Shotgun / October 2005

A tale of two cities

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – October 27, 2005 Once upon a time, The Rolling Stones made a video called “The Streets of Love” in Ottawa (rollingstones.com/abiggerbang). But it was a fairy-tale make-believe Ottawa, and all the little Ottawans got silly with glee! A downtown Ottawa nightclub owner, a head honcho at an Ottawa-Gatineau film office, [...]

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New huts, are you nuts?!

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – October 20, 2005 Taking the bus is already a pain in the ass-must OC Transpo rub our faces in it too? OC Transpo raises fares to the extortionate rate of $2.75 a trip while it is needlessly replacing some of the city’s bus stop shelter huts with newer ones. Now [...]

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Health or hygiene

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – October 6, 2005 Would it be for health or hygiene that you’d cut your period out of your life? And do you think you’d be more independent and self-assured? The makers of Seasonale® (www.seasonale.com) think so. I learned about Seasonale® through a documentary called Menstruation Suppression that aired a while [...]

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