Sylvie Hill

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – March 17, 2005 I was checking my messages the other day, and I had one new message. It was from the Motorsports Centre in Gatineau saying we have to talk about a broken part on my Ski-Doo. What a relief! Hey wait … I don’t have a Ski-Doo. Do you […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – March 10, 2005 So I read in the papers last Friday that the City could do more to lower the levels of chlamydia and gonorrhea among young people if it could bring safe-sex and testing programs into English Catholic schools. But guess what? The Ottawa-Carleton Catholic school board isn’t really […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – March 3, 2005 …says who? For starters, the kids themselves. Take for instance high-schooler and online XPress reader, D’Janau Morales. He argues that kids aren’t all bad as Shotgun portrayed them to be in “Tough Ass to Crack” (February 17) and cautions against generalizing about “kids today,” speaking out against […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – Feburary 24, 2005 Catching your partner checking out porn behind your back after he’s convinced you he’s not into that is a bit like laughing and vomiting at the same time. It’s both funny and disturbing. Whether women are tapping into the nurturing part of their brain or prefer a […]

Ottawa XPress, Feburary 17, 2005 Has this ever happened to you? You’re sitting alone on the bus or waiting quietly by yourself on a bench for a friend when all of a sudden an imposing group of loud teenagers saunters in your direction. You immediately categorize them as a bunch of wannabe toughies and continue […]

Ottawa XPress, Feburary 10, 2005 There’s a place in my soul where No one else can adore you And like the poet-soldier says I would spill my blood for you. ~ “Subversives,” by Lowest of the Low Valentine’s Day is upon us, smeared with romance and chocolate marshmallow treats, with heart-shaped boxes and red velour […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – Feburary 3, 2005 People use Internet sex sites to explore, escape, educate and ejaculate. A Google search on the word “porn” returns over 80 million pages, and “XXX” provides more than 76 million. Each day, hundreds of thousands of individuals access the Internet to make a sexual contact with each […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – January 27, 2005 The guy who put the “Tony” in Tony’s Smoke and Roma Barber Shop at 233 Elgin Street passed away suddenly last week. A hand-written note on the door announced the sad news. It’s a tiny shop where you can buy bus tickets, scan dusty old National Geographic […]

Ottawa XPress, January 20, 2005 For a woman to tout the achievements of her gender with praise and admiration does not mean automatically she’s a feminist. And, far from being a judgmental anti-feminist, when one female points out another female’s shortcomings – such as cheating on a boyfriend or maybe dressing inappropriately for winter – […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – January 13, 2005 Waiting for the bus on chilly mornings, I really have to do something about the way I view presentable, professionally dressed women in winter. I fear I may be too critical of their gear. In my diligent study of women’s outdoor appearance – delightful hats, flimsy scarves, […]