Film Review: The Zookeeper’s Wife
The Zookeeper's Wife tells the account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the German invasion.
Film Review: Wilson
A lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle-aged man reunites with his estranged wife and meets his teenage daughter for the first time.
Justice For Abdirahman Coalition Expresses Outrage Concerning Police Solidarity For Officer Charged With Manslaughter
The Justice for Abdirahman Coalition (Coalition) is expressing outrage and disappointment concerning the solidarity campaign by members of the Ottawa police service to wear wristbands in support of the officer charged with manslaughter.
Naqvi Misleads Media
The Justice for Abdirahman (JFA) Coalition (“the Coalition”) receive letter where Attorney General Yasir Naqvi evades responsibility for his role in the release of Montsion without a bail hearing
Prozzäk Still Partying Like It’s 1999!
1999 was the year two little Canadian cartoon characters named Simon and Milo captured the hearts of a country by lamenting about how much it sucked to be them.
Pawsome Rescue Events to Celebrate Spring!
Each month, animal rescues in Ottawa host various events to raise funds to help animals in need. We’ve rounded up some of the many events happening around Ottawa where you can meet adoptable pets and the organization supporting them, peruse handmade goods, and donate to a good cause. Are we missing an event? Let us know in the comments below! This list will be updated throughout the month when new events are announced.
Tree-mendous Tremblant!
Mont-Tremblant's treehouse hideaways are a perfect escape to nature and childhood but so much more awaits!
JUNO by Numbers!
Ottawa Life got a close look –we’re talking Bryan Adams dressing room kind of close– at the production only a few days to the big night and now we’re going to let you peak behind the curtain for a glimpse of what it takes to bring such a massive show to the music loving masses!
Sizing Up Ski Passes
Whether it be dropping into the fresh snow of a back bowl, a vacay with the girls, or spring skiing with the family, it’s time to start thinking about the 2017-18 ski season.
JUNO Spotlight: A Tribe Called Red
When art meets activism something amazing is bound to happen. When that includes an exultant dance party set to pulse pounding dubstep, house, and hip hop exploding out of traditional Indigenous Pow Wow beats filled with colour, culture and an overarching message of positivity you’ve got a euphoric seismic vibration otherwise known as A Tribe Called Red.
Tara Shannon’s ‘Unfinished’ is Just the Beginning
Tara Shannon’s new album is called Unfinished. For the award winning singer songwriter from Russell, Ontario, that title has many meanings.
Brace Yourself (Book Review: Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari)
Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book is a sobering look at the limits of Liberal Humanism in a science and technology driven age
When it comes to health care funding in Canada, we should stop living in the past
Federal and provincial governments should work together to fund pharmacare, dental care and rehabilitation.
Film Review: Donald Cried
With sudden passing of his grandmother, Peter Latang returns to his hometown and encounters his long lost, childhood friend, Donald Treebeck. What begins as a simple favor, turns into a long day's journey into the past.
2017 iM is the Corolla that carries more
Unlike our neighbours to the south we Canadians love our hatchbacks! Neil Moore looks at the Toyota Corolla iM.
SENATORS: A Week in Review – March 27-April 3, 2017
It's the last waltz of the evening at the high school dance. Stairway to Heaven starts to roll. Who you going to ask to sway and whirl with you? In the case of the Ottawa Senators, there still remain options.
JUNO Spotlight: Sam Roberts
Nominated for: Rock Album of the Year (Terraform) Sam Roberts has been rocking the (True North strong and) free world for fifteen years now. It all began with his debut EP, The Inhuman Condition, which received two JUNO nominations. Since then, he’s released a dozen charting singles, including “Where Have All the Good People Gone?” […]
Shut Off for Earth Hour 2017
Earth Hour is a global movement started in 2007 by the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF). The initiative serves as a means for citizens of the world to collectively think about and conserve energy for 60 minutes on a single day. This year, Earth Hour is March 25th from 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM.
24th anniversary of the Indspire Awards—Indspirational!
Looking to the past to change the future, the rousing refrain of the 24th anniversary of the Indspire Awards, was evident even before the uplifting showcase that was to come even began.
CONTEST: We we want to give you a slice of the JUNOs with the JUNO Songwriters’ Circle
Ottawa Life wants to send you to the jewel of the JUNO Week!
Against Me! Give It 100%
Some bands are just so consistently great live that you can't help but get excited every time a tour date comes along. Playing the Bronson Centre on Friday March 24, Against Me! delivered better than ever.
JUNO Spotlight: The Zolas
The Zolas make the kind of music that wants to be the soundtrack to your life.
JUNO Spotlight: Bria Skonberg
When asked how she feels going into the JUNOs next week, Vocal Jazz Album of the Year nominee Bria Skonberg keeps it simple. “Happy,” she says. Her path there, however, hasn’t been as straightforward.
Film Review: Power Rangers
A group of high-school kids, who are infused with unique superpowers, harness their abilities in order to save the world.
Film Review: Weirdos
Just after the end of the Vietnam War and in the midst of the American bicentennial celebrations of 1976, runaway Kit and his girlfriend Alice hitchhike their way along the east coast of Canada.
