Stop Focusing on The Small Fixes

 After a month of LRT service shutdowns, earlier this week, the City of Ottawa proudly announced a return to service, advertised as some behemoth triumph rather than what it continues to be, a colossal embarrassment for the National Capital. With only a single car per train, the system does not

Ottawa’s neighbourhoods: The Market

 It’s hard to know when to stop when subdividing Ottawa into smaller communities, so for this series of articles on Ottawa’s different neighbourhoods, I’m writing based on how cohesive each place feels to me. Certainly the walkable area bookended by three rivers west of Vanier feels like a single place.

Neighbourhood Spotlight: Centretown

 The Ottawa landscape is changing. Soon Light Rail will link more people to more places, making house prices go up and transit times go down. Our downtown juggles politics, business, and culture, a balance which disperses the rest of our city into an eclectic collection of residential pockets. Every neighbourhood