Ian Gillies, who directed the play Guilty Conscience at the Ottawa Little Theatre, poses a question: what does justice look like? Well, it looks like theatre, Mr. Gillies. I attended the matinee this Sunday afternoon of the 1985 play by Richard Levinson and William Link. While billed a suspense, it’s sprinkled generously with light, comic… Read more »
The English language reminds us that to remember is more than an amorphous, fleeting thought. To re-member someone who has died is to affirm their continued presence in our community and to acknowledge the reality that their memory, legacy and the impact of their death form an integral part of our life. For those who… Read more »
After expenses, the St. Joe’s Supper Table soup kitchen and food bank raised $8,670 at its main fundraiser of the year, the Harvest Dinner on October 26th. More than 150 people attended the event, filling the St. Joseph’s Parish Hall with lots of laughter, fellowship and a real sense of community. Organizers were especially pleased… Read more »
Bytown Catering has been a supporter of the St. Joe’s Supper Table community meal programme and food bank for nearly two decades and on Sunday, September 24, 2024 it once again hosted its annual golf tournament and banquet to raise funds for this local poverty relief initiative. Among the over 120 guests at the banquet… Read more »
This letter to the editor published in the Ottawa Citizen on September 19th, 2024 is in response to an op-ed by high school teacher Jodi Nathanson on AI in creative writing and in the classroom. High school English teacher Jodi Nathanson writes of “humanizing” her classes as education and creative writing face extraordinary challenges posed… Read more »
How many does it take to saw through a log? I took these photos on September 8th — a cold, autumn Sunday morning at the Glengarry Harvest Fall Festival in the village of Dunvegan, about an hour east of Ottawa. This little excursion was a reminder of how a small corner of eastern Ontario retains… Read more »
The gift certificate for a one-night stay at Ottawa’s Fairmont Chateau Laurier had sat in a drawer for nearly a year, along with a couple of grocery gift cards and one to a shoe store. Some 10 months ago, I had been the highest bidder in a silent auction and walked away with the certificate,… Read more »
Canadian author Margaret Laurence has fascinated me ever since the late Professor Laura Groening of Concordia University introduced The Diviners to our class, along with the NFB documentary First Lady of Manawaka, a lifetime ago in the year 2000. Since then I’ve also read The Stone Angel, alongside James King’s biography of Laurence. This morning,… Read more »
O5EAN (Ocean) is an Ottawa singer, songwriter and perhaps most of all a performer with an acute and even striking sense of style and image. His music videos engage all your senses, as he appears in masks of every variety, dark suits with a matching dark demeanor, shiny black dress shoes – and sometimes even… Read more »
In this Ottawa Reflections podcast, Christopher Adam speaks with Coach William Davenport at Viva Recording Studios. Coach Davenport, the founder of WillPower, is a 25 year old man who experienced trauma in his own childhood, but then found new hope, support and purpose in his passion for basketball and helping at-risk youth in the Canadian… Read more »