This is Ottawa
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What would it take to make the Rideau Canal swimmable? Where do you go to find love in Ottawa when you've given up on online dating? Every week, host Robyn Bresnahan seeks out people to answer one question about the city we love. New episodes every Monday.
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Wazzup Witches! The Ottawans making a living off witchcraft
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Why can't the police stop street racing in Ottawa?
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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The school shooting that shocked Ottawa 50 years ago
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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The one where Robyn pulled an all-nighter on Elgin Street
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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How are rising commercial rents changing the fabric of the city?
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Could a legendary Ottawa music venue be resurrected?
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Thousands of Ottawans turned up to a pop-up melanoma screening clinic. Dozens walked away with a skin cancer diagnosis.
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Should Ottawa burn its garbage?
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Catcalls, eye rolls and butt slaps: life for women working in the trades
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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A day in the life of CHEO’s critical care response team
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Saying good-bye to one of Chinatown’s most iconic restaurants
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Exploring the prolonged closure of the O’Brien Hotel in Gatineau Park
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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A mountain or a mole hill? Assessing Ottawa’s Rat problem
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Well bred: what it takes to become an RCMP horse
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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How Kanata North made mosquitoes less of a buzz kill
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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The Bru-tiful Game: Ottawa’s roller derby players on broken fingers, belonging and boycotting the USA
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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The next Instant Pot? The tech entrepreneurs hoping to make it big in Ottawa
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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New to This is Ottawa? Start here
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Forget cold plunges. Saunas are so hot right now
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Dow’s Lake is open for swimming!
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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How do you demolish a highrise in the middle of the city?
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Spat on, attacked and threatened: librarians on the frontlines
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Hooked on urban fishing in the Rideau Canal
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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The rise of the run club
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May 26, 2025 |
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ICYMI: What happens during an all-nighter at the Elgin Street Diner?
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May 19, 2025 |
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What happens during an all-nighter at the Elgin Street Diner?
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May 12, 2025 |
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Stand-up city: why comedians love Ottawa
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May 05, 2025 |
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Has Ottawa ever been a baseball town?
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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“Our child no longer dreads going to school” - the fight to save alternative schools
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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UPDATE: And the bride wore…a barbarian warlord dress?
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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An Ottawa couples therapist is hot on social media. Who is she?
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Why does the Ottawa Hospital use leeches on patients?
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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What’s a day in the life of a 3-1-1 operator like?
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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What went on inside Ottawa’s Dominion Observatory?
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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BONUS EPISODE: When did Ottawa surprise you?
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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LIVE SHOW - PART TWO: When did Ottawa surprise you?
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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LIVE SHOW - PART ONE: When did Ottawa surprise you?
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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What does a day in the life of CHEO’s critical care response team look like?
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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What’s it like to live with HIV today?
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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What can be done about Ottawa’s rat problem?
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Can Ottawa’s independent corner stores survive?
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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What are “super lice” and how should we treat them?
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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What happens on a morning commute with the Mayor?
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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How did Ottawa become a hotspot for holiday movies?
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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How are Ottawans fighting back against car thieves?
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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How did Hitler’s car end up in Ottawa?
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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How is Ottawa's housing crisis putting people fleeing violence in even more danger?
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Why do Ottawa's racialized and low-income neighbourhoods tend to have fewer trees and what's being done about it?
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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There’s another Ottawa out there. In Illinois. We head across the border to ask: how are those other Ottawans feeling about the US election?
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Why is one of Chinatown’s most iconic restaurants closing?
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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What’s with Ottawa’s love-hate relationship with roundabouts?
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Is Ottawa an island?
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Have land acknowledgements become “white noise”?
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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What happens when Robyn knocks on the door of her former Carleton University residence room - 27 years later?!
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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What happened to the O’Brien Hotel in Gatineau Park?
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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What’s the new Night Mayor’s plan to revitalize Ottawa’s social scene from sundown to sunrise?
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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How will a new museum tell the story of the Vietnamese “boat people” who sought freedom in Ottawa?
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Why aren’t there more places to eat and drink along Ottawa’s waterfronts?
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Where do queer seniors find community in Ottawa?
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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How did Glenroy Gilbert’s Olympic gold change the advice he now gives as head coach for Athletics Canada?
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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From podium high to life low: What inspired an Ottawa Olympian to help elite athletes find meaning in life after sports?
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Why did Ottawa backpedal on bike sharing?
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Could Calgary’s water crisis happen in Ottawa?
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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How is Mechanicsville balancing gentrification with the preservation of its working-class history?
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Why is there a ‘private’ lake in Rockcliffe that’s off limits to public swimmers?
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Catcalls, eyerolls and butt slaps: What's it like to be a woman in the trades?
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Why does Ottawa musician Jim Bryson wish he’d trained as an electrician?
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Ottawa flies hundreds of flags when foreign dignitaries come to town. Where are they all kept - and what happens when there’s a diplomatic flap over flags?
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May 27, 2024 |
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Wait, is that a ukulele?! The strange things people do while running the Ottawa marathon
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May 20, 2024 |
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Why is a new generation behind Ottawa’s organic farms choosing a life in the fields?
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May 13, 2024 |
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What's it like for an American Olympic hockey star to become Ottawa’s hometown hero?
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May 06, 2024 |
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Who was Thad Johnson and why is there a road named after him?
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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What would it take to make the Rideau Canal a destination for swimmers?
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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What does it feel like to realize that home ownership is a rapidly receding dream?
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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What happened to Ottawa's downtown movie theatres?
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Bears, coyotes and wild turkeys. How can Ottawans better co-exist with wild animals?
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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How are Ottawa’s breweries tapping into the sober-curious movement?
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Why is it so hard for Ottawa to shed the label of “the city that fun forgot”?
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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What would happen if kids were in charge of March break?
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Is it necessary to close Ottawa schools for the solar eclipse?
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Why does Ottawa's tap water look, smell and taste different depending on the season?
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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What's Ottawa's next quintessential food?
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Where do you find love when you've given up on online dating?
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Was it right to move Ottawa’s main train station out of the downtown core?
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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What's it like to live above the stadium at Lansdowne Park?
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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How can Ottawa make snow removal better for everyone?
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Jan 22, 2024 |