The Ottawa Blackjacks are hosting this year’s CEBL Championship Weekend, and you can expect plenty of fanfare leading up to the finals on Sunday. The festivities kicked off last night with the 2022 CEBL Awards Show at Casino Lac Leamy, where Niagara River Lions guard Kahlil Ahmad took home both Most Valuable Player and Clutch […]
Author: Brandon Cloutier
Do or Die for the Blackjacks in the CEBL Championship Semifinals
This Friday (August 12) in a game YOU can’t miss. The Ottawa Blackjacks are facing first seed Hamilton Honey Badgers in the CEBL Championship Semifinals at the arena at TD Place. The other semi-final has Niagara taking on Scarborough. The championship final will be played on Sunday afternoon (August 21), also at TD Place. In […]
Ottawa’s A Company of Fools Brings The Shakespeare Experience To Your Neighbourhood
Interested in seeing a story about betrayal, magic, and revenge? Then check out William Shakespeare‘s The Tempest as performed by Ottawa‘s own A Company of Fools! They are putting shows on all week throughout the city as they start to wind down their summer season, weather permitting of course. Wednesday, August 10th at Fisher Heights […]
Eenou Singer Siibii is a Runner-Up in Toyota Searchlight 2022
Eenou singer Angel Baribeau, better known as Siibii, is a runner-up in this year’s Toyota Searchlight competition. Siibii entered the competition with their song “Wish We Were Older“, a pop ballad that focuses on growing older with your significant other. Listen to the song here. As runner-up, Siibii has won the following in order to […]
Do you listen to ELMNT FM at work? If so we’d love to know!
Do Aiden and Jay make checking your emails every morning feel like less of a chore? Do Abigail and Patrick make the work day go by a little bit faster? Does Cody get you looking forward to coming in for the night shift? If you and your workplace listen to 95.7 Elmnt fm throughout your […]
Staple of ByWard Market Music Scene is Closing its Doors
Mercury Lounge, a long standing music venue in Ottawa’s downtown core, is closing up shop after providing entertainment for more than 20 years. Owner John Criswick announced the closure on his personal Facebook page. The Mercury Lounge ran as a not-for-profit and they, just like many other businesses, were never able to recover from the […]
The Merry Dairy Wholesale Operations Stopped, But You Can Still Get Your Favourite Scoop
Local Ice Cream parlor Merry Dairy was told to shutdown their wholesale side of the business as they are not a dairy plant. The owners explained the situation in a Twitter thread last week. Unfortunately, you will no longer find their ice cream in other local stores but, you can still head on over to […]
Mādahòkì Farm Launches Their Indigenous Food Ways Training Program
The folks over at Mādahòkì Farm have cooked up an exciting opportunity for any Indigenous person interested in learning culinary skills. With their Indigenous Food Ways training program you can learn relevant employable skills to start your Indigenous culinary career, such as Meal and food preparation How to plant, harvest and forage traditional food History […]
Enjoy An Entertaining Weekend in Ottawa with Busker Fest
Ottawa International Busker Fest is back on Sparks Street! Catch amazing street performers for four straight days starting this Friday all for FREE. For the first time in over two years you can see buskers do their thing, with plenty of them along Sparks Street and a few that will do their act on one […]
CityFolk Adds More Artists to Lineup
For the first time in two years, CityFolk is back here in the Nation’s Capital! The festival will be held at Lansdowne Park on September 8-10th & 15-17th. Organizers announced a partial line-up back in June, with more artists to be added to September 9th and 10th. They have now announced that rapper T-Pain will […]