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Mark and Glenda Berg, schoolteachers from Winnipeg, gave up their lives for a year in 1994 to take the Gospel to a faithfamished land. They worked on the edge of [...]

The walls of Jericho, which the Negro spiritual says 'came a-tumbling down' from the ram's-horn blasts of mighty Joshua's warrior-priests, never actually fell. Or so say two Italian archeologists who [...]

Liberal Senator Sharon Carstairs wants to protect children--from their own parents. If the former schoolteacher and Manitoba Liberal leader gets her way this spring, no longer will Canada's littlest citizens [...]

When female convicts at the Kingston Prison for Women attacked guards in 1994 and were subdued by a riot squad, Ottawa appointed a female judge who found that the rioters [...]

Ministers of God preaching to empty pews have been known to take comfort in the thought that there is no such thing as an empty church: they are always filled [...]

Nazi-hunters have long charged that Canada is home to hundreds of elderly Ukrainian and other European former members of Nazi death squads. Last week they repeated the accusation, prompted by [...]

After five years avoiding publicity, white separatist Terry Allan Long has ended his silence. On January 20 the ex-Aryan Nations leader and former Caroline, Alta., resident issued a press release--with [...]

The legacy of multimillionaire philanthropist and patron of the arts Francis George Winspear, who died in Edmonton two weeks ago at 93, influenced many more westerners than the 300 gathered [...]

Doug Young, minister of national defence since October, is widely seen as a man of action. When a photograph of a female officer beaten and left bound in the snow [...]

A lone figure in profile, apparently female, is strapped to a tree on a snowy night, her close-cropped head slumped forward. A controversial photograph of the startling scene was leaked [...]

The unrelenting stream of damaging disclosures about Canada's armed forces in recent months has prompted retired major general Lewis MacKenzie and York University historian Jack Granatstein to speculate that a [...]

Ontario,' wrote lohn Ibbitson two years ago in his book Loyal No More, 'is becoming estranged from Confederation.' The Globe and Mail's Queen's Park bureau chief sensed that Ontarians now [...]

The right of an accused man to make full answer and defence in a fair trial, includes the right to represent oneself in court. The ensuing courtroom antics can irk [...]

The attack was brutal and shocking. At 12:37 a.m. on New Years Day, a group of 30 Native youths swarmed three white girls on an Edmonton LRT train, snatching purses [...]

David Ahenakew's audience scarcely batted an eye when he digressed about the Jewish Holocaust at a December 13 meeting of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations. 'The Jews damn near [...]

Living in the shadow of a powerful neighbour, Canadians have coasted along for decades with a minuscule military outlay and a dithering defence policy. It seems like a bargain for [...]

It was the abuse of Somalis by members of the Canadian Airborne Regiment that formed the basis of the biggest scandal in the history of the Canadian Armed Forces, a [...]

Canadians have come to expect pronouncements from mainline Christian churches that sound more like socialist dogma than the Word of God. Anglican, United and other large Protestant denominations have been [...]

It was not the first time Murdock MacDonald lost his legs. His memory is a little hazy, but some years ago the homeless 68-year-old, who roams Calgary's streets and alleys [...]

Canadian Jews have mixed feelings about Steven Rambam. The brash thirty-something private investigator from New York, who spent two years scouring Canada for Nazi war criminals, scolded Canadian Jewry and [...]

Where once public anti-Semitic slurs were commonplace, Christian-baiting seems to have become the media parlour game of choice. In a May 10 Globe and Mail interview, CBC Radio As It [...]

Canadian television networks mark the annual Atlantic seal cull with gory newsclips--seals clubbed and plucked from ice floes with long hooks, one apparently flayed alive, others shot and wounded but [...]

The growing perception of a double standard in Canada's justice system was reinforced last week when Justice Minister Allan Rock ordered a January 1996 manslaughter case reviewed because the victim [...]

A small but growing number of Asian families are discovering that Alberta offers more than the Rockies and roast beef. School board recruiters from Edmonton and Banff are enjoying great [...]

Decades of information campaigns, random checkstops and increasingly severe penalties have failed to curb the thousands of drivers who continue to get behind the wheel under the influence. The number [...]