Here is a column that clearly outlines the proposal by Lisa MacLeod to make remembrance Day a statutory holiday in Ontario.[click here] Local MPP Lisa MacLeod’s proposal to make Remembrance Day a statutory holiday is a good idea that is long overdue. Our veterans and their sacrifices are surely as…
Category: Canadian history
Dief The Chief
One of the more insightful tributes to our 13th prime minister John Diefenbaker the first master of mass communication in Canadian politics. source Montréal Gazette While the 1960 Bill of Rights did not have the entrenched constitutional character of the 1982 Charter of Rights, many key provisions of the…
Sir John A. Macdonald honoured as Canada’s Founding Father in Scotland
Sir John A. Macdonald the first Prime Minister of Canada and surely in the pantheon of Conservative leaders was honoured in his birthplace of Scotland earlier today. Not only did he unite us as a country politically. As well he created the conditions for a geographic union by building the…
Sovereigntists Fight Over The Same Old Battleground Again
The Plains of Abraham are being fought for all over again. Apparently a Sovereigntist group is upset about public money going to what they see, as an Anglo takeover of a French music and cultural festival. Now I don’t agree with separatists on any issue or vision for the…