Contemplate nature and more at the centuries-old Troutbeck

 Text and images by Katharine Fletcher Deep in New York State's Hudson Valley, there's a home away from home, beckoning. Snuggled in your wing chair across from a crackling fire, your eye is greeted by rows of books clustered along wooden shelves. Magazines sprawl across a coffee table, before a

ACE/Clear Defense Inc is proving a smashing point

 Peter Fabian likes to beat on a plate of glass now wand then with a baseball bat to see if he can shatter it. Sometimes, He'll even fire a bullet into it. The glass may crack, but it holds firm. Fabian is out to prove a smashing point.  Fabian is

Heroes betrayed —The Merchant Seamen story

 By Cliff Chadderton It is mid-January of 1940 in "an East Canadian port." Canada is at war. The recruiting offices are open. You see a poster of a soldier in a tin hat. You recall the slaughter of the trenches in Flanders in World War I and mutter: "No thanks."

A vision for Canada’s foreign policy in the next millennium

 By: Lloyd Axworthy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs  Around the turn of the last century, Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier made the bold statement that the 20th Century would belong to Canada. While there are others with greater economic or military assets, in many ways we have achieved Laurier's vision, and become

National perspective: Chretien rolls the constitutional dice

 By Michael D. Behiels The first week of December 1997 will be looked back upon as Prime Minister Jean Chretien's "virage" in the war against the Quebec secessionists. Until then, Stephane Dion, his professorial constitutional sidekick, sowed paranoia in the ranks of the secessionists by smiting them with his brilliant articles

Ottawa’s grand boulevard: Vision or nightmare

 By Jeannie Dempster In the mid-1800s, Parisian architects redesigned the entire city, replacing the twisty medieval streets with long, wide boulevards. Given the many violent uprisings of that era, the military favored the new roads, for they provided a much better view down the gun barrel at the angry mobs storming