I've meaning to draw attention to -- well, I've been meaning to watch -- the new Heritage Minute on LGBTQ history. Well, now I have and there it is above, if you have not yet. Nice.
But I cannot help but note again that during the Harper government years, Historica's Heritage Minutes tended to be about hockey or war, or hockey AND war. Under the Trudeau government, they tend to be about Chanie Wenjack, refugees, multiculturalism, and gay rights. Well, I prefer the greater diversity of the recent ones, for sure.
But the Minutes are principally funded by the federal government nowadays, and it's troubling to see how closely the Minutes' editorial choices track the political priorities of the parties in power. What happened to the arm's length principle? Can't help thinking the minute-makers had more freedom of expression years ago, when the money came from the Bronfman Foundation.
Government direction of popular media treatments of history: "Another part of our heritage"?
