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Toronto Sun
30-05-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
EDITORIAL: Time to stop war on our history
The statue of Sir John A. Macdonald covered at Queen's Park in Toronto. Photo by BRIAN LILLEY / TORONTO SUN Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra has stepped in to restore sanity to out-of-control school boards that have wreaked havoc in schools. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Under sweeping legislation introduced this week, any plan to change the names of schools must get provincial approval. The new law will be retroactive to Jan. 1. That means three schools named for Sir John A. Macdonald, Egerton Ryerson and Henry Dundas could retain those titles and not be rebranded, as the Toronto District School Board decided earlier this year. At the same time, an all-party decision by a legislative board has voted to unbox a statue of Macdonald that was crated up and left as an eyesore on the grounds of the legislature. This is all welcome news. For far too long, leftist politicians have listened to uninformed activists and maligned the history of this great nation. More than a dozen statues across the country have been defaced or destroyed. Vandals have taken words and deeds out of context to sully the names of the people who built this land. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. At a time when our neighbour to the south is threatening our very existence, we cannot allow the very heart of this nation to be destroyed from within. In Ottawa, the National Capital Commission (NCC) arbitrarily renamed the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway to Kichi Zibi Mikan, an Algonquin name. The NCC is a Crown corporation that manages most government-owned lands and infrastructure in Ottawa. It's time for the commission to revisit that decision and restore Macdonald's name to the parkway. In his recent biography of Macdonald, history professor Patrice Dutil outlines how Canada's first prime minister was responsible for getting a railroad built across this land and unifying a fragile country. While he had little to do with residential schools, Macdonald saved thousands of Indigenous lives with vaccination efforts during a smallpox epidemic. His Franchise Act of 1885 gave Indigenous people a vote. It was repealed by his Liberal successor, Sir Wilfrid Laurier. There are fears the statue will be attacked again once it's unveiled. We urge politicians and police to step in to prevent such lawlessness. It's time to restore and respect those who built this country and not allow hooligans to take a wrecking ball to our history. Toronto & GTA World World Columnists Crime
Toronto Sun
27-05-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
OPINION: Why this is the dawning of 'America's Golden Age'
Terror over escape of 'evil' ex-police chief called 'Devil in the Ozarks' WARMINGTON: Sir John A. Macdonald will soon be freed from his wooden encasement OPINION: Why this is the dawning of 'America's Golden Age' Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images Article content On the evening of May 29, at Roy Thomson Hall in downtown Toronto, Kellyanne Conway and I will debate Ezra Klein and Ben Rhodes. The proposition: This is America's Golden Age. Advertisement 2 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. 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Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account or Sign in without password View more offers Article content Article content tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or OPINION: Why this is the dawning of 'America's Golden Age' Back to video tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Play Video Article content I will argue — without apology — that it is the beginning of such an era in American history. Now, I know I'm walking into a headwind. survey taken in April 2025 shows that just 26% of Canadians view the United States positively, down 28 points from last July. Worse still, that's four points below the number who hold a favourable view of Communist China. Let's not kid ourselves — the room will be filled with Torontonians — cosmopolitan, secular and suspicious of American strength. And our opponents will make full use of that. Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security adviser under Barack Obama, will no doubt paint President Donald Trump's 'America First' foreign policy as dangerous, backwards and possibly even fascist. He'll gesture toward foreign conflicts and insist Trump is undermining the world order and empowering strongmen abroad. Your Midday Sun Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. There was an error, please provide a valid email address. Sign Up By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Thanks for signing up! A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Your Midday Sun will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Article content Advertisement 3 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Ezra Klein, writing from the editorial heights of The New York Times, will likely pivot to domestic matters. His golden age, as articulated in his new book, looks like a Leviathan state imposing a green revolution from the top down in the name of 'abundance.' He'll argue that Trump's reforms have made the government more corrupt, not more capable. And yes — they'll both probably mention, with theatrical outrage, Trump's quip about Canada becoming our 51st state. But all their finger-wagging will miss the mark. America's new golden age is not a product of Trump alone, or of some novel doctrine in foreign affairs, or even of a reinvigorated administrative state. It is something far deeper, far older and far more consequential. It is the rebirth of the simple but revolutionary idea that our nation must not be ruled by technocrats defending the interests of an elite class, but governed by the people and focused on championing the simple faith, freedom and family values found at the everyday American's dinner table. Advertisement 4 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Klein and Rhodes can't see this. Their world view is frozen in the years when they still held sway — the waning days of the Obama era. But the revolt began then. Trump's 2016 victory cracked the system. His 2020 defeat — mired in irregularities and delivered amid a pandemic that exposed rot at the core of our institutions — blew it wide open. When states like Pennsylvania changed election laws in the eleventh hour, Americans saw it for what it was — manipulation. When mandates forced millions to take experimental vaccines, they saw the corporate state in action. When children were catechized with radical ideologies over Zoom calls, Americans saw the corruption of public education. And when churches were closed week after week, even those Americans who didn't believe in God felt the spiritual tyranny of a regime that had lost all reverence for the sacred. Advertisement 5 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content And when the Canadian government arrested and de-banked peaceful truckers in Ottawa, Americans saw a mirror — and a warning. The result? A great unravelling — and a great awakening. The public's trust in elite institutions has collapsed. But in its place, new life is gathering momentum. The vacuum left by corporate media has been filled by men like Joe Rogan and Canada's own Jordan Peterson, who speak plainly and defend free thought. The hollowing out of public health has birthed a grassroots movement to make America healthy in body and spirit. The failure of public schools has ignited a renaissance in classical education, returning young Americans to the eternal truths of the West. This same renewal is underway in higher education, in business, in culture and in politics. Advertisement 6 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Everywhere you look, Americans — black and white, urban and rural, religious and secular — are saying 'enough.' They are building new institutions, grounded in timeless principles. They are rediscovering ordered liberty, moral clarity and national purpose. They are rejecting the rule of the managerial elite and reclaiming the mantle of self-government. That is what makes this the dawn of a new golden age. Rhodes and Klein, ensconced in the power centres of Washington, New York and Los Angeles, remain blind to it. But some Canadians may see it more clearly than they do. After all, we share more than a border. We share a legacy. A frontier spirit. A civilizational inheritance rooted in the dignity of the individual and the sovereignty of the people. On May 29, I will say this to our Canadian friends: Whether or not you wish to be the 51st state, you should want to be part of what's happening in America today. Because this golden age is not just an American revival — it is a rebuke to the failed technocracy of the Western world. And it is just beginning. Kevin Roberts is president of The Heritage Foundation Article content Share this article in your social network Read Next
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
WARMINGTON: Sir John A. Macdonald will soon be freed from his wooden encasement
Sir John A. Macdonald will soon be freed from his encasement at Queen's Park for all to see. Queen's Park's Board of Internal Economy has voted that the hoarding around the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald will be removed as soon as cleaning is completed. They are talking about having this done by summer but like when the Berlin wall came down in 1989, there's a movement to make sure this is done quickly. Canada's first prime minister has been covered up on the front lawn of Queen's Park for five years. The monument was one of many to be targeted across Canada by vandals upset about Canada's history of residential schools. Activists contended Macdonald was an architect of the country's residential school system that took Indigenous children from their families in an effort to assimilate them. There has been much debate about what to do about the statue in recent times. The most recent development had the support of the governing Progressive Conservatives and Liberal MPPs. While the news broke during King Charles' visit to Ottawa, the decision was made earlier this month. Premier Doug Ford told The Toronto Sun he is pleased the statue will once again see the light of day. In addition to this decision, legislators are also working toward a secondary site or signage that could offer an Indigenous perspective of the situation. WARMINGTON: Sir John A. Macdonald statue now hidden at Queen's Park WARMINGTON: Why punish guy trying to free Sir John A. Macdonald from a box?
Hamilton Spectator
27-05-2025
- Politics
- Hamilton Spectator
Hoarding covering Sir John A. Macdonald statue at Queen's Park to be removed
TORONTO - Hoarding that has covered a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald on the grounds of the Ontario legislature for the past five years is set to soon be removed. The statue of Canada's first prime minister has been boxed up since 2020, when it was vandalized. The monument was one of many to be targeted across the country amid anti-racism protests and as Canadians grappled with the history of residential schools. Macdonald is considered an architect of the country's notorious residential school system that took Indigenous children from their families in an effort to assimilate them. Progressive Conservative and Liberal members of a non-partisan board of the legislative assembly agreed earlier this month on a motion to remove the hoarding after the statue is cleaned. Speaker Donna Skelly says the statue should be ready this summer and she welcomes both supporters and protesters to come to Queen's Park. Government House Leader Steve Clark says a legislative committee has been tasked with looking at how to respect Indigenous representation at Queen's Park amid a project to rehabilitate the building. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 27, 2025.
Toronto Sun
27-05-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
WARMINGTON: Sir John A. Macdonald will soon be freed from his wooden encasement
A committee at Queen's Park has voted to let Canada's first prime minister out of his box on the legislature's front lawn Get the latest from Joe Warmington straight to your inbox The statue of Sir John A. Macdonald covered at Queen's Park in Toronto. BRIAN LILLEY/TORONTO SUN Sir John A. Macdonald will soon be freed from his encasement at Queen's Park for all to see. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Queen's Park's Board of Internal Economy has voted that the hoarding around the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald will be removed as soon as cleaning is completed. They are talking about having this done by summer but like when the Berlin wall came down in 1989, there's a movement to make sure this is done quickly. Canada's first prime minister has been covered up on the front lawn of Queen's Park for five years. Protesters vandalized a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald at Queens Park on July 18, 2020. Photo by Ernest Doroszuk / Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network The monument was one of many to be targeted across Canada by vandals upset about Canada's history of residential schools. Activists contended Macdonald was an architect of the country's residential school system that took Indigenous children from their families in an effort to assimilate them. There has been much debate about what to do about the statue in recent times. The most recent development had the support of the governing Progressive Conservatives and Liberal MPPs. Recommended video While the news broke during King Charles' visit to Ottawa, the decision was made earlier this month. Premier Doug Ford told The Toronto Sun he is pleased the statue will once again see the light of day. In addition to this decision, legislators are also working toward a secondary site or signage that could offer an Indigenous perspective of the situation. The statue of Queen Elizabeth II at Queen's Park in Toronto on May 12, 2025. CYNTHIA MCLEOD/TORONTO SUN Read More World Canada Music World World
