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American Judge

The normal is gone

The Silver Scream

On heebie-jeebies past and present

Bubble Weary in Trump's America

A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation

Paul Marsden

Paul Marsden is a former military archivist for Library and Archives Canada and NATO.

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Paul Marsden

Lost and Fonds

Our national archives’ poor record May 2021
In 1967, as the nation celebrated its one-hundredth birthday, the federal government opened the new Public Archives and National Library, just west of the Supreme Court of Canada. The building’s Soviet-style facade disguised two stunning reading rooms, with floor-to-ceiling windows that overlooked the Ottawa River. Inside, it was a thoroughly modern facility, in both form and…