Weather

• ☁️  Mainly cloudy, 40% chance of flurries tonight. High of 1°, low of -3°. 

Number 

• 40
• – The minimum number of cats, dogs, and rabbits that will be spayed or neutered by the Ottawa Humane Society today, World Spay Day.  (Leslie McKat at Stittsville Central) (Humane Society donations)

Ottawan of the Day

• Gabriel Yorke
• The TikTok creator has been making Ottawa focused videos since 2021, like ‘Describe Ottawa in one word’, ‘3 most notable streets in Ottawa’, and ‘3 of the worst buildings in Ottawa’.  (Faces magazine)
  
  ➕Related The City of Ottawa is considering barring the TikTok app from all City-provided cellphones due to fear of the app gathering information from the phone and making it available to the government of China.

Quote 

• “
  Bulldoze all those bleak brutalist office towers and replace them with attractive mid-rise housing for families and local shops and restaurants to serve them
• – Howard Anglin, a former lieutenant to both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Alberta premier Jason Kenney, says his recent visit to Ottawa’s downtown was bleak and depressing and his solution is to replace it with buildings people would like to live in and work from. (The Hub)

Sports

• 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 6 – Detroit Red Wings 1 last night

🎨 Country Style

• Yesterday’s Ottawan of the Day was muralist Jimmy Baptiste, whose work is currently featured on the National Arts Centre’s Kipnes Lantern. Jake Davies at West Carleton Online points out that Baptiste’s art can also be seen on the wall of the Kinburn Community Centre. 

🚨 Police Suspensions

• Two Gatineau police offiers who wrongfully arrested a Radio-Canada journalist in 2018 have been suspended. Sergeant Mathieu La Salle Boudria and Lieutenant Paul Lafontaine were suspended for 10 days and 12 days, respectively. Reporter Antoine Trépanier, who is no longer with Radio-Canada, was investigating Yvonne Dubé, the executive director of the Outaouais chapter of Big Brothers Big Sisters, who falsely portrayed herself as a lawyer and practised law without a license. Dubé reported Trépanier to police for criminal harassment over the story. (CBC)

🪚 Tewin Development

• The Tewin partners have been accused of clear cutting around 70 hectares of trees. Neighbours flew a drone over the area and found the clear cutting, which has not been allowed by the City. The Tewin partners say it is a clean-up after the derecho in May however the City has issued a stop work order. (Kate Porter at CBC)

🚗 Car Committee

• The City’s housing committee has put off an 81 unit rental project in Orléans, one third of which would be under market rate, because the committee wants more parking spaces. Neighbours had signed a petition that said the development would urbanize a quiet neighbourhood and cause additional traffic. Councillors Riley Brockington, Catherine Kitts, George Darouze, Cathy Curry, Clarke Kelly, Wilson Lo, and Laura Dudas voted to reject approving the development. (Ted Raymond at CTV)

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Today

• Reader Rebecca alerted us to I Forgive You, inspired and co-created by Scott Jones, who was attacked and left paralyzed in a homophobic attack outside a Nova Scotia bar in 2013. The show explores the act of forgiveness, and features a children’s choir performing music by Icelandic superstars Sigur Rós. Until March 11 in the NAC’s Azrieli Studio.
• Doors Open for Music at Southminster presents Everything Turns, with dancer François Richard, Vincent Lauzer on recorder, and Dorothéa playing the harpsichord. 12:30pm at Southminster United Church, 15 Aylmer Ave at Bank St. If you can’t make it in person, the event will be livestreamed on the DOMS YouTube channel.
• The Ottawa 67s take on the Kingston Frontenacs at TD Place Arena at 7:00pm.
• South African choreographer Gregory Maqoma and composer Thuthuka Sibisi bring Broken Chord to the NAC. The work tells the story of South Africas first Black Choir, the African Native Choir, which toured England, the USA and Canada in the late 1800s. 7:30 pm in the Babs Asper Theatre.

Tomorrow

• What Fuddlemugs do in the dark, an Improv show. Tickets by donation. 7:30pm to 10:30pm. Arts Court, 2 Daly Ave.

Friday

• The Ottawa International Crafts & Book Expo will allow visitors to discover new titles, meet their favorite authors, and purchase books directly from publishers and booksellers. Until the 5th at the Horticulture Building in Lansdowne Park.
• Two new permanent exhibitions open at the Diefenbunker. ‘An Inuit Story: The DEW Line’ uses first-hand accounts and powerful images to expose the long-lasting negative effects — from forced relocations to toxic waste — that the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line has had on Inuit communities in the Arctic. ‘Canada and the Cold War’ highlights defining moments in Canada’s Cold War history to examine how community and government responses at the time have shaped our country as we know it today.
• Winterfest takes over the Horticultural Building at Lansdowne Park today through Sunday. There really is something for everyone at this event: music, speakers on all manner of topics, artisans, and more.

Just Announced

• Robin Macdonald of Heart Land will lead a Community Vigil for the Rideau Canal Skateway, a gathering to grieve the current uncertainty surrounding first all-season closure in the waterway’s history. Tuesday March 7 from 5:00pm to 6:00pm. Meet at Paterson Creek Park just east of the public washroom building, Canal kilometre market 2.6 on Patterson Creek. The event is free to attend, but registration is encouraged.
• We’re not sure if this notice is actually “Just Announced” but since the artist himself reached out we want to alert you to the Chris Crilly Trio show on Friday March 10 at Church of the Ascension, 253 Echo Drive. The band will play Celtic music from across Crilly’s illustrious career, and it sounds like you’ll hear a story or two as well. Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door.
• For one night only, Ballet Edmonton will perform at the NAC’s Southam Hall, March 11. Tickets from $29.