Neighbours Don’t Continually Steal From Neighbours — ByWard Markets Need Mayor to Act

 Before Ottawa City Council recessed for their five-week summer break, they announced that the newly formed ByWard Market District Authority would replace the lacklustre performing ByWard Business Improvement Area, better known as the ByWard BIA. S The BIA had become a punching bag for the increasing dysfunction in the ByWard

Ottawa’s Neighbourhoods: Heading west from Chinatown to Westboro

 Above: (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) The historic gardens of Maplelawn; Looking west down Richmond Road in Westboro; Westboro is a great place to cool off (Photo: Dee Nuwin); Looking east down Richmond Road from the corner of Churchill street (Photo: Anne Dion). Ottawa never feels more like a tourist destination

Krackers Katering serves customers and community with their value-added business model

 “Great food for the greater good” - that is what Krackers Katering promises their customers and boy do they deliver on that promise!  Founded in 1999 as Causeway Work Centre’s first social enterprise, Krackers Katering was created with a mission to provide people with barriers to employment, such as mental

A Waste Free Holiday: Grocery Shopping the NU Way

 Photos courtesy of NU Grocery Back in August, Ottawa opened its very first zero waste grocery store, NU, located in the heart of Hintonburg. NU offers a one-stop shopping experience for customers looking to reduce or eliminate their food packaging waste. Inside, you’ll find everything from bulk food items, fresh

Building Bikes a Second Life

 Photos by Eric Murphy. When you look at your old bike, the one that sat outside all winter and probably makes a few too many concerning sounds, you might see an inconvenience. However, if someone from Ottawa’s Causeway Work Centre saw that bike, they would see a treasure. For Cycle

Cycle City: Where Should You Buy Your Next Bike?

 Road bikes lined up at the Glebe Kunstadt Sports. Photo by Eric Murphy.   There are a ton of decisions that go into choosing a new bike, and none of them should be taken lightly. You need to decide if the frame you like or the handlebars you like suit the

Get Happening in Hintonburg

 All photos by Andre Gagne Hintonburg is a neighbourhood that always seems to be changing and accepting of new and fresh ideas. Case in point, did you know that in 1896 it was the first place in Canada to show a newfangled idea called moving pictures when a film was

Slammin’ in the Capital

 Poster courtesy of Madeleine Kelly The Capital Poetry Collective brings the art of slam poetry to Ottawa. Their next show is Capital Slam, which takes place on Saturday, November 21 at Origin Studio at 57 Lyndale Ave in Hintonburg. A “slam” is a poetry competition in which poets perform original

Must Visit: West End Well

 What do you get when you combine a co-operatively run grocery, café, meeting space and some of the friendliest personalities in Ottawa? The answer is West End Well Co-op in Hintonburg. The Well is a centre for the community to come together and share food and drink, connect with the

Crazy for Condos in Canada’s Capital City!

 Take a look around our city. Condos are sprouting up everywhere,  rejuvenating older, traditional neighbourhoods and filling in vacant lots. New condo sites will forever change a district’s character – specialty retailers, exotic or down-home eateries and unique hole-in-the-wall attractions that are emblematic of an area’s particular ambience and style