The Canada Day List

The Reading List for 01 July 2022

Edward Hollett

Jul 01, 2022

∙ Paid

The Newfoundland Memorial, Beaumont Hamel. (Photo: Veterans Affairs Canada)

A survey of stories.

A smorgasbord of stuff.

Start in Moscow.

Comment is Freed

Paralysis in Moscow

Putin on stage at last week’s International Economic Forum in St Petersburg. Not looking overly impressed with the comments being made by Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images). I will do such things- What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be…

3 years ago · 47 likes · 20 comments · Lawrence Freedman

Touch down in Ottawa

The Line

Andrew Lawton: Freedom Convoy were negotiating just before Emergencies Act was declared

The following is an excerpt from journalist Andrew Lawton’s book, The Freedom Convoy, The Inside Story of Three Weeks that Shook the World, which will be published by Sutherland House on June 24. We here at The Line are re-publishing, with permission, what we feel is one of the most newsworthy chapters as it offers an inside look of what was going on be…

3 years ago · 16 likes · 29 comments

Flip over to Toronto

The Writ

Episode #49: Doug Ford and his new blue-collar base in Ontario

Listen now (30 min) | Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives made a big play for labour support in the Ontario election. And it appears to have paid off. The PCs were able to win seats away from the New Democrats in places like Windsor, Hamilton and northern Ontario, regions the NDP has traditionally been able to count on from one election to the next. The PCs also received a s…

3 years ago · 3 likes · Éric Grenier

Hop back to Montreal and ponder Rene Levesque’s nationalism, something worthwhile given the recent anniversary of the Meech Lake Accord and the controversy over Bill 96.

Then put you…

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