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Canada Day 2012 : Duff Conacher, Helen Forsey, Michaëlle Jean, Percy Robinson...

Percy Robinson (1873–1953) in the cooling waters of Georgian Bay. On Canada Day 2012 a recent welcome comment from the unsung great historian of French and Indian Toronto’s great granddaughter has...

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Iran parliamentarians think it is the British queen who has closed Canada’s...

When some Iranian lawmakers see photos like this, they apparently think that the British Queen is giving orders to the Canadian Prime Minister. There have been various explanations of the Harper...

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Lester Pearson’s hope for a Canadian republic .. after the fall of France in...

Arthur Lower, 1889–1988, in his final years. Remembrance Day 2013 — the day before yesterday — is still somewhat on my mind. And I am remembering that the fall of France in June 1940 had a brief...

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Canadianizing the Canadian citizenship oath — a still dangling rite of...

George Brown of the Globe, 1818–1880. At the end of the 1864 Quebec conference that forged the constitutional beginnings of the  confederation of 1867 George Brown, founder of the old Toronto Globe and...

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We have still “not yet realized that the Indian and his culture” are...

Our Home and Native Land — by Canadian artist Jen Adomeit. Thanks to Ivan Noke on facebook. According to Susan Delacourt at the Toronto Star, the debate over the “suicide crisis” (aka “mental health...

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Mel Hurtig and (very) early second thoughts about where the new Trudeau...

“Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau magnifique en blanc pour rencontrer la reine.” Compliments Johanne Masson. The recent Radio Canada report “Noted nationalist and author Mel Hurtig dead at 84” has coincided...

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Canada Day 2009 : Percy Robinson and the reluctant Canadian republic

Celebrating the 142nd birthday of the confederation in Hogtown. TORONTO. SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2009. The Canada Day that looms ahead this year is looking a bit gloomy in Canada’s most populous metropolis....

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Happy Canada Day 2018 : Electing the Governor General could make a lot of...

Meghan Markle and her mother, Doria Ragland, on their way to tea with the Queen, May 2018. Meghan Markle and Harry Wales have now shown the world that the British monarchy does have some kind of...

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