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During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among "undesirable" populations in Canada.

In 2009, the New Brunswick provincial government provided a licence to search over a million hectares of land to Texas-based Southwestern Energy for the purposes of natural gas extraction.

Arkady Renko returns for his most enigmatic and baffling case: the death of one of Russia's new billionaires, which leads him to the Zone of Exclusion - Chernobyl and the surrounding areas clo

To be gay in Iran means to live in the shadow of death.

In 2011, proclaiming the need for austerity, Québec's governing Liberal Party announced a draconian increase in tuition fees.

In the 1880s, through an amendment to the Indian Act of 1876, the government of Canada began to require all Aboriginal children to attend schools administered by churches.

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In this memoir Jim Bennet portrays the Halifax of the 1930s and '40s: one full of coal smoke and rival gangs of young boys, freight trains and pine tar soap.

In the mid-1970s, tensions simmer beneath the surface of a small town in rural Massachusetts.

Soon after the police break up an anti-GM crops demo on a Cotswold farm, a man is found savagely murdered in circumstances chillingly reminiscent of the infamous, unsolved Meon Hill murder of 1945.

A feral girl roams the dense forests of nineteenth-century France.

Saturday, November 3, 1956 The United Nations about 10 p.m. Lester Pearson, Canada's foreign minister (and future prime minister) stands before the United Nations General Assembly.

When Betta Nolan's husband dies, she honours a promise she made to him to move to a small town and start a new life.

For more than 50 years, William Francis Ganong explored the wilderness of New Brunswick to document its natural history.

When Victor Hugo died in 1885, the world was shocked to discover that he had a lone survivor: his daughter Adèle, incarcerated in an asylum for insane gentlewomen.