Champ Champagne: A Pillar of the Ottawa Music Scene
The National Capital region has given rise to many influential musicians in a multitude of genres ra…
Did You Get the Memo?
During a recent tasting in my home of a variety of new wines, soon to be appearing at an LCBO near y…
Canadian Pop Star Stays Grounded Despite The Hype
In last Saturday’s blistering heat, it was a struggle for Alyssa Reid to remain on stage during he…
Terri-Jean Cracks Her Whip
With a new book entitled “Dominatrix On Trial” which hit the book shelves this week at Chapters,…
Street Style: Influence from the Bottom Up
It used to be that designers dictated what people wore on the street, but since the emergence of str…
Road to Guadalajara: Canada’s Rugby Sevens Team
While the Pan American Games usually fall under the radar in the lead-up to the Summer Olympics, the…
Peace Lily: Détente 2.Oh?
I was recently asked for an update on my piece called Peace Lily Détente which appeared back in Apr…
Unfortunate End to Bluesfest 2011
Although we’re all sad to see our magnificent two-week music showcase come to an end, the most dis…
Tale of Two Cities…Part Two: Bratislava
In the middle of Europe lies a very small but proud country, with a small but lovely capital city. T…
Bluesfest’s Final Weekend Brings the Heat
Spending the afternoon and evening at Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest yesterday was a little like running a m…
Hard Rock Takes Over Bluesfest’s Last Thursday
If you had never moshed before, last night at Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest was probably one of the best op…
Canadian Wine Laws Stink
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Over the past 5 months I have found myself pouring over the results of both the Canadian…
Wednesday’s Bluesfest is an Alternative-Rock Dream
Was every song actually as good as an encore? Did we dream that? Or are My Morning Jacket truly that…
The Shame of our Generation
The condition and treatment of Canada’s Aboriginal people is the shame of our generation. The stat…
Cold Comfort in Arctic Sovereignty
Arctic historian Dr. P Whitney Lackenbauer believes the issue of Canada’s Arctic sovereignty is a…
Canada Needs to be a Leader in Arctic Research
Groundbreaking research by Matthew Asplin, a PhD candidate at the University of Manitoba’s Centre…
Doing Justice to Social Issues
What do social justice and educational success have in common? For the Canadian Teachers’ Federati…
Tiger, Rory and the Past and Future of Golf
The third of the PGA Tour’s four major tournaments, the British Open, will begin on Thursday, July…
Julian Armour’s Music & Beyond Festival: A Jewel Among All that Sparkles in Ottawa.
Think of the classical music scene in the Capital and there is one name that seems to embody it: Jul…
Fogerty and Fuchs Bring the Hits
“This was one of the first songs I ever played with my band back in 1968,” said an excitedly hig…
Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind
by Brian Fagan • Bloomsbury Press, 2011, 384 pp.
This spring’s flooding of the Assiniboine River…
OLM Photo Gallery: Kirk Franklin Brings Gospel Sound to Bluesfest
The Ottawa Bluesfest has been a hit for years, drawing crowds from all over the world. One of the ke…
The Path to Self-Governance: A Rationale Behind Eradicating the Indian Act
An archaic and racist-based legislative barrier to First Nations Peoples achieving self-governance i…
First Nations Come Last
On May 27, her last day after a decade as Canada’s official watchdog, Auditor General Sheila Fraser…
Thai Coconut
Tucked away behind a high-rise condo building on Prince of Wales Drive near Meadowlands is the resta…
