Stan Grant’s new book, The Queen is Dead, is revealing in terms of his decision to step down from public life. ‘I have been reminded what it is to come from the other side of history,’ he writes.
Pretty Yende performs at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, in 2019.
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Singing at King Charles III’s coronation tells a story of global histories coming full circle.
Then-Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles visiting Canada in 2017. As a new monarch is crowned in Britain, is it time for Canada to have a head of state who is Canadian?
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As Charles is crowned King, maybe the time has come for Canada to reassess its connection with the British monarchy and become a republic.
Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon leaves a post-election news conference in Boucherville, Que. on Oct. 4, 2022.
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Yan Campagnolo, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
An oath to the King is not an oath to the person who wears the crown. It is an oath to an institution that symbolizes our system of government, a democratic constitutional monarchy.
Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
From the 1870s on, continual improvements in living standards became a birthright – not for everyone, but for humanity as a whole. King Charles III inherits a different future.