Commentary A nation’s symbols define and conserve a shared way of life and bring about social cohesion. A country needs its symbols. However, over the past generation, such needs have been dismissed as atavistic prejudices, which must be swept away wherever they stand in the way of schemes for national transformational projects. The default position…

Commentary I used to think it was a pretty good thing to be a Canadian. I could see that I lived in a free country, relatively free of violence. The people were prosperous but full of community spirit and charitable to those less well off. We weren’t the kind of country that picked fights but…

The Terry Fox statue across from Parliament Hill will need to be moved to make way for a new building to house MPs and senators, committee rooms and an Indigenous Peoples’ space. The planned building, which is rectangular with a nod to neo-classical design, has distinctive copper window facades, a reference to the copper roofs…