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23 September 2024
Of Poets, Poetry, Politicians, and Parliament Hill
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Yet another gloriously sunny September weekend, I spent most of it stacking firewood in preparation for winter. The high point came early Sa...
07 April 2018
Thomas D'Arcy McGee: 150 Years
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He has gone from us, and it will be long ere we find such a happy mixture of eloquence and wisdom, wit and earnestness. His was no arti...
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15 June 2014
On Pearson's Pennant and Ezra Levant's Fiction
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"…a distinctive flag which will say to the future: I Stand for Canada!" L.B. Pearson Ottawa: Liberal Federation of Can...
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06 October 2011
A Record That Speaks for Itself
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Election day in Ontario. If the pollsters are correct, the Liberals may just hold onto power – a near impossibility mere months ago. ...
26 August 2011
Carry On, Brith'ish Business Men!
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This second part of my review of W.G. MacKendrick's The Destiny of the British empire and The U.S.A. now appears, revised and rew...
28 October 2009
Politician Picks Playwright!
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The Greatest Englishman of History Arthur Meighen Toronto: S.B. Gundy/Oxford University Press, 1936 It's been eightee...
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