Section: Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
Gardening events: Science of plants and bee attraction revealed
National Garden Days are looking for local participants to share or organize activities for your garden, garden centre or in the community over three days on the Father’s Day weekend, June 17 to 19. Register your activity at www.gardendays.ca. Garden design for evolving realities with the master gardeners of Ottawa-Carleton, April 23, 8:30...
Book review: Lyse Champagne captures the sad essence of refugees crises
There is an almost unbearable sadness permeating the new collection of short stories, The Light that Remains, by Ottawa author Lyse Champagne. The six stories are all about refugees in different parts of the world during the past 100 years. Truly happy endings seem impossible. These stories make us face the current Syrian refugee catastrophe and...
Cyrpus looks to Canada for expertise in resources, governance and education
The question is not why has Cyprus established a diplomatic mission in Canada this year. Rather, it’s why has it taken so long? So says Cypriot High Commissioner Pavlos Anastasiades, the amiable head-of-mission who presented his credentials to Gov.-Gen. David Johnston two weeks ago. Prior to December, when the high commission was...
Glavin: A foreign policy of irresponsible contradiction?
It’s quite true, as Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion asserted on Tuesday, that you don’t have to be a Liberal to be mostly amenable to the mandate Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has set out for Canada’s engagement with the world. The advancement of Canada’s economic and security interests, a leading role on climate...
EZ Jewel Box is a real gem
Of all the things Elena Zakharov thought possible as a Ukrainian girl growing up in the repressive communist era of the 1970s, cruising through Beverly Hills in a Mercedes Benz was never one of them. Neither was moving to Canada, earning a second degree nor starting her own online jewelry store — yet the 46-year-old mother of two sons has done...
Chamberfest 2016: The season of women
Chamberfest 2016 will be a celebration of women and music. For the festival’s artistic director, this year’s gathering has evolved almost organically. “Early in the 2016 programming process,” said Roman Borys, in an email interview in advance of the release of the festival lineup Tuesday morning, “I realized that I had already secured...
Watson: Yes, we’re back…and desperate to be liked again
Here’s a simple question for those who think it’s terrific news this country is going to campaign for one of the 10 non-permanent seats on the Security Council: How many of the current non-permanent members can you name? Without checking I couldn’t name any. (They are Angola, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal, Spain,...
Trudeau set to appoint seven new Senators
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that he will recommend the appointment of seven new Senators to the Governor General. The new, independent Senators will fill two vacancies in Manitoba, three in Ontario, and two in Quebec. “The Senate appointments I have announced today will help advance the important objective to transform the...
Glavin: Inside Obama’s foreign-policy depravity
A temptation to be vigorously resisted, perhaps especially at the worst of times, is the urge to pronounce that the American epoch is finally over, that the fat lady is singing, and that the United States, so recently the world’s sole superpower, is now just another country. Like Brazil, maybe, or Australia, but without the kangaroos....
@Kady’s Watchlist for Mar. 16 – Next stop for PMJT: New York City!
Just days after returning home from his much-discussed swing through Washington, DC, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading south of the border once again – this time, to United Nations Headquarters in New York City. According to the itinerary provided by his office, Trudeau will begin his day with a mid-morning media availability in the UN...
