[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/rdb466/8507739822) _ Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the Prime Minister’s Residence _ _ Photo by Ross Dunn, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group _ _ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . ...

A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan, a local photographer, blogger and researcher. The entrance to the Connor Court Apartments, 250 O’Connor St. Photo: April 2014. O’Connor Street today is not normally one where we stop and smell the roses. The one-way street tends to be much quicker than Metcalfe, its counterpart to the east and as much of the traffic is bound for the Queensway, speed is the key. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/lolProfile.jpg) Every week we publish a link to the Lunch Out Loud podcast, a weekly show produced by Nick Bachusky and co-hosted by Andrew Miller. In this episode we meet up with Shane and Rob from Beyond The Pale, the fast-growing craft brewery located in Hintonburg in Ottawa. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/10292142_10152302347508213_5871693926589583160_n.jpg) Ottawa musician Marc Nelson was killed in a construction accident earlier this week , and his friends are planning an event this weekend to celebrate his life. It happens on Sunday, April 27 at Crazy Horse in Kanata , 4pm-9:00pm. ...

[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/dhaug/10933664064) Rainbow of Ritter by Daniel Haug, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group _ _ _ Here are our contributors' picks for the best events in Ottawa this week. _ ** Thursday-Tuesday, April 24-29: Spring Edition of the Ottawa International Writers Festival ** ...

_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . You can read her previous columns here . _ If you live in Ontario, by now, you will have seen a commercial warning parents to lock up their kids because the government is loosening the monopoly held by The Beer Store on the sale of ales and lagers. ...

A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan , a local photographer, blogger and researcher. [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/01.Image-Front-April-2014.jpg) _ The Ottawa Stair Works factory, as it is today, with the Somerset Viaduct (or Bridge, if you prefer). April 2014. _ Although John Ruskin may have found it distasteful, by the turn of the twentieth century a whole lot of what went into the construction of homes and buildings was not built on the spot, but rather in factories where process and the division of labour were the orders of the day. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/lolProfile.jpg) Every week we publish a link to the Lunch Out Loud podcast, a weekly show produced by Nick Bachusky and co-hosted by Andrew Miller. In this episode We meet up with Tracey Clark, the managing Director of Bridgehead, the most popular location to get your fair-trade coffee in Ottawa. ...

[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/118323764@N05/13790111004) _ First Green / Photo by Marcel Regimbald from the OttawaStart Flickr Group _ _ Here are our contributors' picks for the best events in Ottawa this week. _ ** See also: ** What’s open and closed in Ottawa for Easter weekend 2014… ...

_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . You can read her previous columns here . _ [ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/daveyjphoto/9801445993) Cotton Candy Clouds by David Johnson, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group ...