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How are high rents impacting Ottawa businesses? What happens during an all-nighter at the Elgin Street Diner? Every week, host Robyn Bresnahan does a deep dive into a story you're curious about and the issues you want to understand in the city we call home. New episodes every Monday. Have an idea for an episode? Email: [email protected]
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- The incredible discovery beneath the “Al Capone” house · 18 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 137There’s a home in Kemptville known as the “Al Capone” house. For decades, there have been stories about how it was linked to America’s most notorious gangster. It’s also rumoured…
- Four more years of Mayor Mark Sutcliffe · 23 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 136Mayor Mark Sutcliffe has been given four more years to run Ottawa. How did he convince voters to give him a second term? And will round two look any different? CBC reporter Elyse…
- ‘Transit is a dumpster fire’: will more money fix it? · 16 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 135Mayoral candidates have referred to Ottawa’s transit as a ‘dumpster fire’. But will more money extinguish its problems? And should commuters have to pay higher fares or higher…
- What’s university dorm life like? · 22 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 134There are about nine thousand students living in college and university residences in Ottawa. So what’s dorm life like? And how much has changed in nearly three decades since…
- Is the Byward Market safe? A cop and a former addict weigh in · 20 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 133The historic heart of Ottawa has a problem. Many voters have told us they feel the Byward Market has become less safe. There are fears about open drug use, crime and…
- The sexual offender being tracked by Ottawa neighbourhood groups · 20 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 132In late August, police issued a warning about high-risk violent sexual offender Aaron Gilpin now living in the Ottawa area. The release included a photo of a man with facial…
- Is there too much sprawl in Ottawa? · 22 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 131In part one of our “blind date” municipal series, we pair up a home builder with a green space advocate to talk about urban sprawl. Because if provincial projections are correct…
- The untold history of how Ottawa was founded 200 years ago · 19 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 130Ottawa is marking its bicentennial on September 26, 2026. But what actually happened on the day the city was born 200 years ago? Longtime journalist and history buff Randy…
- "I did almost no teaching": an Ottawa teacher on why he’s quitting · 15 min. · Episode 129When Nick Paul started his teaching career, he loved it. But just a decade in - he quit. Nick tells Robyn Bresnahan about what led to his breaking point - and why he thinks…
- What I wish I'd known before running for mayor · 18 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 128After eight years as an Ottawa city councillor, Catherine McKenney decided to run for mayor. They lost to Mark Sutcliffe. In the final part of our series In Hindsight, McKenney…
- What I wish I’d known before leaving journalism for politics · 19 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 127Carol Anne Meehan spent one term as an Ottawa city councillor after a career in journalism. In Part 3 of our series In Hindsight, she spills the tea on life inside city hall, the…
- What I wish I’d known before becoming a school trustee · 20 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 126Long hours, little pay and limited power — or on some school boards under provincial supervision, none at all. In Part 2 of our series In Hindsight, Robyn Bresnahan speaks to…
- What I wish I’d known before becoming a city councillor · 16 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 125Keith Egli was at a dinner party complaining about a transit strike, when the person at the end of the table told him to stop whining and run for city council. So he did. And he…
- The Ottawa music venue that attracted some of the world’s hottest bands · 22 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 124Le Hibou is a place of near mythical status in the Ottawa music community. A tiny coffee house on Sussex Drive where the likes of Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell and…
- Ottawa’s weirdest auction site · 17 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 123It’s like eBay - but run by the Canadian government. The GC Surplus site sells everything from ATVs used by the military to Air Jordan sneakers confiscated at the border. In this…
- Guardians of graffiti: the effort to protect Ottawa’s vanishing street art · 17 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 122You can learn a lot about Ottawa through its street art - from protest movements to the histories of neighbourhoods. But graffiti and murals are often temporary. So a local…
- Should the new 24 Sussex be open to the public and closed to traffic? · 21 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 121Now that it’s been decided that 24 Sussex Drive will be restored rather than torn down - what else should change in the area? The authors of a new book on the Prime Minister’s…
- Confessions of a former street racer · 16 min. · Episode 120Street racing is dangerous and illegal. Yet the roar of revving engines and screeching tires can be heard across the city all summer. In this encore episode, Robyn Bresnahan…
- Fist fights, flying feces and genital exams: a history of Parliament you didn’t learn in school · 17 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 119Remember the time an MP was hit by a bag of flying feces in the House of Commons? Or the day a man accidentally blew himself up in a Parliamentary bathroom stall? What about the…
- Why can’t I park on the street where I live? · 14 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 118Why can you get a residential street parking permit on some Ottawa streets, but not others? That’s the question a couple living near Mooney’s Bay had after being denied a parking…
