🌧️ High 26° Low 18° and rainy ☀️ 5:16 am 🌛 8:47 pm In Today’s Edition → The Parliamentary Budget Officer says severe cuts to the Federal public service would be needed to pay for promises → Father's Day Guide →Deals of the Day on summer hats from Tilley and skincare and beauty from BKIND |
🔧 Build it and they will come Yesterday, we linked to a story by Olivia Grandy in Capital Current on how the City is struggling to find $10.8 billion to pay for future infrastructure. We mentioned three, drinking water, transportation, and solid waste services, but the $10.8 billion actually covers 12 items including the library, emergency services, greenspace, and recreation services. There are handy links at the bottom of the article on how the City plans to manage them. Details, people, details. – Martha and Darren |
FATHER’S DAY GIFTS, EATS, AND EXPERIENCES |
Don’t panic. Father’s Day is next Sunday June 15, not this Sunday. |
Marianne K Miller Miller’s first novel, We Were The Bullfighters, is a finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada’s Best First Crime Novel Award of Excellence. Ripped from the headlines of 1923, the story follows Ernest Hemingway’s first assignment as a Toronto Star journalist – the prison break of Norman ‘Red’ Ryan in Kingston. Kathan Kapoor in The Charlatan
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SPORTS - ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 6 – Brockton Rox 5 yesterday
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Audit Committee
Friday June 6 at 9:30 am 2024 City of Ottawa Consolidated Financial Statements 2024 Sinking Fund Financial Statements Office of the Auditor General (OAG) – Supportive Housing Audit
Agenda |
WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
💸 Yves Giroux, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, says ‘severe cuts to the public service, significant cuts’ would be needed pay for promises made by the Prime Minister. Giroux also said that while Parliament is being asked to approve $222.9 billion in spending before a budget is being worked out, this does not anticipate major cuts. – Matteo Cimellaro in the Ottawa Citizen
🚊 OC Transpo boss Renée Amilcar has been appointed as the president and chief executive of Québec’s new transportation agency. Mobilité Infra Québec’s mandate is to ‘analyze, plan, and implement complex transportation projects, including those involving public transit’. Amilcar starts her new position September 2, her last day at OC Transpo is July 18. – Ottawa Citizen ↪ OC Transpo has a plan to sell its own branded hats and collectibles and to also install vending machines in its stations in a bid to raise money. Other ideas include renting lockers for people to receive deliveries like Amazon, renting out buses and park-and-ride lots, and expanding retail and pop-ups. – Josh Pringle at CTV
🚧 For the 20th year in a row, Carling Avenue has been voted as the worst road in Ottawa in the Canadian Automobile Association’s annual survey. No Ottawa road made it to the top ten in Ontario this year; Aberdeen Avenue in Hamilton is number one on that count.
You may notice that the Auto Association website reminds you to not look at its Worst Roads page while you are driving. – CAA’s Worst Roads in Ottawa
🤖 It looks like someone in the City’s IT department has gone extra. The City has launched an ‘Economic Development Dashboard’, which gives a shedload of stats about the local labour force, real estate,
livability, and a ‘Downtown Focus’ using visually appealling graphics and charts. – City of Ottawa The Economic Development Dashboard
🛒 Every week, @stromanker reads all the local grocery store flyers and posts the deals on Ottawa Reddit. This week, he finds, amongst other things, deals on beef ‘French’ steaks at IGA for $5.88/lb and olive oil at Super C for $9.99/1L. – /Ottawa |
The Poll: Last time, we asked ‘Should we have a referendum on Lansdowne 2.0?’ 38% Yes, because I want to stop it 36% Yes, because I want to know if residents are in favour 5% No, because I think Lansdowne 2.0 is a good idea 20% No, because this is becoming a distraction from the important things that need to be done 1% Other
Reader Rhys writes – say that three times fast – that ‘Lansdowne 2.0 is a good idea at the moment, EXCEPT the arena needs to be bigger. There's no reason that plan couldn’t be done but with a bigger arena. We need more seats not less’.
Today’s Poll was inspired by a similar one we saw on The Charlatan’s website when we were looking at THE OTTAWAN of the Day. |
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✳️ Means change from previous edition THURSDAY ✳️ The Managing Director of GCTC, Hugh Neilson, is creating a new musical, Hugh-Kulele, in one week. Yup, from writing to mounting the show it's all happening within seven days. The new show is a fundraiser for the theatre company and has already raised more than half of its $15,000 goal. You can get involved: A $50 donation allows you to cast a vote for the genre of the show (right now Thriller/Horror is leading). For $100 you can vote on the genre and the song topic. Donate $150 and vote on genre, song, and Hugh's costume. ✳️ Performances of the Orpheus Musical Theatre's production of The Music Man will end this Sunday (June 8). ✳️ Ottawa School of Theatre is celebrating 20 years of All Ages Plays with a production of Anne of Green Gables. Tonight through Sunday at Shenkman Arts Centre. Italian Week Ottawa officially opens with the flag raising at City Hall (9:00 am - 9:30 am) 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.
FRIDAY ✳️ What were Canadian kids listening to in the latter part of the 20th century? Find out in Retro - Popular Music in Canada From the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, at the Canadian Museum of History. ✳️ "A good time" means different things to each of us. Whether you like to smash things up, watch magicians, people-watch in a beer garden, eat food from cool trucks, play games with the family, climb a wall, play a round of mini golf, place at bet in a casino, or watch a performance, Blackburn Hamlet FunFair will tick the boxes. It's on until Sunday. From the Accordion Show at 6:00 pm to the DJ ALAMUSIC set from 9:30 to 10:30 pm, there's entertainment for the entire family on the Italian Week Ottawa stage. 301 Preston St. Ottawa's new choir Bold Voices presents Music Down in My Soul, a program of pieces by Black composers. 🆓 Shop for unique items by Métis, Inuit, and First Nations makers at the Summer Indigenous Art Market. National Arts Centre from 3:00 pm to 9:30 pm. Manotick's Dickinson Days are filled with food, parades, live music, and fireworks. 🏳️🌈 The theme of this year's Youth Pride Prom is Enchanted Fairytale. The ByTowne Cinema's screening of Chicago is preceded by fabulous burlesque from Frisqué Femme Productions. Guitars and Gasoline Festival celebrates motorsports and music with a 100% Canadian line up including Blue Rodeo, Josh Ross, Theory of a Deadman, and more. Tent sites, yurts for glamping, and RV spots are all available. In Volleyball Nations League - Women's, Dominican Republic faces Netherlands at 4:00 pm, and Serbia takes on Japan at 7:30 pm. ByTowne Cinema: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Secret Mall Apartment, Chicago with Frisqué Femme Burleseque Mayfair Theatre: One to One: John & Yoko, Friendship, American Psycho Gigs AnjChito. Night Oat Café Afro Jazz (Vol 2). First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa Uncle Strut. LIVE on Elgin Backseat Dragon. Rainbow Bistro Nature Pleads Revenge, Concessions, Bury The Past, The Jenova Projekt, Under the Influence. Dominion Tavern
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🚗 Road Trip: Visit Arnprior's Tent Sale in the parking lot behind Shopper's Drug Mart, where you'll find women's wear and vintage goodies on sale from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. Starting at noon across town at the Robert Simpson Park, enjoy Priorpalooza Music Festival with eight bands, Cold Bear's beer tent, and food vendors. Doors Open Ottawa (today and tomorrow) allows us to peek inside buildings that are often difficult to access. The City has list a few cool buildings to visit such as Arts Court, where you'll see what all of the tenants are up to, including Possible Worlds, Ottawa Valley Grain Products in Carp, the Parliamentary Precinct Rehabilitation, SPAO, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Choose from daytime or evening sessions at the Orléans Craft Beer Festival. Performers from Mādahòkì Farm present pow-wow drumming and dancing and other Indigenous cultural practices at the Canadian Museum of History. Art in the Park is rain or shine at the Glebe's Central Park. Have Wellington West and Hintonburg-style fun at the Loretta Ave Block Party. 🚗 Road Trip: Enjoy a rural shopping experience at the Blondie Apparel showroom, today only. Arts Court comes alive with Debaser's Pique Festival: Summer Edition. You'll find performances, installations, and exhibitions in every space, and tickets are Pay-What-You-Can. Mechanicsville Day is a fun afternoon of BBQ, beats, games, and a dog parade. Manotick's Dickinson Days continue. At Volleyball Nations League - Women's, it's Canada vs Japan at 4:00 pm and Bulgaria vs Serbia at 7:30 pm It's Pollinator Appreciation Day. The Ecology Ottawa Tree Giveaway will have White Pine, Red Pine, American Elm, and Black Walnut seedlings on hand. Supplies are included in the Santini Gallery x Sandra Mijia: Italian Festival Paint in the Street event. The good times continue at the Blackburn Hamlet FunFair. It's opening day at Cumberland Farmers Market. 🆓 (but non-perishable food donations are welcome) The Flamenco for Food and Fun Project will support the Partage Vanier Food Bank with dance lessons and music. Kitchisippi Community Garage Sale goes ahead today if it's sunny (rain date tomorrow). Seek the Wild, Wild Westboro Garage Sale behind the Dovercourt Recreation Centre. Orléans Craft Beer Festival continues under the tents. ByTowne Cinema: Sherlock Jr with R.E.M's Monster and New Adventures in Hi Fi - A Silents Synced Film, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Secret Mall Apartment, Pavements Mayfair Theatre: Friendship, Vampire Hunter D Gigs Nick Adema. Art House Café Out By Lucy. Rainbow Bistro Boom 99.7 Dance Party. Bronson Centre The Racket, The Sellouts, The Yodas. Pineview Golf Course Gaga Nyght. House of TARG
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MADE IN CANADA DEALS OF THE DAY |
Joanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen asked City Councillors which parks they would approve the drinking of alcohol – and pretty much everyone bailed. Somerset ward councillor Ariel Troster has no suggestions but Dundonald Park is right out. Orléans East-Cumberland ward councillor Matt Luloff says Petrie Island Beach is out, but also has no suggestions. River Ward ward councillor Riley Brockington says he will not recommend any park. Barrhaven West ward councillor David Hill says its not appropriate for Barrhaven, it’s more of a downtown thing. Riverside South-Findlay Creek ward councillor Steve Desroches said the prospects are ‘some good, some bad and some ugly’. But nothing specific. West Carleton-March ward councillor Clarke Kelly says ‘I am not necessarily for the project to happen at any park in my ward’ but ‘loves that the City tries things to see how they work out before implementing something’. Gloucester-Southgate ward councillor Jessica Bradley will refuse to nominate any park. And neither will Kanata North ward councillor Cathy Curry. Meanwhile, Capital ward councillor Shawn Menard says ‘the Great Lawn at Lansdowne would make a good candidate as a pilot’. The four month long experiment of having a bottle of wine with your picnic will begin July 1. |
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