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In Today’s Edition → Parts of downtown parkade collapse, closing Slater Street → Ottawa drinking and dining news → Deals of the Day on #madeincanada womenswear → 🌧️ High 1° Low -4° and light rain. ☀️ 6:46 am 🌛 5:46 pm Ontario Election Tomorrow is election day in Ontario. You can find your polling place and what you need to bring here. The Poll Yesterday, we asked ‘Do you own your hown home?’. 73% Yes 20% No 7% Oh no. No no no. You guys at the THE OTTAWAN think you’re soooo funny but this really takes this cake. Today’s question: |
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WEDNESDAY DRINKING + DINING UPDATE |
- Make it a casual seafood night with Maker Feed Co’s Sunday Take Home Dinner: Lobster and Shrimp roll. Included: chips, house slaw, and a pop of your choice.
- Dumpling Bliss at 111 Cooper St (1stEleven Residence) is now open with an ample menu of dumplings plus faves like wontons, braised beef, and crispy fried chicken.
- I Heart Beer & Taco Festival Tour lands at the EY Centre Friday night and Saturday March 1. Take note: Saturday night is nearly sold out.
- Bicycle Craft Brewery brings back Gose of Juan Almonte Jalapeño & Lime this Friday.
- La Vida Local Food + Wine Tours has announced its summer 2025 programming and wine loveres will be spoilt for choice. Choose from the East Ottawa Wine Tour, the West Carleton Wine, Spirits & Cider Tour, and the Ottawa Cider Tour.
- We found out this week that if you buy a single pack of two Jamaican patties from the Piggy Market freezer you’ll pay $8.50, but if you buy three packs you’ll pay $20. We like that math.
- (Limited) tickets are on sale for this year’s Le Cordon Bleu Student Soirée, where you’ll sample canapés produced by intermediate cuisine students. Friday March 14.
- Ameya Charnalia at Eat the Strip has found a Mediterranean-style seafood restaurant that has no menu. Patrons rock up to the counter, choose their fish, and it’s cooked then and there. Charnalia says of Rayan Poissonnerie & Restaurant in Orléans, the calamari was ‘nothing short of perfection’.
- Peter Hum in the Ottawa Citizen interviews SuzyQ doughnut founder and owner Susan Hamer about her successful 13 year-old business. Harmer began her career selling doughnuts to her fellow Canada Post workers.
This Saturday, the first 100 people at each SuzyQ shop – 1015 Wellington St W., 2015 Robertson Road, and 1721 St Laurent Boulevard – will receive a free doughnut. Note that they all open at 8:00 am. - Laura Byrne Paquet’s fine Ottawa Roadtrips newsletter tipped us off to this list of brunch spots in Lanark and Renfrew counties, perfect for roadtripping: Mill Street Crepe Company (Almonte), Belong Sharbot Lake (Sharbot Lake), The Nook Creperie (Pembroke), Waterfront Gastropub (Carleton Place), Freska (Carleton Place), Wheelers Pancake House (McDonald’s Corners), Zak’s Diner (Carleton Place), Finnigan’s (Renfrew), and The Sterling (Almonte).
- The Ottawa Citizen team put an OTTAWAN-worthy question in the paper’s questionaire to local provincial election candidates: What’s your favourite restaurant and why?
(There are 11 ridings and four candidates each, so we’re not going to print the list. Click through to read the answers. Yes, they were asked about transit, health care and housing, too.)
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NUMBER - 100,000
- – The number of meals that optical and photonics manufacturer Lumentum has donated to community organizations since April 2020. After staffers began working from home because of COVID 19 lockdowns, the company decided to put its empty cafeteria to use donating food. Although staff has returned, the cafeteria still provides ‘restaurant quality’ donations.
- Peter Szperling at CTV
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OTTAWAN OF THE DAY - Ian Austen
- The New York Times reporter has been covering Canada from Ottawa for the newspaper for 20 years. Reversing the order of things, Austen himself was interviewed by the Times about the Canuck beat.
- Josh Ocamp in the New York Times
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL |
Public Works and Infrastructure Committee
Thursday, February 27 at 9:30 am - Barnsdale Road widening (Highway 416 to Prince of Wales Drive) Environmental Assessment study – statement of work
- Green Fleet Strategy
- Councillor J. Bradley - Bank Street speed reduction
- Motion – Councillor L. Johnson – Community safety zone on Maitland Avenue
- Motion – Councillor S. Devine - Road renewal budget – 2025 Asset Management Strategy
📋 Agenda Planning Advisory Committee
Thursday, February 27 at 5:30 pm - Adoption of Planning Advisory Committee Procedure By-law
- Presentation of the draft 2025 Work Program for the Planning, Development and Building Services Department
📋 Agenda |
WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
💥 No Parking - Part of a downtown parkade has collapsed, stranding 50 cars and closing Slater Street. Slabs of concrete fell to the ground early this morning from the parkade at Slater Street and Laurier Avenue W. Ottawa Fire Services responded to a 911 call at 5:00 am after a caller said there was damage to a column. The story includes a video of the collapse.
CBC
🏠 Housing Standards - The City has launched a new search tool that allows residents to check if a property has violated standards in the past five years. It was created with input from housing activists ACORN Ottawa and landlord associations. Commercial and institutional properties are excluded, so don’t both checking out the Rideau Centre or the Ottawa Jail.
Look up an address here.
Hintonburg Community Association Newsletter
➕ Related The City is enlarging two fire stations, one in Manotick and one in Greely, over the next ten years. Renovations will allow a change from volunteer service to full time firefighters.
🗞️ Eganville Leader - One of the Capital’s oldest still-publishing newspapers has announced its demise in one year. The Eganville Leader, founded in 1902, has remained a viable business with a paid ciculation of 5,700 in a town of 1,300 people. After 52 years running the paper, publisher Gerald Tracey says his health and age made the decision for him.
Eganville Leader
🌉 Alexandra Bridge - After 17 months, the Capital’s most beautiful bridge has reopened to traffic. The bridge had been closed to vehicles – but not pedestrians – since October 2023. Heavy trucks are still banned and must choose another route.
The National Capital Commission is planning on replacing the Alexandra Bridge starting 2028.
Josh Pringle at CTV
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✳️ Means change from previous edition WEDNESDAY Montréal choreographer Virginie Brunelle uses her background as a violin player as inspiration for her dance works. ‘Fables is a series of tableaus in which dance is a release, celebrating women in their multiplicity and resilience.’ Continues tomorrow at the National Arts Centre. Maybe you’ll meet your Person at the Single Gourmet Mix and Mingle at the Standard Luxury Tavern. Or maybe you’ll just have an excellent night. It’s opera, but casual and in a bar. Operatic Revelry plays its first year anniversary show at the Rainbow Bistro. $10 at the door gets you a screening, a networking event, a discussion panel, and maybe a new contact. Experience Kino Ottawa at LIVE on Elgin. ByTowne Cinema: The Room Next Door, Paying For It, The Brutalist Mayfair Theatre: Universal Language, The Women’s Adventure Film Tour, True Romance Gigs Video Game Music. House of TARG SepticFlesh, Vitmas, Ex Deo. Overflow Brewing Jazz Nite with Edra Silva. Bar Robo Tragedy Ann. Art House Café Small Fish - A Comedy & Variety Show. Irene’s Pub
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I Heart Beer and Tacos festival at EY Centre (continues Saturday) Also at the EY Centre, the Ottawa Gatineau Golf Expo has all the retailers, demos, auctions, and games (Putting Challenge, anyone?) you want to be ready for the 2025 season. Continues Saturday. The Children, a black comedy about love and marriage in the face of disaster, continues at Gladstone Theatre. Super Duty Tough Work brings art-rap to the National Arts Centre. 🆓 Broadhead Brewery welcomes Seven Dollar Sundress to the stage for Live Music Friday. Also: enjoy BBQ with your brews. Ottawa Black Bears and Ottawa 67s play at home tonight. ByTowne Cinema: Conclave, A Complete Unknown, Parthenope, The Zone: Snowpiercer Mayfair Theatre: Sugarcane, The Seed of the Sacred Pig, Dune
Gigs The Barstool Prophets, The Strum Chums. Overflow Brewing Co. Namix Kilowatt. SAW Gallery Spitfire91. Buster’s Bar & Grill Adam Ferris, Mackenzie Drew & Isaac Baronikian. LIVE on Elgin Werk! Juarez, Zabella, Kye. Poa Tiki Bar
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