A look at the kind of train Ottawa’s Confederation Line will use. (City of Ottawa) When light rail service begins in 2018 2019, a lot about taking transit in Ottawa will change. OC Transpo outlines everything that’s new and unfamiliar in their $1-million marketing campaign, Ready 4 Rail ...

A concept drawing of RendezVous LeBreton’s proposal. In a matter of days, the public watched the plan to redevelop LeBreton Flats go from uncertainty to complete SNAFU. Of course, the situation had been devolving for some time, we learned this week as the RendezVous LeBreton partnership ended in spectacular fashion Friday afternoon with Eugene Melnyk’s $700-million lawsuit against his former partner John Ruddy of Trinity Development Group Inc. ...

(Via Beau’s Brewery) Beau’s Brewing Co. is expanding into the world of new media with the release of its own brewery podcast. The first three episodes of the podcast, called Lagered Tales, are available now across all platforms, including iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, and at beaus. ...

Bike Ottawa is putting together a new crowdsourced map that shows which pathways are regularly plowed in the winter. You can check it out here. Plowed paths are indicated by blue lines, while red means it is now plowed and yellow means status unknown. ...

Watson, left, and Nenshi. Photo via jimwatsonottawa.ca. As the Ottawa Redblacks are set to face the Calgary Stampeders for the Grey Cup title on Sunday in Edmonton, Mayor Jim Watson has set his customary bet with Calgary’s mayor Naheed Nenshi. ...

Via The Canadian Press The Ottawa Citizen said Wednesday it has no intention of taking down a secretly recorded video of several Ottawa Senators players despite a legal notice insisting leaving it online violates provincial privacy laws. The Ottawa Citizen flatly rejected the legal notice from the Senators, saying the video shot surreptitiously by an Uber driver was circulating on social media when the paper decided to report on it. ...

The City of Ottawa is recruiting volunteers to fill vacancies on a number of boards and committees. These volunteers can make a difference in the community by providing their expertise, knowledge and professionalism. ...

Mayor Jim Watson has begun unblocking political critics on Twitter, following a court challenge that claimed his practice of blocking people was unconstitutional. The case, launched last month by three Ottawa residents who were blocked by the mayor, said they had a right to view his Twitter feed because he is a public figure. ...

Heather Cloutier shares these photos of two snowmen waiting for the bus, following Ottawa’s first snowfall of the season this past weekend. (Hopefully the bus arrived before they melted.)

Ottawa’s city clerk has declared Monday’s election results official and you can see how neighbours at your local poll voted with a dataset released on the city’s open data portal. The dataset breaks down election results for mayor, councillors and school board trustees by individual polls in each ward and school board zone. ...