mayor

It’s here . And yesterday he posted a video about the budget. ** Related: ** Ottawa Politics Guide

* "anyone else finding their thoughts turning to Alex Munter a lot tonight? Ottawa's basically admitted it made a mistake" (@kateheartfield) * "the only bad thing about this election will be that we won't have a mayor who looks like lex luthor" (@BoogieHowser) * "I can live with Jim Watson. ...

I’ve heard a lot of complaining during this election campaign about how local candidates have failed to really harness the power of the internet and social media. The other side of the story is that during this election, citizens have really upped their game, providing excellent commentary, conversation and reporting on the candidates and their platforms. ...

Here’s another one for all of the typography geeks who read this blog. Last week in the Ottawa Citizen, a typo in the headline about the University of Ottawa inadvertently called the school “U of Zero” insted of “U of O”. ...

On Tuesday October 5, Ottawa mayoral candidates Jim Watson, Larry O’Brien, Clive Doucet and Andrew Haydon will go head-to-head in Debate 2.0 – Envisioning Ottawa’s Future . It’s a 90-minute, web-enabled event during which citizens of Ottawa will be encouraged to participate both online or in-person at the National Arts Centre’s Fourth Stage. ...

From Twitter today, check out these tweets with the hashtag #iwantamayorwho. As far as I can tell, @hellokaitlin kicked this this off earlier in the afternoon. Good on ya Kaitlin!

A quick pointer today to a recent post on the Knitnut.net blog titled " Gorgeous George “. It’s about George Guirguis, who’s running for a council seat in Bay Ward. Zoom writes: Well, now he has fifty campaign videos on Youtube. ...

If Larry O’Brien is found guilty of the influence-peddling charges against him, he’ll have to step down as mayor of Ottawa . Justice Douglas Cunningham is expected to deliver his verdict on August 12 , so we thought that in the meantime we should start talking about how we should pick the new mayor, just in case it comes to that. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/obrienvideo.jpg) The 2007 video of Mayor Larry O’Brien being interviewed by the OPP is now online. The judge in O’Brien’s trial gave the media access to the DVD of the interview, and today several media outlets published it online. ...

The Larry O’Brien trial is keeping Ottawa court sketch artists busy. With cameras banned from the courtroom, we’ve seen at least three different sketch artists providing images from the trial for various media outlets in the city. CBC ’s artist ...