In 2016 Ipsos, a global marketing and consultancy firm conducted a poll that showed 48 per cent of Canadians are less than $200 away from being unable to pay their bills. This is especially true for young people, including recent graduates entering the workforce for the first time, in many cases still working minimum wage jobs. When I graduated from...

Follow your passion. Chase your dreams. In theory, this seems like simple advice but in practice, it can be like catching a housefly with chopsticks. The trick with any challenging task is that it's not impossible and with enough hard work and dedication it can also be achievable. When Brandon Bird, a 26-year-old graduate of Algonquin's event management program, started...

Since graduating from Algonquin College’s advertising program in 2008, Sarah Walters has worked a string of high-profile positions including client coordinator for David Pratt and Associates. Walters’ latest role has her working as an account executive for InMotion DVS, a digital and video marketing agency that focuses on associations, agricultural, tech and healthcare industries. As an account executive, she works...

The road to the NHL is never an easy one; there are hundreds of thousands of kids around the world who grow up dreaming of one day playing in the best hockey league on the planet. Only the best make it and even then, there are so many obstacles to overcome. There are injuries, new teams and teammates, new cities...

It's always a strange experience for a player to be traded to another team only to return and play against his former teammates as an adversary. Usually, a player has acclimatized to a new roster between trade and competing against former teammates. Matt Duchene had hours. Around noon on Feb. 22, the Ottawa Senators announced they would be trading Duchene...

Every week, in a small rented office space in the Byward market, a cadre of gamers gather to compete for cash and glory. For nearly two years now Ottawa Smash has been holding tournaments around Ottawa to determine Super Smash Bros. supremacy. The first rule of Ottawa Smash: bring your own controller. The tournaments, or "Weekly's" as they are referred...

Multiple snowstorms have descended upon the capital already this year and many of us are looking for relief. So as snow continues to pile up, dreams of summer are already taking shape. Enter Mayofest. “Mayofest is all things summer,” explains Jay Poore, a board member for the festival held in Mayo, QC. which is less than an hour drive from...

For over a decade, Ottawa band The Balconies were a staple in Canadian indie-rock. That all came to an end last year when the band performed its final show on Feb. 3, 2018, after announcing their break-up the previous December. For Jacquie Neville, the former lead singer, it may have been the end of The Balconies as a band, but...

Remember when you were a kid watching your favourite cartoon on a Saturday morning while your Mom poured you a bowl of your favourite cereal? Your toughest decision of the day was choosing between Froot Loops or Lucky Charms. But nothing was more satisfying than the first crunch of sugary goodness while the opening credits of SpongeBob SquarePants played from...