From Blue Bins to Beer Stores, recycling programs in Ontario are not meeting targets. We spoke to the Environmental Defence Fund and other environmental justice advocates about what happened and their concerns. Read the full story: leveller.ca/2025/09/onta... #onpoli #onnews

I've spent the past month trying to understand what's going on behind the scenes at Ottawa's Capital Pride after they mysteriously removed their Palestine solidarity statement. Thanks to @theleveller.bsky.social for publishing this!

Queers For Palestine #Ottawa organized a demonstration within the #CapitalPride parade. For weeks, Palestinian solidarity activists were organizing - so were politicians and pro-genocide institutions. We explain what really happened in the run-up to these events. leveller.ca/2025/09/putt... #ottpoli

An agreement between the City and landlord neglects tenants' demands and needs during a housing emergency. We illustrated a timeline of a downtown #Ottawa demoviction in a feature following Bank St tenants from Sept to this weekend's eviction deadline. leveller.ca/2025/08/city... #ottpoli #onpoli

Billions in investment for #nuclear power is planned in #Canada - but is it in the national interest? Energy justice advocates and environmentalists discuss Carney's and the provinces' plans for new plants and waste projects. leveller.ca/2025/08/nucl... #cdnpoli #onpoli #cdnnews #onnews

“They talk about transparency and accountability... but they don't do anything about it.” The school board in Ottawa is just one of the elected boards taken over by provincial supervisors in the aftermath of Premier Ford's underfunding. leveller.ca/2025/07/the-... #onpoli #ottpoli

Super honoured to have been an editor on this piece. The housing crisis in Ottawa has become untenable, but tenants have also started to organize and tell their stories like I’ve never seen before. Give it a read, and consider organizing your building.

A rental building became a construction site in the Golden Triangle neighbourhood of #Ottawa as tenants live during renovations, receive N13 eviction notices. Read about how Concorde Properties is renovicting tenants and how they are pushing back leveller.ca/2025/06/rent... #onpoli #ottpoli #ottnews

Carleton University's budget cuts staff and student resources, instructors as well as library and IT services, but invests millions into companies violating human rights despite calls for divestment. We explore the educational disparity & student opposition: leveller.ca/2025/06/carl... #ottpoli

The Ottawa Anarchist Bookfair is run by a group of local anarchists and anarchic-organizers who are interested in cultivating a culture of autonomous and decentralized organizing in so-called ottawa. Visit our table on Saturday and talk about the news! More info: ottanarchistbookfair.noblogs.org

We are seeking editors and a writer for our June issue! Do you want to be involved in power-challenging, community-based journalism? Read our Contributors' Newsletter, forward it to people you know, respond to this opportunity and consider joining our July Story Meeting: leveller.ca?na=view&id=55

Forget your Fantasy Hockey brackets! We pit 56 contenders for the NDP leadership from around Canada and match them up to see who could potentially lead the party from non-status status-quo to something actually progressive. Read about our theoretical choices: leveller.ca/2025/05/the-... #cdnpoli

"CANSEC isn’t just a trade show — it’s a symbol of the government’s refusal to act in the face of genocide" We're reporting on the protests to Shut Down CANSEC at the #Ottawa EY Centre on May 28. leveller.ca/2025/05/heig... #ottpoli #onpoli #ottnews #onnews #palestine

Tomorrow marks International Workers' Day! We dive into the recent history of actions here in Ottawa, anticipating an entire month of May Day events that includes protests, pickets and discussions, organized or promoted by local anarchists Punch Up Collective. leveller.ca/2025/04/a-mo... #ottpoli

“We will expect more fines, more tickets, and more charges against peaceful protests should this by-law be enacted.” Check out our op-ed in the @leveller_ottawa to learn all about the implications of a "bubble bylaw" on protesting in #OttCity: leveller.ca/2025/04/bubb...

“We will expect more fines, more tickets, and more charges against peaceful protests should this by-law be enacted.” We question and debunk the Vulnerable Social Infrastructure By-law feasibility assessment by the City of #Ottawa #ottpoli #ottnews leveller.ca/2025/04/bubb...

For #MayDay 2025, Ottawa groups are organizing a month of activities to protest, build, learn, & celebrate as together we fight for a better future. Join us for a month of May Day! Visit maydayottawa.org for details. @rad-events-ottawa.bsky.social @theleveller.bsky.social @csottawa.bsky.social

Tomorrow marks International Workers' Day! We dive into the recent history of actions here in Ottawa, anticipating an entire month of May Day events that includes protests, pickets and discussions, organized or promoted by local anarchists Punch Up Collective. leveller.ca/2025/04/a-mo... #ottpoli

With Trudeau out of the way, is Carney a good leader for a political party? Is Poilievre? Are any of these party leaders good for anyone? We examine the state of Canadian federal politics while looking ahead to party conventions. #CDNpoli #elxn45 #CanadaVotes leveller.ca/2025/04/edit...

Pollievre is a populist echoing Trump's fascist instincts. Carney is just defending the poisonous neoliberal order. So how do we act in an era of electoral despair? Read our editorial: leveller.ca/2025/03/edit... #CanadianElection #Canada #Election2025

Wrote an op-ed instead of rambling on Facebook like I normally would have. Thanks to @theleveller.bsky.social for the opportunity! leveller.ca/2025/04/edit...

With Trudeau out of the way, is Carney a good leader for a political party? Is Poilievre? Are any of these party leaders good for anyone? We examine the state of Canadian federal politics while looking ahead to party conventions. #CDNpoli #elxn45 #CanadaVotes leveller.ca/2025/04/edit...

Pollievre is a populist echoing Trump's fascist instincts. Carney is just defending the poisonous neoliberal order. So how do we act in an era of electoral despair? Read our editorial: leveller.ca/2025/03/edit... #CanadianElection #Canada #Election2025

“I can promise you that you will leave the theatre having learned nothing and the characters will leave the stage having learned nothing.” Sock 'n' Buskin's performance of Rumors at #CarletonU #Ottawa was "pure enjoyment." The Picture of Dorian Gray premiers Thursday. leveller.ca/2025/03/sock...

The Leveller has compiled each of the Ottawa-Centre provincial candidate's stance on housing, healthcare, climate and other issues into an easy guide so that you can be sure you know exactly who you’re voting for on February 27: leveller.ca/2025/02/otta... #onpoli #ottpoli #ONelxn

Is it #Ottawa that's not romantic enough, or is it Gen Z? We spoke to #CarletonU students about what dating is like in a world in perpetual crisis. It's different than how their parents met. leveller.ca/2025/02/the-...

The Leveller has compiled each of the Ottawa-Centre provincial candidate's stance on housing, healthcare, climate and other issues into an easy guide so that you can be sure you know exactly who you’re voting for on February 27: leveller.ca/2025/02/otta... #onpoli #ottpoli #ONelxn

DJNO, @DisabilityPM, @ODSPAction & disabled organizers from around Ontario have put together a new post-election platform: EndAusterity.ca. Friends, this is bigger than any election. Enough is enough—30 years of austerity & social murder of disabled people needs to end.

While I understand the limits of the planning committee this is still an awful outcome. It's unconscionable that these two investors are throwing people out of their decades long homes while running it all as a shady financial scheme.

“How in the world could the City of #Ottawa approve another development application involving the same investors who owe them half a million dollars?” We investigated the #Ontario Smart Living Properties' forced receivership and more money owed. Read about it here: leveller.ca/2025/02/smar...

Our next Story Meeting is Monday, February 3 at 7pm. More details: leveller.ca/story-meeting The Leveller needs you! Join our story meeting, pitch ideas, sign up, and take on assignments. We pay per article for editors, illustrators, photographers ($35), writers ($85) and feature authors ($115).

Students say campus Palestinian events face disproportionate scrutiny, interruptions and shutdowns by security We spoke to local chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine, @ijvcanada.bsky.social & the Carleton University Human Rights Society Read it here: leveller.ca/2025/01/carl... #ottpoli

“Education is the key to breaking this stigma. We need to explain what mental illness is, talk about it openly, and share our stories.” We spoke with a Somali community member living in #Ottawa about generational trauma, culture and religion impacts mental health stigma. leveller.ca/2025/01/ment...

“If you look at any of the major unions, a lot of them have social justice funds, do work around human rights and health and safety. Those are all core things that apply to the issue of Palestine.” We discuss #Ottawa unions' role in Palestinian solidarity. #ottpoli leveller.ca/2025/01/otta...

“Eliminating these sites could lead to an increase in public drug use and improperly discarded needles, posing health risks to the broader community.” We spoke to an #Ottawa community member about the #Ontario government ban on Safe Consumption Sites. #ottpoli #onpoli leveller.ca/2025/01/onta...

We pay per article contribution as well as editors, photographers and illustrators. We publish issues monthly and are looking for writers on important social, economic and environmental justice stories in #Ottawa Learn more about paid opportunities: Leveller.ca/Get-Involved #carletonu #carleton

"Settling a deficit on the backs of workers is not a smart or creative solution." Unions at Carleton University spoke to The Charlatan about the administration's budget choices. charlatan.ca/disheartenin...

“You’re pushing people away from this service.” Unreliability, fare hikes, route cuts, broken agreements and a train line that's been down for 4 years; we report on the ongoing tragedy of public transit in #Ottawa. leveller.ca/2024/12/payi... #ottpoli #onpoli #carletonu #uottawa

Council has just approved the 2025 Budget, and after significant backlash from the community, they backed down on some of the worst fare increases, but what we're left with is still a budget that puts the burden of funding transit on riders. Read more: www.horizonottawa.ca/budget_2025_...

We've heard a lot from Mark Sutcliffe about how the hole in the trasnit budget is a result of other levels of govt shortchanging the city but how did we really get here? Read the latest from me in @theleveller.bsky.social about how this financial mess is the city's own making:

On Wednesday Ottawa City Council will deliberate a budget that doesn't work for the people living in the city. @horizonottawa.bsky.social coordinator @samhersh01.bsky.social writes how transit expenses are offloaded onto riders while proposing an alternative. leveller.ca/2024/12/city...

It's the midnight release of our Gift Giving Guide! We're giving away our secrets and showing you how to save BIG this Black Friday in #Ottawa (hint: it's buying nothing and spending time with your community). leveller.ca/2024/11/the-...

So many new followers! To re-introduce ourselves, we're a left-leaning newspaper funding by Carleton University students to report on campus, municipal, national and international news. The best way to follow our work is to sign up to our Readers' Newsletter at leveller.ca/newsletter

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How are #Ontario housing rental rules enabling landlords to displace tenants for more profit? The Leveller explores vacancy decontrol and what it has done to people living in #Ottawa recently. leveller.ca/2024/10/rent... #ottpoli #onpoli #onhousing

"I did not feel like myself." Menopause in healthcare education is sparse and it is impacting women's health disproportionately, according to @DrSheilaW and @MenopauseFdnCan Read about it here: leveller.ca/2024/10/addr... #cdnhealth #womenshealth

Will Community Land Trusts - non-profit property ownership off of the speculative for-profit market - be the way forward for affordable housing in #Ottawa #Ontario? We explore this possibility and local activities throughout the province. Read about it here: leveller.ca/2024/10/livi...

After receiving eviction notices, one of the #Ottawa Bank Block Tenants shares their story and thoughts on housing in #Canada. "The fact that Canada perpetuates a system of housing commodification does not make that system morally just." leveller.ca/2024/09/the-... #Ontario #ottpoli #onpoli

"I don’t understand why Smart Living has refused to meet with us as a group. They are planning to destroy our homes and the least they could do is talk to us." Residents in downtown #Ottawa organize rally against mass evictions. leveller.ca/bank-street-... #ontario #onpoli #ottpoli

On Friday, May 24, the #Ottawa community gathered to celebrate Just Voices' 20th anniversary concert in effort to raise money for the Ottawa Food Bank. The Leveller had a photojournalist there to document it. leveller.ca/a-choir-with...