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** Please note: ** _ This is the old, out-of-date list for 2015. You should check out instead: _ http://ottawastart.com/ottawas-best-christmas-light-displays-2016-parliament-hill-taffy-lane-and-much-more/ [caption id=“attachment_19262” align=“aligncenter” width=“800”] Patrimoine canadien/Canadian Heritage[/caption] Christmas Light Map ** Can you help? ** Some listings on this map are from 2014 and labelled as “unconfirmed” for 2015. ...

Full construction for the Ottawa Art Gallery Expansion and the Arts Court redevelopment is underway. Legal closing has been achieved between the City and the consortium of EBC Inc., DevMcGill and Groupe Germain, for the new OAG Expansion and upgrades to Arts Court. ...

(This blog post originally appeared on Point2Homes , a real estate listing site.) Although many highrises have been built in Ottawa since the ‘70s, the city’s skyline has seen significant change especially in the past decade. Various condo developments, construction projects and newly-built towers have altered the cityscape in many ways. ...

The City of Ottawa has a unique opportunity to coordinate dramatic future improvements to Rideau Street and neighbouring streets in the Rideau Arts Precinct. Residents can now review and comment on a proposed plan for these public realm improvements.  The Rideau Arts Precinct is the area bordered by Rideau Street to the north, Laurier Avenue to the south, Colonel By Drive to the west and Waller Street to the east. ...

_ “Balancing” _ is a larger-than-life wooden sculpture by John Hooper . It’s tucked in behind the old train station. It features four oversized figures in various poses on a wooden beam, and this bespecaled man (a bureaucrat, I think) looking at the other characters in disdain. ...

A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan, a local photographer, blogger and researcher. The entrance to the Connor Court Apartments, 250 O’Connor St. Photo: April 2014. O’Connor Street today is not normally one where we stop and smell the roses. The one-way street tends to be much quicker than Metcalfe, its counterpart to the east and as much of the traffic is bound for the Queensway, speed is the key. ...

The entrance to the Park Square apartments, November 2013. A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan, a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. It would be safe to suggest that Ottawa, at the national capital, experienced the depths of the Depression differently than much of the remainder of the country. ...

_ A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan , a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. _ _ _ [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/01.-2014-01-15-Mousseau-Mosaic-Jackson-Building.jpg) _ The colourful mosaic that greets those who enter the Jackson Building at 122 Bank. ...

_ A weekly feature from Christopher Ryan , a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. _ [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/01-Dundonald-Sign-2013-.jpg) Somerset entrance to Dundonald Park (June 2013) Although Centretown cannot be characterized as a neighbourhood that is stuffed with green space, it is blessed with two well-used historic parks (among a number of others), roughly equidistant from either side of Bank Street. ...

Thanks to illustrator Colin White for letting us publish this sketch he did of Ada’s Diner on Bank Street. About a decade ago I lived just around the corner from Ada’s on Arlington Avenue. It was always a cozy place to have some coffee and eggs. ...