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1 month ago | 
theglobeandmail.com | Ijeoma Ukazu
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1 month ago | 
theglobeandmail.com | Ijeoma Ukazu
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1 month ago | 
theglobeandmail.com | Ijeoma Ukazu
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
capitalcurrent.ca | Ijeoma Ukazu
Francis Dixon says the City of Ottawa’s shift toward person-centred care has enhanced his sense of independence and dignity at Carleton Lodge, a long-term care home by the Rideau River — one of four run by the city. “I can wake up when my body allows, and the staff genuinely care about my needs,” the 87-year-old retired clergyman told Capital Current.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
shorturl.at | Ijeoma Ukazu
Francis Dixon says the City of Ottawa’s shift toward person-centred care has enhanced his sense of independence and dignity at Carleton Lodge, a long-term care home by the Rideau River — one of four run by the city. “I can wake up when my body allows, and the staff genuinely care about my needs,” the 87-year-old retired clergyman told Capital Current.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
capitalcurrent.ca | Ijeoma Ukazu
It took Ottawa’s Planning and Housing Committee just five minutes to approve a low-rise development in Orleans, something the local councillor attributes to a community-engaged process and a land-swap deal to save a local woodland. “Often, we’ve got a conflict between what the community wants and what the developer wants,” said Orléans South-Navan Coun. Catherine Kitts, a member of the committee.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
cusjc.ca | Ijeoma Ukazu
It’s a Saturday morning in early February. Temperatures in Ottawa are a frigid -20C, with a wind chill that makes it feel even chillier. And yet, outside The Merry Dairy – an ice cream shop in Hintonburg – a line of customers, some still wearing pajamas, forms soon after sunrise. Ice cream? In the dead of an Ottawa winter? Yes, says the shop’s owner, Marlene Haley. “People think it’s too cold for ice cream,” she said in an interview.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
cusjc.ca | Ijeoma Ukazu
By Ijeoma Ukazu An expert on oceans and fisheries slammed a recent Federal Court decision to overturn the Liberal government’s ban on single-use plastics, calling the move “terrible” for oceans and marine life. While Canada plans to achieve net zero plastic waste by 2030, the possibility of this has just been pushed further away, according to Rashid Sumaila, an economist at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
capitalcurrent.ca | Ijeoma Ukazu
“Groceries are expensive,” said Mukazi Ntagungira, a third-year international development and globalization student at the University of Ottawa. So expensive, in fact, she was one of dozens of students forced to rely on her campus food bank during the fall semester in 2022. Since then, demand has only increased. Students in need can access the food bank every first Monday of the month, Ntagungira said. But, on subsequent days, she added, there is little, or nothing left, and that is a concern.
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
theabujainquirer.com | Ijeoma Ukazu
By Ijeoma UKAZUGlobally, women and girls suffer extremely from sexual violence with the majority of these incidences going unreported. To mitigate this, approaches that speak to preventive as well as curative measures must be adopted. According to the World Health Organisation, WHO, 30 percent of women have experienced intimate partner violence. That is 736 million women around the world.
