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McGill’s Conclusions on its Ties to the Asbestos Industry: A Historian’s Response

May 14, 2012

By Jessica Van Horssen So the winter semester is over, and for those of us at Quebec universities, what a semester it’s been! Specifically, McGill University has had its share of drama this year, with strikes, occupations, computer hacking, and demonstrations against the Quebec government’s plans for tuition hikes. With all of these things going [...]

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Tecumseh Lies Here

May 2, 2012
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Tecumseh Lies Here is an augmented reality game developed by faculty and students at the University of Western Ontario.

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A spectre is haunting Europe…

April 30, 2012

By Dr Valerie Deacon No, this isn’t the beginning of Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto, though that spectre (of Communism) has played just as important a role as this one in twentieth century European history. Today’s spectre is the spectre of fascism and it is not only haunting Europe, but has also infected North America. [...]

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Real Time Climate Change: Farm Diaries and Phenology in Prince Edward Island

April 24, 2012
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By Joshua MacFadyen It is 24 April, and although some Canadians have been mowing grass for weeks the spring plants on Prince Edward Island are only beginning to overcome the cold nights and occasional flurries that visit this island in April. Still, this is an early spring by historical accounts. On this day in 1879, [...]

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A Plea for Progressive Taxation in Ontario

April 16, 2012
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By Ryan Kelly At risk of a credit rating downgrade, Ontario is grappling with the task of closing a presumably skyrocketing debt in the coming years. In search of creative ways of closing this fiscal gap, the Liberal government has been remarkably uncreative in its proposed solutions. Most notably, the proposed budget is void of [...]

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The Popularity of Remembrance

April 11, 2012
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By: Laura Piticco The week of April 9-13 is important for marking two major events in history: the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and the 95th anniversary of the battle at Vimy Ridge. Both events have as of late been dominating the media coverage, one in particular, the Titanic, more than the [...]

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Changing the Wheat Board, Part I: The First Time the Conservative Party Eliminated the Canadian Wheat Board

March 9, 2012

By Sean Kheraj Reposted from the Otter. Last November, ahead of the House of Commons vote on the elimination of the Canadian Wheat Board purchasing monopsony, the federal Minister of Agriculture, Gerry Ritz, and his provincial cohorts from Alberta and Saskatchewan held a press conference to celebrate the achievement of the federal Conservative Party’s long-held [...]

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Changing the Wheat Board, Part II: Understanding the Impending Transformation of the Canadian Wheat Board

March 9, 2012

By Shannon Stunden Bower. Reposted from the Otter. The current iteration of the Canadian Wheat Board was established in 1935, during a period of regional emergency. Prairie farmers struggled amidst the difficult circumstances created by the twin crises of widespread agricultural drought and the Great Depression. The authority of the Wheat Board was expanded during [...]

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Changing the Canadian Wheat Board, Part III: The End of the Wheat Board: What next?

March 9, 2012

By Merle Massie Reposted from the Otter. Wheat. The Golden Crop of the west, what was once the backbone of prairie farms, is facing a new/old future. Perhaps the low-carb diets and labeling of wheat as a potential allergen in food products (bread: may contain wheat!) is tearing into wheat’s popularity and profitability? Not really. [...]

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Thoughts on the Drummond Report

February 29, 2012

The Beveridge Report’s proposals were implemented between 1945 and 1950, a point in which the British government’s fiscal situation was much worse than Ontario’s currently is. The government owed a massive debt to the United States that was incurred to fund the war, required exports to be one-third larger than imports to meet its debt payments and had converted most of its consumer manufacturing to military needs during the war. Given what the Beveridge Report proposed and Atlee government did, Drummond could have proposed more.

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