Canada’s national identity has never been fixed, instead evolving through dialogue shaped by history, diversity, and change.

For decades, Canada and the United States have been strategic allies and defence partners. But it wasn’t always that way.

John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, was born in 1815. Some years ago, as the bicentennial of Macdonald’s birth neared, some civic-minded residents of the Ontario county in which I ...