The Fifth Column has written many times about the most biodiverse natural area in Ottawa adjacent to urban Kanata and threatened by urban sprawl and development. Now is your chance…
Is Ottawa’s PIN scandal really a tempest in a teapot. You cannot legislate or regulate integrity. The only thing that can ensure someone’s integrity is their integrity. As it stands…
In a move described by some observers as onionesque, the City’s Policies and Procedures Committee is recommending the city issue an RFP for the development of what will be known…
According to the Ottawa Citizen: OTTAWA — The National Capital Commission brought forward a massive expansion Wednesday of the Greenbelt that will see the “emerald necklace” grow by 2,400 hectares…
Yes indeed, I do have the ultimate solutions to all of our electoral system problems and I will share them with all of you. Now some of you might think…
There has been lots of discussion about how Stephen Harper’s majority only represents 40% of voters because of the way our electoral system works. But, in reality, his agenda has…
I think we all have friends, relatives or acquaintances that are caught up in Islamophobia and regularly send out e-mails warning that the Muslims are immigrating and breeding and going…
Well, if it isn’t obvious what it should be, my resolution is to actually write and post all those blog post ideas that come to me almost daily and get…
At Least a White Pre-Christmas Video by Ray Vermette (Ottawa Mountain Bike Association) Source: OMBA – White Mountain Bike Christmas
If you wanted to design a storm sewer grate to catch a bicycle wheel and throw the rider into fast heavy traffic you could not do better than this. These…
Language (pre-history) Written Language (circa 3200 BC) The Printing Press (circa 1440 ) (Johannes Gutenberg) Telephone (1861/1875) Radio Broadcasting (circa 1910) Television Broadcasting (1928/1936) The Internet (1969) (ARPANET) Smart Phones…
The first thing I want to say is that any discussion of saving the South March Highlands has to start by acknowledging that, indeed, some of it has been saved…
In More Academic Terms
On Wednesday November 9, I noticed that a section of the Watts Creek Pathway running alongside the Nepean National Equestrian Park has the asphalt torn up and appears ready for…
Read the review on my Richard's GPS Trail Maps site.
I know it's not over yet, and with the winter bike it is never over, but I feel it's been a great season so far and now is as good…
Occupy Let Freedom Rain: Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello to join Occupy Vancouver Wednesday? This Land Is Your LandWords and Music by Woody GuthrieChorus: This land is your land,…
Click here for everything you need to know about The South March HighlandsPlease click above for what is the best overview yet of the issues relating to The South March…
I have updated my Richard's GPS Trail Maps website with:New overview map: Stony Swamp Conservation Area TrailsandRevised map: Old Quarry Trail System
