Images of Centretown

On the left, the snow accumulation on Bank Street's west sidewalk from the previous snowfall. On the right, the mostly-bare road and sid...

Entirely by accident, I managed to take the exact same photo twice, six months apart. Just the tiniest amount of cropping and rotating was n...

Just as the work is underway to put the finishing touches on the reconstruction of Somerset Street west from Booth to Preston to the O-Train...

There were some rather spectacular fireworks on Friday as part of Winterlude. The NCC promoted them as being even better than the annual Can...

The last couple weeks, the City of Ottawa has been removing parking meters as part of their plan to switch to Pay & Display parking, and...

The annual general meeting (AGM) of the Centretown Citizens Community Association is Tuesday, 7pm @ City Hall (Colonel By Room), and a lot ...

I'm about to head out to the Plant Pool Dessert Party and Bake Sale , organized by the Plant Pool Recreation Association in support of ...

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the Tommy & Lefebvre store at 464 Bank Street suffered a terrible fire. The location was the flags...

[This is the first of a three-part series. Part II , Part III + epilogue .] Last Monday, I had the opportunity of sitting in on a meeting of...

I'm pulling an all-nighter, so I'm a bit too tired to comment. Nevertheless, I hope you'll enjoy this brief pair of video clips ...

Drumbent tipped me off to this 1965 Buster Keaton clip of " The Railrodder " (sic--think "hot rod"). In clip 2 of the f...

I had the opportunity to visit Beijing a few years back (just before the SARS scare), and one of the tings I remarked over the 10 or so days...