I n February 1984, I was a death row prisoner at Evin Prison in Tehran when Saddam Hussein began his first systematic campaign of bombardment of Iranian cities. At the time, I was ...

In history’s long arc, Canada is but a glimmer of a nation. And whereas there was a time when the accident of our favourable geography led us to believe that our existence would be eternal, regardless ...

The large-scale escalation of violence in the Middle East, triggered by the unlawful aggression against Iran by the United States and Israel and followed by Iran’s retaliation against several Gulf ...

We depended on our neighbours for survival in times of war, famine, drought, or other periods of strife and scarcity. We ...

In The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire, author Stephen R. Bown explains that the point blankets were “immediately popular” when HBC started selling them in the late eighteenth ...

One method used to extend deterrence is so-called “dual-key” arrangements, in which US nuclear weapons are physically stationed with allied forces, but no single country can use them on its own. Both ...

A career diplomat whose service also included Iraq and Egypt, and who retired in 2018 after completing his term as Canada’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Horak brings a vantage that takes on new ...

W ith five weeks to go before members of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) choose their new leader, and therefore new premier, the stakes are high.

The Emergencies Act sat, forgotten, for decades. But along came COVID-19 restrictions, which sparked the Freedom Convoy in mid-January 2022—a protest led by truckers and their supporters who opposed ...