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** 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. ...

We just stumbled upon the website of Jamie Douglas , an entertainer from nearby Almonte, Ontario. He’s a puppeteer working with caricatures of Canadian personalities like Peter Mansbridge, Don Cherry, and Wayne Rostad . Many of the puppets he works with were created by Noreen Young , another Almonte resident with a pretty nifty web site. ...

Following up on yesterday’s post , you can see more detailed radio ratings via imsradio : ** ** * [ Ottawa-Gatineau Anglo Station Trending ](http://www.imsradio.com/markets/bbm_2007_2/Ottawa-Gatineau%20Anglo.pdf) (PDF) * [ Ottawa-Gatineau Franco Station Trending ](http://www.imsradio.com/markets/bbm_2007_2/Ottawa-Gatineau%20Franco.pdf) (PDF) Here are the top english radio stations for… ...

The Spring 2007 radio ratings are out from BBM . You can see the full Ottawa results in this PDF document . We also entered some of the stats into a Google spreadsheet so you can play around with the numbers. ...

Found on YouTube : Posted by ottawaoctane , who says: “Some scum bag dropped off toxic chemicals at a Salvation Army donation bin in Cumberland Ontario Canada. The bin is for clothing not toxic photo developer chemical’s. That is not what i call charity it’s disgusting. ...

CFRA is celebrating is 60th birthday today. On Saturday, May 3, 1947, the station went live on the airwaves just after 8:00pm. CFRA has a great 60th Anniversary web site with archival audio, photos, other artifacts from their 60 years in our community. ...

Two new weekly community newspapers are being launched in Ottawa on Thursday ** : ** _ The Now EMC Ottawa East _ (downtown), and _ The Now EMC Ottawa-Orleans _ , (east end). The papers are a joint venture between CanWest (who also own the ...

Ottawa Sun columnist Rob Brodie has a new blog called " Remote Control “, with a focus on tv sports coverage. Brodie’s blog joins fellow Ottawa Sun bloggers Chris Stevenson and Ann Marie McQueen . We especially like the Sun’s blogs because they all have RSS feeds … unlike the Ottawa Citizen’s blogs. ...

** Looks like CTV Ottawa is using YouTube to promote some upcoming 6:00 news features, like this one - “The Changing Face of Ottawa”. Related: ** Ottawa Television Guide

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/340065459_9ff9a45663.jpg) We found this pic on Flickr, from .cait. ** Related: ** Ottawa Newspapers Guide