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After Afghanistan
Adam Chapnick reviews a collection of the best defence thinkers examining Canada's defence and diplomatic policy options in the aftermath of the Afghanistan experience.
The Charter of Rights Myth
John Robson demolishes the fairy tale that Canadians lived without constitutionally guaranteed rights until Pierre Elliott Trudeau brought the shining Charter of Rights and Freedoms down from Parnassus in 1982.
The Patience of Job
James Carson bids us to “reimagine” that St. John Brébeuf, the Jesuit martyr, was “never martyred” but “died for reasons indigenous to the time and place he inhabited, for reasons that rest squarely on the deep beliefs of the people who had welcomed him.” Historian Christopher Blum is not convinced.
Chumped by Trump
Canadians seem puzzled by the improbable rise of Donald Trump, and I find that puzzling indeed. Trump is, I should have thought, the very picture of what an American is, in the eyes of Canadians. He is Sam Slick of Slicksville, a person who could only be an American.
The Real Handmaid's Tale
By Barbara Kay. From our archive: Hitler’s Furies should be read in every Gender Studies program in the West. It treats women with the respect they deserve as complex human beings and the true moral equals of men: equally capable of good and equally capable of evil.