After extensive pressure from locals and conservation groups, the federal government reject the proposed Mother Canada statue in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Continue reading Iconic Cape Breton park no longer threatened by Mother Canada project
Unlike most academic books, Rethinking the Great White North stirred enough irritation to be attacked by a Globe and Mail columnist. Repeating an old saw, Margaret Wente previously wrote that what makes someone Canadian is having sex in a canoe. Maybe new immigrants should be taught to canoe, Wente said, so they could be more patriotic. Continue reading Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada
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