This is Ottawa

How are high rents impacting Ottawa businesses? What happens during an all-nighter at the Elgin Street Diner? Every week, host Robyn Bresnahan does a deep dive into a story you're curious about and the issues you want to understand in the city we call home. New episodes every Monday. Have an idea for an episode? Email: thisisottawa@cbc.ca

This is Ottawa is a news podcast hosted by CBC, with 129 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #126

  What I wish I’d known before becoming a school trustee

  Aug 17, 202620 minS3

  Long hours, little pay and limited power — or on some school boards under provincial supervision, none at all. In Part 2 of our series In Hindsight, Robyn Bresnahan speaks to Justine Bell, a former English public board school trustee for Ottawa's Somerset zone. Why did she resign? What does she wish she’d known before taking the job? And she explains why she's concerned that the role is becoming increasingly 'politicized'.

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  Episode #125

  What I Wish I’d Known…before becoming a city councillor

  Aug 10, 202616 minS3

  Keith Egli was at a dinner party complaining about a transit strike, when the person at the end of the table told him to stop whining and run for city council. So he did. And he was the councillor for Knoxdale-Merivale ward for 12 years. In the first of our four-part series “In Hindsight,” leading up to the municipal election, we explore the ups and downs of being an Ottawa city councillor – and the one thing Keith Egli wished he knew before becoming one.

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  Episode #124

  The Ottawa music venue that attracted some of the world’s hottest bands

  Aug 3, 202622 minS3

  Le Hibou is a place of near mythical status in the Ottawa music community. A tiny coffee house on Sussex Drive where the likes of Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen played. In this encore episode, Robyn Bresnahan hears memories from those who were there in its heyday and explores whether Le Hibou could ever rise again.

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  Episode #123

  Ottawa’s weirdest auction site

  Jul 27, 202617 minS3

  It’s like eBay - but run by the Canadian government. The GC Surplus site sells everything from ATVs used by the military to Air Jordan sneakers confiscated at the border. In this encore episode, Robyn Bresnahan gets a tour of the Ottawa warehouse - where she discovers the most gobsmacking item of all.

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  Episode #122

  Guardians of graffiti: the effort to protect Ottawa’s vanishing street art

  Jul 20, 202617 minS3

  You can learn a lot about Ottawa through its street art - from protest movements to the histories of neighbourhoods. But graffiti and murals are often temporary. So  a local software developer created a digital map - to archive the art. Robyn Bresnahan bikes the city with him, meeting street artists along the way. 

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