In Today’s Edition → Campaigners are girding themselves to fight battery storage systems in rural Ottawa → In Dining + Drinking, a review of IC 22 hakka; goodbyes to Roberto Pizza and Byward Fruit Market →Deals of the Day on Pela phone cases, outwitting Escape Manor Junior, and Navan Farm Barn Dance tickets → ⛅ High 29° Low 12° and partly cloudy ☀️ 5:20 am 🌛 8:41 pm |
WEDNESDAY DINING + DRINKING UPDATE |
🍷 Manor Lounge offers $17 half-litres of Manor Red or White on Wine Wednesdays, as well as $10 off select bottles. 🥕 Bring your own bag to visit the more than 60 vendors at the Vegans Who Snack Food and Art Festival this Friday evening (May 30). Parkdale Market (366 Parkdale Ave) 🍪 The bakery that created the Obama cookie for the former US president’s visit has unleashed the Royal Cookie in honour of King Charles and Queen Camilla’s drop-by. But hurry, Le Moulin de Provence is making only 100 today before abdicating the biscuit line. 🥣 At Eat The Strip, Ameya Charnalia was one of the first customers to try the hakka at brand new takeaway-only IC-22 on Merivale. Charnalia describes hakka as ‘noodles and fried rice doused in soy, garlic, green chilli, and masala. It’s crispy, saucy, and made for nights with beer and friends’ and liked it but notes that it must be eaten immediately. ‘Ain’t nothing worse than some soggy chilli chicken’. 🧭 Edible Ottawa has launched new local food guides for regions all over Ontario. In the Ottawa and Countryside guide, they recommend Spark Beer, Flora Hall Brewing, SFR Distillery, Pistols Brewery, Distillerie du Square, Saunders Cider, Simply Baked Catering, C’est Bon Catering, and Jacobson’s. 🤟 Dark Fork has a new patio experience for the summer: patrons sign for their supper. The resto is known for its ‘dining in the dark’ experience but it’s hard to replicate that on the patio when sundown doesn’t happen until nearly 9:00 pm. Hearing impaired servers are training for next week’s launch. As for the answer to the question that you are asking: the American Sign Language hand signs are printed on the menu. 🍎 One of the few food market stalls left in the district, ByWard Fruit Market, is closing after 26 years. Fans of the store will still have access to some of its unusual and hard-to-find items from the owners' newly launched online shop: hard2findhard2get.ca 🍕 Also closing, after 10 years, is Roberto Pizza on Preston Street. The owners still operate the Fratelli’s pizzarias in Westboro and Kanata, which remain open, but believe it was time to move on from the Preston Street location. Schoolhouse Pizza will launch in the space, co-owned by former Fairouz Café chef Justin Laferriere.
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NUMBER - $1.8 million
- – The amount of fees charged by the City for new subdivisions that developers are challenging at the Ontario Land Tribunal.
- Changes by the provincial government mean that developers can apply to create new subdivisions on rural land at any time instead of fixed, planned expansion dates. The City responded by creating fees for the inconvenience it now faces to properly subdivide it out.
- Kate Porter at CBC
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SPORTS - 🏀 CEBL Ottawa BlackJacks 87 – Scarborough Shooting Stars 86 last night
- ⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 2 – New Jersey Jackals 7 last night
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT |
⚡ There are going to be highly charged debates at the June 5 Agriculture and Rural Affairs committee meeting, as campaigners continue to oppose a battery storage system in West Carleton. The system, which involves storing cheap Hydro One electricity at night and selling it at prime rates during the day, needs City approvsal to be built but some West Carletons are worried about the safety of the project. – Jake Davies in West Carleton Online ↪ The builder of the project sent a letter to West Carleton Online explaining what they see as the next steps
🚊 Via Rail workers may go on strike June 22. The union currently has a mandate to strike but can’t use it until that date. The union is looking for money and says the passenger railway is looking for worker concessions. – The Canadian Press
↪ Freedom of information documents show that Via Rail shifted to a plan for highspeed rail in the Québec City – Ottawa – Toronto corridor after the public had ‘widespread disinterest’ in the previously announced high-frequency proposal. Via hired a marketing firm that convinced it to scrap the original name for the project, VIA HFR, for Alto. Names also considered were Inter, XLR, and Trax. – The Canadian Press
🤖 The Federal government is so concerned about public employees using free artificial intelligence services for translating documents that it is creating its own tool. Public employees have been using online tools like ChatGPT, or even Google Translate, on documents that could be potentially sensitive. Public Services and Procurement Canada will launch PSPC Translate next month to its 19,000 staff and, if all goes well, roll it out to the rest of the public service. – David Reevely and Murad Hemmadi in The Logic |
The Poll Last time, we asked ‘Should we stay on Daylight Savings Time year round?’ 47% Yes, DST year round 39% Yes, but instead of Daylight Savings Time make it Standard Time year round 14% No, keep changing the clocks twice per year
Reader Andrea I writes: ‘Time runs 24 hours. No need to "save" daylight. Let people sleep.
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Are you in favour of the proposed battery storage systems in rural Ottawa? |
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✳️ Means change from previous edition WEDNESDAY The noon DOMS concert explores Love, War, and Peace. Baritone Mark Daboll and pianist Sarah Westbrook perform songs by Poulenc, Wolf, Barber, Klein, and Berg. Sample and buy Canadian wines from 20 British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Ontario producers at Savvy Company's Oh Canada event. Sala San Marco (215 Preston St). Meet and make connections with investors, tech, AI, and finance professionals and entrepreneurs at a new networking event. Beetlejuice continues. ByTowne Cinema: Friendship, RAN 4K Restoration, Mayfair Theatre: That They May Face the Rising Sun, Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines, Tombs of the Blind Dead Gigs Arcade Zero, Hedonic, Pomelo Soda. Avant-Garde Bar Jazz Nite with Sam Cousineau. Queen St. Fare Aries Spears: Bronson Centre Music Theatre Live standup comedy. Hintonburg Public House Open Mic. Pour Boy, Brews and Blues, Anina's Café
THURSDAY Ottawa Improv Festival begins with Battle of the Neighbourhoods, which pits five groups of local Improvisors against one another for glory. Come and support the group from your neck of the woods. Le Grand PoutineFest - Gatineau is four days of poutine, sweets, micro brews, and music. See how the student finalists of the NCC's Urban Design Challenge 2025envisioned possible futures for the Bronson Channel Lands at LeBreton Flats. Odyssey Theatre's 2nd Annual Trivia Night is more of a Trivia Extravaganza, and it's all in support of the company's 39th season of Theatre Under the Stars. Don't miss your chance to bid in the Give To Get Art Auction, in support of the Ottawa Art Gallery's community programs, Permanent Collection, and public exhibitions. It's the art event of the Spring. Also at OAG tonight: as it's the final Thursday of the month, the Studio is offering an experience in observational sketching techniques, by donation. All materials are provided. Urban Art Collective's Hintonburg Night Market always offers more than the specially curated group of vendors: check out the latest exhibition, listen to live music, and get something fresh and local for dinner. The Ottawa premiere of the Croatia-Canada feature Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day, will be introduced by film critic Tom McSorley. ByTowne Cinema: Exhibition on Screen: Michelangelo: Love and Death, Friendship, The Zone: Tetsuo: The Iron Man Mayfair Theatre: Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines, That They May Face the Rising Sun, Party Girl Gigs Thursday Blues Sessions with Guest Host Iyono Ede. Irene's Pub Jerry Leger. Motel Chelsea Comedy. Pour Boy Urban Tones: Djari Trio. Night Oat
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Ottawa Improv Festival continues with OIF 2025: Better than Streaming. Take a bite out of Le Grand PoutineFest - Gatineau Absolute beginners are welcome at Learn to Swing Dance: Friday Nights with Ottawa Swing Dance Society. With more than 75 yoga classes and workshops to choose from, City of OMoffers an incredible wellness experience. It all starts tonight and continues tomorrow at Lansdowne Park. While tickets to the Mental Health Gala are sold out, you can still bid on the items in the online auction. Proceeds will benefit Mental Health Services at CHEO. On the other hand, you can still get to the Do It For Daron event supporting the Royal Hospital's mental health programs for young people. From 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm, the Royal Oak at 800 Hunt Club Road will be the scene of a bake sale, kitchen BBQ, 50/50 draw, silent auction, and live music (that last one starts at 8:00 pm). Genesis's classic 1973 album Selling England By the Pound celebrates a big birthday with a world tour show by The Musical Box, who perform the LP note for note. The show has been endorsed by ex-Genesis members Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel. The 80s called; they want you to meet them at House of TARG for a dance party. Kichesippi Beer brings the glitter to your Friday night with a Drag 'N' Bingo event. There are limited tickets remaining for Svitanok Ukrainian Dance Society's end of season performance. Ukrainian-Canadian heritage comes to life with costumes, music, and dance. Has it been a minute since you enjoyed a trivia night in a fully functional 1860s mill? If so, tonight's the night, at Watson's Mill in Manotick. It's "There's a Hole in my Bucket" day. Now that we've firmly planted that particular children's song in your head, you can make a plan to attend Beyond the Pale's There's a Hole in My Bucket Bingo night. Bring your own bedazzled bucket and you could win extra bingo cards. DJ Emmett will bring the 00s-New Wave-Post-Punk-Pop-Rock era to life at the 27 Club at the Indiepop Dance Party. ByTowne Cinema: Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Friendship, Algiers Mayfair Theatre: A Nice Indian Boy, Sacramento, The Rocky Horror Picture Show Gigs Blingo night. Pour Boy Pub The Life-Size Men. Irene's Pub TV Head, Post, Look Upon the Heart. LIVE on Elgin Groove Society Fridays. Poa Tiki Bar
JUST ANNOUNCED/ NOW BOOKING Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival has announced its full 2025 line up; get your tickets now to everything from a VIP culinary experience to the International Competition Pow Wow, the Glow-In-The-Dark Pow Wow, workshops, performances, and family fun. June 21 and 22 at Wesley Clover Parks. The Festival of Small Halls has released its schedule of big names in the little venues of Carp, Manotick, Almonte, Russell, Carleton Place, Morrisburg, Prescott and many more.
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