Rudyard Griffiths

The Dominion Institute and The Historica Foundation of Canada merged to create Canada’s largest history and citizenship organization: The Historica-Dominion Institute. A reception was held in the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse in Toronto. Below is board member Rick Mercer.

 

 

David Akin, National Post, August 18. But the day wasn’t without a snag. A release from the PMO spelled the Nunavut capital as Iqualuit — rather than the proper Iqaluit. The extra ‘u’ makes an Inuktitut word that translates roughly, according to media reports, to “people with unwiped bums.” The typo was later corrected.

 

Rudyard Griffiths, co-founder of the Dominion Institute, held the Toronto launch of his book, Who We Are: A Citizen’s Manifesto at Toronto’s Ultra Supper Club. According to the publisher, the book is “a passionate call for Canadians to take stock and reengage with our country and its values before we falter as a nation.”

Few object to the way alcoholic beverages are sold in Ontario more than I do, as pretty much anyone who knows me can attest. From the endless queues to the clueless staff to the pitiful selection to the price, there’s very little that goes on at the LCBO and The American-, Belgian- and Japanese-Owned Beer Store (as I now call it, at the Toronto Star‘s suggestion) that hasn’t gotten me angry at some point or another. But I can honestly claim never to have been enraged by the simple question, “Do you have Air Miles?”