In Today’s Edition → The O Train’s Lines 2 and 4 will run seven days per week starting Sunday → Both the Canada Science and Technology and Bank of Canada museums have free March Break programmes tomorrow → Deals of the Day on Canadian-made garden items and cool clothes → ⛅ High 3° Low -3° and partly cloudy. ☀️ 7:24 am 🌛 7:03 pm The Poll Last Friday, we asked ‘Have you ever attended an event because you saw it in THE OTTAWAN listings?’ 59% Yes, and it was the first I heard of it
9% Yes, and although I knew about it, you guys repeated it over and over until I succumbed
15% No
0% No, you guys so rarely get the Sens score correct, how would I ever trust the listings
17% I often intend to but then I realize that I would have to leave the house. and that gives me the vapours We’re quite pleased with this result. And please tell your friends who are looking for things to do about us.
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OTTAWANS OF THE DAY - Stefania Allevato and Brooke Alexander
Allevato has published her third book, Mischief in the Night, a children’s title teaching kids about the importance of listening to your parents, starring racoons. Her fellow Barrhaven resident, Alexander, did the illlustrations.
Mischief in the Night is available on Amazon. Barrhaven Blog
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SPORTS - 🏒 PWHL Ottawa Charge 0 – Minnesota Frost 5 last Friday
- 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 4 – New York Rangers 3 last night
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Ottawa Public Library Board
Tuesday, March 11 at 5:00 pm - Establishment of OPL Board standing committees
- 2025 Board continuing education plan
- Fourth quarter 2024 financial status report
- Ontario Library Association 2025 Conference – Vice-chair Kathy Fisher and Trustee Alison Crawford report
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
🚊 O Train - Lines 2 and Line 4 will operate seven days per week starting March 16. The new lines, previously called the Trillium line, had been closed on Sundays since opening January 6.
City of Ottawa
⛸️ Rideau Canal Skateway - The Rideau Canal Skateway has closed for the season. While it has been closed since March 4, there was hope that the weather would change and allow it to reopen. No dice, the upcoming week will keep on getting warmer. The Skateway saw 1.2 million visits over 52 days.
CBC
🚌 Ottawa Carleton District School Board - The Ottawa Carleton District School Board may do a reverse ferret on its plan to make kids switch schools after grade 3. Under the current proposal, 11,000 students would be switching schools in September 2026. The usual number is 5,000.
Parents have complained to the Board, not wanting their kids to change schools at such a young age and to keep siblings together.
The Board will make a decision next month.
CBC
🗳️ Moving on Up - A Rockcliffe resident’s application for a job in the public sector has been accepted. Mark Carney, who had previously worked for the public service both in Canada and in the United Kingdom, had applied to be the Leader of the Federal Liberal Party, and was accepted yesterday. The job may lead to the position of Prime Minster of a G7 country, possibly fast tracked to as soon as this week.
Mark Carney
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✳️ Means change from previous edition MONDAY TUESDAY Free with your admission to the Canada Science and Technology Museum, set the kids loose on the March Break activities: the Cardboard Extravaganza building experience, Railroads in miniature, Backyard brains, and the Zone 01 Robotics workshop. Until March 16. 🆓 Drop into the Bank of Canada Museum all week for March Break activities. Today at Ottawa Wintertime Music Festival: Wordsmiths In the Round. ByTowne Cinema: Klassic Kids: The Princess Bride, I’m Still Here, Seven Veils, Nosferatu Mayfair Theatre: Flow, Wicked, A Complete Unknown, Nosferatu Gigs Coroner, Deceased, The Sceptor. Overflow Brewing Trivia Tuesday. Irene’s Pub Tuesday Arcade - unlimited games. House of TARG
WEDNESDAY ByTowne Cinema screens the only film that actor Charles Laughton ever directed, the American Gothic classic Night of the Hunter (1955). Reserve your spot at the Overflow Brewing Trivia Night. Road Trip 🆓 Learn a new craft under the watchful eye of a weaver at the Mississippi Valley Textile Miuseum. Bring the kids and drop by between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm. The Shawshank Redemption by Ottawa Little Theatre continues. At today’s Doors Open for Music at Southminster: Acclaimed Canadian jazz pianist, vocalist, and composer, Steve Amirault, plays Heartbreak Songs. Ottawa Wintertime Music Festival: Lynne Hanson with Emma Lamont. 🆓 The Canadian War Museum is holding free activities devoted to Razzle Dazzle, the First World War camouflage style. (Admission required if you want to wander the exhibitions) ByTowne Cinema: Klassic Kidz: Fantastic Mr. Fox, Seven Veils, Spectacle: Night of the Hunter, Nosferatu Mayfair Theatre: Flow, A Complete Unknown, I’m Still Here, Nosferatu Gigs Jazz Nite with Jahmeema. Bar Robo Girls to the Front with Host OK Naledi, special guests Zeelle and Paula C. Irene’s Pub Musical Theatre March hosted by Eden Moore. LIVE on Elgin Ruby Doom, Pretty Good Band, Sven - A Neighbourhood Organizing Center (NOC) Fundraiser. Rainbow Bistro The Rough Go, KTG, Bronson Novella. House of TARG
JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING Learn a practical skill with Fabrications, who have released a Spring collection of courses in pants hemming, intermediate knitting projects, quilting, and more. Silent Sky, a production by Three Sisters Theatre Company, runs at the Gladstone Theatre March 19-29 . The almost true story of the women who changed our view of the cosmos, Silent Sky brings the stellar achievements of Henrietta Leavitt and her fellow female scientists into the light, against the backdrop of early 20th century expectations of women. Horror fans have a double treat in store as the seminal 1979 film Zombie is scored live by the composer, Fabio Frizzi. May 1 at Overflow Brewing.
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This story is a really great read from Ottawa Citizen reporter Gord Holder. Holder came across a 1961 letter from his mother’s then-employer informing her that she was being let go because she was getting married. Holder decided to write the still extant business – Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company in Toronto – asking for an apology and, for good measure, to the Office of the Ombudsman. Holder got a quick response. An apology and a donation to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Holder’s mom’s name, Georgina Gowanlock. What was shocking to THE OTTAWAN was this quote from the apologizing chief executive, ‘I’ve never even heard of something like this before’. Both Martha and Darren’s families have stories that echo this, as we are sure that many reading this do. While we are happy to know that this attitude has been placed in the wastebasket of history, we’re not so thrilled that it has been forgotten. |
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