Category: Arts

The Canadian War Museum has changed a number of its exhibits after groups of Japanese Canadians and war veterans objected to the displays.

Many Ottawa residents who pass through the downtown core probably consider taking a dance class. Fluorescent-coloured posters inviting you to shimmy into belly dancing or slide into tango decorate virtually every signpost on the north end of Bank Street.

This year’s One World Film Festival is more determined than ever to spotlight aboriginal people after a controversial Canadian vote against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples last month.

On the corner of George Street and Sussex Drive, homeless poet Dave Dessler sells poetry, written on cardboard scraps, in order to survive.He is an outsider but, to the director of La Petite Mort Gallery, he is also an artist.