Nina Larsson: A Gordon Foundation Jane Glassco Northern Fellow
With roots that are Gwich’in, Swedish, French and Northern Canadian, and with a long list of outstanding achievements, Nina Larsson isn’t exactly typical. But maybe that’s to be expected of someone with her eclectic and unique background.
What is Integrative Peacebuilding?
Peacebuilding’ is a term that refers to the development of structures that contribute to a lasting peace after a violent conflict.
Peaceful Easy Feeling
If you a looking for a reprieve from winter and want to go somewhere for a week of comfort, calm and luxury, you can’t go wrong with the tranquil El Dorado Casitas Royale in Mexico’s Mayan Riviera.
Track-Record of Innovation Continues at Algonquin College with Nine New Programs
With the ever-changing media, technological, and scientific landscape, finding a way to educate the next generation of skilled workers is more important than ever to give them a proper chance at success.
The Four Comprehensives
In In February 2015, Chinese President and General Secretary Xi Jinping’s introduced China’s new ideological directive, the “Four Comprehensives.” Canadian analysts, policymakers, business people and multiple Canadian law firms with satellite offices in China representing a plethora of Canadian business interests are studying the ideological platform.
#OttawaStyle with Marie Ernst
Marie Ernst is one of Ottawa’s top influencers who is making waves in the blogging community and is proving that this political city has style. We spoke with Marie about her decision to be a fashion blogger and how her focus is all about honing her personal style.
Destination Anywhere for Arms of the Girl
Their paths couldn’t have been more different but music unites. Today Cee, Dave, Phil and Afton are four musicians bonded together by stanzas of song, notes on a page, and melodies in the air wrapped tightly within the folds of their band, together in the Arms of the Girl.
Changing Dynamics of Human Emotions
With increasing pressure and stress in people’s lives, disorders like depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety issues have gained importance. These disorders play a pivotal role in harming the person’s productivity, lowering his morale and affect relationships. Relationships comprise of both professional and personal relationships and in no time everything comes crippling down.
Book Review: “We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us”
Donald Trump has just been sworn in as President, and his unscripted comments about NATO and other alliances have many panicking.
Canada’s Life Cycle Clean Fuels Policy Game Changer
There are seven types of pollution caused in the life cycle of the production and utilization of energy: abiotic depletion; acidification; eutrophication; global warming; human toxicity; ozone layer depletion; and terrestrial ecotoxicity, and we focus almost exclusively on carbon.
How to Get Engaged in Super Bowl LI
With Super Bowl LI only a couple weeks away, the excitement is building. Will the New England favorites win their second ring in three years, or will Matt Ryan lead the Atlanta dark horses to victory? If Sunday’s games were any indicator – both the Pats and Falcons won by massive margins – the competition […]
A Weekend of Music, Food and More at Winter Night Market 2017
Though the January weather is chilly, Ottawa Asian Fest kept things hot this weekend with their annual Winter Night Market. Held at the gorgeous Hilton Lac-Leamy in Gatineau, this three-day extravaganza had a little bit of something for the whole family.
Don’t Fence Sit! Smash It to Splinters at MEGAPHONO 2017!
180. Just sit on that number for a second. Ruminate. Now, how many Ottawa based albums can you name that came out over the last few years? Five? Ten? How about 180? At least that’s how many were released in 2015 with a collective of others last year in a growing city music scene that show’s little sign of slowing the pace.
Just Jouvie through Carnival in Trinidad
The perfect grown-up winter getaway awaits you in Trinidad and Tobago. For a complete immersion into decadence, joie de vivre with a party atmosphere that will be unlike any you will ever experience, head to Trini during Carnival.
SENATORS: A Week in Review – January 23-30, 2017
SENATORS: A Week in Review is a weekly column looking back at the week in Ottawa Senators hockey written by #OLMSports Dave Gross.
Jeff Hunt Proves Fruitful At Discovering A Dream
You'd be hard-pressed to run into many in this city who don’t recognize the name or the face. That was certainly not the case back in the late 1990s when a young entrepreneur from Newfoundland arrived in Ottawa to take over as owner of the storied 67’s junior hockey franchise. Jeff who? Well, you know him now. What Jeff Hunt has accomplished is remarkable!
Doing the White Thing
Clean, effortless and so Euro chic: white colour on walls is simple and strong. Whether it’s maximizing a limited source of light or creating a comfortable interior, these rooms show white in a big way.
Our Home and Native Landscape
Jennifer Adomeit never planned on becoming an artist. The Canadian-born art enthusiast is an elementary school teacher whose artwork, to her great surprise, has found nation-wide fame.
Supporting the Soul of the City
It rose out of black America, dipped in gospel and spiced with the rhythm, flavoured by the blues. The beat was the Bible and the prophets had names like Cooke, Burke and Redding. Their Queen was Aretha and their Godfather was James and their sound made the disciples dance.
Showing Solidarity: Why We March
Ottawa Life's Emily Cordonier was just one of the thousands of men and women who walked in solidarity and support of the Women's March on Washington. She relates her experience in a day where the message was clear: Love trumps hate!
Nevada’s Loneliest Road
Where it once pulsed with the excitement and the thrill of prospectors lured by the gold rush, middle Nevada has been restored to a land of solitude where nature is queen. The arid desert climate is home to 23 State and two National Parks plus a variety of national recreational areas, historic trails and monuments.
Matt Watts and Bob Martin: Still crazy after all these years
There’s a moment in the second episode of CBC’s revived Michael: Every Day where actor and series co-creator Bob Martin’s character David Storper, while racing down a hotel hallway thieving food off a room-service cart before opting to just take the entire thing wheels and all, states how he hasn’t “had this kind of fun in ages.”
Tom Wilson’s beautiful scars
When listening to Tom Wilson speak, it isn’t a leap of the imagination to envision a grizzled mountain man appearing out of the darkness the relay wisdom to anyone who may be there on the edge of the woods, the shaman in the smoke imparting collected mythologies and knowledge to the attentive around the fire. There’s a deepness in his soul well and underneath the midnight black there may very well be no bottom.
Correct Me If I’m Wrong – Episode 1: You Can’t Account For Stupid
Ottawa Life Magazine Publisher and Managing Editor Dan Donovan provides commentary on some of the big issues of the day with a witty and at times sarcastic look at our political masters and their zany ideas. In the series' first episode, a segment called "You Can't Account for Stupid," he tackles Frankenstein Health Care Policy in Ontario.
