The announcement that the King had cancer was surprising for a number of reasons. For starters, the fact the Royal Family was even forthcoming about the surgery that resulted in its discovery is a change in policy from how these matters are usually handled. That the cancer diagnosis was then announced even more so. Clearly, the King feels
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The Maple Monarchists - Blog: A Collection of Loyal Quotes: Part Six
“I do not consider myself to be a rabid monarchist. I am pretty laissez-faire aboutour relationship with the monarchy. It doesnot bother me in my day-to-day workings,not only as a citizen of our country but alsoas a member of Parliament. In my humbleopinion, monarchs can truly be abovepolitics. They do not have
Continue readingScripturient: Ancient Election Wisdom
I recently came across this piece by Marcus Tullius Cicero (one of my favourite classical authors) on the Sententiae Antiquae website (a good source of classical Latin and Greek translations), taken from Cicero’s oration Pro Murena (35-36). Lucius Licinius Murena was elected as his election as consul in 62 BCE
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Albert County Museum Jubilee Event: Speeches and a Surprise Announcement
The Albert County Museum held a tree planting and receptionto mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. The event was wellattended and, besides a tipsy flag, went off without a hitch. Speeches by the Dignitaries There were several invited guests including a representativefrom the provincial government (MLA Mike Holland), Villageof Hillsborough (Mayor
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Platinum Jubilee in February
February isn’t exactly the best month to have a celebration buthere we are. February 6th marked the day 70 years ago that Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II. Queen’s Statement Jubilee Pin The government of Canada has produceda Platinum Jubilee pin which is beingdistributed by the Monarchist League of Canada. The
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Platinum Jubilee News
We are officially in the 70th year of Her Majesty’s reign.While events won’t likely get started till the summer I wanted to go over what we know so far. Event Funding The Department of Canadian Heritage opened applications for funding in November. I know that the manager of theAlbert County Museum applied for funding.
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Queen & Governor General’s Statements on the First National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
“I join with all Canadians on this first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to reflect on the painful history that Indigenous peoples endured in residential schools in Canada, and on the work that remains to heal and to continue to build an inclusive society” ~Her Majesty the Queen “As we mark the first National Day
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Fundy Royal 2021 Candidate Profiles
The following is a survey of the party candidates running in the riding of Fundy Royal on the topic of the monarchy. It is mostly for my own use as a voter but the questions may be of use to other monarchists whowant to ask their own candidates what their views are. The Candidates Rob Moore, Conservative
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Statement by Chairman Finch of the Monarchist League of Canada
REPUBLICANISM WILL NOT HELP WITH RECONCILIATION In the aftermath of the horrific discoveries of the bodies of Indigenous children at former residential schools across the country, Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians have rightly been asking themselves what more can be done to help achieve reconciliation. Recently, a school in Creston, BC removed its royal connection
Continue readingwmtc: rtod: kids are jumping out of windows of burning buildings, so we board up the windows instead of putting out the fire
Revolutionary thought of the day: What I’m here to talk about is how our whole approach since day one has been like this: Kids are jumping out the windows of burning buildings, falling to their deaths. And we think the problem is that they’re jumping. This is what we’ve done:
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: All three policy proposals concerning the monarchy that were submitted to the NDP policy convention
The NDP is having a policy convention this weekend (so are the Liberals in what must have been a scheduling snafu). The NDP membership has once again put forward policies concerning the Canadian Monarchy to be debated. The following is a summary of the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Good And no,
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Evolution of the Right to Encourage
Walter Bagehot was a contemporary of Queen Victoria having been born after, and died before, the long-lived queen. And while Queen Victoria was the one who set about creating a greater symbolic role for the monarchy going forward, it was Walter Bagehot who codified the monarchy’s political role. Now, Mr. Bagehot would likely object that
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Lessons In Liberty, Democracy, and Eternal Vigilance
Here are some important lessons in liberty, democracy and civil rights: From the eloquence of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Too bad our politicians, pundits and intellectuals typically lack such uncommon common sense) On the 75th anniversary of VE Day, the day we defeated fascism in Europe, 75 years ago, we should
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: 2020 Conservative Party Leadership Race: Views on the Monarchy
Andrew Scheer This article is a collection of every candidate response received thus far to my questions regarding the monarchy. It will continue to be updated as more replies roll in. I have again included a scoreboard for the candidates as well as a section for notable quotes. This leadership race is to replace out- going tory
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading: political graphic nonfiction: emma goldman, muhammad ali, eugene v. debs
I have been collecting graphic nonfiction with leftist political themes. I just love these books and am indulging myself in buying them. I was planning to review them, but I’ve decided to simply post images of the covers, the names of the books and the creators, and a quote from
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: February 17th marks 50 years since the Monarchist League of Canada was Founded
It is hard to believe it really has been five years since I was writing about the League turning 45. This blog wasn’t even ayear old at that point and I was in the process of moving back home to New Brunswick. League meeting held in Toronto yesterday The League has sent out a statement reflecting on its golden anniversary which
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: My Reply to John Boyko
On December 1st the Toronto Star published an opinion piece by John Boyko, an author of seven books on Canadian history and politics. In this opinion piece John lays out his views on abolishing the monarchy (he is for it). I foundmyself angrier than I expected upon reading his take on the issue which required some reflection on
Continue readingwmtc: 11.11: there is no glory in war
Eleven people, on war. * * * * Imprisoned for opposing U.S. involvement in thewar in Europe, Debs ran for President from jail. He garnered 1,000,000 votes, at a time whenthe US population was 103,208,000, andonly men could vote. These are the gentry who are today wrapped up in the
Continue readingmark a rayner: Writing as Therapy
“Writers get a nice break in one way, at least: They can treat their mental illnesses every day.” ~Kurt Vonnegut Photo by Ruslan Alekso from Pexels The post Writing as Therapy appeared first on mark a rayner.
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: The Mother of Confederation
Recently a preposterous letter was printed in the editorial section of the local newspaper. The author stated that the reason you don’t hear about Canada’s ‘founding mothers‘ is because there were none. He challenged his readers to name one. Challenge accepted. I will provide a short biography of one of them. But there are in
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