Ottawa’Even by the standards of his day, Macdonald was unenlightened on racial matters’Stephen Azzi counters Richard Gwyn’s defence of our first prime minister.
OttawaJohn A. Macdonald and "presentism"While allowing that the first prime minister’s "policy toward the Chinese cannot be defended" and that "his exclusion from the...
GeneralIgnatieff’s freedom of speech and Munk’s goldOf duelling ribbons Columnist Richard Gwyn took home the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book Nation...
UncategorizedA kind of chaos that is always with usA new book shows Sir John A. Macdonald’s politics were much like ours
UncategorizedOn the runIncluded among the hundreds of films now online from the National Film Board is History on the Run, an entirely fascinating...