The Journal Pioneer

“Beep… Beep… Beep…” Radios around the world picked up the steady pulse of a signal being broadcast from high overhead — where no aircraft could fly. It was October 1957, and the Soviet Union had just ...

Every election campaign begins with the pollsters and the pundits attempting to divine the big issues that will decide how people vote. Some even try to predict what THE issue will be: the so-called “ballot box” question on which the ...

I’d truly glad that the really stupid things I’ve done haven’t been recorded for posterity. I mean, some things have been recorded: I’ve occasionally appeared in the background of someone else’s iPhone video, and ...

It’s just one of all those things that no one really can tell you. The things you’re destined to learn — to really learn — for yourself. Two days from the end of June, and I was on the edge of a huge field under the hot ...

Fifteen-year-old Diya Tapan Trivedi does something unique every summer, and this year, she’s chosen to carry forth her family’s legacy by engaging in a sport originally played only by white men.  Sharply wielding her MRF ...

Well, this is odd. “Canada’s largest pension fund,” the Toronto Star reported last week, “has quietly divested from two American private prison operators deeply involved in the detention of thousands of Latin American migrants ...

For a party that says it believes in charter values like freedom of speech or freedom of association, the Trudeau Liberals have a strange way of showing it. In fact, the folks that like to call themselves the Party of the Charter are currently ...

Various translations of the New Testament’s Book of Luke have it that in the days of the birth of Jesus, the great Caesar Augustus gave the order that there was to be a census for the dominions of Rome. As an example, the New International ...

Peter Marrone, chairman of Toronto-based Yamana Gold Inc., isn’t betting that a bull run is just around the corner even as gold prices soar to their highest point in a half-decade. His cautious attitude about rising bullion prices is not ...

Just right now, it’s the best time of the year to play plant detective. I don’t mean it’s a great time of the year to spot plants you might not be familiar with, because they happen to be flowering now. No, it’s more ...