** UPDATE JUNE 2: ** The presentations are now available for download from Shad Qadri’s web site. I was at the ** _ “STITTSVILLE OF TOMORROW” _ ** presentation at Sacred Heart High School last night, hosted by Stittsville city councillor Shad Qadri . ...

Here’s a nice look at our city from the lense of Abe Alghazali, who created this video with our over 10,000 photos he took over the past few weeks. More info here. Spring Time in Ottawa - Time Lapse from Abe on Vimeo . ...

You may have heard the news today: The last Sunday print edition of the Ottawa Citizen will be published on July 15, 2012, and 20 employees will lose their jobs at the newspaper. The very first Sunday edition was published on September 28, 1988: ...

Very impressive that there are 128 buildings on the list for this year’s Doors Open Ottawa . Each year, more and more organizations jump on board and let people come inside and explore. Here’s a list of new buildings on this year’s tour. ...

Here’s an amazing photo of lightning during last night’s storm, taken by Michelle Clark . It’s looking north west, with Wellington Street and Hintonburg in the foreground. She enhanced the photo a bit, adjusting clarity and contrast with an iPhone app – here’s the original . ...

Here’s a chart of the BBM Spring 2012 ratings for anglophone radio listeners in Ottawa, with comparisons from recent ratings period. Each station’s shares are included here, defined as “the estimated total hours tuned to that station expressed as a percentage of total hours tuned to all radio”. ...

[  ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/rdb466/5926559588/) A scene from last year's [ Ottawa Race Weekend ](http://ottawastart.com/marathon.php) . Photo by [ Ross Dunn ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/rdb466/5926559588/in/pool-1894735@N21/) , shared in the [ OttawaStart Flickr Group ](http://www.flickr.com/groups/ottawastart/) . [ ](http://ottawastart. ...

** UPDATE June 1: ** Mlle Coughtrey’s classroom got the most votes (5,373), and wins the prize. Thanks to all of our readers who voted. [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/IMG_3232.jpg) Karen Coughtrey, a Grade 1 teacher at Broadview Public School in Ottawa, is one of ten finalists in a contest for a make-over of her classroom . ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/AtIy8hdCQAEdzvl.jpg) ** ** Here’s a photo of Saturn, taken by Oscar Echeverri using a telescope, on his back porch in Ottawa. Oscar tells us: I took the photo using my Canon Rebel T3 DSLR, mounted to my 8" ...

Here’s a photo of a tiny baby raccoon at the Rideau Valley Wildlife Sanctuary . He was admitted to the facility at two weeks old and weighs 218g. The sanctuary is the only licensed rehabilitator of small animals in Eastern Ontario, and so far this year they’ve admitted 146 wild animals and turtles this year – more than the entire 2005 season. ...