Event Location: Ottawa

The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association presents the Wireless Canada Technology Showcase 2011 at the Westin Hotel. More information is available online.

As part of National Biotechnology Week BIOTECanada hosts MPs and industry for Helix on the Hill. This year will feature a conversation with Adam Bly, founder of Seed Magazine at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier, 1 Rideau Street. Call 613-230-5585 ext. 230.

A fundraiser for Marilissa Gosselin, Ontario PC candidate for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell is being held Army Officers’ Mess, 149 Somerset Street West. Special guests include Finance Minister Jim Flaherty (Whitby-Oshawa, ON) and MPP Christine Elliot. More information is available online.

Feast of Fields 2011 brings together the best in organic food grown in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec. The finest organic farmers and chefs will create some culinary magic for this annual event at the Canada Agriculture Museum. More information is available online.

Join author Salim Mansur for the launch of his new book Delectable Lie: A liberal repudiation of multiculturalism. A panel discussion will follow. Presented by the Free Thinking Film Society at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street. More information is available online.

The Ottawa Firefighters Community Foundation presents a Memorial March for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and Line of Duty Deaths. The march leaves from the police station on Elgin Street and will end up at the Firefighters Monument at City Hall. More information is available online.

Join guest speaker Steve West, CEO Nordion Inc. for a talk on “What it takes to be a global leader: Competing on the world stage.” Presented by the Ottawa Chamber of Congress at the Sheraton Hotel, Rideau Room, 150 Albert Street. More information is available online.

Octopus Books hosts a book launch for Verbatim: A Novel and The Cube People. Authors Jeff Bursey and Christian McPherson are well acquainted with the unsung heroes in our city, the workers who toil away on government campuses out of the spotlight of Parliament Hill. Wine and snacks will be served. The event will be … Read more

The Ottawa Folk Festival offers four days of the best the folk music genre has to offer. Learn an instrument, join a choir, or sit in on an Appalachian jam session. The festival takes place at Hog's Back Park. More information is available online.

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute invites you to join on the centenary of the 1911 election. Meet Patrice Dutil and David MacKenzie, the authors of Canada 1911: The Decisive Election that Shaped the Country, at the Rideau Club, 99 Bank Street, 15th Floor. Call 613-482-8327 ext. 104.