blogs

Here’s what we’ve been reading lately from Ottawa bloggers: * ** Eric ** tries [ fat bike riding in the snow ](https://www.ecinc.ca/experience-report-fat-bike-ride-in-neighbourhood-trails/) . * ** SensChirp ** on the [ true financial position ](http://senschirp.ca/chirped/chirped-financial-state-ottawa-senators/) of the Ottawa Senators based on publicly available docs. ...

Here’s what we’ve been reading this week from Ottawa bloggers: * Frequent [ OttawaStart.com ](http://ottawastart.com) contributor ** Charlie ** blogs about [ the impact that community newspaper closures will have on his career. ](http://www.susansherring.ca/wp/2017/12/11/guest-blogger-closing-newspapers-and-journalism/) * ** Eric ** [ gripes about light rail stations ](http://www. ...

Here’s what we’ve been reading this week from Ottawa bloggers: * ** Andrea ** from Fishbowl shares why [ newspaper closures hit close to home for her ](http://quietfish.com/notebook/2017/11/close-to-home/) . * ** Ross ** shares [ some amazing pics of kitesurfers ](https://rossbrownfoot. ...

Yes, blogging is still a thing! Here’s the first of what we hope will be come a regular feature on OttawaStart.com, highlighting interesting blog posts from Ottawa bloggers. * ** Saul ** publishes [ Part 5 of his epic look at the architecture of Beaverbrook bungalows ](http://modernrealtor. ...

[caption id=“attachment_83310” align=“aligncenter” width=“1000”] Chris Wang has a photo taken alongside his mentor for the day, Conservative MP Todd Doherty. (Devyn Barrie/OttawaStart.com)[/caption] It’s nice to see the old G.A. Snider Photographer sign on Bank Street finally has some company – and how appropriate that the mural that now sits below it was installed by Instagram. ...

Around four years ago, I wrote a short piece for Ottawa Start about the Elphin Apartments, at the corner of Gladstone and Metcalfe in Ottawa’s Centretown. Given the parameters, I was generally pleased with the results but one thing really bothered me: just who was behind the apartment? ...

Susan Sherring isn’t quite sure how many people are reading her blog – but at this point she doesn’t much care. The former Ottawa Sun columnist is back in the news scene with On the City, From the Burbs, which launched in September with a first post appropriately entitled “I’m back! ...

The City of Ottawa is served by a confusing array of police forces. The general city is patrolled by Ottawa police. The highways by OPP. And on federal lands, such as Parliament Hill or anything owned by the National Capital Commission, it’s the RCMP (plus military police who congregate around military or National Defence buildings. ...

[caption id=“attachment_65587” align=“aligncenter” width=“1038”] (Aaron Toth/ Flickr )[/caption] And you thought your property tax bill was high… Somebody was asking the other day in a local Facebook group how much the Senators pay in property tax is each year, and how much of that goes to Stittsville. ...

Remy Scalza spent 36 hours in Ottawa and wrote about the experience for the New York Times, published Thursday. Because we love it when people write nice things about us, the article went viral in Ottawa. ** You can read it here… ** https://twitter. ...