The Historica-Dominion Institute’s new website, Sir. John A. Day, brings the country’s first Prime Minister to life with videos, a timeline, teacher and student resources, and a printable party hat!

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An archeological dig reveals what German prisoners of war got up to at Manitoba’s logging camp.

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The campaign to save Toronto’s libraries from cuts, spurred by literary giant Margaret Atwood, reached a boiling point last week when mayor Rob Ford said, “Good luck to Margaret Atwood. I don’t even know her. If she could walk by me, I wouldn’t even have a clue who she is…Tell her to go run in [...]

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In honour of the Blue Jays’ Roberto Alomar and Pat Gillick’s induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Editor in Chief James Marsh recalls his baseball days in Toronto.

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Tonight, Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes his small screen dramatic debut on Citytv’s Murdoch Mysteries.

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All across the country Canadians have been experiencing extreme weather, which has many of us asking where has summer gone, or when will this heat end?

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When the Atlantis completes its final mission, it will close a chapter on humanity’s ventures into space, but it doesn’t signal the “end of the Space Age.”

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The glamorous young couple are sure to receive a warm welcome, despite the grumbling of anti-monarchists that accompanies every royal tour.

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A recent nationwide survey found that most Canadians believe that “learning more about the history of Canada” is the best way to strengthen attachment to their country. So, this Canada Day, The Canadian Encyclopedia and the Historica-Dominion Institute challenge you to test your knowledge of Canadian history with a Canada Day quiz. The usual suspects [...]

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I had the most remarkable sense of historical context while reading Deborah Lipstadt’s book The Eichmann Trial at the very time President Barack Obama announced that American forces had invaded Pakistan and killed Osama Bin Laden. Lipstadt recounts the remarkable reaction in the United States to Eichmann’s abduction from Argentina.

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Just a few days ago Robert Kroetsch died in the heart of the Alberta countryside he celebrated and sent up so hilariously in his fiction and poetry. It’s a huge loss to the Canadian literary world. Kroetsch was famously dubbed “Mr. Canadian Postmodern” by scholar Linda Hutcheon: she suggested he was the writer in Canada [...]

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Since the Second World War, Canada has experienced inflation of one sort or another. At times the inflation has been mild. It would have taken $1.13 in 1955 to buy what $1.00 bought in 1950 and only $1.10 in 2005 for a dollar’s worth of the same goods and services in 2000. In other periods [...]

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