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First day of the Rideau Canal skating season (2015). Photo by James Peltzer via the OttawaStart Flickr pool.

Most employees get a day off with pay unless you work for the Federal Government.

First day of the Rideau Canal skating season (2015). Photo by James Peltzer via the OttawaStart Flickr pool.

This year, or next year, or whenever they get around to opening the new O-Train South extension, there will be major changes to the bus system that will affect most transit users.

Photo: An O-Train at St-Laurent station. CBC’s Ottawa Morning had an interesting segment on Thursday about the situation with the ceiling at the St-Lauren

Photo: Ottawa’s new nightlife commissioner, Mathieu Grondin (via City of Ottawa).

(Via NCC) The National Capital Commission (NCC) is excited to announce that it has signed an offer to lease agreement with Live Nation Canada, a global entertai

Photo: The new footbridge over the Rideau River, right, in 2023 (via Stage 2 LRT project).

As the province-wide LCBO strike continues, many Ottawa residents are turning to alternative vendors for alcoholic beverages. The province has released an interactive map with a huge variety of choices - all the brew pubs, grocery stores, cideries, distilleries, etc in Ottawa that are open and sell beverages you can take home.

Photo: O-Train Line 1 Pimisi Station. By Jean Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. As of Monday, July 15, O-Train line 1 is closed between Tunney’