WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT
🍞 Artists have reached a deal to keep their cheap studios in the redeveloped Standard Bread Company building. The Enriched Bread Artists collective has been working and living in the historic Standard Bread Company building for 30 years, but their homes were put at risk when the building was sold for a new development. The developers propose towers of 34, 38, and 40 storeys with mixed-use office, retail space, and 930 residential units. The Standard Bread Company building would be renovated but retained.
Under the proposal, the artists will be relocated during construction and offered affordable rent for 15 years afterwards. The City’s planning and housing committee approved the new development, which moves to City Council for ratification. – Matthew Garwolinski in Capital Current
↪ The National Capital Commission has put out a call to ‘design, build and run a new series’ of commercial docks and marine slips at the Dow’s Lake Pavilion and Marina.
🌪️ Stories and video of the 2018 Dunrobin tornado are being sought by a London documentary company. Arrow International Media is looking to speak to people affected by the devasting 2018 tornado, which spread a swath of carnage across West Carleton, destroying houses as well as the Dunrobin Plaza strip mall. Arrow says it is for a show on the Discovery Channel, which THE OTTAWAN assumes is The Eye of the Storm. Send an email to naomi.hemming@arrowmedia.com if you have something. – West Carleton Online (🔐 Subscription only but worth it)
↪ That’s London, England not London, Ontario.
🏌️♀️ There is a new indoor golf range in Arnprior. Irons & Woods Indoor Golf has four golf simulators, as well as a full service bar. Irons & Woods is easy to find – it’s right next to the water tower. Arnprior certainly has its localized way of naming things, its historic four lane bowling alley is Steelheads and Strikes. – Taylor Clark in the Arnprior Chronicle-Guide (h/t Ottawa Road Trips)
THE DAILY POLL
Will you be watching the Winter Olympics?
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Previously in ottawan polls:
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We asked, ‘Did you ever use that Ontario Travel Information Centre on highway 417?’
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8% Yes, it had valuable travel information
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27% No, but had I needed local information, I would have
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26% Of course. When I needed the washroom.
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21% I have never seen the need to travel to Québec by road
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18% Bark bark bark bark arf. Let the dogs use the washroom. Bark arf bark bark.
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Commentary
▪️ “With the added bonus of some travel info that I still have somewhere.”
▪️ “I likely would’ve used the washroom, but if I’d needed travel info, I’d have gotten that too. Why not retrofit it as an ONRoute? Those are the best!”
▪️ “I love tourist information centres and always stop at them to gather information while on vacation.”
▪️ “Driven by it a zillion times on the way to Montréal or back to Ottawa from Montréal and have stopped there once soon after it opened.”
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