Category: Focus

Many immigrant-run shops and restaurants in Centretown once catered to their own niche communities, but now other Canadians are increasingly frequenting their businesses.

Walk down any major street in Centretown and chances are you’ll find a shawarma shop. But is there a shawarma war?

There is an international flavour to the McNabb community centre’s drop-in basketball program. Chinese players in NBA jerseys and young Sikhs with topknots say that hitting the court with friends and strangers helps them integrate into the community as new Canadians.

When Daoxing Chen and his wife moved here from China in 1997, they looked forward to promising careers in the city’s booming high-tech industry. Chen never imagined they would one day be discussing job prospects with the Ottawa police.