In Today’s Edition → The Sisters of the Visitation convent on Richmond Road is for sale again → It’s 80s Pop Culture trivia night Bridge Public House tomorrow → Deals of the Day on locally ground flour and chocolate treats → ☁️ High 7° Low -2° and overcast. ☀️ 6:15 am 🌛 7:51 pm |
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WEDNESDAY DRINKING + DINING UPDATE |
🍺 From 5:00 pm today, Hintonburg Public House is donating 25% of its food and drink sales to Bruce House, the organization that provides housing and support to Ottawa’s vulnerable people living with HIV. HPH is also screening Long Time Running at 8:00 pm, in honour of Canadian National Film Day. 🧀 Manotick’s Mill Tavern throws a Thursday Cheese Night every week. If for some reason you require more details beyond the words "Cheese Night": when you purchase a beverage you can acquire an accompanying personal size cheese platter for five bucks. Dine in only; it all starts at 5:00 pm. Don’t even think about going this week; it’s already sold out. 🧁 Almanac is open Good Friday (no deliveries though) and Saturday but closed Easter Sunday. It’s your final chance to scoop up their hot cross buns, and they’ll also have mini carrot cakes and scones. 🦃 There are fewer than 12 hours to book an Easter Dinner Bundle from Meatings. Choose the ham or the turkey dinner but do it before midnight or you'll be out of luck. ☕ Drive up to Wakefield this weekend and visit Ferme Juniper Farm’s store on its grand re-opening. While you’re there enjoy a sandwich so bountiful it’s called a Farmwich, baked treats, coffee, and more. 375 Shouldice Road. 🍴 In Apartment 613’s Best Bites column, Hannah Manning and Kiersten Vuorimaki ate at Café Deluxe (‘the real star of Café Deluxe is their cookies’), Natural History (‘The vibes in the natural history museum inspired hangout are immaculate, with fun taxidermy, books, maps, ships in bottles crammed everywhere you look, funky low lighting and eclectic furniture’), and Second Wife (‘it was such a fantastic experience’). 🥙 At Eat the Strip, Ameya Charnalia finds this week’s gem in the Westgate Shopping Centre food court. Shawarma Glory has more than a little competition in the Canada’s Shawarma Capital but Charnalia says, ‘this is a shawarma that punches well above its weight, offering an unbeatable combination of flavour and value’. 🍕 In the Ottawa Citizen, Peter Hum attempts the impossible: picking ‘Four Ottawa pizza joints that hit the spot’. Making the cut are: House of Pizza, Louis Pizza and Restaurant, Roberto Pizza, and Schoolhouse Pizza.
Bakery hours over the weekend: 🥖 3 Tarts Bakery is open all weekend, from Good Friday to Easter Monday, for your last-minute celebratory baked treats requirements. 🥖 True Loaf Bread Company is open Good Friday and Saturday the 19th from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm, then closes until Thursday April 24. 🥖 Bread By Us will be operating under regular hours, which means they’ll be closed as usual on Sunday and Monday.
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NUMBER - 11%
- – The increase in suspensions of grade 4 to 12 students in Ottawa Carleton District School Board schools last year over the previous year.
- A report from the Board said in elementary schools, three suspensions were for ‘committing sexual assault’ and two were for committing robbery or extortion. In secondary schools, ‘24 were for possessing a weapon, nine were for “committing sexual assault,” four suspensions for “committing robbery or extortion” and three suspensions were for trafficking weapons or illegal drugs’.
- In real numbers, there were 2,373 suspensions in 2024-23 and 2,114 suspensions in 2022-23.
- Josh Pringle at CTV
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RENFREWIAN OF THE DAY Lou Mulvihill |
The arguable father of sledge hockey was honoured with a permanent exhibit of his chosen sport in Renfew’s BEI Arena. Mulvihill has been active in promoting and developing the sport, which allows people with physical limitations to play hockey by use of a sled. With Mulvihill playing as captain, Team Canada took bronze at the 1994 Winter Paralympics. Alex Lambert in the Eganville Leader |
SPORTS - 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 3 – Chicago Blackhawks 4 last night
- But of course, this game doesn’t matter – the Sens are already in the playoffs. First up are the Leafs, on dates to be determined. Tickets are on sale tomorrow at noon.
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Emergency Preparedness and Protective Services Committee
Thursday, April 17 at 9:30 am - Public Safety Service 2024 Annual Report
- Ottawa Fire Services 2024 Annual Report
Agenda |
WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
🏚️ Get thee a nunnery! Due to the bankruptcy of builder Ashcroft Homes, the Sisters of the Visitation convent at Richmond Road and Island Park Drive is again up for sale. Ashcroft’s plans were to build condos on the property but not tear down the abandoned convent itself. The oldest parts of the building date back to 1865. – Arthur White-Crummey at CBC
🌉 The Alexandra Bridge Coalition has released a letter asking Federal party leaders to ‘halt demolition and commit to restoration’. The National Capital Commission is determined to pull down and replace the 124 year-old beauty. The Commission does not believe restoration is viable. – The Letter [PDF]
🚧 City Council has overruled staff about a plan to expand a gravel quarry in west Ottawa. City staff recommended that the site at 4200 March Road be rezoned to mineral extraction and to remove the ‘green space and natural environment area designations’. The site is next to an existing quarry whose owner wishes to expand the business. West Carleton Quarry has fifteen days to appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal. – Ted Raymond at CTV
🚨 Make sure you buckle up this weekend as the Ottawa Provincial Police do a seatbelt blitz over the Easter weekend. The Provincial Police won’t be on Ottawa city streets but they do patrol the Queensway and everywhere outside city limits. – Natasha O’Neill at CityNews
🌳 Ottawa Transit Riders is looking for your book suggestions for its planned book club. Vote for the books, or add your own, here. – Ottawa Transit Riders |
The Poll In the previous poll we asked, ‘Which upcoming festival are you most anticipating?’ 2% Ottawa International Festival of Animation 9% Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival 24% Bluesfest 5% Ottawa Fringe Festival 13% CityFolk 38% Groups of people are not my bag 10% Other
Popular write-ins were the Ottawa International Writers Festival, VegFest, and City of OM.
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Do you grow your own food? |
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Find hidden chocolate eggs in the The Manor Lounge escape rooms all weekend. There are just four performances remaining of Ottawa Little Theatre’s production of the warmhearted comedy Now and Then. The show closes Saturday April 19. Get grooving with AnjChito, who play a special blend of jazz, rhythm & blues, bossa nova, blues and funk music. They’re playing at Art House tonight. Live music from Chris Gagnon and Curbside Decisions start at 1:00 pm at Broadhead Brewing. In addition, pours of Blueberry Blonde are $6 all day. While several of the local community farms are sold out for Good Friday visits, you can still purchase tickets to access the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum. Catch a glimpse of some recently newborn animals in the barns, sample some chocolate (and see how it’s made), learn about eggs, and have fun at the craft corner. Magic and comedy collide in Michael Thomas aka The Mentalist’s show Limitless. At the Prescott tonight and tomorrow night. Anime Ottawa starts today at EY Centre with the Opening Ceremony at 1:00 pm, followed by an afternoon and evening of panels and workshops like “Performance in Cosplay: A Beginner’s Guide,” Geek Bingo, autograph sessions, and guests. The Springtime Havoc show means all punk, all night at Avant-Garde Bar. The lineup features bands from Ottawa and Montréal. ByTowne Cinema: The Ballad of Wallis Island, Restoration: A Woman Is A Woman (1961), Drunken Cinema: Scooby-Doo Mayfair Theatre: Princess Mononoke, Parthenope, The Friend, Queen of the Ring Gigs The Van Halen invasion. Overflow Brewing Co Queers and Beers. Queen St. Fare 80s Dance Party with DJ Remi Royale. House of TARG Chippy Nonstop. Gridwrks Groove Society - Easter Bash with Ryan Labelle, Joe Juarez, and Big Stuff. Poa Tiki Bar Justin Duhaime Organ Duo. Night Oat Park National, Innerlove, Dart Trees, Backseat Dragon. Rainbow Bistro
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In the Kitchissippi Times, historian Dave Allston tells the tale of The 1956 Miracle in Westboro. On that November morning, a standing-room-only streetcar of 70 passengers was hit by a dump truck with ‘17 tons of rock recently mined from Frazer Duntile quarry at Clyde Avenue’. No one died. |
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