What it feels like to dance with the Maritime Bhangra Group
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The powerful legacy of Canadian running legend Tom Longboat
Legendary Onondaga runner Tom Longboat won the Boston Marathon in 1907. (Charles A. Aylett/Library and Archives Canada) As he pushed through the final two miles of the Boston Marathon, Will Winnie...
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View ArticleWhat it feels like to become a Canadian
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Four bizarre things governments spent money on for Canada 150
(Source: YouTube, RedCouchTour.ca) As Canada’s 150th birthday draws near, here’s a look at some of the more unusual projects governments have spent money on to celebrate the event. A red couch travels...
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Emergency personnel brace for Canada 150 bash in Ottawa
Canada 150 logo. (Department of Canadian Heritage) OTTAWA — Be alert but not alarmed, police are urging Canadians who will congregate under the Peace Tower next month for Canada 150 celebrations — a...
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Perry Bellegarde on recognizing this land’s founding Indigenous peoples
Assembly of First Nations national chief Perry Bellegarde. (Photograph by Jessica Deeks) Perry Bellegarde, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, was raised on the Little Black Bear First...
View ArticleWhy some Indigenous people are calling out Canada 150
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What ever happened to Vox Pop Labs’ $600,000 Canada 150 survey?
(iStock) Last November, Mark Gilchrist was at the Canadian Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg for a group sit-down with several dozen strangers to talk about what being Canadian meant to each of them....
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Meet the great-great-great-great-granddaughters of Confederation
Maya Price at Caesar’s Palace, where her father lives 18 weeks of the year. (Photograph by Emma McIntyre) The fan making Sir Charles Tupper big in Vegas Maya Price is a 14-year-old with connections to...
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Canada 150 unhappiness? Blame 1967.
Pavilion of the U.S at the Expo 1967 in Montreal. (Leber/Ullstein Bild/Getty Images) As July 1 approaches, with as many as 450,000 people expected to assemble on Parliament Hill and stream through the...
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How the Fathers of Confederation met their demise
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I.-September 11,1864- Constitutional Convention at Charlottetown, P.E.I., of Delegates from the Legislature of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island to take...
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Canada was supposed to have 100 million people by the 1970s
(iStock) They were an optimistic lot at the dawn of the Dominion of Canada. And that was reflected in the pages of the 1868 Year Book and Almanac of Canada, the precursor to the annual year book...
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Three modest reforms can restore Canada’s democratic architecture
(Fred Chartrand/CP) This is the final part in a series on institutional transformation at Canada’s sesquicentennial. Parts one and two looked at revitalizing Canadian federalism and legal institutions,...
View ArticleA cross-country singalong of the national anthem on Canada Day
There will undoubtably be many renditions of “O Canada” sung at concerts, community events and backyard BBQs this Canada Day. But what if we all chose one moment and performed the anthem at the same...
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Canada’s oldest person: Living through 112 years of history
Dolly Gibb on 110th Birthday (right) – with daughter Sue Crozier. (Brittany Duggan) Few Canadians remember waking up to the news in 1914 that the country had entered the First World War. Or what it was...
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Inside Ken Dryden’s hockey rink citizenship ceremony
A few days ago, I found myself standing on a stage in the middle of the ice surface of Canadian Tire Centre, the home of the Ottawa Senators, its ice many weeks gone, looking out onto scores of proud,...
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150 reasons why it’s better to be Canadian
Living next to history’s greatest cultural, military and economic superpower, Canada is constantly ribbed for being mediocre. While it can be hard to stand out next to our big, increasingly brash...
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How Maclean’s marked Canada’s anniversary over the last century
Maclean’s has been alive for 112 of Canada’s 150 years. Over the decades, the magazine used various anniversaries to reflect on the country. Our editorialists, columnists and journalists recounted...
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How things feel around that teepee on Parliament Hill
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves a teepee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, June 30, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick Look south from the white teepee that First Nations activists...
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Canada is undergoing a fundamental identity crisis
(Ben Nelms/Reuters) Finding that perfect line between the treacly sentimentality of public cliché and the joyless buzzkill of hard-edged reality is not easy during the festivities around Canada’s...
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Justin Trudeau: The Canada Day interview
Justin Trudeau in his office on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, ON. (Photograph by Jessica Deeks) For an interview that first appeared today on City’s Breakfast Television, Justin Trudeau welcomed Maclean’s...
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Canada 150 bash at Parliament Hill draws early crowd of revellers
People take in the Canada 150 celebrations on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Saturday, July 1, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Justin Tang OTTAWA – Kids splashed in boggy mud puddles and brandished sodden...
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Prince Charles, Duchess of Cornwall celebrate Canada 150 in Ottawa
Camilla Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles wave to the crowd as they ride in a carriage during Canada 150 celebrations in Ottawa on Saturday, July 1, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Fred Chartrand OTTAWA...
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The splendor and the slop of Canada Day
People cheer during the Canada Day noon hour show on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Saturday, July 1, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang Above them, as soaring tributes to the nation’s successes—and...
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‘Home on native land’ on Parliament Hill
A teepee stands on Parliament Hill during Canada 150 celebrations in Ottawa on Saturday, July 1, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Justin Tang Just before noon on Parliament Hill, the Canada Day crowd of...
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Andrew Scheer’s first Canada Day as Tory leader
1 of 15 Previous Next Twitter Facebook Google+ Share LinkedIn Reddit Email Scheer greets supporters while walking to Canada Day festivities in Charlottetown. (Photograph by Darren Calabrese) Previous...
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Inside Carolyn Bennett’s fraught picnic
Indigenous activists protest at Carolyn Bennett’s Canada Day BBQ. (Photograph by Kris Hessey) A mob besieged the Edwardian estate where Carolyn Bennett had invited Indigenous demonstrators for hot...
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Scenes from Canada 150, a national celebration of Canada’s birthday
1 of 15 Previous Next Twitter Facebook Google+ Share LinkedIn Reddit Email Winnipeggers got together today to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday by forming a "Living Leaf" at the historic downtown...
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We should celebrate Canada’s British influence, not denounce it
A monument of Adam Smith in Edinburgh, Scotland (iPhoto) Five years ago, when I visited Hong Kong on think tank business, almost every politician, civil servant and business person I met emphasized two...
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For Canada 150, architects should aim for solutions, not landmarks
A man rides his ATV in the northern Ontario First Nations reserve in Attawapiskat, Ont., on Tuesday, April 19, 2016. (Nathan Denette/CP) The story goes like this: once upon a time, in 1967, Canada was...
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These charts show the boom in attendance at Canada’s national parks
Moraine lake in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. (Shutterstock) Canadians heading to a national park this weekend might not get as much solitude as in years before. The country’s national parks...
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View ArticleThe slippery rules of Canada’s new $5.6M ice rink, unveiled
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Canadian Heritage would like to clarify some things about the Parliament Hill...
Boards are in place as construction continues at the skating rink on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa (Justin Tang/CP) It should have been an empty-net goal from a public relations perspective—a hockey rink...
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