The War Museum’s latest: The tank that launched Canada’s Armoured Corps
The Canadian War Museum today unveiled the latest edition to its excellent LeBreton Gallery, the garage-like space in the building’s southeast corner that houses a very cool collection of military...
View ArticleCoast Guard gets first of its ‘Hero’ Class vessels, CCGS Private Robertson V.C.
The federal government today put a brand new Coast Guard vesssel, the CCGS Private Robertson V.C. (handout pic above) into service in Sarnia, today. From the press release announcing her service: CCGS...
View ArticleIn hot water for big spending ways, Canada’s top librarian quits
Hot off the presses .. Not only did the French- and English-speaking Caron bill taxpayers more than $4,000 in 2011-12 so he could take one-on-one Spanish lessons, he signed a $10,000 contract last year...
View ArticleWho should be Canada’s national librarian? A librarian or an economist?
The country’s librarians and archivists never had a good feeling from the start about Daniel Caron, the economist appointed in 2009 by Heritage Minister James Moore to be Canada’s Librarian and...
View ArticleHarper’s History key to a Conservative Century
Both his fans and his critics agree on one thing about Stephen Harper. He wants to transform the country, so Canadians will come to see his Conservatives and not the Liberals as the natural governing...
View ArticleWhy is history important to Harper?
On Tuesday,the Canadian Journal of History published an essay by Yves Frenette, one of Canada’s top historians, which is sharply critical of the way the Harper government has “used” or, so far as the...
View ArticleI’ll take Cambridge over Oxford for books on WWI’s origins
In a few days, we will mark 100 years since the first guns of August boomed beginning the First World War. Why did it happen? Well, er, it’s complicated. Really, really complicated. So complicated...
View ArticleThe War Museum’s latest: The tank that launched Canada’s Armoured Corps
The Canadian War Museum today unveiled the latest edition to its excellent LeBreton Gallery, the garage-like space in the building’s southeast corner that houses a very cool collection of military...
View ArticleCoast Guard gets first of its ‘Hero’ Class vessels, CCGS Private Robertson V.C.
The federal government today put a brand new Coast Guard vesssel, the CCGS Private Robertson V.C. (handout pic above) into service in Sarnia, today. From the press release announcing her service: CCGS...
View ArticleIn hot water for big spending ways, Canada’s top librarian quits
Hot off the presses .. Not only did the French- and English-speaking Caron bill taxpayers more than $4,000 in 2011-12 so he could take one-on-one Spanish lessons, he signed a $10,000 contract last year...
View ArticleWho should be Canada’s national librarian? A librarian or an economist?
The country’s librarians and archivists never had a good feeling from the start about Daniel Caron, the economist appointed in 2009 by Heritage Minister James Moore to be Canada’s Librarian and...
View ArticleHarper’s History key to a Conservative Century
Both his fans and his critics agree on one thing about Stephen Harper. He wants to transform the country, so Canadians will come to see his Conservatives and not the Liberals as the natural governing...
View ArticleWhy is history important to Harper?
On Tuesday,the Canadian Journal of History published an essay by Yves Frenette, one of Canada’s top historians, which is sharply critical of the way the Harper government has “used” or, so far as the...
View ArticleI’ll take Cambridge over Oxford for books on WWI’s origins
In a few days, we will mark 100 years since the first guns of August boomed beginning the First World War. Why did it happen? Well, er, it’s complicated. Really, really complicated. So complicated...
View ArticleFrom self-government to a Pope’s apology: 100+ ways to fix Canada’s...
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission lists more than 100 things that can be done to repair the relationship between Canada’s indigenous and non-indigenous peoples. Chief among them: Give Canada’s...
View ArticleHistory Wars: Citizenship guide edition
From today’s Question Period, a duel over how the federal government presents Canada’s history to new Canadians featuring a former Harper government minister and a minister of the new Trudeau...
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