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Around Town: Revive Your Style event boosts Bust A Move
Erica Wark’s fifth and final Revive Your Style event went out with a bang of big bucks, raising a record $27,000 for the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation’s upcoming Bust A Move For Breast Health....
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Around Town: Life's a (faux) beach at OAG's On the Rocks: In the Caribbean
What a novel experience to see sand in Ottawa during the winter, when it’s not being thrown on slippery sidewalks. It was part of the decor for On the Rocks: In the Caribbean, an annual Winterlude bash...
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Around town: Doctors to cha-cha to raise ching-ching at annual benefit gala
Of the nine physicians training long, hard and often to compete in the second annual Dancing with the Docs fundraising gala, only one will be taking home the prized Medicine Ball Award on Saturday,...
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Around Town: Metro, Mulroney host dreamy dinner for Ottawa influencers
Nobody knew quite what to expect when they first arrived to the Canadian Museum of Nature on Wednesday for an intimate dinner with Jessica Mulroney, an ambassador for Montreal-based food retailer...
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Around Town: Ottawa Arts Council celebrates the arts at Sweetheart Cocktail...
You didn’t need Cupid on the guest list to feel the love at the Bridgehead Roastery on Thursday, when members and supporters of Ottawa’s artistic community came together for the Ottawa Arts Council’s...
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Around Town: Ottawa Art Gallery receives $100,000 gift from patrons Glenn and...
A well-known and popular couple with long and deep roots to the Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG) has stepped forward and donated $100,000 toward the gallery’s capital campaign, it was announced at a reception...
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Around Town: Proud to be Bullyfree dinner is a positive-ly good time
It might be a grassroots effort but there’s no grass growing under the volunteer group that hosted its 5th Annual Proud to be Bullyfree Gala at the Brookstreet Hotel on Friday. As the youth-focused...
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Around Town: Viennese Winter Ball returns to Ottawa in graceful style
Turns out, the Viennese Winter Ball can just waltz back into town. Following a one-year break, the popular annual gala returned Saturday. With it, the black-tie event brought charm, elegance and beauty...
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Around Town: Wonderland Tea Party for youth mental health at CHEO
What a coincidence that I’d be late for an important date like the Wonderland Tea Party for Youth Mental Health, held Sunday afternoon at the Hellenic Meeting and Reception Centre. The stress of being...
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Around Town: Docs sing their hearts out for Heart Institute's new hybrid OR
To opera from opera-ting room, is there nothing Dr. Fraser Rubens can’t do? The local cardiac surgeon and trained tenor was part of a Music for the Heart evening held Monday for the University of...
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Around Town: Happy 175th Birthday, Sir Wilfrid Laurier
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute wasn’t about to let the milestone birthday of one of Canada’s most successful prime ministers slip by without a little cake, a little celebration, a little panel...
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Around Town: Private party at Shepherd's to help breast cancer survivors...
Weather, schmeather. The looming snow storm didn’t keep dozens of women away from Shepherd’s fashion and accessories store on Tuesday as it played host venue to a private shopping night and fashion...
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Around Town: Capacity crowd at opening night of GCTC's gripping thriller,...
That’s my boy! It’s the kind of proud declaration that sums up how Ottawa-based actor John Koensgen was feeling at the opening night party for Butcher, a Canadian thriller by playwright Nicolas Billon...
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Around Town: Royal Ottawa to name a garden after Margaret Trudeau
Honourary patron Margaret Trudeau was like a breath of fresh air as she swept in with warm smiles and laughter to the Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health’s 13th annual Inspiration Awards Gala,...
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Around Town: Mayor hosts Women's Day breakfast at City Hall
An crowd of early-morning risers gathered in a space that bears the name of prominent female trailblazer Jean Pigott for an International Women’s Day celebration hosted for more than 200 women and men...
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Around Town: Don't Quit Your Day Job benefit brings out hidden talents
Nobody is suggesting the amateur performers at this year’s Don’t Quit Your Day Job prepare the resignation letters on their regular jobs, but perhaps a few of them might consider a little artistic...
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Around Town: Irish community bands together for Bruyère
It seems St. Patrick’s Day is no longer confined to one day of the year, judging by the festivities that were underway at the Heart and Crown Irish Pub in the ByWard Market on Friday afternoon....
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Around Town: Bassetts' final St. Pat's Day party draws big crowd
The main concern at the Irish Embassy was that it had sent out 1,000 invitations to its annual St. Patrick’s Day Reception but only 2,000 people turned out. Or, so went the joke made by Irish...
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Around Town: Mayor presents top honours to top judge at A-Lister ceremony
If anyone can be trusted with the key to the city it’s Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin. Mayor Jim Watson presented the City of Ottawa’s highest honour to Canada’s top judge...
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Around Town: Kick off to Citizen Advocacy's biggest East Coast kitchen party....
So far from the ocean yet so close to good seafood. Organizers and supporters of the upcoming Evening in the Maritimes came together on Parliament Hill to chow down on chowder while promoting the...
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