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The Human Factor

At the beginning of Canada’s oldest company

Sense of an Ending

Whether that nation can long endure

Those Ancient Lands

Where and when did this conflict begin?

Richard Gwyn

Richard Gwyn wrote a column on national and international affairs for the Toronto Star. He was the author of numerous books, including Nationalism without Walls: The Unbearable Lightness of Being CanadianJohn A: The Man Who Made Us; and Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times.

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Surviving Survivalism

Canada has moved into a new kind of sovereignty; less fretful, more laid-back December 2004
Some time in the last half dozen years, Canadians decided that we had made it as a country. No audible click of consciousness-raising occurred, but by one of the mysterious processes of collective decision making that takes place from time to time in democracies, we simply decided that as a country, a nation-state, a political…