A Stinky Situation: Ottawa lags in composting
By Gabbi Van Looyen and Haesun Jung
Injection site could be driving up needle numbers
By Amey Humphries and Irene Galea The injection sites in Rideau-Vanier could be bringing more drug users into the ward than usual as needles collected between August and October in…
Human rights watchdog concerned about Ottawa police racial profiling
By Michael Charlebois and Kelly Millar The Ontario Human Rights Commission is doing a one-year checkup on the Ottawa Police Service, to gauge its response to a report finding Black…
Canada Day festivities coincide with drug overdose spike
By Aidan Chamandy and Lauren Hicks There have been three major spikes in overdoses in Ottawa over the past six months, including during Canada Day festivities, according to data from…
Flu season arrives in Ottawa
By Courtney Buchanan and Meghan Newman People over age 65 accounted for more than half of flu cases confirmed in Ottawa lab reports last year, says Ottawa Public Health. The…
OC Transpo Performance Lowest in Eight Years
By Hannah Berge and Zhuyin Fan As Ottawa’s frigid winter approaches, commuters hoping to spend less time waiting for buses may be out of luck. OC Transpo’s recent statistics reveal…
Driving downtown may not be as dangerous as it seems
By: Brandi Awad and Greg Guevara Though Centretown is flooded with buses, bumper-to-bumper traffic, and hundreds of pedestrians daily, the roads appear to be much safer than those in other…
Ottawa ranked top Canadian city for ride-share users
By Molly Pendergast and Mazen Atta Ottawa uses peer-to-peer ride services, such as Uber, more than any other metropolitan Canadian city, according to Statistics Canada. EMBED CODE: Data from the…
Poets organize women’s-only slam event
By Maggie Parkhill Rhube Knox was, for a long time, a secret poet — like many aspiring wordsmiths, she penned lines in notebooks and stashed them away. “I’ve written poetry…
Business yawns at Ontario tax cut
By Derrick Simpson Just months before the next provincial election and with a controversial minimum wage hike looming, the Ontario Liberal government has announced a small business tax cut. The…