The Canadian Opera Company has reworked a problematic opera about the story of Louis Riel. Does it succeed, all the same?
Notes from a news conference about Louis Riel
Missing from history lessons on the Canada-U.S. war: Treason, revenge and guerrilla combat.
An exclusive excerpt from André Pratte’s biography of Wilfrid Laurier
Though the Metis leader didn’t agree, madness seemed the best defence against charges of high treason
A week into his summer tour, Michael Ignatieff is more or less on the record about the Cornwall border crossing, flooding in Manitoba, farm insurance, Louis Riel, firefighters, the census, the proposed Pickering airport, Afghanistan, Richard Fadden, foreign investment, affordable housing, contraband cigarettes, fighter jets, a Peterborough rail link, election timing, overseas travel, our politics and prison farms.
Conservative MP Peter Goldring has managed today the rare feat of uniting the Liberal party and the Prime Minister’s Office in scorn.
The Canadian Press, Globe, Star, CBC and CTV report from today’s unofficial hearings of the Afghanistan committee. The Star’s Allan Woods wraps the day’s discussion thusly.
Today (Monday) is the 195th birthday of our first and greatest prime minister, the man who, in the title of Richard Gwyn’s terrific biography, “made us.” In any self-respecting country, this would be a national holiday, but as this is Canada, it isn’t — though it has, since 2002, been officially designated Sir John A. Macdonald Day, which at least puts him one step ahead of Louis Riel.
Pat Martin uses his members’ statement to appeal on Louis Riel’s behalf.