Joanne Archibald

Oct 22, 2024 | thehub.ca | Andrew Parkes |Joanne Archibald

We’re alarmed at the frustration building amongst young people living in Canada. Whether it’s Canadian history, politics, housing, or health care, it seems many people view problems at home as too insurmountable to solve and use phrases like “the country is falling apart” or “our country is broken.” So, what is it about life in Canada right now that has people so upset?

Jun 27, 2024 | thehub.ca | Sean Speer |Joanne Archibald

My former boss, think-tank entrepreneur Brian Lee Crowley, used to say that ideas are the most powerful thing in the world. If you can implant an idea in people’s minds, you can shape the unfolding of history. Today we’re living through a period of intellectual tumult—a moment when history seems up for grabs.

Dec 12, 2023 | thehub.ca | Joanne Archibald

Twenty-five years ago, historian Jack Granatstein warned in his controversial yet important book, Who Killed Canadian History?, that political history was being marginalized in academic circles in favour of what he characterized as “new” and “particularistic histories” defined by class, ethnicity, gender, and region. As someone studying political history a quarter century later, I can attest that the trends that he observed have only intensified.

Oct 31, 2023 | chatelaine.com | Joanne Archibald

If you’ve ever tried online dating, you may have experienced the phenomenon of meeting someone who didn’t quite look like their pictures. Maybe they grew a beard or started wearing glasses. Perhaps they looked significantly older than their photos. For me, the difference was my hair. It was much shorter, darker and curlier than my photos—because of the chemotherapy required to cure my body of stage four cancer.