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Create AccountA number of organizations were formed to oppose the reciprocity agreement of January 1911 between Canada and the US. Most prominent was the Canadian National League, headed by Toronto lawyer Zebulon Lash.
RECENT DISCLOSURES OF MORE mad cows in our midst raise the nagging question of why Canada is not doing far more to screen the nation's cattle herds for the dreaded bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease.
IT'S SUNNY AND -16º C, not too bad considering how cold it can get here in southern Manitoba. The only thing moving is the occasional passenger car or transport truck, billowing cotton balls of exhaust along Highway 3.
BOB RAE IS GOOD with a crowd. Not Johnny Carson good, but good all the same.
IT'S A TRUE believer's kind of tale. The day after Canada officially ratified the Kyoto Protocol on CLIMATE CHANGE in December 2002, David Anderson was in New York City to deposit the freshly signed paper with the Treaty Section of the United Nations.
Obscenity became an offence in 1663 when Sir Charles Sidley was convicted for his behaviour after a drinking orgy. He appeared naked on a balcony and threw bottles filled with his own urine down among the people in Covent Garden.
Defence research, initiation and development of weapons or technologies likely to be useful in national defence, is a comparatively recent phenomenon in Canada.
How North Vancouver’s Rebecca Rubin landed in the crosshairs of the biggest eco-terrorism investigation in U.S. history, and spent 10 years on the run. Ken MacQueen on a tale of sabotage, conspiracy, violence and betrayal.
Under attack from all sides, Harper’s cabinet shuffle hints at his plan to come back fighting
The chief behind Canada’s first jail on reserve land pushes for more jobs training for Aboriginal inmates
A move by a small-town council to block a popular mayor from being re-elected backfires spectacularly
Mark Mayrand has big plans to reform the way we run elections. Will the government listen?
We’ve got free trade with Europe. Fantastic. Now how about all those trade restrictions between the provinces?
The 1215 agreement between King John of England and his barons provided the foundation for English common law, which spread throughout the English-speaking world.
The 1217 Charter of the Forest (Carta de Foresta) is a companion document to the Magna Carta of 1215.
The slow and painful process of cleaning up a culture of corruption
Electoral reform is the process of reviewing and reconfiguring the structure of electoral politics, i.e., the way in which voters elect their representatives. In Canada, electoral reform has historically occurred through reconfigurations of electoral ridings, or the extension of the right to vote to previously disenfranchised groups of people. Attempts have been made to change electoral systems on a number of occasions, at both the provincial and federal level. The matter was of specific interest throughout 2016 due to the Liberal Party’s pledge during the 2015 federal election campaign to enact reform by 2019. However, the Trudeau government abandoned this in February 2017, citing a lack of consensus on the issue.
The Gladue case (also known as R. v. Gladue) is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision, handed down on 23 April 1999, which advises that lower courts should consider an Indigenous offender’s background and make sentencing decisions accordingly, based on section 718.2 (e) of the Criminal Code.
Nunavut — meaning "our land" in the Inuit language Inuktitut — entered Confederation in 1999 as Canada's third territory and newest member of the country.
The Northwest Territories (NWT) entered Confederation in 1870 after Canada acquired Rupert’s Land and the North-Western Territory from the Hudson’s Bay Company.
