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Ontario, Canada · Population 1,017,449
Today's air, the Ottawa River, and what's opening around the city.
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Plain answers to the questions Ottawa residents actually ask: garbage rules and the three-item limit, winter parking bans, finding a family doctor, the O-Train, school boards and beach season.
Verified numbers for city services, health, crisis support, power outages and emergencies — grouped by situation, with French service noted.
Residents' own answers to the questions Ottawa keeps asking — cheap groceries, the best shawarma, trustworthy repairs, winter survival — ranked by votes.
Ottawa's four supervised beaches — Britannia, Westboro, Mooney's Bay and Petrie Island — with parking, washrooms, food and the 2026 lifeguard season, plus how water testing works now.
Find which of Ottawa's four publicly-funded school boards fits your family — English or French, public or Catholic — with each board's own school-finder and registration pages.
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European AQI 40 · downtown Ottawa
the Ottawa River: 58.41 m
high · steady