The Ottawa Citizen : Seven weeks into a bus strike that at times, caused winter-road chaos in the nation's capital, the City of Ottawa and workers with its striking transit union reached an agreement Thursday afternoon to send all the outstanding issues in the 51-day-old OC Transpo strike to binding arbitration. ...

** The Ottawa Citizen reports : ** The city and its largest transit union are making a dramatic push to reach an agreement to end the transit strike ahead of federal legislation sending 2,300 OC Transpo workers back on the job. ...

David Reevely blogs about the Canadian Industrial Relations Board : They're holding a public hearing this morning on whether the lack of OC Transpo service poses a direct threat to public health or safety — this is the issue they got 3,000 public submissions on a couple of weeks ago. ...

Is the end in sight? CTV and the Ottawa Citizen are reporting that: Federal Labour Minister Rona Ambrose will introduce back-to-work legislation on Thursday night. * David Reevely has a [ transcript of the scrum ](http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/greaterottawa/archive/2009/01/28/ambrose-to-bring-in-back-to-work-legislation.aspx) with Ambrose outside of the House of Commons from earlier today. ...

Live from the Ottawa Civic Centre, Here’s the opening to Hockey Night in Canada on October 8, 1992. It was the inaugural game for the “modern” Ottawa Senators. (Ottawa went on to win that game 5-3 over the Montreal Canadiens.) ** ...

Here’s the best idea we’ve seen to put an end to the transit strike. From Woodsy at Coloured Marbles : Deny everyone who is part of the negotiations the use of their car until they reach a settlement. (As seen on ...

** ** Mike Pitre writes: “Hi, My name is Mike Pitre from Carleton Ford,After seeing the awful situation some less fortunate individuals are in during the OC Transpo strike I decided to use some of my automotive resources to try to help and contribute to the solution by transferring ownership of some of my vehicles for only $1 to registered charitable organizations in Ottawa during the time of the OC Transpo strike. ...

Another great site: OCTranspo.net " ** ** Unofficial guide to Ottawa Transit" , by Craig Davey. ** ** It features: ** ** * An up-to-the-second update of the length of the strike (as we write this it's 42 days, 20 hours, 28 minutes and 43 seconds) * Links to entertaining videos -- like this [ OC Transpo strike hip hop video ](http://www. ...

** isthebusstrikeoveryet.com ( more about this site ) Related: ** Ottawa OC Transpo Guide

The developments (or lack thereof) in the ongoing transit strike are being covered extensively by several local blogs. If you’re looking for new and commentary, check out these ones first: * [ Public Transit in Ottawa ](http://www.transitottawa.ca/) * [ OC Transpo Community @ LiveJournal ](http://community. ...