Events to mark 36 years since Polytechnique attack, honouring 14 women slain in 1989

For decades, Canada and the United States have been strategic allies and defence partners. But it wasn’t always that way. U.S. President “Donald Trump is not the first American to say that he wanted to possess Canada,” journalist and author Madelaine Drohan told National Post. Long before Trump launched a trade war and threatened to make Canada the 51st state, other U.S. presidents had ambitions to conquer Canada. It turns out, even Founding Father Benjamin Franklin wanted a piece of the country. In her book, He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada, which...