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Safer Shores

Marking 50 years since Vietnamese refugees began arriving in Canada.
Article / July 23, 2025

Maritime Massacre

Nursing sisters and Canada’s deadliest naval disaster of the First World War.
Article / July 22, 2025

Sanctuary in Pieces

Book review: The use of the words “in pieces” in the title serves to underscore the ways, as the author concludes, that “sanctuary as it has come to operate in the present — in the form of public declaration and high-profile media stories — is broken.”
Books / June 4, 2025

Dangerous Memory

Book Review: New Democrat MP Charlie Angus is in danger of becoming Canada’s latest online folk hero, but with Dangerous Memory he pauses in his current anti-Trump, pro-Canuck campaign to offer readers a personal account of why we need to remember what happened in the 1980s to resist what’s happening now.
Books / June 3, 2025

Battle of Britain

Book Review: In his fast-paced Battle of Britain, popular military historian Ted Barris draws out the stories of airmen who flew with the “Canada” shoulder flashes.
Books / June 1, 2025

Canada’s Air Force

Book review: Canada’s Air Force provides tremendous insight into the growth of the RAF’s Fighter, Coastal and Bomber commands, connecting the Canadian war effort to the international one.
Books / May 31, 2025

Playing Ball with Castro

Canada's 1964 junior baseball team defied a U.S. embargo and took on Cuba. 
Article / May 21, 2025

2025 Summer Reading Guide

Before you zip up that travel bag, you might want to pack a few of these books to keep you company while you’re on the road or at a weekend getaway.
Books / May 13, 2025

Powder Room

Heavy metal canisters were used to safely store gunpowder in ships’ magazines.
Article / May 8, 2025

Friend or Foe?

American annexation threats date back to colonial times — but Canadians have resisted being “conquered into liberty.”
Article / May 2, 2025