Dan Donovan

John Higgins is the Operations Manager for the National Trust Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland. He must have also been the pitch man who convinced the producers of the spectacularly successful Game of Thrones series to situate much of the series in Ireland. He is a master Irish storyteller and after [...]

Chinese President Xi Jinping set aside the continuing diplomatic tensions between the Canadian and Chinese governments to present a Medal of Friendship to centenarian Isabel Crook, a Canadian anthropologist and educator who was born in China, in 1915, to a missionary family. Crook was the oldest awardee [...]

If Justin Trudeau has any integrity he must resign. I’m ashamed for my country, as a citizen and frankly as a person in the media, over the shocking photos that were revealed yesterday showing Canada’s Prime Minister happily wearing brownface at an event in 2001 when he was 29 years old and [...]

Photo credit: Sean Sisk “The true guide of life is to do what is right.”— WINSTON CHURCHILL It's a sunny, colourful fall Friday afternoon and I had just arrived at Stornoway to interview Andrew Scheer, the leader of the official opposition and leader of the Conservative Party [...]

The None of the Above Direct Democracy Party has nominated 36 candidates to run in the upcoming federal election. This represents in over ten percent of the 338 ridings almost a month before the September 30, 2019 deadline. Federal NOTA Party Leader Greg Vezina founded the None of the Above Direct Democracy [...]

Ottawa—Vanier (formerly known as Ottawa East) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1935. Before that date, it was part of the Ottawa electoral district that returned two members. The riding generally corresponds to [...]

Photo: Honk Kong anti-extradition bill protest (credit: Studio Incendo via flickr) The protests in Hong Kong are highlighting the inherent conflicts and paradox of the "One country, two systems" approach. Both the protestors and the Chinese government believe they are righteous in their [...]

New Smyrna Beach Last year 3.48 million Canadians visited Florida. The Sunshine State remains the go-to place for snowbirds, travelers and tourists and those seeking a reprieve from the hard, cold Canadian winter. If you are a regular visitor be sure to put New Smyrna Beach, St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra [...]

Photo: RendezVous proposal for LeBreton (supplied by RendezVous LeBreton Group) After managing and overseeing the LeBreton Flats debacle, The National Capital Commission (NCC) sent out a notice in June in what appears to be LeBreton Part Deux. Apparently, it will “be open to a flexible real [...]

From left: Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion and Ottawa West Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld Mario Dion is a career Civil Servant with an undistinguished record whose previous work was scorned by Canada’s former auditor general in 2014. He found that Dion was responsible for the “gross mismanagement” [...]