Brigitte Pellerin

Be the squeaky wheel

This week in the Ottawa Citizen I make a very simple case. One, I’ve had it up to here with the unreliability of transit in this town and two, knowing I’m

Freezing to death

You’d think it would go without saying that we shouldn’t leave humans to freeze to death on a street corner in a society as rich as ours. My column this week

Try talking to people

Are you recovered from the shock? Congratulations! You’ve unlocked the black-belt level in #canpoli cynicism. I mean, gah. Even the wind was being theatrical Monday morning. The opposition parties just lost their

My plan for 2025

My fav trainer at my kickboxing gym offered to let me write some of my 2025 resolutions for the wall of same we’re apparently building out and I said, dripping sweat on

Time for some beautiful stubbornness

It’s the time of year when we (royal) enjoy looking back on all that effort and the stuff that survived the editing process — mourning in passing the brilliant jokes that didn’t,