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Diversity at Any Cost
Canada’s Defence Leaders Misunderstand the ‘Problem’ of Tradition. The new approach assumes that dress regulations are designed to make the individual member a better clerk, or cook, or technician. But they weren’t. What they were intended to do was to signal one’s willingness to submit to discipline.
The ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ & the Myth of Papal Bulls
IT IS A POPULAR REFRAIN among activists, indigenous and non-, that explorers from Europe did not really “discover” North America. They point out that indigenous peoples were already here — a fact that was first discovered, oddly enough, by explorers. Their claims about Papal Bulls are bogus.
Update on the Ryerson Fiasco
In The Ryerson Affair: An Update, Professor Ronald Stagg judges the judges and finds them wanting. The reports that informed the decision-makers were feeble work, he concludes.
L’Affaire Dundas in Toronto: Falling for a Hoax
Henry Dundas was actually a hero of the Anti-Slavery Movement, writes Dr. Patrice Dutil. The City of Toronto must reverse its stupid plan to change the name of Dundas Street.
The Fall and Rise of Military History
“Cook argues, rightly, that Americans, Australians, and Britons consistently have recollected this war in reasonably accurate ways, which emphasise their sacrifices and successes. Canadians, alone among the victor powers, have tended to forget why they fought this 'necessary war,' and to remember their defeats more than their deeds.” BY JOHN FERRIS The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada’s Second World War. Tim Cook. Allen Lane, 2020. THIS BOOK ASSESSES how an unmilitary people remembers its military history. Tim Cook’s account of how Canadians have viewed the Second World War says much of value,...