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HELLO OTTAWA

Power returned to the ottawan on Friday, after 48 hours of living on sandwiches and foraging trips to fast food Kanata.

The two ottawan cats, however, were quite content to have everyone napping in the same room, fireplace roaring, where the occupants could be watched.

At this time, there are thousands of people in the Outaouais who still are without power, almost a week later. Hydro Québec says everyone will be reconnected within 24 hours.

– Martha and Darren

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💰 OC Transpo

• The City now expects OC Transpo in be in the hole by $23.9 million. The City passed its budget on March 1 with an unspoken expectation that the Provincial and Federal governments would cover a $39 million shortfall. Both have since passed their own budgets, with no money for OC Transpo. (Kate Porter at CBC)

💰 Canada Revenue Agency

• Canada Revenue Agency workers have voted to authorize strike action. The Union of Taxation Employees, representing 35,000 workers, announced Friday that it had a mandate to strike, ahead of mediation talks April 17 to 20. The Union is seeking a wage increase and remote working guarantees amongst other things. (Richard Raycraft at CBC)

📻 Radio Gaga

• To help Ryan Reynolds buy the Ottawa Senators, Move 100 FM DJ Stuntman Stu is putting real skin into the game. He promises to get a Deadpool tattoo on his body anywhere Reynolds wants. (Twitter)

🏅 Heritage Designations

• As we’re mentioned before, the Province has introduced use-it-or-lose it heritage designations. If cities don't designate heritage buildings by Jan 1, 2025, they will be unable to protect any more until 2030. So the Built Heritage Committee has been racing through the contenders.
  
  Iona Mansions, 1123-1131 Wellington Street West
  
  This 1912 building was constructed by Colonel Donald H. MacLean. Until 1919, the ground floor contained the Ottawa Public Library.
  
  The committee has recommended that City Council designate it as heritage.

• Canadian Pacific Railway Bridge over Rideau River
  
  Built by the Montreal & Ottawa Railway, the bridge is one of the last remnants of historical rail infrastructure leading to the core of the city.
  
  While the Committee recommended a heritage designation, it noted that the bridge’s conversion to pedestrian use in 1999 was poorly done and suggests an environmental assessment. 

• The Hintonburg Pumphouse ruin, 5 Onigam Street
  
  The Pumphouse has already been designated as heritage but the Committee received an update on what to do about this 1924 Pumphouse which was nearly destroyed by fire in 1989.
  
  Consultants report that it will cost $2.6 million to bring it back up to a standard that can be used by the public.

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In 2007, Royal Canadian Mint engraver Stan Witten finished his design of a 100 kg, twenty inch thick, solid gold $1 million coin at his Sussex Drive office. A decade later, The World’s Biggest Coin was stolen from its display case in a Berlin museum. It has never been found.

We will see you tomorrow  – Martha and Darren
 

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