Canada needs more animated series like Britain’s Mr Benn
MICHAEL TAUBE: Enough with loud and annoying characters. Mr Benn uses wit, charm and imagination to take children on incredible adventures
Category: Books
19th century Scottish novelists cast a long shadow
PAT MURPHY in BOOKS: Scottish novelists Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson’s reputations were created primarily by Hollywood
Tying up the loose ends on Flora Macdonald’s story
Flora Macdonald, who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape after the Battle of Culloden, was nothing if not a practical woman
Winston Churchill and the villainous ‘Guilty Men’
PAT MURPHY in BOOKS: An influential book from 1940 laid the guilt of appeasing Nazi Germany at the feet of 15 public figures
Flora Macdonald, from Scottish rebel to loyalist
PAT MURPHY in BOOKS: Flora Macdonald helped Boonie Prince Charlie escape to France after the disastrous Battle of Culloden
Popular historian Paul Johnson dead at 94
BOOKS: An enthusiastic polemicist, Johnson had no qualms about giving voice to his particular perspective on the world
Liberal disloyalty toward John Turner was truly shocking
PAT MURPHY: After the Trudeau-Chretien wing of the party turned on him, an offer of help came from an unlikely source – Brian Mulroney
New biography re-examines John Turner’s legacy
PAT MURPHY: Chretien’s assessment? “He looks good until you put him on the ice” Mulroney’s? “A great man and a victim of timing”
Murdoch Mysteries – then and now
MICHAEL TAUBE: Murdoch Mysteries: the Movies were much darker than the TV show
1889 book provides a way forward for Aboriginal policy today
BOOKS: An eye-opening description of Aboriginal culture as it was in the 1880s
Every man is not in it for himself
GERRY CHIDIAC in BOOKS: The vast majority of us get along with our neighbours
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