Devon Brown has spent nearly all of his life in eastern Ontario and mostly in the Cornwall area. He’s a young man who has experienced his fair share of struggle, but who now seeks to chart a new, more hopeful course in life. The thread that binds his past, present and future is his passion… Read more »
Thanks to statistics compiled by the Ottawa Public Library, we now know the titles of the most popular reads in Canada’s capital in 2022. According to statistics released by the OPL’s Content Services department, American author Delia Owens 2018 novel Where Crowdads Sing was the most popular English-language adult book checked out from the branches… Read more »
It was around 2am on April 4, 1880, when the first of three false fire alarms occurred. The fire department was busy checking them out, not realizing that the fourth alarm was real and resulted in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church on Bank St. being destroyed by fire. At 4am, the Sexton at St. Joseph’s Parish… Read more »
I was perusing books this afternoon at Chapters in Gloucester when a man in a hushed voice asked a clerk behind me if there was a way to purchase a certain memoir by a certain talkative prince (more accurately, by his ghost writer) today — a day in advance of it hitting the shelves in… Read more »
Last night I celebrated Epiphany at my place in Ottawa’s east-end with two friends. They brought a Rosca de Reyes — a Ring of (Three) Kings, a traditional sweet bread in Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese culture, which contains hidden inside a small figurine of the baby Jesus. The person who gets the figurine is… Read more »