In 2012, while working for the Ottawa Citizen, I was asked to write a piece on the “worst summer job I ever had” as part of a series all the reporters were supposed to take part in. It was designed to be a rebuttal to then-Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, who had recently claimed there are no bad jobs while trying to sell changes the government … Read More
The tenure of Les Gagne as the head of the Sparks Street Business Improvement Area always did have the air of a last-gasp effort. If his ideas to bring a zipline to Ottawa’s pedestrian mall or to have tourists down a shot of liquor and then kiss a beaver in the shadow of the Parliament buildings seemed kind of kooky, … Read More