Statue of Colonel By in Major’s Hill Park. (Photo/Devyn Barrie) Monday is Colonel By Day in Ottawa (aka the August Civic Holiday / August long weekend, occurring on the first Monday of every August) which means a long weekend for many people in Ottawa. ...

Photo: O-Train Line 1 Pimisi Station. By Jean Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. As of Monday, July 15, O-Train line 1 is closed between Tunney’s Pasture and Rideau Stations for the next two weeks, until July 28. Per OC Transpo: ...

Photo: An LCBO store As the province-wide LCBO strike continues, many Ottawa residents are turning to alternative vendors for alcoholic beverages. The province has released an interactive map with a huge variety of choices - all the brew pubs, grocery stores, cideries, distilleries, etc in Ottawa that are open and sell beverages you can take home. ...

Fireworks in the Ottawa night sky. Photo by Jamie McCaffrey, from the OttawaStart Flickr pool Saturday, July 1, 2024 is Canada Day. Most businesses and offices are closed, and just about all government services are shut down. For additions or corrections to this list, please contact us. ...

Photo: The new footbridge over the Rideau River, right, in 2023 (via Stage 2 LRT project). The highly-anticipated bridge for pedestrians and cyclists over the Rideau River opened on Saturday. Constructed for the O-Train extension project, the bridge connects Carleton University and Vincent Massey Park. ...

(Via NCC) The National Capital Commission (NCC) is excited to announce that it has signed an offer to lease agreement with Live Nation Canada, a global entertainment leader, for the operation of a live music and entertainment venue at 47–57 Rideau, the former Chapters bookstore site. ...

Photo: Ottawa’s new nightlife commissioner, Mathieu Grondin (via City of Ottawa). The long-awaited reveal of Ottawa’s new nightlife commissioner came this week. At a press conference on Tuesday, Mayor Mark Sutcliffe introduced Mathieu Grondin as the top nightlife bureaucrat. Grondin is from Montreal, where he headed MTL 24/24, an organization for nightlife development in that city. ...

Photo: An O-Train at St-Laurent station. CBC’s Ottawa Morning had an interesting segment on Thursday about the situation with the ceiling at the St-Laurent O-Train Station. The station re-opened on Wednesday. Officials had closed it for a few days to passengers after an inspection found evidence of corrosion in the concrete roof slab in the station tunnel, which predates the LRT. ...

Diane Deans, an influential figure for many years at city hall and in the community, has died at the age of 65. From the Ottawa Citizen: Deans died Tuesday, just two weeks after entering palliative care for ovarian cancer, a disease she lived with for five years. ...

Photo: The Ontario Legislature at Queen’s Park. Via Flickr/used under a creative commons licence. (Via Province of Ontario) The Ontario government is cracking down on auto theft by introducing legislation that, if passed, would suspend driver’s licences for people convicted of the crime. ...