What Thunder Bay Burned
And how Lady Chatterley wrote our obscenity law
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Old School
Before texting made child’s play of surreptitious classroom chatter, students passed notes
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Niagara Falls, 1840
How academics found the first photograph to be taken in Canada
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The Case for Europe
As Europe swings to the right, BBC journalist Nick Fraser asks: is the EU worth saving?
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Extraordinary Canadians
In a new biography series, Canada is reimagined as a liberal Protestant nation
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First on the Hill
The story of modern skiing owes much to Quebec’s Laurentians
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Rising China, Razing Mao
A searing portrait of the Great Helmsman
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Breaking Old Ground
How to construct a castle the medieval way: one hand-carved stone at a time
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A Tribute Paid to Reason
Cross-examining the legacy of the Nuremberg war-crimes tribunals
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Burma on the Brink
The military junta in Burma has agreed to discuss democracy, but the pace of reform is agonizingly slow
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