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Music review: Chamberfest opens with a brass fanfare
Dominion Chalmers United Church Thursday night The 2015 Ottawa Chamber Music Festival kicked off Thursday night to the bright-penny sounds of trumpets, trombones, tubas and more. The Canadian National Brass Project is a tiger team of 18 elite brass players (and two percussionists) from Canada’s top symphony orchestras, including Montreal,...
Concerts: Gigs to see this week
Not to leave Ottawa with a summer day without a festival, several begin this week featuring the three C’s: country, chamber music and Tom Cochrane. Award-winning jazz violinist Drew Jurecka Chamberfest begins on July 23, with bold performance from the Canadian National Brass Project (7 p.m.), featuring all brass musicians — trumpets, horns,...
Art exhibits: 8 new shows open this week
New shows and events in and around Ottawa this week: World Press Photo 15 exhibition, winners exhibited, July 23 to Aug. 19, Canadian War Museum 1 Vimy Pl. warmuseum.ca Official Ottawa: Tony Fouhse, opening reception on July 23 at 5:30 p.m., exhibit to Oct. 11, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2 Daly Ave. Screening of Ways of Something, by Lorna Mills,...
Get a taste of Ukrainian culture at first giant festival
What do you do when military tensions heat up in your homeland? In the case of Ottawa’s 25,000 citizens of Ukrainian heritage, you make perogies — 16,800 of them to be exact. It may not seem immediately obvious, but Jane Kolbe can explain. “The war in Ukraine is the impetus,” says Kolbe, organizer of this weekend’s Capital Ukrainian...
Father Raymond J. de Souza: Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Ukraine
It’s a short afternoon walk, but a long national journey, from Kyiv’s Second World War memorial, which was erected by the Soviets, to the memorials to those killed in the Maidan “revolution of dignity” last year, which are makeshift and erected by the people. The national journey is from lies to truth. The Second World War memorial,...
U.S. could send tanks to Hungary for military exercises: report
The military exercises would be part of NATO’s response to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine …read more Source: The Globe and...
Canada’s mission in Iraq: Straight Talk Q&A with Christian Leuprecht
What does the rise in Islamic extremism mean for the future of Canada’s foreign policy? Christian Leuprecht, in a new Straight Talk Q&A for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, examines how Canada’s role in international affairs will change in the coming years. He believes that Canada has likely seen the end of large-scale military...
Right-wing Ukrainian protesters call for referendum
Hundreds of Ukrainian right-wingers were rallying in Kyiv on Tuesday to protest against government policies in the wake of a deadly stand-off between radical nationalists and police in the country’s west. …read more Source: CTV...
Crimean filmmaker pleads not guilty in terrorism trial
MOSCOW – A Ukrainian filmmaker who has been in jail for more than a year on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit terrorism. Critics have dismissed Oleg Sentsov’s prosecution as revenge for his pro-Ukrainian position in Russia-occupied Crimea. Sentsov, a Crimean native, was a vocal voice against Russia’s...
The Ukraine crisis: Why and how it has come to this
Photo by Mstyslav Chernov Background of the Ukraine-NATO issue To understand why and how the situation in Ukraine has come to what it is, it’s necessary to go back to the period just before the breakup of the Soviet Union. Fortunately, there is good documentation on this. It was reviewed recently by several writers, perhaps most notably by...
