Alas, the City of Ottawa does not name its snowplows — probably because we have a lot of them. And yes, we’re digging out. We’ll be doing that frequently, up to several times a week, from now to the end of March. By April, we’re so fed up we let Mother Nature take care of all by the heaviest fresh dumps.

Eastern Ontario is having a warming trend right now, which means rain tomorrow and a helluva slushy mess in the streets. Then we’ll have another cold snap, and the slush will freeze into dangerously lumpy ice. What larks, eh?