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Member Birthdays

Happy Birthday to ottawan Members Laura M (April 30) and Monica G
(May 4). We hope you had fantastic birthdays and were spoiled rotten.
 

Mother's Day

If you have a mother figure to celebrate (we're talking about your Mom, your friend who’s a cat or dog Mom, your mother-in-law, your grandma, your favourite Aunt, etc.) there is still time to find a gift that will make her day. Here's a list of 10 cool ways to celebrate.

🌹 Koena Spa (1172 Chemin d’Aylmer, Gatineau, Québéc J9H 5T2) has a long list of thermal experiences for her to enjoy on her own or with a friend.

🌹 Spend a little (a single Mom heart cookie for $6.50) or more (Mother’s Day cake that serves six to eight, from $50) at Ottawa’s Batter up Bakery. 613-793-CAKE (2253).

🌹 Montréal’s Dot & Lil has a selection of Mom-worthy skincare products on 20% discount until May 12.

🌹 Matter Company of Toronto is offering free shipping on orders of $50 or more. New parents will appreciate the Mom & Baby Travel Pack ($38) or give her a Hand and Foot Pack to soothe her extremities. Or splurge on the Homebody Kit ($89) so she can book a self care evening for herself.

🌹 The wine-lover will appreciate this Bouquet of Rosés from Savvy Company. She’ll receive five Ontario rosés, two tasting glasses, and a $20 gift certificate for a wine on the Savvy Company’s list. $119.

🌹 Why just treat her when you can enjoy the present too? Red Apron’s Mother’s Day High Tea Box will is an afternoon experience for six: It contains  ‘Bake From Frozen’ vanilla Scones, Devonshire Cream, house-made Strawberry Rhubarb Jam, and 15 proper English Breakfast Tea Bogs. $57. Available for pick up only (no delivery) Friday May 10 or Saturday May 11. Check the Red Apron website for all of the Mother’s Day meals. 410 Gladstone Ave. K2P 0Z1

🌹 Use the code MOTHER at Barefoot Venus for 15% off almost everything site wide.

🌹 Give her some locally made glamour: the Ash Posy Hand Luxe Cream in Sea Buckthorn is formulated with cold pressed and vitamin-rich berries and avoids that nasty greasy feel. $25. 

🌹 Present her with breakfast in bed: Wellington Butchery is offering a house-made 10-inch Mother’s Day Quiche made with ham, Gruyere cheese, and caramelized onion that you can heat and serve at home.

🌹 Spend the morning with her at the Experimental Farm's 2024 Friends of the Farm Plant Sale. Along shopping for plants, cards, gifts and gardening books, she can ask the experts from the Master Gardeners of Ottawa-Carleton her gardening questions. Rain or shine from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm in the parking lot beside K.W. Neatby Building at 960 Carling K1Y 4X2 and Maple Drive (look for the signs). 

– Martha and Darren

OTTAWA STATS

Ottawan of the Day

• Bill Staubi
• – The 69 year-old art collector will be gifting his collection of 1,200 – 1,300 pieces to the City of Ottawa, the Ottawa Art Gallery, the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, the Penitentiary Museum in Kingston as well as friends and the original artists. Staubi has received a diagnosis of Stage-4 liver cancer and wants to sure his collection, most by Ottawa artists, finds a proper home. (Bruce Deachman in the Ottawa Citizen)

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• From a marketing perspective, the 96-page document that landed on Monday is covered in loser dust

• – Ottawa Citizen columnist Brigitte Pellerin on the impenetrable new zoning bylaw for Ottawa draft. Rather than inspire, Pellerin writes, the document is a jargon filled struggle. (Brigitte Pellerin in the Ottawa Citizen) (The Draft Zoning Bylaw [PDF])

Sports

• 🏒 PWHL Ottawa 2 – Toronto 5 last night
• ⚽ CPL Atlético Ottawa 2 – Valour FC 0 yesterday

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CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall

Finance and Corporate Services Committee
Tuesday, May 7 at 9:30 am

• Conservation Authorities 2024 Levies
• An Administrative Penalty System (APS) for Parking and Camera-Based Automated Enforcement Violations for the City of Ottawa
• 2024 Asset Management Plans
• Office of the City Clerk 2023 Annual Report
• City of Ottawa Municipal Accessibility Plan – Annual Update (2024)
• Status Update – Finance and Corporate Services Committee Inquiries and Motions for the period ending 26 April 2024
• Declaration of Surplus Land – 250 Forestglade Crescent and Transfer to Ottawa Aboriginal Coalition

📋 Agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🛻 Emergencies Act

•  Parliament is over one year late in releasing its report on the use of the Emergencies Act. The committee of Members of Parliament and Senators say that the translation of the report and its thousands of pages of documentation is the hold up and could possibly take years. (Anja Karadeglija in The Canadian Press)

💰 Canada Revenue Agency

•  The Canada Revenue Agency confirms that it will require employees to work in the office three days per week. The Treasury Board previously announced a similar policy but the Agency did not necessarily have to follow the same policy. The Union of Taxation Employees says it is furious and accuses the Agency of not respecting the recently signed labour agreement. (Catherine Morrison in the Ottawa Citizen)

🚨 Traffic Enforcement

•  The Ottawa Police Service says it is initiating a new traffic enforcement system. The new scheme would be individualized to each area, after consulting with community leaders and City Councillors for priorities of speeding, stunt driving, impaired driving, noise, and residential intersection compliance. (Ottawa Citizen)

🎭 The Cappies

•  The nominees for excellence in secondary school drama have been announced. Not only do The Cappies recognize excellence in stage, music, sets, props, costumes, and make-up but also for criticism. There are way too many nominees to list here. Winners will be announced at the National Arts Centre June 2. (Ottawa Citizen)

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EVENTS

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Today

•  You still have time to enter our draw for a chance to win four tickets to the Saturday afternoon session of the Orléans Craft Beer Festival on June 8. 

  Answer the following skill testing question to be entered into the draw: Which band is playing the festival from 2:00 pm to 3:30pm?

  Send your answer in an email with the subject Beer Fest to contest@theottawan.com

  Martha’s mom will draw the winner’s name from her Choosin’ Hat tomorrow (Tuesday May 7), and we’ll announce it in the Wednesday May 8 Food and Drink update.

•  Bid on cool items in the Second Hand Stories’ Spring Auction. Scratching posts by award-winning Black Diamond Cat Trees, a gift set by Birch Jewellery, gift cards to Ottawa restaurants and experiences, and a custom portrait are just some of the items ready for your bid. The funds raised will help to build up Second Hand Stories’ medical fund reserve so it’s ready to deal with urgent care needs of the non-profit chicken sanctuary’s clients. Go bid on Instagram until May 10.

•  Bring your love of musicals (we’re talking to you, Darren) and your admiration of your own singing voice (Martha) to Broadway Nights: Duets & Groups. It’s an Open Mic and singalong with a live band. Club SAW, 67 Nicholas St. K1N 7B9.

•  ByTowne Cinema: Hôtel Silence, Irena’s Vow, Do Not Expect Much From the End of the World.

•  Mayfair Theatre: Problemista, Wicked Little Letters

  Gigs

•  Mindy Sins - The Freak Show Tour. LIVE on Elgin

•  Live Band Karaoke. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Bluegrass Mondays ft Maple Hill. Red Bird

•  Nascent Red, Raphael Weinroth-Browne. Minotaure (Gatineau)

•  Open Mic. Art House Café

Tomorrow

•  Apparently the average Canadian eats a lot of chocolate per year; 6 kilograms, in fact. Chances are, you too like chocolate, but do you know where it comes from? The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum attempts to answer the question with a temporary exhibition all about Ecuador and The Origins of Cacao. Daily until September 30. Included with admission.
   
•  Pitch (im)Perfect Singers present a Musicals evening singalong with a playlist of the genre’s greatest hits. Bring water, a digital or printed copy of the lyrics, and $10 cash to take part. Trinity United Church, 1099 Maitland Ave. K2C 2B8
   
•  Kathy Griffin and her My Life on the PTSD-LIST tour are in Ottawa Tuesday night at MeridianTheatres @ Centrepointe. $72.50 per ticket.
   
•  ByTowne Cinema: Hôtel Silence, One Life with post-screening Q&A, Exhuma
   
•  Mayfair Theatre: Wicked Little Letters, Problemista, Le Samouraï

  
  Gigs

•  Tombstoner, Maou Mindu, Pessimystic, Harvested. Dominion Tavern

•  Open Stage with Clarissa Fortin. Red Bird

•  Trivia Tuesday. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Comedy and Cocktails. Rainbow Bistro

•  Life drawing. Art House Café

Wednesday

•  If you’ve always been curious about the mysterious spirit Absinthe, we have an event for you. You’ll sample three varieties of the spirit and two cocktails, along with small bites food pairings. $112 per person. The Absinthe Tasting Experience is created by the team at Absinthe (1208 Wellington St. West, K1Y 2Z7).

•  Lost Baggage Musical Theatre’s Disco Ball Paint Nite is not your average creative experience. You’ll be painting a disco ball on a round canvas, and you'll be raising money for the theatre company’s equitable performance development program. 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm at Liam McGuire’s, 1705 St. Laurent Blvd. K1G 5L1.

•  Forget your work stress with a mid-week Milonga (tango social), hosted by Milonga de La Confesiòn and Rahim Salsa Noudehaki. $15 to dance the night away (no lesson, just dancing). St. John the Evangelist Church, 275 Elgin St. K2P 1M1.

•  Urban Art Collective’s show featuring colour blind artist Dave Fortier (DAWD) continues until May 18. Wednesday through Sunday at 1088 Somerset St. W. K1Y 3C7

•  ByTowne Cinema: Irena’s Vow, German Language Film Festival Ottawa: Bonjour Switzerland, Exhuma

•  Mayfair Theatre: Problemista, Yamnuska: The Ragged Edge, Club Zero

  Gigs

•  Drag me to LIVE presents 80s Night 2.0. LIVE on Elgin

•  Tyler Kealey’s Urban Campfire. Red Bird

•  Girls to the Front Songwriters Circle hosted by Kristine St-Pierre. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Why Wednesday. THE 27 CLUB
   

Just Announced / Now Booking

• Savvy Company’s Clink & Drink Pink event is a full on love affair with Rosé and Sparkling wine - 25 of them in fact, all from Ontario. Enjoy them alongside nibbles as you chat with winemakers and winery owners. Wednesday June 5 at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St. K2P 0G8

• Back for the first time since 2019, the Brew Donkey Crush’d and Brews’d Tour takes you to Stray Dog Brewing, Dominion City Brewing Co and then puts you in the best seats in the house at Ottawa Valley Roller Derby. $110 + tax per person. Saturday July 13

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DEALS OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

Wow, this PressProgress story makes out that last weekend’s Ottawa International Food and Book Expo was more like Ottawa’s Fyre Festival. Vendors reported patrons presented coupons for free food (much to the vendors' surprise), there was a ‘cannabis slow dating’ event, and the books section had a large contingent of the conspiracy theory variety.

The organizer of the event, Ray Samuels, is a character in his own right. Besides being a People’s Party activist and a UFO conspiracy theorist, last month he pitched the Charlottetown City Council to build a 25,000 seat stadium to attract a Canadian Football League team.

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