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Mary Ellen Smith is seen in this undated photo. City of Vancouver Archives

March 4, 2019

Saying no to power: The resignations of women cabinet members

Veronica Strong-Boag, University of British Columbia

In 1921 and now in 2019, the respective resignations of Mary Ellen Smith from B.C. cabinet and Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott from federal cabinet have exposed the limits of Canadian liberalism.

Nellie McClung, a prominent Canadian suffragist in the early 1900s, is now being maligned for her racism and support of eugenics. Should the deep flaws of some suffragists from 100 years ago mean Canadian historians must pay them short shrift? (National Archives)

March 19, 2018

Canada’s curiously cautious commemoration of women suffragists

Veronica Strong-Boag, University of British Columbia

Canada is strangely muted in celebrating women’s suffrage. That’s because the politics of remembrance has become a contemporary minefield.

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