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Several local bloggers are complaining today about city council’s decision to hike bus fares by 7.5% in each of the next three years. Blake Batson writes: I’m mad, disappointed and discouraged at 16 Councillors who feel that solving budget problems should be done on the backs of those who can least afford it. ...

Two press releases caught our eye last week: * First, from the City of Ottawa: [ City’s approved sledding hills open ](http://www.ottawastart.com/story/7080.php) * Second, from the National Capital Commission: [ NCC’S TOBOGGAN HILLS IN THE GREENBELT ARE NOW OPEN ](http://www. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/0004468122454_215X215.jpg) Here’s a something a little bit different today - we wanted to tell you about some trouble we’ve been having with the car seat that our 2-year-old uses. Or should we say, “used to use” , until cold weather and snow arrived. ...

Okay, not really a rant - but a fun post from David Scrimshaw, following a visit to the Adult High School to get a flu shot. Read it here… ** Related: ** Ottawa Health Guide

David Reevely writes about a song he heard over the outdoor speakers on Rideau Street: And then, after some sort of Kenny-G-ish jazzy version of a standard I can't remember because I was trying to block it out, comes a fresh horror. ...

From Knitnut.net : ** ** So now that we’ve increased the police budget and hired more cops, what are we going to do with them? ... Well, how about that fiasco at Somerset and Bank? The intersection has been closed in four directions for four weeks, ever since the interior of the old Ritz Hotel caved in. ...

Yoni Freedhoff posted an open letter to the Heart and Stroke Foundation on his Weighty Matters blog. Here’s a snippet: ** ** ...Since starting to pay attention to the Heart and Stroke's Health Check program, I have been regularly shocked and frankly appalled by many of the products, recipes and meals that have secured Health Checks and am very concerned that the Health Check program is not only not steering Canadians to healthier choices, but rather steering Canadians to truly unhealthy ones. ...

Today’s rant comes from knitnut.net . Here’s a snippet from post titled Baby buggies on the bus bug me (awesome alliteration): Why do they have the stroller section at the very front of the bus? It just creates a bottleneck and an obstacle course for everybody else, and I can’t believe the parents with the strollers like being in everybody’s way all the time. ...

Matthew Good played in Ottawa last week, and posted some pics of his audience to Flickr . What a good looking bunch of music fans. Apparantly his tour bus was vandalized during his visit here. Good blogged about it earlier this week in a post titled " Dear Cowards of Ottawa “. ...

[ NCC to Install Rideau Canal Skateway Chalets this Saturday ](http://www.ottawastart.com/story/6879.php) ** Related: ** Ottawa Winterlude Guide