If They’d Take Champlain From You, They’d Take Anything From You!

On the 10th of June, Samuel de Champlain’s statue was hauled in dishonour from Orillia’s Couchiching Beach Park. Father of New France and founder of Quebec City, Champlain is among the most influential figures in the seeding of modern Canada. An explorer, cartographer, administrator, and diplomat, Champlain sought to make Quebec an established and powerful

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Liberal Democracy’s Betrayal Of Society

“Knife attacker Axel Rudakubana has pleaded guilty to murdering three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport. The 18-year-old stabbed to death Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe along with 10 others on 29 July last year, in a ‘meticulously planned rampage’. As his trial

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Stop Apologizing: Macdonald And The National Spirit

In an April 17th article, Rodrigo Garfinkle contextualized the recent push to return Sir John A. Macdonald’s statue to Kingston’s City Park. Condemned to a dusty warehouse in the summer of 2021, locals have started in numbers to finally question the confinement of our first prime minister. With a recent surge in nationalist sentiment in

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Time To Return The John A. Macdonald Statue To Kingston

I’m Rodrigo Garfinkle, former President of the Queen’s University Conservative Association. For as long as I have attended Queen’s University, Sir John A. Macdonald’s relationship with Queen’s and Kingston has been dismissed and cancelled. In the wake of the 2021 Kamloops alleged grave discoveries, a frenzy took hold of the nation, resulting in the removal

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Multiculturalism And The Future Of Canadian Nationhood

Editor’s note: This is an expanded version of an article originally published in the journal Humanist Perspectives – Issue 210, autumn 2019. “One of the most influential commissions in Canadian history, the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963–69) brought about sweeping changes to federal and provincial language policy. The commission was a response to

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Hudson’s Bay Charter En Route To Museum – Is This Conservation Or Culturalism?

Three hundred and fifty-five years. That was the duration of time that the Hudson’s Bay Company existed prior to the beginning of its liquidation in March of this year. Founded in 1670 by Royal Charter of King Charles II, it is rather poetic that – over 300 years later – it would be dissolved under

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Six Years Ago, Don Cherry Was Cancelled For Defying Canada’s Multicultural Orthodoxy

Six years ago, in early November 2019, national icon Don Cherry was fired by Sportsnet from Hockey Night in Canada. According to Wikipedia, his firing was “for making controversial statements that have been variously described as anti-immigration, xenophobic, or racist, about Canadian immigrants during his show”. Given this rather extreme description, anyone unfamiliar with this

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