☀️ High 29° Low 12° and sunny ☀️ 5:14 am 🌛 8:54 pm In Today’s Edition → The Canada Strong pass means free entry to the big museums for 17 and unders → ByTowne Cinema screens classic "safety-scare" educational films on Wednesday →The Deals of the Day are Mary Browns chicken, Germain Hotel stays, and Stanfield’s undies |
79% – The decrease in zero availability time for Ottawa ambulances in 2024 over 2023. In 2023, there were 883 hours when no ambulances were available to respond to a call. In 2024, that had dropped to 190 hours. - CBC
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Environment and Climate Change Committee
Tuesday, June 17 at 9:30 am Agenda
Accessibility Advisory Committee
Tuesday June 17 at 6:00 pm - Draft Older Adult Plan (OAP) 2025-2030
Agenda
And hold on to your hats Ottawa, the Committee of Adjustment meets at 9:00 am and 1:00 pm.
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
🍂 The Federal government has unveiled the details of the Canada Strong pass, and it has some particularly good stuff for kids in the Capital, 17 years of age and under. Between June 20 and September 2: - Kids 17 and under travel free on Via Rail when accompanied by an adult. Young adults 18 to 24 get 25% off Via Rail tickets
- At the National Museums, most of which are here in Ottawa, those 17 years and under get in free. Those 18 to 24 years of age get 50 per cent off. If you have already paid for a ticket, you can get a refund.
- For everyone else, entry to national parks, national historic sites, and national marine conservation areas administered by Parks Canada will be free. Campers get a 25 per cent discount.
Also, the Canada Strong pass isn’t actually a pass; you just show up. You don’t need to prove anything other than age. It is also available to those visiting Canada from elsewhere. – CBC ↪ In the same vein, the City of Ottawa has a deal for youth aged 13 to 17 with the Tony Graham Youth Workout Pass. Between July 2 to August 31, pass holders can use the weight and cardio-rooms in any (participating) City recreation centre for free. The 13 to 16 year-olds will need to take a mandatory orientation session first. – City of Ottawa
🚨 A man who claimed to have been abducted at gunpoint in the Ottawa Valley has been arrested for faking it. In March, a delivery man in Brudenell, Lyndoch, and Raglan Township said that a man and a woman with a gun got in and drove him around several streets before running away. Ontario Provincial Police says the story is false and have charged a 30 year-old with mischief. Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan is two hours west of Ottawa. – Ted Raymond at CTV
🎧 The 613 has dropped its latest Municipal Panel podcast, this time giving letter grades to City Council. Neil Saravanamuttoo. Jon Willing, and Joanne Chianello also discuss the battery storage system debate and how the New Ways to Bus is going. – The 613
💃 The Ottawa Business Journal asked its own Forty under 40 winners about how to improve Ottawa’s nightlife. Usually we’d encapsulate the answers but 40 suggestions are way too many and we need to leave room for Dad jokes and polls. – Mia Jensen in the Ottawa Business Journal |
The Poll: Last time, we asked ‘Have you ever planned a sneaky nap at work?’ 5% Yes, in a closet / empty room / behind stock 2% Yes, in the bathroom cubicle 20% Yes, at my desk / work station 12% Yes, but it wasn't planned 40% No, I'd never do such a thing 18% No, I'd never get away with such a thing 3% Other These results are largely what we expected, however we did think the bathroom cubicle number would be higher. Today’s Poll: |
What is your position on wind chimes? |
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THE ROLLING THREE DAY CALENDAR |
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The ByTowne Cinema presents the best scare-the-crap-out-of-kids educational safety-scare films from the twentieth century. The Scare Film Archives Volume 2: Danger Stories screens at 9:15 pm. 🆓 Warm up for Ottawa Jazz Festival with the Homegrown Series. Tonight at Bar Robo, Pimienta delivers "a spicy blend of Latin Jazz that sizzles with rhythm and soul!" Tonight's Fringe Festival performances start at 5:30 pm. If you're serious about your Aeroplan points - how to earn them and how to spend them - the Earn and Burn community is meeting at Café Raphaël to discuss strategies. Ottawa Little Theatre's 37 Postcards continues. ByTowne Cinema: Deux femmes en or (Two Women in gold), The Life of Chuck, The Scare Film Archives Volume 2: Danger Stories Mayfair Theatre: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Friendship, Gazer Gigs The Bones of JR Jones, Nigel Wearne. Rainbow Bistro FIxtion, Mars Aspen. LIVE on Elgin Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam. Red Bird Ottawa Jazz Homegrown Series with The Lionyls. Irene's Pub
JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING
Plant a seedling, paint a pot, and build a community at The Fat Hangout at Britannia Park Sunday June 22. Crowd pleasers ByTown Sea Shanty Collective open for headliners The Mudmen on opening night of Almonte Celtfest 2025 (Friday July 4). Entry is $35 that night and by donation on Saturday and Sunday. Bring your own chair. Of all the new skills you could acquire, we think pasta making is one of the coolest. The Heritage Flour Pasta Class from Almanac requires zero experience. July 14
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MADE IN CANADA DEALS OF THE DAY |
This is a tangled story. For decades, Archies Poutine & BBQ has served up its fare in an ancient trailer on what most people thought was the far corner of Nicholls General Store’s parking lot on Dunrobin Road in West Carleton. In fact, Archies was renting its patch from the farmer next door; the space between it and the general store was actually a bit of Kinburn Side Road that had never been developed. Owned by the City, it existed only on a map and was indistinguishable from Nicholl’s parking lot. The owner of Nicholls applied to the City to have the road officially closed, a requirement needed before he could make an offer to buy it. Local residents feared that this was retribution for years of the store never making a dime from Archies, and would result in the poutinerie’s closure. Nicholls said that was far from the case, and if permitted to buy the land, he would have access to Archies guaranteed in the land title. However, last week’s Agriculture and Rural Affairs committee meeting put paid to the whole idea: it voted against closing the non-existent road. – Jake Davies in West Carleton Online (Paywalled but at $50 per year, worth it) ↪ Just last month, Nicholls added The Fry Department, a street food truck, on the opposite side of its parking lot from Archies, creating a true west Ottawa neighbourhood along the lines of NOPA. |
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