Nature’s kidneys: Wetlands vital to health of prairies
Why should we care about wetlands? Wetlands are not cute. There are no Coke commercials about protecting slews; Pamela Anderson and Alicia Silverstone have not…
history
The legacy of the fallen
Our inheritance of peace
Veterans in the lineup: Remembering athletes who served in the military
This Sunday is Remembrance Day. It’s the time of the year when we stop to pay tribute to the brave men and women who have…
Genghis Khan’s climate: Research reveals climate conditions at beginning of Khan’s rise to power
Research published in the journal Science has helped to explain the climate conditions behind Genghis Khan’s rise to power. Through examining the inside of old…
U of M collecting memories of life in Tache Hall
Though it will soon be the home of the Marcel A. Desautels faculty of music and the school of art, over the past century Tache…
Where’s Buddha?
The tall, white high-rise apartments disappeared in the heavy fog as my gondola slowly ascended into the mountains of Lantau Island, one of the more…
The father of Turkey
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who was born in the Ottoman city in Salonika in 1881, was Turkey’s most beloved hero and the founder of the Republic…
The October Crisis forty years after
Last year, a great injustice was done in Canada. At the muzzle of threats to violence issued by some Quebec sovereigntists, several events to mark…
Find municipal politics a little boring?
Another municipal election is here. Yet, besides an occasional lawn sign or article tucked somewhere in the newspaper, it would not be difficult to forget…
From circus maximus to mall parking lots
Just over 1,900 years ago, in the first century AD, the Roman poet Juvenal was composing scathingly honest impressions of the state of life in…