Dan Donovan

Ottawa comedian Tom Green isn't letting COVID-19 slow him down. His latest endeavour, a song to fit the mood of the world at the moment, was released last night on his Instagram. Isolation is soothing and smooth and goes down like a late night limoncello — sweet and calming. The song has a [...]

Setting your sights on an antique or vintage watch could run you into the thousands of dollars. On the other hand, you can invest in vintage-looking watches at a more reasonable price. Enter Demark's Nordgreen watches. Their watches are designed to hold their value. Their rounded edges and subtle [...]

Ottawa Comedy Magician Elliott Smith was recently honoured by the National Comedy Hall of Fame Museum in Holiday, Florida by having his name added to the ‘Wall of The Great Touring Comedians’. The museum Founder and President, Tony Belmont presented Elliott with ‘a place on the wall’ [...]

China, Russia, UK and other countries call for the world to fight the virus together Last Thursday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hosted an emergency video conference summit of the world’s 20 major industrialized nations (G20). He urged them to adopt a war-time plan to tackle the coronavirus [...]

ABOVE: Two young Indigenous protester stand in solidarity with the Wet'suwtan'en of British Columbia (March 1, 2020 PHOTO: OLM STAFF) Grand Chief Joseph Norton of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake is one of the great Aboriginal leaders in North America. An eloquent, effective and innovative [...]

For Catholics, Shrove Tuesday is the day before Lent, which starts on Ash Wednesday. The name Shrove comes from the old middle English word 'Shriven' which means confession — for Catholics confession is where you get in a booth and confess your sins to a priest in private. The Priest sits [...]

Our Adventure Canada blue shell jackets emblazoned with the distinctive Polar Bear logo kept the wind out and the warmth in as we jutted across the salty ocean waves in one of the Ocean Endeavour’s zodiac’s, mist spraying in our faces. It was the third week of June and we were off the Scottish [...]

Our Friend and a giant in Canadian journalism, National Post newspaper columnist Christie Blatchford has died at 68 after a battle with late-stage lung cancer that was first diagnosed last November. Blatchford was born in Rouyn-Noranda, Québec. She went to high school in Toronto and then to Ryerson [...]

Ottawa city councillor Catherine McKenney’s motion to declare a housing and homeless emergency in the national capital passed unanimously at city council on a cold night at the end of January. Typically, councillor’s changed the original motion to call it both a ‘crisis and an emergency’. [...]

The myths and truths about coronavirus There is no doubt that Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) or the ‘Coronavirus’ is a global emergency. On January 30, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2019-nCov epidemic a “public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC)” [...]