🏫 The Province is making major changes to the trustees of the Ottawa Carleton District School Board and Ottawa Catholic School Board. The new rules will limit the number of trustees to 10, reduce their annual salary to $10,000 per year, and limit what expenses can be reimbursed. Each district will also have two new roles, a Chief Executive Officer and a Chief Education Officer (CEdO). While the Board can hire a new Chief Executive, it will require the permission of the Ministry to fire one.

The trustees of the Ottawa Carleton District School Board are currently sidelined while the Province has the district under supervision. There is no word when that may change. – Josh Pringle at CTV

💰 Ottawa and environs take 6 out of 10 spots on a ‘Most Affordable Cities in Ontario to Buy a Home’ list. The list, by real estate website Zola, puts Arnprior the least expensive – $399,995, followed by Kanata, Nepean, Carleton Place, Rockland, and Ottawa. Pembroke was number 11. – Rachel Morgan at CityNews

🚨 A former president of the Ottawa Real Estate Board is at risk of having her licenced revoked by the Real Estate Council of Ontario. The broker at 1st Options Realty Ltd is accused of ‘misappropriated sums totalling six figures from a trust account, including funds she later said were lost in an investment scam’. The accusations have not been proven in court. – Courtney Zwicker in Real Estate Magazine

Critter Watch

🦫 A beaver minding its own business in an Alta Vista shed was captured and relocated to the Rideau River by Ottawa Bylaw. – Ted Raymond at CTV

🐺 Ottawa Police Service is warning that people have spotted ‘brazen” coyotes in Orléans. – Rachel Morgan at CityNews

MONDAY

• Grab a good deal on dinner at No Forks Given’s Meatless Monday. You'll find half price veggie burgers and veggie tenders from 5:00 pm. Dine-in only.  

• Start the week onstage at the Broadway Nights  Musical Theatre Open Mic and Singalong. 

• Dead Siblings Society is a one act comedy that explores the loss of ‘a special kind of relationship’. One night only at the Gladstone Theatre (Little Italy). 

Cinema

• ByTowne Cinema: The Drama, Palestine 36, Limited edition: A History of Violence 

• Mayfair Theatre: Miroirs No. 3, H Is For Hawk, Tiger On The Boat 

Gigs

• Karaoke Mondays

TUESDAY

• The Ottawa 67s head into Game 3, Round Two of the 2026 OHL Playoffs. (Lansdowne) 

• It’s 1595. A pair of playwright brothers struggle to write a hit as William Shakespeare dominates the theatre scene. Then, a soothsayer tells the bros to write a musical and all hell breaks loose.  Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group presents Something Rotten! today through Sunday April 19 at Glebe Community Centre.  

• National Arts Centre English Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, and fu-GEN Asian Theatre Company present the world premiere of cicadas, an eco-thriller that began as a an Irresistible Neighbourhoods radio play. Until Sunday at the NAC's Azrieli Studio. (Downtown)  

Cinema

• ByTowne Cinema: Palestine 36, Somewhere Along The Way - Film & Concert, The Drama 

• Mayfair Theatre: H Is For Hawk, Mioirs No. 3, Taxi Driver 

Gigs

• John Hanson with Dave Scobie. Le Hibou (La Pêche)

• Sara Devoe, Bug Crush, Hanorah. Avant-Garde Bar. 

• Greg Rekus. Dominion Tavern

WEDNESDAY

• Songwriting phenom Royal Wood is touring with Newfoundland’s contemporary folk duo The Fortunate Ones on the Have A Heart tour. (Downtown)  

• Ottawa’s ONLY Hip Hop Jam is a monthly open mic series at Red Bird featuring a live band, emcee, and instruments. Access to the stage is first come, first served. Tonight (April 15) Ottawa-based melodic rap artist NTHN will also perform. (Old Ottawa South) 

• Ottawa Festivals Network turns 30, holds its annual general meeting, and throws in a gig by The Hoarse Men. Overflow Brewing (Heron Gate)    

• 🆓 The Doors Open for Music at Southminster United Church noon concert features violinist Albert Steinberger and pianist Dane Ko, prizewinners of the 2023 Prix Ravel, in their Canadian debut. The two perform a program of French and German sonatas, including their acclaimed interpretation of Ravel’s ‘Blues’.  (Old Ottawa South) 

• Ottawa Little Theatre stages Kimberley Akimbo, the dark comedy about a 16 year old coping with a less than perfect family as well as a life changing disease. Until Sunday April 18. (Rideau-Vanier)   

• Something Rotten! Continues at Glebe Community Centre  

• cicadas continues at the NAC.   

Cinema

• ByTowne Cinema: The Drama, National Canadian Film Day: Bon Cop Bad Cop, National Canadian Film Day 2026: Les Furies     

• Mayfair Theatre:  Miroirs No. 3, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Tiger on the Beat   

Gigs

• The John Carroll Show. The Laff

• Death Hawk. Dominion Tavern

• Krystal Jessup, Ness Nost, Al Sam, Natasha Liard, Baby Richman. Irene’s Pub

• Bella Donna. Rainbow Bistro
   

JUST ANNOUNCED

• A Company of Fools will soon launch its 36th season of Shakespeare in Ottawa’s parks, and to help get things rolling they’re holding a special fundraising event on Saturday May 9.  Learn a new creative skill in A Midsummer Night's Bouquet: Flower Arrangement Workshop from noon to 2:00 pm at Beyond the Pale’s City Centre location. (Centretown West) 

• The Festival of Small Halls is returning this summer and with it comes the Chef’s Table experience on the patio at the National Arts Centre's 1 Elgin restaurant. Organisers say: 
  
  ‘Talented musicians have been selected to perform each weekend, while diners enjoy a menu collaboratively created by our executive chef, Kenton Leier, and some of Canada’s most interesting and prestigious culinary talent.’ Bookings are now open for the Chef’s Table ‘local farm to table feast’  experiences June 3-5, August 14-16, August 27-29, and September 17. Use the code 1ELGIN-26 to access the presale rate until April 14. (Downtown)