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royal family

A photo of King Charles during a visit to Ottawa in 2022.
Society

The Mass Indifference to King Charles III Explained

May 5, 2023May 5, 2023 - by Patricia Treble

Canada will commemorate the coronation with a one-hour event, a stamp, and funds for the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. One can hear the yawns already

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Illustration of a silhouette of a human looking at a large framed image on the wall featuring a throne and a Canadian flag.
June 2021

Editor’s Letter: The Canadian Revolution

May 13, 2021May 16, 2021 - by Jessica Johnson

What kind of country do we want to live in?

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An illustration featuring two frames: the first is a bejewelled purple crown that seems to be moving and in the second, a beaver crawls out from beneath a crown.
June 2021

What Would It Take for Canada to Leave the Monarchy?

May 11, 2021May 3, 2023 - by David Schneiderman

The majority of Canadians consider the monarchy outdated, but leaving is easier said than done

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Society

Eight Ways of Looking at Meghan Markle

May 18, 2018March 9, 2021 - by Vicky Mochama

The wedding combines many things that I love: Blackness, the royal family, true love, and spending money

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Photo by Dan Marsh
Politics

Should Queen Elizabeth II Be Canada’s Last Monarch?

June 28, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Joshua Oliver

Monarchists want you to love Prince Charles; republicans want you to reject him. But mostly, they both just want you to care

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Photograph by John Flannery
Politics

Parting Ways with the Queen

June 28, 2016May 3, 2023 - by Stephen Marche

Why the time has come for Canada to abandon England altogether

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Illustration by Rachelle Maynard
Fiction / May 2010

1999

May 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Pasha Malla

When I woke up this mornin’ Coulda sworn it was Judgment Day Iwouldn’t fuck Prince if he was the last man on Earth,” Sonya told her friends, drunk and searing …

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May 2005

Royal Cock-up

May 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Robert Mason Lee

Charles and Camilla are choosing personal gratification over the survival of a 1,000-year-old monarchy

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