Hello Ottawa
In Today’s Edition
→ The Kebaowek First Nation’s appeal against a new Chalk River nuclear waste disposal facility has been upheld
→ Test your knowledge of Ottawa's underground scene tomorrow
→ The Deal of the Day: Joseph Ribcoff womenswear at 1ère avenue
– Martha and Darren
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ALMONTER OF THE DAY
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John Chance
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The 102 year-old was honoured at a Battle of the Atlantic ceremony in Almonte Sunday. Chance, who retired with the rank of commander, is one of the few surviving Second World War veterans amongst us.
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– Kimberley Johnson at CTV
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I’ve been taking Line 1 almost every day for two months and it comes every three to four minutes. It might be a single-car train, but everybody’s looking at the glass half empty, I’m looking at it half filled.
– New OC Transpo general manager Rick Leary explaining that he believes that the transit system is now on a foundation that he can build on.
Aedan Helmer in the Ottawa Citizen
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SPORTS
🏈 CFL (Preseason) Ottawa RedBlacks 27 - Montréal Alouettes 3, last Friday
🏀 CEBL Ottawa BlackJacks 90 – Montréal Alliance 79, yesterday
⚽ CPL Atlético Ottawa 2 – Pacific FC 2, last Saturday
⚽ NSL Ottawa Rapid 2 – Halifax Tides 1, last Friday
⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 6 – Down East Bird Dawgs 11, yesterday
⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 13 – Down East Bird Dawgs 4, last Saturday
⚾ FRONTIER Ottawa Titans 15 – Down East Bird Dawgs 13, last Friday
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WHAT’S GOING ON AT CITY HALL
Finance and Corporate Services Committee
Tuesday, June 2 at 9:30 am
- 2026 Capital Adjustments and Closing of Projects - City Tax and Rate Supported
- 2026 Q1 Tax, Transit and Rate Supported Programs Operating and Capital Budget Status Update
- Long Range Financial Plan - Tax Supported Capital
- Lease Financing Agreements 2025
- Paramedic West Deployment Facility – Procurement Process for the Public Private Partnership
- Clean Fuel Regulations Program
- 2025 Procurement Year in Review
- 2025 Investments and Debt Report
- 2026 Annual Asset Management Progress Update
- Ᾱdisōke Project Update – Shared Facility in Partnership with Library and Archives Canada and the Ottawa Public Library
- French Language Services Advisory Committee 2022-2026 End-of-Term Report
- Status Update – Finance and Corporate Services Committee Inquiries and Motions for the period ending 22 May 2026
- Municipal Land Strategy – Surplus Land Declaration and Authority to Transfer City-Owned Lands for Housing (Third Round)
- 75 Nicholas Street – Option to Purchase and Restrictive Covenant
- Affordable Housing Community Improvement Plan – Applications for Tax Increment Equivalent Grants (TIEGs) Report
- 7579 Springhill Partial Disposal for Conservation Co-ownership
- Declaration of Surplus and Sale of 1601 Prince of Wales Drive to Carillon Co-operative Housing Incorporated
- Review of Eligibility Criteria for Municipal Housing Facility By-law – Housing Acceleration Plan Action Item 34
- Preston Street Business Improvement Area (BIA) – Boundary Adjustment
- Intent to Designate Cyrville Business Improvement Area (BIA) – BIA Formation
- Integrated Orléans Community Improvement Plan – Application by 12259095 Canada Inc., as general partner for Société en commandite Joyce, 211 Centrum Boulevard
Agenda
Ottawa Public Library Board
Tuesday, June 2 at 5:00 pm
- Order of Friendship Nomination – BGC Ottawa
- Ādisōke – Update on Construction and Operational Planning
- Advancing Indigenous Services
- OPL Board Delegation of Authority Policy – Motion (Jessica Bradley, Chair, Governance Standing Committee)
- 2026 Public Library Association Conference – Report from Catherine Kitts
Agenda
Also, it is the most wonderful day of the week tomorrow as the Committee of Adjustment meets at 9:00 am and 1:00 pm.
Whose flag is flying at City Hall today? Samoa
City Hall flies the flag of embassies and high commissions on their national days.
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WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT
☢️ The Kebaowek First Nation’s appeal against a new Chalk River nuclear waste disposal facility has been upheld. The court ruled that the Federal government wrongly approved a permit for Canadian Nuclear Laboratories to open a new fascility to accept radioactive debris from across Canada. The verdict was based on the risk to the endangered species Blanding’s turtle and two kinds of bats. – Nathan Fung at CBC
🚄 The United Counties of Prescott-Russell council has voted to refuse coöperation with the Alto high speed railway corporation. The United Counties will refuse surveyors access to county-owned land nor will it sign any non-disclosure agreements. – Josh Pringle at CTV
☕ Centreville will have a new urban park next week. Snider Park will take over the empty lot at 150 Bank Street and have free wifi, art, and live events, as well as a food stand run by Ahhh! Coffee. – Abyssinia Abebe in the Ottawa Citizen
↪ The City has closed a Sandy Hill community garden unexpectedly. The City says that it needs to reorganize the garden due to ‘concerns about conflicts between gardeners’.
🗳️ Civic Election
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THE DAILY POLL
Are you concerned about the planned nuclear waste disposal facility at Chalk River?
▪️ “It’s the capital city with all of the diplomats …”
▪️ “Gee, isn’t Ford really the Premier of Toronto? I have never thought of him as being the Premier of all of ON, including Ottawa! So yeah, put it in Ottawa just to annoy him ... LOL.”
▪️ “It makes more sense to put DND things where HQ is. Also, Pfft to Doug Ford.”
▪️ “Let’s move the center of the universe (a very little away) from Toronto and towards Ottawa – the place for the Defence Bank!”
▪️ “Please tell Ford that I want a roaring Ferrari Testa Rossa and ask him what’s he going to do about it!”
▪️ “Canada’s export finance bank, Export Development Canada is headquartered in Ottawa, we have the expertise, and the tech experience base too.”
▪️ “Everything doesn’t have to go as Ford wants!”
▪️ “The decision to put the defence bank in Ottawa should be a ‘no-brainer’. Besides it will pi** off Doug Ford.”
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THE ROLLING THREE DAY CALENDAR
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✳️ Means change from previous edition
MONDAY
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✳️ 🆓 The New Edinburgh Community Choir will be performing a concert in support of Cornerstone Housing for Women. Entry by donation. (New Edinburgh)
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🆓 Ottawa’s own Loon Choir brings its dreamy, 80s-tinged pop to Irene’s Pub before heading to Toronto’s Rivoli later in the week. The show comes courtesy of the Ottawa Jazz Festival Homegrown Local Club Series. (The Glebe)
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The Ottawa South Eco-Action Network presents Darn it! A Community Mending Evening. (Hunt Club)
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Bring your curiosity to the Death Cafe. (Hintonburg)
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Day tickets to Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival go on sale today.
Cinema
Gigs
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Fake Dust. Dominion Tavern
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Bologna Colorado. Avant-Garde Bar
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Goldlink. Bronson Centre
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Karaoke Night. Atomic Rooster
TUESDAY
Cinema
Gigs
WEDNESDAY
Cinema
Gigs
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Woods & Gummeson Trio ft. Alex Mastronardi. The Robo Lounge
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The Prime Rib Big Band. Irene’s Pub
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Dali Van Gogh, Motherland, Refuse. House of TARG
JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING
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BUT, ONE MORE THING ...
We can always count on NarCity Ottawa to put a cat amongst the pigeons with an over-the-top comment. Today, Alessa Hickman writes ‘ I’m an Ottawa local and here’s my ranking of the best neighbourhoods in the city’.
Her rankings:
- 4. Alta Vista & Mooney’s Bay
- 3. Little Italy
- 2. Centretown
- 1. The Glebe & Old Ottawa South
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RAPID RESPONSE QUALITY CONTROL
Comment of the Week: ‘Well organized; good local information; maybe more on Gatineau would be appreciated’
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THE END
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THE OTTAWAN is written and edited every working weekday by Martha and Darren.
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