With rumours of corruption swirling around his party, Jean Drapeau always said the difficulty of a Swiss bank account is proving you don't have one. But Montreal's legendary mayor could afford to joke about the issue because there were never serious accusations that he was personally on the take. His...

On August 9, 1945, just before 11 a.m., a solitary American bomber is making its final approach on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. In the form of a plutonium 235 bomb called Fat Man, resembling a giant winged tumor, the B-29 is carrying death for some 100,000 Japanese.

The bullet that blew apart the magnificent head of John Kennedy passed within inches of his wife, Jacqueline. She remembered the horror in slow motion, a quizzical look on his face as a fragment of his skull flew backward. The Zapruder film shows her clambering onto...

Canada's wars resonate with our family. In Flanders Fields, my grandfather's kid brother Adrian was killed on Jan. 19, 1916. His older brother Ernie won the Military Cross in the Great War, but for the rest of his life Ernie limped from a machine gun bullet in the leg.

Their...

The poet Emily Dickinson provides guideposts to deal with the going.

"Dying," she writes, "is a wild night and a new road."

We said farewell to Ron Haggart last week. Haggart knew something of both -- the nights and the roads. In his time...