Category: Guest columnist

by Kevin Bourne ONWARD AND UPWARD: 11 WAYS OTTAWA BECAME MORE “BLACK” IN 2020 When I first moved to the capital from Toronto, Ottawa was very slow and small. It…

Moving Forward with Purpose in 2021   by Hector Addison Without a doubt, the year 2020 was an incredibly challenging year for everyone. A year many do not wish to remember….

Post-inauguration, restoring the soul of Biden’s America must be truly inclusive January 20, 2021 by Daniel McNeil, Associate Professor of History, Carleton University Over the past few months, I’ve been editing…

Exit the Apprentice from the White House By Ewart Walters It was 2008 and Senator Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency of the United States. His opponents were searching…

COVID-19 here to cause havoc on minority communities?” By Professor Kusi-Appiah, QE scholar, 2019/2020 Introduction In this article, I am appealing to adherents of neoliberalism as an economic system to…

Abdi trial verdict shows benefit of the doubt is the ultimate white privilege By Robin Browne October 21, 2020 On Tuesday, Oct. 20, Justice Robert Kelly cleared Ottawa Police Service Constable…

By Robin Browne September 30, 2020 In 2018, in a ranking of 415 cities, towns and villages, MoneySense Magazine named Russell Township, 40 minutes southeast of Ottawa, as one of the…

“The worker gets the short end of the neoliberalist stick.” By Andy Kusi-Appiah QE Scholar, 2019/2020 It all began with an idea: We now live in an uberized world where…

by Robin Browne In his message, Testing Leadership: An Inconvenient Truth, posted on the Ottawa Police Association website, OPA president Matt Skof says Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly has failed on…

Walters: Ottawa police union boss’s attack on Chief Sloly fails the credibility test by Ewart Walters Sep 18, 2020   The credibility of Ottawa Police Association president Matt Skof has been…