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Thursday, April 24 2025

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HELLO OTTAWA

In Today’s Edition

→ The Province is investigating the OCDSB over its financial management

→ The Independent Bookstore Crawl begins tomorrow

→ Deals of the Day: Purdy's and Fabrications

→ 🌧️ High 16° Low 4° and chance of rain  ☀️ 6:02 am 🌛 8:01 pm 

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STATISTICS OTTAWA

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    • $2.2 billion
    • – The amount of money for which Sens owner Michael Andlauer has sold his company, Andlauer Healthcare Group Inc., to United Parcel Service. Andlauer owned 53.2 per cent of the shares in his company and is expected to continue to lead the company.
    • Ottawa Business Journal

    OTTAWAN (HONORARY) OF THE DAY

    • Jayiesh Singh

    • The Toronto-based inventor saw his invention, the ALTA Platform inaugurated at Bruyère Health Saint-Vincent Hospital last week. Tranferring patients from bed-to-bed is labour intensive, and usually requires three or four healthcare professionals at a time. The robotic ALTA Platform only requires one healthcare professional to assist the patient. 

      Gabrielle Huston at CBC

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    • There’s this one [influencer] I follow on Instagram, she talks a lot about Canadian politics and the climate and all that stuff. When she posts about the election, I pay attention because I feel like she cares about the same things that I do.

    • – Twenty three year-old health science student at Carleton University Morgan Napper, who is one of millions of people who prefer getting their election information from social media.
    • – Jaida Mccain in Capital Current

    SPORTS

    • 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 2 – Toronto Maple Leafs 3 last night (Game 2 of Round 1)

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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 provincial Ministry of Education is launching a financial investigation into the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board over how the Board handles its finances. The investigator for the Ministry will report back on May 30; a poor report could result in the Province taking over the Board’s financial responsibilities. It has been four years since the Board had a balanced budget and, for the next budget, it is expecting a $20 million shortfall. – Gabrielle Huston and Joseph Tunney at CBC

    ⚖️ Another piece of the class action over the Phoenix pay system for federal employees has been settled. Certain non-unionized and casual federal public servants were not included in the previous settlement over the screwy Phoenix system, those employees may now be eligible for $350.

    Details of who is eligible and how to apply are on this page. The deadline is October 25, 2025. – Ted Raymond at CTV

    🌻 The City has launched a handy page on how to properly use the City-owned land in front of your house as a garden.  Food plants are allowed, as are raised beds in some areas. There is also a list of disallowed plants – to THE OTTAWAN, it appears mostly to be the poisonous ones or invasive types. Really – who would deliberately plant poison ivy? – City of Ottawa

    🏒 CHEO chief executive Dr Vera Etches has challenged her counterpart at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children to a bet over the Stanley Cup playoffs. The losing chief executive must wear the winning team’s jersey all day at work. Said Toronto’s Dr Ronald Cohn, ‘Can you imagine me walking around in a Sens jersey for one full day? Absolutely not’ but he did take on the bet with Etches.  – Ted Raymond at CTV

    ↪ CHEO symbolically broke ground yesterday for its new Integrated Treatment Centre, which will consolidate services and programmes across eight locations. – CHEO

    ✂️ Dogs and cats are invited to a free rabies vaccination tomorrow. Ottawa Public Health and the VCA Canada collection of veterinary hospitals are sponsoring the shots from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, April 25, at Banff Avenue Community House, 2084 Banff Avenue, Units A and B.

    Food and treats provided. (For the pets, not you.) – Ottawa Public Health

    DAILY POLL

    The Poll

    In the previous poll we asked, ‘Are you in favour of keeping backyard chickens in Ottawa?’

    46% Yes

    51% No

    3% No, but I would be okay with cows or goats


    Today’s poll: 

    Do you think the Ottawa Carleton District School Board has been managing its finances appropriately?

    Yes

    No

    All taxation is theft

    If it had more money, it wouldn't run out of it

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    ✳️ Means change from previous edition

       

      THURSDAY


      FRIDAY

      Friday is a PA day and a number of Ottawa businesses have events to keep the kids busy:
       

      ✳️  We published an error yesterday: the Ottawa Art Gallery is not holding a PA Day Art Camp tomorrow. They did that last month. THE OTTAWAN is not responsible if you drop your kids off in front and speed away.
       

      SATURDAY

      JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING

      • Be part of the excitement as the Capital Music Awards celebrate the incredible talent in Ottawa’s music community. Thursday May 22 at the National Arts Centre.

      • Tickets are also on sale for the Triple Or Gala, honouring Francophone musicians from Ontario and the western provinces. National Arts Centre May 29.

      MOST CLICKED FROM THE PREVIOUS OTTAWAN

      1. Tomorrow is the final day of business for John’s Diner on Wellington
         
      2. Dual mirror system for cyclists, Mantis Mirror
         
      3. Casa Bonita Café and Bakery
         
      4. New location for Lunchbox Orléans
         
      5. Mochi Doughnuts and Vietnamese egg coffee at Casa Bonita Café & Bakery

      MADE IN CANADA DEALS OF THE DAY

      Fabrications only has one birthday sale per year, and it’s this Saturday. The first 75 people in line will receive a sweet swag bag, and inside the store you’ll find deals and freebies.

      Purdy’s Chocolates is jettisoning leftover Easter treats. Buy one, get one free on select bunnies, eggs, and boxes, while supplies last.

      BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

      Research has found that, in a majority of people, ‘[w]hen presented with images of an inkblot-like rounded shape and a spiky shape and the made-up words ‘bouba’ and “kiki,” the vast majority of people are likely to associate bouba with the curvy shape and kiki with the jagged one’.

      The ‘bouba-kiki effect’ inspired Carleton University psychology researcher David Sidhu to investigate how meaning is mapped onto words. ‘For example, thinking about abstract paintings, how somebody can look at a shape or a colour and think, ‘that’s justice,’ or ‘that’s love.’ I’ve also always been interested in language and how we can use sounds to project what we’re thinking into another person’s mind, almost like telepathy’, he say.

      There are no answers here,  just an interesting side quest. – Carleton University

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