Mélanie Albert: a beautiful profile in courage
Cover Stories February 26, 2021
PHOTO: SEAN SISK PHOTOGRAPHY The world is sick right now. There we were, happily going about our business when the human race got an unexpected phone call from the World Health Organization informing us that a rogue organism has been detected in our system. Nature had randomly generated something [...]
Read full storyGround control to Major Disegno.
Top Stories January 26, 2021
How Ottawa’s Pamela Coulston created the first jewellery to go into outer space. Canadian pride soared in 1962 with the launch of Alouette 1 into the ionosphere. It was Canada's first satellite, and the first constructed by a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States. That [...]
Read full storyLeBreton Flats. Where dreams go to fizzle out.
My Ottawa January 08, 2021
Above: View of LeBreton Flats (PHOTO: c.1892, photograph: silver gelatin, Bytown Museum, P752) Ottawa is the only G7 capital that features a gigantic ghost town within sight of its parliamentary precinct. This peculiarity is not the result of some natural disaster, but rather the good intentions of [...]
Read full storyChris Pereira and CEI. A unique Canadian-led business ecosystem.
Business December 16, 2020
Business has been anything but business as usual, a fact seen in the profound transformation that started long before COVID-19, and a reality that Chris Pereira knows and understands very well. Chris has spearheaded a smart and effective response to the head-spinning challenges facing entrepreneurs and [...]
Read full storyMoooove over traditional vodka. Vodkow is here!
Food & Wine December 15, 2020
It sounds like a Trivial Pursuit question. Q: “What did the Mongols ferment into alcohol over a thousand years ago?” A: “Milk sugar, also known as lactose.” While milk sugar produces a cleaner, smoother spirit, this ancient recipe is rarely used today because of its cost and [...]
Read full story‘Uncle Bob’ Cabana, Ottawa’s curator of musical cool
Arts & Events November 20, 2020
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 [...]
Read full storyHuawei Canada operates at a higher wavelength, calls on competitors to do the same
Business November 11, 2020
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 [...]
Read full storyGeneral Jonathan Vance — Canada’s transformative general says adieu
Top Stories November 02, 2020
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, [...]
Read full storyLaurier’s “Washington of the North” is a crumbling disgrace
My Ottawa October 27, 2020
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 [...]
Read full storyJustina McCaffrey is Canada’s fashion tour-de-force
Fashion & Beauty September 29, 2020
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 [...]
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