This is Ottawa
What would it take to make the Rideau Canal swimmable? Where do you go to find love in Ottawa when you've given up on online dating? Every week, host Robyn Bresnahan seeks out people to answer one question about the city we love. New episodes every Monday.
Latest Episode
The one where Robyn pulled an all-nighter on Elgin Street (06.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- How are rising commercial rents changing the fabric of the city? 29.09.2025
- Could a legendary Ottawa music venue be resurrected? 22.09.2025
- Thousands of Ottawans turned up to a pop-up melanoma screening clinic. Dozens walked away with a skin cancer diagnosis. 15.09.2025
- Should Ottawa burn its garbage? 08.09.2025
- Catcalls, eye rolls and butt slaps: life for women working in the trades 01.09.2025
- A day in the life of CHEO’s critical care response team 25.08.2025
- Saying good-bye to one of Chinatown’s most iconic restaurants 18.08.2025
- Exploring the prolonged closure of the O’Brien Hotel in Gatineau Park 11.08.2025
- A mountain or a mole hill? Assessing Ottawa’s Rat problem 04.08.2025
- Well bred: what it takes to become an RCMP horse 28.07.2025
- How Kanata North made mosquitoes less of a buzz kill 21.07.2025
- The Bru-tiful Game: Ottawa’s roller derby players on broken fingers, belonging and boycotting the USA 14.07.2025
- The next Instant Pot? The tech entrepreneurs hoping to make it big in Ottawa 07.07.2025
- New to This is Ottawa? Start here 04.07.2025
- Forget cold plunges. Saunas are so hot right now 30.06.2025
- Dow’s Lake is open for swimming! 23.06.2025
- How do you demolish a highrise in the middle of the city? 16.06.2025
- Spat on, attacked and threatened: librarians on the frontlines 09.06.2025
- Hooked on urban fishing in the Rideau Canal 02.06.2025
- The rise of the run club 26.05.2025
