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The Thursday Q&A — pet photographer Sue Bird
Each week we’ll bring you a Q&A with a style-setter in Ottawa. Here’s our first installment. Award-winning photographer Sue Bird spent 10 years as a photojournalist before turning her lens to something closer to her heart. “I’ve always wanted to make change and bring my love of animals to another level by giving them a [...]
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13-year-old organizes fashion show — this Sunday!
Last year, 12-year-old Kate Reeve, at left, organized a fashion show in support of Roger’s House, an Ottawa-based children’s hospice. This year, now 13, she’s doing it again. Building on the success of last year’s Fashion for Funds, she hopes to raise more than last year’s total of $8,700 in support of Roger’s House. The event [...]
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Portraits of Ruth Ellen Brosseau
As the star of the show, Ruth-Ellen Brosseau walks into her two-hour photo shoot accompanied by her political minder so quietly and hesitantly, it’s hard to tell which of the two is the one with power. The 27-year-old NDP member for Berthier-Maskinongé smiles shyly as her assistant, Gillian Prendergast, introduces herself before Brosseau herself offers [...]
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The art of diplomacy
Margaret Dickenson flutters between rooms in her three-storey canal-side home, pointing out favourites in her astonishing art collection like a bright-eyed sparrow hopping from branch to branch. She’s eager to share everything — stories from her career as an internationally lauded cookbook author, anecdotes from husband Larry’s stellar diplomatic and public service career and even [...]
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New Year’s Eve party how-to
A quartet of experts helped create this handy how-to guide for hosting a swish new year’s eve soirée. If there’s ever an occasion to party, it’s New Year’s Eve. But in the rush to buy, wrap and exchange Christmas gifts, visit with family and digest turkey (and turkey leftovers), there’s not often time to plan [...]
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Natalie MacLean’s Top Five Bargain Holiday Wines
2010 La Puerta Torrontes Valle De La Puerta S.A., Argentina: You’ll be absolutely blown away at how pretty and tasty this wine is for the price point. Floral with mouth-watering juiciness. Buy three cases for your holiday parties: your friends will think you’re brilliant rather than cheap. Pair with turkey dinner. LCBO #197970, $8.95, Score: [...]
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Welcome to my closet
Ever wonder what’s in a stylist’s closet? Ottawa stylist extraordinaire Justyna Baraniecki reveals her treasures in this exclusive video. Share and Enjoy
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12 days of Christmas eating
You don’t need the bother of spending even more money on eating out while shopping, but you do need to stay nourished. Here are 12 great places to chow down cheaply Attention holiday shoppers: Why not give yourself the gift of good eats while you’re running your errands? No need to splurge. The options for [...]
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1 Dress, 6 ways
Mixing is the name of the game this season and we’re not talking about festive cocktails. For the social butterfly fretting about how to extend her wardrobe throughout the holiday, the stress is over. The classic little black dress, a staple in every woman’s closet, can be dolled up dozens of ways. Updating the same [...]
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1, 2, 3 Decorate
If Connie Lebrun could have any job in the world, it would be as a permanent replacement for the matriarch of Christmas: Mrs. Claus.The impish Lebrun has a Mrs. Claus dress and she also dressed her husband, Gilles, as Santa and sent him out to their backyard on Christmas Eve when their two children, Ashley and Jason, were toddlers.
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