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Conservatives say ’Free the beer’ but not the milk

The federal party’s interprovincial trade critic urges a ’nuanced approach’ as the Supreme Court hears a key case on economic barriers within Canada

Roy Moore preaches to his choir

On the campaign trail in Alabama, Steve Bannon’s anti-establishment Republican forces believed in God—and Moore, their God-fearing candidate

A century after the Halifax explosion, grim reminders can still be found in trees

The entire core of one tree trunk was a column of metal shards. ’It dawned on me, ‘wow, man, this is from the Halifax Explosion,’ ’ says one arborist.

How 1920s British spy agency files reveal a proto-Cold War rife with intrigue

An expert on Russia discovered that bureaucrats and spies secretly gathered to watch Soviet movies

Ursula K. Le Guin, the sci-fi giant, takes on dystopia and social injustice

Le Guin: ’Can America go on living on spin and illusion, hot air and hogwash, and still be my country? I don’t know’

The problem with ’The Shape of Water’ and other ’woke’ films

Guillermo Del Toro’s movie embodies what’s wrong with a certain school of self-satisfied, performatively socially conscious filmmaking

The earth’s rotation is slowing, and that points to a big year for earthquakes

The Earth started a period of slow rotation around 2013, and if the research is right, we’re about to experience a greater number of earthquakes over the next few years