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…
Laura Langford Has the Bag for You
Clean, elegant, functional. That is how 24-year-old Ottawa native Laura Langford would describe her…
Ottawa Concert Venues and Presenters of Yester-year
In the midst of a vibrant and heady festival season, here is a look back at what made Ottawa a festi…
First Week Ends With Old Time Rock ‘N Roll
After drying off from a night with The Black Keys and cooling off from shaking it with Gord Downie o…
Crimes Against Children
When you look deep into a child’s eyes, you can see their complete trust in the world and their vu…
The Black Keys Heat Up Cold and Wet Crowd
Well, that was interesting. Mixed feelings are really the most prominent ones when it comes to the w…
Third Night at Bluesfest: Something for Everyone
Who says that the young and the old can’t mix? On the third night of Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest, it ce…
A Tale of Two Cities…Part 1: Berlin
A city formerly divided, both figuratively and literally, by a giant concrete wall now adorned with…
