Brigitte Pellerin

Ottawa

Writer at Freelance

Columnist at Ottawa Citizen

https://t.co/JFYJpjjy5m J’écris. Writer. @OttawaCitizen columnist.

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From Bama with Bite: Welcome to World War Three

4 days ago | open.substack.com | Brigitte Pellerin

My attentive subscriber will notice this post coming with a different header. After experimenting with various formats, I have decided to simplify my life and merge all three newsletters into one. Don’t worry if you’re a subscriber — I’ve already moved you. This is a full-service operation, you know.
Garbage sales pitch

5 days ago | brigittepellerin.com | Brigitte Pellerin

I’m just back from Huntsville, Alabama, where I had the most wonderful time full of amazing work and friends and lovely times. There’s only one thing that makes me wince, it’s how people in that part of the world — by which I mean the South, generally — take a pretty casual view of waste reduction. Ain’t no giant Zero Waste movement down there, that’s for sure.
Pellerin: Too much garbage? One man's trash is another man's treasure

6 days ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Brigitte Pellerin

Not to boast, but I once sold personal accident insurance door-to-door in rural Quebec. I feel this makes me uniquely qualified to find a spot for our trash now that the Trail Road waste facility is near capacity and we seem thoroughly unable to change our behaviour or think outside the garbage pail. If only we’d had some warning though, eh?
Pellerin: Too much garbage? One man's trash is another man's treasure

6 days ago | ottawacitizen.com | Brigitte Pellerin

Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1The City of Ottawa has shied away from any meaningful action to deal with its rapidly filling dump. Time to talk someone into taking it off our hands. Article contentNot to boast, but I once sold personal accident insurance door-to-door in rural Quebec. I feel this makes me uniquely qualified to find a spot for our trash now that the Trail Road waste facility is near capacity and we seem thoroughly unable to change our behaviour or think outside the garbage pail.
BamaQc

1 week ago | open.substack.com | Brigitte Pellerin

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A day fit for no kings

1 week ago | open.substack.com | Brigitte Pellerin

As I sit in my Lowe Mill temporary abode snacking on pimento cheese and crackers (when in the South…), I reflect on events of a somber day that started with what looks like a targeted political assassination in Minnesota. At the time of writing, it’s unclear what the motives may have been so I will refrain from speculating. It’s just not helpful.
Bringing a Barbie to night life

1 week ago | open.substack.com | Brigitte Pellerin

One thing I love about my work and my life (which are sometimes difficult to untangle), is that I get to watch movies and use them to make fun of pompous ideas and unforgivable doofusery. To wit, this week, the idea of bringing “night ambassadors” to the ByWard Market to make us feel better about ourselves or some such. I am aware programs like this exist elsewhere. I am also aware that some people like having human Swiss Army knives play the role of guide-cop-nurse-friend-social worker.
Pellerin: Welcome to the magical world of ByWard Market 'ambassadors'

2 weeks ago | ottawacitizen.com | Brigitte Pellerin |Christina Spencer

Advertisement 1In Ottawa, apparently, we are so inept at going out for the evening that we need assistance to do it in the prescribed manner. Article contentEvery time I think we’ve hit rock-bottom, this town manages to go one further and burst through the membrane that separates our special city from the rest of the normal world. The ByWard Market “night ambassadors” pilot project is so profoundly weird I had to rewatch the Barbie movie to make sense of it.
Pellerin: Welcome to the magical world of ByWard Market 'ambassadors'

2 weeks ago | ca.movies.yahoo.com | Brigitte Pellerin

An aerial view of the ByWard Market at night. There's anelement of magical thinking about the latest plan. (Credit: Ottawa Tourism)Every time I think we’ve hit rock-bottom, this town manages to go one further and burst through the membrane that separates our special city from the rest of the normal world. The ByWard Market “night ambassadors” pilot project is so profoundly weird I had to rewatch the Barbie movie to make sense of it.
BamaQc

2 weeks ago | bamaqc.substack.com | Brigitte Pellerin

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