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Well-Earned Obscurity

Well-Earned Obscurity

Sir Mackenzie Bowell’s conduct as Prime Minister throughout his inadvertent and fleeting premiership of Dec. 21, 1894 to Apr. 27, 1896 probably doomed him to suffer his later anonymity and to languish in obscurity.

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The Unmarked Graves Boondoggle

The Unmarked Graves Boondoggle

Ottawa's 'Special Interlocutor for Missing Children' heads a growing empire. But so far she has identified not a single unmarked grave that is actually a grave of a named 'missing' child.

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Nasty, Nasty Nellie McClung

Nasty, Nasty Nellie McClung

One of Canada’s best-known early feminists was a nasty man-hating piece of work, writes Dr. Janice Fiamengo. From our Archive.

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The Triumph of Slavery

The Triumph of Slavery

Vainglorious plans for a multipolar world inspired the Confederacy at war. Adrian Brettle's book Colossal Ambitions shows how leading Confederate politicians and thinkers conceived of their struggle for independence as an event of global significance and expected that the outcome would determine the future of the entire western hemisphere: a restored and dominant slave empire.

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Canada’s "Genocide" — Case Closed?

Canada’s "Genocide" — Case Closed?

There is no real evidence of "genocide" at Kamloops Residential School. Why would lawyers expect the International Criminal Court to believe it?

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