BigCityLib Strikes Back: What To Do About John, Eh?
Bernie Farber had a piece in the Ottawa Citizen yesterday re our nation’s first Prime Minister: …Sir John A. Macdonald was also a racist who disdained Chinese rail workers, the very same men who helped...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Farber Vs. Gwyn On John A.
From Bernie’s piece in The Star:The latest hullaballoo around renaming Toronto’s Union Station after Sir John A. Macdonald should have and could have been avoided from the start. It simply boggles the...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Red in Central Canada, blue in Ottawa an immutable rule that...
Is Justin Trudeau finished because Kathleen Wynne just won in Ontario, like the mainstream media’s pundits are telling you? Don’t be too sure! (Say, as one Twitter commenter asked, who is that old man...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Who Knew? Tory Poster Boy, Sir John A., Was a Right...
They never taught this stuff when I was in high school. Arlene Ewert writes in today’s Victoria Times Colonist that our veneration of Sir John A. Macdonald is undeserved and seriously misplaced....
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending On John A. & Clearing The Plains
Since James Daschuk’s Clearing The Plains came out last year Canadian’s have been forced to reassess John A. MacDonald’s place in the pantheon of Canadian heros. Among a fair bit of back-and-forth on...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Independence Day: an excellent moment to remember Stephen...
PHOTOS: Today is Independence Day in the United States, and also in Texas, where this photo was snapped. Below: Stephen Harper, not a Tory, unlike John A. Macdonald, below him, who was. Below both of...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Whatever happens next, Justin Trudeau has brought the...
PHOTOS: Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau addresses his supporters in Edmonton this morning. Below: Mr. Trudeau’s supporters line up in the pale morning light to get into his rally; Mr. Trudeau greets...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Worthwhile Canadian initiative … Rona Ambrose said to be...
PHOTOS: Outgoing interim federal Opposition Leader Rona Ambrose listens seriously to someone in this Government of Canada shot found lingering on the Internet. Below: Ms.
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Something useful for the premiers to talk about: the...
PHOTOS: Edmonton’s stately old Macdonald Hotel, named for the prime minister of the same name and site of Canada’s premiers’ annual summertime beanfest this week.
View ArticleAlberta Politics: ‘Has Trudeau committed treason?’ The answer is no and the...
Donna Kennedy-Glans, by all accounts an intelligent and accomplished Alberta Conservative, recently posted and pinned a Tweet asking, “Has Trudeau committed treason?” If her intention
View ArticleAlberta Politics: If it seems as if Canada’s Conservatives have lost it,...
“Huge pothole on #StAlbert Trail right now! This is a preview of Canada’s future if Justin Trudeau is re-elected as prime minister, as he continues to implement his terrible anti-automobile agenda.”...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Happy Canada Day! In a troubled world, Canada stands out as...
Happy Canada Day! One way or another, our Canada always seems to end up on every list of the world’s Top Ten economies. Granted, we are almost inevitably No. 10 of 10, which may leave the intensely...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Alberta’s self-selecting separation survey — unscientific,...
Is the Kenney Government trying to persuade Albertans, one step at a time, that separation from Canada would be a good idea? How else do we explain the gratuitous inclusion of a question giving...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Canada Day Mystery: What happened between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m....
It’s a true Canada Day political mystery! What happened between 9:03 a.m. and 1:02 p.m. that dramatically changed Jason Kenney’s holiday message? Alberta Premier Jason Kenney (Photo: David J....
View ArticleBabel-on-the-Bay: Leadership and legacies.
This was prodded by a reader. He asked me to search my mind for leaders of Canada’s federal parties and determine what I would consider their legacy to the country. It was a somewhat disappointing...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Death toll from fall of Montreal statue still stands at...
The death toll from the fall of John A. Macdonald’s statue in Montreal Saturday still stands at zero, the gods be praised. One would have thought it was much higher, however, given all the outraged...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Jason Kenney decries ‘cancel culture’ in lengthy monologue...
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s cranky lecture about “cancel culture” yesterday notwithstanding, no one is proposing that John A. Macdonald’s name be erased from the pages of Canadian history or we...
View ArticleSusan on the Soapbox: Jason Kenney’s Thoughts on Residential Schools
The only reason I’m going to mention the Sky Palace scandal in the same post as the deaths of 215 Indigenous children at a former residential school in Kamloops BC is because the Sky Palace scandal...
View ArticleNorthern Currents –: Tearing down colonial statues is making history, not...
While confederate statues get bashed down in the south, Canada’s own architects of genocide and apartheid have also come to a crumbling demise. Statues of John A MacDonald and Egerton Ryerson have been...
View ArticleTHE FIFTH COLUMN: How Should We Judge Historical Figures
Should historical figures be judged by the best things they have done or the worst. Should they be judged by the standards of today or of their time. Should some things like slavery or genocide be...
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