This letter to the editor published in the Ottawa Citizen on September 19th, 2024 is in response to an op-ed by high school teacher Jodi Nathanson on AI in creative writing and in the classroom. High school English teacher Jodi Nathanson writes of “humanizing” her classes as education and creative writing face extraordinary challenges posed… Read more »
This letter to the editor, published in the Ottawa Citizen on September 19th, 2023, was written in response to The Glengarry News print newspaper ceasing publication, and the decline of local news more generally. Local and hyperlocal community publications play a critical role in capturing stories that never make it into papers of wider scope.… Read more »
As a grassroots website, we do our best to feature emerging artists, young leaders making a difference in their local community and the unique life experiences of those living in eastern Ontario. In many of these cases, those we feature have overcome adversity of one type or another and have charted a new path in… Read more »
Thanks to statistics compiled by the Ottawa Public Library, we now know the titles of the most popular reads in Canada’s capital in 2022. According to statistics released by the OPL’s Content Services department, American author Delia Owens 2018 novel Where Crowdads Sing was the most popular English-language adult book checked out from the branches… Read more »
I was perusing books this afternoon at Chapters in Gloucester when a man in a hushed voice asked a clerk behind me if there was a way to purchase a certain memoir by a certain talkative prince (more accurately, by his ghost writer) today — a day in advance of it hitting the shelves in… Read more »
Library and Archives Canada was a good resource years ago when I was conducting research for my PhD dissertation. I could show up without reservation, present my card, order unrestricted library material, buy lunch in the cafeteria and have resources ready for me by the time I finished my meal. I haven’t had to turn… Read more »
Hate crimes increased by 25 percent in the first quarter of 2021 and this follows a 57 percent increase in such incidents in 2020. Last year, Ottawa Police Services logged 182 hate crimes in the city. The issue was brought to the forefront again this weekend when the Ottawa Citizen’s Matthew Lapierre reported on the… Read more »
Ward 21 is a sprawling area in Ottawa’s southwest that happens to be named after a nineteenth century British politician and slaveholder. Henry Goulburn (locally, his name appears to be spelled more commonly as Goulbourn), an undersecretary of state, was very much the unrepentant sort of slave owner; even after Great Britain abolished slavery in… Read more »