République du Canada
We’re not the country we were 150 years ago; we’ve outgrown the monarchy, an institution that has no relevance to the society we’ve built – Peter Donolo Given the truly calamitous news of the first days of this new decade – from the raging Australian fires to conflict and tragedy in the Middle East to…
Counterweights.ca, the political affairs blog of Randall White, one of RN’s founding members, is running an article by RN’s Executive Director which argues that Prince Charles and Prince Andrew’s associations with pedophiles and sex offenders make them unfit for roles in Canada’s government and official protocols … [Read the full article]
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 the principle of equality is not one of those values. Your readers, and new Canadians, should know that the pledge…
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 organization has a responsibility to draw attention to the lack of proactive planning, on the part of the Canadian government,…
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 placed banner ads on the sides of city buses bearing the message “We don’t need a king. Our next head…