ART BEAT – OOE ARTIST FEATURE: Landscape Architect Jennifer Shepherd Shares Irises and Insight with Budding Artists
By Tanis Browning-Shelp Looking out the front window of her family home during a COVID workday, landscape architect Jennifer Shepherd spotted a small posse of neighbourhood kids running around on…
Neighbours Helping Neighbours at Our Local Food Centre
Mainstreeter Staff The Old Ottawa East (OOE) community has been very generous this past COVID year in supporting the Centretown Emergency Food Centre at 507 Bank Street with food, toiletries,…
ART BEAT – Tim Hunt’s Main Street Sketches
By Tim Hunt Tim Hunt explores his community outfitted with a small sketchbook, pen, and watercolour kit. In our regular feature, he shares the pages from his sketchbook and tells…
BOOK REVIEW – Reel Ottawa: A Memoir of One Man’s Love Affair With The Movies
By Theresa Wallace From the age of five, when he went to see Snow White at the Regent Theatre at the corner of Bank and Sparks, Dan Lalande has been…
OPINION – The Lees Avenue Ward Boundary Fiasco Land Tribunal Blesses “Return” of UOttawa Campus to OOE
By John Dance In July, after a 40-minute “settlement hearing,” the Ontario Land Tribunal (formerly the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal) took the final step to reverse a misguided City of…
Catherine McKenna resigns, Yasir Naqvi secures federal Liberal nomination in Ottawa Centre
Mainstreeter Staff Things have changed since the last Mainstreeter report on Ottawa Centre candidates for the upcoming federal election. Incumbent Catherine McKenna, who originally was going to run again, has…
Gray Jay Hospitality Set To Take Flight at the Former Royal Oak
Mainstreeter Staff The Mainstreeter has learned that Gray Jay Hospitality, an innovative Preston Street restaurant focused on wild and Canadian foods, has leased the former Royal Oak at the corner…
Plan to transfer UOttawa Lees Campus to Vanier Ward kiboshed by OOECA appeal
By John Dance The old adage “you can’t fight City Hall,” took a beating when Ottawa City Council recently reversed its December 2020 decision to transfer the University of Ottawa…
Hawthorne Avenue hydro wires – be gone!
By John Dance Enfin! City Council has approved burying the hydro wires and removing the poles when Hawthorne Avenue is reconstructed between Colonel By Drive and Main Street over the…
Sharing lunch with Old Ottawa East Pharmacist Scott Watson
From humble beginnings in 2006, Watson’s Pharmacy in Old Ottawa East has grown into a neighbourhood staple over the past decade plus. As Ottawa Magazine once wrote, “stepping into Watson’s…
