National Anthem

Allegretto con Bravura, handwritten sheet music by Calixa Lavallée. (Courtesy: Library and Archives Canada e011163931)

The hidden racist history of ’O Canada’

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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Canadian artists weigh in on ’O Canada’

Now that Bill C-210 is before Senate, and will likely become law, what do some of Canada’s artistic minds think of O Canada?
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Mauril Bélanger on updating ’O Canada’: ’We are in 2016!’

The veteran MP on why it’s important for Canada to have a gender-neutral anthem, and on pushing legislation while fighting ALS
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Letters: ’God keep our land?’ What about the atheists?

Our readers weigh in on the national anthem debate
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Don’t mess with the national anthem

Emma Teitel sings the praises of ’O Canada’
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Three versions of ’O Canada’ that almost became the anthem

In the early years of the last century it wasn’t clear what the English lyrics should be
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Don’t mess with the anthem

The Philippine Congress voted unanimously last week in favour of a bill proposing a $2,000 fine or jail time for the improper singing of the national anthem