Podcasts about William Lyon Mackenzie King

It's been 80 years since Allied forces defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. Why is it still important to recognize Victory in Europe, or VE Day? Three historians discuss the significance of this anniversary, not just to help us understand the past, but to comprehend the present. Margaret MacMillan, emeritus professor of International History at Oxford University and the University of Toronto and author of "War: How Conflict Shaped Us"; Tim Cook, chief historian and director of research at the Canadian War Museum and author of "The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War"; and Jeff Noakes, historian at the Canadian War Museum and author of "Forged in Fire: Canada and the Second World War" join Steve Paikin to discuss. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The longest-serving prime minister in the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth is Canada's very own, William Lyon Mackenzie King. This year, to celebrate 150 years of King and his legacy, The Agenda invites experts and historians to dive into his past.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Military historian Tim Cook takes readers through key moments for Canadians during the Second World War as prime minister Mackenzie King and president Franklin D. Roosevelt forged a new relationship to help Britain and the allies. His book is called "The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism During the Second World War."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode is sponsored by: The Syndicate Hair & Beauty Parlor in Evergreen. If you steal from us, we don't have to apply to you and grovel at your feet to get our money back. But we SHOULD condemn you for taking it in the first place. That would be the Montana way. SHOW NOTES: Music: Intro: Wild Wild West, by Julius H. Outro: Inspiring, Uplifting Corporate, by DanaMusic Both music selections are royalty free on Pixabay Audiogram #1 photo by, Eleven Photographs, on Unsplash.com LINKS: https://montanafreepress.org/2024/08/15/montana-governor-gianforte-receives-property-tax-task-force-recommendations/ https://missoulacurrent.com/residential-property-taxes-3/ https://www.kpax.com/news/missoula-county/city-of-missoula-proposes-unprecedented-tax-increase-as-state-sits-on-1b-surplus https://helenair.com/news/article_45060b28-5504-11ef-bd1f-47770a079bae.html DISCLAIMER: These podcasts are in no way endorsed by the creators of the media used within, nor are they intended to undermine or compete with any material existing or forthcoming material. Copyright disclaimer under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 - allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair Use, is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favor of Fair Use. No copyright infringement is intended. All audio clips used in these podcasts are not intended to infringe.    

We somehow made a hundred of these bloody things! Why? Who knows? But, for the occasion, we started taking about WLMK, only the longest lasting PM ever. I think it's thanks to his dead mom's advice. Find our ranking of the P.M.s so far here! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory) --- Sources/Further Reading Bowering, George. Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada, Penguin Books, 2000. Dawson, R. MacGregor. William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Political Biography. University of Toronto, 1958. Scott, F. R. “W.L.M.K.” The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott, McClelland & Stewart, 1981, pp. 78–79. Stacey, C.P. A Very Double Life: The Personal World of Mackenzie King, Macmillan, 1977

Troy Vettese is an environmental historian who specializes in environmental economics, animal studies, and energy history. In 2019 he completed his doctorate in history at New York University. From 2019 to 2021, he worked at Harvard University as a William Lyon Mackenzie King postdoctoral research fellow. He has collaborated with Drew Pendergrass, an environmental engineer, on numerous projects including their book Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics . Troy is currently revising his dissertation on neoliberal environmental thought into a book, tentatively titled 'Beyond Externality'. In addition to his academic work, Vettese writes on a wide array of environmental topics for a popular audience, and has had essays published in the Guardian, the New Statesman, Jacobin, N+1, Book Forum, and Boston Review. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what's real?” & “who matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. 00:00 Clips! 01:04 Welcome 02:58 Troy's Intro - Half-Earth Socialism "what does it look like to have an ecologically stable society... a good relationship with other beings on this planet and also to ensure a good life for everyone" - The Half-Earth Socialism computer game & maybe a future board-game 05:44 What's Real? - #Ecosocialism and #neoliberalism in conversation with each other - Growing up in a fairly conservative but non-religious household - Being a Young Tory, reading Milton Friedman - In early 20's "a crisis of faith in terms of this conservative worldview" due to the Iraq war and the 2008 financial crisis - Reading Marx and New Left Review - Exploring the environmental crisis - A sensitive child, then a toxic masculinity phase as a teenager (callous, eating meat, machismo), then, alongside the crisis of faith in conservatism, a wish to return to childhood passion for nature - Gravitating towards ecosocialism - Didn't "grow up with red diapers" (being brought up in a left wing family) so feeling inoculated as knows the political right very well as "I came from the right to the left" - #greenwashing measures "I wanted to understand where these ideas had come from... no one had done an intellectual history of these things" - Challenging the common leftist view that the right & neoliberalism doesn't have any real intellectual depth "I took it more seriously than most socialists" - "I thought the left should have more concrete ideas of their own... match the rigour of these conservative ones" - "'We'll figure it out after the revolution'... that's not enough" - Mother who ran for the Green party in elections - Not religious now - "Sceptical of thinking that there's one true path... one true way of relating to each other or to animals"... relativism, Kuhnian (paradigms)? - The neoliberal view of the market as the optimal information processor - Being rational but also appreciating the spiritual/subliminal/subjective? "that's why I'm a big bird watcher" - The "spark bird" that gets you into #birdwatching - #deleuze "Becoming animal" vs. #Haraway's notion of "becoming with" 17:50 What Matters? 27:33 Who Matters? 54:15 A Better World? 01:29:55 Follow Troy ...and much more. Full show notes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sentientism.info⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sentientism.info⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠"I'm a Sentientist" wall⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ via ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠this simple form⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. The biggest so far is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here on FaceBook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Come join us there! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sentientism/message

It's our 150th episode, our seventh anniversary, and someone's birthday! Charlotte and Beth rewatch one of their favourite episodes, The Rebel Set, with the short, Johnny at the Fair. They reminisce about visiting Chicago, Toronto, Winnipeg, the Canadian National Exhibition, and Hellzapoppin'.Show Notes.The Rebel Set (Gene Fowler Jr, 1959): MST3K Wiki. IMDb. Trailer.Johnny at the Fair (Jack Olsen, 1947): IMDb.Edward Platt might look familiar. (And of course, the other actor is Don Adams.)The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.Crow's itinerary (without Evanston). If he left off the ballpark, he could almost make it.The Art Institute of Chicago is worth spending well more than four hours in.Gurnee vs. Gurney.The Ren Faire in Kenosha.New baseball rules.The CNE is the Canadian National Exhibition, which is usually called The Ex.David Foster: Flight of the Snowbirds.Weirdly, we haven't done Earth vs. the Spider, Tormented, or Attack of the Giant Leeches, so stay tuned for our Summer of Gene Roth!You can hear Charlotte and Chris and friends talk about The Greatest Story Ever Told if you support us on Patreon.Carey Loftin, stunt driver.Charles Pachter, artist.The Journals of Susanna Moodie.The secret life of William Lyon Mackenzie King.(Beth's plot summary of Hellzapoppin' is slightly inaccurate, but not in any imporant way.)Duck Amuck.The Lindy Hop scene from Hellzapoppin'. Heck, if you search YouTube hard enough, you might find even more…Martha Raye for Polident.Our episode on I Was A Teenage Werewolf.Portland Exposé (Harold D. Schuster, 1957).Phil Stanford: Portland Confidential.Support us on Patreon and join us on our (ironically?) friendly Discord.

A special episode for you in the midst of the Fall Literary Festival Season! The wonderful poets Luke Hathaway and Alexandra Oliver recently appeared at Biblioasis Bookstore. Their publisher, Dan Wells introduces them. Episode edited for length. Enjoy these dynamic readings!Luke Hathaway is a trans poet, librettist, and theatre maker. His mythopoeic word-worlds have given rise to new choral works by Colin Labadie, James Rolfe, and Zachary Wadsworth, among others, and to the folk opera The Sign of Jonas, a collaboration with Benton Roark. He is the author of four books of poems, one of which (Years, Months, and Days, 2018) was named a Best Book of the Year in the New York Times. He works with Daniel Cabena as part of the metamorphosing ensemble ANIMA to create and commission new works inspired by early music sources.He teaches creative writing and English literature at Saint Mary's University in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. He also appeared at BookFest / Festival du Livre Windsor in October, 2022. http://biblioasis.com/brand/hathaway-luke/Alexandra Oliver was born in Vancouver, BC. She is the author of three collections published through Biblioasis: Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (2013; recipient of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award), Let the Empire Down ( 2016), and Hail, the Invisible Watchman (2022). Her libretto for From the Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, conceived in conjunction with composer Scott Wilson at the University of Birmingham, was performed by Continuum Music in Toronto in December, 2017. Oliver is a past co-editor of Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Everyman's Library/Random House, 2015) as well as of the formalist journal The Rotary Dial. She has performed her work for CBC Radio and NPR, as well as at The National Poetry Slam and a murder of festivals and conferences. Oliver holds an M.F.A in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast program and a Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University. She lives in Burlington, Ontario with her husband and son.http://biblioasis.com/brand/oliver-alexandra/

Today's episode consists of two segments. The first is an address by Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, marking three years of war for Canada. It first aired over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on September 10, 1942. Our second segment is an interview with then-Senator Harry Truman, broadcast over KMBC this week in 1942. At this point, Truman was still more than two years away from winning election as Franklin Roosevelt's third and final vice president. Be sure to visit our website at BrickPickleMedia.com/podcasts, where you can find links to past episodes, as well as the books featured in our podcasts. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/worldwar2radio/support

This was a big year for Canada's history. Alexander Graham Bell told his father about his telephone invention in Brantford, the NWMP began their legendary March West, and Treaty 4 was signed. On top of that, there was a federal election and the year saw the birth of two prime ministers, Arthur Meighen and William Lyon Mackenzie King. Boris Fundraiser: https://gofund.me/e2b58b58 Sublime Lime: https://www.sublimelime.ca/canadaehx Support: patreon.com/canadaehx Donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/craigU Donate: canadaehx.com (Click Donate) E-mail: craig@canadaehx.com Twitter: twitter.com/craigbaird Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cdnhistoryehx YouTube: youtube.com/c/canadianhistoryehx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode explores whether Canada already had its first gay Prime Minister, but missed them. In Canada's capital, there's a romantic statue of Sir Galahad on Parliament Hill. It was created in 1905 by then future prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, in memory of a heroic act by his dearest friend. Former MP, Bill Siksay, Canada's first openly gay man elected to parliament, spills some tea about the late prime minister. 

This week on the show, Hamilton local Wayne MacPhail interviews rabble contributor and fellow Hamilton-area local Doreen Nicoll about what she sees as the threat of urban sprawl in Hamilton, Ontario. On November 9, Hamilton City Council held a meeting to discuss whether or not to expand its urban boundary onto the surrounding farmland and the final vote will take place November 19. That farmland is squished between the current urban boundary and the Greenbelt, but is not protected. There are a number of factors at play, including the lack of affordable housing in the city, the erasure of prime farmland, and, as with anything else, the climate crisis.  IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Yesterday, November 11 was Remembrance Day, of course. Here at rabble.ca, we featured some coverage that is worth reading beyond just one day. Our own national politics reporter Stephen Wentzell wrote about the military's discriminatory history against queer folks, urging us to think about our veterans as having had intersectional identities and complex relationships with their fellow service members, the governments they served and the enemies they fought.  Ottawa writer Morgan Duchesney delves into how it's most often the working class that ends up going to war, and the upper classes that end up in politics. Our veterans, especially our wounded veterans, deserve better. "Poppies remind me that wars are fought by working people who are often discarded when their courage is no longer required," writes Duchesney. Finally, Darrell Rankin wrote about the importance of remembering the Mac-Paps. That's the nickname for the Mackenzie-Papineau battalion, which, in 1937 through 1939, fought fascism in Spain for the International Brigades -- an effort closely associated with the Communist Party. Those volunteers went to join the fight in Spain illegally, against the wishes of then-prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. When they returned, they were ostracized. Many faced discrimination and lost their jobs. All were denied official recognition as veterans, meaning there were no health benefits or military pensions available to them.  Also on the site this week:  Karl Nerenberg looks at the results from the municipal elections throughout Quebec, which concluded on November 7, and sees hope for progressives across the country. A record number of young people and women were elected, and five of the ten largest Quebec cities are now led by women, he notes. Nerenberg sees the re-instalment of Valérie Plante as mayor of Montreal as a victory not just for her, but for her party, Projet Montreal, and the progressive, grassroots movement it spawned from.  Politics in our time can be excruciatingly transactional, especially at the local level. Municipal leaders often focus intently on satisfying the narrow interests of powerful groups, particularly developers. The municipal administrations of Ottawa and Toronto are textbooks examples of that approach, writes Nerenberg. They should be taking notes.  Columnist Rachel Snow spilled some ink on the site this week as she examined the settler-colonial concept of "progress" and its detrimental relationship with First Nations. Are First Nations moving forward? If Canadians want the truth, Snow writes, they will have to understand that the way forward for First Nations people must come from the actual voices of all the First Nation people. We are still waiting to talk. Finally, Brent Patterson writes about the need for the federal government to consider the emissions of the fighter jets it is working to acquire before it signs any contracts. This, especially in the wake of calls at COP26 for military emissions to be included when countries are discussing CO2 targets. As it stands, all the fuel they burn running jets, tanks and the like just… doesn't exist, as far as many nations' CO2 emissions measurements go.  I'm your host, Chelsea Nash. Thanks for tuning in and we'll talk next week! Thanks to our producer Breanne Doyle, Wayne MacPhail and guest Doreen Nicoll. Thanks to Karl Nerenberg for the music, and all the journalists and writers who contributed to this week's content on rabble.ca.  Photo: Rick Cordeiro (Creative Commons)

Diving into the idea... should we encourage kids to talk to their imaginary friends. Did this encouragement lead to the spiritualism of a former Canadian Prime Minister, or what it growing up in the most haunted house in Toronto? With personal ghost stories happening to kids, featuring one theme... they accept ghosts as normal. Picture... William Lyon Mackenzie King with a psychic named Etta Wriedt

Sam and Garth from the Crackdown Podcast join Riley and Dan to discuss the history, politics, and sociology of Canada's War on Drugs, and how the whole enterprise began in 1908 when Prime-Minister-To-Be and part time mystic William Lyon Mackenzie King filled in some forms. It's an extra big topic so it's an extra long episode! Check out our Patreon www.patreon.com/dabottlemen 

In episode 101 Carly and Cecilia are tackling a theme near and dear to their hearts, somewhere they've recently visited together that is well in their wheelhouse, the area they both lived for half a decade: the Ottawa Valley. Join the gals as Cecilia shares the wacky and wild tales of Canada's longest serving prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King who was lots of relatively boring things to Ottawa, but his eccentric estate in Gatineau Park helps shed a bit of light on his secretly spooky endeavours. Then, Carly hops aboard ya'll's favourite mode of transpo to tell the ghostly tale of yet another great Canadian railway hotel, this time in the heart of the capital's downtown, the Chateau Laurier. The gals are back to basics so far for this next hundred and they're LOVING it. Oh, and on September 20, 2021 don't forget to VOTE Canada!  

I am releasing 36 straight days of podcast episodes about every election in Canadian history in honour of the new election. For the subsequent episodes in that series, make sure to subscribe to From John to Justin. The last election for William Lyon Mackenzie King as leader of the Liberals, it would come only one month after the Second World War finished. While many expected the Liberals to cruise to a massive majority, the end result surprised many. E-mail: craig@canadaehx.com

I am releasing 36 straight days of podcast episodes about every election in Canadian history in honour of the new election. For the subsequent episodes in that series, make sure to subscribe to From John to Justin. With The Conservatives failing to make good on the promises from the 1930 campaign, William Lyon Mackenzie King would win a landslide victory in 1935, and begin 22 years in power for the Liberal Party, and 13 straight years as Prime Minister for himself. E-mail: craig@canadaehx.com

A doctor, decorated First World War veteran and a former Liberal turned Conservative, Dr. Robert Manion was respected for his intelligence and fiery House of Commons speeches. Serving as party leader from 1938 to 1940, he led the party into the Second World War. Upon his death, his rival, William Lyon Mackenzie King, would be a pallbearer at his funeral. Support: www.patreon.com/canadaehx Donate: www.canadaehx.com E-mail: craig@canadaehx.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/craigbaird Instagram: @Bairdo37 YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/canadianhistoryehx  

In between the decades-long leaderships of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and William Lyon Mackenzie King, there is Daniel Duncan McKenzie, who served for only a few months in between in 1919. While his time was short, he was the bridge between these leaders. As well, from the municipal, to the provincial, to the federal levels, he never once lost an election.  Support: www.patreon.com/canadaehx Donate: www.canadaehx.com E-mail: craig@canadaehx.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/craigbaird Instagram: @Bairdo37 YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/canadianhistoryehx  

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A surrealist take on the formative years of William Lyon Mackenzie King. The post Matthew Rankin – The Twentieth Century #VilniusFilmFestival appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

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He served as prime minister for almost 22 years, more than anyone else in our history. He guided Canada through the last part of The Great Depression and through the Second World War. Despite all that, William Lyon Mackenzie King continues to be a reclusive, often overlooked person from our history.  Today, I explore his life and career.  Support the show for $3/month+ at www.patreon.com/canadaehx or donate at www.canadaehx.com E-mail: craig@canadaehx.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/canadianhistoryehx Twitter: www.twitter.com/craigbaird Instagram: @bairdo37 YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/canadianhistoryehx  

Join us this week as we learn about one of our previous Canadian Prime Minister's, William Lyon Mackenzie King. Warning Spooks: he was into some weird things! We will discuss conspiracy theories, stories of him dabbling in some strange things, and may even learn about how King was a bit of a racist.Resources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_Kinghttps://occult-world.com/william-lyon-mackenzie-king/https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/81982/canadas-longest-serving-prime-minister-might-have-been-its-strangesthttps://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/05/07/putting-mackenzie-king-on-freuds-couch.html?rf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jim Dean is the Creative Director of The Haunted Walk, a ghost tour company that operates in three cities in Canada: Kingston, Ottawa, and Toronto. During Spooky Season, he contacted me about trying The Haunting at Home Paranormal Adventure. I did it with a couple of friends and had a blast! Now the results are in. I was dying to know about one in particular: The majority of experiments, 74%, were conducted in a house or townhouse. 23% took place in an apartment or a condo. However, regardless of where the experiment was conducted, whether it was a house or an apartment, the percentage of groups reporting activity was the same: 67%. What was up with that? I said if I got a chance to ask him, I would...so I did! But we also had a chance to also talk about The Haunted Walk and other activities they offer --or will again once this pandemic gets under control. Among the other things we talked about was how The Haunting at Home is based on something they do on ghost hunts in haunted places. Including the Laurier House, where they also hold seances like a former Canadian Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, did when he lived in the house. Jim likened it to a real-life Haunted Mansion, and that was all it took. I was sold. Covid Be Gone! I need to take a trip to Canada and see this place for myself! He also shared a ghost story involving two of the Haunted Walk's tour guides and an apparition at the Black Creek Pioneer Villag. One of the guides and a tour goer saw the woman in period clothing on the boardwalk up ahead of them, but the other guest and guide did not. I also got a chance to ask him about the Virtual Haunted Campfires they also did during Spooky Season, which I thought was really clever and collaborative. Jim is a phenomenal (and humble) storyteller. It was a great privilege to talk with him. If you previously weren't familiar with Jim before this, you can also hear him on the podcast he hosts: Haunted Talks. Guest Info To learn more, visit: https://hauntedwalk.com/. Want more Haunt Jaunts? Jaunt with us online anytime at HauntJaunts.net or socially on Instagram. Host & Guide: Courtney Mroch, Ambassador of Dark & Paranormal Tourism Music: Phantom from Space by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4210-phantom-from-space License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Some Amount of Evil" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Patrice Dutil examines the politics of war in Canada with the noted historian Jack the author of Canada at War: Conscription, Diplomacy and Politics (University of Toronto Press). Granatstein reflects on his long career as a political historian. He discusses his changes of heart on conscription and his focus on William Lyon Mackenzie King. He also reveals his thoughts on the writing of Canadian history and its lessons and how Canada evolved particularly as a result of its participation in two world wars. This podcast was produced by Jessica Schmidt.

What were the favourite foods of the leaders of the Second World War? We look at the fuel that kept the leaders of history's biggest conflict going. America's leader ran on bread pudding and grilled cheese sandwiches. Winston Churchill didn't like marmalade but enjoyed pineapple with his parrot and Sole Champeaux! Charles DeGaulle liked a little champagne with his mimolette. Australia's leader, Jack Curtin, loved a nice shepherd's pie and New Zealand's Peter Fraser seems to run on a lot of hot buttered toast and tea! Canada's leader was William Lyon Mackenzie King... when he wasn't conversing with his dead dog he liked to, we're not sure all we know is one of his fave foods was fruit cake. Enough said.

Canada Day has arrived again, and the occasion has led us to explore the depths of Matthew Rankin's The Twentieth Century: a film Rankin describes as being "one part Canadian Heritage Minute and one part ayahuasca death trip." The Twentieth Century is a fictionalized and hyper stylized look at the early political career of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's longest-serving Prime Minister. It's a portrait of sexual repression and our relationship to empire, the irreality of Canada, and the idiosyncrasies of this beautiful man. André Goulet, host of Unpacking the News, joins us for this crossover event discussing Canadian identity, film, and strangeness. ReComradations:André: Berlin by Jason LutesAbdul: Essex County by Jeff LemireEvan: Green Lantern: Earth One Vol. 1 by Gabriel Hardman & Corrina BechkoLaura: Blowback Podcast Listen to Unpacking the NewsCheck out the other shows on the Ricochet network of podcastsJoin the Kino Lefter DiscordAccess our premium weekly show Primo Lefter for just $3/month on our Patreon

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Actor Dan Beirne (Great Great Great, Workin’ Moms, White Lie) just won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for his performance as William Lyon Mackenzie King in Matthew Rankin’s absurdist history The Twentieth Century. He’s here to talk about Monrovia, Indiana and the observational documentary cinema of Frederick Wiseman. Your genial host Norm Wilner is keen to see … Continue reading Dan Beirne on Monrovia, Indiana →

Episode 080 - The tenth Prime Minister of Canada, William Lyon MacKenzie King, was instrumental in Canada's growth from a mere British colony to an independent nation within the Commonwealth. He saw the country through World War 2 and helped to create some of the social policies that continue to make Canada one of the greatest countries in the world to live. MacKenzie King had his dark side too as is evidenced in his extensive diaries. His government oversaw the internment of 22,000+ who were either Canadians with Japanese heritage or Japanese nationals. His thoughts and decisions based on racial ideals will be shocking to some. King's beliefs in the after life and spiritualist practices are probably the most bizarre. Driven by loneliness, Canada's longest serving Prime Minister believed he was able to communicate with the spirits of dead relatives, in particular his mother. He also claimed to have interacted with the spirits of other dead politicians, Leonardo da Vinci and even his own deceased dog. Photo Credit / Mention de source : Paul Horsdal. Library and Archives Canada, C-055544 Sources: Wikipedia - William Lyon MacKenzie King Library and Archives Canada - Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King Diary Entry - MacKenzie King meets Adolph Hitler Harper Memorial (Sir Galahad) Video - From the Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King (2017) OpenTextBC article on Japanese Internment in Canada Japanese Canadian Internment | Narrated by David Suzuki Mental Floss - Was Canada's Longest-Serving PM Also Its Strangest? Book - King: William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny Book - Unbuttoned: A History of Mackenzie King's Secret Life Support the show.

For many Canadians, Charlotte Gray hardly needs an introduction. She is one of this country’s most loved authors and historians. For a quarter century she has delighted her readers with non-fiction histories that delve into often unexamined corners of Canadian history, revealing characters, places and moments in time that help explain this country. Her works have covered such diverse subjects as 19th century pioneers Susannah Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill, First Nations poet Pauline Johnson, and the mother of William Lyon MacKenzie King, and have won more awards than we can list here. She is a member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society. She’s also an explorer who believes in travelling to the places that were important to her subjects in order to better understand them. “You can’t ever write true biography or history without experiencing the landscape and seeing how it must have shaped people’s behaviour,” she says.

Marmalade on toast -- hot or cold? This month, we get into the fascinating world of marginalia in cookbooks - the practice of adding and editing recipes in your cookbooks and recipe cards, and clipping recipes from newspapers, magazines, and sharing recipes in a collection. We also brew up some sunshine, in the form of tangy, bittersweet marmalade! Steph discovers some charming notes in Mackenzie King's diaries about marmalade and his affirmations as a young person ("Make this a good month"), while Torey looks at the complicated history of scribbled notes in the margins of recipe books everywhere. What we're obsessed with in history Steph: Rediscovering the Nancy Drew video games of her youth. (For the article Torey mentioned in response: The Case of the Disappearing Nancy Drew Video Games) Torey: Her great-aunt Mary's recipe book, chock-full of marginalia. Your browser does not support the audio element. Thanks for listening! Find us online: Instagram @fashionablyateshow Facebook and Pinterest @fashionablyate Email us at fashionablyateshow@gmail.com Check our facts: Fashion Invention twice-over: The use of marginalia in recipe books by Rhiannon Scarnhorst, The Gallimaufry Project The Marginal Obsession with Marginalia by Mark O'Connell, The New Yorker "What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around In The Text" by Sam Anderson, The New York Times Magazine Navigating a New Domesticity: Women, Marginalia, and Cookbooks by Rachel A. Snell, The Recipes Project Food Eat marmalade on cold toast, says scientist by Harry Wallop, The Telegraph Parks Canada Heritage Gourmet Recipes: Orange Marmalade Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, at Library and Archives Canada 2017 Culinary Historians of Canada Mad for Marmalade

Alex Huntley is a writer and editor for The Beaverton, Canada's foremost source of satirical news, as well as co-author of The Beaverton Presents Glorious and/or Free: The True History of Canada. Alex joins Ben for a fascinating, wide-ranging and provocative conversation about how he got his start in comedy writing, the purpose of satire, the danger as well as opportunity of fake news, and why William Lyon Mackenzie King is the one person he'd like to chat with (maybe through a séance). About the Guest Alex Huntley is an editor and senior writer with The Beaverton. Born and raised in Niagara, he earned a BA with Honours in politics and history and a Master’s in Public Administration from Queen’s University, and has an expired basic first aid certificate from the distinguished school of St. John’s Ambulance. Since joining The Beaverton in 2012, this government policy analyst turned comedy writer has expanded the publication’s presence in Canada by living in Montreal, Whitehorse, and exotic Winnipeg while recruiting local writers. Having a love affair with Canadian history since childhood, he created The Beaverton’s Moments in Canadian History in 2013. Writing a book satirizing the nation’s story is a dream come true. He lives with his wife in Kingston. Learn more about Alex and follow him on Twitter.

Canadian Prime Ministers: they're just like us! In this episode, Emily talks about William Lyon Mackenzie King and his straight-up bizarre-o secret life, and Britt takes a look at John A. MacDonald and the rampant alcoholism that helped found this country of ours! Plus, Hitler comes up a bunch!

William Lyon Mackenzie King was Canada’s longest serving prime minister. He is also increasingly viewed as one of the greatest. However, King’s accomplishments are not restricted to the realm of politics. He was also a prolific correspondent and kept an ongoing, almost daily diary from 1893, until a few days before his death in 1950. In it, King not only wrote down meticulous accounts of his life in politics, but also included fascinating details from his private life. On today’s episode, we talk with professor and author Christopher Dummitt, whose latest book details the history behind the diaries and how they became available for the world to read.

William Lyon Mackenzie King est le premier ministre du Canada qui est demeuré le plus longtemps en poste. De plus en plus, on s’entend aussi pour dire qu’il fut l’un des plus grands premiers ministres de notre histoire. Les réalisations de King ne se sont pas limitées au domaine de la politique. Correspondant prolifique, il a aussi tenu un journal presque quotidien, de 1893 jusqu’aux jours ayant précédé sa mort en 1950. King y fait un compte rendu minutieux de sa vie en politique, en plus d’y consigner des détails fascinants sur sa vie personnelle. Dans l’épisode d’aujourd’hui, nous discutons avec Christopher Dummitt, professeur et auteur dont le plus récent livre raconte l’histoire de ce journal et de sa publication.

William Lyon Mackenzie King is back, and this time, we're talking about his seances with dead dogs, his strange feelings for Hitler, and his true, patriot love of lying to Quebec. Also listen as Jessica describes her trouble with faces, and Janel single-handedly disqualifies herself from ever becoming the Governor General of Canada.

In the first episode of FF&F ever actually recorded, we take a look at some of the bizarre people chosen to govern over Canada's endless acres of snow. In particular, we're talking about the life of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Did he erect a gigantic statue on parliament hill to honour his fallen gay lover? Probably. Probably yes.

He’s been called boring, a waffler, and a kook. But William Lyon Mackenzie King is also the longest serving Canadian prime minister. And there’s no denying that under his leadership, Canada was transformed from a minor player in the British Empire into a modern middle power, with great influence on the world stage. He’s also the history idol of historian Jack Granatstein who gives us a list of reasons to support his position in this podcast interview with Canada's History editor-in-chief Mark Reid.