From the Battle of Queenston Heights to the burning of Washington to the little-known role of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, this 11-part series of videos hosted by Tim Compeau brings to life the major events of the conflict.
Book review: A book like this is a great reminder that the good old days were only good for a very select few. If you were non-white, non-male, non-heterosexual, or even non-Protestant, Toronto in the late 1800s was not a place where you could expect fairness, much less justice.
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.”
Who was that impassioned woman at the heart of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike? And why did her memory become lost to time? Filmmaker Paula Kelly set out to bring Helen Armstrong back from the margins of history and discovered in her journey a legacy of humanism that has been passed down through the generations.
