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Please don’t invite us to the party! - – The tagline on flyers given out in Sandy Hill by Ottawa Police Services and Ottawa ByLaw this week to encourage a more temperate party atmosphere on St Patrick’s Day. (Emma Weller in Capital Current)
Sports - 🏒 NHL Ottawa Senators 4 – Colorado Avalanche 5 last night
| | 🛻 Lessons Learned - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police recorded the lessons that it learned from the Trucker occupation.
💡 Set the tone early with protestors
💡The need for a ‘National Police Act’ to ‘clarify thresholds’ between levels of police
💡A request to increase penalties for people unlawfully protesting
Also, and this may seem crazy and only the kind of thing a professional law enforcement organization may contemplate, but ...
💡Don't let vehicles become entrenched
(Stephanie Taylor at CBC)
🧊 Food Locked - The Parkdale Food Centre has closed its outdoor food fridge due to an ‘increase in incidents’. The Centre has not said what has happened but wrote ‘Homophobia, sexism, ageism, ableism, xenophobia, racism, and in particular anti-Black and anti-Asian racism have no place in our community’ in a statement. The outdoor community fridge allowed people to anonymously access food at no charge, and had been in place since 2021. The Centre still operates a free fridge inside their space. (Avanthika Anand at CBC)
🚨 Ottawa Police - The Ottawa Police Service officer who has been using a doctor’s note to avoid questions about missing money has been playing local gigs with thrash metal band Infrared. Detective Kirk Gidley has been sued by a resident who says the officer stole $50,000 from his premises during an investigation, in which all charges were dropped because of Gidley’s refusal to testify. Now that he has been witnessed playing gigs, the plaintiff in the lawsuit believes he can testify. (Garry Dimmock in the Ottawa Citizen)
| | Today - To properly celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Nita Beer’s taproom will be open from noon until 11 pm. Tears of a Sasquatch, the brewery’s cask Toasted Coconut, Espresso Stout, will be available for the first time in a couple of years. Wear your greenest outfit and get ready to party. 190 Colonnade Road #17.
- If your wardrobe is lacking in green accents, drop by the Barley Mow to purchase a trucker hat in the emerald hue for just $10 (limited quantities available).
- The third edition of the International Film Festival of Ottawa continues with Under the Fig Trees at 4:00pm, Canadian Masters: Meditation Park at 4:00pm, The Maiden at 6:15pm, Una Femmina. The Code of Silence at 8:45pm, and PHI 1.618 at 9:15pm.
- Urban Legends Poetry Collective brings its Broken Mic event to the Arts Court Atelier Studio. It’s Pay What you Can to get in, with a suggested donation of $10. If you want to present your poetry to the assembled, contact urbanlegendspoetry@gmail.com to get on the Open Mic list. 2 Daly Ave.
- There’s no cover at Deacon Brodies on St. Patrick’s Day, but there will be bagpipes. Count on it. 247 Elgin St.
- Everyone is invited to Queers & Beers: St. Patrick’s Day Edition at Mill St Brew Pub, 6 pm until late. $6 at the door. 555 Wellington St. Second floor.
- Ottawa Chamberfest presents Leila Josefowicz and John Novacek in concert at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre. The violinist and pianist will perform a program of Debussy, Stravinsky, and more.
Tomorrow Sunday Just Announced - Ottawa Tool Library’s latest list of spring courses includes Intro to Woodworking for Women+: Make a Keepsake Box.
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