In Today’s Edition → Renée Amilcar, the head of OC Transpo, will leave the transit agency in July → Attack of the 50 Foot Woman screens at the OPL Main Branch →Deal of the Day: 15% off Ottawa Jazz Festival tickets → ⛅ High 30° Low 10° and partly cloudy ☀️ 5:17 am 🌛 8:46 pm That haze around us today and probably tomorrow is from the wildfires in Manitoba. |
🎂 Birthday Shoutouts Say Happy Birthday to OTTAWAN member Mary L! – Martha and Darren |
NUMBER - $300
- – The cost to buy one of the seats from the former Robert-Guertin Centre in Gatineau, which was demolished last year. Home team Gatineau Olympiques now play in the Slush Puppy Centre.
- Before it was torn down, the Gatineau Olympiques Foundation saved many of the seats, whose sale proceeds will go to the Foundation and to the social services organization Gîte Ami.
- Seats allocations will be drawn by lotto, so if you want one, you’ll need to register by July 2.
- Ted Raymond at CTV
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Richard Legrand The Lowertowner is featured in the book, 1 Sussex, detailing his 35 years of service at Rideau Hall where he rose from footman at age 17 to running the show as maître d’hôtel. Nancy Miller-Chenier in The Echo
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A Bank Street Subway would unify the region, serving sports fans, Gatineau workers, and new downtown residents, but its absence leaves the suburbs and Gatineau disconnected - – Clinton Desveaux, who argues the solution to Ottawa’s transit woes is the Bank Street O Train Subway. This idea would create Billings Bridge, Lansdowne, Glebe, Arlington, Somerset, and finally Gatineau stations.
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Planning and Housing Committee
Wednesday, June 4 at 9:30 am Agenda The Committee of Adjustment also meets at 1:00 pm |
WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
🚊 Renée Amilcar, the head of OC Transpo, will leave the agency July 18. City Manager Wendy Stephanson told City Council this afternoon that Amilcar will be leaving to ‘pursue a new career opportunity outside the organization’. She has been head of OC Transpo since October 2021 after running the bus division in Montréal. – Ted Raymond at CTV
🌊 The City’s planned change to the way it charges for water may also include calculating how much water runs off your property. To calculate stormwater usage rates, the City plans to use aerial photographs of every property and calculate what per centage is impervious to water. – Randall Denley in the Ottawa Citizen News release on water rate changes
⚕️ The Northwood Recovery clinic in Chinatown will close June 9. As part of a chain of addiction clinics across Ontario, the Northwood Recovery clinic provided prescription opioids as part of a safer supply harm reduction programme. Neighbours believed the existence of the clinic brought in crime and disorder. – Sadeen Mohsen in the Ottawa Citizen
↪ Carleton University is losing its Scotiabank. The branch will close August 5 with all customer information transferred to the 1145 Bank Street branch. – Josh Pringle at CTV
🗳️ Those of you in Osgoode ward have a byelection coming up on June 16, to select a new City Councillor. The CBC sent a questionaire to all 11 candidates and seven answered. The questions/answers are actually quite detailed, so no encapsulations from us – you’ll need to read them. – CBC |
The Poll Last time, we asked ‘What do you think should be done with Sussex Drive near the PM’s official residence?’ 47% Build housing, shops, and parks, Make it vibrant 41% Leave it as it is; quiet and unobtrusive 9% Sell the properties. Let the market decide 0% Contract with Disney or Legoland for a new amusement park 2% Other Note to self: OTTAWAN readers hate amusement parks. Reader Elizabeth M says ‘Leave it as a park, with seating areas, flowers, green space’. We should emphasise that for Today’s Poll, neither OC Transpo nor the City have suggested any version of this idea. |
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✳️ Means change from previous edition TUESDAY You'll learn a different popular line dance each week at Country Line Dance Beginner Lessons. Instructors from City of OM, Yogatown, and 24hr Yogapalooza lead a noon hour yoga session in Lisgar Field outside City Hall. The Folk Collusion brings an evening of folk, roots, and country blues to Le Hibou. Tonight's special guest is Gatineau musician Evelyn MacIver. Meet other friendly skeptics, atheists, humanists and freethinkers at Lieutenant's Pump on Elgin, for an evening of lively discussion. Jann Arden plays the first of two nights at the NAC. 🆓 Bring your own boardgames or use one from the collection at Wizard's Tower. Board Game and Chess Meet-Up Night. ByTowne Cinema: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Friendship, The Zone: Tetsuo: The Iron Man Mayfair Theatre: Sacramento, A Nice Indian Boy, Black Bag
Gigs
Trivia Tuesday. Manor Lounge, Broadhead Brewery, Pour Boy Questionable Behaviour Trivia. Overflow Brewing
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY Songs from the Shed's noontime concerts are back for another summer. Experience special activities as the Canadian Museum of Nature marks both World Environment Day and Ocean Week Canada. Today only, your regular admission will include the chance to paint an ocean mural with Ojibwe-Ukrainian artist Stephanie Banij, test water samples, play some trivia, program a mini robot, and explore ocean careers. Volleyball Nations League - Women continues at TD Place Arena. Local musician Curtis Jones launches his new album Homemade at Art House, with guests PHASEZ and Adam Fortais. Everyone is welcome to the Women’s Monthly comedy show at Yuk Yuk's. Visionary Canadian Alternative-Pop Artist, Elena Erin plays The Rainbow Bistroin support of her second album Roaring 20s. de Montigny Contemporary Gallery and Katya Berezovskaia present After Hours, a new quarterly event for young art collectors. Saunders Farm gets into the night market scene with not one but two evenings of shopping, eating, and live entertainment. Tonight and tomorrow night at 7893 Bleeks Road. 🚗 Road Trip: The Notes for Nature II concert at Almonte Town Hall will support the Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust. Images Unlimited gallery presents a screening of Donnie Darko. Do some shopping at Urban Art Collective's Hintonburg Night Market ByTowne Cinema: Algiers, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Friendship Mayfair Theatre: Black Bag, A Nice Indian Boy, The Rules of Attraction
Gigs Comedy Night. Pour Boy Mike Campbell and The Dirty Knobs. Bronson Centre Days on Parade, Salmon Ella, Desert Island Big Band. House of TARG Open Mic. Stray Dog Brewing Co.
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Nine worthies will be conferred honorary doctorates by the University of Ottawa during convocation June 8 to 12. They are: Elder Simon Brascoupé - of the Bear Clan, member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, adjunct professor and researcher at Carleton University and Trent University. Gilles Desjardins - founder and president of real estate company Brigil. Boucar Diouf - biologist, oceanographer and humorist. Abby Hoffman - former Olympic athlete, activist and public servant and not the 60s Yippie who wrote Steal This Book. Roberta L Jamieson - former President and CEO of lndspire, Canada's largest aboriginal charity. John McEntyre – Former electrical engineer, adventurer and philanthropist. Alanis Morissette - author, composer, singer. Égide Royer - psychologist and school success specialist. Chief Justice Michael H. Tulloch - Chief Justice of Ontario and President of the Ontario Court of Appeal. |
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