Archive 1997-2016
The bright lights, the roaring crowd and bone-crunching intensity are hallmarks of the biggest event in Canadian football: the Grey Cup. But before the players take the field, fans can get in on the action.
It was a dismal end to a dismal season for a team that was washed out on the scoreboard all year and literally drowning on the field during their final game.
By Pamela Stephens
When Paul Métivier was 16-years-old he and his best friend lied to get into the Canadian army so he could go to war and “ride horses.”
It was a romantic notion that soon turned sour amid the carnage of the battlefields of the First World War.
By Melanie Sharpe
Emergency funds provided by the City of Ottawa will ensure the survival of the The Anti-Poverty Project, but only for the time being, says the organization’s program co-ordinator.
Without the funding to provide services and pay staff above their current welfare level incomes the project would have had to shut down, says Jeannette Robert.