Site updates: our latest Quizzes, BringBackTheAct , and more

Posted on 12 August 2010

The Canadian Experience Quiz series continues.  Information on the rules and prizes can be found by clicking here; and we will be posting Quiz #9 tomorrow morning, on (lucky) Friday August 13.  Since our last update here, we’ve posted quizzes #7 and #8; if you haven’t yet taken them, we hope you do.
UPDATE: Quiz #9 [...more]

The Hon. Frank Iacobucci weighs in on Bring Back the Act

Posted on 09 July 2010

Our affiliated campaign, Bring Back the Act, is continuing to spark attention, interest and discussion.  (If you haven’t signed the online petition, you can click here to access it.) It’s satisfying to see people speaking up and taking the time to post a comment, telling us not just how they feel about the campaign but [...more]

Site updates: Quiz #6, BringBackTheAct media coverage

Posted on 07 July 2010

If you haven’t noticed already, last Friday we posted Quiz #6, our latest quiz. You can take the Quiz by clicking here.  Remember, you only need to submit your name and email address once to be in the draw for a special contest draw at the completion of our Quiz series.  Information on the rules [...more]

Begin your Canada Day celebrations here!

Posted on 30 June 2010

Many believe that July 1st signifies the celebration of Canada’s ‘birth certificate’, our original Constitution (aka, The British North America Act). Yet, our own country’s founding document doesn’t seem to have the same cache as what the American Declaration of Independence has to Americans or the Magna Carta has to Britains. Why? Could it be [...more]

Quiz #4 is now live, and the conversation continues

Posted on 04 June 2010

Today, we posted our latest — Quiz #4; and, as always, you can enter your contact information upon completion of each Quiz to be eligible for our random draw.  Information on the rules and prizes can be found by clicking here.
We continue to spark the interest from some of our readers, exemplified in a recent [...more]

A Senator’s Opinion

Posted on 02 June 2010

It’s gratifying to learn that our project has sparked a blog post from Canadian Senator Elaine McCoy.  (UPDATE JUNE 4, 2010:  Senator McCoy wrote a follow-up post that also includes a response from Canadian Experience General Editor J.L. Granatstein — both can be found by clicking here.) Although she characterized our Series, in part, as [...more]

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18. Sir Wilfrid Laurier: The Man with the Silver Tongue

Posted on 30 August 2010

By Michael Bliss
It was not hard to be Prime Minister of Canada 100 years ago.  In 1910 immigrants were pouring into the Canadian west. Canadian trade was booming. New transcontinental railways were being built. Great deposits of gold, silver and other minerals were being discovered all across the north. In 10 years the population of [...more]

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17. Sir John A. Macdonald: Canada’s First Prime Minister

Posted on 23 August 2010

By Michael Bliss
Canada’s first prime minister, and one of its greatest statesman, was an immigrant.
John Alexander Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1815, and came with his family to the Kingston area of Upper Canada (later Ontario) in 1820. Macdonald’s father was a shopkeeper and miller. Scots were the dominant group of immigrants to [...more]

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16. Bloc Québécois

Posted on 16 August 2010

By Robert Bothwell
The Bloc Québécois (BQ) is a provincially-based federal party dedicated to the achievement of an independent, French-language nation of Quebec. Although there had been individual separatists in the federal Parliament before, they had no organized political party behind them. The party roots lay in René Lévesque’s Parti Québécois which had come to power [...more]

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15. The CCF and NDP

Posted on 09 August 2010

By Robert Bothwell
Canada’s social-democratic left has been embodied in two successive political formations, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), from 1932 to 1961, and the New Democratic Party (NDP) from 1961 to the present day.
Canada, like other western, industrial countries, produced a variety of radical and socialist political movements, usually associated with or even embodied [...more]

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14. The Liberal Party

Posted on 02 August 2010

By Robert Bothwell
The Liberal Party dates back to political struggles in Great Britain’s North American colonies in the 1820s and 1830s. The term Liberal originally applied to opponents of authoritarian royal government in Europe, and the opponents (reformers) of the British-appointed colonial governments easily adopted it. When democratic government was finally achieved in [...more]


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