Michael Bussière

Above: Photo of Uncle Bob by Sean Sisk Photography In a city where Gore-Tex is considered a fashion statement, ‘Uncle Bob’ Cabana has made it his mission to “funkify this town, one man at a time.” He’s been working hard at it for over 30 years. Wellington Street in Hintonburg [...]

Canada’s dismal state of rural broadband service means life beyond a 75 km radius of any major city is excluded from the digital economy and its services. This is an embarrassing state of affairs for a G7 country, in North America no less, and the one in which Alexander Graham Bell made the world’s [...]

ABOVE: General Jonathan Vance, Chief of the Defence Staff, followed by Chief Warrant Officer Kevin West, Canadian Armed Forces CWO, as well as Command Teams from 2 Wing and 3 Wing proceed to the inspection of the Guard of Honour at Canadian Forces Base Bagotville, on October 7, 2015. PHOTO: LS ALEX ROY, [...]

Above: The disgraceful state of Ottawa's ByWard Market. “The Washington of the North” was how Sir Wilfrid Laurier described his vision for Canada’s capital. The ramshackle lumber town of his time lacked just about everything needed to make for a noble seat of government for a [...]

ABOVE: Ottawa fashion designer Justina McCaffrey is taking her new collection to Paris fashion week — recently postponed due to C-19 until late February. Justina McCaffrey has enough energy to light up her entire neighbourhood, and with her creative business ambitions, she’s going to need [...]

ABOVE: Mike Hothi is the owner of Trico Packaging and Print Solutions Inc. Trico Packing and Print Solutions Inc. is an Ottawa-based business with offices on Antares Drive. The company celebrated Canada Day with a ribbon-cutting ceremony commemorating the launch of its new product line; Canadian-made [...]

The national capital region can boast about many things that make for a great standard of living. I’d say easy and quick access to lakes and rivers is at the top of the list. Name another major urban area where cottage country is only 30 minutes from the downtown core. The municipality of Val-des-Monts [...]

Last spring, shortly after the country entered lockdown, Huawei Canada invited aspiring video directors to enter a competition and share stories of connection within the virtual reality of COVID-19. Almost 50 post-secondary students enrolled in video production programs across Canada submitted short [...]

Evidence indicates that the federal public service has been quietly moving away from the classical Bureaucratic management approach based on principles devised by Max Weber. According to Weber, the rational, reason versus passion, approach to management is preferable to whims, irrational emotions and [...]

The normal operations of companies and employers have been disrupted by the COVID-19 lockdown, but hiring continues in some sectors in spite of the new protocols. Huawei recently bucked the downward trend and on-boarded more than 100 new workers at its Canadian operations, and it did so without any in-person [...]