Reading Time: 4 minutes But even if you’re talented and famous, life can be a bitch
Author: Pat Murphy
19th century Scottish novelists cast a long shadow
Reading Time: 4 minutes Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson’s reputations were created primarily by Hollywood
Tying up the loose ends on Flora Macdonald’s story
Reading Time: 4 minutes Flora Macdonald, who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape after the Battle of Culloden, was nothing if not a practical woman
Winston Churchill and the villainous ‘Guilty Men’
Reading Time: 4 minutes An influential book from 1940 laid the guilt of appeasing Nazi Germany at the feet of 15 public figures
Flora Macdonald, from Scottish rebel to loyalist
Reading Time: 4 minutes Flora Macdonald helped Boonie Prince Charlie escape to France after the disastrous Battle of Culloden
Pierre Trudeau’s last rollercoaster ride
Reading Time: 4 minutes Trudeau’s fourth and final term was to be his most controversial of all
Popular historian Paul Johnson dead at 94
Reading Time: 4 minutes An enthusiastic polemicist with no qualms about giving voice to his particular perspective on the world
Liberal disloyalty toward John Turner was truly shocking
Reading Time: 4 minutes After the Trudeau-Chretien wing of the party turned on him, an offer of help came from an unlikely source – Brian Mulroney
New biography re-examines John Turner’s legacy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Chretien’s assessment? “He looks good until you put him on the ice” Mulroney’s? “A great man and a victim of timing”
Ian Tyson was emblematic of an era
Reading Time: 4 minutes If the term “his own man” applies to anyone, it certainly applies to Ian Tyson