[ad_1] The federal government is under intense political pressure to expel foreign diplomats from Canada. Such evictions are rare – but they do happen. Earlier this week, the Globe and Mail reported that Zhao Wei, a diplomat at the Chinese…
[ad_1] The British monarchy, according to the Victorian writer Walter Bagehot, “is usually hidden like a mystery, and sometimes paraded like a pageant.” The mystery has subsided since the day. So is the king’s power. But the pageantry, in the…
[ad_1] When I was growing up, Gordon Lightfoot’s songs were played on the living room stereo, on the radio in the kitchen and in the family car and on my father’s guitar over and over until the Canadian singer-songwriter, who…
[ad_1] TORONTO – Despite his status as Canada’s head of state, only modest celebrations have been planned this weekend for the coronation of King Charles III in the nation’s capital, Ottawa, and the turnout is expected to be lower than…
[ad_1] King Charles III, Britain’s first new monarch in 70 years, will be crowned on Saturday in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey in London. People hoping to catch a glimpse of the king and queen on their way to and…
[ad_1] While some Britons are preparing for the coronation of King Charles III by buying royal paraphernalia or cooking for street parties, a 21-year-old student in the northern city of Leeds instead ordered 50 beach balls with the words “No…
[ad_1] More than 13,000 people have been evacuated from the western Canadian province of Alberta because of dozens of wildfires there, officials said Friday. About 78 active wildfires were burning in the province as of Friday morning, and 19 were…
[ad_1] Enter the new Carolean Era This morning, King Charles III will be crowned British ruler in the country’s first coronation in 70 years. The ceremony, at London’s Westminster Abbey, will confirm the role Charles has taken since the death…
[ad_1] LONDON – There’s a piece of furniture so famous and so important to British history that it’s in its own chapel at Westminster Abbey, behind an iron gate so that onlookers can admire it but never touch it. The…
[ad_1] “I have friends,” he says, and these friends include the owner of a natural wine bar, a painter and a puppeteer for an opera. ‘I Gotta Live Differently’ Of course, the complex reality is that the most traumatic event…