Capital Current Articles

This is an article I wrote in my final year at Carleton University when I was writing a lot about the intersection of psychedelics and mental health in Canada. Psilocybin dispensaries started opening all around Ottawa and Toronto. I was interested in learning about how these dispensaries were opening despite legal regulations surrounding the sale of psilocybin in Canada.

Canada’s capital has joined the psychedelic renaissance after welcoming its third magic mushroom dispensary, following Health Canada opened a narrow window of permissible use of the otherwise illegal drug.

You can touch, you can play… in the World of Barbie.

The exhibit located at Square One Shopping Centre in Mississauga is an immersive experience that celebrates the world-famous fashion toy icon.

The Canadian National Exhibition has been a trademark end to Toronto summers since 1879. One of Canada’s largest exhibition fairs, it attracts 1.5 million visitors each year. It is running

After it was cancelled for the first time in its 146-year-long run in 2020, Torontonians were wondering if the CNE would recover or even ever return.

Following the stunning July 8 mass internet outage which affected roughly half of all Canadians, the company at the centre of the storm said a coding issue caused the shutdown.

This is an article I wrote while working for Capital Current during the summer between my third and fourth year at Carleton University.

It all started in a church basement back in 2003 and today, two decades later, the Toronto Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) was set up in the Toronto Reference Library hosting 6,000 patrons in person this past weekend.

Toronto’s Beaches Jazz Festival celebrated 35 years with a final weekend full of live music, delicious food and hundreds of excited fans who packed Queen Street East.

As the internet era rolls on, app developers are in a hurry to create the next Facebook, Twitter or whatever will get users on their screens taking in content.

Canadians gathered in Ottawa in their thousands on Friday to celebrate and to protest as the country marked 155 years of Confederation with the first in-person national party in three years.

This is an article I wrote while in my fourth year at Carleton University. I had been working at a daycare and was observing the intense covid protocols in place to keep kids safe, as they were too young to be vaccinated.

Some Ottawa restaurants are struggling to staff the front of house even as Ontario’s unemployment rate falls to a 33-year low.

This is an article I wrote while working for Capital Current during the summer between my third and fourth year at Carleton University.

June 2 was a significant moment for elections in Ontario. Whether it was disinterest in candidates, distrust in parties or apathy, voter turnout was 43 per cent.

An eco-friendly push by Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Rawlson King to begin replacing the city’s gas-powered leaf blowers and other lawn equipment with electric tools heads to city council for approval.

A woman was located after being missing for 42 years. A detective said it's never too late to solve these cases.

This is an article I wrote while working for Capital Current during the summer between my third and fourth year at Carleton University.

Following a city council decision on June 9, 2022, the city of Ottawa has confirmed it will be continuing its e-scooter program for the 2022 summer and fall seasons as intended.

This is an article I wrote while working for Capital Current during the summer between my third and fourth year at Carleton University.

Canadians are travelling in large numbers for the first time since COVID-19 closed the skies more than two years ago.

But those eager passengers are confronting snarled airports across the country. Nowhere is more congested than Canada’s largest, the understaffed Toronto Pearson Airport where unclaimed luggage is piling up and, on some days, half of all flights are delayed. No wonder, travellers’ anger is growing.

Shawn Menard says he wants Ottawa to become a more progressive city.

That’s why he is running for re-election in Capital Ward in this October’s municipal election after serving on the last city council term from 2018 to 2022.