The price drop: Cheaper alcohol boosting family-owned convenience stores
Meet and Yashaswy Patel, two brothers living in Ottawa, have owned a convenience store called Our Neighbourhood Store for the past six months where the Patels know all about fluctuating prices for groceries, snacks and now alcohol. The presence of alcoholic beverages for sale in convenience stores started last fall when the province of Ontario increased the market for selling...
Fare increases and empty seats: OC Transpo has yet to regain pre-pandemic ridership
Low ridership is a multi-pronged issue for Ottawa. For some residents, lack of reliability is the main deterrent for their participation. For public workers, remote work options mean there is no reason to take transit. For some Ottawa residents like Max Patton, a part-time line cook, declining service quality and increasing fares have been enough to make him abandon OC...
‘Daddy’s Issues’ to tackle transphobia, grief at undercurrents theatre festival
Written by Merlin Simard, now based in Toronto, and directed by Montrealer Lior Maharjan, a reading of Daddy’s Issues is set to run at Ottawa Fringe’s undercurrents theatre festival Feb. 14 and 15.
Making ends ‘meat:’ How an Ottawa deli is managing rising costs
For Paolo Di Rienzo, slinging hearty sandwiches and homemade cannolis has been the name of the game for decades now. Di Rienzo’s Deli and Grocery, on the corner of Beech Street and Champagne Avenue in Little Italy, has been a staple for many since 1973. Despite being a fixture of the authentic eats in Ottawa for more than 50 years...
Ottawa councillors push to allow shelters is all areas of the city
Ottawa councillors approved an accelerated plan to allow shelters in all areas of the city, allowing such use months ahead of wider zoning changes.
Ottawa illuminates City Hall with coloured lights in solidarity against religious hate
In a show of solidarity with two religious groups, the City of Ottawa illuminated their Heritage Building yellow on Jan. 27 to honour International Holocaust Remembrance Day and again in green on Jan. 29 as a tribute to victims of the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City mass murder attack.
Ottawa to press ahead with study of anti-renoviction bylaw
Ottawa city council approved a motion to research the implementation of a potential renoviction bylaw on Jan. 22. 2025.
Rising hate crimes targeting LGBTQ2+ community in Ottawa has many concerned
Hate crimes against the LGBTQ2+ community in Ottawa have been rising rapidly over the last six years, according to data from the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) putting many in the community on edge.
The 25th Hour: Night changes in Ottawa
The 25th Hour explores nightlife commissioners around the world and what it looks like in Ottawa.
Naloxone, safe-injection sites may be helping bring down fatal opioid overdose deaths
The devastation of the opioid epidemic has taken the lives of many Canadians, but experts say access to safe, clean spaces for users — and naloxone — are among the possible reasons for a change in trajectory.
With football season over, Carleton Ravens athletes get back to work for a chance at the CFL
While the U Sports football season officially ended with the Vanier Cup game on Nov. 23, a number of Carleton athletes are returning to the gym to get ready for a shot at the Canadian Football League draft combine.
At Petrie Island, a community maximizes survival odds for imperiled baby turtles
With Friends of Petrie Island gathering often-imperiled eggs around the island and Ottawa Riverkeeper hatching them safely in the NCC River House’s science lab, hundreds of baby turtles are already defying their odds of survival before even hitting the water.