Community News
Food truck scene puts Ottawa on the map “in a very big way,” says Eat St. host
Graham Lanktree, Metro News | New food trucks and carts have proved a wild success in Ottawa on the first day offering up their eats as 525 bracelets to get samples at the Street Food Showcase sold out and large lines snaked around the lawn of city ... read more »
Doors Open Ottawa announces participating buildings
Maria Cook, Ottawa Citizen | OTTAWA — From the outside, the Mayfair Theatre on Bank Street isn’t much, admits co-owner Lee Demarbre. However, on the inside, Ottawa’s oldest movie house is a “cinema cathedral,” designed to evoke the ... read more »
Canada simply gives up competing for the American tourist
Curtis Rush, The Star | Ottawa no longer wants to waste time and money trying to lure American tourists to the land of moose, mountains and Mounties. According to a new report, the U.S. has become one of Canada’s poorest performing tourism ... read more »
14 ways to make Ottawa a top tourism destination
Mark Sutcliffe, Ottawa Citizen | OTTAWA — Some people seem to think the conversation about how to improve Ottawa as a destination for tourists, business visitors and residents should last years, if not decades. I don’t think it’s that ... read more »
14 people laid off at Canadian Museum of Civilization
CBC News | The Canadian Museum of Civilization has announced it has laid off 14 employees because of a "significant" budget shortfall. The museum said Tuesday that the cuts, which happened immediately across multiple departments, will not ... read more »
How to have a blast in Ottawa in just one night
The Montreal Gazette | Thirty years ago my father took me to my first BB King concert, and halfway through BB’s set at Montreal’s Place des Arts, King invited butch blues legend Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton onstage to belt out a song.
Street eats: How roadside food vendors can cash in on tourist market
Mike Brownlee, Ottawa Business Journal |The City of Ottawa is implementing changes for which local advocates have long been clamouring by adding some new offerings to the local street meat menu, but those in the industry say more can be done to ... read more »
Five Worth the Drive: Community museums in the Ottawa Valley
Patrick Langston, Ottawa Citizen | Smaller museums that showcase the communities around them pepper the Ottawa Valley. Some are mildly eccentric, others have remarkable collections. The following are all within an hour’s drive of Ottawa. See ... read more »
The Council of Heritage Organizations in Ottawa Welcomes New Executive Director and Board Members
[Press Release] Henriette Riegel, President of The Board of Directors of The Council of Heritage Organizations in Ottawa / le Conseil des organismes du patrimoine d’Ottawa (CHOO/COPO) is pleased to announce the appointment of Paulina ... read more »
Watson to feds: What’s the plan for Canada Day 2017? →
Mark Brownlee, OBJ | The federal government needs to be clearer about how it plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said. The city has been doing most of the work on the project because the federal ... read more »
