parliament hill

[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“500”] [ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/christophe_ledent/11289299706) The Parliament of Canada by Christophe Ledent[/caption]  Just about every weekday at noon there’s a 15-minute concert played by the Peace Tower Carillon, the massive collection of bells that ring out from inside the tower on Parliament Hill. ...

War of 1812 Monument by Don Douglas, on the OttawaStart Flickr Pool The Honourable Shelly Glover, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, along with Toronto artist Adrienne Alison, today officially inaugurated the War of 1812 Monument on Parliament Hill. ...

[caption id=“attachment_6180” align=“alignnone” width=“342”] Rose Simpson poses with a security guard at her wedding on Parliament Hill.[/caption] _ (This post originally appeared on Rose’s Cantina on October 23.) _ For many of us in Ottawa, Parliament Hill is more than a place of political wrangling and policy making. ...

[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/daveyjphoto/8373334576) _ Scrubbing The Clock by David Johnson, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group _ Every weekday at noon there’s a 15-minute concert played by the Peace Tower Carillon, the massive collection of bells that ring out from inside the tower on Parliament Hill. ...

[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/daveyjphoto/8246611210) Photo: Parliament Hill by David Johnson, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group _ Rose Simpson’s column appears most Tuesday mornings on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . _ This might make some people uncomfortable. ...

[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/daveyjphoto/9801445993) Photo: Cotton Candy Clouds by David Johnson, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group _ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . _ Glass is half full kind of Canadians should thank Mike Duffy for the investigative journalism he’s undertaken which is revealing the depth of corruption and depravity within our system of government. ...

_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . You can read her previous columns here . _ [ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/daveyjphoto/9801445993) Cotton Candy Clouds by David Johnson, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/play-that-funky.png) [ Photo by Glen Gower / Instagram ](http://instagram.com/glengower) ** See also: ** Ottawa Changing of the Guard If you liked this post, you should ** subscribe to etcetera , ** our free email newsletter. ...

This video was shot yesterday over the noon hour on Parliament Hill. Dr. Andrea McCrady, the Peace Tower Carilloneur played a selection of Elvis Presley hits to mark the anniversary of his birth. Thanks to John MacNab for sending in this video link! ...

Hyperlapse = a combination of stop-motion and time-lapse photography, where the footage is made dynamic through the introduction of rotations and pans.” Check out this hyperlapse video of Parliament Hill by Dave Bigelow from 27Forty in Ottawa. [ ](http://ottawastart. ...