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** A HERITAGE OTTAWA BOOK LAUNCH ** Wednesday, December 13, 2017 - 19:00 to 21:00 Join Heritage Ottawa as we launch our newest book with this special presentation by two of its contributors, Shannon Ricketts and Susan Ross. The fascinating story of how apartment house living emerged in 20th century Ottawa focuses on Centretown, Sandy Hill and parts of Lowertown East. ...

Editor’s note: For parents who are running out of daytime activity ideas for kids, here’s a great urban adventure from Lynn J. This post originally appeared on her blog, Turtlehead. This post originally appeared here on Aug. 25, 2015. I took the kids on a walking tour of downtown Ottawa this week to look at statues and other outdoor art. ...

The streets ran red - and black - Tuesday with thousands of fans turning out to a parade downtown in honour of the Redblacks' Grey Cup win. https://twitter.com/REDBLACKS/status/803660358111985664 https://twitter.com/REDBLACKS/status/803642265289818112 https://twitter.com/REDBLACKS/status/803648420560781312 https://twitter.com/JimWatsonOttawa/status/803755973353545728 https://twitter.com/ottawalifers/status/803663569913049089 https://twitter.com/TimTierney/status/803680301914451968 [ MVP! ...

A pair of Blackburn Hamlet residents are fed up with what they call shoddy transit service and are circulating a petition to ask OC Transpo to make changes. Residents Jean Clark and Erica Fraser started the petition to Ottawa’s transit commission a few weeks ago. ...

_ (press release) _ ** Ottawa ** – Rideau Street between Sussex Drive and Dalhousie Street will be closed to all vehicular traffic until the end of December. This closure takes effect on Wednesday, October 19 at 8 p.m. The closure is necessary to accommodate construction on the O-Train Confederation Line light rail transit (LRT) project. ...

A Centretown board game cafè may have closed, but their doors will reopen Wednesday to sell off its game library. Monopolatte announced on Facebook Sept. 19 they would close at the end of September. Owner David Narbaitz told the _ Ottawa Citizen _ his business did not generate enough business to pay his employees livable wages. ...

[caption id=“attachment_52573” align=“aligncenter” width=“557”] At Caffeine 1UP on Rideau Street (Devyn Barrie/OTTAWASTART.COM)[/caption] When _ ** OttawaStart.com ** _ dropped by at Caffeine 1UP at 362 Rideau Street Wednesday, the place had already been open for slightly more than two weeks after a soft launch. ...

All the world’s best animation is back on display in the capital for the Ottawa International Animation Festival. For the next five days, downtown Ottawa will be transformed into a stage for everything from the thought-provoking to the hilarious. So long as it’s animated, you’ll find it. ...

_ (Graham Larkin is the Executive Director of Vision Zero Canada. This was originally published on their website in response to yesterday’s death of a cyclist downtown) _ Thursday 23-year-old Nusrat Jahan was slain on the streets of Ottawa, where I live. ...

_ (press release) _ ** Ottawa ** – At today’s fall mobility and construction briefing, the public was advised that heightened construction will continue until the end of the year. As regular traffic returns to the roadways this fall, residents are reminded that they should anticipate delays. ...