Urban issues

Random acts of urbanism: Therapy dressed as a coffee shop

A place where you are free to find you.

Jun 29 •

Brigitte Pellerin

Garbage sales pitch

In which I disclose secrets from past lives.

Jun 22 •

Brigitte Pellerin

Bringing a Barbie to night life

Non mais on a-tu l’air assez colon?

Jun 14 •

Brigitte Pellerin

Cheers to ... whatever stupid season this is

Being treated like adults? In this economy?

May 23 •

Brigitte Pellerin

Who’s in favour of abusing vulnerable people?

Jan 31 •

Brigitte Pellerin

For whom ByWard

In my Ottawa Citizen column this week I say the revitalization plan for the ByWard Market is good but could be much better — mostly by designing it to…

Jan 24 •

Brigitte Pellerin

Be the squeaky wheel

This week in the Ottawa Citizen I make a very simple case.

Jan 18 •

Brigitte Pellerin

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.

Jan 10 •

Brigitte Pellerin

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…

Jan 4 •

Brigitte Pellerin

Tout le monde en bécyk

May 27, 2024 •

Brigitte Pellerin

We can't all be miserable.

May 10, 2024 •

Brigitte Pellerin

Design for conflict avoidance

And other tripping news.

Apr 19, 2024 •

Brigitte Pellerin

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