Let’s stop gratuitously thrashing historical reputations
Emily Murphy should be celebrated for her accomplishments and how they changed Canadian society for the better, not reviled for her shortcomings
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Author: Pat Murphy
Harry Truman completely unprepared for his accidental presidency
The inauspicious heir to the White House had planned to play poker the night Roosevelt died. Instead, he became president
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Politics, propaganda and the Bayeux Tapestry
French President Emmanuel Macron has loaned the historic depiction to Britain for public display. Is he taunting the English about Brexit?
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Stephen Harper in the rearview mirror
MURPHY Calling the Harper years a particularly dark time for Canada is partisan fiction, not reality (PREMIUM membership content)
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When an intellectual cozies up to dictators
Democracy is anathema for those convinced of the correctness of their views, the righteousness of their morality and the superiority of their intelligence
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