When we look up into the sky, we don’t often think about things falling down from space onto us, except when we see a meteor streak through the sky. Canada has had its fair share of meteor strikes dating back millions of years thanks to the immense...
With the death of Sir John A Macdonald, we begin a stretch of four prime ministers during the 1890s who all ruled for roughly one to two years on average. It was a chaotic time for the Conservative Party, which had lost its leader of decades and the...
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Jeremy Torrie, writer-director of The Corruption of Divine Providence. The movie, viewable online via the Whistler Film Fest, is about a Metis girl who shows stigmata (bleeding from the wrist, etc) and is the object...
If there was someone in the old days of hockey who was cut from a different cloth, it was Eddie Shore. Not only was he highly gifted as a defenseman, but he was also one of the toughest guys on the ice and the stories of his hockey exploits have...
When Europeans arrived in the 1500s, it began to have an immense impact on the Indigenous cultures in what would one day be Canada. Beginning on the east coast and moving west over the century, cultures would see significant change as Europeans...
In Canadian history, there have been two very famous Alexander Mackenzies. The first was a man who explored much of what would one day be Canada, and the first to accomplish the first east to west crossing of North America north of Mexico. That is...
I’m going to play a clip from a game on Dec. 30, 1981. It involved the setting of a record that may never be broken. Gretzky would finish with 92 goals that season. It is a stunning record, but what if I told you that there was someone who if he had...
