☀️ High 29° Low 19° and sunny ☀️ 5:16 am 🌛 8:55 pm In Today’s Edition → The Wednesday Drinking + Dining Update → The NAC Orchestra closes out its season tomorrow with a programme directed by Alexander Shelley → Deals of the Day: LOOK bikes 20% off at Full Cycle and Bluesfest ticket prices go up tomorrow night |
WEDNESDAY DINING + DRINKING UPDATE |
🇨🇦 Start your celebrations this weekend with the Red Apron Canada Day Picnic Dinner (available Friday June 29). 🍺 This Friday, meet brewers, savour refreshing local beer, shop, and enjoy live entertainment at the Carleton Place Beer Festival. Market Square, 7 Beckwith St. In Carleton Place. 🍃 We’ve mentioned Carlingwood-based start up Growcer a few times over the years. They specialize in growing food in vertical hydroponic bags for use in hard-to-grow locations. They have now announced a partnership with Area XO of two modules of greens growing for the Ottawa Mission’s food programmes. – Mia Jensen in the Ottawa Business Journal ↪ Also in the Ottawa Business Journal, Marissa Galko interviews Melanie Neault of Launch Your Space on what it takes to design a restaurant space, in particular, new ByWard Market resto Barrio. 📆 The Ottawa Citizen’s Peter Hum visited new ‘hyper-seasonal’ restaurant La Petite Primerose in Gatineau and loved it. But he warns that the food he loved in his review won’t be there by the time that you visit, the chefs will have moved on. La Petite Primerose is located in the late, lamented Edgar’s space. He also dropped in to Gatineau’s La Petite Soif, a sister resto of Soif Bar à Vin. He was drawn in by the promise of ‘an affordable but exceptional roast beef sandwich’. And they delivered: ‘comparable dishes might be as much as 50 per cent more in Ottawa’. 🥙 At Eat the Street, Ameya Charnalia was working a reader tip that promised ‘a hidden gem with unbelievable shawarma, unique and creative dishes’ in Orléans. Of Shawarma Chef, Charnalia says it’s ‘meant to be eaten fresh and hot, right here—under the mural, with time to taste what makes it different’.
💂 Oh NarCity Ottawa, you know we love your exuberant headlines but this one seems like it was written for THE OTTAWAN specifically: ‘I tried a Michelin star restaurant in London — These 2 Ottawa restaurants are way better’. In London, Jordan Pizzuti ate at Club Gascon in Clerkenwell Green and found it ‘Good. Not unforgettable, not game-changing — just good’. His two Ottawa restos that top his London experience are Perch (‘My first visit was one I will remember for the rest of my life’) and Elk Bar (‘This spot is redefining Indian dining in Ottawa, and I'm here for it’). 🍔 Gitanes Burger – or as the kids say, GBurger – is leaving Elgin Street and moving into the former John’s Diner on Wellington Street West. Managing director Nader Salib said GBurger will lean into John’s diner heritage with everything in a takeaway format. Opening date is set for August. – Mia Jensen in the Kitchissippi Times 🦉 248 Bank Street, which was the original location for the Café Le Hibou, has returned to music with the opening of Jazz @ 248. ↪ The Café Le Hibou recollections page is quite amazing for those that were there, and those that wished they could have been.
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3,000 – The number students who received a notice of suspension from the Ottawa Carleton District School Board for not having an up-to-date vaccination record. Earlier in the year, the Board told 15,000 students in grades 2 and 12 that their vaccination records needed to be updated immediately or face suspension. - Elizabeth Payne in the Ottawa Citizen
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Mike Loftus and Rob Illuiri After a career playing and refurbishing pinball machines, the two have opened the Canadian Pinball Museum in Alfred. More than 70 machines from 70s and 80s are available to admire and play every Saturday in the former Cardin Bar-B-Q restaurant. Alfred is 70 km east of Ottawa, on the old highway 17. - Hallie Cotnam at CBC
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SPORTS - ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 3 – Tri City ValleyCats 2 yesterday
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Public Works and Infrastructure Committee
Thursday, June 26 at 9:30 am - OAnnouncements / Ceremonial: Bruce Timmermans Awards
- Transportation Master Plan – Part 2
- Status Update – Public Works and Infrastructure Committee
- Inquiries and Motions for the period ending June 16, 2025
- Motion - Councillor L. Dudas - Innes Road - No Parking Zone
- Motion - Councillor L. Johnson - Entry Gateway Speed Limit
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
🚨 An eight year-old girl was found with signs of being attacked by an animal yesterday. The girl was found in the woods near her home in Quadeville, about two hours west of Ottawa. The injuries are serious but unspecified. – CBC
📎 The Ottawa Citizen has five items of interest for Federal public employees in its Notebook: 1️⃣ The Public Service Alliance of Canada is back at the bargaining table over remote work 2️⃣ The Federal government will use both Phoenix and the new Dayforce simultaneously as its payroll systems – and will do so for the next several years. 3️⃣ Canadian Nuclear Laboratories staff in Chalk River represented by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada are back on strike after voting down an offer. 4️⃣ Prime Minister Mark Carney has changed four heads of the public service. 5️⃣ Allen Sutherland, formerly of the Privy Council Office, is the new president of the Institute on Governance. – Matteo Cimellaro in the Ottawa Citizen ↪ According to that Treasury Board Federal Public Employee survey that we mentioned yesterday, 27 per cent of respondents said their career suffered due to lack of access to bilingual language training. Six per cent reported that lack of access affected them ‘to a large extent’. – Matteo Cimellaro in the Ottawa Citizen
⚡ Hydro Ottawa, 100 per cent owned by the City, has published its annual report. The utility says that it paid a dividend of $22.3 million this year, its renewable energy subsiduary – Portage Power – produced ‘a record-high volume of clean electricity across its 36 stations’, and boasts that its customers had power ‘99.98 per cent of the time’. – Hydro Ottawa press release ↪ Hydro Ottawa 2024 Annual Report
✈️ Porter Airlines announces new flights to sunny spots from Ottawa this winter. Starting mid-December, Porter will start service to Cancun, Puerto Vallarta, Nassau, Grand Cayman, and Liberia (The city in Costa Rica, not the country in Africa). – FlyPorter.com |
The Poll: Last time, we asked ‘Whether or not you are a Federal public employee, are you happy in your job?’ 9% Over the moon 57% All jobs have their ups and downs, but I like mine 10% It’s fine. Fine. Really, it's fine. 7% I'm happy to earn money that I can exchange for goods and services, that’s about it. 2% I'm out of here as soon as possible 9% I'd leave but I can’t 6% Other Today’s Poll: |
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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 Cinema: Les Barbares, Sinners Mayfair Theatre: Two 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 Cinema: Louis Riel or Heaven Touches The Earth, Familiar Touch, The Phenician Scheme, Drunken Cinema: The Craft Mayfair Theatre: Nice 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
JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING 🚗 Road Trip: Explore the Valley Flea Canada Day vintage market in Arnprior on July 1. Meet the vendors at the Arnprior Museum from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Also in Arnprior, Mallard's Milk Bar will be open for ice cream of both the dairy and vegan varieties from 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Famous bluesman, rapper Kardinal Offishall, has been announced as the Ottawa Bluesfest’s replacement for rapper G-Eazy. Bluefest runs July 10 - 20 at LeBreton Flats Park.
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Ottawa Tourism has published its list of ‘14 independent thrift stores to explore’. Making the cut are: Darling Vintage, Adorit, FrouFrou by Pat, Clothes Encounters, Bellwethers, Past Lives, Ragtime, Last Unicorn, Lainey’s Luck, Goody Mart, The Jungle, Tribe Co., The Recollective, and Thrive Select Thrift.
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