Buffalo Rising Online

Meet Bruce Deachman. Bruce is a writer for the Ottawa Citizen paper. He's in town today to see what there is to do in Buffalo. After a certain Ottawa hockey goalie claimed that there was nothing to do in Buffalo he figured he would come in to see if the statement was accurate.

After getting in late last night he made it over to City Hall this morning to witness the friendly bet wagered between the Mayors of Buffalo and Ottawa. Bruce clued me in that he would be spending the rest of the day touring Buffalo in order to report (back in Ottawa) on what our city was really like. This was not the first time that he had paid a visit to the city, and he was very upfront about his not-so-fond memories (mostly passing through without looking around). That meant that an insiders' tour was in order. David Granville (City Hall) and I decided that the best thing to do was to load Bruce into a car and show him around.

Before getting on our way, the three of us sat out by the circle of Niagara Square…