By the start of the twenty-first century, publicly run, universal, comprehensive, and portable medical insurance is dead in Canada. Canadians watch in amazement as President Barack Obama introduces the Affordable Care Act -- Obamacare -- in the United States.Okay, I'm biased. It's my story, and I kinda love it.
But Brandon Dimmel's story about opposition to commemorating the War of 1812 --- in 1914 -- is pretty terrific. A piece about Beothuk spirituality, which at first seems a little creepy, is actually thoughtful and sensitive. Tina Loo ponders the burdens you history teachers carry. Paul Jones explores that Mormon thing about genealogy. Joe Martin's meditation on a WW 1 photograph, too. And some guy who also blogs about CanHist devotes his column to the abolition of the upper house -- the provincial upper houses, that is, six times over in Canadian history.
Where else do these matters get explored? Nowhere.
