On March 15, 1969 an editorial appeared in the short-lived Jamaican weekly newspaper Abeng, titled “Canada’s White Lies”. The editorial reflected on the events of the previous month in Canada, ...

This clip comes courtesy of the always-excellent @Montreal_Expos Twitter and features the legendary Heywood Hale Broun venturing up to Canada to see how Montreal's experiment with baseball was faring ...

Third in an 11-part series examining the vagaries of awards voting. Just as performing marginally on a pennant winner still can earn accolades in the MVP vote (see my Elston Howard article), a team's ...

Forty-seven years ago this February, six West Indian students at Montreal's Sir George Williams University accused their white professor of giving them unfair grades. Those accusations caused racial ...

They were a world famous and controversial couple. John Lennon, arguably one of the most famous current musicians in the world and artist wife Yoko Ono, had staged their first bed-in for peace in ...

“Fires, explosions, assaults and a full-pitched gun-battle kept Montrealers huddled indoors as the reign of terror brought the city to the edge of chaos and ...

MONTREAL – Yoko Ono says she will always remember Montreal’s skyline when she thinks about the bed-in for peace she staged with former Beatle John Lennon in a downtown hotel 40 years ago. “We were in ...

Julius Grey would have been 20 when this photo, by the Montreal Gazette’s Len Sidaway, was published on Tuesday, March 25, 1969. The man who went on to become one of the city’s most prominent lawyers ...

MONTREAL — Claude Ruel, a reluctant coach who guided the Montreal Canadiens to a Stanley Cup in 1969, has died. He was 76. The Canadiens confirmed Ruel’s death on the team’s website. “He had a way of ...