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Thursday, June 26 2025

HELLO OTTAWA

☀️ High 17° Low 13° and chance of rain ☀️ 5:16 am 🌛 8:55 pm

In Today’s Edition

→ The LeBreton Flats rubber crow has flown back home

→ Take your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate to a free showing of Spaceballs! tomorrow at the Pop Up Cinema on Sparks Street.

→ Deals of the Day on clothing from MTN Head, registration for the Canada Army Run, and dresses at the Pop Up Bridal Sale

– Martha and Darren

STATISTICS OTTAWA

NUMBER

  • 166%

  • – The projected increase in the demand for electricity by residents of Ottawa in 2043, as estimated by Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator. That demand will require new transmission lines and substations.

  • Kate Porter at CBC

OTTAWANS OF THE DAY

  • Christian Sole, Hanika Rizo, Jonathan O'Neil, David Benn, and Joeli Plakholm

  • The five from the University of Ottawa, with colleague Jean-Louis Paquette (who, by virtue of being based in France is disqualified from Ottawan of the Day status), have proven the case that rocks found in the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northern Quebec are the oldest on Earth.

  • The rocks are reckoned to be at least 4.16 billion years old.

  • Emily Chung at CBC   Their co-written paper in Science

QUOTE

  • Let’s make the best out of a not-great situation and have some fun with it

  • – Executive Director of the Sparks Street Business Improvement Area, Kevin McHale, on the ‘hipster animals’ featured on the hoardings of the Block 2 redevelopment construction on Sparks Street.
  • The 15 different animals in varying poses will be featured on the boards until 2030.
  • Alexa MacKie in the Ottawa Citizen

SPORTS

  • ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 0 – Tri City ValleyCats 7 yesterday

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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL

No more meetings this week

Meetings and agendas

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🐦‍⬛ The dead crow sculpture at LeBreton Flats has flown the coop as of today. The sculpture, officially named ‘When the Rubber Meets the Road’  – it’s made from old tires – was packed up by creator Gerald Beaulieu and taken home to Charlottetown. The  National Capital Commission paid a rental fee for the two years it was presented on the pathway, $14,022 for the first year, $7,253 for the second.   – William Eltherington at CTV


🏒 The Sens have renewed their sponsorship deal with Kinaxis for another three years. The Kanata supply chain software company used to have its logo on away game helmets, but no longer. It will have the logo at centre ice at the Canadian Tire Centre and be shown as if it was on the boards during televised games, when the real boards are swapped out for the fake ones. – David Sali in the Ottawa Business Journal
 

🛒 Every week, @stromanker peruses all the local grocery flyers and posts the deals on Ottawa Reddit. This week, stand outs include beef tenderloin for $14.99/lb (Super C), boneless chicken breasts $4.58/lb (No Frills), and tomatoes 99¢/lb (Super C). – /Ottawa
 

🔥 Ottawa Fire Services has lifted the ban on open air fires. Firebugs still need a permit though. – Ottawa Fire Services

DAILY POLL

The Poll:

Last time, we asked ‘Where are the best restaurants in the Capital?’

39% Downtown Ottawa

43% Everywhere else in Ottawa

2% Gatineau

2% Everywhere on the Québec side outside of Gatineau

14% In the small towns surrounding Ottawa

0% Other

These results confirm THE OTTAWAN's suspicion that the Ottawa side of the Capital is unaware of the great restos in Gatineau and environs. 

 

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THURSDAY

  • An Evening of Sin presents … An Evening of Sin, at the Rainbow Bistro. It's drag, burlesque, and a variety show all in one raucous night.

  • Take your mind off the heat with a visit to the Hintonburg Night Market, by Urban Art Collective. Shop for cool stuff from local vendors, eat, and gaze at the latest exhibition.

  • 🆓 Soak up the art, enjoy refreshments, and feel revived at the National Gallery of Canada Free Thursday Nights from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

  • 🆓 Take your mind off the midday heat at the Jukebox Lunch Concert featuring Jana Salameh. Peter A. Herrndorf Place in the National Arts Centre.

  • Pick up something fresh and local for dinner at Orléans Farmers' Market, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm at Ray Friel Recreation Complex.

  • Check out today's Jazz Festival lineup.

  • Enjoy zine-making, music, and drag at Queers Bash Back.

  • Ottawa Vintage Swing says you don't need any experience to enjoy their Thursday night events. Just bring $10 cash for the door and a desire to have fun.

  • Grumpy Old Men play a hyper-local gig (441 Landswood Way, K2S 0A4) in aid of The Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. Bring a lawn chair and a donation to this Stittsville Front Porch Concert.

  • It's your second chance to hear the program directed by Alexander Shelley, to close the NAC Orchestra's 2024-2025 season.

  • ByTowne CinemaLes Barbares, Sinners

  • Mayfair TheatreTwo Women, Sinners, Streets of Fire

    Gigs

  • Disney Trivia Night. Saunders Farm

  • Enuff Z'Nuff, Permacrush, Geletin Skelatin, SP!T. Brass Monkey

  • Comedy Night. Pour Boy

  • I, The Prophet, The Disconnect, Hypersex, Banshee. House of TARG

  • Not Your Momma's Mixtape, Thee Electric Goats. Avant-Garde Bar

  • Rock 'n' Roll Trivia. The Bridge Public House at RSC

 


FRIDAY

  • Enjoy the silliness as Capital Pop-Up Cinema screens Spaceballs on Sparks St between Metcalfe and O'Connor.

  • Get ready for non-stop punk rock and metal music: SAW opens its doors to Ottawa Punkfest today and tomorrow.

  • 🆓 Get in some noontime jazz as vocalist Rachelle Behrens, bassist Tom McMahon, pianist Mark Ferguson, and drummer Jamie Holmes take to the stage at the Marion Dewar Plaza. Then, check the Ottawa Jazz Festival schedule for all of the other happenings around town.

  • Experience world premieres of new works for brass quintet and percussion by local composers, courtesy of Ottawa Symphony Orchestra. Bring your own lawn chair as well as ice cream money, because Merry Dairy will be there too. Half Moon Bay Park in Barrhaven, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

  • Catch Ottawa folksingers Birdie Whyte and Abby Mboquet at Art House.

  • Even if you missed out on registering for the Orléans Brewing Co Annual Golf Tournament, you can bring your squad to the après party in support of CHEO. Book your spot for $20.

  • ByTowne CinemaLouis Riel or Heaven Touches The Earth, Familiar Touch, The Phenician Scheme, Drunken Cinema: The Craft

  • Mayfair TheatreNice Indian Boy, The Life of Chuck, The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    Gigs

  • DB Cohen and the Revelers, The Whiskey Ghost, 9OPE, Matt'n'Robbie. Hummingbird Hall at Nepean School of Music

  • Lila Gray. LIVE on Elgin

  • Don't Tell Sarah, Monteith, Vinyl Hero. The Brass Monkey

  • Sons of Arrakis, Ecstatic Vision, Acid Mammoth, Hempress. Dominion Tavern

  • Aurora's Reef, Unsociably High. Irene's Pub

  • The Empties. Rainbow Bistro

  • 80s Dance Party with DJ Remi Royale, and New Vintage (80s party band). House of TARG

  • Friday I'm in Love indie dance party. The 27 Club
     

SATURDAY

 

JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING

  • Learn knife skills, meet new people, and prepare a delicious recipe at the Cut Like a Chef workshop by Knifewear and Parkdale Food Centre. Friday July 18 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.

  • Ottawa welcomes the North American Festival of Wales August 27-31. A short list of the events include the Welshfest street party on Sparks St (Thursday August 28), a concert series at Church Cathedral, seminars, film screenings, a marketplace with vendors from Wales and North America, and more. The festival is run by the Welsh North American Association, which "strives to preserve, develop and promote our Welsh cultural heritage and traditions, including the Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu, and to do all things necessary and appropriate to accomplish these goals."

  • Tickets are on sale now for the 80s Silent Disco in the Canadian Museum of History on Friday December 12. So go on now, go, walk out the door, just turn around now and buy your tickets. 

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