Luke Ottenhof
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About Luke Ottenhof
Luke Ottenhof is a freelance reporter based in Toronto and Kingston, Ontario. His stories have appeared in The Guardian, Columbia Journalism Review, The Toronto Star, CBC, Pitchfork and The Globe and Mail.
Chilling Canadian conspiracy theories explained
Chrystia Freeland is one of dozens of politicians across Canada who have faced threats of political violence and terrorism over the past year, and while the convoy might be gone, the threats — and conspiracies behind them — are still here.
After Ontario’s labour resurgence, is it time for a general strike for climate?
Under threat of a general strike, the Ontario government walked back a controversial law last week. What else could a general strike accomplish?
Out of the West Coast wildfire smoke, David Suzuki emerges blazing mad
At one point, federal Tourism Minister Randy Boissonnault gestured toward the North Shore Mountains across the water, shrouded in wildfire smoke, and remarked, “If a picture’s worth a thousand words, the view today’s a million.”
This misogynist group was tagged in Poilievre's videos. Who is #mgtow?
Men Going Their Own Way is a male supremacist movement similar to the more commonly known incel, or involuntarily celibate, movement.
Conservation meets true crime in ‘The Salmon People’
Coming Tuesday, Aug. 9 on iTunes: The Salmon People builds on the success of CNO’s 2021 debut podcast series, Race Against Climate Change, which earned a nomination for Best Climate Solutions Reporting from the Canadian Journalism Foundation. This new collaborative podcast cements CNO’s commitment to telling impactful and creative stories about the climate.
Ontario NDP's Andrea Horwath struggles to hold the line
Andrea Horwath is now in her 13th year as Ontario NDP leader, but 2018’s orange wave seems to be receding, and fast.
Steven Del Duca’s brutal climb to power
As Ontario Liberals geared up for a provincial election, they were faced with a unique problem — too few people had heard of their leader.
'I did some digging you may be interested in'
That was the direct message I received on Twitter at 3:21 a.m. on Feb. 14. It was a few hours after hackers had released a load of data from the GiveSendGo fundraising campaign for the convoy protests in Ottawa. The anonymous Twitter user linked me to a thread they’d been compiling of the largest donations made by Canadians. The claims were shocking: an Ontario business mogul pitched in $25,000.
Meet some of the wealthy Canadians who donated to the trucker convoy
Leaked data from a crowdfunding campaign supporting the convoy suggests a considerable number of donations came from people who appear to be in the U.S.