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Marker commemorating the Arnold Trail to Quebec, the “Great Carrying Place” on the Kennebec River in Caratunk, Maine

In September 1775, early in the American Revolutionary War, Colonel Benedict Arnold led a force of 1,100 Continental Army troops on an expedition from Cambridge in the Province of Massachusetts Bay to the gates of Quebec City. The expedition was part of a two-pronged invasion of the British Province of Quebec, and passed through the wilderness of what is now Maine. The other expedition invaded Quebec from Lake Champlain, led by Richard Montgomery. (Full article…)

April 13, 2026 – By-elections to the 45th Canadian Parliament

Following victories in three federal by-elections, the Liberal Party of Canada wins a majority government nearly a year after the 2025 Canadian federal election. (Reuters)

April 10, 2026 –

A shooting at the campus bar of Lambton College‘s Sarnia campus in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, kills one and injures two, with the Sarnia campus closing for the day and all activities being suspended. (CBC Windsor)

April 8, 2026 – Protests against the 2026 Iran war

Anti-war protesters gather outside the U.S. embassy in Ottawa, Canada, to protest against the Iran war despite the ceasefire along with the wars in Lebanon and Gaza. (CTV News)

April 6, 2026 – Crime in Mexico

Canadian mining company Vizla Silver confirms nine of the ten workers abducted from a silver mine in Concordia Municipality, Sinaloa, Mexico, in late January, are dead. (Reuters)

March 29, 2026 – 2026 New Democratic Party leadership election

Avi Lewis is elected leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party. (BBC)

March 26, 2026 – 2026 FIFA World Cup, Iran at the FIFA World Cup

The Iranian sports ministry bans the men’s national football team from travelling to “hostile countries”, placing the team’s participation in this year’s FIFA World Cup tournament in doubt, which is being held in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Sports minister Ahmad Donyamali previously stated that Iran will not play in this year’s World Cup. (Reuters)

A claimed sighting of Mussie from 2010

In Canadian folklore, Mussie is a creature said to live in Muskrat Lake in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is variously described, for example, as a walrus or as a three-eyed Loch Ness Monster-like creature. The legend of Mussie likely began around 1916, though legend claims that Canadian pioneer Samuel de Champlain wrote about it in the early seventeenth century. Mussie has become a part of the local culture and a fixture in the local tourism industry. (Full article…)

English language version of the Charter

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (French: Charte canadienne des droits et libertés), often simply referred to as the Charter in Canada, is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada, forming the first part of the Constitution Act, 1982. The Charter guarantees certain political rights to Canadian citizens and guarantees the civil rights of everyone in Canada. It is designed to unify Canadians around a set of principles that embody those rights. The Charter was proclaimed in force by Queen Elizabeth II of Canada on April 17, 1982, as part of the Constitution Act, 1982. (Full article…)

Helen Lee (Korean: 헬렌 리) is a Korean-Canadian film director. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she emigrated to Canada at the age of four and grew up in Scarborough, Ontario. Interested in film at a young age, she took film studies at the University of Toronto and, later, New York University. While in university she was influenced by gender and minority theories, as reflected in her first film, the short Sally’s Beauty Spot (1990). While continuing her studies she produced two more films before taking a five-year hiatus to live in Korea beginning in 1995. After her return, she released another short film and her feature film debut, The Art of Woo (2001). She continues to produce films, although at a reduced rate. Lee’s films often deal with gender and racial issues, reflecting the state of East Asians in modern society; a common theme in her work is sexuality, with several films featuring interracial relationships. (Full article…)

• … that Leon Hatziioannou played for two different Canadian football teams within 48 hours?
• … that research conducted in 2020 found that squirrels are “nearly ubiquitous” on college campuses in the United States and Canada?
• … that an Antiguan man who escaped from custody in Canada is suspected of stealing a yacht and sailing it directly into Hurricane Larry?
• … that the Canadian government implemented the Peasant Farm Policy to force First Nations farmers to use the methods of European peasants?
• … that as a teenager in a B’nai B’rith camp in Canada, Holocaust survivor and future Canadian ambassador Fred Bild learned English from his camp counselor, future actor William Shatner?
• … that Nathan Frink fled the United States with enslaved children to settle in Canada, where he was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly and caught in a smuggling conspiracy?
• … that Canadian veterinarian Frank Schofield was described as “an eternal Korean” by a South Korean prime minister?

The leader of the Official Opposition (French: chef de l’Opposition officielle) is the member of Parliament (MP) who leads the Official Opposition in Canada. This is typically the leader of the party possessing the most seats in the House of Commons that is neither the governing party nor part of a governing coalition. (Full article…)