The mysterious Quebec prog-rock duo Angine de Poitrine are continuing their journey to world conquest this month, and as we all know, the path goes through England. “Klek” and “Khn,” musician pals from Saguenay who have developed their own genre of fast, tightly choreographed microtonal music, arrived for a tour last week and were promptly the subject of an illustrated profile in the Guardian. Read More

A quartet of Canadian anthropologists published two papers this week that provide remarkable new detective insights into the fate of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, which saw 134 men set out in search of the fabled Northwest Passage only to vanish in the High Arctic. Both papers are products of the 21st-century genetics revolution — the equivalent of solving cold cases by matching DNA recovered from old human remains with samples from living descendants. Read More

Last week the Supreme Court of Canada brought forth its ruling in Alford v. Canada, a case that represents a lone law professor’s quixotic attempt to defend the ancient inherited privileges of the Canadian Parliament. Lakehead University’s Ryan Alford was challenging the Liberals’ “NSICOP” system for parliamentary oversight of state secrets. Read More