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Last of the Nation-Builders
By Raymond B. Blake. Brian Mulroney changed the story of Canada that many were comfortable with, adding features he saw as necessary for accommodating the interests and aspirations of people and regions alienated by Pierre E. Trudeau. In time, Mulroney’s vision and policies became enduring threads in the national fabric.
Behind the Orange Shirt
Phyllis Webstad puts cruel nuns at centre-stage in "The Orange Shirt Story" but she didn't mention nuns in accounts of her year at St. Joseph’s, which was no longer a school when she arrived there in 1973.
Hoity Tories
By John Pepall Review of Canadian Conservative Political Thought. Lee Trepanier and Richard Avramenko, eds. Routledge, 2023. THERE HAS BEEN great political tumult in many democracies in recent years. It has been attributed to populism, woke identity politics, economic stress, Covid, and social media. Populism is inherently unreflective. Politicians attempt to interpret it and find ways to get the people’s votes, but there is no populist thought. The left dismiss populists as deplorables, to be reeducated. The left thinks it knows what’s right, and has settled theories. On the right, amongst conservatives, the political tumult has given rise to vigorous...
The Magic Thread of 'Greatness'
Canada’s Lost Caribbean Provinces
In 1911 the Bahamas Legislative Council sought to negotiate Bahamian membership in the Canadian federation — only one of many overtures. All the West Indies could have been Provinces of Canada.