Skyrocketing rents in Ottawa are forcing more elderly women into the Women’s Shelter on O’Connor Street.
Elderly women flock to O’Connor St. shelter
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Local youths create animated snapshot of Ottawa
When 16-year-old Lavinia Manea thinks of her life in Ottawa, she envisions skating on the Rideau Canal, visiting the National Gallery of Canada and shopping in the ByWard Market.
Slam poetry hits Ottawa
Local poets are turning words into sport. They’re rhyming, rapping and singing new life into poetry and warming up for an event called a slam.
NCC planning artists’ colony
In editing this week’s stories, editor Andrea Macko discovers there is an underlying theme in all of them, and it’s one of hope.