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HELLO OTTAWA

We suppose that the Ottawa Public Library has a vested interest in keeping you from going blind.

Starting tomorrow, the Library will provide free solar eclipse glasses to residents – while supplies last. Where and when to get the glasses, we don‘t know yet. We’ll let you know when we do.

The Ottawa Citizen has five suggested locations to watch the eclipse: Upper Canada Village, Canadian Museum of Nature, Carleton University, Canadian Aviation and Space Museum, and the Osgoode Legion.

The eclipse will occur Monday April 8, starting at at 2:10 pm and hitting peak darkness at 3:25 pm. 

Electric Buses

Reader Guillaume writes to us: 

‘I was just reading the newsletter from 20 March, and I’d say it’s a bit of a stretch to say that ‘Ottawa electricity is effectively zero carbon’: 13% of Ontario electricity is high-carbon, and the amount of CO2/kWh has actually gone up since 2019, almost doubling (from 43gCO2eq/kWh in 2019 to 76 in 2023) because nuclear production has gone down and gas production up.

Québec électricity is not even zero carbon, at a steady 28gCO2eq/kWh, but it's as close as possible.’

Guillaume also provided this facinating live map of electricity production in Ontario.

– Martha and Darren

TODAY’S LINE UP

•  Food + Drink Update
•  Ottawa Stats
•  City Hall Agenda
•  What Ottawa is Talking About
•  Events
•  Deals of the Day

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FOOD + DRINK UPDATE

•  Insomnia Cookies might open this year in Ottawa. Cross your fingers.
•  Biagio’s is still taking bookings for Easter dinner on Sunday, which features a choice of lamb, ham, or veal cannelloni mains. Reservations are available between 4:00 pm and 8:00 pm.
•  All Saints is taking Brunch bookings for Good Friday, Saturday, and Easter Sunday.
•  True Loaf Bread Company is open every day 7:00 am to 1:00 pm until end of business Saturday (March 30). After that, the bread company is closed for an Easter break until Wednesday April 3, reopening Thursday April 4. Hot Cross Buns will be available for purchase until April 13.
•  If you love your whisky, check out the Scotch Talk at the Lounge on the last Wednesday of every month.
•  Spend $25 or more at the Aurelius Easter event and receive a free 60ml bottle of Chocolate Balsamic Vinegar. The sale runs today through April 1.
•  Biemond Upper Canada Creamery raises its own cows to make its own organic dairy products. If you can’t visit the farm, which is located in Iroquois ON, you can buy their cheese, cream top milk, and yogurt from the Beechwood Market Farm Store (online or in person Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm and Saturday 9:00 am to 1:00 pm). 1805 Gaspe Ave in Manor Park.
•  Jordan Pizzuti in Ottawa Life praises his neighbourhood coffee shop, Wise Town Cafe on Elgin Street, with all the subtlety of someone who is definitely not in any way angling for a free refill.
•  Jade Monaghan and Ali Tejpar in Apartment 613’s Foodie Friday love Kathā’s modern take on Indian cuisine but view the cocktail menu as a standout.
•  Ameya Charnalia at Eat the Strip has broken his years-long momo-less streak with the opening of Indo-Nepalese restaurant Everest Cuisine on Carling.
•  Great minds think alike, because Peter Hum at the Ottawa Citizen also ate at Everest Cuisine where he fought his friends over the the chicken morsels in the Everest Sekuwa set.
•  Hum has four suggestions for after-sundown Iftar dinners during Ramadan: Karahi Point, Khokha Eatery,  Royal Rooster Shawarma, and Yemen Gate.

•  Ten Toes coffee's Somerset St. location combines coffee, wine, and laundry.

•  Laid-off employees of Stella Luna in Wellington West say they are still waiting for their severance and tip money.

•  In this Q & A of CEO of the Shepherds of Good Hope Foundation, David Gourlay, the Ottawa Business Journal reveals that Gourlay loves the Barbie strawberry milkshakes at Zak’s Diner although he tries to pin that on his daughter.

OTTAWA STATS

Ottawan of the Day

• Dr Donald Chow
• – After more than 20 years as a team physician with the Ottawa Senators, Dr Chow will be the third person inducted into the Sens Ring of Honour at a special ceremony before the match on Sunday. (Josh Pringle at CTV)

Quote

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• But when we are forced to navigate poorly lit areas and neglected infrastructure, the supposed benefits of LRT quickly lose their appeal.

• – East Ottawa resident Dave Williams who is advocating making the areas around O Train stations much safer, arguing that 600 metres of unlit, tree lined corridors will make everyone nervous. (Dave Williams in the Ottawa Citizen) 

CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall

Transportation Committee
Thursday, March 28 at 9:30 am

• 4.1 Reasonable and Affordable Cost Structure for Traffic Calming Measures
• 6.1 Report on the use of Delegated Authority during 2023 by the Department of Planning, Real Estate and Economic Development
• 7.1 Paid Parking on Lynda Lane - Withdrawn
• 7.2 Recommend to Council that Public Works staff undertake a municipal scan to understand if and how other Canadian municipalities address weeds along concrete curbs

📋 Agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

💸 Ontario Budget

•  A new interchange along Highway 416 in Barrhaven is pretty much it for Ottawa in today’s provincial budget. The budget continues already announced funding for the new Civic campus of the Ottawa Hospital and new schools.  (Ted Raymond at CTV)

🔥 Glebe Apothecary

•  The fire that closed the Glebe Apothecary and temporarily closed the McKeen Metro is being investigated as an arson. The Ottawa Police Service asks if anyone has any infomation to call the  Arson Unit at 613 236 1222 ext 2202. (William Eltherington at CTV)

💥 La Bottega Nicastro

•  A car crashed into La Bottega Nicastro on George Street yesterday. The driver was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries but no one else was hurt, despite cashiers working on the other side of the window. The store and street were cleared because of a broken gas line but La Bottega Nicastro did reopen today. (Emma Weller at CBC)

🛒 Weekly Grocery Flyer Review

•  Every week, Donovan Burey reads all the grocery store flyers so you don’t have to and posts the deals on Reddit Ottawa. Food Basics has a great price for lamb leg, $3.98 per lb as well as Clementines at  $2.98 per 2lb bag. (/Ottawa)

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EVENTS

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Today

•  Speaking the Inuit Way continues at the National Arts Centre. Free.

•  There’s a rare opportunity to view three works by Nederlands Dans Theater at the National Arts Centre today and tomorrow. Arrive early tonight for a free pre-show chat with NDT’s artistic directorEmily Molnar (7:00 pm at Peter A. Herrndorf Place)

•  Schools from across the country will compete in the semi-finals and finals of The Canadian Improv Games, tonight through Saturday at the Babs Asper Theatre in the NAC.

•  Kanata Theatre’s production of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs runs tonight through April 6.

•  ByTowne Cinema: The Queen of My Dreams, Love Lies Bleeding, Tarantino’s Birthday! Switchblade Sisters with Trivia.

•  Mayfair Theatre: They Shot the Piano Player, The Taste of Things, Riddle of Fire

  Gigs

•  The Price is Right Stage Show. The Arena at TD Place

•  Celtic Celebration featuring Bobby Watt (Ecosse). Red Bird

•  Elisapie. National Arts Centre

•  Small Fish - A Comedy & Variety Show with Hosts Maggie Horde & Glenys Marshall. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Jazz Nite with Crop Circle Catalysts. Bar Robo

Tomorrow

•   Become immersed in Inuit games, music, and dancing, all while enjoying hors d’oeuvres at An Evening with Nunavut Sivuniksavut and Special Guest Susan Aglukark. Proceeds will benefit the Nunavut Sivuniksavut programs of study.
   
•  Make new friends and enjoy drinks from Ottawa’s local breweries at Queers and Beers. Queen St. Fare 170 Queen St.
   

•  Kanata Theatre’s production of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs continues until April 6. 

•  The Snowed in Comedy Tour pulls up at American Theatres @ Centrepointe.

•  There's a neat event combining graphic design and electronic music at DARC in Arts Court.

  Gigs

•  Out by Lucy, Lloyd’s Money, Dolonia. House of TARG

•  Bingo Thursday. Broadhead Brewery

•  Siaka Diabaté, Raphael Weinroth-Browne. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

•  Abbas Wahab. Yuk Yuk’s

•  Metal Church, Heathen. The Brass Monkey

•  Open Mic. Pure Kitchen (Rideau)

•  An Evening of Sin - Burlesque, drag, and variety show. Rainbow Bistro

•  Irene’s Thursday Blues Sessions with host Niel Barrington. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Riley Burns, Leeny Jones. Overflow Brewing

Friday

•  Canada Agriculture and Food Museum is open today through Monday, for gazing at newborn animals, learning how chocolate is made from cacao beans, and watching a family movie. The kids can do crafts as well. Tickets required.

•  A brand new festival is taking over EY Centre this weekend. Anime Ottawa is dedicated to “anime and Japanese culture [which] takes the form of a fan convention with content and products such as manga, sci-fi, video games and Japanese culture in general. Anime Ottawa is set to become one of the fastest growing events of its category attracting an engaged young adult and teenage target audience.” Today through Sunday.

•  Tonight’s Candle Light Concert of Hans Zimmer themes performed by the Listeso String Quartet will transport you to the world of movies.

•  Kanata Theatre’s production of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs continues until April 6.

•  ByTowne Cinema: Perfect days, Shayda, Poor Things, Drunken Cinema: Beverly Hills Cop

•  Mayfair Theatre: American Fiction, Poor Things, The Rocky Horror Picture Show

  Gigs

•  Album Release Party: The Wilderness. Rainbow Bistro

•  HellRager. Café Dekcuf

•  Fever Pitch Hot Jazz. Art House Café

•  The Koffin Kats, the Queers, Pop Culture Icons, the Fly Downs. The Brass Monkey

•  Codeine, Neurotypes, Ex Luthor. SAW Centre

•  Finely Tuned Elephant. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

•  Share, with Crusade. LIVE on Elgin

•  The Sceptre, Ammo. Dominion Tavern

•  Colin Linden. Red Bird

•  GRFN. Avant-Garde Bar

•  BA Johnstone, Thünderkok, the Beta 58s. House of TARG

•  John Allaire’s 3000th show. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

Just Announced / Now Booking

• You only have the remainder of today and part of tomorrow to buy a ticket for the Ottawa Humane Society’s For the Love of Animals Lottery, which is giving away a new Audi to the lucky winner. The draw happens at 1:00 pm Thursday (March 28).

DEALS OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

If you think the shenanigans over big projects like the O Train and Lansdowne 2.0 are limited to Ottawa, don’t worry, even the town down the road can make a budget balloon from $16.1 million to $53 million.  R. Bruce McIntyre in the Eganville Leader has an ugly timeline showing how the project’s price, overseen by then-councillor Tom Sidney, went off the rails. Sidney, now the mayor of Renfrew, is refusing calls to resign.

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