Tuesday, February 25 2025 |
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In Today’s Edition → The City releases guide for residents and businesses to navigate the tariffs → The Standard Luxury Tavern plays host to a Single Gourmet Mix and Mingle tomorrow → Deals of the Day on womenswear, retro sweaters, and Anime Ottawa tickets → 🌧️ High 1° Low -4° and light rain. ☀️ 6:47 am 🌛 5:45 pm The Poll Yesterday, we asked ‘Have you skated on the Rideau Canal Skateway this year?’ and, to be honest, the ‘yes’ vote was higher than we expected. 41% Yes 54% No 5% Yes, but only if eating a Beavertail counts as ‘skating’ Today’s question: Inspired by this blog post by local realtor Matt Richling (about trends in Ottawa home ownership), let’s ask something that gets you where you live: |
Do you own your own home? |
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NUMBER - 200
- – The number of cats that the Ottawa Humane Society is aiming to spay before month’s end. February 25 is World Spay Day and any donations given today will be doubled.
- Ottawa Humane Society
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OTTAWAN OF THE DAY - Hanna Kopo
- Kopo organizes a fairly anarchic snow fort building programme for adults at Fairmont Park in the Civic Hospital area. Anyone can drop by and help build or maintain the structure.
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Ottawa City Council
Wednesday, February 26 at 10 am - Office of the Auditor General (OAG) – Investigation of the Trillium Line Training Program
- Office of the Auditor General (OAG) – 2024 Report on the Fraud and Waste Hotline
- Office of the Auditor General (OAG) – 2024 Annual Report and Updated Plan and Priorities
- Designation of 1121 Wellington Street West under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act
- Repeal of By-Law Designating 6295 Fourth Line Road under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act
- Residential Protective Plumbing and Compassionate Grant Program – Review and Proposed By-law and Program Updates
- Landfill Gas Utilization Agreement Extension
- Motion - S. Menard - Energy and GHG Reduction Program
- Ottawa Fire Services 2025 Station Location Study
- Zoning By-law Amendment – 256 Rideau Street and 211 Besserer Street
- Zoning By-Law Amendment – 1020 and 1070 March Road, 1345 March Valley Road, and part of an unaddressed parcel abutting 1345 March Valley Road with PIN 045271025
- Designation of 343 Bronson Avenue under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act
- Sewer Use By-law Review
- Zoning By-law Amendment – 35 MacKay Street and 71 Thomas Street
- Application for new construction at 35 MacKay Street, a property designated under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act, located in theNew Edinburgh Heritage Conservation
- Zoning By-law Amendment – 2040 Arrowsmith Drive
- Zoning By-law Amendment – 250 Forestglade Crescent
- City Clerk – Summary of Oral and Written Public Submissions
Summary of Oral and Written Public Submissions for Items Subject to the Planning Act ‘Explanation Requirements’ at the City Council Meeting of February 12, 2025
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
💰 Tariffs ❄️ Snow Plowing - Hey City Councilors, how do you decide what streets are plowed first? Councillors: Gosh, we dunno. Kichissippi ward councillor Jeff Leiper and Somerset ward councillor Ariel Troster have written an open letter to City staff asking that very question.
Ted Raymond at CTV The Letter
➕ Related Orléans West-Innes ward councillor Laura Dudas says Twitter is ‘very negative’ and wants the City to stop posting on it.
🏠 Work from Home - The village of Elizabethtown-Kitley, near Brockville, will discuss ending ‘work from home’ privileges. Councillor Earl Brayton, who is bringing up the question to council, says he wants ‘this foolishness — as far as I'm concerned —over with’.
According to LinkedIn, the village has 24 employees.
Martin Halek at CBC
🎓 Algonquin College - Algonquin College has officially decided to close its Perth campus, and to cut 41 programmes. The college fears that without the cancellations, it will lose $93 million by 2026-2027. The Perth campus will close in 2026.
Nathan Fung at CBC
🏒 Hockeyville - Almonte has put itself forward as a candidate for the 2025 Hockeyville. The annual event is run by Kraft Heinz and awards the most sincere hockey arena $250,000 in upgrades as well as the promise of a pre-season NHL match. We previously mentioned that St. Isidore, east of Ottawa has also thrown its puck into the, uh, ring.
You can visit Almonte’s video rally page here.
Milltown News
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THE ROLLING THREE DAY CALENDAR |
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✳️ Means change from previous edition TUESDAY WEDNESDAY ✳️ Montréal choreographer Virginie Brunelle uses her background as a violin player as inspiration for her dance works. ‘Fables is a series of tableaus in which dance is a release, celebrating women in their multiplicity and resilience.’ Continues tomorrow at the National Arts Centre. ✳️ An annual Doors Open for Music Southminster tradition since 2014 (although interrupted during the pandemic), the Hopewell Showcase VII brings student musicians from Hopewell Avenue Elementary School to Southminster United Church for a noon concert. Maybe you’ll meet your Person at the Single Gourmet Mix and Mingle at the Standard Luxury Tavern. Or maybe you’ll just have an excellent night. It’s opera, but casual and in a bar. Operatic Revelry plays its first year anniversary show at the Rainbow Bistro. $10 at the door gets you a screening, a networking event, a discussion panel, and maybe a new contact. Experience Kino Ottawa at LIVE on Elgin. ByTowne Cinema: The Room Next Door, Paying For It, The Brutalist Mayfair Theatre: Universal Language, The Women’s Adventure Film Tour, True Romance Gigs Video Game Music. House of TARG SepticFlesh, Vitmas, Ex Deo. Overflow Brewing Jazz Nite with Edra Silva. Bar Robo Tragedy Ann. Art House Café Small Fish - A Comedy & Variety Show. Irene’s Pub
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It’s a fun 50th This Is Ottawa podcast from the CBC. Five locals got up in front of a live audience at Red Bird and told stories about when Ottawa surprised them. (Bait and switch alert – this podcast has two stories, we can only suppose the other three will be in the next edition) |
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