Each issue of the Kitchissippi Times serves as a lively, entertaining, printed record of the rich and varied lives being lived in the area bound by the Ottawa River, the O-Train, Carling Avenue and Woodroffe. The paper captures the spirit and personality of these neighourhoods by giving voice to the particular habits, tastes and doings of the people who live here.

The Kitchissippi Times reports on local issues and happenings with journalistic integrity, but also with gusto, humour and creativity. The paper serves as a forum for discussion on local matters and is a reference product through which local residents garner information, advice, news and gossip that doesn't appear in larger, more general media, and that will be of interest to them chiefly because they live in this geographical location. The publication's writing is sophisticated and its editing meticulous, but the paper is a pleasant, rather than weighty, read, balancing useful content with that which is more colourful.

The Kitchissippi Times writes the unwritten “language” of the people of Kitchissippi. It recognizes that those who live and work here chose to; there are reasons why they reside, or locate their businesses, here, rather than on Rideau Street, or in the Glebe, or in far-flung suburbs. It also recognizes that these constituents range broadly in age, income and profession. They are artists and lawyers. Bakers, graphic designers, social workers, mechanics and curators. Entrepreneurs, engineers and moms and dads. They are immigrants and Ottawans and third- or fourth- or eighth-generation Canadians. They represent a microcosm of the city, the country, but one with its own easy-going, riverside, west-of-downtown flair. The Kitchissippi Times is tuned to this distinct mood and sensibility, and strives to be a force in helping those who live here to know and appreciate their chosen home that much more.

If you live in Kitchissippi and read the Kitchissippi Times, you will recognize yourself in its pages. You will also recognize your neighbour, and your curiosity will get the better of you; you will not be able to put it down.