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The Rise and Fall of United Grain Growers

Book Review: In The Rise and Fall of United Grain Growers, Paul D. Earl traces the history of the Winnipeg-based co-operative grain marketing company.


The Art of Sharing

Book Review: Financial equalization, providing similar levels of public services at similar levels of taxation, is Canada’s main solution to spreading wealth between have and have-not provinces.


Beaver Bison Horse

Book Review: In this book, the beaver receives star treatment for its little-known role in sustaining ecosystems that supported Indigenous people over many centuries.


The Third Man

Book Review: Neville Thompson makes clear in his book The Third Man, it was William Lyon Mackenzie King’s conviction that the purpose of his life was to bring Britain and the United States into “close harmony.”


Connecting Canadians through Projet Portage

The Molson Foundation’s bold initiative shares French-Canadian history with new audiences.


Montréal Capital City

Book Review:  The book Montréal Capital City leads to an ironic realization: If anglophone Montrealers hadn’t destroyed a great building that had been largely their own creation, Montreal might still be the nation’s capital today — and our political evolution would look very different indeed.


Alvira Lockwood

Raised in the studio


Hannah Maynard

Creative experimentalist


Rivers Run Through Us

Book Review: In Rivers Run Through Us, Taylor explores the geographical histories of ten major North American rivers — including the Yukon, Columbia, Fraser, Mackenzie, and St. Lawrence in Canada — to demonstrate how they influenced human history in North America.


Sitting On Fire

In 1972, Canada took in thousands of Ugandan Asians who were stripped of their citizenship and given only ninety days to leave their homeland.