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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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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Our education system carves out a bit of time in the curriculum to discuss the Acadian people. As a result, many Canadians know that the Acadians were francophones who lived in what is now Atlantic Canada. They were expelled from the Maritimes and New England during the French and Indian War, as England attempted to
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The commons are the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society. They include natural resources such as the air, fishing grounds, groundwater basins, grazing lands, irrigation canals, streams, lakes, and oceans. They are, as Dr. Ursula Franklin has pointed out in her book The Real World of Technology, indivisible benefits. These resources are
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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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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, 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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The Trump administration’s ominous annexation threats and unprovoked economic aggression have touched off an unprecedented surge in Canadian nationalism that has swept this country like a prairie fire. This swell of patriotism has taken tangible form in the US goods and travel boycott, and the Buy Canadian movement. Far from symbolic, the actions of Canadian
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Canada’s current number one artist is Kent Monkman, a half-Indigenous artist from Ontario. He is known for making provocative paintings about the Indigenous experience in Canada. The purpose of Kent Monkman’s work is diverse. Sometimes, it is to remind us of past wrongs, sometimes it is to empower Indigenous peoples. A theme that repeatedly comes
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A sure sign of immigrant assimilation into a host society is the tendency to identity oneself wholly and completely with that society – in other words, to perceive oneself as indistinguishable from that society. While many immigrants do just this, there also exists in this country an entire industry of activists dedicated to the exact
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