By Anne Boys-Hope – The robots are coming… to clean the beach. Friendly and hardworking, these robots are destined for something great: to help conquer the world’s shoreline pollution problem and engage the community in science and technology. Erin Kennedy (aka RobotGrrl), Ottawa-based inventor and founder of Robot […]
By Anne Boys-Hope – You could call it the field of dreams. The land at the corner of Dovercourt and Roosevelt Avenues was once a swamp that was transformed into a park and became the site of a small community centre and finally, a recreation centre called Dovercourt. […]
By Anne Boys-Hope – In 2007, writer Louise Bradford came face-to-face with a young moose in Lake Superior Provincial Park. That moose became her muse, and the central character of her first picture book – Wade’s Wiggly Antlers. “I stood looking at him, and he looked at me. […]
By Anne Boys-Hope – Sophie Cardinal’s garden is busier than a Kitchissippi coffee shop but her patrons are so small you can barely see them. Look closely: hundreds of insects buzz around the flowering plants and specially designed bee houses in her pollinator-friendly yard. This Westboro resident and bug […]
By Anne Boys-Hope – Books about history and Zen are at the top of Olympian Michael Tayler’s summer reading list but he won’t exactly be getting lost in a good book for a few more weeks. First, he will compete in this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio. The […]
By Anne Boys-Hope – Nancy Mooney went down to Westboro Beach the day that Corporal Nathan Cirillo died. She wasn’t alone. “The beach was filled with people as the sky turned orange and then pink. People just stood around silently, no talking, no laughter just a pervasive sadness […]
By Anne Boys-Hope – You’ve heard about computers for schools? How about apples for schools? Not the kind for computing, but the kind for eating. A Westboro elementary school is bringing apples into the classroom to provide a healthy snack and encourage healthy living. Starting this month, Churchill […]
By Anne Boys-Hope – “Do not give me a bag of potato chips. I will eat the whole bag,” says Donna Davis, who laughs heartily as she rhymes off a list of her favourite treats: chocolate, coffee (she has a cup every morning, without milk), the occasional glass […]
By Anne Boys-Hope – It’s lunchtime and students are packed into the music room at Churchill Alternative School in Westboro, belting out a heartfelt rendition of the Beatles classic “Hey Jude.” This is Churchill School of Rock—the school’s junior choir—rehearsing for their hugely popular annual concert, which will […]
By Anne-Boys Hope – In her new collection of poetry, Pearl Pirie introduces readers to pet radishes, wild dust bunnies and secret agent squirrels (we’re looking at you Westboro squirrel!) that live in and around her Wellington West home. Released on March 5, the pet radish, shrunken contains […]
When Mona Kalra immigrated to Canada in 2002, she brought with her the hopes and dreams of her family in India. “It was my father’s dream for me to become a physiotherapist and open my own clinic,” says Kalra. Ten years later, she owns not one, but two […]
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