** Skippdog posted these tongue-in-cheek tips for riding OC Transpo during a snowstorm : ** 1. If you see a bus coming, run as fast as you can, pushing people out of the way in order for you to board. ...

Shelley asks: ** ** “Do you know of a list of Christmas Tree farms or a guide to those in our area? We’d like to cut our own tree and I checked your site but can’t find any links.” OttawaStart replies: ...

The City of Ottawa is offering an email alert service to let you know about winter parking restrictions : You'll never have to wonder if there is an overnight parking restriction, you'll always be in the know. Winter e-Alerts will be issued between November 15 and April 1 every time: A winter overnight parking restriction goes into effect, ...

Check out this video of Tony Gabriel’s 1976 Grey Cup touchdown . It was the last year that the Ottawa Rough Riders won the Grey Cup - 30 years ago on November 28. (via Steve Warne’s blog ) ...

Too bad Sparty’s name wasn’t really on the ballot, we would have voted for him: Spartacat for Mayor video (via OttawaSenators.com) ** Related: ** Ottawa Guide

Stuntman Stu has a new blog. Stu is ex-co-host of the Bear’s Breakfast, now co-host of the Team 1200’s TGOR morning show, plus PA Announcer for the Ottawa Senators, plus a host on Rogers 22 … is there anything this guy doesn’t do? ...

Sandy Sharkey (93.9 BOB FM) blogs about the role Ottawa is playing on the soap opera Days of Our Lives : Here’s this week’s ‘Days of Our Lives’ Ottawa story-line, and I am not embellishing in any way: a woman by the name of Kayla was exposed to poison gas in a hospital, and the only doctor with the serum to save her life lives in Ottawa, BUT WAIT, there’s a huge blizzard in the lower provinces of Canada, so all commercial planes have been grounded, including all planes in Ottawa, which of course is located in the lower provinces of Canada. ...

Ottawa has yet another free daily newspaper. 24 Hours is published by Sun Media (the same folks who bring you the Ottawa Sun). It’s actually two new free daily newspapers, because there’s an English and French version. According to an article in today’s Sun, “About 40,000 copies of each newspaper will be in newspaper boxes this morning — yellow boxes, most in Gatineau, for the French paper, and orange for the English. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/rushhour11140601.gif) Ottawa yet another new newspaper. This time it’s an afternoon daily called RushHour , published by CanWest – the same company that publishes the Ottawa Citizen. The paper will be published at noon every weekday. It’s available as a free PDF download, or a print version at 120 locations in Ottawa. ...

Ottawa voters wanted change - or did they? We’ve got a new mayor, but every Ottawa councillor who ran for re-election was voted back onto council. Some quick election notes: * Over 50% voter turn-out. That is considered pretty damn good for a municipal election. ...