A Line 1 train passes uOttawa. The O-Train will be closing early almost every night from Friday, August 12 to August 25, due to track maintenance. OC Transpo has published a helpful table on their website that details all the service adjustments that will take place. ...

Ottawa City Hall (Via the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing) The Ontario government introduced legislation that would give the mayors of Toronto and Ottawa more responsibility to deliver on shared provincial-municipal priorities, including building 1.5 million new homes over the next 10 years. ...

Concept art of the new Indigo store coming to Rideau Centre this fall. (Via Indigo) Indigo Books & Music Inc. (TSX: IDG), Canada’s largest book and lifestyle retailer announced it is ready to move forward with plans to build its newest large-format Indigo store in CF Rideau Centre, Ottawa. ...

Photo: “Colourful Spectacle” of fireworks in the night sky over the Ottawa River in 2015. Photo by Jamie McCaffrey, via the OttawaStart Flickr Pool. This year’s edition of Casino du Lac-Leamy’s Sound of Light show starts on Aug. 3, and promises six evenings of outstanding pyrotechnic display. ...

Summer views at Nepean Point. (Photo/Devyn Barrie) It’s August already, and the summer is just flying by. Fortunately, there are many hot, sunny days yet to come. Here’s a list of things you should check out before autumn! (You can add your recommendations by emailing us. ...

Photo: A line 1 train pulls into St-Laurent Station. O-Train Line 1 full service has resumed across the entire line, and service is running at a normal frequency. R1 bus service is no longer running. Signage will be removed over the next few hours. ...

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 most people in Ottawa. ...

The Bytowne Cinema. Photo by Caroline Fournier. Caroline says: “Long gone are the days of the single room cinema and going to the Bytowne is like walking back to your grandma’s house … old yet comforting.” Who doesn’t love going to the movies? ...

A Rogers storefront. (Public domain photo via Flickr.) (Via the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) On Tuesday, the CRTC ordered Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Rogers) to respond to detailed questions and provide a comprehensive explanation regarding the national service outage millions of Canadians experienced on Friday July 8, 2022. ...

A bike locked to a rack at the University of Ottawa campus. Photo by Devyn Barrie/Flickr. With an expansive network of routes, pathways and lanes operated by the City of Ottawa and National Capital Commission, and with a strong community base for it, Ottawa is very much a cycling city. ...