Glebe Report

Photos by Gabrielle Dallaporta

“We created this mural to bring awareness to the struggles the LGBTQ2S+community has faced throughout history. These events are as important as any historical event and deserve to be well known.” –Glebe Collegiate students

The Canadensis Botanical Garden Society (CBGS) invites you to the unveiling of our newly completed, volunteer-built architectural structure Abri-Soleil Canadensis Sun Shelter on Thursday, June 20 at the Central Experimental Farm.

We are very lucky. “Our” Blanding’s turtle has been sighted three times in and around Brown’s Inlet ponds, once in July 2016 laying eggs along the path between Wilton and Ralph, once late this spring in the lower National Capital Commission pond and again in mid-May in the upper city-maintained pond.

The Sunset Singers are a dynamic and energetic group of older people who see the world as a meaningful place, a place they want to affirm and praise through song.

A new program to deter bicycle thieves has been launched in Ottawa in the form of a new app (application) that allows you to register the serial number and a description of your bike. It’s called 529 Garage.

Canadian Eats, the Glebe’s signature food promotion, invites local chefs to put Canada on a plate for 10 days leading up to Canada Day.

The citizens of ancient Rome were famed for their love of gastronomy and asparagus, that most elegant member of the vegetable kingdom, reigned at its pinnacle.

In recent years, green salads have come a long way from the classic but unexciting lettuce-tomato-cucumber smothered in commercial bottled dressing. But what makes a mixed green salad so luscious that it surprises diners at the first forkful?

Frank Johnson has a review of David Chernuishenko’s new climate change novel, Burning Souls, and the Sunnyside branch of the Ottawa Public Library has recommendations for exploring the natural world through reading this summer.

For your summer theatre fix, we have articles on the Company of Adventurers, the local young-people’s Shakespeare troupe; A Company of Fools, who are doing Romeo and Juliet; and Odyssey Theatre and its Spanish masterpiece.

The Glebe Report’s Poetry Quarter this month, on the theme of science fiction and speculation, fantasy, magic and witchcraft, space and time travel and unknown worlds, is a special issue featuring the work of students from JK to Garade 7.

Did you know there was a president of the United States for one day? When I heard of this back in the late 1980s I was very keen on finding out more, one day.