THE HUMAN COST OF COVID: Bookstore owner Otto Graser 'was bigger than life'
Article content Each day since COVID-19 entered our lives has been accompanied by worrying, and wearying, lists of numbers: case counts, infection rates, tests administered, hospital admissions, deaths. The figures, dispassionate and detached, become a blur, and the importance of what lies behind them is increasingly forgotten. In a special obituary project, we will memorialize and recount the stories of just some of the nearly 400 names and faces behind COVID’s deathly toll in Ottawa. An Ottawa artist, architect and print maker, Otto Graser died from COVID-19 two weeks after returning from...