Canada has had its fair share of grand plans to improve the lives of aboriginal peoples. In 1969, Pierre Trudeau gave us the now controversial white paper. In 1996 the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples was released, mostly being ignored by politicians. In 2005 Paul Martin’s ambitious Kelowna Accord fell apart. These were the headline grabbers. But along the way there have been various other official reports and formal…
Anthony Furey
Anthony Furey is a columnist for Sun Media and the chain’s national comment editor. He’s written for various other publications including TIME and The Times Literary Supplement. Find him on Twitter at @anthonyfurey.
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A Beltway Education
An insider's satirical take on Washington backstabbing, boozing and hustle July–August 2012
In a recent Maclean’s column, Barbara Amiel explained how she has come to see herself the way others portray her: “After the first 500 or so articles describing our collective faults in general and my particular nastiness, one gets the point and I’ll make a confession: after a while you come to believe it … In spite of all I know about the…
Canadian theatre has always captured the public’s imagination, both domestically and abroad, far less than Canadian literature and music has. By the 1970s, artists such as Joni Mitchell, Burton Cummings and Leonard Cohen were already successful at home and around the world. At the same time, Canadian theatre was still in its infant stages. Theatre history texts cite Theatre Passe Muraille’s collective…