Enjoy a tasty morsel of Canadian news stories from around the web, curated for your reading enjoyment. It’s Canada Soup!

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November is the month of moustaches, thanks to Movember. To celebrate, we take a look at some classic moustaches from Canadian history!

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With the Grey Cup just around the corner, editor Laura Bonikowsky sorts through the differences between the CFL and the NFL.

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The Canadarm celebrates 31 years since its launch in space with a Google doodle and a tweet from astronaut Chris Hadfield.

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Our Literature Editor rounds up the winners of some of the principal Canadian prizes awarded this year. Enjoy this bounty of Canadian literature!

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Jack Ford was a Canadian photographer during the Second World War for RCAF Squadron 414. While advancing across Western Europe, he took thousands of photographs, including Winston Churchill (with his proverbial cigar), King George VI, Nazi planes, and prisoners of war. He also captured glimmers of humanity: in one photo, a Canadian soldier dressed as [...]

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Canadian literature has long had a thematic interest in the uncanny, the strange, the frightening, the unknown. From the magical and sometimes terrifying inhabitants of First Nations myths and legends, to the paranoiac claustrophobia imbuing early literature, identified by Northrop Frye as the “garrison mentality,” to the continued dread within contemporary literature of the myriad [...]

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Who says time travel is impossible? The new Toronto in Time app, with over 150 stories, is a gateway to Toronto’s past.

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Marilyn Bell became a Toronto heroine after swimming across Lake Ontario and later the English Channel and Strait of Juan de Fuca.

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Legend has it that soldiers from Fort York went to the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse to buy beer, but when the keeper refused to sell, the soldiers chopped him to pieces and buried him.

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In this week’s Canadian news roundup, a beloved politician passes, a minute launches, and Lily of the Mohawks gets canonized in Rome. It’s Canada Soup!

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The new Heritage Minute tells the story of Richard Pierpoint, a black Loyalist and hero during the War of 1812.

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Saturday, October 13 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Sir Isaac Brock, the hero of the War of 1812 and saviour of Upper Canada.

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It’s that time of year again: autumn is upon us, with the tang of decay in the air and the scent of paper burning in the woodstove. And paper, bound into books and printed in interesting and artisanal fonts, is the order of the day for lovers of Canadian literature in autumn. Forthwith: the shortlisted [...]

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On Saturday, September 29, the Bluenose II, a reconstructed version of Canada’s most famous ship, the Bluenose, will launch in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia!

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