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Archive for the ‘Ottawa’ Category
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P A P A N A C K
Papanack zoo is currently boarded up for the winter, but in the summer months it overflows with visitors. From all over the Ottawa region, parents bring their children to see Keith Forgie’s collection of exotic animals. But some of his…
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Visualization: Money In, Money Out
The weighty tome that outlined the Canadian government’s 2013-2014 budget was a veritable doorstep, crammed full of confounding fiscalspeak, graphs and tabular data.
No doubt this data makes perfect sense to economists or budget-scarred journalists, but how do you make…
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Children Of The Snow
More than 20 Somali youths have been murdered in the last three years across Canada. Unable to assimilate into Canadian culture, unable to find work, many have become involved in drugs and criminal activity. But community groups in Ottawa, buoyed…
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Lulu-Lemoned limbs
Lithe Lulu-Lemoned limbs warp, contort and twist in the heat; faces are pained, collapsing in on themselves like black holes. Rivulets of sweat avalanche from noses, forming minute individual Rorschach tests – there a butterfly, there a supernova – on…
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The Puppetmaster
Groans emanate from the depths of the old house. Walking down the winding stairs, the decaying head of a zombie comes into view. Its torn, blood-spattered clothing gives way to the arm of Matt Ficner – founder of Creepy Puppets…
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Welcome to Kettlehell
Well, that’s what the sign welcoming participants to a weekly kettlebell class at the Odawa Native Friendship Centre should have read.
Leaving a trail of melting slush behind me Hansel-and-Gretel style, I ventured into the centre’s gymnasium. The drab monotones…
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Stretching sinew, teasing tendon
Steam rises from the huddled group of hooded athletes as they finish their pre-battle warm-up, stretching sinew, teasing tendon. Oblivious to the first frost of winter, they jig to the rhythm of a drum, chanting anthems, psyching themselves up for…
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Selling an identity
Gender colour-coding, extreme sports and hip-hop.
Matthew Johnson, director of education at The Media Awareness Network, critiques some examples of the advertising methods employed by energy drink companies to target their young adult market.
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Highly skilled. New Canadian. Taxi driver.
Green Party candidate, Kevin O’Donnell, says the biggest issues can be summarized in the fewest words – and the other Ottawa Centre candidates agree.
The “foreign workers” controversy has taken centre stage in the recent debates in the Ottawa Centre…
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Digitalized Rorschach test or space invader motif?
Ottawa residents are quite familiar with lawn signs these days, particularly those advertising political candidates. Three elections in less than a year means voters might be growing tired of sign wars. But one local Liberal is hoping you’ll take a…
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Asphalt arteries and concrete obelisks
Asphalt arteries and concrete obelisks.
These are the roads and skyscrapers that make up downtown Ottawa.
90% of the city’s residents have gravitated towards this urban jungle, a microcosm of a global trend.
That’s 85 people per hectare, crammed into…
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Canadian Geographic: June 2011 issue
Here’s a couple of small pieces I did for the June 2011 issue of Canadian Geographic (original links).
In the next issue, there’ll be a TV documentary on urban agriculture in Ottawa, and an extensive review of the impacts…
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Overwhelmed, under-resourced and increasingly agitated
The vast 5,120-square-kilometre Ring of Fire in northern Ontario is seen by many as the solution to the province’s sagging economy. Discovered in 2006, the region encapsulates a massive deposit of chromite – a key and rare mineral used in…
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Third World Ottawa
With bed bugs living in the walls and falling out of the oven fan, you’d think you were in the developing world—not in the nation’s capital. But the pests are a common problem for Ottawa’s social housing residents.
Rob Caron,…
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SOS: or Save Our Syrup
Maple syrup.
Per litre it’s more expensive than gas.
We investigated how the laborious processes involved, climate change, insects and fungi have all driven up the prices of this amber gold.
This news feature was co-produced by…