Caroline Phillips

Ottawa RedBlacks game-day parties don’t get much more multicultural than the one thrown Thursday night by Ottawa sports entrepreneur Jeff Hunt and well-known dentist Dr. Nalin Bhargava.

Fears that the weather would stage an ugly revolt proved to be entirely unfounded at the large garden party hosted Thursday by the Embassy of France in Ottawa to celebrate Bastille Day, the biggest national holiday in France.

The return of the country's largest outdoor music festival infuses life back into the downtown core.

“I always say I’m so excited, but that word isn’t big enough for how we feel about this next step,” said Kindell. “It kind of feels like Christmas morning.”

Co-founder of Ottawa software powerhouse Assent Compliance has a new venture aimed at tackling the planet's growing food sustainability challenges.

"I think we're still embarrassed to admit how profoundly the pandemic has negatively affected mental health and driven people into addictions and other forms of crisis."

How fitting that "Wabano" means "new beginnings" in Ojibwe during a time when the public is venturing back out into the world, knowing the pandemic is waning and life is returning to normal.

“We have to stop thinking about equality as though it’s just the right thing to do or the nice thing to do,” said Sueling Ching. “This is what is necessary for our economy to thrive … It’s not a ‘nice to have’, it is a ‘need to have’.”

“(Students) want to know who is hiring and for what roles and they’re looking for guidance and clarity because the hiring landscape is changing and evolving in real time,” says the manager of the Employment Support Centre at Algonquin College. 

“Our workforce has changed,” says expert. “Many companies are coming out of COVID with new projects, new initiatives, new programs that are driving their business and don’t see what they’re working on necessarily as a long-term thing.”