“It is sobering to think,” historian Sean Cadigan wrote in the Telegram on Tuesday, “that the memory of the casualties of war has been used partially for later political purposes for almost a century.” Cadigan was recounting the history of the ceremony on July 1 that started in 1917 to
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Some Thoughts on Politics, Myth, and Identity #nlpoli
Your humble e-scribbler saw a couple of comments last week that said the NDP town hall on Muskrat Falls was a good argument against having a referendum on the megaproject. Some people were quite badly misinformed, so the commentary went, not just…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Our plastic history, utter contempt version #nlpoli
On Friday, the Telegram’s Brian Jones takes issue with fisheries minister Darin King: Fisheries Minister Darin King’s tantrum this week against the Fish, Food and Allied Workers’ (FFAW) union is the latest example of this government’s extremely bad behaviour. Jones warns of the dangers of contradicting the current administration: These
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