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Monday, Oct. 9 is not a particularly exciting day for most of the Yale population. But for an albeit small, but fun-loving subset, Oct. 9 is a day of great merriment, a day to reflect upon “the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed.” There are no pilgrims, there is no Macy’s Day Parade, but Canadians across the nation still eat turkey and give thanks. I could not tell you why we have a national holiday that seems to just copy the American holiday but with no actual purpose. ...

On April 10, family, friends, former students, and colleagues gathered in Woolsey Hall to celebrate the legacy of Yale’s longtime chief investment officer.

The University of Toronto’s Funké Aladejebi hopes readers find Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History to be just as the title promises: unsettling.

A few weeks after Jonathan Spence, the celebrated historian of China, died at Christmas, ChinaFile began collecting reminiscences from his classmates, doctoral students, and colleagues spanning the five decades of his extraordinary career as a scholar, teacher, and author.

The United States shows all the warning signs of impending social and political collapse. Here's what an internal conflict could look like.

How racism in Ontario schools today is connected to a history of segregation Students of School Section #13 with teacher, Verlyn Ladd, who taught at the school from 1939 to 1958. Class of 1951, Buxton, Raleigh Township, Ontario. (Buxton National Historic Site & Museum), photo provided by author. Toronto’s Africentric Alternative School first opened in 2009 after years of advocacy and then months of heated public debates and criticism about the meaning and significance of the school. The assum...