This Sunday, November 12, renowned Canadian-Indian poet and two-time New York Times bestseller, Rupi Kaur, is coming to Ottawa as part of her sold-out…
Interviews
Culture
The Writing Life: An Interview with Novelist Stephen P. Kiernan
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” Virginia Woolf Twenty…
Interviews
Profile: Hassan Hassan – A Darfur Genocide Survivor Speaks Out
“I had to defend my mom and my sisters, my female siblings, so they would not be raped. Because, you know, the camp was…
Culture
Living Without Limits with Haley Hoffman Smith
When I interviewed Haley Hoffman Smith she was also working on some t-shirts for an event and yet every word she spoke was well-thought…
Culture
Hotter Than Potter: Keith Brown Brings Magic to Ottawa
“We live in a magical world, surrounded by magic. You just have to open your eyes and choose to see it.”
Business Profiles
Meet the Somali Education Fund: Problem Solvers and #WingdSolve Winners
What does getting an education mean to you? For some, an education represents the road map to becoming a doctor, a lawyer, or an…
Business Profiles
Changing the Canadian Legal World with Miralaw (and Thistoo): An Interview with Samuel Witherspoon
Samuel Witherspoon, the founder and CEO of Miralaw, an Ottawa-based start up committed to increasing peoples’ access to legal information, which is also responsible for…
Culture
We Are Kings: Boldly Designing Where No Man Has Designed Before
King B. Hector Jr., CEO & Creative Director of We Are Kings Inc. has a vision for our world and it includes menswear that…
Business Profiles
Eephorea: Ottawa’s Newest Entertainment Production Company
Introducing Wingd’s newest partner, Eephorea and their co-founder, Zach Princi. Princi, a fourth-year accounting student at the University of Ottawa, felt as if something…
Culture
The Good, The Bad and The Awkward: Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids
I wasn’t nervous to read my letters in front of the crowded YukYuk’s basement on Elgin St in downtown Ottawa until my name was…
Culture
Invisible Women: Daisy Rockwell’s Precarious Lives Project
Thirteen paintings, to date. Each one is different, unique in fact, but they are all similar. Abstract portraiture. My words; however an art expert…
Culture
Following Your Passion: The Richs of Vermont
He is more than six feet tall and rangy of frame, with a leonine profile and bearing and a lumberjack’s crushing handshake that belies…
