VANCOUVER, B.C. – Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation saw a national outpouring of grief and anger over indigenous residential schools, and the genocide of Canada’s aboriginal peoples. Now that the day’s drums are stilled, the joined voices of lament
The stories that mattered to us this week range from the passing of EL Doctorow to invasions — the army of King Crabs descending on Antarctica and the British invasion of American pop. We feature a photographer’s view of the Tour de
It’s been, as it often is in these times, a heavy week in the world — and so let’s begin on the lighter side of life. We offer a gorgeous photo essay about an Italian revival of silk worms, Brian Brennan’s
On Tuesday July 14 the New Horizons passed the dwarf planet Pluto in the Kuiper Belt, capturing our first images of an object named for an underworld god but until now perhaps best known as the name of a cartoon dog. What
When the earth shakes under our feet we flee click-bait sites to seek informed, smart analysis. Suggestions for authoritative information on today’s breaking news: On Greece and the European Union: Wire service reporting is often as neutral as it gets. Here’s Reuters:
Among the many items that caught our attention this week was the award of a Canadian stamp to short story master Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. The stamp was released on Monro’s birthday, July 10.
There is no shortage of villains in this Greek tragedy, writes Jonathan Manthorpe, as Greece and Europe brace themselves for the Greek referendum on Sunday. “It hasn’t helped matters that the advent of the euro has been a huge boon for
The world is holding its breath with Greece on the knife-edge deadline on its €1.6 billion loan repayment due to the IMF. its stalemate with its international creditors, and upcoming referendum, could make Greece the first advanced economy to default to the fund in its
Here is F&O’s lineup of good reads, for your weekend lingering, or to launch the new week with information that matters. New Reports: Pope Francis throws down the gauntlet On eve of encyclical, Pope Francis appeals for “our ruined” planet. Our package
Pope Francis, on the eve of the most contested papal writing in half a century, said on Wednesday that all should help to save “our ruined” planet and asked critics to read his encyclical with an open spirit. The document is
Magna Carta: the 800th anniversary of a “Great Charter” that changed the world The rule of law was established at Runnymede, England, on June 15, 1215, via the Magna Carta. As well as clipping the wings of a tyrannical and erratic ruler,
