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Keeping The Flame: The Telos Of Canada
The nationalist in Canada has always played a unique role in the battles of political thought and geopolitics. His opposite and opponent is the liberal internationalist. Canada’s defenders opposed the...
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Canada’s Tradition or Canadian “Values”?
This post originally appeared on Gerry T. Neal’s blog thronealtarliberty.blogspot.ca on April 23, 2015. A figure who had a brief starring role on the stage of Canadian history in the early 1990s has...
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The Meaning Of Monarchy
In Canada, one is hard-pressed to conceive of any form of nationalism that is not royalist to the core. Likewise, we ought not be surprised that those who seek to erase Canada’s ethnic foundations and...
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Against CANZUK
As the free trade paradigm continues to erode, its advocates are beginning to look for alternatives. One of these has struck a chord not only with neoliberals, but also with a number of conservatives...
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Deconstructing a Deconstruction: Some Notes on Propaganda
Like many, we at Northern Dawn continue to follow the career of Prof. Jordan Peterson. As many of our readers will know, his refusal to allow the progressive apparatchiks the linguistic control their...
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Right-Petersonian Deviationism: Some Notes on Liberalism and the State
University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson recently made some interesting comments on the Alt Right. On the one hand, he refused to condemn its thrust to re-establish identity and roots,...
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Call For Submissions: The Northern Dawn Symposium
It’s official. This year, our Dominion turns 150. As is expected, the majority of celebrations will be focused on cementing the image of Canada as the land without roots. The post-national state. The...
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Without Centre: Charles Taylor and the Fragmented Secular Experience
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and...
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Deus Ex Machina: Tradition and the Essence of Technology
How is a traditionalist to treat his relationship to technology? For a tool destined to set us free and bring about world-wide enlightenment, technology has been largely a force of imprisonment for the...
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Thanksgiving: A Common Inheritance
It comes as no surprise that Thanksgiving should have taken root in North America. With similar festivals having deep roots across Europe, it was only natural for communities with their survival at...
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Canada and the Geopolitics of Restoration
One of the results of North America’s security between two oceans has been a lack of geopolitical thinking. There is even a school of thought – encouraged by Alexander Dugin and similar writers – that...
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Disdain And Mismanagement: A Century in the Life of Our Armed Forces
Another week, another defense procurement blunder by the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC). This time it is the much-maligned jet procurement file. After unwisely canning the F-35 acquisition plans as per...
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The State of Arms: Evaluating Canada’s Military
It will come as a surprise to some that the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are to this day regarded as a qualitatively good military by our allies. In 10 years of counter-insurgency in Afghanistan, Canada...
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What Is A Nation?
Canadian nationalism has historically had a difficult relationship with the idea of the nation itself. Are we a nation? Or a land of many nations? Most prominent in this discussion has been the...
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Strong and Free: Proposals on the Canadian Armed Forces
As mentioned previously, this will be the last part in a three-part series on the Canadian military. The previous instalments can be found here and here. Having covered the historical and the present...
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Cutting Through Nationalism’s Gordian Knot
There is a debate raging across circles which have declared opposition to globalism. The debate breaks down as follows: civic nationalism or ethnic nationalism? These categories together are opposed to...
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Grant and Gandhi: Deeper Nationalisms
The greatest figure of our era, Gandhi, was interested in public actions and in political liberty, but he knew that the right direction of that action had to be based on knowledge of reality-with all...
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Prophetic Tories: George Grant and Robert Crouse
Robert D. Crouse represents that paradigm of those most catholic of scholars, whose investigations of the Christian tradition have consistently shown courageous sensitivity to its complex origins and...
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Uncertain Future: The State Of Canadian Arctic Sovereignty
The tie between Canada and the Arctic is a common association to make. It’s even in the English version of our anthem: “the true north strong and free”. In the minds of most Canadians, as well as the...
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A Guide For Canada On Trump’s Global Trade War
Following the failure of negotiations between the American and Canadian governments, the two countries have now entered a trade war. Canadian sanctions on a variety of US products came into effect on...
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