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Attentive readers of our blog may remember Wilbur Sargunaraj , “India’s first YouTube star” from this video released back in February during Winterlude . Good to see him back again promoting Ottawa with a new video called Bhangra in the Capital . ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/perrierpad.jpg) _ Westboro _ - The privileged children of Westboro will no longer be subjected to the harsh water conditions of municipal water when the area's four splash pads will be converted to use Perrier water later this week. ...

[  ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/nhanschke/842197082/) Hill sitters. Photo by [ nicholas h ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/nhanschke/842197082/) It’s that we have a 2-week festival of rock, blues, hip hop, comedy, cowboys, dj’s, noise, weed, beer, poutine and guys in inflatable hamster balls … and it all happens _ ** around our national War Museum ** _ . ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/speakingat-350.jpg) So I’m one of the keynote speakers at Social Capital , a “social media learnathon” here in Ottawa on July 23. My talk will be about ** “building our city through social media” ** . I’ll offer some ideas on how we can harness the power of social media to make our city a greater place to live. ...

We had another record month for visitors on OttawaStart in June, and July 1 was a record setting day with over 30,000 visits to our web site. We also surpassed 3,000 followers on our Twitter feed . ** A HUGE THANK YOU ** to all of our readers and visitors for coming back again and again to OttawaStart. ...

Mayor Jim Watson dropped by to a BBQ in Centretown and yesterday afternoon and posted this on Twitter : ** ** [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Twitter-2540JimWatsonOttawa-Fun-party-in-centretown-2521-T-....png) ** ** ** See also: ** Ottawa City Hall Guide If you liked this post, please consider subscribing to our blog via email, Twitter, Facebook or RSS. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG-20110610-00210.jpg) ** ** Here’s a picture of my daughter Sophie and her kindergarten teacher Denise Payette. Madame Payette teaches senior kindergarten to french immersion students at Stittsville Public School. Coincidentally, she was also my kindergarten teacher in 1983-84 at Merivale Public School in Nepean. ...

Royal watchers are already staking out their positions in downtown Ottawa, getting set to greet Will & Kate when they arrive later this afternoon. CBC reported that people were at the memorial as early as 5:00am . The RCMP is asking people not to bring tents to Parliament Hill if they’re going to camp out overnight. ...

It’s been a while since we’ve posted a rant of the day (is Ottawa getting happier)? But here’s a must-read rant from Andrea at a peek inside the fishbowl, about bikes and bells . If one cyclist passes another cyclist or any other person engaged in any activity on the bike path (i. ...

I’m hoping this blog post will have cross-appeal to the relatively small segment of our readership who are philatelists, and to the apparantly quite large segment of our readership who are fans of William and Kate . Here’s the new Canada Post Royal Wedding Day stamp : ...