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'Je me souviens, too'—Eugene Forsey and the British Fact
Eugene Forsey believed French and British glory were Canada’s glory, writes Christopher Dummitt, with a Burkean anti-revolutionary idea of history and an abiding faith in the impartial and benevolent state. Originally published in The Dorchester Review print edition, Vol. 4, No. 2, Autumn-Winter 2014, pp. 9-12. THERE WAS A TIME, not so long ago, when those who were proud of Canada’s British traditions weren’t only conservatives. Labour activists and socialists, Liberals east and west, once spoke naturally of Canada’s place in the British Empire and Commonwealth. No longer. In 2014 the Harper government was accused of creating a new nationalism by harkening back...
Shikataganai — Never Again
The more I research the story of the Japanese Canadians, the more I trigger my own memories and recognize that their story is part and parcel of the story of British Columbia, of Canada, and myself.
The Derogatory Use of ‘Denialist’
Members of Canada’s intelligentsia have weaponized the terms “Survivor” and “Denialist” in order to stifle dissent. Even so, Brian Giesbrecht and James Pew still dissent.
1619 & the Canadian Left
"We’ll never get anything done, or ever feel good about ourselves, if we can’t suppress all the rotten things we’ve done in the past" — writes Frank Buckley
Indigenous Treaties Need To Be Honoured
