Ride the Rideau is a 100-kilometre bike ride in support of cancer research. The bike ride takes place on Saturday, September 8, 2012 . It begins at the CE Centre on Uplands Drive in Ottawa and will end in Merrickville-Wolford. …
Interactive Graphic: 2012 Ride the Rideau
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Graphic: Ottawa resale home market
This graphic goes with a story by Vito Pilieci about a sharp drop in the Ottawa real estate market in August. The story can be read here.
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What to eat this week: Three peachy recipes
I don’t want to make you panic or anything, but peaches’ days are numbered.
Torrie Warner, the Beamsville, Ont., farmer who brings his fruit to the Ottawa Farmers Market, says he’s still picking, but it’s near the end of the …
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Graphic: Relief for commuters
Map showing changes to ‘Highway’ 174. One eastbound lane is now open to traffic in addition to the transit lane. This map goes with a story by Neco Cockburn. You can read his story here.
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What I learned at the National Capital Sommelier Guild
Like so many people these days, my love of (drinking) wine led me to reading more about wine making and dabbling in wine tasting. I found the subject of wine so fascinating that I ended up enrolling in the popular …
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Graphics: Ottawa cycle paths
How many cycle paths are there in Ottawa? According to cycling advocate Robert Hiltz, there are almost 700 kilometres of city-run pathways — in addition to approximately 300 kilometres of pathways operated by the National Capital Commission on both sides …
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Graphic: Ledbury
This map locates the Banff-Ledbury neighbourhood.
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Interactive graphic: The plan for Lansdowne Park.
Clickable schematic of what the future Lansdowne Park will look like.
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Graphic:Condo sales in Ottawa
Map shows location of new condominium projects in Ottawa. Chart shows condo sales between 2002 and 2012.
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Graphic: How much is your property worth?
Graphic showing expected tax increase or decrease for Ottawa landowners.
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Interactive Graphic: Ottawa shootings in 2012
The following map accompanies the Guns and Gangs series by Mohammed Adam and Megan Hurley.
The markers indicate shooting incidents in Ottawa in 2012. Red markers indicate gun-related homicides.
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Science Fest Fun for the Whole Family
Last year, I took my children along to the Ottawa Science Fest, and I have to say, it far exceeded my expectations.
There was something of interest for all age groups, from creepy, crawly bugs, to space and constellations. On
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Graphic: Change in average resale prices
The following table lists the changes in average resale prices for homes in neighbourhoods in Ottawa in 2012 since 2011. It’s to accompany a story by Michael Prentice.
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Graphic: Bulldozing heritage
Graphic by Robert Cross showing the proposed realignment of Sussex Drive that would result in the destruction of several heritage properties. The graphic accompanies a story by Joanne Chianello that questions the city of Ottawa’s commitment to heritage issues.
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The Way of the Stars
Book Review: This journey is about learning to walk the walk
The Way of the Stars: Journeys on the Camino de Santiago by Robert Sibley
By Tim Ward, Ottawa Citizen October 27, 2012
The Way of the Stars, by Robert
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Interactive graphics: Hurricane Sandy storm track maps
Follow Hurricane Sandy via the following interactive maps. The first map is prepared by the Google Crisis Response team. Their map shows Hurricane Sandy’s current and forecasted paths, based on information from the NOAA-National Hurricane Center. The second map is …
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Several Dozen Canadian Forces Weapons Stolen – Almost 2,700 Weapons Lost, Damaged Or Destroyed
Canadian Press has this story:
OTTAWA – The federal government lost $1.9 million last year in pilfered property, including vehicles, laptops, smart phones, cameras, furniture and even several dozen military weapons.
Another $8.6 million worth of government property — including …
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Ontario’s sucker bet
There’s some talk in the press lately about the Ontario government’s gambling machine, and someone who doesn’t gamble, not even on sports, was asking about the sucker bet. So I called up longtime friend and onetime Ottawa book Danny Savard for his quick take on the sucker bet. Sucker bet for Dummies:
“A sucker bet is just what it sounds like, it’s a bet that only a sucker would make, the kind a born loser is destined to chase. It’s a play that the minute it’s laid the poor schmuck doesn’t have a chance.
A parlay is the sucker of all sucker bets. I mean right off the mark you’re handicapping yourself. You have to win two or three plays, sometimes even more, to collect on one bet. You lose one of them and zilch nothing. The sucker says ‘but yeah look at the pay-out if you hit one of those parlays, it’s like 3 to 1 or 5 to 1′.
Truth is the sucker more times than not is taking the parlay because either they’re scared of the juice on a straight up play or they’re just f*cking greedy. Either way, scared or greedy equals sucker in my book.
It’s a funny thing since the start of these government sports lotteries, like here in Ontario with Pro Line (OLG). It basically institutionalized the sucker bet. The government is all too happy to offer you up a full menu of parlays and then say your local book down at the tavern is illegal. Something wrong with that. Then again the government taking its citizens for suckers isn’t all that unusual.”
@crimegarden
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Graphic: Why earthquakes happen in our area
Graphic illustrates why we get earthquakes in the Ottawa-Gatineau region:
Why do we get earthquakes in the Ottawa-Gatineau region?
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Graphic: Quake strikes Papineauville
A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck at 4:05 a.m. Tuesday near Papineauville, Québec. It was felt as far away as Ottawa and Montreal. Read more about the earthquake here.
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