The 2018 Winter Olympics are officially underway and for the Ottawa Curling Club, this is a particularly significant year. Four…
No need to call the ethics commissioner on this Ottawa startup
Frank Ferris and Siavash Ghazvinian know what it’s like to be up against the odds. In 2014, while studying international…
Why do some YouTube stars do ugly – or amazing – things? Ottawa Vloggers explain
When YouTube was created in 2005, it was originally built for uploading and sharing short video clips, music videos and…
Coffee & cameras
The Person When Tracy Fledderus had more freelance photography gigs than her evenings and weekends could accommodate, she knew it…
New year, new me: A guide to health
I remember being home for the holidays after my awful first semester in college and stepping on the scale. I’d…
Stage to success
This past October, Ottawa band Velvet Vanilla had their first live performance at the Soviet-themed bar Avant-Garde in downtown Ottawa.…
Confessions of a smoker
It’s 8:45 a.m. on a cold December morning as I step out of the car and spark my lighter. I…
My friend, the rapist
One evening as I drove my friend home from a night of board games, in the comfortable and safe darkness…
Can we learn to disagree, please?
Elizabeth Scherf hasn’t been on Facebook in months. After debates kept arising on her Facebook posts, the Carleton University human…
Holding out for a hero
Ever want to read about gods fighting alongside humans, vigilantes taking the law into their own hands or teams of…