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Re.: Canada should show more enthusiasm for King Charles’s coronation, The Globe and Mail, Feb. 21, 2023 John Fraser’s opinion piece highlights points on which republicans and monarchists, apparently, agree. In regards to the upcoming coronation of Charles Windsor, in London, England, Fraser surmises, as do many republicans, that the federal government hasn’t shown enthusiasm…
What Quebec National Assembly got right when it made traditional oath to British monarch optional SPECIAL FROM ASHOK CHARLES, TORONTO/THUNDER BAY. JANUARY 2, 2023. In its November 7, 2022 article, “The empty fight over a symbolic oath in Quebec,” the Globe and Mail’s editorial board argued that the ultimately legislated proposal for Quebec’s National Assembly to dispense…
By Randall White (founding member of Republic Now) The Queen’s funeral is just behind us. It is still too early for any deep debate on the long journey ahead to a Canadian republic. The Globe and Mail editorial board has nonetheless already opined that “Canada is stuck with the monarchy. We should thank our lucky…
The death of Queen Elizabeth II opens a debate about whether a British monarch should remain Canada’s head of state. Written by Christopher Moore The Queen is dead. Long live the King. Has anyone ever been so prominent, across so much of the world, for so long, as Elizabeth II? She came to the throne…
Time for Canada, finally, to talk about becoming a republic. We owe it to ourselves. ANDREW COHEN SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Sept. 16, 2022 Andrew Cohen is a journalist, a professor at Carleton University and author of The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are. The response among the chattering class to the death…