The Race Is On in Canada and the United States: A Tale of Two Political Cultures
While watching the NDP and Republican leadership races unfold in Canada and the United States, I’ve been struck by the very different political cultures of these two countries. This can be partly...
View ArticleHistory Slam Episode Forty-Two: The Politics of Memory with Yves Frenette
By Sean Graham Since coming to power in 2006, the Harper government has increasingly involved itself in historical commemorations. Perhaps most famously with the War of 1812 television campaign, the...
View ArticleTurmoil and Meddling at the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK
Since the new year began, just six-and-a-half weeks ago, considerable changes have been made to the direction of the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK. Earlier in the month, the High...
View ArticleNew Paper: The Social Democracy Question
ActiveHistory.ca is pleased to announce the publication of Kenneth Dewar’s new paper: “The Social Democracy Question” Over the past twenty years, the fate of social democracy has been the subject of...
View ArticleCompassion or Exclusion: An Election Issue?
(this op-ed was originally published in The Record) By Marlene Epp Za’atri refugee camp in Jordan, 2014. Home to 83,000 Syrian refugees. Wikimedia Commons. Right now, it would be judicious of the...
View Article“Men Want to Hog Everything”: Women in Canadian Legislative Politics after...
By Veronica Strong-Boag “Men Want to Hog Everything”: in one revealing phrase, Agnes Macphail, Canada’s first female parliamentarian (as of 1921), summed up the decades after the first partial suffrage...
View ArticlePregnancy and Politics: Niki Ashton’s NDP Leadership Run and the History of...
Christo Aivalis Last week Niki Ashton, a challenger for the New Democratic Party’s federal leadership, announced that she was pregnant, and that stated that “like millions of Canadian women I will...
View ArticleLessons for the 2017 NDP Leadership Race from Past Leadership Conventions
David Blocker Editors Note: This is the first post in a two-part series on the history of NDP leadership conventions. The second part to this series will be posted tomorrow morning. NDP Leadership...
View ArticleLessons for the 2017 NDP Leadership Race from Past Leadership Conventions –...
David Blocker Editors Note: This is the second post in a two-part series on the history of NDP leadership conventions. The first post in the series can be read here. Today’s post continues an...
View ArticlePrecedents for Today’s ‘Big Tent’ Liberalism: British Columbia’s First Woman...
By Veronica Strong-Boag In the age of their first avowedly feminist prime minister, Canadians confront another adventure in ‘big tent liberalism.’ His father tried it, for a time, with labour and...
View ArticleHistory Slam Episode 117: Breaching the Peace
By Sean Graham There are a couple things that are universal in political campaigns. Candidates will talk about creating new jobs and stress the need to leave a legacy for our kids and grand-kids (we do...
View ArticleHistory Slam Episode 119: Pierre Trudeau, the Constant Liberal
By Sean Graham The 2015 election of Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party, along with the 50th anniversary of his father’s election as Liberal leader, has generated plenty of renewed interest in the...
View ArticleYou Can Blame Mackenzie King for Ford
By Adam Coombs Doug Ford invoking the Notwithstanding Clause to slash the size of Toronto City Council generated fiery responses from both supporters and detractors. Regardless of where one stood on...
View ArticleHistory Slam Episode 123: Reconsidering Confederation
By Sean Graham In the lead up to Canada 150 last July, there was no shortage of projects looking at Canada’s political history. One of my favourites was the Confederation Debates project. With a...
View ArticleReflections on the Far Right, Intellectuals, and Hope in Toronto and Beyond
Protesters outside Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall, venue of the Munk Debate between Steve Bannon and David Frum, 2 November 2018. Photo courtesy of author. By Edward Dunsworth It’s been quite a month for...
View ArticleA Narrow Vision: Politics in Canada in Historical Perspective
By James Cullingham As the imbroglio concerning Jody Wilson-Raybould, Jane Philpott and the Liberal government emerged, an immediate wave of sentiment broke across social media. The panicky message can...
View ArticleRevisiting “Was Laurier Canada’s Obama?”
By Elsbeth Heaman In September 2016 I published at Active History an argument that the 2016 election in the United States was shaping up like the 1911 election in Canada. The previous elections had...
View ArticleHistory Slam Episode 148: Why Political Leaders Matter
By Sean Graham As an undergraduate student, I had an idea for a paper in my fourth year seminar on Canadian history to write about the 1930 federal election. It was a campaign that I was intrigued by –...
View ArticleJohn Turner & Political Leadership – What’s Old is News
By Sean Graham John Turner & Political Leadership | RSS.comIn our premier episode, I’m joined by Steve Paikin of TVO’s The Agenda to talk about Prime Minister John Turner, whose lengthy career...
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