
What kind of country keeps its founder in a box?
At Queen’s Park, the seat of Ontario’s government in Toronto, a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, a father of Confederation and Canada’s first prime minister, stands boarded up on all sides, hidden from the public.
The boards went up after protesters vandalized the statue, blaming Macdonald for the establishment of the residential school system for Indigenous children. They have remained there for the past four years – so long that rodents began using the box as a home.




Ontario politics in recent weeks has played out as something like a real-time satire of itself, with the Latent Methodist Brigade still insisting Premier Doug Ford’s plans for the demon liquor will lead us all to untold poverty and perdition. The news this week has only made them more upset: Japanese convenience store empire 7-Eleven will open licensed areas in 58 of its 59 stores in Ontario, in which you can enjoy an alcoholic drink with your hot dog, nachos or chicken nuggets. The company says it’ll 


Canadian officials say they are working with Swiss authorities in the case of a Canadian who has been arrested in that country on suspicion of spying for China.




