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In the fourteenth instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes Champlain’s military alliance with France’s new Innu, Algonquin, and Wendat trading partners.
The author’s widely celebrated 2013 novel, ‘The Orenda,’ helped educate Canadians about their country’s colonial roots. It shouldn’t be cast into literary oblivion just because Boyden misrepresented his ancestry.
Why women love true crime.
There is a new contender for the most effective weapon in the propaganda wars: photorealistic, generative AI art.
In the fourth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the Visigothic sack of Rome in 410 C.E.
A new documentary looks back on the life and work of satirist, novelist, and New Journalist, Tom Wolfe.
A former artistic director of the Nanaimo Fringe Festival describes how transgender activists engineered her ouster.
Contemporary antiracism imposes an American framework that distorts our understanding of racial issues in different countries.
In the thirteenth instalment of our series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes the crucial battlefield alliance that French explorers forged with Indigenous allies in 1609.
“The deep end is the best place to learn to swim.”
A newly restored Blu-ray release of ‘Foolish Wives’ offers a welcome reintroduction to one of cinema’s most gifted and eccentric artists.
We are all Rome’s children. Its legacy is everywhere we look.
The world is better than it would have been had we remained isolated from each other—even for Native Americans.
A look back at the career of Avery Corman, who found popular success with ‘Kramer versus Kramer’ before running afoul of feminism.
Narrative art has been deeply unfashionable for about a century. But aren’t art and stories inextricable?