"Six weeks into the Covid pandemic, New York Times columnist David Brooks identified two forces shaping Western politics, represented by those he called rippers and weavers. Rippers, whether on the right or the left, understand politics as a war that gives their lives meaning. Th...
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"This is the story of the collision of two worlds. In the early 1600s, the Jesuits -- the Catholic Church's most ferocious warriors for Christ -- tried to create their own nation on the Great Lakes and turn the Huron (Wendat) Confederacy into a model Jesuit state. At the centre o...
"The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most influential media moguls. When George McCullagh bought The Globe and The Mail and Empire and merged them into the Globe and Mail, the charismatic 31-year-old high school dropout had already made millio...
Here is an examination of the lives of two men, framed by the war that lured them from comfortable, ordinary lives in a quiet corner of Ontario. Why were both of these men radicalized - one by the most extreme form of Islam, the other by a desire to fight it? Why did they travel ...
"The book is a biography of eccentric French fur trader Pierre Radisson, a man who helped shape the events of his time. Radisson spent his life trying to be an important part of the rather bizarre European beaver hat trade, but was stymied all his life. He lived through fantastic...
A collection of the very best war journalism created by or about Canadians at war. Each piece has an introduction describing the limits placed on the writers, their apparent biases, and in many cases, the uses of the article as propaganda. The stories were chosen for their impact...
An account of media censorship by the Canadian government during World War II, which reveals wartime secrets and unveils the men charged with manipulating Canadian public opinion.
The Canadian government censored the news during World War II for two main reasons: to keep military and economic secrets out of enemy hands and to prevent civilian morale from breaking down. But in those tumultuous times - with Nazi spies landing on our shores by raft, U-boat at...
Ottawa has become a place where the nation's business is done in secret, and access to information?the lifeblood of democracy in Canada?is under attak. It's being lost to an army of lobbyists and public-relations flacks who help set the political agenda and decide what you get t...
On January 21, 2015, a pro-ISIS Twitter account reported that John Maguire, a 23-year-old university drop-out from the Ottawa Valley town of Kemptville, had been killed fighting Kurds in the Syrian city of Kobani. A few weeks before, Maguire had starred in a YouTube video threate...
NOMINATED FOR THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE AS SEEN ON GLOBAL NEWS-TV'S THE MORNING SHOW Murderer. Salesman. Pirate. Adventurer. Cannibal. Co-founder of the Hudson's Bay Company. Known to some as the first European to explore the upper Mississippi, and widely as the namesa...