Posted on 09 November 2010
Just last Thursday, we posted an item about a recent conversation happening on the website of our affiliated project, Bring Back the Act. (You can read that post by clicking here.) Today brings another exchange on the uniqueness of Canada’s Constitution that we hope is of interest to our Canadian Experience readers; it was sparked [...more]
Tags: BNA Act, Bring Back the Act, Canadian Constitution, Ian Wilson, Site updates
Posted on 04 November 2010
An interesting online discussion came up on the website of our affiliated project, Bring Back the Act. If you’re not familiar with this initiative, we are enlisting the help and support of all Canadians to bring back Canada’s original Constitution, The British North America Act of 1867 (The BNA Act), currently in London, England. As [...more]
Tags: BNA Act, Bring Back the Act, Canadian Constitution, Ian Wilson, Site updates
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]
Tags: Bring Back the Act, Site updates
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]
Tags: BNA Act, Bring Back the Act, Canadian Constitution, Lori Abittan
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]
Tags: Bring Back the Act
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]
Tags: Acts & Statutes, BNA Act, British parliament, Canadian Constitution, J.L. Granatstein, Lori Abittan