“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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After working as a reporter for the Vancouver Sun for seventeen years, Barry Broadfoot left his desk to travel “at least 15,000 miles” with a tape recorder and collect oral accounts of living through Canada’s Great Depression. He interviewed hundreds of Canadians from all walks of life. Sometimes he conducted scheduled interviews, but often he
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To me, the Toronto Public Library is an “essential service” since I borrow so many books. This is hardly surprising when my father and my stepfather each ran public library systems in Toronto a few decades back. The TPL has been the victim of a ransomware attack for over a month, with no backup system
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The debate which followed the accidental Parliamentary celebration of a 98-year-old veteran of the Nazi Waffen SS 14th Grenadier Division reveals a political class which is hopelessly immature. Conservative MPs, who happily applauded along with the rest, insinuated that the Liberal Party is sympathetic to the early 20th century German ideology of Nazism – a
