{"id":13974,"date":"2016-02-07T16:45:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T21:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=13974"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:53:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:53:29","slug":"talk-by-carleton-grad-featured-in-globe-and-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2016\/talk-by-carleton-grad-featured-in-globe-and-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk by Carleton Grad featured in Globe and Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Talk by Carleton Grad featured in Globe and Mail\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>David Tough&#8217;s recent talk about Parliament&#8217;s sojourn in the Victoria Memorial Museum (now the Museum of Nature) from 1916 to 1920 fills a column by Roy MacGregor in the Globe and Mail. &nbsp;He writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>On Thursday evening, the Victoria Memorial Museum, now known as the Canadian Museum of Nature, held a lecture by David Tough, who grew up not far from the museum and currently teaches political science at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dr. Tough\u2019s talk, \u201cThe Parliamentary Fire and Modern Politics,\u201d argues that \u201cthe origins of modern politics\u201d were found in the museum. Parties organized on a left-right spectrum, universal suffrage gained a foothold and, of course, the first income tax was levied.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In Dr. Tough\u2019s opinion \u2013 and contrary to any thought currently going through your mind \u2013 income taxation was warmly welcomed and cheered by the citizens of Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIt was a time of intense political upheavals of the First World War,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd there was definitely big change for Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThere was a shift in the power relationships between the elite \u2013 the lawyers and businessmen who were representing the Liberals and Conservatives in Parliament \u2013 and the people. Power shifted to women and to workers and to farmers, and through the course of the Depression and the Second World War those changes would come to full fruition. That\u2019s when we established modern politics, the belief that politics is of the common person and that governments should help people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the rest in t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/in-a-museum-among-fossils-the-birth-of-modern-canadian-politics\/article28627129\/\">he Globe and Mail.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Tough&#8217;s recent talk about Parliament&#8217;s sojourn in the Victoria Memorial Museum (now the Museum of Nature) from 1916 to 1920 fills a column by Roy MacGregor in the Globe and Mail. &nbsp;He writes: On Thursday evening, the Victoria Memorial Museum, now known as the Canadian Museum of Nature, held a lecture by David Tough, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13993,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974\/revisions\/13993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}