Canadian Difference Project
Canadians across the country are participating in the Canadian Difference project, an initiative of Trent University's Canadian Studies Department, which engages people in an unprecedented national conversation about what makes Canada…Canada.
A bilingual, interactive website, launched in July 2016, Canadian Difference provides resources and a forum for the discussion, which explores how Canada has succeeded, or failed, at accommodating diversity across the country.
The unprecedented online conversation started with a prominent essay series in The Globe and Mail, written by William A. Macdonald, one of the philanthropic leaders (together with William R.K. Innes) who is working with Trent University on the innovative Canadian Difference project, read his pieces here:
- To be a global role model, Canada must realize what sets it apart
- How Canada’s eight leaders of special vision guided the way
- Canada’s major challenges as it finds its way into the future
- A new role for Canada and the U.S. in a world of persistent menace
- Overcoming Islamophobia: Fear is never the best basis for action
- Time to reconsider the nature of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
- The trouble with going back to the future
- Justin Trudeau’s sunny ways – and a storm on the horizon
- There’s a big risk in doing too little for Syria’s refugees
- Truth and reconciliation: Will this time be any different
- Justin Trudeau can’t afford to ignore Canada’s economic challenges
- To transform Canada’s economy, Trudeau needs to be a ‘bold builder’
- Can Trudeau’s optimism survive in a world of every-nation-for-itself
- Why the Liberals’ budgetary best is likely still to come