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The Levée en Masse as a Revolution in Military Affairs
The Levée en masse not only carries within it the concepts of Rousseau transmitted through the Revolutionaries, but also shows why the French in particular — and not the English, Prussians, or Russians — revolutionized military affairs with the formation of citizen-armies.
The Kamloops ‘Discovery’: A Fact-Check Two Years Later
TWO YEARS AFTER the claim rocked the world that “the remains of 215 children” had been found on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, we know much more than we did at the time.
The Slander of Mr. James C. McCrae
When name-calling substitutes for facts By Rodney A. Clifton MANITOBA'S FORMER Progressive Conservative Justice Minister, James C. McCrae, has been slandered as “a residential school denier” because he holds dissenting views that contradict the accepted narrative on Indian Residential Schools, at least according to Tom Brodbeck, an editorial writer for the Winnipeg Free Press (“No room for residential school denial in government,” May 27, 2023, A2). I am a colleague of Jim McCrae, and I also publish policy articles with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, an institution that Brodbeck calls “a right-wing ‘think tank’ that promotes writing critical of Canada’s...
Bill Davis and the Kitchen Accord
The 'kitchen accord' that Jean Chrétien presented to Pierre Trudeau was supposedly made by the Three Amigos. But in fact the deal had already been made by Bill Davis, writes Brian Smith.
Party Discipline & the King Doctrine
Canada’s notorious iron party discipline stems from American innovations that our political parties imported in the 1910s and '20s —writes James W.J. Bowden