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Suzanne Westover

Suzanne Westover

Ottawa Citizen

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Westover: Our new dog upended our lives. We love him anyway

23.01.2025 30

Ottawa Citizen

Suzanne Westover

Westover: Ottawa's new garbage rules — just a load of rubbish?

So many of our international peers have done away with, or minimized, traditional garbage collection. Why can't Ottawa follow suit?

01.10.2024 4

Ottawa Citizen

Suzanne Westover

Westover: This Ottawa resident has reached the tipping point over tipping

North America has always been an outlier on tipping. In Europe, waitstaff are paid a living wage and tipping is the exception, not the rule.

21.09.2024 7

Ottawa Citizen

Suzanne Westover

Westover: Visiting 9/11 Memorial & Museum evoked fresh empathy, 23 years later

By affording visitors a glimpse of something deeply individual about one or two victims, the museum suddenly made them all more real.

10.09.2024 5

Ottawa Citizen

Suzanne Westover

Westover: Surely we can make hospital emergency departments work better

While we try to untangle the Gordian knot of the training and hiring of more family doctors, can't we make the current situation in the ER more...

05.09.2024 6

Ottawa Citizen

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Westover: New York City — where theatre and cellphones do NOT mix

Theatre-goers who had committed the cardinal sin of not leaving their phone alone found themselves in the spotlight for all to see. How gratifying...

02.08.2024 4

Ottawa Citizen

Suzanne Westover