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New Year’s Eve deserves a comedy and let me recommend the 2019 Matthew Rankin film The Twentieth Century, a completely bonkers “biopic” of Canadian prime minister McKenzie King’s rise to power. Let’s just say…..it is not history. It is however, freaking hilarious. First, it’s been called the most Canadian film ever made and yes maybe […]
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Canada and Climate Change

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On July 12, 2021
The U.S. is most certainly not prepared for climate change. But think about Canada. This is a nation with an entire identity based on being cold, not burning in huge fires. What will it do? Two weeks ago, the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices released a report on the public health impacts of climate change […]
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In 1969, the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne blockaded the bridge crossing between the U.S. and Canada in protest of Canada’s violation of the Jay Treaty of 1794, which guaranteed Indian land and the right of them to cross the international border. Of course, this was ignored by whites on both sides of the border. With […]
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As a labor historian and scholar of the timber industry, I’m fascinated with the self-documentation of work and especially logging. This is an edited version of The Incredible Forest, a documentary produced by the Canadian timber firm MacMillan Bloedel sometime around 1970. This is a fairly typical version of the mythology the timber industry told […]
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