In Today’s Edition → U of O students create tobacco-based Ozempic clone → You enjoy the food reviews of Ottawa Citizen critic Peter Hum, and you'll appreciate the jazz stylings of the Peter Hum trio at Night Oat tomorrow → Made in Canada Deals of the Day on massive craft show → ☀️ High 10° Low -5° and partly sunny. ☀️ 7:09 am 🌛 7:13 pm The Poll Yesterday, we asked ‘How will you celebrate St Patrick’s Day?’ 20% Something traditional: like wearing green or eating Irish stew or going to mass, etc
4% Something unforgivable: like drinking green beer
65% Nothing at all, it's just another Monday 10% Shhh. You'll catch the eye of the leprechauns On the daily ‘how did we do today’ link at the bottom, an anonymous reader asked ‘What are you doing with all the data you collect in the polls?’ So, that will be today’s poll: |
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NUMBER - $36,000
- – The amount of money that is owed to Hair Republic by the Hudson’s Bay Co. The salon, which is located inside the Bay at Rideau Centre, uses the Bay’s cash register and card system resulting in the department store holding back payments.* The Bay also owes Hydro Ottawa $401,962, Ottawa Police $2,892, and the City of Ottawa $148,478.
- Katelyn Wilson at CTV
- * This is how THE OTTAWAN understands the issue. The story doesn’t actually say.
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Planning and Housing Committee
Wednesday, March 19 at 9:30 am - Zoning by-law and Official Plan amendment – 50 Bayswater Avenue and 1088 Somerset Street West
- Zoning by-law amendment – 1950 Scott Street and 312, 314 Clifton Road
- Official Plan and Zoning by-law amendment – Part of 1104 Halton Terrace
- Zoning by-law amendment – 785 Cope Drive and 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 142 Dagenham Street
- Status update – Planning and Housing Committee inquiries and motions for the period ending March 7, 2025
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Plus the Committee of Adjustment meets at 1:00 pm |
WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
👀 Ottawa Police Service - The Ottawa Police Service wants residents to register on a database of security cameras to help it locate videos of crimes. Camsafe is owned and operated by the Belleville Police Service, which has made it available for free to any police department. Residents and businesses are asked to register their doorbell or security camera with their address and, should the police believe that the camera may have caught something, the camera owner will be contacted.
Natasha O’Neill at CityNews
🗑️ Trail Road Landfill - The City is making an environmental assessment under the Environmental Assessment Act to extend the life of the Trail Road landfill by another 15 years. Trail Road is expected to be closed by 2038 but, if given the go ahead, another 5.5 million cubic metres of residential trash would be piled upon it.
A public meeting will be held at South Carleton High School, tomorrow, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. 3684 McBean St. K0A 2Z0
Josh Pringle at CTV
⚖️ Black Class Action Secretariat - A proposed class action lawsuit by Black public employees has been turned down by a Federal court. The Black Class Action Secretariat had argued that there is systematic racism within the federal public service and sought $2.5 billion in damages. The judge said the case did not ‘sufficiently meet the class-action requirement that the claims raise common issues’ and that other current cases overlap with the proposed lawsuit.
Catherine Morrison in the Canadian Press
☢️ Chalk River Nuclear Waste - The Kebaowek First Nation is two for two in its fight against a proposed nuclear waste dump in Chalk River. A Federal judge ruled Friday that construction of the dump would put Blanding's Turtle and two endangered bat species at risk. The First Nation had asked for a judicial review over the approval of the dump by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, which had said that it had adequately consulted with Indigenous groups previously.
In January, the court had ordered the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories to redo its environmental assessment.
Emma Weller at CBC
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🆓 This afternoon’s Doors Open for Music at Southminster concert is music for Dueling Harps. Level One Gaming Pub hosts Gaming for Charity, where you and your crew can choose form 300 board games and 1000 video games, eat and drink well, and support Rideauwood Addiction and Family Services. $16 Art House’s Music Trivia starts at 7:00 pm. IFFO presents Canadian Masters: Clement Virgo, with a screening of his most recent work, Brother. The Greely Players mount a six performance run of Grease at the Greely Community Centre. Questionable Behaviour Trivia leads the shenanigans at Overflow Brewing. The Peter Hum trio plays the Jazz Jams at Night Oat. ByTowne Cinema: I’m Still Here, Detour: Daisies, No Other Land Mayfair Theatre: Universal Language, A Complete Unknown, The Quick and the Dead
Gigs The Space Between, Fear, 1000jules. LIVE on Elgin Not Your Momma’s Mixtape. The Brass Monkey Trivia night at local craft breweries: Brew Revolution, Brocken Stick Brewing, Stray Dog Brewing Co.
THURSDAY Gigspace welcomes Sad Girl Café - A Women’s Open Mic to Ottawa’s most intimate venue. Combining comedy and fashion is either a genius move or a car crash, but you’ll only know for sure if you get a ticket for Fits & Bits: A Runway Stand-up Show at Laugh Lounge. Give your hips a fun workout at the Social and Dance Lesson at Bailemos Bachata. $10. Grease continues at the Greely Community Centre. Winter Kept Us Warm (1965) was the first film from Canada ever to screen at Cannes, which, considering its student production team and minuscule budget, is a kind of Canuck Cinderella story. IFFO presents Ottawa’s first screening of the 4K restoration print. Other screenings: the Canadian short Gender Reveal and Toxic, a feature from Lithuania. Ottawa Home and Garden Show blooms (sorry) at EY Centre. If you plan to attend after 4:00 pm the entry price of $14 is slashed in half; but you must purchase your ticket in advance. Kids of all ages will enjoy the first-ever Fraggle Rock “Back to the Rock” live show at Meridian Theatres @ Centrepointe. ByTowne Cinema: No Other Land, Soundtrack to a Coup d’état, Detour: Party Girl Mayfair Theatre: A Complete Unknown, Universal Language, Lost Highway Gigs Where’s Mike. The Brass Monkey Seum, Rötual, Congregation of Savagery. House of TARG Maggie Bough. Red Bird
JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING Road Trip: Don’t throw away your hole-y sweater; bring it to Artsy Mending with Anne Warburton and learn a number of techniques to give it a new lease on life. At the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum in Almonte from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm on Wednesday April 2. $60 Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Angelique Francis brings her multi-genre playlist to Farmgate Cider on June 14.
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