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Category: Monarchy in the Commonwealth

Reasons To Have A Truly Canadian Head of State

Posted on June 10, 2024 by Marco Rossi

No. 1: We are no longer a British colony. Canada is an independent country that deserves to have a Canadian citizen as its head of state, not a British colonial that live in a castle overseas. Iceland has an Icelandic head of state. Germany has a German head of state. Ireland has an Irish head…

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The Queen is dead.

Posted on September 18, 2022September 18, 2022 by Republican Canadian

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…

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How hard would it be for Canada to follow Barbados and become yet another Commonwealth republic?

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Republican Canadian

SPECIAL FROM ASHOK CHARLES, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, REPUBLIC NOW/RÉPUBLIQUE DU CANADA, TORONTO/THUNDER BAY. OCTOBER 18, 2020 : That Barbados has resolved to transition from constitutional monarchy to constitutional democracy (see “Barbados To Become A Republic by 2021”) also has relevance for Canada. Explaining the coming changeover, Barbados’ Governor General, Sandra Mason, said : “Barbadians want a…

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Republic Now ad campaign is a first, and a grassroots push

Posted on May 19, 2016July 31, 2018 by Wayne Adam

May 18, 2016 –Toronto   As Victoria Day approaches, Republic Now announces an ad campaign to help ensure Elizabeth II is the last British monarch to reign over Canada. Republic Now plans to take out ads on public transit that challenge Canada’s habit of plagiarizing Britain’s head of state. It’s the first ad campaign to ever…

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Union Jack is just the tip of the flagpole

Posted on December 11, 2015February 4, 2016 by Wayne Adam

You’ll forgive Syrian refugees who arrived Friday if they’re a little confused about where they’ve landed. Ottawa ordered all federal facilities to fly the British flag on December 11–including at airports. It does so every year to mark the anniversary of the Statute of Westminster, the British act which finally recognized Canadian nationhood in 1931….

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