During the Great Depression, the spread of communist ideas in Canada represented damnation to some Canadians and salvation to others. The Canadian government found communist supporters convenient ...

Herbert Hoover, the last Republican president to gift our country with a depression, was also a great humanitarian known for his charitable work and his effort to save Europe from starvation and the ...

Most historians look back on Smoot-Hawley as a mistake. But tariffs have a new champion in President Donald Trump.

Although Kornai initially favoured shock therapy and markets freed from state intervention, he grew wary of the potential risks of the great post-communist depression. ‘The reduction in the real ...

The mayor of Vancouver, Gerry McGeer, saw it as proof that Soviet Communism had entered Canada ... dust during the darkest days of the Great Depression. In 1932, James Shaver Woodsworth became ...