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The Medium and the Messages
SUCCESSFUL CANADIAN PRIME MINISTERS DEVELOP the habit early of consulting those with expertise or experience across a wide spectrum before making any critical decisions. Nobody who has occupied that office proved this rule better than William Lyon Mackenzie King, whose tenure as…
Death and taxis
Tuesday, ten in the morning. Our clients were late. Effie was looking for the weather forecast on our Markoni Mudcaster floor model, the one with the speaker grill like a pre-war Studebaker. Still a good radio, even if it does channel Mackenzie…
The Great Dominion: Churchill and Canada, 1900–1954
Note de la rédaction : Dans le second article de la série sur Churchill et le Canada, 1900-1954, David Bilks, professeur émérite de relations internationales a la University of Leeds, achève son tableau d’une relation très spéciale. Il documente l’extraordinaire appui du…
Ernest Lapointe and Quebec’s Influence on Canadian Foreign Policy
L’été est un moment propice pour se rattraper dans ses lectures. Il est même très approprié que ce soit à Sainte-Pétronille, île d’Orléans, que j’aie lu “Ernest Lapointe and Quebec’s Influence on Canadian Foreign Policy” de John MacFarlane. Les recherches de MacFarlane…
Arthur Irwin 1898-1999
Arthur Irwin, who has died aged 101, was a journalist and diplomat. He was one of those who were turned into Canadian nationalists by the First World War, and he used this awareness to transform Maclean’s magazine into a truly national magazine…
Showing the Flag — More or Less
The colourful montage “Showing the Flag” (Summer 1997) brought back memories of several passages-at-arms during 1945 on the subject of a distinctive Canadian flag.
