Canadian history 
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6/18/2023
Can Canada Contain Conflagration?
by Steve Pyne
Fire is a part of the long natural history of Canada, but this month's wildfires show the insufficiency of the nation's plans to live with fire at the opening of a Pyrocene era.
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SOURCE: KTVZ
5/27/2023
Canada Day Festivities Spark Controversy over National History
The dispossession of indigenous peoples and the exclusion of Chinese immigrants are among the historical episodes that have complicated the celebration of Canadian nationhood in recent years.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/25/2023
Canada's Hottest Tourist Attraction Could be the Government's Doomsday Bunker
Canada's Diefenbunker was decommissioned in 1994, and today is one of the few places where tourists can see the preparations made to preserve government in the event of the unthinkable.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
9/22/2022
Institutional Histories of Canadian Slavery
by Melissa N. Shaw
McGill University’s institutional history dramatically changes when it accounts for the fact that its founder, James McGill, was an enslaver and trader of enslaved Black and Indigenous people.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
7/24/2022
A Brief History of the Vatican and Western Canadian Missions
by Roberto Perin
"Residential schools and the papal bulls justifying the fallacious doctrine of discovery call out for concrete acts of atonement and reparation on the part of the church."
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SOURCE: Axios
7/26/2022
Pope Francis Seeks Forgiveness from Indigenous Canadians over Residential School Abuses
"I am deeply sorry, sorry for the ways in which, regrettably, many Christians supported the colonizing mentality of the powers that oppressed the Indigenous peoples," Francis said.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/27/2022
A Guide from the Past for Travelers Seeking an Abortion
by Sarah Elvins
"Women traveling to procure abortions is nothing new. Before the 1973 Roe ruling, state-to-state travel existed, as did highly organized transnational networks to guide women across borders."
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SOURCE: The Conversation
5/31/2022
The Asian-Canadian Gay Pioneer Theorist of Sexuality
by Laurie Marhoefer
Li Shiu Tong, the partner of better-known German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, was an important theorist and activist whose once-lost writings anticipated today's politics of gay rights and liberation.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
4/8/2022
What Does Pope Francis's Apology Mean to Indigenous Americans?
by Annie Selak
"Pope Francis apologized on April 1, 2022, to First Nations, Inuit and Métis delegations, acknowledging the harm done by residential schools in Canada and marking a crucial step in the church admitting its role in the abuse of Indigenous communities and children."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/11/2022
Ottawa Truck Protests are an Extension of Canada's Settler Colonial History
by Taylor Dysart
Today's Canadian protesters include many of the contemporary far right, but they all draw on a concept of freedom as individual entitlement to rule that has roots in the displacement of the nation's indigenous people.
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10/17/2021
The Trouble with Truth, Reconciliation, Peace and Friendship Treaties: Indigenous Land and Resource Rights Among the Mi’kmaq
by Rachel Herrington
Honoring the history of the treaties is not just about the past but also about the present and future of indigenous Canadians.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
10/11/2021
Canada is Going through its Own History Wars
by Ian Rocksborough-Smith
"To what degree will well-established professional historians and scholars respond and engage with younger generations of activists, intellectuals and cultural workers adamant about centring the experiences of marginalized people?"
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SOURCE: National Post
8/16/2021
The Canadian Historical Association's Genocide Statement "Brazenly Unscholarly" (Opinion)
Columnist Barbara Kay supports Canadian historians who have dissented from the Canadian Historical Association's statement that Canadian treatment of First Nations peoples was genocidal.
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/26/2021
With Discovery of Unmarked Graves, Canada’s Indigenous Seek Reckoning
The discoveries of the remains of hundreds of First Nations children at the sites of boarding schools intended to separate them from indigenous language and culture are forcing Canadians to confront the brutality of the nation's history.
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4/18/2021
Review: "The Third Man: Churchill, Roosevelt, Mackenzie King, and the Untold Friendships that Won WWII"
by Walter G. Moss
Canadian Prime Minister William Mackenzie King kept a voluminous diary that is an incredible source of insight into his role as a witness (and often an influencer) to the wartime and post-World War II leadership of Roosevelt and Churchill. A new book distills the 30,000 pages of the diary.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/6/2020
A Polarizing Documentary Spurs Debate Over a Violent Time in Quebec
Canadians are debating whether a documentary released at the fiftieth anniversary of a campaign of political violence by Quebecois separatists valorizes terrorism and ignores peaceful progress toward a bicultural Canada; the filmmaker is the son of one of the convicted conspirators.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/25/2020
The Myth of North America, in One Painting
Explore an immersive, interactive page that shows how "The Death of General Wolfe" by Benjamin West created a heroic myth of the British defeat of the French near Quebec, which helped decide the Seven Years War.
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SOURCE: CBC
10/17/2020
Samuel L. Jackson's Enslaved and the Lost History of Canadian Slavery
Canadian historian Charmaine Nelson says that many Canadians are overly accepting of the narrative of their nation as the endpoint of the Underground Railroad and unaware of the history of slavery in Canada. A new documentary by the famed actor highlights the need to push past comfortable understandings.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/26/2020
‘Schitt’s Creek’ Star, and His Fans, Are Taking Indigenous Studies
“I’m learning a lot of this embarrassingly late in the game,” Mr. Levy said during the first discussion. “But ultimately these stories are crucial to the identity of our country.”
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/1/2020
A Statue of Canada’s First Prime Minister Is Toppled, but Politicians Want It Restored
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau angered Canadian antiracism activists by condemning vandalism of a statue of the country's first Prime Minister. He angered other Canadians by not offering a stronger condemnation at a time when public acknowledgment of Candian oppression of indigenous people is becoming a hot issue.
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