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By Pierre Elliot Trudeau LUCIEN BOUCHARD, ILLUSIONIST I Accuse Lucien Bouchard of having betrayed the population of Quebec during last October's referendum campaign. By distorting the political history of his province and of his country, by spreading discord among it's citizens with his...

The Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau - Biographical Information Born - 18 October 1919, Montreal, Quebec Education - University of Montreal (Law) - Harvard University (Master's Program) - Postgraduate studies at École des sciences politiques in Paris and the London School of...

By DR NICK NEAVE We live in an age in which women have earned complete independence. So do they need men at all? According to Dr NICK NEAVE, an evolutionary psychologist from Northumbria University, not only do they need men, they are fundamentally programmed to depend on them. Here, Dr...

Zak Golebiowski: The fifteen-year-old's right leg is missing below the knee Two holidaymakers told how they saved a teenager's life by using an electrical extension cord as a tourniquet after his leg had been ripped off by a great white shark. The teenager is thought to have been...

1858 Uprising of Irish Catholics in Canada © Cher Gruener Who are the Fenians and what role did they play in relation to Canada and the civil war? The Fenians were named after a group of Irish Catholic (after the group Sinn Fein) people determined to win Irish rule away from England. There...

The Unfolding West © Cher Gruener The Railway was what really opened up Canada and allowed the settlement of the western provinces to come about. The railway throughout Canada can be traced back as far as the late 1830's. There were several companies that merged in order to form the Canadian...

The Underground Railway © Cher Gruener The Underground Railway...what was it really? It was a concourse of tunnels and safe houses that escaping blacks could use in their search for freedom. The Underground Railway Contrary to it's name, it was neither a railway nor was it underground. What...

The Men in Red © Cher Gruener The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was founded in 1873 as a result of unrest in the western part of Canada and continue to keep Canada safe today. In May, 1873 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police found their origins. The force began some 5 years after...

A Canadian Holiday to Celebrate a Queen © Cher Gruener The country of Canada has always loved England. Even before Confederation, Canada chose to name a holiday after the Queen. On the weekend preceeding May 25th. we celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday here in Canada and thankfully, that...

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...