Canada: Justin Trudeau’s ‘Emergency Act’ explained

Canadian PM surprised Canadians – and everyone else in the world – when he invoked a never-before-used act, sparking world-wide coverage – and then protests against the Act around the world. Photo: Protesters began converging on Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, […]

Anna Sorokin on ‘Inventing Anna’ and Life After Rikers

Interviewed ahead of the Netflix show’s release, Ms. Sorokin spoke about how her life has changed since the end of her Anna Delvey days. Photo: Anna Sorokin in 2019, during her trial in Manhattan. She has spent the last year […]

US school boards get death threats amid rage over race, gender, mask policies

Local school officials across the United States are being inundated with threats of violence and other hostile messages from anonymous harassers nationwide, fueled by anger over culture-war issues. Reuters found 220 examples of such intimidation in a sampling of districts. […]

Obituary: Ivan Reitman – producer and director (75) (2022)

From Ghostbusters to Animal House, to an off-Broadway Lampoon revue that featured John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray. Photo: Filmmaker Ivan Reitman poses for a portrait at Montecito Restaurant, in Toronto, on June 30, 2016. (Eduardo Lima/The Canadian Press) Ivan […]

Can ‘common law constables’ and ‘sovereign citizens’ circumvent legal precedents?

Activists are now handing out ‘writs’ as part of the trend drawing on non-existent ‘common law’ and ‘sovereign citizen rights’ movements to ‘overturn’ constitutional laws. Photo: An anti-lockdown protest in April 2021. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock Ministers accused of fuelling conspiracy theorists’ […]