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March 20, 2018

A biologist's epic tale from a Communist regime to the Canadian Arctic

Josef Svoboda is an Arctic ecologist and professor emeritus in biology at the University of Toronto. He migrated to Canada in 1968, fleeing from the communist regime of Czechoslovakia.
Wine from Raisins, A Life Transformed through Communist Gulag to Canadian Arctic by Josef Svoboda (Novalis, softcover, 240 pages, $27.95)
Published in Arts News
July 23, 2017

Review: The Exception

Jai Courtney stars in a scene from the movie "The Exception."

NEW YORK – Historical kitsch applied to World War II espionage doesn't get more gloriously over the top than in "The Exception" (A24).

Published in Movie News
December 27, 2016

The astonishing secret history of the Pope who fought Hitler

Pope Pius XII had a secret plan to overthrow Germany's Adolf Hitler during World War Two.

WASHINGTON – Pope Pius XII's secret support for the attempted overthrow of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler is the subject of a recent book that draws on wartime documents and interviews with the American intelligence agent who wrote them.

Published in International
October 29, 2016

Film explores diplomat's efforts to warn world of Holocaust

James Grover McDonald, left, a diplomat and the first U.S. Ambassador to Israel, in an undated photo

When the Holocaust was still a gleam in Adolf Hitler’s twisted, paranoid eye, there was one American Catholic with a little bit of Canadian heritage mixed in who saw what was coming and did his best to warn the world.

Published in Canada: Toronto-GTA