Patrice Dutil

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Recent work

• Patrice Dutil: Quebec's next lieutenant governor should be a soldier, not a symbolOpinion · National Post · Oct 25, 2026
• Patrice Dutil: Mark Carney has to finish the job on Senate reformOpinion · National Post · Jul 20, 2026
• Patrice Dutil: Champlain statue removal an embarrassment for the countryOpinion · National Post · Jun 22, 2026
• Patrice Dutil: Mackenzie King's power was in his pragmatismOpinion · National Post · Oct 29, 2025
• Patrice Dutil: What Toronto loses with the naming of Sankofa SquareOpinion · National Post · Aug 15, 2025
• Patrice Dutil: Ryerson's toppled statue should be restored at Queen's ParkOpinion · National Post · Jun 9, 2025
• Patrice Dutil: By renaming schools, TDSB is playing into Donald Trump's handsOpinion · National Post · Feb 24, 2025
• Opinion: Montreal's Sir John A. Macdonald statue should be put backOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Feb 15, 2023
• Patrice Dutil: Six ways to erase Sir John A. Macdonald in time for his 208th birthdayOpinion · National Post · Jan 12, 2023
• Rogues, rebels and reformists: A guide to the s--t disturbers in Canadian historyOpinion · National Post · Dec 28, 2022
• Rogues, rebels and reformists: A guide to the s--t disturbers in Canadian historyOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Dec 27, 2022
• Rogues, rebels and reformists: A guide to the s--t disturbers in Canadian historyOpinion · Montreal Gazette · Dec 27, 2022
• Rogues, rebels and reformists: A guide to the s--t disturbers in Canadian historyOpinion · Edmonton Journal · Dec 27, 2022
• Rogues, rebels and reformists: A guide to the s--t disturbers in Canadian historyOpinion · Calgary Herald · Dec 27, 2022
• Opinion | How King Charles III can reinvent the crown for the 21st centuryOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 16, 2022
• Patrice Dutil: Erasing Ryerson, and the Henry Dundas hoaxOpinion · National Post · Apr 27, 2022
• Patrice Dutil: When Canada lost its training wheelsOpinion · National Post · Dec 11, 2021
• DUTIL: Sir John A's defenders are fighting backOpinion · Toronto Sun · Feb 4, 2021
• How Queen’s Park lopped off Macdonald’s headOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 12, 2020
• Canada’s ‘Doomsday Election’ of Dec. 17, 1917Opinion · Toronto Star · Dec 14, 2017
• Opinion | Canada’s ‘Doomsday Election’ of Dec. 17, 1917Opinion · Toronto Star · Dec 13, 2017
• Without a referendum, electoral reform is unconstitutionalOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Jun 22, 2016
• Toronto needs political partiesOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 12, 2016
• Toronto needs political partiesOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 12, 2016
• The Trudeau government’s arrogant approach to electoral reformOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 8, 2015
• The Trudeau government’s arrogant approach to electoral reformOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 8, 2015
• Toronto should dare to remember Sir John A.Opinion · Toronto Star · Feb 17, 2014
• Toronto should dare to remember Sir John A.Opinion · Toronto Star · Feb 17, 2014
• Opinion | Toronto should dare to remember Sir John A.Opinion · Toronto Star · Feb 17, 2014
• We should be driving on ‘Sir John A. Macdonald Avenue’Opinion · Toronto Star · Dec 28, 2013
• We should be driving on ‘Sir John A. Macdonald Avenue’Opinion · Toronto Star · Dec 28, 2013
• History shows Liberals can surviveOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 18, 2011
• History shows Liberals can surviveOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 17, 2011
• When Brûlé dipped his paddle into historyOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 15, 2011
• When Brûlé dipped his paddle into historyOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 15, 2011
• The great fiscal imbalance debate . . . of 1906Opinion · The Globe and Mail · Mar 16, 2009