Images of Centretown

I'd like to correct the record. On October 1 of this year, while attending a drop-in Open House about the City of Ottawa's plans t...

This mornming, the Batmobile is visiting City Hall as a publicity stunt for Ottawa Comicon , and will be at Marion Dewar Plaza at 11:45am. I...

As of today, Capital Bixi is back in action! For subscribers like me, that means my key should work for the remainder of my one-year subscr...

You might have heard earlier this month about Patrick Mills painting every day in March on the Mackenzie-King Bridge . I made a point of goi...

The weather forecast suggests that we'll be getting another 20-centimetre blast of snow in the next couple of days. This might be my las...

Even though Citizens for Safe Cycling's 2nd Ottawa Family Winter Bike Ride was over a month ago, I got some photos at unique angles tha...

Yesterday was the annual Capital Pride Parade , which is orders of magnitude more populous than the last time I was able to get to Pride, ba...

When the Rink of Dreams was built—hastily—last fall, the work naturally disrupted the flow of pedestrians around Marion Dewar Plaza between...

As has been widely reported, the Rink of Dreams is now open on the Laurier side of Ottawa City Hall, on Marion Dewar Plaza. It's refrige...

This past Sunday, Citizens for Safe Cycling organized Ottawa's first winter bike parade. Many others have posted their photos and write...

[Edit: I left City Hall in October, 2015, after four years working in the Somerset Ward office for Diane Holmes (2011-2014) and Catherine Mc...

City Council hasn't met for a couple of months, as City Hall for the most part goes on summer holidays. It'll be back in September, ...

Over at OpenFile, there's a thread on accessibility; specifically, spaces that aren't designed with all users in mind. This comment ...

Happy Canada Day! Here's a photo of my bike decked out in red and white Christmas lights at Capital Vélo Fest . Mine was one of the many...

One of the reasons I have so many photos of Ottawa City Hall , aside from being there a lot on community association business, is that it ha...

Parallel to Elgin Street, just a few metres East, there's a wide pathway that connects Laurier to Lisgar, going past the Universal Decla...

EnviroCentre, according to their website , "is a non-profit organization that works to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by delivering en...

Riding around town on December 30, I was standing at the corner of Bank and Queen streets, and noticed that the lamppost was crooked at the ...

By now you have hopefully heard of the Rescue Bronson Avenue initiative at RescueBronson.ca . The group was started by the Centretown Citiz...

I made two cycling-related posts in September, and have some updates on both of them... New Post-and-Ring racks: are there enough? ( Origina...