Why Does Conflict Turn People Into Xenophobes?

While many Canadians take for granted the right to protest against their government, the recent trucker convoy demonstrated that no, that is not the case. If the Prime Minister decides he disagrees with those protesting, he can invoke the emergency act and freeze Canadian citizen’s bank accounts. Did someone say…

The Ship of Dreams The ocean was dark and silent like the world’s largest grave. Which it is, Will Norton thought, as his prohibitively expensive submersible descended slowly, like a piece of meat dropped in soup, towards the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. He stared out the window, even though there…

18th century France Village of Valois Blanche sat at the window, looking up at the sky, a dreamy look in her eyes. Sneaking in a quick break before her father would call for her to help serve the patrons, she dreamed of Paris where revolutionary rumblings were starting to reverberate. …

“Wow, what a beautiful vista,” Lisa Sigouin said, staring out the window of their Hyundai as it bumped along the gravelly road of Jacques Cartier National Park. Joey, her husband, stole a glance at her and they shared a smile. “See I knew this would be the perfect thing, after…

Leave it to Canada, the stereotypical country that values peace and order above all, to be the country where a mass protest movement breaks out against government Covid mandates. While governments have been overreacting to Covid over the past year, particularly using fear to implement laws and mandates backed by…

If you lived during the late 90s and early aughts, you likely remember the Harry Potter phenomenon. Everyone spoke about how this British woman wrote these fantasy books and had everyone reading them, making more money than any other author in the process. …

The man cried. A Hellenized Jew named Yonatan who called himself John. Avinoam watched, fascinated. A year ago, this was him. When the royal decree was sent out, that all Jews must follow Hellenic practice on pain of death, many traditional families were at a loss. The guerrilla fighters--started by…

“And that is why the Bible is just another myth.” Professor Hershel Landau wheeled around, leading his wheelchair over to the closest student, sheaf of papers in his hand. "Would you please hand these out?" he asked the guy sitting in front of him. The student stood up and grabbed…

“A vote for Mr. Crowley is a vote against warmongering.” The man at Edgar’s door stood insistently with a frozen, plastic smile on his face. “It’s a bloody municipal election, most people don’t even vote,” Edgar said, glancing down at the pamphlet. “Right, but an endorsement from Edgar Monroe will…