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Safe Weekend Shopping

▪️ Go shopping (online) with the Cheerfully Made Spring Market. You’ll find loads of gorgeous Canadian-made housewares, including cute dinosaur air plant planters by Hamilton’s Bailiwick Studios. It goes live tonight (Friday May 7) at 6:00pm, but before that you can check out the lookbook for ideas. Shop until Sunday May 9 at 4:00pm.

▪️ Merrickville’s Wood Chip Decor uses the hexagon shape as inspiration for its stained wood floating shelves, serving trays, coasters, trivets and wine charms ($35 for a set of eight), available in colours that will brighten up any room. The floating shelves start at $90 for a set of two, and the wood and interior colours can be customized. If you sign up for the brand’s newsletter you get a handy 25% discount code to use on your first purchase. 

▪️ Terra 20 is offering 60% off select sustainable health and beauty products right now.


Farmers Markets

▪️ Tomorrow’s the big day, when many of the Ottawa area’s favourite farmers markets launch their 2021 seasons. All markets have COVID safety protocols in place, so bring your mask, follow directional signage, and enjoy shopping for local produce, meat, and goods. 

▪️ The Carp Farmers Market returns tomorrow, from 8:30am to 1:00pm. 50 local vendors will be selling food, produce, soap, crafts, game meats, pies, and more. Like last year, there will be hand sanitizers in place, and you’re asked to leave your pets at home (aside from service animals). 

▪️ The Ottawa Farmers Market at Westboro also reopens tomorrow, from 9:00am to 3:00pm at the Byron Linear Park, and continues at Lansdowne Casino du Lac - Leamy Plaza on Sunday from 9:00am to 3:00pm. Masks are mandatory. 

▪️ The brand new York St Farmers’ Market, organized by Ottawa Markets opens tomorrow, May 8 at 8:00am and runs until 1:00pm. Look for organic vegetable, herb and plant seedlings, indoor vermin-composting systems so you can compost at home, flowers, grass fed steer, and smoked fish.

▪️ The Kanata Farmers’ Market offers local goods from 9:00am to 3:00pm at 745 Kanata Avenue, in the Centrum complex. 


We'll see you tomorrow – Martha and Darren

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Weather: ☔️ 60 per cent chance of showers. High of 12, low of 6°

Number: 95 per cent. The increase in opioid deaths in Ottawa in 2020 over 2019. One theory is that isolation has caused the increase in use. [Ottawa Citizen] [Stop Overdose Ottawa]

Ottawan of the Day: Huguette Lavigne. The pianist and composer has released a new solo piano piece, ‘Rails’. [Cashbox Canada]

Quote: “People are attracted to authenticity. If you show a bit of yourself online and in your spaces, people are more likely to come back, because they care about you’” – Lifestyle blogger Ashley Izsak, whose 1986 split-level in Osgoode is featured in Ottawa magazine. [Ottawa]


CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

? 5,740,761 doses have been administered in Ontario

At this rate, it will take 12.6 weeks to give each Ontarian one dose each

Info from Vaccination tracker by Andrew Lam (@socialvizcanada)

Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca vaccines delivery tracker
Federal Goverment database listing predicted future deliveries


? Public Health Reports:

OTTAWA

? 24,998 confirmed cases of COVID‌-19

? 106 new cases since yesterday

♦️519 deaths, two new reports

? 361,724 vaccinated with one dose

? 29,527 vaccinated with two doses

No change since yesterday

OUTAOUAIS

? 11,525 confirmed cases of COVID‌-19

? 37 new cases since yesterday

♦️201 deaths, no new reports

? 165,000 doses of vaccine have been administered

EASTERN ONTARIO HEALTH UNIT

? 4,503 confirmed cases of COVID‌-19

? 15 new cases since yesterday

♦️101 deaths, no new reports

? 68,137 doses of vaccine have been administered


COVID-19 NEWS

⭕ The Johnson & Johnson vaccine produced in a Baltimore plant hasn't just been held back in Canada, Europe and South Africa are also investigating if the doses are contaminated.  [New York Times]

⭕ Quebec plans to offer the Pfizer vaccine to kids 12 to 17 before June. [CBC]

⭕ Toronto is no longer sending COVID-19 patients to Ottawa as surge recedes. [CTV]

⭕ Five staffers at the St Laurent Blvd Loblows test positive for COVID-19. [CTV]

⭕ Amazon is putting off its 'Prime Day' event this year due to COVID-19 outbreaks in warehouses [CityNews]


 ? The Canada COVID Alert App

Be alerted if you have come in contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. 

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#WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

▪️ Ottawa’s head of transportation is retiring. John Manconi has spent 32 years with the City, starting at age 22 inspecting drainage ditches in pre-amalgamted Nepean. He's retiring at age 54 in September as that is the first month that he can receive a full pension. [CBC]

▪️ The Alexandra Bridge Coalition has formed to save the Alexandra bridge from demolishing. Heritage, transportation, and environmental advocates say the 120 year-old bridge is an "magnificent architectural wonder" and should be transformed into a cycle and pedestrian connection between Ottawa and Gatineau. [CBC] [The Coalition]

▪️ The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says that housing starts in Ottawa and Gatineau will not repeat 2020 record numbers. This is partially, they argue, because everyone who could buy a house and wanted to buy a house did so and the pent-up demand is gone. [Ottawa Business Journal]

▪️ Justin Bieber announces a tour stop in Ottawa March 28, 2022. Good for Beliebers but it's also the first big concert announcement that assumes 2022 will be safe enough to have people indoors screaming by the thousands. [Faces Mag]


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