“I like owning this business,” says Drew Skuce after showing off his tidy workshop, Paradigm Shift Customs, where pieces of architectural heritage – windows, mostly – are brought back to life. Skuce is quietly making a name for himself in heritage circles.

Biographies of Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and one of the most controversial, Pierre Trudeau, are vying for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

An international team of researchers advancing a new theory about the primordial soup that gave rise to life has paid homage to the “brilliance” of a long-dead Canadian scientist whose insights in the 1920s presciently framed this century’s search for the ultimate origin of species.

A P.E.I. man is trying to rally a whole new group of Islanders to preserve the province's lighthouses.

The War of 1812 saw the last foreign invasion on Canadian soil. Jeremy Diamond and Davida Aronovitch say it had important effects on geography, people and history.

Halifax is ready for an influx of Titanic enthusiasts and international media this April. The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the famous ocean liner will be commemorated with Titanic Eve — Night of the Bells at Grand Parade on April 14 and an afternoon ceremony on April 15.

Lambton County, Ontario’s cultural services general manager Robert Tremain didn’t miss an opportunity to set the record straight with federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver after his ministry issued a news release in which the minister stated Imperial Oil’s Leduc No. 1 discovery of crude oil near Leduc, Alberta, 65 years ago “was when Canada’s modern oil industry was born.”

The Bluenose II, the “namesake daughter” of the legendary vessel that gave Canada a sports rivalry with the Americans long before Olympic hockey, was in dire need of repair. Now, work on the hull is complete and the shipwrights’ efforts are focused on laying the top deck of Douglas fir and building the cabins and rooms inside the ship.

On a remote, windswept ridge high above the treeline in the Coast Mountains of southwestern B.C., the dull hues of a brownish-green plateau suddenly give way to a bright-white, 50-metre-wide circle of stone. Two scientists from Canada and Britain concluded that the stone circle is the result of natural forces, an extraordinarily geometric gift left in the wake of a retreating glacier about 10,000 years ago.

A new movement to organize and preserve Canada’s marketing history has taken a step forward: Pirate Toronto has donated a massive catalogue of about 50,000 pieces of advertising to McMaster University in Hamilton, creating the largest industry archive in Canada.