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Every year at this time as I watch the yellow leaves being blown off the trees and the cold wind of October tingling the air, I’m reminded of a decision that changed my life.

25 years ago, on Thanksgiving weekend, I decided to dedicate my life to politics. Not the…

Well, that was unexpected.

Not the part where Donald Trump cut off our Prime Minister as he was speaking to brag about Canada becoming part of the United States. Or that Trump offered no deal, no concessions. Or that in response to our unilateral offer to drop tariffs, he raised…

Roman society was acutely hierarchical. Every occupation carried a moral weight, and the line between dignity and dishonour was a stark one. A senator who spoke in the law courts could win eternal repute, but a gladiator who risked his life to entertain the masses was branded socially devalued, and…

Is there any better way to understand the deadly politics and high drama of the Tudor era than through the lens of their audacious romantic entanglements?

After all, King Henry VIII had six wives, instigating the Reformation in the name of love (and presumably lust, too), meanwhile Queen Elizabeth I

Welcome to our Academy course – Tudor life with Ruth Goodman

What was life in the 16th century like for ordinary people? In this seven-part video series, social historian Ruth Goodman takes viewers on a tour of the Tudor period, exploring what people ate and drank, how they worked, what…

Religion was at the heart of Tudor life. It shaped how people understood the world, guided their daily routines, and affected everything from politics to personal relationships. In episode two of Tudor Life, Ruth Goodman looks at what people believed in the 16th century

We often think of the 16th century as an era of hard work and strict social rules – but leisure and entertainment played a bigger role in daily life than you might expect. In episode one of Tudor Life, Ruth Goodman explains just how much time people really had for…

From long hours in the fields to the bustling noise of Tudor workshops and marketplaces, we’ll discover exactly how people in the 16th century earned their keep — and what it meant to make a living in a world without modern comforts or job security

In mid-September, I was invited to speak at the University of Regina about the threat posed by MAGA gangsters to higher education.

My speech came in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. MAGA dark lord Steve Bannon has used the shooting as a call to arms against education, stating the…

MAGA Alberta’s latest attempt to sow division came in the form of a two-pronged assault.

A group of MAGA separatists met in Washington with “cabinet-level” officials about their plan to break up the country. MAGA Alberta is looking to use Danielle Smith’s promised referendum to unilaterally declare independence, with the…