Canada

Dmitri Drobnitsky17.02.2026

The brand-new bridge may never open if Trump changes the previously issued permit. The Gordie Howe Bridge is set to connect the Canadian province of Ontario and the US state of Michigan, separated by the Michigan River. This isn’t the only transportation corridor between Michigan and Ontario. In particular, there’s the Ambassador Bridge, but it […]

Vladimir Golstein26.01.2026

There is a great Soviet joke about Americans mocking Russia’s lack of freedom of speech. See, says, American. I can stand in front of the White House and scream, down with Reagan, and nothing will happen to me. Big deal, says Russian. I can stand in front of the Kremlin, scream “down with Reagan” and […]

Vladimir Golstein09.01.2026

How woke liberals learned to love Nazi collaborators and murderers. One the surface of it, it all looks strange if not shocking. The most progressive of the Americans and consequently of the western world, providing moral and financial support to the ultra-nationalist thugs who idolize mass murderers of the Bandera type. They don’t idolize Dr. […]

Yuri Chekalin12.07.2025

Today is the birthday of our esteemed author Tony Rocchi, “The Canadian Lumberjack,” as some call him for his love of work, ability to multitask, and to produce high-quality material in record time. Tony Rocchi’s contribution to the development of the Crime and Terrorism section and to CommentaTHOR magazine as a whole cannot be overstated. […]

Alexander Palladin15.05.2025

As I mentioned in Part 1 of this article, in 1973 I started working as a reporter in Canada. There, and later on in USA, I experienced a real shock to find out how little local people knew about other nations, their culture and history. In 1950s my father worked at Goslitizdat, the biggest Soviet […]

Alexander Palladin12.05.2025

In September 1973, I started working as a Soviet reporter in Canada. That was my first travel to the West as an adult. At the beginning my Canadian acquaintances would often inquire, “Do you feel a cultural shock?” Lots of things, quite understandably, seemed peculiar to me and my wife. However, we took them in […]

Alexander Palladin01.03.2025

As a student 60 years ago, I attended the annual carnival in Havana. And 10 years later, working as a reporter in Canada, I covered the traditional winter carnival in Quebec City. The capital of the province of Quebec is unlike any other city in Canada as it preserves the originality of the French architecture […]

Alexander Palladin19.01.2025

On September 11, 1981, the Soviet and Canadian national teams met in the decisive game for the Canada Cup. The tournament organizers were so confident of their countrymen’s triumph that they had alotted every single best player award to Canadians only even before the final match started. The game was won, though, by the USSR […]

Kirill Benediktov11.01.2025

The idea of a union between the United States and Canada arose when American military leaders first invaded Quebec during the American Revolution. A few decades later, the United States unsuccessfully invaded Canada during the War of 1812. “Canada and the United States were at war in 1812,” says Matthew LeBeau, a professor of political […]

Alexander Palladin11.01.2025

Justin Trudeau announced his decision to step down as Canada’s 23rd Prime Minister. With slightly more than 9 years in that office he is № 7 in the national list of longest serving PMs. The eldest son of Pierre Trudeau, on November 4, 2015 he became the second-youngest government leader in Canadian history and the […]

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Happy Birthday to Tony Rocchi!

Cultural Shock: Chingiz Aitmatov

Cultural Shock

Winter Carnival in Quebec City

I Helped the USSR National Team Get People’s Canada Cup

Attempts to annex Canada go back to the early history of the US

Unlike Father, Unlike Son

The Michael Jackson Biopic is Missing its Most Controversial Story

Madama Butterfly and the Japan of the Western Imagination

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Terminator Is about 80 Years Old