An OC Transpo bus downtown. (Photo/Shankar S./used under a Creative Commons license.) Mayor Jim Watson and Capital Coun. Shawn Menard had their semi-regular Twitter argument about free transit last Sunday (April 14) and, as all good arguments should, it involved a little math. ...

OC Transpo runs 5,800 km worth of routes across the city. (Photo/Devyn Barrie) OC Transpo’s spring service changes take effect Sunday, April 21. Holiday service will be in effect on Good Friday and Easter Monday. Construction season is back and customers on some routes can expect impacts to service. ...

Lindt by Gamachephoto, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group Here’s what’s open and closed on Easter Weekend 2019 in Ottawa. Good Friday this year is on April 19. It’s a statutory holiday in Canada so just about all businesses are closed. ...

The City of Ottawa would like to remind residents of the following schedule changes for the Easter holiday, from Friday, April 19 to Monday, April 22. Client services Ottawa City Hall and all seven client service centres, including the Government Service Centre located at 110 Laurier Avenue West, will be closed on Friday, April 19 and Monday, April 22. ...

At the awards ceremony for Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Authors contest. (Photo/Ottawa Public Library) The Ottawa Public Library unveiled the winners for their annual youth writing contest, Awesome Authors, over the weekend. The contest was open earlier this year to all youth writers between the ages of 9 and 18, who are residents of Ottawa and have not yet completed high school. ...

An OC Transpo bus on Wellington Street. Photo/Devyn Barrie If you’re a regular transit rider, you’re probably familiar with the Twitter handle @OCTranspoLive. It’s the main way the transit service communicates trip cancellations and disruptions. What you probably didn’t know, because OC Transpo doesn’t really mention it anywhere, is that the Twitter account is also highly incomplete and somewhat misleading to passengers who rely on it. ...

House of Targ marks their 5th on Wednesday. Where: House of Targ, 1077 Bank St. When: Wednesday April 17 @ 8 p.m. Cost: No cover charge House of Targ marks five years of being Ottawa’s pinball and perogie pinnacle with a “super over-the-top” party this Wednesday. ...

The fire is believed to have started in the roof of this historic building housing Vittoria Trattoria. Photo taken April 6. (Photo and illustration/Devyn Barrie) Business unaffected by Friday’s devastating fire in the ByWard Market reopened Saturday morning, while full account of the damage is taken. ...

Photo: OttWatch’s Kevin O’Donnell enters political donation data. (Via Twitter) After about two weeks of effort, OttWatch and volunteers have digitized almost all campaign donation records for the 2018 municipal election. The website for city hall nerds, run by Kevin O’Donnell, now has more than 2,700 (over 78 per cent) of 3,490 donations for the 2018 vote entered into their database. ...

News from the City of Ottawa. Photo/Devyn Barrie Are you thinking about starting your family tree, or researching the history of your house? Wondering what those DNA matches really mean? Learn all those answers and more at Ottawa Public Library’s second annual Discover Your Roots: Genealogy and Local History Fair, taking place Saturday, April 27, 10 am to 3 pm, at Ben Franklin Place, 101 Centrepointe Drive. ...