Reading Time: 3 minutes For the crime of being a man of his times, Canadians are being asked to wipe the memory of a Father of Confederation clean
Tag: Canadian history
The Meech Lake Accord and the destruction of a political party
Reading Time: 3 minutes Brian Mulroney’s insistence on crafting constitutional change went from master stroke to the death of the Progressive Conservative Party
Income tax a wartime measure that haunts us still
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the first 50 years after Confederation, the ethos was that taxing incomes weakened Canada’s competitive position. That changed in 1917
A multi-candidate Tory leadership race from another era
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fifty years ago the Tories selected Robert Stanfield from a large roster of candidates to replace John Diefenbaker. Stanfield went on to lose to Pierre Trudeau
Conservatives should distance themselves from Beyak
Reading Time: 3 minutes Senator’s twisted perspective on residential schools and the horrible suffering students went through should not be accepted by the party or other Canadians
Easter 1917 marked a First World War turning point
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Canadians took Vimy Ridge and the Americans finally entered the war. But it would be folly to suggest that the U.S. won the war
Radical Jack and the birth of modern Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Spare a thought for Lord Durham, an unlikely Englishman who played a significant role in the events leading up to Confederation
Donald Trump’s NATO heresy was shared by Pierre Trudeau
Reading Time: 3 minutes If progressives like Trudeau have often been less than enamoured of NATO, why is everyone so alarmed about Trump’s possible apostasy?
Canadian citizenship is only 70 years old
Reading Time: 3 minutes Until 1947, Canadians were still considered British subjects, albeit living in an independent, self-governing country
Pierre Trudeau and Canada’s October Crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes Invoking the War Measures Act was an iconic moment in the former prime minister’s career, but was it just authoritarian posturing?