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A Part of Our Heritage?
by Jarrah Hodge Most Canadian kids of the 80s and early 90s will remember the “Part of Our Heritage” ads produced by Charles Bronfman’s CRB Foundation that seemed to run almost non-stop. As much as we...
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Heritage Minutes II: Part of Whose Heritage?
by Jarrah Hodge In my last post I wrote about how Canadian Heritage Minutes talked about (white) women’s history. I did a quick calculation based on Wikipedia’s list of the ads and estimate that the...
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Transforming Heritage Minutes
by Jarrah Hodge This is the third part in my anti-racist feminist analysis of Canada’s Heritage Minutes ads. Click here for Part I or Part II. While not all Canadian kids of the 80s and 90s can tell...
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In 2011 Quebec filmmaker Dominic Poliquin made a spoof of a Heritage Minute ad that featured a gay Mountie proposing to his partner in the Armed Forces. Now he’s released another celebrating marriage...
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