Category: Focus

It’s 10:30 a.m. on a weekday and the Starbucks at the corner of Metcalfe and Slater is buzzing with coffee-breakers looking for a mid-morning buzz.

Behind the bar with baristas

Let’s face it: “barista” is not the most manly-sounding job title in the world.

Craig Smith says he’ll never forget that sunny morning many years ago in Ottawa’s Chinatown when a Chinese friend took him to dim sum.

Sarah Czunyi rushes off a packed public bus on Ottawa’s busy Bank Street. She adjusts the orange handbag on her shoulder while pulling her left sleeve to look at the time. “It’s four already?” she asks aloud as she scurries towards a grocery store.