He will never understand these Canadians, Igor Gouzenko thought to himself: great strategists, brave on the battlefield, loyal comrades, always there when needed, but incredibly...
Cristoforo Colombo, an Adventurer born in Genova, Italy, convinced Isabelle I, Queen of Castille towards the end of the Fifteenth Century to finance a maritime expedition aiming...
A Christmas card is a greeting card sent as part of the traditional celebration of Christmas in order to convey between people a range of sentiments related to Christmastide and...
It had snowed heavily during the night, and I found thirty centimetres of pure, white snow glittering outside in the sun covering not only my car but also the branches of the...
Canada Post reported a loss before taxes of 841 million dollars for the full year 2024. That’s roughly 70 million per month. Canada’s Prime Minister is right when he says that...
Back from Greece, my daughter treated me to lunch. She wanted to share her latest adventures with me because she knows that I (as always towards the end of every month) was...
Due to the international tension created by recent events in the US people in North America – and elsewhere – seemed to have begun to search for new vacation locations outside...
The Industrial Revolution buffeting the United Kingdom’s economy during the second half of the nineteenth century created a migration of workers from the countryside to...
Two Blogs ago I promised to write about the beaches of Albania, so we flew to Tirana (Albania’s capital), spent a couple of days there, admired the numerous freshly created...
“Rupert’s Land” was the name given to the Hudson Bay watershed by King Charles II of Great Britain and Ireland in 1670. At the time, he had no idea that this encompassed...
