Does History Matter?

Looking Back on Pride

July 21, 2011

By Mathieu Brûlé The relationship between the City of Toronto and the city’s queer communities has been a popular topic of discussion in Toronto over the past few weeks. Prompted by Mayor Rob Ford’s decision to forego Pride Week’s festivities in exchange for time at his family cottage, many, critics and supporters alike, have expressed disappointment [...]

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Renaming Schools: A sign of a society in dialogue with its past

July 19, 2011

The Halifax Regional School Board’s decision to rename Cornwallis Junior High fits into a long Nova Scotian tradition of changing names with evolving social and political conditions in Nova Scotia.

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Renaming Schools: What Does Sanitizing History Teach Students?

July 18, 2011

Removing the name of Halifax’s founder, Edward Cornwallis, from the masthead of a South End junior high school is perhaps the most recent and blatant example of the old controversy over renaming schools.

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Remembering a Memory

June 24, 2011

Announcing the launch of a website hosting the film, Remembering a Memory, along with supplementary material.

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Summertime in the City: Time for History in the City

June 22, 2011

A look at some national historic sites in Canada, how well (or unwell) the nation’s capital reflects these, and a call for broader participation in sites of heritage and memory.

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Announcement: Parler Fort presents Reshaping Toronto’s Waterfront

June 18, 2011

The Parler Fort series is proud to announce the launch of Reshaping Toronto’s Waterfront (University of Toronto Press, 2011).  On Monday June 20th at 7:30 pm at Toronto’s historic Fort York Wayne Reeves, Chief Curator for the City of Toronto Museum Services, will discuss the history of Toronto’s waterfront.  Special guests include contributors to Reshaping [...]

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Alberta’s Oil Spill History

May 11, 2011

By Sean Kheraj On Friday, 29 April 2011, Plains Midstream Canada quietly issued a press release, informing the public of a crude oil spill from the Rainbow Pipeline east of the Peace River in northern Alberta near Little Buffalo, AB. Four days later, following the Canadian federal election, Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) announced [...]

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Can Ontario Overcome Bob Rae’s Legacy?

May 9, 2011

Can one leader single-handedly sink an entire political party?

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The Morning After Canada Voted

May 3, 2011

This morning we now know that the Liberal Party, once known as Canada’s so-called “governing party”, has been reduced to the third party in the House of Commons for the first time in Canadian history. This, of course, was not the first time that one of the traditional political parties in Canada was reduced to third party status.

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History in Turbulent Times

April 27, 2011

Can we heal Canada’s colonial history?

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