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Canada is Cleansing the Historical Record – ‘cuz Bits of It Might Offend People

Canada’s Chief Archivist has embarked on a mission to remove everything offensive from Canada’s historical archives. And yes, she gets to decide.

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Even Winston Smith may lose his job

  While I hate using Wikileaks as an information source, they got this one pretty much right.  In the novel and, later, the movie “1984”, “Winston Smith works as a clerk in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to rewrite historical documents so they match the constantly changing current … Read more

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