Best of Ottawa 2020: Activists and changemakers

 ?After over 20-years writing about life in Ottawa, we think we have a pretty good idea of the best of what this city has to offer. In this weekly series, we share our picks with you — our top hotels, live music venues, local brews, bands and more. Check, share and discuss

A creative cook up simmers in Hintonburg

 Jamaal Jackson Rogers wears many hats. Some in the nation’s capital know him as an award-winning arts educator, poet, creative entrepreneur, and performance artist. A father of six, Jackson Rogers is also the Artist-In-Residence at Carleton University’s music program and was formerly the City of Ottawa’s English Poet Laureate from

The power of poetry / Q&A with Spoken word poet Brandon Wint

 Though he now calls Edmonton home, poet Brandon Wint says much of what shaped his art can be owed to what he calls being "a child of Ottawa's creative commuity." Here, he says, is where he truly began to know himself and see more clearly what he could offer the world