Minerva’s owl spreads its wings on Stephen Harper’s last gasp of the British monarchy in Canada ..
Feb 18th, 2011 | By Counterweights Editors | Category: Canadian RepublicOnce upon a time, the near-great economic historian Harold Innis began his 1947 “Minerva’s Owl” Presidential Address to the Royal Society of Canada with: “I have taken the title from that striking sentence of Hegel ‘Minerva’s owl begins its flight only in the gathering dusk…’” As much more recently explained by Lauren O’Nizzle, “a 20-something […]
