#John A. Macdonald can wait

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“#John A. Macdonald can wait” Stephen Maher: We are at the beginning, not the end, of a process of reassessing our history, and filling in the silences that are needed to get at the truth Alberta Premier Jason Kenney spoke out against “cancel culture” last week and in defence of Sir John A. Macdonald, the…

#Burying Sir John A. Macdonald

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“#Burying Sir John A. Macdonald” Mi’kmaq historian Daniel Paul believes that Sir John A. Macdonald’s days in the sun are numbered. Paul, 81, is the author of We Were Not the Savages, a landmark 1993 book that for the first time told the history of Atlantic Canada from the Mi’kmaq perspective. In the 1980s, Paul…