created in the past 20 years, school director and AI researcher Danielle Manley says ‘I don’t think there is a good future of health care without AI’. – Elizabeth Payne in the Ottawa Citizen
⚕️ Kanata tech giant Calian has bought a company that provides paramedics and air-ambulance service to the North. Advanced Medical Solutions has been based in Yellowknife since 1995 but will transmogrify into Calian Advanced Medical Solutions Ltd within 12 months. – Ollie Williams at Cabin Radio
🤑 Ottawa ByLaw handed out 372 parking tickets during the first weekend of the Tulip Festival. Drivers should particularly watch for the ‘Special Event – No Stopping – Tow Away’ signs in the Little Italy and Dow’s Lake areas. – Josh Pringle at CTV
🗳️ As of today, voters in Osgoode ward can check if they are registered to vote for June 16’s byelection. Until next Friday, voters can use the ‘Am I Registered Tool’ to verify or get registered. After next Friday, voters can register at either the June 6 advance vote or June 16 general vote. You can also apply to vote by mail. – City of Ottawa |
The Poll Last time, we asked ‘Do you believe the Charge can go all the way now?’ 80% Yes 6% No 14% I swear on Champlain’s astrolabe, I will not allow hope only to have it dashed 0% I’m a Montréal Victoire fan
It’s official: the bandwagon is revved up and ready. Today’s poll: |
Is an increase of $6.08 per month a fair rate for City-owned utility Hydro Ottawa to charge? |
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✳️ Means change from previous edition THURSDAY Elevator Theatre Company’s production of the Broadway musical Next to Normal runs until May 24 at the Gladstone Theatre. Saunders Farm launches its new Square Dances tonight. No experience necessary; bring comfy shoes and your cards to this cashless venue. If you can't make it tonight mark June 19, July 17, and August 21 on your calendar. 🆓 Experience the results of the DARC's CrossCulture Jam for Ontario and Francophone musicians, which happened back on April 27. The Hintonburg Night Market by Urban Art Collective is back with the coolest vendors, food from Out of the Burbs, drinks by the Booj, and the Vernissage of a new show in the Gallery. It all runs 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Comic Katherine Ryan visits the Bronson Centre. After receiving wide acclaim at the Shaw Festival and London's Barbican Theatre, Why Not Theatre's production of the epic Mahabharata: Karma (Part 1) and (Part 2) will play short runs at the NAC. Among other things, Writers' Festival celebrates the rom-com novel. 🆓 Take a dance lesson outside the NAC each month this summer. Tonight: learn K-Pop dance moves care of the Synaptik Dance Crew. 7:00 pm. Better bring your A game to the Bridge Public House at RSC's Sitcom Showdown: Trivia Night. The Canadian Museum of History presents a biweekly screening of Canadian films. The line-up begins tonight with Rustic Oracle. If you want to raise your grilling to the next level this summer, take the Meatings X BBQwithDrew workshop about All Things Brisket. 🆓 Vancouver Film School drops by The Westin Ottawa for an info session. 🆓 Be among the first to experience new theatre with GCTC's rehearsed reading of Ron Davie's new play Last Known Well. Although it's free to attend you must book your ticket in advance. There's another Art Battle on the horizon at Overflow Brewing. The NAC Orchestra will be departing soon on a tour of Korea and Japan, but before they go you can grab a ticket to the preview concerts here in Ottawa. Korean pianist Yeol Eum performs Ravel, Strauss, and Kelly-Marie Murphy. ByTowne Cinema: Bonjour Tristesse, An Unfinished Film, Possession Mayfair Theatre: Bob Trevino Likes It, The Ballad of Wallis Island, The Shrouds Gigs Wine Lips, Chinese Medicine, Alley Beers. The 27 Club Teens in Trouble, Batboy, DealBreaker, Sugar Bomb. House of TARG Comedy Night. Pour Boy The 20th Century Boys. Rainbow Bistro Rory Taillon with Malia Rogers. Art House
FRIDAY ✳️ Learn the history of Ottawa as ByTown Museum opens for the season. At the Writers Festival Spring Edition tonight: 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing with author David A. Robertson. Learn classic moves at the Friday Dance Soirée at DQ Ballroom & Latin Dance Studio. Everything's in full bloom at the Canadian Tulip Festival. Cheer the Ottawa Charge on as Montréal Victoire returns to the arena at TD Place tonight. The Charge leads the series 2-1. Drunken Cinema hosts a screening of The Mummy Returns at the ByTowne. Expect games, silliness, and an impossibly good looking 2001-era Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. Make new connections at the Ottawa Social Mixer. Elevator Theatre Company’s production of the Broadway musical Next to Normal continues at the Gladstone Theatre. Get creative with Art Haven Kanata's Water-colour Workshop: Monogram Letter. Meet other young professionals at the Network and Elevate Night. Dead Media Maniacs is for collectors of VHS, Beta, vinyl, CDs, and other classic media methods. 4:00 pm to 7:30 pm at House of TARG. Saint Brigid's Centre for the Arts throws open its doors for a "Weekend at Brigid's", a two-evening celebration in a stunning heritage building. Book a ticket for The Manhattans (Friday May 16), ELK Trio (Saturday May 17) or get yourself a weekend pass. Elevator Theatre Company’s production of the Broadway musical Next to Normal continues at the Gladstone Theatre. ByTowne Cinema: Vingt Dieux (Holy Cow), That They May Face The Rising Sun, Black Bag, Drunken Cinema: The Mummy Returns Mayfair Theatre: The Ballad of Wallis Island, Bonjour Tristesse, A Nice Indian Boy Gigs The Low Profiles. Night Oat Groove Society. Poa Tiki Bar 80s Dance Party. House of TARG Green'd Eh. Overflow Brewing Queers and Beers. Lowertown Brewery Jody Wisternoff. Gridwrks The Underground (New Wave Dance Party. The Prescott Kasador, Lazzy Lung, The Sugar Pills. Rainbow Bistro
SATURDAY The Canadian Tulip Festival is in full bloom this weekend. Road Trip: Kemptville Buskerfest takes over Kemptville's downtown streets for a full day of entertainment. 🆓 Don't worry about the weather; Desi Dhaka - A Celebration of South Asian Arts & Culture will happen inside at Peter A. Herrndorf Place, National Arts Centre. 🆓 ByTown Sea Shanty brings a boatload of fun to Beyond the Pale Brewing Co (the 250 City Centre location). 613Flea brings 150 local makers, artisans, and purveyors of vintage goods to Lansdowne. 🆓 There's a planting party in the ByWard Market and you're invited. While you learn about vermiculture composting the kids will be busy with activities at the Spring Up Market. 55 ByWard Market Square. FestiGriot brings the Reggaeton, Konpa, Afrobeats, and Dancehall beats to Lusitania: Portuguese Recreation Centre. Everything you find at opening day of the Main Farmers Market is produced within 100km of Ottawa. Bring your own picnic to the first annual Dandelion Festival at Gaia Farm. Bachata and Salsa all night long in the shadow of the Parliament buildings. The 3 Brewers welcomes Latin Nights with a dance floor, drinks, food, and free parking. Snap up some treasure at the Little Italy and Chinatown Community Garage Sale. ByTowne Cinema: Labyrinth, Vingt Dieux (Holy Cow), Caught By The Tides, Restoration: Withnail and I Mayfair Theatre: Flow, Bonjour Tristesse, Mickey 17, Saturday Night Sinema.
Book Events The All Things Bookish Market returns to Parkdale market. Local authors will be on site and vendors will the perfect book for your next shelfie. Riverside United Church's book sale (9:00 am to noon at 3191 Riverside Dr) is a cash only event. Octopus Books brings author Dan Black to the store to sign copies of his lates work Oceans of Fate: Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia. If you're heading out on a Canadian adventure this summer, stop by The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore for the Pocket Guide to Canada's National Parks from Anecdotey Press. The book, which unfolds into a handy map (or poster), is designed and printed in Toronto.
Plant + Seedling Sales Take a gander at the stunning, refurbished Barn during Ottawa Farm Fresh's Spring Garden Fair and Seedling Sale. Stock up at the Riverside Park Community Association Seed and Seedling Giveaway and Fundraiser for the Brookfield Community Food Cupboard. The Kanata-March Horticultural Society's 51st Plant Sale gets underway at 8:00 am. 🚗 Road Trip: Almonte and District Horticultural Society Plant Sale will have annuals, perennials, and trees as well as house plants 🚗 Road Trip: The South Lanark Community Garden Plant Sale takes cash, cheques, and cards. Gigs Drug Church, Liquid Mike, F!TH (6:30 pm). The 27 Club Emo Night (10:00 pm). The 27 Club High Maintenance, Burning Tree. Avant-Garde Bar Rhiannon Giddens. National Arts Centre Saloon Dion. Montgomery Centretown Legion
JUST ANNOUNCED/ NOW BOOKING Register for the PD Day Camp at Ottawa Humane Society (June 6). Check out the armed combat, aerialists, knights, maidens, extremely cool costumes, and someone named "Zoltan the Adequate" at the Glengarry Renaissance Festival (May 31 - June 1). Folk music lovers, CityFolk has announced its list of acts for next September’s festival. Headlining are famous folkies Morrissey, James, the Pogues, Down with Webster, USS, Dropkick Murphys, and Alex Warren and Melissa Etheridge, the latter of whome will perform alongside actual folk musicians Indigo Girls.
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Save 20% on leather bags and accessories, and 10% on vintage, at Erin Templeton. |
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Furniture starts at just $10 at the Habitat for Humanity Greater Ottawa ReStore Third Thursday Clearance Weekend. Today through Saturday, score impossible deals to redo your spaces or turn into a project. Shop online or in person at 3 Iber Road, 250 City Centre Avenue, or 768 Belfast Road. |
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Set your alarm for 9:55am on tomorrow morning (Friday May 16), to ready your trigger finger for the 10:00am start to the Pokoloko May Long Weekend Sample Sale. You'll find 30-80% savings while they last (which won't be long). |
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