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Scott Gilmore: Even if Trump can outrun the law, he will still be remembered as the most ignorant and incompetent president ever

This summer marks a century since Ottawa reluctantly imposed the first federal income tax on Canadians to pay for the war. Once entrenched, though, the tax never went away.

In 1862, smallpox killed thousands of Indigenous people in B.C.—and what ensued sparked issues that the province still grapples with today

Peter Shawn Taylor on the danger of judging historical figures, from Langevin to Cornwallis, on individual acts

Dolly Gibb is only 38 years younger than Canada. Tracking her life allows us to follow the growth of a nation.

As trade with Canada falls under Trump’s angry, roving eye, a look back at a U.S. trade deal that helped lead to Confederation

The Great War marked the true beginning of the American century. But 100 years later, “the war to end all wars” is largely forgotten in the U.S.

In the weeks leading up to the attack on Vimy, the Canadian Corps commanders and engineers meticulously drilled their minute-by-minute plan

History has plenty to tell us about this moment of fraught borders—and about the consequences of racist government policies

The wounds of civil war are deeper and worse than the wounds in conventional, interstate wars