We had been waiting for this moment with the same eagerness as an American teen about to turn 21. Jackpot: a long week and hot weather. Finally!
Browsing Category Traditions, Events and Holidays
Yearly Canadians traditions as well as big and small events in Ottawa and around.
33
Today, I woke up thinking I had turned 33.
A Surprising No-Snow Christmas in Ottawa
It’s a very unusual Christmas here—we have no snow and as I’m writing this, on the 24th, it’s 17°C outside. No kidding.
Let’s Be Honest, Christmas Feels Like a Chore
Our words sounded needlessly adversarial. We don’t do gift giving very well at home. Or rather, we do it well without pressure, but it’s hard to buy something just because you have to buy something.
Checking Out the 2015 Christmas Lights in Ottawa
Most of the Christmas “magic” happens indoors, in malls, or in the many front yards of suburbia, where the same people who go overboard for Halloween go completely crazy for Christmas.
Major Terrorist Attack in Paris – What Just Happened?
It’s almost 1 a.m. in Canada. Seven in the morning in France. It suddenly occurs to me how unsettlingly easy it is to kill people if you want to. Just grab a weapon and shot. That’s it.