• This is Ottawa

  • By: CBC
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • 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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Episodes
  • How is Ottawa's housing crisis putting people fleeing violence in even more danger?
    Nov 25 2024

    It can now take years for someone who has escaped domestic violence to find an affordable place to live in Ottawa. Robyn Bresnahan visits a shelter that is supposed to be a temporary refuge – but has become much more permanent for one woman and her family.

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    21 mins
  • Why do Ottawa's racialized and low-income neighbourhoods tend to have fewer trees and what's being done about it?
    Nov 18 2024

    When it comes to trees, not all neighbourhoods are equal. Robyn Bresnahan takes a stroll from a “have” into a “have not” community with two tree experts to learn about why tree equity matters and what the City is doing to achieve it.


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    14 mins
  • 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?
    Nov 4 2024

    For one week only we’re calling ourselves 'This is Ottawa, Illinois'. Robyn Bresnahan reaches out to the city south of the border to talk to fellow Ottawans about life there, how they’ve been thinking about the US Presidential election and what comes next.

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    22 mins

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