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Category: Features
From the mayor’s desk – Investing in our roads, sidewalks and paths: back to basics
by Mayor Jim Watson One of the most important aspects of our city that sets it apart from others is its particularly large geographical scale. Its total land surface of 2758 km² is large enough to encompass the cities of…
Weather or not
BUZZ at the Door by Charles Akben-Marchand “In all the years I’ve been delivering The BUZZ, this was the worst weekend I’ve ever had.” Eleanor Sawyer is the Jack Purcell Recreation Association’s rep on The BUZZ’s board. She has been…
Planet of the Scapes: First-century flavours
by Pearl Pirie Making bread is calming and meditative. We’re pairing it here with a spread from the first-century Roman cookbook by Apicius. Main dish: Polish onion potato bread (makes 4-6 loaves) 1/3 cup lukewarm water 12 g traditional yeast…
Vanished Centretown: Ghost houses at the bend in the Deep Cut
by Robert Smythe Do you know where Neville’s Creek, Neville’s Point, and Neville Street were? Today we might call this area the tip of the Golden Triangle. Previous generations would have called it the bend in the Deep Cut. It…
Keeping our aging population healthy and engaged: facts and challenges
by Valérie Levert-Gagnon, Centretown Community Health Centre Centretown is home to a diverse community. If you venture out in the neighbourhood, you may have noticed a significant proportion of older citizens. In fact, 16.8 percent of Centretown’s population is aged…
Skyline: New patio rules
by Robert Smythe Patios play an important role in the public realm by creating places for residents to connect, relax, and animate our streets. That’s how the City of Ottawa staff introduced its report on reforming the rules for sidewalk…
Planet of the Scapes
by Pearl Pirie Hold the pity. I taught myself to cook on Campbell’s casserole cookbooks where there’s a column for a kind of Campbell’s soup, a column for veggie, a column for wet, a column for flavours, a column for…
Our environment and our health: what does one have to do with the other?
by Stephen Thirlwall An environmental health workshop was held on February 25 at Centretown’s Beaver Barracks residence, organized by Ottawa Biosphere Eco-City (OBEC). This neighbourhood-level workshop explored different aspects of our environment, both outdoors and indoors, and how conditions of…
Ontario is cutting your electricity bill by 25 percent
by Yasir Naqvi, MPP, Ottawa Centre We’ve heard you. Our government is taking all action necessary to reduce your electricity bill. I’m happy to report that the Ontario government will be reducing the average electricity bill by 25 percent for…
Planet of the Scapes: The season of excess
by Pearl Pirie One must have richness near New Year’s. Yet with so many sweets around, salad tastes amazing and sparks craving. Main dish: Clean green A baby spinach/adult arugula salad with English cucumber, avocado, tomato, sweet bell pepper, clementines…
Planet of the Scapes: Improv
by Pearl Pirie Some days you have time to plan meals and, some days, it’s improv with what you have. Sometimes you have a can of chickpeas and herbs and that’ll do. When fried, the chickpeas become firmer, crispy in…
Provincial Affairs: Reviewing the OMB
by Yasir Naqvi MPP, Ottawa Centre We are fortunate to live in a vibrant downtown community in a major North American city. Our neighbourhoods continue to grow with development all around us. Balance is a central factor in maintaining the…
The Skyline: Elgin’s history
by Robert Smythe The opening of the nearby Victoria Memorial Museum and its surrounding park attracted the first wave of apartment houses to the south end of Elgin Street. This type of building had become newly respectable to the professional…
Planet of the Scapes: Fall flavours
by Pearl Pirie Too much raking and closing up the garden for the season? Turmeric helps relieve pain and it counteracts dietary inflammatories. I tried it in high dose in turmeric tea. It is not a flavour for the weak.…
Ontario 150: celebrating “a place to stand, a place to grow”
by Yasir Naqvi, MPP Ottawa Centre There is no doubt, as you look around Ottawa, that we are all getting ready for major celebrations next year. It’s Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017: the sesquicentennial! And, as construction ramps up and…
Your Community Health Centres: How food insecurity affects all of us … and what’s being done about it
by Jennifer Adelson Many people in Ottawa lack access to healthy, affordable food and are food insecure. This is a large issue affecting downtown neighbourhoods as well as all of Ottawa, including rural areas such as West Carleton. In the…