Richard Gwyn
‘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.
John 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 vote of those living here was an act of explicit discrimination,” Richard Gwyn, the author of a two-volume biography of John A. Macdonald, attempts to counter Timothy Stanley’s position that Macdonald was a “white supremacist.”
Ignatieff’s freedom of speech and Munk’s gold
Of duelling ribbons
1867 and everything after
Steve Paikin talks to Richard Gwyn about John A. Macdonald.
A kind of chaos that is always with us
A new book shows Sir John A. Macdonald’s politics were much like ours
The brilliant John A. biopic
Who said Canadian history was devoid of excitement?
On the run
Included among the hundreds of films now online from the National Film Board is History on the Run, an entirely fascinating documentary about the media and the 1979 federal election that climaxes with a technical explanation of how best to light Joe Clark’s chin.