Ottawa Citizen Research Articles

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The Making (and Breaking) of a Regional Theatre Critic: Audrey Ashley at the Ottawa Citizen 1961-1985

This article traces the career of Audrey Ashley, who as Drama and Music Editor of The Ottawa Citizen for twenty-five years, wrote reviews of a wide variety of touring and local, professional and amateur theatrical productions. Her work, and her relationship with her editors, is representative of the place of theatre reviewing at regional newspapers. Her length of tenure allows for some reflection on the status and influence of the reviewer in Canada from the 1960s through the 1980s.

MEASURING INEQUALITY WITHIN THE HOUSEHOLD

The purpose of this paper is to explore a number of measures of inequality within households. We focus primarily on two types of inequality, first, inequality in money incomes, second, inequality in control over household resources. Control is measured in two ways: first, as control over the management of household finances and, second, as influence over household decision‐making. We discuss arguments for and against each of the measures of inequality, and compare the measures against one another in terms of the level of inequality each measure finds. The paper does not attempt to explain inequality; instead, its aim is to discuss the question “What is it that we wish to explain?” Perhaps less important, but also revealing, within the 21–34 age group, 90 percent of the males and 80 percent of the females felt that the other partner had more closet space. (“Poll suggests young marriages in big trouble.” The Ottawa Citizen, August 19, 1990.)

Seize the day: Lester B. Pearson and crisis diplomacy

In this uniquely informed account of Pearson's foreign policy in the years 1948-1957, his son places the Golden Age of Canadian diplomacy in historical perspective. Called clear, fair and well-researched by the Ottawa Citizen, and rated as a book of exceptional merit by Quill & Quire.

Ottawa Calendar of Performance in the 1870s

This calendar is the result of research initiated and supervised by Dr Mary M. Brown of the University of Western Ontario, and further developed by Natalie Rewa of the University of Toronto. Using details taken from the extensive data collected, and analysed in the preceding article, the calendar records the advertised and reviewed performances of professional troupes in Ottawa from 1870 to 1879 as found in three contemporary newspapers: the Ottawa Citizen, the Ottawa Free Press, and Ottawa Times.