Brittany Loynette leads a yoga class while her students…cuddle puppies.
Aussie doodles, dirty dancing, dino eggs and 10 dollar bills: Just four of the wide-ranging stories on this edition of Midweek.
The doodle-dog pup was a special guest at a recent Sunday afternoon “Puppy Yoga” covered by Midweek’s Jordana Colomby, who spotted that there was a lot more puppying than yoga’ing going on — but both were valid routes to bliss.
Just getting to basic fairness has been a long route for far too many, and Midweek’s Meg Sutton brought us the story of how civil rights activist Viola Desmond made the long march from being under arrest at a Nova Scotia movie theatre to being on Canada’s newest banknote.
Jensen Edwards, meanwhile, reported on how Ontario francophones are warning that their struggles may be being undone by the new provincial government’s cuts to French services.
What the well-dressed Ottawa radio reporter is wearing this winter season…from head to toe.
A local emergency ward nurse told reporter Hunza Chaudhary what she wishes more people understood about diabetes, and Justin Dubois covered an Ottawa vigil by folks trying to raise understanding about the violence endured by trans and gender-diverse people around the world.
As California burns, Midweek’s Danielle Edwards looked into what Ontario’s own busy summer forest fire season tells us about climate change, while our other Edwards — Jensen — looked at what the winter’s first heavy snow means to homes still being repaired after our recent tornado.
Producer Sam Berube checks a story.
Raisa Patel found out that snow has implications for cyclists as well — but safety doesn’t have to mean just staying home. It turns out a bigger danger right now may lurk in…your salad, as Raisa reported in another story on warnings about E. coli in lettuce.
The coming frantic holiday-prep season is critical for small retailers, as Keira Kowalski explained, and Molly Pendergast added the caution that dashing around in winter can lead to life-changing falls, especially for seniors. Molly also profiled a local man with a dangerous job — dangerous to his waistline, at least: Ottawa Citizen restaurant reviewer Peter Hum, who explained the steps he takes as he tries to be fair.
Molly Pendergast rehearses with Madeline Lines, who co-hosted this week with Justin Dubois.
From our Who Knew This Was So Cool file, Jordana Colomby spoke with a researcher at Yale University about her discovery of speckled and coloured dinosaur eggs, and how knowing they weren’t all white and round ties modern birds to dinosaurs across the chasm of 65 million years. And speaking of ancient times and dinosaurs, Madeline Lines reported on a local Dirty Dancing-inspired workshop — nobody puts a baby Eumaniraptora in a corner.
All that and stories, too, about the fledgling People’s Party of Canada, former Carleton University Ravens at the Grey Cup, and new attention being paid to dementia research. Quite a Midweek.