During the fall municipal election campaign, affordable housing was one of the main issues talked about by mayoral and council candidates. Our new mayor has…
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It’s profoundly unfair to Amira Elghawaby that she was engulfed in a whirlwind of opprobrium and hurt feelings and disgust pretty well from the moment…
Where I’m from, we call people who specialize in breaking down doors that are already wide open “défonceurs de portes ouvertes.” On the anniversary of…
When Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre look at Canada, what do they see? Read More Source: Visit the Ottawa Citizen for more!
On Jan. 21, 1998, The Washington Post reported that Bill Clinton, then the president of the United States, had had an affair with Monica Lewinsky,…
Not even one week after the calendar flipped to 2023, a familiar story played out near the Canada-U.S. border in Quebec. A Haitian man died…
The City of Ottawa has just been challenged to acknowledge and reduce the unsafe levels of air pollution created by trucks running through its downtown…
Looks like we all need to drink less alcohol. The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), a national organization that provides information and…
In 2022, Ottawa council tossed aside any semblance of evidence-based decision-making when it approved the residential vacant-unit tax (VUT) bylaw. Read More Source: Visit the…
We have now marked the 1,000th official COVID death in Ottawa. The number is a stark reminder that we need to adapt, if we are…