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Canada's First Prime Minister © Florence Cardinal John A. Macdonald was Prime Minister of Canada nineteen years making him second only to Mackenzie King as the longest serving Prime Minister of Canada. JOHN A. MACDONALD - THE EARLY YEARS John A. Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland...

UNITY OF THE CHURCH "Why are there quarrels and ill will and dissensions and schism and fighting among you? Do we not have one God and one Christ, and one Spirit of grace poured out upon us? And is there not one calling in Christ? Why do we wrench and tear apart the members of Christ, and...

December 8th is near again. Every year, on this day, I hear from many people from all over the world who remember my husband, John Lennon, and his message of peace. They write to tell me they are thinking of John on this day and how he was shot and killed at the prime of his life, at age 40...

BHOPAL, India (Reuters) - A kissing scene from a movie starring Bollywood actors Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan has irked a lawyer who has filed a criminal case against them, accusing them of obscenity, he said on Sunday. Shailendra Dwivedi of Indore, near Bhopal, the capital of central...

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD A computer in antiquity would seem to be an anachronism, like Athena ordering takeout on her cellphone. Decoding the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculator Known as the Antikythera Mechanism (Nature)But a century ago, pieces of a strange mechanism with bronze gears and...

Hollow spheres found in a primordial meteorite could yield clues to the origin of life on Earth. Scientists say that "bubbles" like those in the Tagish Lake meteorite may have helped along chemical processes important for the emergence of life. The globules could also be older than our Solar...

By Heba Saleh BBC News, Cairo Bulldozers have moved in to demolish houses in the Egyptian village of Qurna which sits on top of dozens of pharaonic tombs in Luxor. The Egyptian government is determined to move the 3,200 families of the village to an alternative settlement it has built a...

By MARTA FALCONI, Associated Press Writer Archaeologists have unearthed what they say are the only existing imperial insignia belonging to Emperor Maxentius — precious objects that were buried to preserve them and keep them from enemies when he was defeated by his rival Constantine. Excavation...

By MARTA FALCONI, Associated Press Writer Anthropologists said they have pieced together Leonardo da Vinci's left index fingerprint — a discovery that could help provide information on such matters as the food the artist ate and whether his mother was of Arabic origin. The reconstruction of the...

Yusuf Islam, formerly the pop star Cat Stevens, said that a small wave literally washed him ashore and pushed him toward Islam, in an interview with CBS television. Islam, who recently released his first commercial album in nearly three decades, "An Other Cup" said that he got caught in a...

By Joan Bryden MONTREAL (CP) - It seemed a harmless gesture to reward the lowliest candidate for a gallant campaign. It may have changed the course of the Liberal leadership race, handing the crown to Stephane Dion. Of all the sweaty palmed shakedowns, the not-so-secret pacts and the...

by Daniel J. Harrington, S.J. The boldest claim that early Christians made was that their teacher and hero, Jesus of Nazareth, who died and was buried, was raised from the dead. This claim was so extraordinary that those who heard Peter preaching at Pentecost assumed that he and the other...

J. M. Bridgeman Canada exists because of the United States and in reaction to the U.S. Constitution. After 1763, both nations (their earlier eastern seaboard versions) were under British rule. In 1776, when the thirteen colonies could take the imperial abuse no longer, they declared their...

J. M. Bridgeman Value #1 PEACE: I was listening to a CBC radio interview of Canadian historian Desmond Morton talking about how Canada has been, at least since the last battles between foreign nations fought on this soil (1814), a nation valuing PEACE. We were forced to be a peaceful nation, he...

From cooking and beer to animal husbandry and the inevitability of taxes, Frank Shore taught his son how to live BY RANDY SHORE From The Vancouver Sun DEATHS SHORE—Frank Shore was a logger, potatoe farmer, bartender, fisherman, pipefitter, beer-parlour raconteur and teacher of history and...

Could Weldon, at 80, still hit the high notes? So much depended on it. BY BILL RICHARDSON Invisibility is no impediment to weightiness. What can’t be seen can still be cumbersome. Tradition and its second cousin, faith, are among the heavy imponderables. If tradition and faith had a family...

Just because a drug is on the market doesn’t mean it’s right for your child By Claudia Cornwall Drugs prescribed to children and adolescents have been much in the news lately. Health Canada has issued warnings about some drugs that both patients and physicians trusted, and it has withdrawn...

BY GLADYS POLLACK Kathy, a close friend of my daughter’s, is seeking encouragement and hope. Cancer is a lonely journey with fearful stops along the way—destination unknown. Anger (why me?), fear of the future (how often did I compose my own obituary?) and regret (for the things I hadn’t found...

Maybe it’s because we Canadians are repressed or modest...or we watch way too much curling BY SCOTT FESCHUK Lorne Michaels, the creator of Saturday Night Live, once remarked of his native land that Canada could never have produced a movie called It’s a Wonderful Life. Way too boastful, he...

Attacking our sacred cows may turn you into a pariah--but it can also be a lot of fun BY MARGARET WENTE Every culture has its unacknowledged taboos—the things you are forbidden to say or do in polite company, the accepted truths you are not allowed to doubt. You might think that a liberal...