Defining the First Senate of Canada
How the fathers of Confederation created our government’s upper house: an excerpt from Three Weeks in Quebec City
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Now You See It
Posters from magic’s golden age
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The Dark Arts
When stage magic was the wonder show of the universe
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A New Leaf
A. Y. Jackson proposes a national flag
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Canada’s First Scapegoat
The movement to cast John A. Macdonald as nothing more than a racist, colonialist, drunk is an insult to our history
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Old Macdonald
Sir John A. was a racist, a colonialist, and a drunk. Why are we celebrating him?
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Permanent Marker
Why ink still matters
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Down and Out in Camelot
Fifteen months after JFK’s inauguration, Ambassador Charles Ritchie arrived in Washington. As his diaries reveal, his timing could not have been worse
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The Secret Life of Max Stern
The Nazis stole his family’s paintings. Now, twenty years after his death, he is changing the rules of restitution
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