Appletree Medical Group is a chain of 11 medical clinics in Ottawa. Their web site has many strong features: detailed maps and directions, and online cancellation tool, and lots of tips and resources. But the best feature is a listing of approximate wait times at each of their locations. ...

Starting at 8:00pm on Saturday night, the Queensway will be shut down so that construction crews can replace the ramp bridges at Island Park Drive . Two existing 650-tonne bridges will be removed and replaced with new bridges, all within the span of about 15 hours. ...

From today’s edition of the City Journal, columnist Mark Bourrie rants about OC Transpo . A sample: ...Make the routes so complicated that, if you get on a bus on, say, Elgin Street, you’ll have no idea where you’ll end up. ...

CFRA reports today : Mayor Larry O'Brien is floating the idea of bidding for the World's Fair. O'Brien told reporters EXPO 2017 in Ottawa could coincide with Canada's 150th birthday. O'Brien says he has been speaking with Federal and Ontario officials about launching a bid for the World's Fair. ...

Oops… this note was posted earlier today on the Ottawa Sun’s web site : Due to an unfortunate error, today's Sun contained last week's TV guide. The Sun regrets this mistake and any convenience it may have caused, and will be publishing the correct TV guide in tommorow’s paper. ...

This was posted today on Livejournal … details about a web application to show OC Transpo bus stop schedules on your mobile phone. Even cooler is that it was created by Remino , a regular bus rider – and is ...

Introducing a new feature on our Ottawa Blogs Guide (drum roll) … A sampling of recent topics from Ottawa bloggers. Using Google Reader’s “Shared Items” tool, we’ll be flagging interesting posts from our favourite local blogs. It’s a quick way to keep track of the hot topics of the day. ...

From the National Post Best of Summer blog: ** ** OTTAWA - Ice cream -- it's one of the simple pleasures in life and as much a part of summer as canoe trips and long dips in the lake. ...

** From knitnut.net : ** After reading [ Christina Blizzard’s assessment of Ottawa as a city rotting at its core ](http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Blizzard_Christina/2007/07/13/4335721.html) , it occurred to me that perhaps I don’t get out enough. According to Blizzard, you can eat lunch on the patio of a posh downtown restaurant while watching literally dozens of drug deals and countless people sitting around smoking crack in broad daylight. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/unleashedlive-Market-no-more_1185242631765.png) What a great photo posted today on Ian Murchison’s unleashedlive photoblog. It’s a pic of the old Olympia Market Centre on Gladstone Avenue. Ian has perfectly captured the gritty character of the abandoned storefront. ** Related: ** Ottawa Guide