In 1867 Canada was heading down the road of autonomy, in 1931 Canada gained further independence from the empire by negotiating and signing the Treaty of Westminster. But within a period of a few short years of moving away from one empire we just backed into another one. As many of us know today Can...

A global war or an intercontinental nuclear exchange is highly unlikely in the current world political climate. But as long as considerable nuclear weapons and long range delivery systems exist in other countries and a developing threat resides with potential adversaries, the possibility of an aer...

The St. Albans Raid of 1864 was essentially a breach in the neutrality agreement between the United States and England. The controversial aspect of this event was that it involved Confederate soldiers raiding a northern Union town through the Canadian border, which, at that time, was still a colony ...

First actions like the Treaty of Wanghia with China and the Treaty of Kanagawa with Japan marked the turnaround of the nation's policy to stay away from other countries' affairs. George Washington's famous words "avoidance of entangling alliances" were forgotten. More than ...

While still in office, President Bill Clinton emerged from a meeting with 33 Western Hemisphere leaders and made an ambitious pledge. By 2005, he promised, a ''Free Trade Area of the Americas would stretch from Alaska to Argentina'' and ''will be the world's largest market.'' He had the idea of comb...