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An Ottawa valedictory: time to leave

As I take my leave from a city that has been home off and on for almost 50 years, I look back with affection and ambivalence, rather than love or hate.

Andrew Caddell writes that when he first came to Ottawa in 1972, it was a relative backwater, compared to Montreal, that he has watched evolve and grow over the years.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

December 2, 2020

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—The poet Kahlil Gibran wrote in The Prophet, “the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.” As I take my leave from a city that has been home off and on for almost 50 years, I look back with affection and ambivalence, rather than love or hate. While my frie...

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