Category: Arts

With his thick Irish accent, Pat Kelly talks about his plans to construct an Irish cultural centre in downtown Ottawa, which would be the first of its kind in the city.

“I think that in the future, clocks won’t say three o’ clock anymore. They’ll just get right to the point and call three o’ clock, ‘Pepsi.’”

The kids know it; the amateurs know it; even the NHL knows it: there’s nothing quite so fundamentally Canadian as a game of hockey.

Between the old stone walls and wooden rafters of the Byward Market’s Courtyard Restaurant, women in medieval ball gowns and men in masks and tights mingle to the sound of harpsichord and violin.