Laila El Mugammar: Every time I stand for the Canadian national anthem, I think about the song’s composer, who founded a blackface minstrel troupe. What does it mean to sing the melody of a man who wore me as a costume?
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Paul Wells: The country doesn’t need Ottawa to lead it on most days, and it needn’t indulge Ottawa’s desire to pretend it’s leading us all on Canada Day
As part of a day of action called UNsettling Canada 150, Indigenous activists marched upon Carolyn Bennett’s Canada Day picnic in Toronto to raise awareness on issues afflicting their communities.