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Nicholas Kohler

@nicohina.bsky.social
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Features writer, Ottawa Citizen

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Nicholas Kohler @nicohina.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
What a dispute over a beloved strip of land says about the meaning of ownership — and its limits. @ottawacitizen.com
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New cottage neighbours arrived. Then they closed the only road.
Hundreds of pages of court filings, all over a dirt road barely wide enough for a single car, unravel what constitutes "private property".
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Ottawa Citizen @ottawacitizen.com · 30/06/2026
'I feel betrayed': What's behind the boarded-up stretch of Bank Street? ottawacitizen.com/feature/boar...
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Nicholas Kohler @nicohina.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Two men dead, two missing — and a house in the woods: inside the Smiths Falls, Ont. mystery ottawacitizen.com/feature/smiths… @OttawaCitizen
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Nicholas Kohler @nicohina.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A criminal case in Ottawa lays out in stark terms not just the burden of caring for an elderly, ailing loved one, but also the moral and legal considerations that come into play when love leads to homicide ottawacitizen.com/feature/til-...
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Til death do us part
With the heavy burden of caring for an ailing loved one, what are the moral and legal considerations when love leads to homicide?
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Sports Media LGBT+ @sportsmedialgbt.com · 01/01/2026
🏒 'As a hit in the U.S., #HeatedRivalry is something of a Trojan horse — a Canada-forward, gay-themed cultural export sent south during a trade war at a time when the U.S. appears to be hedging on #LGBTQ rights.' ✍️ @nicohina.bsky.social, @ottawacitizen.com #icehockey #hockey
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How Ottawa became the unlikely star of a gay hockey romance
‘Heated Rivalry’ is super sexy, but it is also a playfully subversive alternate reality commenting on the culture of professional hockey.
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Nicholas Kohler @nicohina.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The couple rarely visits the headstone they built for themselves — while they were still alive (and before they were married) @OttawaCitizen ottawacitizen.com/news/double-... via @ottawacitizen
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They made a double headstone at Beechwood — before they were married
One of the most beautiful gravestones in Ottawa has been ready for one couple for 15 years. Neither of them has died yet.
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Nicholas Kohler @nicohina.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The lovers of Beechwood Cemetery: one of the most beautiful gravestones in Canada has been ready for one couple for 15 years. Neither of them has died yet.
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Nicholas Kohler @nicohina.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
In time for Remembrance Day, a look back at Ottawa during the war years ottawacitizen.com/news/chateau...
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How the Château Laurier helped win the Second World War
In the early 1940s, Ottawa’s downtown hotel became the nerve centre of C.D. Howe’s “dollar-a-year men” and Canada’s wartime boom.
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Nicholas Kohler @nicohina.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
What’s widely considered the world’s first synthesizer came into existence in Ottawa in the ‘40s, and will be played publicly for the first time Saturday in, of all places, Quyon, Que., better known for ATVs and French-Canadian country. ottawacitizen.com/news/first-s... via @ottawacitizen
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U.S. fans to descend on tiny Quyon, Que. for ‘trippy’ music festival. Locals to stay home.
Festival Fantome will bring hundreds of American visitors to tiny Quyon, Que. But no in the village has bought a ticket yet.
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Nicholas Kohler @nicohina.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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Venerable Glebe Video to close after 40 years, one rental shop remains
Long housed on Bank Street, Glebe Video was known for classic, highbrow films. Movies 'n Stuff in Alta Vista is now the last game in Ottawa.
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Nicholas Kohler @nicohina.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Have stinging freshwater jellyfish invaded this lake in Canada’s national capital region? ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
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Have stinging freshwater jellyfish invaded Lac La Pêche in Gatineau Park?
Lac La Pêche has been teeming with the ghostly creatures, a phenomenon experts believe is rooted in rising lake-water temperatures.
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