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SOURCE: Editorial Board
2/17/2022
The Ottawa "Freedom Convoy" Takes Inspiration from a Biblical Account of a Divine Massacre
by Thomas Lecaque
The Ottawa truck protests featured a contingent of "Jericho Marchers" who are increasingly prominent on the Christian far right.
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SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
2/16/2022
The Paranoid Style Comes to Canadian Politics
by Eric Merkley
Canadian politics, until recently, seemed free of the kind of extreme sorting taking place in other democracies, where partisan affiliation, cultural values, and religious or ethnic identity all align closely. The Ottawa protests show cracks in the nation's liberal order that the far right is trying to exploit, says a political scientist.
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SOURCE: Globe and Mail
1/2/2022
Should Canadians be Preparing for the Collapse of U.S. Democracy?
by Thomas Homer-Dixon
"The country is becoming increasingly ungovernable, and some experts believe it could descend into civil war. How should Canada prepare?"
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SOURCE: The Conversation
9/20/2020
Canadian Viewers of HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ Should Know the KKK Helped Bring Down a Provincial Government in 1929
by James M. Pitsula
The Ku Klux Klan was active in 1920s Canada, pushing a nativist agenda similar to its contemporaries in the northern United States.
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1/19/20
What Dreams of Canada Tell Us About Race in America
by April Rosenblum
At a time when American casualties in Vietnam were disproportionately African American, most of those who successfully made it to Canada to resist the draft were white.
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SOURCE: EurasiaReview
12/20/19
‘We Are More’ (Freedom Of Speech Vs Freedoms Of Immigrants In Canada)
by Neil Karpenko
In the democratic country, which our veterans fought for, nobody has the right to decide for others how to express feelings, what and on what occasion to wear.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
9/20/19
It's Not Just Justin Trudeau: Canada’s Surprising History of Blackface
Scandalous images of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau don’t just tarnish his image—they also point to the hidden history of racism and minstrelsy in his country.
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SOURCE: NY Times
6/3/19
Canadian Inquiry Calls Killings of Indigenous Women Genocide
The widespread killings and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls in Canada are a “genocide” for which Canada itself is responsible, a national inquiry concluded in its final report on Monday.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
2/14/19
NAACP’s first meeting was held in Canada but there were no Canadians there
by Warren Clarke and Nadine Powell
Given the strong geographical connection between Canada and the U.S., it is reasonable to question why Black Canadians are missing from the Niagara Movement’s historical narrative.
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SOURCE: CNN
1/26/19
Hitler-owned book hints at plans for North American Holocaust
"It reminds us of the need to remain resolute in standing up to anti-Semitism, defending historical truth and educating the next generation."
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SOURCE: The Globe and Mail
11-29-18
Report: Quebec high school history textbooks are ‘fundamentally flawed’ and should be removed
Students in the Grade 9 and 10 Canadian and Quebec history classes are being taught a “skewed, one-sided view of the past that distorts the historical record,” according to the committee report.
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SOURCE: NYT
11-15-18
Justin Trudeau’s Official Home: Unfit for a Leader or Anyone Else
No recent prime ministers have been willing to commit the tens of millions of dollars it would take to make the stone house habitable again.
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SOURCE: The Globe and Mail
11-6-18
Justin Trudeau apology to Canadian Jews for turning away the desperate refugees of the St. Louis in 1939
Hundreds died in Nazi death camps.
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SOURCE: The Runner
11-3-18
New Poll Finds that Canadians Don’t Know About the Women Who Shaped their History
55 per cent of those surveyed could not name the accomplishments of Canadian women.
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SOURCE: Regina Leader-Post
9-28-18
Historians are pondering Canada’s statue dilemma, too
It’s the subject of public debate during Indigenous research week.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
9-20-18
'Not just in the US': amateur historian highlights Canada's forgotten racism
Archives shed light on incidents of racial discrimination and the country’s civil rights pioneers.
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SOURCE: Politico
6-21-18
That Time the U.S. Almost Went to War With Canada
by Kevin Lippert
And other tales from the Northern border.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
6-17-18
Trump-Trudeau tiff is the latest in a history of President-PM disputes
by Ron Stagg
While this very public spat is perhaps the most publicized disagreement between an American president and a Canadian prime minister, there have been notable confrontations in the past.
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6/17/18
Is the West in Disarray?
by Bruce W. Dearstyne
That sounds like a topic from another era. But it’s shockingly of the moment.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
6-7-18
Trump’s treatment of Canada is another reminder that he’s nothing like Reagan
by Fred Hiatt
The abject willingness of Republican politicians to discard their supposed fidelity to Reaganite principles has become so familiar in the Trump era that we hardly notice any longer.
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