Canada Soup

Brighten up your Friday with Canada Soup, a weekly news roundup on Canadian history, identity, and fun and bizarre developments around the country. Find a news story that’s perfect for Canada Soup? Email the link to dchoy@historica-dominion.ca

Canada Soup: The Tip of the Iceberg

Air Canada Strike

In this week’s news, Paul Martin says we need more Canadian history, the Supreme Court rules that colonial history matters, and Canada Post debuts new Titanic stamps!

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Canada Soup: A Revolutionary Passes

pierre-juneau

This week, the original CanCon revolutionary passes away, the legendary Bluenose gets a remake, and our colleagues at HDI pen a wonderful editorial on the War of 1812!

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Canada Soup: Joe Fortes, the Queen and the Primacy of Soccer

Canada soccer

This week, take a stroll down memory lane with the Queen, census data is released, the Canada Reads winner is announced, and hockey is compared to a comic book.

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Canada Soup: Spies, Swagger and Cohen

Igor Sergeievich Gouzenko

This week a music icon debuts a much-anticipated single, a Canadian athlete of enormous talents passes away, and we may have spies among us!

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Canada Soup: “A Delicious Gallimaufry”

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This week, we celebrated Sir John A.’s birthday, The Walrus launched a new TV series, Canadian publishing giant McClelland & Stewart was taken over, and Dave Broadfoot wisecracks about history.

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Canada Soup: History Isn’t Entirely Dead

Canadacy

This week: Americans are urged to abandon their presidential candidates for “Canadacy,” John Diefenbaker might be a father, and survey says Canadians are unaware of their own history – mostly.

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Canada Soup: Holiday Edition

This week’s soup is a feel-good mix of Canadian pride, commemorative stamps, a snow-less winter, and a puffin who was lost, then found. Happy holidays!

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Canada Soup: Google, Statues, and the Oscars

This week we discovered that Canadians don’t like history, don’t understand how Google works, and have abandoned the Kyoto Protocol. But it’s not all bad news – the NFB sees Oscar love and Veteran Affairs makes plans to commemorate significant war heroes. Good week? Bad week? You decide.

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Canada Soup: Honour and Reconciliation

Australia Apology

This week’s Canada Soup brings you news on Pearl Harbour, the Toronto Raptors’ first Canadian, Brian Mulroney’s award from Japan, Northrop Frye’s anniversary statue, and more!

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Canada Soup: Polymer Notes & the CBC

Canada First Polymer Note

Welcome to the first weekly instalment of “Canada Soup” where we roundup news on Canadian history, identity, and fun and bizarre developments in the country.

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