Beginning Saturday, November 22, Main Street from Clegg Street to Lees Avenue will be reduced to a single lane in each direction with left-turn lanes installed at certain intersections to facilitate traffic flow.  These lane reductions are needed to allow Bell Canada to replace underground ducts in preparation for the Main Street Renewal Project. ...

AOE Arts Council is proud to officially launch its new three-year community outreach initiative, Art Place, on Nov. 26, 2014. Art Place is an all-new social practice professional artist-in-residence program in Ottawa funded in part by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. ...

Camp Fortune will open for skiing on Saturday November 22nd. We will be the first ski centre in the Ottawa-Gatineau region to open. Camp Fortune is committed to offering the longest ski season in the Ottawa area. Our hours of operation will be Saturday November 22th from 10 am to 4 pm and Sunday from 9 am to 4 pm. ...

After months of preparations, a new initiative by a group of local artisans took shape on November 1, when Passionate Artisans opened its doors on Bath Road in Kingston. Passionate Artisans features a large variety of hand-crafted items by local and out-of-town artists and artisans. ...

This podcast looks to promote the amazing talent, food, events and music Ottawa has to offer. Every week we will introduce you to new things about Ottawa you never knew existed. ** This week: ** We head over to Lowertown Brewery to catch up with two of Ottawa’s top chefs: Chef Kyle Proulx and Chef Stephen La Salle to talk the Ottawa food scene, the recent Gold Medal Plates competition, and more! ...

The 2016 Tim Hortons Brier will be staged March 5-13 at TD Place in Ottawa. It’ll be the first time the Canadian men’s curling championship has been played in the nation’s capital since 2001, when Alberta’s Randy Ferbey prevailed in the same building (then known as the Ottawa Civic Centre). ...

After the successful rollout of Ottawa’s Street Food Vending Program in 2013, the City is calling for proposals to occupy nine available on-street spaces in 2015. There are four cart spaces and five truck spaces available across the city. The available spaces have been vacated by vendors who have chosen to retire after years of serving on-street, or who have chosen to pursue other opportunities. ...

The Canadian Museum of History invites you to come celebrate the fifth anniversary of its Christmas Market from November 27 to 30 . For the occasion, visitors will have a chance to enter a draw for a gift basket consisting of unique hand-crafted products. ...

Ottawa will be the first Canadian city to celebrate National Entrepreneurs’ Day next year. The day-long celebration will occur in November 2015 and will be styled after a similar and successful campaign in the United States where President Barack Obama declared the third Tuesday in November to be National Entrepreneurs’ Day. ...

_ Our crowdsourced list of the best events in Ottawa this week. _ ** Friday, November 21: Ottawa Unsigned Concert Series ** The burgeoning punk scene within our nation’s capital is hard to ignore. The people at Steam Whistle have certainly caught on and have launched an Indie Music Series called Unsigned as a result. ...