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
Math anxiety in Ottawa schools – why psychologists are worried (24.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- 5-star filter: why Ottawa’s ‘food-stagrammers’ don’t post bad reviews
- Lansdowne 2.0 is a go. Now what?
- Tapped out: how Ottawa’s rural residents are coping without water
- Wazzup Witches! The Ottawans making a living off witchcraft
- Why can't the police stop street racing in Ottawa?
- The school shooting that shocked Ottawa 50 years ago
- The one where Robyn pulled an all-nighter on Elgin Street
- How are rising commercial rents changing the fabric of the city?
- Could a legendary Ottawa music venue be resurrected?
- Thousands of Ottawans turned up to a pop-up melanoma screening clinic. Dozens walked away with a skin cancer diagnosis.
- Should Ottawa burn its garbage?
- Catcalls, eye rolls and butt slaps: life for women working in the trades
- A day in the life of CHEO’s critical care response team
- Saying good-bye to one of Chinatown’s most iconic restaurants
- Exploring the prolonged closure of the O’Brien Hotel in Gatineau Park
- A mountain or a mole hill? Assessing Ottawa’s Rat problem
- Well bred: what it takes to become an RCMP horse
- How Kanata North made mosquitoes less of a buzz kill
- The Bru-tiful Game: Ottawa’s roller derby players on broken fingers, belonging and boycotting the USA
- The next Instant Pot? The tech entrepreneurs hoping to make it big in Ottawa
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