Toronto-based journalist & historian
In her interview with Greg Marchildon, Dr. Janigan describes the origins of the idea in the Commonwealth Grants Commission in Australia, how Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent’s government set up the first formal program and how this programs has been refined since. Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or SoundCloud
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The Richer versus the Poorer Provinces since Confederation. The untold history of how Ottawa tackled fiscal inequalities among the resentful provinces. In 1957, after a century of scathing debates and threats of provincial separation, Ottawa finally tackled the dangerous fiscal inequalities among its richer and poorer provinces. Equalization grants allowed the poorer provinces to provide […]
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Contributors to The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent assess the degree to which he set the policy agenda. They explore the features of his personality that made him effective (or sometimes less so), the changes he wrought on the state apparatus and federal-provincial relations, and the substance of his government’s policies. Available from UBC Press
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Gorgeously designed in full colour with archival and contemporary images. On May 3, 1915 the death of a young friend on the battlefields of Ypres inspired Canadian soldier, field surgeon and poet John McCrae to write “In Flanders Fields”. Knopf Canada commemorates the poem with a new anthology of writing on war, loss and remembrance. […]
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This is not a regional story. It is a story of Canada. And it is still playing out in real time whenever Canadians ponder the privileges and the challenges of the West’s resource wealth. One of the first authoritative looks at the struggle over resources with the Rest of Canada that has plagued the West […]
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