Historically, empires have gone to great lengths to secure potash, a mineral critical to agricultural production.

Back then, Canada was just a collection of colonies. It survived largely thanks to its Indigenous allies in North America and backing from the British Empire. Aside from a few close calls in the ...

If the U.S. has its Paul Revere, Canada has Shawnee chief Tecumseh ... of fighting Napoleon’s ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an “us-against-them” mentality.

His legacy laid the groundwork for the spread of the British Empire. His peers named 23 topographical features on six continents in his honor—waterfalls, rivers, mountains, glaciers and even an ...

The leaders’ debates featured few answers to questions about how Canada should move forward in an emergent new global order ...

Canada is heading into federal elections, where Prime Minister Mark Carney is vying for a chance to continue leading the ...

Canada uses paper ballots that are counted by hand at every polling station, by employees of Elections Canada. Candidates are ...

Hannay and Arbuthnot went undercover into the Ottoman Empire to thwart German plans (the Ottomans were allied to the Central Powers) to foment rebellion in Muslim lands against their British ...

Mandatory military service and nuclear weapons may be new ideas for Canadians, but other friendly democracies have been using ...

The April 28 election will come down to two candidates with starkly different personalities and experience: Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre.