In Today’s Edition → The Better Business Bureau could use some help from the Better Business Bureau → Enjoy a three course meal paired with fine whiskies with Dunrobin Craft Distillery’s founder tomorrow → Deals of the Day on photos and Muskoka chairs → ☁️ High 10° Low 5° and overcast ☀️ 6:05 am 🌛 7:58 pm |
NUMBER - 18 days, 7 emails, 3 phone calls, and 1 visit
- – The talley-up of what it took for economist Neil Saravanamuttoo to book a room at a local community centre.
- The 613
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OTTAWANS OF THE DAY Kelly McDonald and Emillie Swain |
The two instructors have been teaching people with Down syndrome how to improve their photographic skills and creativity for over a decade. To celebrate World Down Syndrome Day 2025, their students exhibited their work, entitled True to Life, at the Art House Café throughout March. Owen Spillios-Hunter in Capital Current |
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Waste-to-energy, at very first glance, sounds like a fine idea, but at second glance, it’s not a good idea at all - – Executive director of Community Action for Environmental Sustainability, Angela Keller-Herzog, whose group opposes the idea of burning the city’s rubbish to generate electricity. The idea is one of several ideas the City is mulling to extend the life of the Trail Road landfill. Keller-Herzog says the problem with waste-to-energy is the emissions.
- – Mia Parker in Capital Current
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SPORTS - 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 2 – Toronto Maple Leafs 6 last Sunday (Game 1 of Round 1)
- 🥍 NLL Ottawa Black Bears 7 – Saskatchewan Rush 16 last Saturday (This ends the Black Bear’s inaugrual season)
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Planning and Housing Committee
Wednesday, April 23 at 9:30 am - Zoning by-law amendment – 4175 Strandherd Drive
Agenda |
WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
💼 Who do you call when you accuse the Better Business Bureau of bad behaviour? Last June, the International Association of Better Business Bureaus expelled the non-profit organization that ran Better Business Bureau services for eastern Ontario, Quebec, and northern Alberta for ‘not meeting standards’. Unable to use the Better Business Bureau trademarks, the non-profit renamed itself to Nearby Incorporated and attempted to maintain local members. After layoffs, two former staff members are suing for back pay. – Arthur White-Crummey
⚕️Neighbours of the Royal Ottawa’s mental health centre are upset that the proposed Matthew Perry House would take up ‘valuable community green space’ and want it shifted to a parking lot. Both proposed locations are on Royal Ottawa property. The Common Sense Planning Coalition want to continue to use the green space as public land, the Royal Ottawa says that it needs all the parking space that it has. The actor Matthew Perry, who died of an overdose in 2023, spent his school years in Ottawa. – Trevor Pritchard and Nathan Fung at CBC
🚧 Stittsville ward councillor Glen Gower says there is a clash between the City’s official plan for Stittsville Main Street and Provincial orders to increase housing. The official plan permits maximum heights of four storeys but the new Provincial rules will allow buildings of four, six, and nine storeys, depending on the area. – Councillor Glen Gower |
The Poll In the previous poll we asked, ‘It’s a long weekend, will you make a road trip somewhere?’ 15% Somewhere in the Ottawa Valley 5% Somewhere in the Outaouais / Pontiac 1% Somewhere across the US border 10% Somewhere even further 59% I'm hanging out in my local area 10% It means three, maybe four, days of sleep. I'm barring the doors.
Today’s poll:
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What do you think should be done about Ottawa’s garbage future? |
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THE ROLLING THREE DAY CALENDAR |
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✳️ Means change from previous edition TUESDAY Road Trip: Come ready to Sip, Swap, and Socialize at Cold Bear Brew Co’s Earth Day Clothing Swap in Arnprior. 🆓 Road Trip: Almonte Old Town Hall’s Earth Day programming includes a presentation about “Mini-Forests”, a short play called She Won’t Come In From The Fields, and a talk about urban landscaping. From 6:30 pm. Ottawa Tool Library turns its attention to outdoor spaces with DIY Wildlife Garden. Learn about the role of native plants in supporting local biodiversity, and take home planted seeds to add to your space. ByTowne Cinema: The Ballad of Wallis Island, Princess Mononoke: 4K Restoration Mayfair Theatre: Armand, The Friend, Queen of the Ring Gigs Xaon. Rainbow Bistro Trivia. Irene’s Pub, Broadhead Brewery, Pour Boy, Royal Oak Pubs (Beechwood, Centrepointe, Hunt Club, Bank at Gloucester, Stittsville), Jack Astor’s Lansdowne
WEDNESDAY When you support the Debra Dynes Family House third Raise a Smile online auction, you’re helping to send 70 kids to camp this summer. The fundraising goal is $5000, which will support the camps as well as summer nutritional programs for kids in need. The auction begins today and runs to May 7. Dunrobin Craft Distillery’s founder Adrian Spitzer hosts an exclusive whisky dinner, featuring a three course meal paired with fine whiskies. $134.46 per person Nick Samenykhin headlines Jazz Nite at Queen St. Fare. ByTowne Cinema: The Ballad of Wallis Island, Slumber Party: Breakfast Club Mayfair Theatre: The Friend, The Queen of the Ring, Armand Gigs Celtic Celebration featuring Allison Lupton. Red Bird Matty Grace. Avant-Garde Bar Bumpin’ Binary. Irene’s Pub Open Mic. Pour Boy The Deep Dark Woods, Moonriivr, Rory Taillon. The 27 Club LAKE, Salmon Ella, Still Life & Street. Rainbow Bistro Absolute Losers. House of TARG
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JazzWorks, the Ottawa-based Canadian not-for-profit that promotes the development of jazz musicianship in players of all ages, turns 30 with a special weekend of programming, beginning with a concert on May 3. Eight professional musicians who have benefited from JazzWorks youth scholarships in the past return to perform a “homecoming” concert at Centretown United Church (507 Bank St). Tickets are free for students under 24 and $23 in advance for adults. Pulitzer Prize and Grammy winner Rhiannon Giddens & The Old-Time Revue play cuts from the new album What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow at the National Arts Centre on May 17.
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The Times of London newspaper dropped by Ottawa to mark the reintroduction of the Ottawa – London passenger air service and was pretty nice about it. He did insult the Beavertail as a ‘spitting image of a flunked [Great British] Bake Off challenge’ but he also noted that the Peace Tower is two metres taller than Big Ben’s home, the Elizabeth Tower. – Mike MacEacheran in the Times of London |
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