Ottawa Citizen editor Sofia Misenheimer takes in the view of Major's Hill Park, which sits behind the Chateau Laurier Hotel and beside the Rideau Canal locks and Parliament Hill. (Credit: JULIE OLIVER ...

Montreal, the second largest French-speaking city in the world My husband majored in French, and I know a tiny bit from a college semester in Europe, so during our two-hour drive from Ottawa, we gave ...

When I walked into a downtown Ottawa ServiceOntario location this summer, I braced for the Montreal routine: an hours-long wait to be called, a clerk looking mildly inconvenienced by my presence, ...