Be sure to charge up your backup batteries. Hydro Ottawa is also currently striking, so expect longer response times if outages do occur.

Edit: It looks like we're all good!

It seems like the nightly fireworks have begun in my neighbourhood for Canada Day.

Happy Canada Day eh! 🇨🇦🍁

Guy deserved to see the show after pulling off the reverse Andy Dufresne IMO.

Today was #Ottawa's 111th smoky hour this year which puts 2023 in 1st place for the most in any year since records began. #OttWeather #YowWx #ONWx #YOW

Ottawa police have charged three youths in a Wednesday night robbery on Greenbank Road, which police are calling "hate-motivated."

Those routes had the most undelivered routes and, therefore, the lowest reliability percentages, though they were still in the mid-90s.

Very high levels of air pollution due to smoke from forest fires is expected through tonight and Friday and possibly through Saturday.

Smoke plumes from forest fires over northeastern Ontario and Quebec will move into the area today, resulting in deteriorated air quality. These conditions are expected to continue into Saturday.

Air quality and visibility due to wildfire smoke can fluctuate over short distances and can vary considerably from hour to hour.

For more details, please consult www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/air-quality-health-index/wildfire-smoke.html.

Wildfire smoke can be harmful to everyone’s health even at low concentrations. Continue to take actions to protect your health and reduce exposure to smoke.

People with lung disease (such as asthma) or heart disease, older adults, children, pregnant people, and people who work outdoors are at higher risk of experiencing health effects caused by wildfire smoke.

Visit www.airhealth.ca for information on how to reduce your health risk and your personal contribution to pollution levels, as well as for current and forecast AQHI values.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada.

The future of the Citizen's @WeAreTheDead project, an annual, journalistic tribute to Canada's war dead, is now in doubt.

Service complaints aside, one of the top concerns for anyone who uses OC Transpo is up-to-date service info and departure times. Some great news from OC Transpo today: riders in the Ottawa area can use the upgraded version of the popular Transit app, for free.

Thought I would ask here before Montreal. Are the 'fast passes' worth it, if they are should we get the platinum one? I was expecting to pay $100 for each ticket anyways, didn't realize entry was only $35. Thanks

Enjoy a day of better air quality due to the rain. Environment Canada meteorologist Peter Kimball is quoted:

There will be a risk of showers and thunderstorms on Tuesday into Wednesday. That weather is predicted to bring a shift in wind patterns that should return air quality to good levels once again later this week, after another period of smoke clouding the sky Wednesday into Thursday.

Shopify CEO promises to fight the request, calling the action ‘low-key overreach.’ Expert says data includes ‘everything the CRA needs to audit these businesses.’

Forest fire smoke was expected to blanket the national capital region again.

From the City of Ottawa - Update: A section of Montreal Rd under Highway 174 will be closed this weekend. Eastbound Montreal Rd lanes will be closed from 7pm tonight until June 26 at 5:30am. Westbound Montreal Rd lanes will be closed from 8pm Sunday, June 25 to June 26 at 5:30am

Am I that out of touch? "Festival City"?

Right now I'm using Duolingo, but I'm getting tired of being told dejeuner means "lunch". Is there something I can use that's more localized?

This should be a wake up call to the Mayor and councillors.

Their priorities and solutions for affordable housing in the region may need to benchmark on larger and more densely populated metropolitan areas.

Kiewit Dufferin Midtown Partnership has announced the closure of all eastbound and westbound lanes from Thursday, July 13 at 8 p.m. to Monday, July 17 at 6 a.m. for the replacement of the aging bridge.

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Ottawa police are asking for the public's help identifying a man accused of robbing a bank in May.

Very sad about this. I go there just about every other day to pick something up!