Images of Centretown

Today for the fourth and final entry of the sidewalk-design series, I'm going to give a history of sidewalk design, starting at the esta...

Near the end of December as the Rideau Canal skateway was agonizingly close to opening, I went on a Bike Ride along the canal one night to t...

There has been a fair amount of criticism of the Toronto-style sidewalk design since it was made the standard in the City of Ottawa in 2006,...

It's been a couple years since I last posted photos of yellow houses in Centretown , but this little one on Gilmour just east of Salisbu...

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...

Since the canal is not yet officially closed for the season (though it's "Temporarily" closed as of this morning), I figure a...

Recently some workers have been spotted on Laurier Avenue affixing drywall to the central podium section of the l'Esplanade Laurier offi...

[Sorry about the lack of posts. The Bluesfest Bike Park , while fun, is always a big interruption, and I'm just now starting to catch up...

Today is Wednesday, which brings with it the weekly Peds on Weds post about walking issues. Being the second Wednesday of the month, tonight...

Last Friday, longtime Centretown resident Joe Cassey passed away. I had the pleasure of meeting Joe when I interviewed him in 2009 for the v...

The Rideau Canal skateway opened at 10am on Sunday morning, with the NCC announcing it just an hour before. The rest area at Fifth Avenue/Ho...

The Ottawa Farmer's Market is having its final Christmas Market in the Aberdeen Pavillion today, from 9am to 3pm. I went to the previou...

A week or so ago, I was heading down Bank Street in the Glebe, taking some photos of the construction, when out of the corner of my eye I sa...

Special Thursday post: Today is the one-year anniversary of the magnitude 5 earthquake that rocked the Ottawa area on June 23, 2010. This mo...

I took this photo back in 2009, during the Great Glebe Garage Sale. I was struck by the juxtaposition of the new tree planted in the mulchy ...

[I ran out of time to prepare a more topical post, either Museum of Nature Opening Day part 2 or CCCA updates for Tuesday's meeting (som...

This is a McDonald's. It's on Bronson Avenue, seen in June. It has a distinctive roofline--in this case in red and white, but also s...

On Wednesday, the CBC had an article that the City of Ottawa is increasing the number of intersections with red-light cameras . Back in earl...

In the last post on the Rideau Canal Skateway , I shared photos from the first few days that the canal was open, and focused on what was new...

The Rideau Canal, allegedly * the world's largest skating rink, and verifiably an UNESCO World Heritage Site, opened its skateway for ...