Reading Time: 3 minutes Much of current elite opinion would be soundly rejected by voters if ever openly expressed at the ballot box
Author: Pat Murphy
Easter 1917 marked a First World War turning point
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Canadians took Vimy Ridge and the Americans finally entered the war. But it would be folly to suggest that the U.S. won the war
Radical Jack and the birth of modern Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Spare a thought for Lord Durham, an unlikely Englishman who played a significant role in the events leading up to Confederation
Ireland braces for fundamental change
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tectonic shifts may be in the offing in the wake of a startling Northern Ireland election result and with Brexit hanging menacingly over Ireland
Looking back at leadership: rating the U.S. presidents
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s no surprise the top spots go to the usual trio of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt. But things get interesting after that
The rise and fall of the Romanovs
Reading Time: 3 minutes 100 years ago this month, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated. In July of the following year, he and his immediate family were bayoneted, shot and mutilated
Donald Trump’s NATO heresy was shared by Pierre Trudeau
Reading Time: 3 minutes If progressives like Trudeau have often been less than enamoured of NATO, why is everyone so alarmed about Trump’s possible apostasy?
The ups and downs of boom-bust oil
Reading Time: 3 minutes Breaking up monopolies and trusts deemed to be manipulating markets led to some unintended consequences, including price volatility
When a U.S. president tried to pack the Supreme Court
Reading Time: 3 minutes Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to pack the U.S. Supreme Court because it disagreed with many elements of his New Deal
Fading star power: Hollywood holds little sway in politics
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hillary Clinton enjoyed massive Hollywood and entertainment industry support, but still lost the November election