Wednesday, February 19 2025 |
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In Today’s Edition → High speed rail between Québec City and Toronto through Ottawa is a go → This week's Drinking and Dining Update → Westboro Books’ Thursday Murder Book Club meets tomorrow → ☁️ High -9° Low -19° and partly cloudy. Our new Montréal-based newsletter mailing system has built-in polls. We’ll try it out today with a question about our event listings. Currently, we run event listings for today, tomorrow, and the day after. Our thinking at the time was three days gives you enough time to plan ahead. But the reality is that it takes up a lot of space that is just repeated every day. So, our first poll question is: |
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WEDNESDAY DINING + DRINKING UPDATE |
- Taste the Early Harvest 2024 Extra Virgin Olive Oil at Aurelius’s Early Harvest Launch Party on Saturday March 1st (9:00 am to 5:00 pm). If you’re one of the first 10 customers that day you’ll receive a $30 Mystery Bag, and don’t forget to enter the giveaway draw at the event for your chance to win an amazing prize. 1283B Wellington St. West
- The limited edition Beyond the Pale Brewing Company Dark & Fluffy Chocolate and Marshmallow Stout is a collab with the Canadian Museum of Nature.
- It’s Wine Wednesday at Manor Lounge Elgin St. $17 will get you a half-litre of Manor White or Red.
- Peter Hum in the Ottawa Citizen has found a one-woman shop with a pun for a name: Pie Rogues. The Russian-émigré – who unsuprisingly worked as an editor until age 40 – plays on the words for ‘pie’ (pirog) and ‘small pies’ (piroshki). Besides savouries, she also makes chocolate babka.
- Hum also ate out at two brunch spots. At DUKES Ottawa (in the old Alice space), Hum enjoyed Mish-Mash-Hash, an otherworldly combo of pork, turkey, beef, kale, red peppers, onions, cheddar and potato. At Chesterfield’s Gastro Diner, Hum liked the Jerk Benny breakfast with its side of jerk plantains and mango salsa.
- Ameya Charnalia in Eat The Strip says Le Petit Paris - Crêpes et Compagniehas brought a little bit of Paris to Kanata. Charnalia says one standout was the La new yorkaise, featuring ‘marinated ground beef, cheddar, pickle, salad, and tomato’.
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NUMBER - $460 million
- – The value of the real estate owned by developer Ashcroft Group, which has just been put into receivership by angry creditors. Ashcroft owns three retirement homes, the Ravines, Park Place, and Promenade; student apartments Envie I and Envie II; and boutique hotel reStays.
- Ashcroft had received court-ordered creditor protection last year but had neglected to inform its creditors of the request. When Ashcroft applied to extend the protection, the creditors accused Ashcroft of bad faith and requested that the court appoint a receiver over the company. The court agreed.
- Andrew Duffy in the Ottawa Citizen
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Emergency Preparedness and Protective Services Committee
Thursday, February 20 at 9:30 am - Ottawa Fire Services 2025 Station Location Study
- Status Update – Emergency Preparedness and Protective Services Committee Inquiries and Motions for the Period Ending 10 February 2025
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
🚊 High Speed Rail - Cross your fingers, but high speed rail between Québec City, Ottawa, and Toronto is on. New Edinburgh resident Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the plan this morning. Called Alto, the 1,000 km route is planned to have have trains running up to 300 km/h. The Prime Minister announced $3.9 billion for trackage, new alignments and stations, regulatory matters, and consultations with Indigenous communities.
The plan is to create the line over the next six years, with stops in Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montréal, Laval, Trois-Rivières, and Québec City.
A little bit of wishful back-of-the-envelope math says that an Ottawa to Montréal trip (39 minutes) could take about as much time as an O Train journey from Blair to Tunney’s Pasture (32 minutes).
Alex Ballingall in the Toronto Star
🛻 Convoy News - Pat King, a coörganizer of the Convoy Siege, has been sentenced to three months of house arrest and 100 hours community service. King was found guilty on nine charges last November, including mischief and disobeying a court order. King is also barred from Ottawa city limits and may not communicate with six other Convoy leaders.
Canadian Press
🗳️ McNab/Braeside - The mayor of McNab/Braeside, Mark MacKenzie, is resigning after much ‘soul searching’. In a letter posted on his personal website, MacKenzie says he ‘can be more open as a private citizen than by staying on as mayor’ and his reasons will be ‘clearer to you over the course of the coming months’. Although details are sparse, what seems to be grinding the mayor’s gears are roads not being fixed in a bid to keep tax rises at zero per cent and council barring the public from a meeting with an asset management company.
McNab/Braeside is west of Ottawa on the opposite side of Arnprior.
William Eltherington at CTV The Letter
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THE ROLLING THREE DAY CALENDAR |
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WEDNESDAY You have until 11:59pm tonight to purchase a ticket for the Ottawa Humane Society’s For the Love of Animals Lottery Second Early Bird Draw. $2,000 will go to the lucky winner, plus you’ll be in with a chance to win the big prize: a brand new Audi SUV. Maple Syrup Season is nearly here. The Ceremonial First-Tapping at Agroforestry Centre (2627 Bedell Road, Kemptville) is a partnership with North Grenville’s Indigenous Advisory Circle and On The Bend Sugar Shack. 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. Art Haven presents Watercolor Workshop: Beautiful Birch Trees with artist Patricia. No experience necessary. $65. 🆓 Ottawa Storytellers bring their Open Mic to the Sunnyside Library Branch(1049 Bank St) from 7:00 pm to 8:20 pm. Controlled Damage, the story of Viola Desmond, continues at National Arts Centre’s Babs Asper Theatre. The Children, a black comedy about love and marriage in the face of disaster, begins its run at Gladstone Theatre. Nepean Sailing Club’s Winter Speaker Series presents Racing J133s on the Atlantic. Learn how to prepare the boat, crew and strategy for success. Bytowne Cinema: Check before heading out; may still be closed due to technical difficulties Vermiglio, Slumber Party: Sleepless in Seattle, 2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animated Mayfair Theatre: Nickel Boys, Babygirl, Resevoir Dogs Gigs Open Mic. Atomic Rooster, Pour Boy Jazz Jams with the Peter Hum Trio. Night Oat Bancroft, Dvořák, Beethoven & Clara-Jumi Kang. National Arts Centre Aysanabee. The 27 Club Jazz Nite with Slo E. Queen St Fare Trivia. Brew Revolution
THURSDAY
Bring your current reading material to Absinthe Café for some quiet time this afternoon at the Silent Book Club Meetup. 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. The Children continues at The Gladstone Theatre. Controlled Damage continues at National Arts Centre’s Babs Asper Theatre. 🆓 You need to register for your place at Art House Café Music Trivia night. 🆓 It’s all fun and games at Broadhead Brewing’s Bingo Thursday. Indulge your love of thrillers and mysteries at Westboro Books’ Thursday Murder Book Club. $34.99 for the book and book club session (Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight) Bytowne Cinema: Check before heading out; may still be closed due to technical difficulties I’m Still Here, 2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action, Detour: Deep Cover Mayfair Theatre: Babygirl, Nickel Boys, Wild at Heart
Gigs Irene’s Blues Sessions. Irene’s Pub Comedy Night. Pour Boy Trivia. Ottawa Sailing Club Sonic Souvenir. House of TARG The Healey Brothers. The Rainbow Bistro Dear Rouge, Bleeker. Bronson Centre Ramsay’s Quintet. Night Oat Karaoke Thursdays. Atomic Rooster
FRIDAY
If you want to donate some of your time to a worthy cause this year, plan to be at Volunteer Ottawa’s Community Breakfast. You’ll enjoy a continental breakfast, hear about the VO’s programs and services and connect with others working to make Ottawa a better place for everyone. $20 Ottawa’s urban maple syrup experience, Vanier Sugar Shack, is now open. Explore the maple syrup operation and order a delicious breakfast. Headig to the Ottawa 67s game against Niagara Icedogs? Be sure to check out the East Coast Experience pre-game and intermission performances. Start dreaming of the warmer days ahead with a trip to the Ottawa Boat & Outdoors Show. Controlled Damage, the story of Viola Desmond, continues at National Arts Centre’s Babs Asper Theatre. Dance to Nostalgic Hip Hop against a backdrop of breathtaking pyrotechnical displays at Feux Sur Glace festival. Aylmer Marina in Gatineau. ByTowne Cinema: The Brutalist, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Drunken Cinema: Barbie Mayfair Theatre: Universal Language, I’m Still Here, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Gigs Mojo Bros. Southside Tap and Grill Daft Punk Night. The 27 Club 80s Dance Party with DJ Remi Royale and The Retrogrades. House of TARG Code Seventy Three. Stray Dog Brewing Company Table 9. The Carleton Tavern Finely Tuned Elephant. Irene’s Pub Antilife, Trépas, Qlipha. Dominion Tavern Th3rd Fridays Dance Battle. Bronson Centre The Turning Lights. Rainbow Bistro Steve Lee Olsen - Country Night in Canada. Algonquin Commons Theatre
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Lesley McKay at Stittsville Central, has the story of Joan O’Malley. In November 6, 1964, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson wanted one of each of the three proposed new Canadian flags so he could see what they looked like on the pole at Harrington Lake. As the request was made after hours, a seamstress could not be found so Ken Donovan, assistant purchasing director for the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission, asked his 20 year-old daughter, as she had sewn some of her own clothes. She created all three flags overnight. |
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