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
Outside Canada, writes Natural Security columnist Chris Wood, dangerous magical thinking — what he calls Old Testament Economics — “is increasingly being called out for its error by economists more based in reality … a Reformation is sweeping the ecclesiastical strongholds of market
Chubby Checker wasn’t getting much credit for his early contributions to rock ‘n’ roll during the disco dance craze of the 1970s. Arts columnist Brian Brennan reports in his new time capsule piece that Checker viewed the popular dances of the day
Put events in the Middle East in context, Thoughtlines columnist Jim McNiven urges in a new column. “Iraq, Syria and Lebanon are working their way through a kind of 100-years of religious war, partially similar to that between Protestants and Catholics that
Afghanistan’s unity deal contains poisonous seeds which will pollute the country’s politics, writes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe. Afghans turned out in their millions, defying Taliban and other threats, to have their votes cast. Ghani, Abdullah, with Kerry and other outsiders as handmaidens, over-rode
Big congratulations to Stephen Kimber, whose book What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five, won the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award this weekend at the 2014 East Coast Literary Awards. The awards, which celebrate Atlantic writers and writing, were held Saturday at
By Chris Wood, Natural Security columnist This isn’t the Bastille of the Climate Revolution. Not even close. What organizers are billing as “the largest climate march in history this weekend,” hopes to draw as many as 150,000 people to New York City to
Burt Mustin didn’t become a screen actor until he was 67. But Arts columnist Brian Brennan reports in his new time capsule piece, over the ensuing 22 years Mustin became one of the busiest bit players in Hollywood. An excerpt of Brennan’s Brief Encounters column: “They
Britain will never be the same. The day after Scots voted 55-45 to support the United Kingdom, on promises by unionists for a new range of Scottish powers, Prime Minister David Cameron set in motion a process to empower not just Scotland,
Every day another media list of newly-published science papers arrives in my email inbox: the result of earnest investigations into weighty issues. Then, once a year, there’s the Ig Nobel Prize list, awarded by an organization called Improbable Research. Part of the
Opinion polls put the result of today’s Scottish vote on independence on a knife’s edge, but no matter the outcome the referendum will have fundamentally changed Britain’s modern balance of power. The United Kingdom has been together for better, and worse, since 1707
