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CTV News
7 hours ago
- Business
- CTV News
Chuck's Roadhouse is the latest restaurant to open in Ottawa's ByWard Market
Chuck's Roadhouse officially opened in Ottawa's ByWard Market on Tuesday, the latest new restaurant to open in the tourist area. The Chuck's Roadhouse Bar and Grill is located on Dalhousie Street, in the old Dunn's Famous Deli. Dunn's closed earlier this spring after more than 15 years in the ByWard Market. According to its website, Chuck's vision is to 'ensure everyone feels that 'at home' atmosphere while dining out.' 'We provide you with quality food at restaurant discount prices, including premium steaks, buttery lobster tails, delicious burgers and many more feature menu items are just one of the reasons our communities visit time and time again.' The menu lists a Chuck's Burger for $9, a bacon cheesebuger for $14.99 and a grilled chicken club sandwich for $14.99. According to the Chuck's website menu, a top sirloin sells for $15. There are also Chuck's Roadhouse locations on Baxter Road, Stonehaven Drive and Trim Road in Ottawa. Barrio, a South American restaurant, is set to open on Rideau Street on Wednesday. Grey's Social Eatery opened earlier this spring in the old Blue Cactus location in the ByWard Market Square.
CTV News
7 days ago
- Business
- CTV News
New restaurant set to open in June near Ottawa's ByWard Market
A new restaurant called Barrio is set to open on Rideau Street in June. (Josh Pringle/CTV News Ottawa) A new restaurant is set to open on Rideau Street this month, taking over the Pure Kitchen location near the ByWard Market. Barrio is expected to open across the street from the Rideau Centre next week, Chef Lizardo Becerra confirms to CTV News Ottawa. According to Barrio's Instagram post, the restaurant at 115 Rideau Street will be a 'South American beat in the heart of the market.' Barrio is currently hiring staff for the restaurant. Becerra is also the owner of Raphaël Peruvian Cuisine on Elgin Street. Pure Kitchen closed its restaurant at the corner of William and Rideau streets on December 22, 2024. Co-owner and CEO David Leith told CTV News Ottawa the location suffered lower than expected sales and profits. With files from CTV News Ottawa's William Eltherington
Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Judge rules against dismissing suit against UMBC brought by former athletic director
A judge denied on Tuesday the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by its former athletic director over allegations that he was fired in retaliation for reporting an ex-swim-coach's sexual misconduct — and then accused of enabling the misconduct. Filing the lawsuit in August, Brian Barrio argues that despite his role in reporting the misconduct of ex-coach Chad Cradock, Barrio was fired by UMBC and then 'scapegoated' by the university in statements following his dismissal. Cradock died by suicide in 2021, after resigning from his position following the announcement of a university investigation into his misconduct. A separate investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice in March 2024 found that UMBC failed to protect student-athletes from Cradock. The following month, the DOJ announced a $4.14 settlement agreement to the former student-athletes who were sexually abused and harassed. The day before Barrio was fired, UMBC President Valerie Sheares Ashby issued a statement saying the university 'reset the Athletics Department's structure, governance, and reporting mechanisms, starting with making the athletic director a direct report to me.' She went on to say that those who failed to adhere to Title IX procedure would be held accountable. According to Barrio, this statement implied that his subsequent firing was connected with the UMBC athletics department restructuring and that he was one among those responsible for violating Title IX. This, in turn, has prevented him from finding employment elsewhere after his dismissal from UMBC, he said. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Brendan A. Hurson rebuked UMBC's assertion that their statement was not libelous in nature, stating that Barrio's allegations of libel are plausible. Barrio said that he went to Sheares Ashby after his termination, who agreed that this representation was false but that she and the university declined to rescind the statement or issue a correction. In its motion to dismiss, UMBC argued that the charges against Sheares Ashby, who is a named defendant in the suit, should be granted immunity, asserting that she did not intentionally release the statement and should not be personally held liable. Hurson denied this argument and wrote in his ruling that she would remain named in the suit. 'It is highly unlikely that Sheares Ashby believed the statements to be true on the day they were uttered,' wrote Hurson, 'but somehow came to agree, just one day later, that they were false.' Have a news tip? Contact Mathew Schumer at mschumer@ 443-890-7423 and on X as @mmmschumer.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Walters: New California school data project fulfills campaign promise Newsom made
Gavin Newsom can — and should — be faulted for making campaign promises six years ago that he must have known were impossible to achieve, such as his vows to create single-payer health care and build 3.5 million new housing units. When reminded of them after becoming governor, he dismissed them as 'aspirational,' a caveat he neglected to attach to his original pledges. Nevertheless, credit is due when one of his promises becomes reality, as it did this week when the state launched the beginnings of a long-needed system of tracking how the state's public school students fare in classrooms and later in life. The Cradle-to-Career project released its first batch of numbers, along with video tutorials on how to access the data. 'With the C2C Student Pathways Dashboard now live, Californians can visualize their futures by seeing disconnected data from across sectors and previously unavailable insights, all in one place,' Newsom said in a statement. 'The Golden State is once again leading the way in innovation, connecting our education system to the workforce to ensure everyone has the freedom to succeed.' However, not everyone in the rarified ranks of education researchers and reformers echoed Newsom's boasts. Alex Barrios, president of the Educational Results Partnership, a business-backed education policy coalition, complained that 'the dashboard fails to do what it promised. It doesn't represent the journeys of all students and how they navigate to and through careers. 'By following the career trajectories of only college graduates, it assumes the only path to success for students is through a four-year college degree,' Barrio alleges. The new data system should include all of the factors that Barrio's organization lists, but its criticism may be premature, since officials say they intend to expand the project's scope as rapidly as it can obtain data. Assuming that the project does widen its reach, C2C, as it's dubbed, not only will be a lasting accomplishment for Newsom, but it will fill a void that's existed far too long. Without reliable data on outcomes, the nation's largest school system operates in an accountability vacuum, which the education establishment seems to prefer. The state Department of Education has a 'dashboard' that purports to give parents, taxpayers and voters a picture of how well schools are doing their job. However, the current system is a mishmash of educational jargon that is difficult to decipher. It also skews the ratings in ways that minimize actual academic achievement, such as in reading, writing and mathematics, and elevates peripheral factors it calls 'multiple measures.' Thus, it downplays the fact that California's students fare very poorly vis-a-vis those in other states and the 'achievement gap' still broadly separates low-income and English-learner students from those with more privileged circumstances. Education reformers have long pushed for obtaining and publishing more objective and complete data, especially after former Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature overhauled school finance a decade ago to provide more funds to schools with substantial numbers of what were called 'at-risk' students. Better numbers would, the reformers said, provide a clearer understanding of whether Brown's Local Control Funding Formula was working. Brown, however, backed the education establishment's preference for getting the money without strict accountability for how it was spent and whether it was having a positive effect. He said he trusted that local school officials would spend the extra money wisely, calling it 'subsidiarity,' a secular version of an obscure religious principle. After Newsom succeeded Brown he quickly reversed that position and called for a comprehensive data system to track how students were faring during and after their journeys through the school system. The Legislature responded by authorizing the C2C system. CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's state Capitol works and why it matters. This article originally appeared on Ventura County Star: Walters: New California school data site fulfills a Newsom promise made
The Guardian
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
A taste of the capital: an inside look at Canberra's vibrant food scene and the local producers shaping it
'Canberra is one of the only cities in Australia where produce can be picked in the morning, delivered to a restaurant in the afternoon and be on the menu that same night,' says Sam Vincent, the journalist-turned-farmer who chronicled his return to the land in his memoir My Father and Other Animals. Sam invited me to explore the city's food scene as he delivered trays full of his luscious Gollion Farm figs to some of Canberra's finest establishments. Gollion farm figs, 2025 To say these figs are highly coveted is an understatement. During their famously short season, they're name-checked on social media by chefs lucky enough to get their hands on them (Lucy Holm from the sandwich store Sandoochie calls them 'truly elite'). Sean McConnell, the chef and owner of inner-city hotspot Rebel Rebel, tells me: 'Everyone's on the Sam Vincent fig train. They're just insane. You don't see produce like this from commercial growers.' There's a camaraderie among Canberra foodies that's apparent at our first stop, the buzzy hole-in-the-wall cafe Barrio Collective Coffee in Braddon, a mainstay of the coffee scene in the city's inner north. Barrio's house-roasted beans make a supreme flat white – smooth, full-bodied, not too bitter – and can be found on menus across Canberra. It's mid-morning, so I pair mine with a plate of avocado toast garnished with togarashi and pickled Japanese vegetables as I chat to Barrio's co-owner Dan Zivkovich. 'As much as possible, we try to showcase produce from around the region,' he says. 'We use local milk and homegrown fruits and vegetables. We'll take large quantities and pickle them; we've been known to have midnight bottling sessions. I drive a lot of miles and have chopped and pickled thousands of vegetables over the past few years.' Gollion Farm figs have been on Barrio's menu for almost a decade, and Zivkovich says his customers know to look for them every autumn. 'They're only around for a few weeks, which makes them even more special. At the moment, we're doing them on toast, with peanut butter, honey and a little sea salt. As the season progresses, we'll start slow-roasting them and we may also make jam.' As we drive to our next stop, Sam tells me about the farm he grew up on, in Sutton, just outside Canberra. The original fig tree was planted decades ago and its cuttings have been cultivated to grow an entire orchard of genetically identical trees, each one producing equally lush fruit. One place that makes the most of Sam's figs while they're in season is Sandoochie, a hip sandwich shop in the middle of the city that's packed with office workers and students from the nearby Australian National University. Between slices of sourdough bread from Under Bakery (another local favourite) toppings range from the sublime to the delicious. 'We've done 300-plus sandwich toppings since we opened a couple of years ago, and we try to keep it seasonal,' says Sandoochie's owner, Lucy Holm, sending me off with a lunch bag packed with what she calls the simplest sandwich on the menu. 'I intentionally keep it basic to highlight the very best of what's in it: the best ham, cheese, figs and butter. Then we add a radicchio and rocket salad dressed in our own balsamic and excellent olive oil.' On the way to Rebel Rebel in Acton, Sam lets me in on a secret: McConnell was Gollion Farm's first customer, first ordering from Sam's parents about 15 years ago, 'back when we just had the one tree'. McConnell picks up the story: 'I never like to say, 'hey, I had them first', but I did. Supporting the local community has always been important to me and it's always better quality produce if it hasn't had to travel far to get here.' McConnell's reputation for giving local produce top billing on a tight but eclectic menu has made Rebel Rebel a favourite with locals (the extensive wine list is also a drawcard). True to form, the figs make multiple appearances here, sitting plump and juicy alongside prosciutto and Italian curd as a starter; added to a walnut halwa and served with fig-leaf ice-cream for dessert; and used as an edible embellishment on a limited-edition, burnt-butter bourbon cocktail with fig syrup. Boozy fig treats are also on the menu at Onzieme, Louis Couttoupes' fine-dining bistro in Kingston, on the south side of the city, where a fruity house-made vin de figue digestif caps off a menu that's built around the day's deliveries. Couttoupes learnt his trade in Paris's 11th (onzieme) arrondissement, where, he says, 'one of my favorite experiences was getting up stupidly early and meeting one of the chefs outside the markets'. This fresh-as-it-gets ethos followed him home. 'There are times we can only get a product for a week and if we can put that on the menu for a week, we will. Our approach is always: what have we got, what can we use?' A staple dish is a delicately layered galette. Made with locally grown potatoes and topped with smoked roe and cream cheese, it's already reached legendary status. The duck breast – currently used in a twist on dolmades – is hot on its heels. Couttoupes' influence on the Canberra dining scene is significant, and almost everyone I speak to, including Sam, mentions Onzieme as a must-visit. It surely doesn't hurt that the bistro has its own cellar-like bar downstairs, 11e Cave, where bartender Brett Nebauer mixes cocktails, and Couttoupes turns local produce into raspberry cider, walnut wine and a tartly moreish blood plum amaretto. Figs can be a fickle fruit and although Sam picks two crops a day throughout the season, there's not enough today to supply Three Mills, a chain of bakeries with five locations around Canberra. On the phone, Three Mills' head of product development, Bernd Brademann, tells me the bakeries gravitate towards food that's 'comforting and a little bit nostalgic, using the best ingredients we can get'. In autumn, customers queue for a buttery pastry layered in croissant-style lamination and coated with burnt honeycomb cream and fresh figs. Photograph: Rimz Couture The capital's close-knit culinary culture keeps Brademann on his toes. 'Every time a new restaurant, bar or cafe opens in Canberra, it lifts the bar higher for all of us,' he says. 'There are tons of cool places here now and more still opening.' Sam and I visited only a small sample of what the capital has to offer but it's clear that the gastronomic landscape is run by creative, passionate people. They'll take the time to sit and tell you about the farmers who grow their potatoes (Onzieme) or the way they're soaking fig stalks to be turned into a fizzy, fruity soda (Sandoochie). Food is integral to the cultural conversation in Canberra and local produce is front and centre. Discover more about Canberra's vibrant food scene at
