The notebook of the end of June

History-schmistory; Hedda Who; Leech gone from the COC

As regular readers will know, Toronto’s History Museums are a bottomless source of fascination for this newsletter. (Some of you will remember that last winter I wrote about the history museums pretzeling themselves in order to avoid using the word “Christmas” in their end of December programs, with some absurd results.) I didn’t really expect that they would avoid the word “Canada” on Canada Day 2024 — our large cultural institutions have been there, done that, 2020-2022—but I didn’t expect them to have regular, guilt-free Canada Day programming either.