Tag: history
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Read more: Like Trump, Benjamin Franklin Sought to Annex CanadaMadelaine Drohan has written a book that I’m putting on my Christmas list. The New York Times gives it some coverage in their “Canada Letter” this morning. By Ian Austen New York Times “Canada Letter” December 6, 2025…
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Read more: Go down the rabbit hole with me…and the BBC6 April 2023 Matthew Wilson Features correspondent The Easter Bunny: Evolution of a symbol From lust to Bugs Bunny – the rabbit has taken on different meanings throughout history, in global folklore and artistic symbolism. But how…
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Read more: How to Save CanadaThis is a great read in The Walrus by Wesley Wark. “How to Save Canada“. If I had read it mere months ago it would have seemed the stuff of fantasy. But today it presents the very…
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Read more: Holocaust RembranceIt is Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Rembrance Day) and with all the bad things going on in the world today it may be more difficult for people to find time to reflect on those evil events that seem…
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Read more: Taking the long way round…they don’t make adventures like this anymoreMaybe it’s just me and I have passed an dull life, but I have long felt that my generation (the Baby Boomers) has not lived a great age of adventure. Sure, there have been great scientific and…