Category: Focus

By Brynna Leslie

Alan Cumyn talks to me over the phone from what he describes as his cluttered and cramped home-office in Ottawa South.

He discusses his new novel in the level voice of one who is used to reading prose to an audience. Cumyn’s novel Burridge Unbound was recently nominated for the Giller Prize, Canada’s richest award for fiction, and he’s hoping the nomination will help him tap into the lucrative American market with this book, and its companion novel, Man of Bone. read more

By Michael Connors

Newly re-elected Somerset Coun. Elisabeth Arnold says her first order of business will be to make sure the new city is a compassionate one.

Support for the disadvantaged played heavily in Arnold’s Nov. 13 victory speech to supporters after she won the race to represent Centretown on the new city council. She took 76 per cent of the vote
in the election, receiving 6,517 votes to Olivia Bradley’s 2,084. read more

By Kate Heartfield

In the days following the Nov. 13 municipal election, both the winner and the runner-up in the Centretown school trustee race were still trying to determine the reasons for the results.

Incumbent Albert Chambers, who says he was “surprised and disappointed” after the election, took only 32 per cent of the vote. School council activist Joan Spice won with 52 per cent, and David Allston, a 21-year-old university student, had a remarkably strong showing with 17 per cent. read more

Newly re-elected Somerset Coun. Elisabeth Arnold says her first order of business will be to make sure the new city is a compassionate one.