Locked in to the lockout
Adnan Ghadie gives his account of how the three-month long airport taxi lockout has affected him and his family.
Refugee resettlement partially delayed
Don Smith agrees with the Liberal government’s plan to take in 10,000 refugees before the end of the year and the remaining 15,000 in January and February of next year. The announcement was made Tuesday that the full number of refugees would not be brought in before the New Year.
Branching out to save Ottawa’s trees
Velta Tomsons is one of the many people working to protect trees in Ottawa. Trees have always been important to her—as a child she said there was a pine tree growing next to a huge black rock in her back yard that she would climb.
Sexism in sports nothing new
Megan Halhed, goaltender for uOttawa women’s hockey team discovered her love of the sport at age 10 when her mother brought her to the arena to learn how to skate. She immediately fell in love with hockey, and played on a boys’ team until 2011. She said her family has always encouraged her.
PBO, a watchdog still leashed
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) provides economic and budgetary analysis to Canada’s Parliament. On Nov. 10, it released its Economic and Fiscal Outlook and the forecast isn’t good: the first blow to the new Liberal government. It is uncertain whether such reports will again strain relations between the PBO and the government.