“Our fair Dominion now extends from Cape Race to Nootka Sound. May peace forever be our lot, and plenteous store abound” – Maple Leaf Forever (Canada’s unofficial anthem until the late ‘60s) One day in university, myself and one of my roommates in our slum apartment near the UVic campus were discussing American politics (I […]
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On November 8th it was reported by CBS that the newly elected Council of the City of Dawson in the Yukon would be abstaining from the legally mandatory Oath of Allegiance following this year’s municipal election. According to the Yukon Municipal Act, the Oath of Allegiance must be sworn within 40 days of the end
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In 1965 Canada adopted our current flag, and I really have no complaints about it. It’s iconic, distinctly Canadian, and even gave the world a new term in vexillology, the “Canadian Pale”. The only issue I have with the flag is that it came into existence as a vanity project of Prime Minister Lester B.
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While in undergrad, I selected a class called “Social And Political Thought”. I imagined that we might read Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Machiavelli. Instead, students were administered a dizzying dose of critical race theory and social justice – for our benefit, no doubt. One day I raised my hand and inquired why
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It’s been just over 10 years since the iconic shortwave transmitters that once dominated the horizon near Sackville, New Brunswick were demolished, truly symbolizing the end of Radio Canada International on shortwave radio. Radio Canada International began broadcasting on shortwave in 1945, and was known as the CBC International Service until 1970 when it became
In the summer of my 15th year, I stepped outside my house on a small fenced-off acreage on the outskirts of a country town in Alberta to find a cow standing in my front yard. Some may not find such a thing to be odd in a rural community – what made it odd to
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I understand the urge to defund the CBC. On any given day, the CBC website consists of a dozen puff pieces and feel-good stories, along with four or five articles that read like transcripts of critical race and gender theory university lectures. A quick glance reveals that the CBC is currently promoting a documentary called
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DEI, wokeness, critical race theory, systemic racism, intersectionality and cultural appropriation. Ten or twenty years ago, most of these terms were unknown, and some only existed inside academia or very limited circles of left-wing intellectuals. Identity politics has since come to the fore. Before the millenium, just about the only term that was in common
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Contemporary discourse is saturated with one word: “crisis”. It is applied to every problem we encounter. If you google the term, you will be informed that there is a mental health crisis, a climate crisis, an office vacancy crisis, a digital addiction crisis, a Canadian journalism crisis, an American border crisis, a social media crisis,
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I’m not a huge hockey fan. As a kid, I was a failure at both skating and skiing. I played some road hockey, then a little floor hockey in junior high. In the mid 70s, a friend took me to a couple of Leafs games since his father had seasons tickets, but the real problem
