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Every day, I hear from people all over the world who are determined to do their part to stop the slide into gangster authoritarianism.

It’s why, even in these darkest of times, I feel hope. Canadians are looking out for our neighbours. We’re calling out the well-worn playbook of the…

Well, that was predictable. Danielle Smith’s base hate her pipeline deal with Mark Carney. The premier was booed at a recent UCP gathering in Edmonton when she tried to sell the pipeline deal to supporters.

No doubt the Prime Minister thought that cutting all manner of environmental regulations on the…

“Fridges are a bit overrated.”

That’s one of the conclusions that Ruth Goodman came to after spending six months living the life of an ordinary Tudor. Living and working in a farmstead meticulously constructed to be Tudor-authentic, she immersed herself in the granular details of 16th-century Britain, eating Tudor food,…

You may not be familiar with the HMHS Llandovery Castle, which sank off the coast of Ireland on June 27, 1918. It is an event, from nearly a century ago, that has resonance for Canada as the fallout grows from Pete Hegseth’s “kill them all” order against a Venezuelan boat.

The most celebrated of all ancient Romans almost met a watery end before he’d made his big splash in the vast ocean of history. In 75 BC, Julius Caesar – then in his mid-20s and yet to establish himself as the most powerful man in Rome – sailed to Rhodes…

At a time when global instability is rising, you would think that it would be patently obvious that Canada’s longstanding tradition of international engagement matters more than ever.

We are a mid-sized power with a relatively small population spread over a massive territory. And yet, for eighty-plus years, Canada has…

In March 1457, a short, slight widow left Pembroke Castle to embark on a 100-mile journey across territories stalked by civil war and pestilence. Her husband had died only four months earlier, carried off by plague contracted during imprisonment at another Welsh castle during the spurts of Yorkist resistance that…

Every year, the people of Halifax, Nova Scotia send a Christmas tree to the people of Boston, Massachusetts to commemorate the support Bostonians gave in the aftermath of the tragic Halifax harbour explosion of 1917.

The blast devastated the community. As soon as Boston got word of the disaster, it…

Today, democracies around the world are under threat by the rise of self-serving, incompetent and conspiracy-driven leaders. Some would argue the cretins are put in the store window to distract you from the looting that is going on behind the scenes.

There is a term for the politics of our…