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Blogs Guide
A blog is "a frequent, chronological publication
of personal thoughts and Web links." The blogs on this page are
all "Ottawa blogs" - meaning that they're written by people
who live here. And of course, it isn't a complete list of local blogs,
but it's a good starting point. Do you have a favourite Ottawa blog?
Tell us...
Related: Ottawa Twitter
Guide
Blogs by category
You can find other blogs sprinkled through our guides.
Here are some of the major blog listings on other pages of our site:

(These are the blogs that you HAVE to add to your reading list. As in,
if you read these on a daily basis you can almost cancel your newspaper
subscription.)
- Apartment613
An eclectic batch of local writers bring you an eclectic range of
info and news about Ottawa culture, arts, food and more.
- Ask Around Ottawa
The place to get and share recommendations for local businesses. If
need help finding a ukelele teacher or somebody to get the skunk out
from under your deck, this is the place to start.
- a peek inside the fishbowl
and Postcards from the Mothership
There are many, many, many family and parenting
blogs in Ottawa, but these two are head and shoulders above the
rest. Lots of photos and anecdotes about family life in our city.
Even if you don't have kids, you should read these for ideas about
events and activities in our area.
- Canadian Personal Finance
Blog
Daily blog posts about Canadian finance and consumerism - not so much
news as it is tips, suggestions, and real-life examples.
- cheapeats ottawa blog
Kinda self-explanatory ... this one is all about finding good food,
cheap.
- Cycling in Ottawa
A group blog covering Ottawa cycling issues. Mostly Ottawa stories,
but also good for seeing examples of successful cycling programs from
elsewhere.
- Designing
Ottawa
The Ottawa Citizen's Maria Cook discusses "buildings, streets,
landscapes, neighbourhoods". Most posts are extensions of articles
from the Citizen, but go into way more background.
- >Dial
6-1-3
Updated at least once a week with a listing of live music.
- Elgin
Street Irregulars
I can't describe this one, you just have to read it for a few weeks
to figure it out. Even then...
- Greater
Ottawa
This one's written by David Reevely, a writer at the Ottawa Citizen.
I'll call him the "Dean of Ottawa Bloggers" - although his
blog is relatively recent, he's always highlighting great local blog
content, and his posts are always give a fresh take on local current
events.
- Green Living Ottawa
This one's a must-read if you care about our planet.
- Knitnut.net
She's one of those bloggers who every other blogger in Ottawa reads
... you should too.
- Modern Ottawa
Always a ton of photos and thoughtful writing about modern design
and architecture in Ottawa.
- National Capital
Rock
A music blog by local photographer Andrew Carver. Instead of reviews
of alternative / independent rock, Andrew posts amazing pictures.
And lots of 'em.
- Omnivore's
Ottawa
This blog by Ottawa Citizen food writer Ron Eade will make you very,
very hungry. The best food
blog in Ottawa - and it's a crowded field.
- Ottawa Arts Newsletter
Jessica Ruano's monthly newsletter of local arts happenings.
- The Ottawa Dog Blog
Only worth reading if you like dogs. If you do not like dogs, please
move along.
- Ottawa Ephemera
"The flotsam and jetsam of this city, washed up on telephone
poles, wastebaskets, iPhones and mailboxes."
- Ottawa Livejournal
Community
More of a message board than a blog, but I've included it here anyways
b/c of the variety of interesting sometimes useful posts.
- OttawaStart Blog
Ok, we're a bit biased, this is our blog. We try to point out cool,
useful, strange, and wonderful Ottawa things that we've seen on the
web.
- Ottawa Street
Style
The authors of this blog go around downtown Ottawa and snap photos
of people who they think are wearing cool clothes.
- Public Transit In Ottawa
A must-read for OC Transpo groupies. These guys are so serious about
public transit that they're starting a "Journal of Public Transit".
- Urban Ottawa
/ Ottawa Urbain
Covering urban planning and development, architecture and design.
En français et anglais.
- URBSite
Robert Smythe combines history and architecture. Each post features
an indepth study of a very specific feature of Ottawa's urban landscape.
- SENS Town
I wanted to include at least one Ottawa hockey
blog on this list. I've chosen this one because it's updated frequently,
and has a good variety of stories and comment about everybody's favourite
hockey team.
- The
Big Beat
This one's by Ottawa Citizen entertainment editor Peter Simpson, and
covers a big range of local and international arts and entertainment
stories.
- The Ottawa Project
David McLelland writes intelligently and convincingly about urban
issues and life in Ottawa
- Watawa Life
Big, beautiful, gorgeous photos of Ottawa, posted just about every
day. (There are LOTS of nice photoblogs in Ottawa - check out this
list.)
- Weighty Matters
A blog by Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, a family medical doctor and the founder
of Ottawa's Bariatric Medical Institute. He specializes in weight
management and writes a lot about healthy eating.
- West Side Action
By Eric Darwin, a resident of the Preston/Somerset area, and writes
about issues affecting his area and the rest of downtown/urban Ottawa.
More local blogs
(Our faves have a little pointy hand thing beside them.
)
- 18th Best
- 5th Muse
- A1Great!
- A Baseball Geek
- Abstract Random
- According
to Mark Buzan
- Adam M is 30
- Adam M On
The Front Page
- Adrian's Scrapbook
- Alec Saunders .LOG

- Alison Gresik
- All things Canadian...
- All Things Ottawa
- Also A Talker
- a max middle blog
- An Angry Man's Thoughts
- An Artful Mind
- angels
in the architecture
- Another Perspective 4 U
- antigreg
- Around The Block
A companion blog to the radio show on CHUO
- Arts,
Life, Travel, and Me
- a sibilant intake of breath
- A thursday night in 2008
- bANk sTREeT irReLEvanTs
- BBBSO Blog (Big Brothers
Big Sisters of Ottawa)
- Beats Entropy
- Beyond the Fields
We Know
- BigBroBoBlog
- Big Story
- Bits
and Bytes (Vito Pilieci, Ottawa Citizen)
- Blogawa
- Blogging
for Birdies (Jean Levac)
- Blogging for Democracy
- Books
on Beechwood Staff Blog
- bound by gravity
- Brad Brown
- Brainwave Overload
- Brasil @ Gatineau
- Breakfast Blogger
- Brendan
Hodgson
- Brightest Blue
- Brown Eyed Girl
Bex
- Camellia Teas
of Ottawa
- Canadian Money Blogs
Reviewer
- Canuckflack

- Capital City: From
Toronto to Ottawa
- Capital
Diary
- Carrie In The City
- Castlebrook Village
- Cats of Parliament
Hill

- Chez Roz
- Citizen
Katzenjammer by Dan Gardner / Ottawa Citizen
- coffee with Julie
- Colbert Report
- Coloured Marbles
- Confessions of a Public
Relations Student
- Cooking with Kilby
- courir
dans le vent rose
- Critic's
Room
- Crosswind
- Cyclemania
- Daimnation!
- Dainty's Blog
- Dan Imbrogno
- Dark
Matter Science Blog (Tom Spears)
- Dave Gross Sports Blog
- Dave's Blog
- Dave's Blog | Dave Bagler
- David Little
- David Scrimshaw's
Blog

- Decorate it Darling
- deleteaso
- Dennis.ca
- Desire to Inspire
- Destination: Journey
- DonaldOConnorSpeaks
- Don't Panic
- Dr. Dawg
- Dreaming in reality
- dria.org
- Drippy Chick
- Drive Traffic Search
Engine Marketing Blog
- Driving fast on loose gravel
- Drumbent
- Dykes Against
Harper
- Dynamically Distinct
Discourse
- ecochick
- electricfrog.com
- engtech
- EnviroChic Design
- Epicurean Ottawa
- Equivocality
- Eric Ehret
- Face
the Music (Lynn Saxberg)

- Fan.ca
- Fighting for
Taxpayers
- Finding Your Inner Dog
- Flacklife

- Flavoured Echoes
- Forestdragon's Weblog
- fortress of knowledge
- Frederic
Boulanger's Journal
- Freeway to Serfdom
- From My Mind, To My
Mouse, To The World
- From The Desk
of Sara
- Frugal + Urban
- Gadgets.ca
- gayandright
- GCTC
Artist's Blog

- Geemoo
- Get Found on
the Web (SEO Education)
- ggower (sports entertainment)
- Girl About O-Town
- Good Bad or Sh*tty
(rating customer service)
- Gordon Dewis

- Guide To Ottawa
- Hadeel Speaking
- Hannarockhead
- Hartwells

- Hella Stella
- Hockey Blogs: See our Hockey
Guide
- How am I not myself?
- How to Get Rid of Things
- Humanyms
- I am playing outside
- Ideas
and Consequences
- i(heart)music
- Inside
the Queensway
- Invisible Summer
- Jen Gilbert
- Ken's Blog
- Ken Yam's Blog
- Land and Hold Short
- Life in the City
- Immortality By Proxy
- In A Jar
- I WANT TO EAT A NUT OF LAERMA!
- Jamine the Yoga
Teacher
- jessicraft
- It's
Only a Prostate. Right?
- Jobthingy's Jungle
- Joel Kimmel Illustrator
- John W. MacDonald's
Weblog
- John Wiseman
- Julia's Sewing Blog
- Kaleidoscope
Art
- Kanata Sportsguy
- Keep Your Head Up
- Kill Everything
- Knitting is my Boyfriend
- lady mack.
- Lana Stewart

- Laurel E. Anderson
- Leaning Tower
of Pizza
- Life is Good...At
the Beach
- Like It Or Lump
It
- Lisgar O'Connor
- Logan - The Dandelion
King
- Los Ziegler en Canada
- Lowell Green's Online
Island of Sanity
- Mad Hatter's
Neverland
- Mainstream
Revolution
- Manifesto Multilinko
- Maple Leaf Brass
Band Blog
- Mark Blevis
- Marlee does
journalism
- Marlene's Space
- Matilda Zine
- Matt Roberts
- Matt's Directory
- Meanderings
- meanoldmommy
- MediaStyle
- Meet My Shadow
- Mental Health Minutes
- Michael Geist

- Mike Powell Fan Club
- Minority of
One
- mintyfresh
- Mishka's Playground
- Miro's World
- miss monique
- Missed My
Calling
- Mission: Control!
- Miss Twiss
- Miss Vicky's Offhand Remarks
(hintonburg/westboro)
- Miz Mulligan
- Mocking Music
- Mommyhood for Lara
- m on the side
- Morpheus Ramblings
- My Designing
Life
- My new life in Canada
- My Pets Toy
- My Rambles
- Natalie Joy's Musings
- nathanr|ca
- Nick Cross' Plog
- No More Decorators
- Not The Girl You Think You
Are
- Now Open (Denis Armstrong
/ Ottawa Sun)
- Observations
of a News Junkie
- Open
Courts
- Officially Screwed
- Ottawa
Art Gallery - Off Grid
- Ottawa Art Talk
- Ottawa Beige
- ottawacarl.ca
- Ottawa Critical
Mass
- Ottawa Diva
- Ottawa Financial
Advisor
- Ottawa From the
Down Side Up

"An active drug user in the Ottawa Community, Junkie_Monkey has
spent the last six years as a street-involved youth. This blog will
range from stories unrelated to drug use, to real & graphic stories
of drug use. I hope to give you a look at the streets thru the eyes
of a drug user."
- Ottawa.FunTime
- Ottawa Heart Support
Group
- Ottawa Hortiphilia
- Ottawa
Information Guide
- Ottawa Lynx Blog
- Ottawa Meow Meow
- Ottawa Movies
- Ottawa Nature
- Ottawa Off Centre
- Ottawa Partyblog
- Ottawa
Personal Injury Blog
- Ottawa Production
Blog
- ottawa poetry newsletter
- Ottawa Watch
(politics/news by Mark Bourrie)
- ottawonk
- Out to Left Field
(sports)
- Paddy Mitchell
- Partyblog.ca
- Perspective Ottawa by Blake Batson

- The Pestoblog
- Phoenix Realm
- Pie Palace
- Please Pick-Up
Your Socks
- Politics Ottawa
- PopwatchCanada
- Poster of a girl
- Praise the Eaters of History
- Presenting the world
- Project
Porchlight
- propellerdance: the
blog
- ProPr
- Public Sector Marketing 2.0
- Queen Bee Goes Green
in Ottawa
- Queer Ottawa Blogs
- Quitting
Time
- Quoderat
- Radial Symmetry | Megan Butcher
- Raino, M.O.T.
- Random Ogre Thoughts
- Ravens' View (graffiti)

- reburb
(a blog about Bells Corners)
- refashionista
- Relishing.ca
- Remino
- Reubenspot
- Review Ottawa.com
- rich text - Rich Lafferty
- Road Safety in
Ottawa
- Robin Majumdar 2.0
- rob mclennan's blog
- Rural Ottawa High Speed
Internet Blog
- said the gramophone
(music)
- salted lithium
- Samurai
in Street Clothes
- Sarah and Leo
- Sara's Lounge
- Sassy Red Head
- Save Our Greenspace
(politics)
- Say Cheese.
- Science Library Pad
- Searching for a Unifying
Theme
- Senators Blogs: See our Hockey
Guide
- Sewn Oats
- Shane Miller's
Blog
- Single, She Wrote
- Singing Moon
- Slurp & Burp
- Small.Biz.Wiz
- sober second thought
- Social Media 4 Collaboration
- SoireNoir's Life
- Someoneoutthere
- sometimes bored in ottawa
- So this is
what being a grown up is about
- So you want to be an
actor?
- Speed Trials
- Sports Business News
Blog (Howard Bloom)
- spydergrrl on the web
- Starting The Conversation
- Startup Ottawa
- Stealing Happy Hours
- Steve's Blog
- Storm
Clouds
- straz
- Students
for Literacy Ottawa
- Stuntman Stu

- Suffonsifisms
- Sun & The City
(Ottawa Sun City Hall blog)
- suzemuse
- Talk Software
- tap my glass
- Tell
it to Tony by Tony Lafaro
- Textile and Decor
- The Adventures of Diva
Rachel
- The Amazing
Adventures of Katy
- The
Beautiful Game (Richard Starnes)
- The Blog of Amanda Earl
- The Blue Camembert
- The
Bulldog
(by Ken Gray, Ottawa Citizen writer & editorial board member)
- The Capital Letters
- The Checkout... a blog
by Rob Charlebois
- The Daily Breakthrough
- The Daily
Snivel
- The Dark Poet
- The Elgin Street
Muse
- The EQ Journal Blog
(Bruce Firestone)
- The Gnostic Hoard
- The Goblin's Den
- the k and the g and the
r and the f
- the KT's journal
- The Last Minute Blog
- The
Materialist

- the periwinkle
parasol
- The Pitchfork

- The
Scene Unscene
- The
Search for Meaning
- The Squid Zone
- theta states
- The Torch
- The World As I See It
- Things I
Like
- This is not a joke...
- This Jewish Princess'
Diary
- Thornley
Fallis Blogs
- Thousand Words
- ThreeSeven.ca
- Tom Green (entertainment)
- Tom McMahon's Thoughts
- Touch You Last
- Train of
Thoughts
- Trashy's World
- Trivial Pursuits
- Trying to be Green In
Ottawa
- TurtleHead
- Two Bowls of Split
Pea Soup
- uncultured.ca
- unsweetened.ca
- Urban Chronicle -
Ottawa
- Urban Dog Photo
Blog
- Vanished Ottawa
A blog documenting "the vanished and the vanishing" in Ottawa,
including buildings, landmarks, etc.
- Views from the Saddle
- Virginia Wool
- Virtual Dave
- Volunteer Ottawa
Two employees at Volunteer Ottawa are committed to running their first
ever 5K to get healthier and raise money.
- VW Jetta TDI Blog
- Wating for Elvis
- Walden Cabin
- Webloggers,
Journallers and Other Geeks in Ottawa
- Wellington Oracle

- We Love Westboro
- What user name
isn't taken?
- Whitest Boys Alive
(arts & culture blog)
- Wild Culture
- Womangue
- Woody's Blog
(from CHEZ 106)
- Word Up!
- work in progress...
- Wrestling the Angel
- Write About Here
- WTL
- XUP
- Your Dirty Answer
- Youth League
and the Spies
- zen for lunch
- Related: Alec's
List of Ottawa Blogs
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