Stories from our community | | | | |  | | | | Haircuts are back. Meet three stylists and barbers thrilled to reunite with clients who have become more like friends.
For Samantha Belli (left), Mui Manh (centre), and Bilal Sabra (right), it’s more than just a haircut. These hairdressers and barbers have forged life-long friendships with their clients and the reopening of salons has meant a long-awaited reunion.
“Clients don’t just come to get their hair done, they come to feel good, they come to look good. It’s almost like therapy,” explains Samantha Belli, stylist at HeadQuarters Hair Salon. “I call myself a ‘hairapist’ sometimes because they express things to me...they may not be able to express to certain people because we develop this trust.” | | |  | | | | What's it like to arrive in a brand new country and start a new life? What can make the transition less bumpy?
With a post-pandemic wave of newcomers expected in Canada, CBC Ottawa asks those who've made the transition before for their advice.
Mina Al-rubaye came to Canada as an international student with her younger brother and sister in 2014. Now that she's graduated and become a permanent Canadian resident, she says she still can't feel at home because her husband isn't here.
"But how can I feel settled in a place where what feels like half of me is living in another part of the world," says Mina who has applied for her husband's temporary residence three times.
Now, she has advice for others alone in Canada. | | | What's happening in August | | | | |  | | | | Join us for the 2021 House of PainT festival taking place from Aug. 19 to Sept. 24.
CBC Ottawa is proud to partner again with the House of PainT festival. This year, the festival is "taking it to the streets" with radio takeovers, pop-up dance cyphers and fresh new mural installations across Ottawa.
Here are five highlights you won’t want to miss.
Stay tuned for a special IGTV series on our CBC Ottawa Instagram account later this month where you’ll learn how to create art, produce rap and learn dance choreography as part of our special HOP at Home series. | | |  | | | | Madelyn Keys and Jack Beeston, two young Ottawa actors, join Giacomo Panico to talk about their role in the newly released movie, The Exchange.
The movie created a buzz locally since it was filmed in Carleton Place, Almonte and Ottawa's Blackburn Hamlet neighbourhood. | | | |  | | | | Find out which areas in Ottawa scored high and low on walkability as part of a new study by the City to create more 15-minute neighbourhoods.
What is a 15-minute neighbourhood? Listen to this episode of All In A Day to find out. | | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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