This special issue comprises essays and interviews featuring a range of voices, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, reflecting on how the past — often contested — continues to shape our present and future. Reconciliation is a topic at the heart of contemporary debates about Canada’s history, during a time when scholarly and popular narratives of this country’s past are being challenged and rewritten. Canada’s landscape of historical commemoration is similarly in the throes of controversy, with statues being toppled and landmarks being renamed. All the while, how we educate young Canadians about the country’s past remains a hotly contested issue.
Date: 15 April, 2022
Key Topics: Canadian Issues, Indigenous Peoples
Entitled Multiculturalism @ 50 and the Promise of a Just Society, this special edition of Canadian Issues, explores the roots, characteristics and structural fault lines of Canadian multiculturalism and outlines the reframing required if the policy hopes to live up to its initial promise of delivering a just society. In his introduction, guest editor and eminent political philosopher Will Kymlicka reflects on the insights of contributing authors some of whom trace multiculturalism’s failings back to its very foundations, but who also offer glimpses” of why and how multiculturalism might aspire to rebirth and offer a “better future”.
Date: 10 August, 2021
Key Topics: Canadian Issues
Contributors: ROBERT WARDHAUGH, FRANK J. TOUGH, NATHALIE KERMOAL, GERALD FRIESEN, JAMES MOCHORUK, DAVID CHARTRAND, NICOLE ST-ONGE, PHILIPPE MAILHOT, BARRY FERGUSON, KARINE DUHAMEL, JEAN TEILLET, SARAH CARTER.
Date: 31 March, 2021
Key Topics: Canadian Issues
Contributors : Miriam Taylor, Mohammed Ahmed, Michelle Douglas, Ashley Manuel, The Hon. Steven Guilbeault, Can Nguyen, Jean Teillet, Ilona Dougherty, The Right Hon. Michaëlle Jean, The Hon. Jean Augustine, Rosemary Sadlier, Deborah Morrison, Charles Taylor, Major Samson Young, Sen. Wanda Thomas Elaine Bernard, Abhay & Sukhmeet Singh Sachal.
Date: 9 March, 2021
Key Topics: Canadian Issues, Indigenous Peoples, Other, Social History
Contributors: Randy Boswell; Tanya Evans; Natalie Ward; John D. Reid; Leighann C. Neilson; Jane Badets; Jack Jedwab; Jean Teillet; Robert Vineberg; Sara Macnaull; Nora Spinks; Nicole Watier; Margaret Ann Wilkinson; Tracy Arial
Date: 26 June, 2020
Key Topics: Canadian Issues
Contributors: Miriam Taylor, Diane Gérin-Lajoie, Jack Jedwab, Shana Poplack, Robert J. Talbot, Geoffrey Chambers, Richard Slevinsky, Nathalie Dion, Jean-Philippe Warren, Richard Y. Bourhis, Matthew Hayday, Suzanne Robillard, Jean Johnson, Jean-Pierre Corbeil, Fred Genesee, Basile Roussel
Date: 19 November, 2019
Key Topics: Canadian Issues, Education, Heritage, Official Languages, Quebec
Contributors: Randy Boswell, Jan Kestle, Dylan Saunders, Raymond Théberge, Musah Khalid, Michael Haan, Martha Patterson, Katherine Wall, Robert Talbot, Doug Norris, Sen. Donna Dasko, Myriam Hazel, Gustave Goldmann, Jack Jedwab
Date: 25 June, 2019
Key Topics: Canadian History, Canadian Issues, Official Languages, Social History
Date: 13 November, 2018
Key Topics: Canadian History, Canadian Issues, Social History, Technology & Media
Contributors: Randy Boswell, William Watson, Christian Bourque, Anil Arora, Jack Jedwab, John Milloy, Irvin Studin, Monica Boyd, Don Kerr
Date: 13 April, 2018
Key Topics: Canadian History, Canadian Issues, Governance, Heritage, Official Languages, Social History
Contributors: Randy Boswell, Dominique Clément, Jack Bumsted, Ken McGoogan, Veronica Strong-Boag, Victor Rabinovitch, Nelson Wiseman, Jean-Phillippe Warren, Jack Jedwab
Date: 12 November, 2017
Key Topics: Canadian History, Canadian Issues, Heritage, Social History
