Three young men from Ottawa created a travel experience app that allows users to book unique excursions in the city and can also put people in touch with travel buddies. Watch their story be...

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It's dinner time. A chicken breast stuffed with cheese and wrapped in slices of thick-cut bacon sizzles in a searing hot pan. The smell of bacon fills the kitchen as the smoke rises from the pan. Served with a heaping side of roasted broccoli in garlic butter, it's time to chow down. After a deliciously indulgent meal, what's for dessert?...

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March 1 is World Compliment Day, originated by Hans Poortvilet, a recognition professional in the Netherlands. He started the initiative in the Netherlands and wanted to spread it all over the world after seeing its success in his country. He says the best way to celebrate the day is by giving someone a genuine, heartfelt compliment in words, not gifts....

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In today’s society, everyone is looking for the next great experience to be shared over their social media. This is something two recent graduates from Ottawa realized and decided to capitalize on this opportunity. Back in 2016 Ismail Benmbarek and his friend Ali Kazal started to come up with the ideas for an app that is now called Wandure. “I...

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It’s a cold, sunny Saturday morning as Amanda Pavone and her sister Daniela take Prince, a young German Shepard mix to a dog park for the first time. He gets excited over seeing other dogs and playing on top of the snow while his two-legged friends are sinking in it... silly humans. The sisters have only had Prince for two...

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It was a painfully cold Tuesday afternoon as students on the University of Ottawa campus were bundled up walking to class. Hats, mitts, and scarves were worn to try and keep that bone-chilling frost away, but inside the Montpetit basketball court, the Gee-Gee men’s basketball team was dripping with sweat. In nothing but jerseys, shorts and sneakers, the men panted...

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Remember when you were a kid watching your favourite cartoon on a Saturday morning while your Mom poured you a bowl of your favourite cereal? Your toughest decision of the day was choosing between Froot Loops or Lucky Charms. But nothing was more satisfying than the first crunch of sugary goodness while the opening credits of SpongeBob SquarePants played from...

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James Craig is a student in Ottawa nearing the end of his undergraduate degree. Like many people his age, Craig has a lot of questions about what his future holds and what direction in life he should take. And so, for the first time, he visited psychic mediums to see what they had to say about his future. The first...

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Aviation management students are playing catch up after a turbulent start to the school year.“We’ve had a few problems over the summer, one was we were short a few airplanes at the Ottawa Flying Club but the other being that the other two flight schools that we work with are also short on flight instructors,” said aviation management program coordinator...

The University of Ottawa recently cut off ties with their student federation (SFUO) after serious allegations of fraud. Investigations are still ongoing but this recent incident has left undergraduate students at the university shaken, without a stable government to represent them. Contemplating the incident, the Algonquin Times wanted to know: could such a break-up and subsequent allegations happen at Algonquin?In...