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God of Poetry

Apollo was about more than going to the moon

Climbing Down from Vimy Ridge

One of Canada’s leading historians makes a different case for military success

The Envoy

Mark Carney has a plan

Asa McKercher

Asa McKercher is the Steven K. Hudson Research Chair in Canada-US Relations at the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government at St. Francis Xavier University, in New Brunswick.

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King without a Crown

Essays on a defining prime minister May 2026
In June 2024, a statue of Sir Winston Churchill was unveiled in Calgary, joining other monuments to the former British prime minister in Halifax, Toronto, and Edmonton. In Quebec City, meanwhile, a bust of Churchill squares off against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the American president who met his counterpart for two wartime conferences held at the Château Frontenac and the…