Obamamania in the air as fans descend on capital (Ottawa Citizen)

From the Ottawa Citizen:

By Louisa Taylor
The Ottawa Citizen

Ottawa • It’s going to be a doozy of a welcome for a very special guest who is pretty much guaranteed to be a no-show.

Bus trips have been organized in Montreal, Kitchener and Toronto. Hotel rooms are booked, Facebook groups are buzzing and websites have sprung up to give visitors all the latest information.

They’re coming to wave signs on Parliament Hill — if security allows it — and to cheer at a church rally, where the poet Oni the Haitian Sensation will be performing. Mayor Larry O’Brien might be part of the action, though he hasn’t confirmed yet, and a singer is flying in from Halifax to sing a duet with a trio of teenage sisters from Hamilton.

Then — if security allows it — there will be a symbolic “Yes We Span” march across the Laurier Avenue Bridge and back, just before everyone gets back on their buses and heads home.

All of this for U.S. President Barack Obama, a man one organizer says he knows his chances of seeing are “zilch.”

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Obamamania/1305791/story.html