Birthday parties are usually good fun.
  But history not so much.
    History is written by the winners in the blood of the losers. Yes, in Canada as well, Virginia.
At the behest of their corporate and government paymasters, spindoctor historians are always busy keeping the past prominently in our minds; because those who control the past control the future.
  History repeats itself first as tragedy then as farce.
  In the lifetime of baby boomers, Nixon's Vietnam War was the history; Dubya Bush's Iraq War was the tragedy; Trump's Middle East wars against terrorism are the farce.

If there's really six more months of this celebration remaining, let's honour Canada by giving it a great big present.
  Let's put the historians back where they belong - in stuffy high school classrooms - and get on with progressive, inclusive democracy - before we are again stopped by history.