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The new language debate: Justin Trudeau’s f-bomb raises eyebrows
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau earned jeers and cheers for his use of the f-word, and reviews are just as mixed as to whether he’s damaged his image as a potential prime minister in waiting. While it’s...
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Watsons remember their grandfather’s service in the First World War
Like millions of other Canadians, Jim and Jayne Watson have relatives who fought in the First and Second World Wars. That’s why the National Arts Centre Orchestra tour to the United Kingdom in October...
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Book clubs can be more than social clubs
I am the tiger mom of writing clubs. When I first joined one a few years ago, I quickly realized it was more of an excuse for friends to catch up than a writers’ workshop. So I did what any...
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Op-Ed: Politics trumps geography in Ukraine
Geography is a vengeful deity, and Ukraine is its latest victim. That is the thrust of an argument put forward by renowned journalist Robert Kaplan in his recently published article in Time magazine....
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Carleton professor receives Killam Prize for pioneering cybercartography
OTTAWA — Fraser Taylor, the Carleton University professor who introduced and pioneered the concept of cybercartography, has been awarded the 2014 Killam Prize. Taylor is one of five 2014 winners of...
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Elizabeth Doe (1919-2014): Veteran lived a life of adventure
OTTAWA — “My name is Elizabeth and because I was born at seven months my parents gave me just one name because they did not expect me to live.” With those startling words, Elizabeth Doe began...
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Canadian baritone has made Madama Butterfly his own
Opera Lyra Ottawa presents Madama Butterfly When and where: April 19, 21, 23 and 26, NAC Southam Hall. Tickets: Start at $25, at NAC box office or through TicketMaster (1-888-991-2787) Information:...
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Book Excerpt: Restoring sanity to politics
Fast Tracking Slow Politics: Joseph Heath at the Ottawa International Writers Festival, Sunday, April 27 at 6:30 p.m., Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St. at Elgin. ———————- In October 2010,...
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Wayne Scanlan: Fire still burns for Patrick Chan
Patrick Chan has this crazy idea of how to relax following an Olympic Games competition. He jumps aboard the Stars on Ice caravan, with multiple stops in Japan and Canada, a whirlwind spinning so fast...
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Ottawa International Writers Festival
Democracy at the writers festival Two discussions of the state of democracy in Canada and beyond will take place Sunday at the Ottawa International Writers Festival. Failing Democracy: Alison Loat and...
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Life Story: Peter Harcourt – the father of Canadian film studies
By Patricia Smart Peter Harcourt, a much-loved former Carleton professor known as the “father of Canadian film studies”, died at the Ottawa General Hospital on July 3. He was born in Toronto on July...
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Reevely: Ottawa would benefit from some of Toronto's navel-gazing
As part of a series of policy papers leading up to Toronto’s municipal election — at the same time as ours this fall — a research unit at the University of Toronto weighed in Wednesday on the state of...
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U of T grad wins prestigious Lang journalism fellowship
Dylan Robertson has been named the recipient of the 2015 Michelle Lang Fellowship in Journalism. Robertson is the fifth recipient of the award, established following the death of Calgary Herald...
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U of O far ahead of Carleton in latest world university rankings
Carleton University remains outside the Top 500 in a prestigious ranking of world universities, while its cross-town rival, the University of Ottawa, continues to rise. QS World University Rankings,...
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How Canadian universities rate
Here’s a list of Canadian universities rated in the top 400 worldwide in Times Higher Education’s 2014-15 world university rankings (last year’s rank in brackets): 20 (20) — University of Toronto 32...
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House fire claims life of retired educator
An Ottawa woman, who devoted her life to advancing education research, has died in a house fire in the city’s South Keys neighbourhood. Geraldine Gilliss, believed to be in her late 80s or early 90s,...
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Canada needs a mature China policy, new book argues
Middle Power Middle Kingdom by David Mulroney (Allen Lane) Canadian foreign policy needs to grow up, David Mulroney says. A former member of the Foreign Affairs elite, Mulroney says he fears for the...
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Egan: Little-used 'physician assistants' an answer to MD, dollar shortage
After three nights of throbbing pain, and ready to gnaw my own leg off, I walked into a Florida hospital one day last week, defeated, ready to sell my soul for relief. And out I came with an ankle...
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Whiz-kid Daniel McInnis heads to university with two inventions,...
After Daniel McInnis comes home after school, he’ll feed the dog, do his homework, eat dinner and, if he’s lucky, see some friends. More unusually for a 17-year-old, he might have to attend a school...
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Watson: Inequality data not what you think
This last offering before Christmas is a steaming cup of data, fresh from Statistics Canada’s latest report on the “Incomes of Canadians.” This is, as everyone knows, the age of inequality. We just had...
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