In Today’s Edition → Power outages across the Capital → Cinco de Mayo in Orléans → Deals of the Day: Womenswear at Rightful Owner → ☀️ High 12° Low -2° and sunny ☀️ 5:52 am 🌛 8:08 pm |
This edition was produced at the Innovation Way Starbucks as the power at THE OTTAWAN compound has been out since last night. Not only is it a very brief edition, we’re holding off the Wednesday Dining + Drinking Update until tomorrow when we’re less flustered. Our heart goes out to all Sens fans whose viewing was cut short and who missed a beautiful shutout. But jinx-wise, maybe it’s because we couldn’t see it that they won? 💸 As for today, it’s the deadline for filing your personal taxes. Don’t forget.
🎂 Birthday Shoutout Happy Birthday to OTTAWAN member Laura M! – Martha and Darren |
NUMBER - 400
- – The number of Hydro Ottawa customers without power this morning. Hydro One reports 23,000 customers without power across the central-east and east regions and Hydro Quebec says 11,260 customers are out in the Outaouais.
- Ted Raymond at CTV
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Matt Skube After 13 years in the Capital, the anchor of CTV Ottawa’s News at 5 and News at 11:30 has signed off CJOH for the last time. Skube and his family will be moving to Toronto for a new opportunity. Stefan Keyes will take over anchoring duties. CTV Ottawa
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SPORTS - 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 4 – Toronto Maple Leafs 0 last night (Game 5 of Round 1)
- ⚽ CPL Atlético Ottawa 2 – Scrosoppi FC 0 last night (Atlético advances to Canadian Championship quarterfinals)
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
Thursday, May 1 at 10:00 am - Source Water Protection Septic System Inspection Program: Municipal wellhead protection area risk management
- Rural Community-Building Grant Program – Grant application review
- Status update – Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee inquiries and motions for the period ending 22 April 2025
- Motion - Councillor C. Kitts - Removal of all-way stop control at McKeown Drive and Barfield Road
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
🏈 The Ottawa RedBlacks selected former University of Montana pass catcher Keelan White, offensive linesman from Calgary, Sam Carson of the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks, Northwestern Oklahoma State defensive lineman Muftah Ageli, University of Ottawa defensive back Eric Cumberbatch, Wilfred Laurier linebacker Jayden Griffiths, East Texas A&M University defensive back King Ambers, and Wilfred Laurier receiver Ethan Jordan in yesterday’s CFL draft. The RedBlacks preseason begins May 30. – Don Brennan in the Ottawa Citizen
💰 The City’s Auditor General says the public has been confused about where money from redlight camera fines should have gone. When the cameras were approved, the money from fines was intended to go to road safety iniatives, however of the $41 million, around $32 million went to general revenue and $8.4 million went to the Ottawa Police Service. Nathalie Gougeon said that she’s not saying that the City is not funding road safety – it is – but is saying that the Ottawa Police should report on how it is using the funds. – Aedan Helmer in the Ottawa Citizen
🎧 The 613 has dropped a new Municipal Panel podcast. Former journalists Jon Willing, Joanne Chianello, and economist Neil Saravanamuttoo discuss how the election of a new Federal government will affact the city. – The 613 |
The Poll Last time, we asked ‘To which radio station do you most listen?’. 45% CBC Radio One / Ici Radio-Canada Première 9% CBC Music / Ici Musique 1% Ici Musique Classique 13% CFRA 6% BOOM 5% Hot 89.9 4% CHEZ 106 0% Community radio: CJRO-FM, CKCU, CHUO, CKDJ, Valley Heritage 18% Other Some ‘other' stations sent in by readers included Element 95.7, Live 88.5, and Team 1200. We also learned that Radio Canada’s classical music service Ici Musique Classique is not Canada wide but only in Ottawa and Montréal, and then only on the HD channel.
Today’s poll:
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Do you believe the Sens can go all the way now? |
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THE ROLLING THREE DAY CALENDAR |
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✳️ Means change from previous edition WEDNESDAY 🆓 Chopin’s Ballades take centre stage at the noon Doors Open For Music at Southminster concert. The kids become the heroes as larger than life puppets (and some tiny ones, too) tell the story of Dragons and Mythical Beasts. Red Bird’s Music Trivia Night will test your knowledge of tunes past and present. ByTowne Cinema: Golden Age: A Night at the Opera, On Swift Horses, The Shrouds Mayfair Theatre: The Way, My Way, Trail Running Film Festival, The Island Between Tides Gigs Video Game Music Live with 8Bit. House of TARG Open Mic. EveryPerson Café Gone Fishing, Robin Kenny, Tea & Oranges. LIVE on Elgin
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FRIDAY Organizers of the Orléans Legion Cinco de Mayo event hope you’ll wear your festive colours. Sombreros optional. Bachman-Turner Overdrive will be taking care of business at Canadian Tire Centre, with special guests April Wine and Headpins. No experience and no partner are needed at the Learn to Swing Dance evening by Ottawa Swing Dance Society. $15 per person. There’s an incredible night of music brewing: ELK Trio brings “an electrifying night of jazz/world fusion to the Art House, ft. transcendental electric violin, hypnotic guitar grooves, and mind-melting tabla/percussion wizardry.” The party's at Next Door Market and Event Space as MAX Ottawa presents the second edition of The (W)hole Night Long. It was a dark and stormy night when you heard author Joanne Levy was going to explain The Importance of Hooking Readers from the First Line. NAC Orchestra presents works by Gabriela Montero (who also guest stars), Prokofiev, and Tchaikovsky. Two epics collide as the original, 1925 silent version of Ben Hur is screened to a live soundtrack of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. DARC presents MÆ-Motion Aftereffect by Freya Björg Olafson. “MÆ-Motion Aftereffect is a sixty-minute intermedia performance that explores how immersive media expand individual perception of ‘reality,’ ‘time,’ and ‘space.’” ByTowne Cinema: I’m Still Here, Bonjour Tristesse, The Penguin Lessons Mayfair Theatre: The Ballad of Wallis Island, Darkest Mirium
Gigs 80s Dance party. House of TARG Grunge Night: tribute to Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots. Overflow Brewing Jalen. Broadhead Brewery The Rembros. The Carleton Tavern Night of Indie Songs. Irene’s Pub Andrew Duhaney. Rainbow Bistro Ed Lister Group residency. Night Oat Night at the Genres. Brass Monke
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MADE IN CANADA DEALS OF THE DAY |
Margriet, princess of Ottawa and the Netherlands, will return to the city to celebrate the Canadian Tulip Festival, which coincides with the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, May 9. Margriet, of course, was born in 1943 at the Ottawa Civic Hospital when the Dutch royal family went into exile after the Netherlands was invaded by Germany. To ensure that the new baby would remain in the line of succession and not automatically become a British subject, Canada declared a ‘bubble’ around Margriet’s mother Crown Princess Juliana as ‘extraterritorial’, protecting her status. |
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