In Today’s Edition

→ Ottawa Carleton District School Board steps back on some of its controversial changes

→ Mezzanine tickets available tomorrow for Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Jekyll & Hyde

→ Deal of the Day on a Candian made queen size bed

→ 🌦️ High 11° Low -3° and light rain.  ☀️ 6:39 am 🌛 7:34 pm 

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OTTAWAN OF THE DAY

• Jude Rutledge

• The 10 year-old is credited with saving the life of his brother Javen after a fire broke out in their Nepean home. Their grandmother said Jude was shown the family’s fire emergency plan, developed after a visit by an Ottawa firefighter on the fire service’s twice yearly ‘Wake Up’ campaign.

• A friend has created a GoFundMe to assist the family, who are now staying at a local hotel.

• Natasha O’Neil at CityNews 

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• We have to assume as Canadians that starting right now all of our food from the US and nearly all of our drugs are not being properly regulated

• – Lawyer and biomedical scientist, University of Ottawa professor Amir Attaran, is asking the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to review the American food safety system after the many cuts to that country’s health, science, and regulatory bodies.
• Elizabeth Payne in the Ottawa Citizen

SPORTS

• 🏒 PWHL Ottawa Charge 4 – Boston Fleet 0 last night
  
  The win puts the Charge into the playoffs.
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• Yesterday, we wrote that Buffalo scored 3 goals on Tuesday. Surprisingly, this was not so. 
• 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 2 – Buffalo Sabres 5 last Tuesday

WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🪑National Capital Commission

• Both the mayor of Ottawa and the mayor of Gatineau have requested seats on the board of directors of the National Capital Commission. Ottawa mayor Mark Sutcliffe and Gatineau mayor Maude Marquis-Bissonnette sent a jointly signed letter to the Liberal, Conservative, New Democratic Party, and Green Party leaders with their wish list of what they want for the National Capital region, including more money for transit and training for potentially out-of-work public servants.
  
  The eye-opening bit was their request to have voting seats on the National Capital Commission board, an organisation that largely exists to make public works outside of the jurisdiction of Ottawa and Gatineau.
  
   Elyse Skura at CBC    The Letters

🚊 Transportation Plan

• The City is looking for your opinion on the future of transporation in Ottawa. There are three separate surveys to answer.
  
  These first two are not what we at THE OTTAWAN would actually call a survey. They are interactive maps of the various projects that you can look at and, if you want, make a comment on the side like a Facebook post.
  
  • Priority road projects
  
  • Priority transit projects
  
  The third is formatted like a regular questionnaire. 
  
  • Road, transit and active transportation projects and priorities
  
  You can read all about the Future Transporation Plan here. 
  
  City of Ottawa

✏️ Ottawa Carleton District School Board

• After an uproar from parents, the Ottawa Carleton District School Board is making a partial reverse ferret on school boundary changes. Under the initial plan, around 11,000 students would be changing schools in 2026. Other than schools that are currently ‘kindergarten to Grade 3’ and ‘Grade 4 to Grade 8’, no other schools will be changed to that configuration. The plan to close all English-only immersion schools has been dropped, with the new plan operating five English-only and six French-only. There are currently 15 of each.  Additionally,  parents will be able to request exemptions for their kids to remain where they are.
  
  The CBC has posted the Board’s full document of its plans online here.
  
  Ted Raymond at CTV

🛻 Convoy News

• Convoy coörganizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber have been found guilty of mischief for their roles in the 2022 trucker convoy in Ottawa. The judge ruled that ‘the evidence shows that the duo routinely encouraged people to continue to remain at and join the protest despite knowing the adverse effect it was having on downtown residents and businesses’. The duo argued that they called for a peaceful protest and any disorder was the City’s fault.
  
  Both were also found guilty of committing mischief themselves but the Crown requested that verdict be stayed. Barber was found guilty of counselling others to disobey a court order, something Lich was not charged with. 
  
  The pair were found not guilty on four other charges relating to obstructing police and intimidation.  
  
  David Fraser at CBC

DAILY POLL

The Poll

Yesterday, we asked, ‘Which Made in Canada items would you like to see added to our online store?’

16% Socks

9% Baseball caps

27% Tote bags

6% Stickers

2% Magnets

0% Bottle openers

9% Velvet paintings of Ottawa icons

31% All of the above 

0% Other

Yeah, who needs bottle openers anyway?

Today’s poll: 

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✳️ Means change from previous edition

THURSDAY

• Shop with more than 145 artisans from across Canada at the Originals Spring Craft Sale. EY Centre today through Sunday.

• The Cold AF Comedy Tour at Yuk Yuks features Bobby Knauff and Mark Menei, two of Thunder Bay’s best comics. 

• Experience the Oscar winner Anora at Anina’s Café’s intimate screening. $5 per person advance, $7 at the door. 

• Bourbon, schmourbon. Sample four Canadian whiskies at Hintonburg Public House. $50 per person which includes, 4 whiskys, 4 small cocktails, a bar snack & the guided tasting. 

• Classic rockers Heart play Canadian Tire Centre. 

• Create a Ukrainian Easter Egg (Pysanky) with Ottawa Tool Library. 

• 🆓 Artists Teresa Cullen and Robert Marchessault collaborate on Lumenos, an exhibition of prints achieved with sunlight and photo-sensitive paper rather than cameras. 

• ByTowne Cinema: Miséricorde (Miseriecordia), The Penguin Lessons, Detour: Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979) 

• Mayfair Theatre: The Way, My Way, Ottawa Film Society Private Screenings 

  Gigs

• Bloodshot Bill with Eddie Gazel. House of TARG

• Weekly Blue Grass (1:00 pm). Carleton Tavern

• Bingo Thursday. Broadhead Brewery

• Beer and Bingo. Calabogie Brewing (Kanata taproom)

• DJ Night. Orléans Brewing Co

• 80s and 90s Trivia. Broadway Bar & Grill

• Chris Zimmerman & The Weather, Vinyl Hero, Phasez, Señorita Sin. Rainbow Bistro

• Paco Dvoi Alt Folk Trio

FRIDAY

• There are still good tickets available for this evening’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet performance of Jekyll & Hyde. 

• 🆓 The Fifty-Five Plus Lifestyle show has ideas for vacations, health, living, and more. Best of all: it’s free. 

• You might win an authentic Easter egg at the Ukrainian Pysanka Bingo event. 

• Meet more than 145 Canadian craftspeople and artisans at the Originals Spring Craft Fair. At the EY Centre until Sunday. 

• Watch a pair of slight of hand artistes battle it out in Dueling Magicians. 

• Canadian über comic Ron James plays Yuk Yuk’s tonight through Sunday.

• Gender-nonconforming people are welcome to sign up to the Scribblin’ in the Margins open mic event by Urban Legends Poetry Collective and The Other Hill. 

• ByTowne Cinema: Armand, No Other Land, The Friend, Princess Mononoke: 4K Restoration (Subtitled) 

• Mayfair Theatre: Parental Consent 

  Gigs

• Sister Luck (tribute to the Black Crowes). Overflow Brewing Co

• Niko Moon - These are the Nights Tour. Bronson Centre

• Motherland, Alturna, HotSkins. The 27 Club

• The Ed Lister Group. Night Oat

• David James Allen, Kojak, Valley Girls, Riley Burns. LIVE on Elgin

• Ryan King. Broadhead Brewing. 

SATURDAY

• The freezing rain prevented Rightul Owner designer Rose from appearing at Victoire last week, but she’ll be there this Saturday April 5

• Bring a donation of socks or underwear for Operation Come Home and enjoy a live acoustic rock and roll show from Ocean Sun at Bowman's Bar & Grill. 

• Enjoy Bellwoods Brewery’s new 13th anniversary beer Motley Cru, and taste the special pop up menu by Chef Cam Gihon, all at Bar Lupulus this afternoon.

• 🆓 Nepean Sportsplex welcomes spring with the Eastern Ontario Craft & Gift Easter Market. 

• Madame Amy of 123 Petit Pas will be telling bilingual kids’ stories, leading children in song, and giving away copies of the French Learning Kit for Families at the OPL Greenboro branch. 10:30 am.

• There’s no cover to enjoy the Jazz Brunch at Anina’s Café. 

• ShuFlora is popping up at Bridgehead Coffee on Elgin St. Buy $10 worth of coffee and receive a flower. Purchase $50 and receive a special bouquet. 

• Support Big Brothers Big Sisters: bring your unwanted clothing to the 2nd Annual Spring Clothing Swap at Thrive Select Thrift. 

• Ottawa menswear and lifestyle brand Raised by Wolves reopens its brick and mortar flagship for the launch of its Spring Summer collection (10:00 am to 2:00 pm). From 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm the same day they’ll be hosting their inaugural art show, a three person exhibition of works by Dom Laporte, Ron Wineck, and Vado. 166B-145 Spruce St. 

• Kilts are optional but encouraged at National Tartan Day at Beechwood Cemetery. 

• Meet more than 145 Canadian craftspeople and artisans at the Originals Spring Craft Fair. At the EY Centre until Sunday. 

• ByTowne Cinema: The Firend, Armand, The Way, My Way, Detour: The Elephant Man

• Mayfair Theatre: Walking Through the Fire 

  Gigs

• Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, LSD Trio. Glebe St. James Church

• Pawnshop Whiskey. Atomic Rooster

• Metro Jazz. Art House Café

• New Minglewood Station. Brigid’s Well

• DJ Edz. Avant-Garde Bar

• Barry and the Blasters. Rainbow Bistro

• Mod Nite. LIVE on ElginBathwash, Lady Grey & The Phantoms, Duck House, Cam Kirk. House of TARG

JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING

• Broadway belters and cutthroat competition: three Ottawa vocal groups sing their hearts out for glory at Show Tune Showdown 2025. April 12 at Meridian Theatres @ Centrepointe. 

• Cook Tuscany with Bottega Nicastro's next workshop on April 15. 

• On Sunday April 27 the Dutch Groceries store is running its first off site event to mark both King’s Day and 80 years of freedom thanks to Canadian Armed Forces during the Second World War. Fittingly, Dutch Fe(e)st Day will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion Montgomery Branch, 330 Kent St. Tickets can be purchased for just the day's fun or you can book dinner too. Dress code: orange. 

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