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Trail Blazer
15 December 2016 - 9:55amDr. Oronhyatekha (Peter Martin) was one of the first indigenous physicians in Canada and the first to attend Oxford University. He shattered a lot of stereotypes.
Latin Lover
7 December 2016 - 11:00amAfter leaving downtown New York City for the country, Ann Patty got bored. Then she found a whole new life taking classes in Latin. She came, she saw, she conquered.
Young Man In A Hurry
18 November 2016 - 1:46pmSouth Africa gave Winston Churchill his fourth taste of war. He was twenty four years old.
Remembrance
11 November 2016 - 9:22amDillon Hillier, a corporal with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, returned home from a tour in Afghanistan and started up a normal life. At least, that was the plan.
Massey Lectures 2016
1 November 2016 - 2:08pmThe face of the Earth is not ablush with democratic stability and rising prosperity, this year. Canadian Jennifer Welsh says she knows why.
November 8, 2016
28 October 2016 - 2:58pmAre we there, yet? Trapped between two candidates with record-low ratings, Americans are plunging into The Year of Voting Dangerously.
The Book of Joy
19 October 2016 - 9:02amNeed a lift? The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu share hard-won wisdom about living with joy, even in the face of adversity.
Trudeau 1.0
4 October 2016 - 6:46pmToday, his son Justin lives at 24 Sussex Drive. Trudeaumania is about Pierre Trudeau’s rise to power in 1968, a story we thought we knew.
Wood Wide Web
30 September 2016 - 12:49pmForester Peter Wohlleben loves trees. As a young man he discovered the forest, like the Internet, is a social network.
Faith & Facts
27 September 2016 - 7:44pmDoes science discredit the Bible? Absolutely not, says Dr. Michael Guillen, former Harvard physics instructor and Emmy-winning ABC News Science Editor.