By Sean Graham This week, I talk with Nina Studer, author of The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France’s Most Notorious Drink. We talk about the drink’s origins, its cultural ...

By Jacob Richard “Show patriotism by supporting the Hudson’s Bay Company,” declares a recent letter to the editor in the Vancouver Sun. Lamenting the news that the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) is on ...

Workmen shank aluminum blooms at the Aluminum Company of Canada plantCredit: Ronny Jaques / National Film Board of Canada, ...

Sean Graham talks with Ruby Smith Diaz, author of Searching for Serafim: The Life and Legacy of Serafim ‘Joe’ Fortes. They discuss Ruby’s introduction to ...

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Donald Trump’s transactional use of tariffs does not break new ground. In fact, tariffs have played an instrumental role in American nation building for some two hundred and fifty years. Tariffs were ...

Image courtesy of Paul McKeen. This is the first post in a three-part series on the history of tariffs. You can read the introduction by David Webster here. Heather McKeen – Edwards The idea of ...

— No, bigger tariffs on you! — No, I have the biggest, most beautiful tariffs, and I am slapping them on you! Anyone could be excused for thinking it was a battle of toddlers. But this is deadly ...

The tariff war has begun. Since coming into office only weeks ago, Donald Trump’s on-and-off again threat of taking a sledgehammer to free trade has kept Canadians on edge. Canadians are angry and ...