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Flanagan Admits He Was Wrong
Our first quarterly edition, # 27, ships this week. Top of the bill: Professor Tom Flanagan recants his former position on the 1885 Louis Riel Trial. In history terms, that's big news!
Collaborating in Indigenous Privilege
It should not be surprising that there was outrage expressed, real or contrived, by the Quesnel, B.C., city council to the community circulation of a carefully researched collection jointly published by True North and Dorchester Books called Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth about Residential Schools).
Hoity Tories
By John Pepall Review of Canadian Conservative Political Thought. Lee Trepanier and Richard Avramenko, eds. Routledge, 2023. THERE HAS BEEN great political tumult in many democracies in recent years. It has been attributed to populism, woke identity politics, economic stress, Covid, and social media. Populism is inherently unreflective. Politicians attempt to interpret it and find ways to get the people’s votes, but there is no populist thought. The left dismiss populists as deplorables, to be reeducated. The left thinks it knows what’s right, and has settled theories. On the right, amongst conservatives, the political tumult has given rise to vigorous...
Last of the Nation-Builders
By Raymond B. Blake. Brian Mulroney changed the story of Canada that many were comfortable with, adding features he saw as necessary for accommodating the interests and aspirations of people and regions alienated by Pierre E. Trudeau. In time, Mulroney’s vision and policies became enduring threads in the national fabric.
The Magic Thread of 'Greatness'
Rise to Greatness is a gigantic patriotic synthesis and the boldest, densest, most whiggish history Canadians are ever likely to get. But is not a Conservative narrative and in defying the old Tory lament, Conrad Black very tiresomely repeats several unwarranted personal dogmas.