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The Real Father of Manitoba

7/4/2025|Updated: 7/4/2025CommentaryLouis Riel has long been called by some the Father of Manitoba. Though the province’s website is equivocal (saying only that he is “widely regarded” as such), last year Manitoba one-upped itself. Supposedly “correcting history,” Premier Wab Kinew declared Riel the province’s “first...

‘Noble Chain of Provinces’: More ‘Fathers’ of Confederation

6/20/2025|Updated: 6/20/2025CommentaryRoman Catholic bishops supported Confederation in the hope that a strong central government would protect Catholic minorities in Protestant-dominated Ontario and the Maritimes, two-thirds of the new Dominion. On the flip side, Protestant minority educators in Quebec looked to the same constitutional provisions...
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