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Did Chappaquiddick kill Kennedy’s White House ambitions?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mary Jo Kopechne’s death was sensational, but justice was never truly done and far too many questions remain unanswered
Elwy Yost and a land where the shadows are always like magic
Reading Time: 4 minutes Elwy Yost turned generations of young people into film buffs through his groundbreaking television programs
The diet shell game
Reading Time: 4 minutes Stick to the evidence when reporting on – and endorsing – food studies. We need real solutions to obesity and Type 2 diabetes, not book sales
Kate Harris’ Lands of Lost Borders a masterpiece
Reading Time: 3 minutes In Lands of Lost Borders, Kate Harris ruminates on 10 months aboard a bicycle along the Silk Road once conquered by Marco Polo
Let’s stop gratuitously thrashing historical reputations
Reading Time: 3 minutes Emily Murphy should be celebrated for her accomplishments and how they changed Canadian society for the better, not reviled for her shortcomings
Harry Truman completely unprepared for his accidental presidency
Reading Time: 4 minutes The inauspicious heir to the White House had planned to play poker the night Roosevelt died. Instead, he became president
Politics, propaganda and the Bayeux Tapestry
Reading Time: 3 minutes French President Emmanuel Macron has loaned the historic depiction to Britain for public display. Is he taunting the English about Brexit?
Avast ye swabbies: CRTC asked to crack down on Internet pirates
Reading Time: 3 minutes How do you crack down on internet piracy while preserving net neutrality, the cherished principle of a free and open web?
A New Year’s reading list for the 99.09 per cent
Reading Time: 3 minutes Four authors who lay bare a depressing world of plutocrats, oligarchs and the international kakistocracy