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
It was the classic “hurry up and wait” situation when, as Arts columnist Brian Brennan watched, Glenn Ford filmed a brief scene for the 1978 movie, Superman. Part of the problem, Brennan reports in his new time capsule piece, was that Ford couldn’t remember his
The deep-space probe Rosetta set its lander Philae astride a comet today, a historic feat for the European Space Agency — and for humanity. At 16:03 GMT November 12, the agency announced, scientists in ESA stations in Argentina, Spain and Germany had received word
On November 11, 1918, the guns of World War I fell silent on the Western Front. The end of the Great War was, so many participants swore, surely the end of all wars. It was, of course, hubris; less than a generation
Germany, and much of the world, this weekend marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It remains the singular event to symbolize the end of the Cold War. It marked the end of the Iron Curtain between
Franklin Expedition: “Heart and soul” of HMS Erebus revived By F&O staff Canada’s government has released images of the bell from HMS Erebus, the doomed ship from Britain’s legendary Franklin Expedition, found in Nunavut territory in September. Erebus was named after the Greek
A quarter century ago the Berlin Wall came crashing down, taking the post-WW II world order with it. Beneath all the headlines, the predictions and recapitulations, recriminations and geopolitical events of the last 25 years can be found signals of profound change.
Shari Lewis made her mark as a talented ventriloquist with a sock puppet named Lamb Chop. But as Arts columnist Brian Brennan discovered when he interviewed her, Lewis had much more going for her talentwise than ventriloquism. An excerpt of Brennan’s
Canada’s government released photos today of the bell from HMS Erebus, the doomed ship from the British Franklin Expedition that was discovered in September in Nunavut, Canada. View photos and read our brief here: “Heart and soul” of HMS Erebus revived (free story.)*
The United States, which from afar seems to be in a frenzied, polarized and non-stop election battle, saw the Republican party prevail Tuesday over the Democrats in mid-term elections. The Republicans will now control both houses. For the country that often claims
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change today published the trailer for a the video of its fifth report, to be released at an international climate meeting in Lima next month. Its message: “We either continue on the path that we are on and possibly
