Archive 1997-2016
By Robert Todd
From alcohol to drug addiction, Virginia Hamilton deals with daily crisis.
As director of the Ottawa Detox Centre, she leads a 25-member staff that guides about 2,800 men and women a year through the early stages of recovery. It’s the only centre of its kind in Ottawa.
By Robert Todd
Julian Armour radiates excitement as he presents a slideshow of the concert hall he hopes will soon animate a tired Elgin Street corner.
Clicking through pages of architectural sketches on his laptop computer, the Ottawa musician and administrator looks like a man showing off his dream home.
By Pamela Stephens
Imagine walking down the street and being followed by a police car. The officer requests to see your identification and tells you to “go back where you came from.”
Imagine being harassed every day at your place of work as you try to earn a living, being ridiculed and told you are “worthless.”
By Pamela Stephens
A mere ten blocks from the southern edge of Centretown lies “Tranquility Base,” a yard-turned animal haven where squirrels, stray cats, birds, toads, turtles, raccoons and the Chymczuk family relax and enjoy a trickling waterfall, a luxurious hot tub and hundreds of lawn ornaments.