In Today’s Edition → Measles cases arrive in Ottawa → Watch the 1925 silent movie of Ben Hur with a live choir in a church tomorrow → Deals of the Day: Womenswear and Canadian-made furniture → 🌤️ High 15° Low -2° and partly cloudy ☀️ 5:51 am 🌛 8:10 pm |
It’s Game 6 of the Sens’ Cinderella story this evening. Mayor Mark Sutcliffe has given you cover to get out of everything in order to support the team. It’s at 7:00 pm tonight. |
THURSDAY DINING AND DRINKING UPDATE |
🍸 Advance your mixology skills at Petit Bill’s interactive Cocktail Party by 3Common. 🥕 Get a jump on your vegetable plotting and visit the Plant-A-Patch Pop Up Seedling sale at the Ottawa Street Markets farm store (1805 Gaspé), on Saturday May 3 and Saturday May 10. They’ll have herbs and greens including sophisticated stuff like French Sorrel, Kale, and Arugula. 🐟 After 25 years in business, the Newfoundland Pub on Montreal Road closed for good on April 27. The pub said the owners were retiring. 🧀 Ottawa PoutineFest takes over City Hall’s grounds this weekend. 🌶️ Ottawa’s East end is getting its own branch of the Spice World Supermarket. The store opens this Friday May 2 at 1439 Youville Dr. In Orléans 🇲🇽 Scratch Box Gastro Truck is parking its usual offerings this weekend to present a four day Cinco de Mayo menu, featuring $5 tacos and other Mexican food specials. 1280 Stittsville Main Street. 🍺 Craft Beer Road Trip: Switzers House of Beer in Arnprior (aka the cutest, tiniest bar in the region) presents MAIFEST on Saturday May 31. From 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm enjoy a fine selection of beer and food, a branded glass, ice cream from Mallard’s Milk Bar next door, games, and an in-person DJ spinning the tunes. $30. 🍝 In the Ottawa Citizen Peter Hum has discovered an amazing pasta house in Gatineau. Hum describes Caméline’s ‘fresh, creative pastas and shareable dishes’ as ‘Italian by way of Québec’.
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NUMBER - $25,000
- – The amount of bids received by the All Hands On Deck exhibition of skateboard art, twice as much as last year. The show, which is raising money for the Ottawa Mission and Operation Come Home, is at Beyond The Pale Brewing Company until May 4.
- Shaun Vardon at CTV
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Olivia Johnston and Neeko Paluzzi The duo, who work together as the no collective, are the 2025 Artists-in-Residence at the Diefenbunker. The Diefenbunker says their residency will ‘culminate in a multi-level, mixed-media exhibition that critically examines the failures of globalization in the post-Cold War era’. Diefenbunker
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SPORTS - 🏒 PWHL Ottawa Charge 0 – Minnesota Frost 3 last night
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⚕️ The measles outbreak has reached Ottawa. Ottawa Public Health reports that an adult and a child are believed to have acquired measles and ask people who had contact with them to monitor themselves for symptoms.
People who were at the following two stores may have been exposed: - Food Basics, 1021 Cyrville Road, Ottawa ON
- Monday, April 21, 2025, between 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm
- Costco, 1405 Blair Towers Place (near Ogilvie Road)
- Wednesday, April 23, 2025, between 6:00 pm and 8:45 pm
Symptoms may occur up to 21 days after contact. Ottawa Public Health has set up a dedicated page at OttawaPublicHealth.ca/Measles. – Ottawa Public Health
🐴 Ottawa Fire Services rescued a horse trapped in a shelter toppled by Tuesday’s storm. The Russell Road horse was freed after an hour and released to its owner. – CBC
🗳️ Rockcliffe Park resident Prime Minister Mark Carney will move into Rideau Cottage on the estate of Rideau Hall as his official residence. Although Carney’s house is not far away, the Privy Council Office says Rideau Cottage is much more secure. Former prime minister Justin Trudeau moved into the mansion-sized cottage upon his appointment after the official residence, 24 Sussex Drive, was deemed uninhabitable. – Catharine Tunney at CBC ↪ We wrote the other day that former Carleton member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre would remain at Stornoway, the official residence of the Leader of the Opposition, because he did not plan to step down as Conservative Party leader. However, the Official Residences Act specifies the mansion is for the use of the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons. As Poilievre lost his seat, a Parliamentary stand-in will need to be appointed from the elected Conservative members and that person will get to live at Stornoway. ↪ The Longest Ballot Committee has declared victory over its stunt to have 91 names placed on the Carleton riding ballot. The Committee says its goal to to have a national conversation about electoral reform and to replace the current system of ‘person with the most votes wins’ with something they deem more fair. – Dylan Robertson in the Canadian Press
💰 The future Hard Rock Casino, now the Rideau Carleton Casino, is having another hiring fair May 6 and 7, 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm. They promise ‘part-time and full-time positions across multiple departments, with on-the-spot interviews and job offers’. – Rideau Carleton Casino |
The Poll Last time, we asked ‘Do you believe the Sens can go all the way now?’. 44% Yes 22% No 28% I swear on Champlain’s astrolabe, I will not allow hope only to have it dashed 6% I’m a Leafs fan
Today’s poll:
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Are you vaccinated against measles? |
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✳️ Means change from previous edition THURSDAY FRIDAY ✳️ 🆓 The spring edition of ArohaFest, which celebrates the arts and culture of India, arrives at Shenkman Arts Centre. The festival continues tomorrow (Saturday May 3). ✳️ 🆓 The European Union Short Film Festival opens with a series of nine films about womanhood. Arrive early to ensure you get a seat and to enjoy the snacks and drinks from participating embassies, before the screening starts. ✳️ The Ottawa Wine Auction in support of Music and Beyond will be led by renowned auctioneer Stephen Ranger. $50 per person. Organizers of the Orléans Legion Cinco de Mayo event hope you’ll wear your festive colours. Sombreros optional. Bachman-Turner Overdrive will be taking care of business at Canadian Tire Centre, with special guests April Wine and Headpins. No experience and no partner are needed at the Learn to Swing Dance evening by Ottawa Swing Dance Society. $15 per person. There’s an incredible night of music brewing: ELK Trio brings “an electrifying night of jazz/world fusion to the Art House, ft. transcendental electric violin, hypnotic guitar grooves, and mind-melting tabla/percussion wizardry.” The party's at Next Door Market and Event Space as MAX Ottawa presents the second edition of The (W)hole Night Long. It was a dark and stormy night when you heard author Joanne Levy was going to explain The Importance of Hooking Readers from the First Line. NAC Orchestra presents works by Gabriela Montero (who also guest stars), Prokofiev, and Tchaikovsky. Two epics collide as the original, 1925 silent version of Ben Hur is screened to a live soundtrack of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. DARC presents MÆ-Motion Aftereffect by Freya Björg Olafson. “MÆ-Motion Aftereffect is a sixty-minute intermedia performance that explores how immersive media expand individual perception of ‘reality,’ ‘time,’ and ‘space.’” ByTowne Cinema: I’m Still Here, Bonjour Tristesse, The Penguin Lessons Mayfair Theatre: The Ballad of Wallis Island, Darkest Mirium
Gigs 80s Dance party. House of TARG Grunge Night: tribute to Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots. Overflow Brewing Jalen. Broadhead Brewery The Rembros. The Carleton Tavern Night of Indie Songs. Irene’s Pub Andrew Duhaney. Rainbow Bistro Ed Lister Group residency. Night Oat Night at the Genres. Brass Monkey
SATURDAY St. Andrew's is holding its Rummage Sale to benefit those in need in our downtown community. Come spend the morning browsing through an amazing bargain selection of clothes, shoes, toys, sporting goods, books, treasures, and much more! Please bring your own shopping bags. Cash only. Wear your comfy shoes to the 2025 Blackburn Hamlet Community Garage Sale. You never know what kind of treasures you’ll unearth. Creatives, sewists, and crafters: find deals on fabric, patterns, buttons, zippers, embroidery and cross stitch supplies, and more at the Hintonburg Fabric Flea Market. $3 admission, cash event. Today at the European Union Short Film Festival: The Places You’ll Go is a series of family-friendly short films about the road of life (3:00 pm). Then, at 7:00 pm the festival closes with Band of Outsiders: a series examining the resilience of marginalized people in contemporary society. The Parkdale Orchestra plays music from Canadian composer Harold Kaufmann, Ottorino Respighi, and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Cumberland Farmers Market’s Spring Market will feature 85 local farms and vendors. 🚗 Road Trip: the impossibly attractive town of Almonte welcomes the Cheefully Made Spring Market. It’s an indoor and outdoor affair with 100 Canadian vendors, live music, a guest canteen, games, and craft workshops. You might not know that stamp collecting is alive in the 21st Century. Visit the Ottawa National Stamp Exhibition at Nepean Sportsplex this weekend. 🚗 Road Trip 🆓 The Indigenous Cultural Fair Carleton Place will raise funds for Art for Aid, a local project that collects and ships art supplies to resource-challenged Indigenous schools across Canada. Join Urban Sketchers Ottawa for an on-location drawing session on Elgin St. Join the Jane’s Walk from ByWard Market to Parliament Hill. Buy, sell, or donate your gently used outdoor gear at the MEC Gear Swap. It’s Bike Day at the New Edinburgh Field House. Buy and sell bikes and other non-moterized wheeled conveyances (10% of the proceeds will go to Crichton Community Council. Have your bike checked out by a volunteer mechanic from Full Cycle. Take part in the Kidical Mass Bike Ride at 10:00 am (every child must be accompanied by an adult). Cranium Showcase 2025 is your chance to see tomorrow’s stars now. The lineup features performers from Ottawa, Toronto, and Glasgow, Scotland. 🆓 Explore the possibilities of crystals, energy healing, tarot and psychic readings, and more at the Ottawa Mothers Day Holistic Healing Fair. ByTowne Cinema: The Penguin Lessons, I’m Still Here, Bonjour Tristess, Mickey 17 Mayfair Theatre: The Ballad of Wallis Island, The Spoils, Tenebrae Gigs Graham Greer. Red Bird Alice Longyu Gao, Arthritis Kid, and Los3r. SAW Centre Wicked Grin with The Blind & The Beautiful. Irene’s Pub Switched-On Synths: ACTORS, Frissons, Groupe B. House of TARG
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🆓 One of the biggest fundraisers on the Experimental Farm calendar, the Friends of the Farm 2025 Plant Sale returns Sunday May 11. Shop and ask questions of the Master Gardeners of Ottawa-Carleton from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm, rain or shine.
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