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Here’s an excerpt from Don’t Back Down, the real story of the founding of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators and why big leagues matter. In this part of my book, I talk about how my father, professor OJ Firestone, put together one of the great collections of Canadian art and then gave it to the people […]

I should know since I work in a garage office… For 113 days of summer (which is all you get in a northern shelf city like Ottawa), I can pretend I am in Hawaii where you are never quite certain whether you are indoors or outdoors–clever architects blend both spaces so well. Prof Bruce postscript: […]

Here’s an interview I did, on the eve of the Las Vegas Golden Knights first ever draft, with TSN 1200′s Ian Mendes and Shawn Simpson about the first ever Sens draft in 1992… https://www.tsn.ca/radio/ottawa-1200/bruce-firestone-reflects-on-sens-expansion-draft-25-years-ago-1.784323 @ ProfBruce

I just learned that Robert Campeau has passed away at age 93. He was an amazing person in many ways and he had a profound impact on the city of Ottawa… Homes built by Campeau Corporation in the 1960s and 1970s are still highly sought after today and later he constantly pushed the city of […]

without government subsidies [This article originally appeared in Ottawa Business Journal https://www.obj.ca/Opinion/Bruce-Firestone-5444] With the National Capital Commission recently choosing the bid backed by Senators owner Eugene Melnyk as its preferred plan for LeBreton Flats, here is a key question: how can the Sens pay for a new arena at the site without public funding? Most major […]