In Today’s Edition

→ Ottawa Police Detective sanctioned for unauthorized COVID vaccine investigation

→ The House of TARG holds a Spring Market tomorrow

→ Deals of the Day: Oil and Vinegar 2-packs and Canadian made clothing

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STATISTICS OTTAWA

OTTAWANS OF THE DAY

• Della Thomson-Vaslet and Roxy Parejas

• The two photographers have launched a new angle to their photoshoot business, Flying Dress. The dresses are Ukrainian-made ‘flowing’ silk dresses that catch in the wind for women to wear in photoshoots in Ottawa’s iconic locations like Parliament Hill and Dow’s Lake. (Really, you need to look at the pictures)

• Elizabeth Howell in the Ottawa Business Journal 

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• We’d like very strong commitments to not repeat what’s going on in the US right now with DOGE, with Elon Musk

• – Canadian Association of Professional Employees president Nathan Prier on what the union would like to see from the new Federal government after the election.
• Peter Szperling at CTV

SPORTS

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• 🏒 PWHL Ottawa Charge 3 – New York Sirens 3 last night
• 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 2 – Buffalo Sabres 3 last night

• THE OTTAWAN enjoyed gorgeous Mavericks donuts, Gabriel Pizza, Beavertails, and Canadian wines care of Savvy at last evening’s launch party for Ottawa Made, the new feel-good read by Sam Laprade and Caroline Philips. The book celebrates the inventions, the artists and celebrities, and the curiosities that have sprung from our region. It’s available direct from Ottawa Press and Publishing as well as your favourite local bookstore across town. Get a signed copy when the authors visit Maker House on Saturday April 5 (12:00 pm to 2:30 pm at 987 Wellington St)
• Papa Jacks popcorn now carries one of the few truly Canadian brands of chips: Yum Yum. If you’re unfamiliar, don’t worry: they have ketchup flavour. Yum Yum brand can also be found at Giant Tiger, IGA, and Canadian Tire.
• Brew Donkey’s new April tours Friday Night Feasts: Slices and Vices and Ramen and Romance : La Belle Brew-Mance Tour give food a guest starring role alongside the local beer. 
• Biagio’s will be open for lunch and dinner as usual on Good Friday April 18.
• Get a taste of extremely fresh Parmigiano Reggiano at Grace in the Kitchen’s Customer Appreciation Event on Thursday May 1.
• Vodkow Market on the Lawn returns every second Sunday of the month from May to October. 34 Industrial Dr. Almonte, ON. 
• Get a taste – more than one, actually – of wines from Austria, Croatia, Hungary, and Slovenia at the Maker Feed event on Wednesday April 9.
• If you're planning a wedding you're obviously thinking about food.  Book your place at the Meatings Wedding Tasting Event on Monday March 31 (two seatings are available).
• The new Natural History bar has no website, does not take reservations, and has ’70s soft rock on the stereo, as well as taxidermy. 835 Somerset St W K1R 6R4
• In the Ottawa Citizen, Peter Hum finds Westboro’s new French bistro Elise is ‘going for a New York aesthetic. This is a cool, funky restaurant that serves French food as opposed to a French restaurant that you find in Paris’. Of chef Nouk Couturier-Bernard’s ambition to be on Canada’s Best 100 Restaurants List, ‘Elise would have to step things up considerably, but it also isn’t out of the question’.
  
  In this week’s edition of Hum’s sugar rush, he visits Stuffed Cookies by Kat in Orléans. 
• At Eat the Strip, Ameya Charnalia finds a proper strip mall resto featuring Palestinian cuisine at Cheese and Olives. Charnalia loved the eponymous cheese and olive fatayer: ‘The cheese was wonderfully gooey, salty, and rich, providing the perfect bite alongside the olives, which added a slight briny contrast’.
• Fans of chain-made pancakes have three new options. Stacked, an Ontario-based breakfast chain, has opened a new location at Centrum Kanata, is opening another at SmartCentres Carleton Place April 2, and a third at Rideau Plaza in Smiths Falls. There is already an existing location at Carlingwood Shopping Centre. THE OTTAWAN ate there once. It was fine.

WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🚨 Ottawa Police Service

• After a long disciplinary hearing,  an Ottawa Police detective has been found guilty of discreditable conduct for breaking privacy rules in a personal, unauthorized COVID vaccination investigation. Sexual assault and child abuse unit detective Constable Helen Grus accessed files of dead children in cases that she was not assigned and asked a father if the mother was vaccinated against COVID 19. The hearing officer found that Grus’ investigation was ‘formed by her self-initiated research and her strong opposition to her employer's decision to implement a mandatory vaccination policy’. No penalty has been set.
  
  CBC
  
  ➕ Related The new Parliamentary District police, staffed by the Ottawa Police Service, should be ready by the end of 2026

🗳️ Federal Election

• The Globe & Mail says Chandra Arya was prevented from re-running in his Nepean riding by the Liberal Party because of his visit to India last year. The paper says Arya had no communication with Global Affairs Canada about the trip, where he met with Indian prime minster Narendra Modi. Arya says that at no point did the Federal government contact him about his trip and the ‘sole point of contention with the Liberal Party has been my outspoken advocacy on issues important to Hindu Canadians and my firm stance against Khalistani extremism’. 
  
  After dropping Arya has a candidate, Liberal leader Mark Carney took the nomination for Nepean.
  
  CTV

🇨🇦 Beechwood Cemetery

• Beechwood cemetery has created a new programme to respectfully dispose of old Canadian and provincial flags that citizens and businesses would like to replace. The inaugural ceremony will be in June, with a procession and the raising of a new flag, after which the old flags will be cremated. Flags can be sent to ‘Honour the National Flag of Canada c/o Beechwood Cemetery 280 Beechwood Avenue Ottawa, ON K1L 8A6’. 
  
  Camille Wilson at CTV 

⛴️ Quyon Ferry

• Ottawa’s best 10 minute cruise reopens for the season today. The electric ferry, which runs between Fitzroy Harbour in West Carleton and Quyon in Québec can only operate after the river has thawed. The highlight in Quyon is, of course, the fabulous Gavan’s Hotel, a live music venue which continues to refuse to recognize much of the modern age.
  
  Ted Raymond at CTV

DAILY POLL

The Poll

Yesterday, we asked ‘Do you have pets?’

29% Yes, cat(s)

26% Yes, dog(s)

7% Yes, both cat(s) and dogs(s)

3% Yes, something else normal like birds or gerbils

1% Yes, something weird like snakes or ferrets

34% No, I don't need to be a servant to some creatures

Great. Now we want to know what the ‘weird’ pets are.

Today’s Poll: 

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WEDNESDAY

• ✳️ Get a Wednesday night pass for $25 and you won’t miss any of the VERSeFEST Ottawa readings tonight at SAW Gallery.

• 🆓 Listen as soprano Susan Elizabeth Brown and pianist Lucas Porter perform pieces by Berg and Barber in the DOMS lunchtime concert.

• Spend your midweek with luxury cars and delicious Italian food and drink. La Bottega Nicastro’s Wine, Food, and Fast Cars event at Maserati of Ottawa (611 Montreal Road) promises wine tastings and nibbles from the Emilia Romagna region of Italy.

• 🆓 We humans count on yeast for so much: bread, beer, and wine for starters. Find out what the tiny living creatures can do at the Science Café with Assistant Professor Dr. Eugene Fletcher of Carleton U.

• There are $1000s in prizes including a swanky new PS5 to be won at Nerdy Bingo.

• If your heart fills with dread when your bike chain makes that noise (you know the one we mean), register for the Quick Cranks Pay What you Can seminar “Click, Click, Klunk” where you’ll learn “Quick Fixes for Poor Shifting.” 1089 Somerset St.

• Get over the midweek hump with some socializing and dancing at the Bubble Tea Social & DJ Party at Xing Fu Tang.

• ByTowne Cinema: Marcello Mio, Golden Age: Citizen Kane, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
   

• Mayfair Theatre: No Other Land, Nickel Boys, Scarecrow

  Gigs

• Kandle, Apacalda, Alanna Sterling. Rainbow Bistro

• Video Game Music Live. House of TARG

• Questionable Behaviour Trivia. Overflow Brewing Co.

• Jazz Nite with Kyler Mackenzie. Bar Robo

THURSDAY

• 🆓 House of TARG’s Spring Market will be like everything elese hosted by the venue: unexpected and very entertaining. Shop, play some games, and pop some cash into the donation jars for the Ottawa Food Bank.

• Tonight’s VERSeFEST Ottawa events happen at Happy Goat Laurel. $25 will get you a pass to attend all readings.

• Heart & Crown ByWard Market becomes a hoedown, with live country music and a free line dancing lesson at 9:30 pm.

• Trivia plus socializing plus beer tasting plus pizza equals a good time. 7:00 pm Boston Pizza, Conroy Road.

• Start the weekend with a visit to Orléans Brewing Co, where DJs will set the vibe.

• It’s official: Kichesippi Beer’s Craft Night has gone monthly. Bring your latest craft project and meet with other creatives over fine beer and snacks. If you don’t have anything on the go you can purchase a crochet kit on site.

• Meet other lovers of comic books and graphic novels at the Ottawa Public Library Main Branch. 6:00 pm.

• Ottawa’s Original Kings of Comedy return for one night of Laugh Lounge.

• Game Show Trivia at The Bridge Public House will test your knowledge of all things TV game shows.

• 🆓 Coffee, DJs, and thou: Visit the EveryPerson Café tonight for the first ever Baked Beats Coffee Party.

• Silent Sky continues at the Gladstone Theatre.

• ByTowne Cinema: Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Marcello Mio, Drawn In: Alice

• Mayfair Theatre: Nickel Boys, No Other Land, The Straight Story

  Gigs

• Thursday Blues Sessions with host Matthew Chaffey. Irene’s Pub

• The North Sound. National Arts Centre

• Pop Rock Riot! LIVE On Elgin

• Tap Room Trivia. Stray Dog Brewing Co

• Jeremie Albino. Bronson Centre Music Theatre

• Bedouin Soundclash. Overflow Brewing Co

FRIDAY

•  The 5th Ottawa Black Film Festival opens with a live red carpet and in-person screening of Samia at Library and Archives Canada. Pay $59+ tax to attend all screenings in person or $49 + tax for the online programme.

• The vibe is Maritimes at the Orléans Legion East Coast Kitchen P:arty.

• At Art House, the jazz flows straight out of a 1920s speakeasy.

• Get a Friday night pass for $25 for the VERSeFEST Ottawa readings tonight at Carleton University Dunton Tower 2017 and Happy Goat Laurel.

• Sing like you’re in the movies at the Pitch Perfect Sing Along with Deke Sharon (he was the Musical Director for all three films).

• The 27 Club plays indie pop, rock, punk, and new-wave from 10:30 pm til late.

• New dance music venue Gridwrks welcomes Pleasurecraft, a techno duo from Washington DC and Stockholm. With opener Madison, a rising star in Ottawa’s house music scene.

• OK Naledi performs at Queers & Beers. From 6:00 pm at Queen St. Fare.

• Silent Sky continues at the Gladstone Theatre.

• ByTowne Cinema: The Penguin Lessons, Miséricorde (Misericordia), Flashdance w/Frisque Femme Burlesque

• Mayfair Theatre: I’m Still Here, The Way, My Way, Mulholland Drive

  Gigs

• Mindful Drones, LoganWow live painting. Night Oat

• Still Youth, Never Easy, Corascene. 27 Club

• June Body, Out By Lucy, Cardamom Years. LIVE on Elgin

• Neon Ghosthouse, Sea-Red, Sourpussy, Dolonia. House of TARG

• Kristine St Pierre and Band. Stray Dog Brewing Co

• Brent Butt. Bronson Centre

• Qwan, Rockpyle, Gallowspine, Look Upon the Heart, Wormburner (short film). Avant-Garde Bar

• The Ya-Yas (Rolling Stones tribute). Overflow Brewing Co

JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING

• Bring your broken toaster or other small item to the next Ottawa Tool Library Repair Café and let volunteers help you to bring them back to life. This time around, you can also get darning advice for your hole-y socks and sweaters, and have your dull knives sharpened. Useful! April 5 at City Hall.

• Also on April 5, Studio Staja and Wicked Wanda’s Adult Emporium present a Collage Risqué Workshop for those 18 and older. The age limit is because all materials will be sourced from vintage erotica.

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