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Libertarianism: How Canadians in the 1980s Saw Personal Autonomy
ByRichard Jenkins November 21, 2019November 21, 2019

The 1980s are an interesting decade. Baby Boomers entered the workforce, got married and had kids. The decade began with the Cold War still on-going. There was no internet and the technology revolution that would fundamentally change how we communicate was still the stuff of science fiction. Perhaps not surprisingly, few Canadians viewed personal freedom…

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[CORA Archive] Are you a feminist?
ByRichard Jenkins December 13, 2017December 13, 2017

With Merriam-Webster naming “feminism” the word of the year, we look back into the Canadian Opinion Research Archive to show the extent to which Canadians identified as feminists between 1992 and 2001. About one in three Canadians across the three surveys conducted by Environics in their Focus Canada series answered yes to the question, “Do you…

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