Citizenship is about class not race Don’t buy Evan Balgord’s contention that a Canadian citizenship ceremony is “a celebration of our shared values” (NOW, May 17-23), because if you do, you have to accept that Read more…
Republic Now’s main initiative, in 2017, was the implementation of the No King Charles of Canada public advertising campaign. The campaign arose from the perspective, based on extensive discussion among Republic Now’s executive, that our Read more…
TORONTO, April 27 — The first ever ad campaign urging that a Canadian replace the British monarch as our head of state was unveiled in Toronto, today. Republic Now, a not-for-profit, non-partisan advocacy group, has Read more…
This Saturday we’ll be starting work on the video which will be a central part of our on-line crowdfunding campaign. The first scene to be shot is a “war room” shot, of a group of Read more…
The 2015 Annual General Meeting of Republic Now/République du Canada will take place in Toronto on Saturday, November 21st at Metro Hall, Room 304, at 1:00 PM. Metro Hall is at 55 John Street, Toronto, Read more…
The official campaign just began on Sunday, August 2. But unofficially the real Canadian federal election of 2015 has been under way since as long ago as the 24th of May. Back on June 19 the veteran CBC TV pundit Andrew Coyne urged that there “has never been an election campaign like the one on which we are now embarked ... There’s a weird fin-de-siècle glow in the air, a sense of things coming unstuck, old certainties uprooted. Policies, parties, institutions, everything is in flux, to a degree I cannot recall any precedent for.” (more…)