Dan Donovan

ABOVE: View from the Town Docks in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. (PHOTO: OLM STAFF) One of the joys of living in Ottawa is enjoying the four seasons we experience each year. Whether spring, summer, winter, or fall, Ontario, Quebec, and the Northeastern United States offer incredible seasonal escapes [...]

ABOVE: Winston-Salem’s first public art park is in the heart of the Downtown Arts District. (PHOTO: VISITNC.COM) For those who love travel and who want to experience one of America’s unique tourist areas, a visit to Old Salem, North Carolina, a historic town located in the Piedmont Triad, [...]

Header photo: Chris Hollo. All other images: Dan Donovan I’ve always wanted to go to Nashville. It remains the home of country music and a destination with a magical pull for up-and-coming songwriters and musicians from across North America. The city’s musical roots can be traced back [...]

ABOVE: Lieutenant-General J.O. Michel Maisonneuve (ret’d), CMM, MSC, CD delivering his acceptance speech at the 2022 Vimy Awards Gala. (PHOTO: CDA) The woke-ist Locusts and their corrosive cancel culture. The cancel culture movement is rampant in Ottawa. Under the Liberal government, it [...]

ABOVE: The Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan declared Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (inset) the President. After a tumultuous year, Kazakhstan chooses to stay on the democratic road The Central Election Commission (CEC) of the Republic of Kazakhstan confirmed Monday, November [...]

The bully in the room in Ontario education. Ontario education workers are poorly paid. Many of them work two or even three jobs to make ends meet. They have the hard-earned right, like hundreds of thousands of other Canadians, to bargain and negotiate a decent salary for themselves. While it is [...]

Ontario has one of the best secondary and post-secondary school systems in the world. While teachers are well compensated and negotiate with the province annually over wages and benefits, the same cannot be said for all ‘education workers’ — the educational assistants, continuing education [...]

Thanks to COVID-19, Latin America’s tourism industry has taken a hit. Fortunately for Canadians (and others), Mexico’s President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador or AMLO, chose to see travel restrictions as an opportunity to invest in Mexico’s tourism with new, unprecedented [...]

Dr. Melita Gabri? is the EU’s Ambassador to Canada. She was tasked with the new assignment after serving as Ambassador of Slovenia to Canada from 2018-2021. Ambassador Gabri? is multilingual and holds a Ph.D. in International Relations. Prior to her Canadian assignment, she served as Slovenia’s [...]

ABOVE: President Xi addressing delegates at the 20th National Congreass of the Chinese Communist Party. (PHOTO: JU PENG/XINHUA, chinadaily.com) The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is underway in Beijing The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) opened [...]