Reviews
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Liberal Baggage
A review of When the Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada by Peter C. Newman
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Nuremberg’s Forgotten Doppelganger
A review of The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany by Tomaz Jardim
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Fossil Policies
A review of The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin, Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate and Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects by Vaclav Smil and Catching a Rising Tide: A Western Energy Vision for Canada by Sheila O’Brien and Shawna Ritchie
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Persuasive Posters
A review of Selling Canada: The Story Behind Three Great National Campaigns by Daniel Francis
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Reporting the Future
A review of Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson
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The Complications of Colour
A review of The Tinsmith by Tim Bowling
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The Enigmatic Monarch
A review of The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak
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Unchartered Waters
A review of Where To From Here? Keeping Medicare Sustainable by Stephen Duckett
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Kill the Kids Menu
A review of Outside the Box: Why Our Children Need Real Food, Not Food Products by Jeannie Marshall
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The Book of Hours
A review of The Siesta and the Midnight Sun: How Our Bodies Experience Time by Jessa Gamble
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Great War, Great Warriors?
A review of For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War by Timothy Winegard
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The Very Model of a Modern Governor General
A review of The Golden Age of Liberalism: A Portrait of Roméo LeBlanc by Naomi E.S. Griffiths
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What Happened to Russia
A review of The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy by Metta Spencer
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Winnipeg's Sacred Monster
A review of A Fiery Soul: The Life and Theatrical Times of John Hirsch by Fraidie Martz and Andrew Wilson
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Human Capital
A review of A Season in Hell: My 130 Days in the Sahara with Al Queda, by Robert R. Fowler, Under an Afghan Sky: A Memoir of Captivity, by Mellissa Fung and Captivity: 118 Days in Iraq and the Struggle for a World Without War, by James Loney
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Click to Judge
A review of The Reputation Society: How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World, edited by Hassan Masum and Mark Tovey
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Comedy Between the Covers
A review of Air Farce: 40 Years of Flying by the Seat of Our Pants, by Don Ferguson and Roger Abbott, and Picnicface's Canada, by Picnicface
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Who Controls North America?
A review of Dependent America? How Canada and Mexico Construct U.S. Power, by Stephen Clarkson and Matto Mildenberger
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Ottawa's Rising Firewall
A review of New Directions for Intelligent Government in Canada: Papers in Honour of Ian Stewart, by Fred Gorbet and Andrew Sharpe, editors
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Vomit, Blood and Folly
A review of Mongrel, by Marko Sijan
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The Jamaican Dilemma
A review of Dancing Lessons, by Olive Senior
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Citizen Khadr
A review of The Enemy Within: Terror, Lies and the Whitewashing of Omar Khadr, by Ezra Levant
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Determined Mavericks
A review of Shoot it! Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film, by David Spaner
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Building Forests
A review of Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, by Charlotte Gill
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The Rights of Animals
A review of Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights, by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka
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The Promise and Glory of Stem Cells
A review of Dreams and Due Diligence: Till and McCulloch's Stem Cell Discovery and Legacy, by Joe Scornberger
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High-Tech Hopes for Global Health
A review of The Grandest Challenge: Taking Life-Saving Science from Lab to Village, by Abdallah Daar and Peter Singer
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The Man Who Invented Comedy
A review of Mack Sennett's Fun Factory, by Brent E. Walker
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Does Great Plumbing Make Great Cities?
A review of The Evolution of Great World Cities: Urban Wealth and Economic Growth, by Christopher Kennedy
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Not for the Faint of Heart
A review of Something About the Animal, by Cathy Stonehouse
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Descent into Hell
A review of Into That Darkness, by Steven Price
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Haiti's Constant Sorrows
A review of Fixing Haiti: MINUSTAH and Beyond, edited by Jorge Heine and Andrew S. Thompson, Haiti after the Earthquake, edited by Paul Farmer, and Haiti: A Shattered Nation, by Elizabeth Abbott
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Impolite Companies
A review of Committing Theatre: Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada, by Alan Filewod
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His Master's Voice
A review of Reflections on Liszt, by Alan Walker
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A Right to Clean Air?
A review of The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights and the Environment, by David R. Boyd
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Confederation's Martyr
A review of Thomas D’Arcy McGee: The Extreme Moderate, 1857–1868, by David A. Wilson
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The Politics of Return
A review of No Return, No Refuge: Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation, by Howard Adelman and Elazar Barkan
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Lessons Unlearned
A review of Fearmonger: Stephen Harper’s Tough-on-Crime Agenda, by Paula Mallea
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Healing Troubled Minds
A review of The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow and Mass Society, by Ian Dowbiggin
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The Afghan Decade
A review of The Long Way Back: Afghanistan's Quest for Peace, by Chris Alexander, and Come from the Shadows: The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan, by Terry Glavin
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A Very Modern Pandemic
A review of The Origins of AIDS, by Jacques Pepin
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The New Bogeymen
A review of Gangland: The Rise of the Mexican Drug Cartels From El Paso to Vancouver, by Jerry Langton
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Artistic Autocrat
A review of The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca, by Carol Bishop-Gwyn
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Endearing Assassins
A review of Patrick deWitt's The Sisters Brothers
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Dubai Glitz to Hardware Retail
A review of David Penhale's Passing Through
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The Pierre We Hardly Knew
A review of Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965, Volume Two, by Monique and Max Nemni, translated by George Tombs
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Up in the Air
A review of Diplomacy in the Digital Age: Essays in Honour of Ambassador Allan Gotlieb, edited by Janice Gross Stein
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Love and Marriage Canadian-Style
A review of Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900-1930, by Dan Azoulay
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The Ties that Bind
A review of Rebecca Kingston's Public Passion: Rethinking the Grounds for Political Justice
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Heroism and Villainy
A review of Heroes of the Acadian Resistance: The Story of Joseph Beausoleil Broussard and Pierre II Suette, 1702-1765, by Dianne Marshall
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Full Steam Ahead?
A review of The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy, by Chris Turner
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Waves of Contempt
A review of A Matter of Principle, by Conrad Black
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It’s Not Easy Being Green
A review of The Legacy: An Elder’s Vision for Our Sustainable Future, by David Suzuki, and Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change, by William Marsden
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Running on the Knife’s Edge
A review of Dogs at the Perimeter, by Madeleine Thien
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Homegrown Fascism
A review of The Canadian Führer: The Life of Adrien Arcand, by Jean-François Nadeau. Translated by Bob Chodos, Eric Hamovitch and Susan Joanis
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Joy in Battle
A review of This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge, by Tzeporah Berman with Mark Leiren-Young
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Memoir as Utopia
A review of The Moral Lives of Israelis: Reinventing the Dream State, by David Berlin
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Wilful Blindness
A review of Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great Forests, by Andrew Nikiforuk
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Doing as the Romans Do
A review of Imperial Republics: Revolution, War and Territorial Expansion from the English Civil War to the French Revolution, by Edward G. Andrew
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Blissful History
A review of Writing History: A Professor’s Life, by Michael Bliss
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Searching for the Ideal City
A review of Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder, by Ken Greenberg
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Funny, Sad and True
A review of The Antagonist, by Lynn Coady
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The World Turns
A review of The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism, by Kent Roach
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When Britannia Ruled the Slopes
A review of Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis
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Golden Boys
A review of Oliver’s Twist: The Life and Times of an Unapologetic Newshound, by Craig Oliver, and Boy from Nowhere: A Life in Ninety-One Countries, by Allan Fotheringham
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All Over the Map
A review of Grassroots Liberals: Organizing for Local and National Politics, by Royce Koop
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A Wonderful Pipedream
A review of Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL, by Roger L. Martin
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Who Gets In?
A review of Citizenship and Immigration, by Christian Joppke
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Svengali on Ice
A review of The Lost Dream: The Story of Mike Danton, David Frost and a Broken Canadian Family, by Steve Simmons
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Invading the Motherland
A review of Maple Leaf Empire: Canada, Britain and Two World Wars, by Jonathan Vance
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Stickin’ with the Union
A review of One Day Longer: A Memoir, by Lynn Williams
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A Heavily Qualified Greatness
A review of King: William Lyon Mackenzie King, A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny, by Allan Levine
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Black Market Culture
A review of Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art, by Joshua Knelman
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A Brilliant Polemic
A review of Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid, by Samantha Nutt
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An Unsentimental Portrait
A review of Richard Gwyn’s Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times. Volume Two: 1867–1891
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The Honest Adman
A review of The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our Culture, by Terry O’Reilly and Mike Tennant
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Dark Notes in Nazi Berlin
A review of Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues
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Walking Across Canada
A review of The Amazing Foot Race of 1921: Halifax to Vancouver in 134 Days, by Shirley Jean Roll Tucker
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The Fighting Faithful
A review of Religion in the Ranks: Belief and Religious Experience in the Canadian Forces, by Joanne Benham Rennick
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An Editor’s Delicate Art
A review of Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau and Others, by Douglas Gibson
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Childbirth, Cash and Culture
A review of Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration, 1815–1914, by Donald Harman Akenson
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The Real Dope
A review of Health Care in Canada: A Citizen’s Guide to Policy and Politics, Katherine Fierlbeck
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Escape to Purgatory
A review of The Free World, by David Bezmozgis
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“I Didn’t Do It”
A review of Justice Miscarried: Inside Wrongful Convictions in Canada, by Hélèna Katz
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Canada on Canvas
A review of Picturing the Land: Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500–1950, by Marylin J. McKay
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A Large But Poor Economy
A review of The Destiny of Canada: Macdonald, Laurier and the Election of 1891, by Christopher Pennington, and Canada 1911: The Decisive Election That Shaped the Country, by Patrice Dutil and David MacKenzie
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Brotherhood of the Dispossessed
A review of Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone, by Michelle Shephard
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An Architectural Master
A review of Bing Thom Works, by Bing Thom
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Enough Talk
A review of First Nations Gaming in Canada, edited by Yale D. Belanger
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Toronto Hard and Soft
A review of Reshaping Toronto’s Waterfront, edited by Gene Desfor and Jennefer Laidley, and Imagining Toronto, by Amy Lavender Harris
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The Calibration of Rights
A review of The Freedom of Security: Governing Canada in the Age of Counter-Terrorism, by Colleen Bell
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Dilemmas of the Diaspora
A review of The Meagre Tarmac: Stories, by Clark Blaise
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Sex, Death and Education
A review of Alone in the Classroom, by Elizabeth Hay
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El Café Para Todos
A review of Contemporary Majority Nationalism, edited by Alain-G. Gagnon, André Lecours and Geneviève Nootens
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A Great Human Tragedy
A review of Happyland: A History of the “Dirty Thirties” in Saskatchewan, 1914–1937, by Curtis R. McManus
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Toxic Legacy
A review of Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children, by Joel Bakan
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Desolate Lives
A review of The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery, by Andrew Westoll
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Guerillas or Folklorists?
A review of Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature, by Herb Wyile
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Yorkville State of Mind
A review of Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s, by Stuart Henderson
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Cold War, Bright Stars
A review of Defence and Discovery: Canada’s Military Space Program, 1945–74, by Andrew B. Godefroy
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Shop Girl Blues
A review of Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail, by Caitlin Kelly
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Showdown in Ottawa
A review of The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau, the Gang of Eight and the Fight for Canada, by
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Hidden Stories
A review of Underground, by Antanas Sileika
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I'm Right, You're Wrong
A review of Among the Truthers: A Journey into the Growing Conspiracist Underground of 9/11 Truthers, Birthers, Armageddonites, Vaccine Hysterics, Hollywood Know-Nothings and Internet Addicts, by Jonathan Kay
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Quebec's Eternal Hero
A review of Maurice Richard, by Charles Foran
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Finding Our Reflection
A review of The Technological Imperative in Canada: An Intellectual History, by R. Douglas Francis
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Bard Versus Bard
A review of How Shakespeare Changed Everything, by Stephen Marche
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On the Gurney
A review of Opening My Heart: A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again, by Tilda Shalof, and My Operation: A Health Insider Becomes a Patient, by Sholom Glouberman
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Tantalizing Ambiguity
A review of The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty, by William Byers
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Strange Things Done in the Midnight Sun
A review of Touch, by Alexi Zentner
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The Rights of Refugees
A review of Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis and What to Do About It, by Andy Lamey, and Cultures of Border Control: Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers, by Ruben Zaiotti
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The Nine
A review of Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life, by Philip Slayton
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Courting Controversy
A review of Bad Medicine: A Judge’s Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community, by John Reilly
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Imaginary Getaways
Ten armchair excursions by Natalie Davis, Jessica Grant, Alexander MacLeod, and more
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Brainchild Bio
A review of The Evolution of Inanimate Objects: The Life and Collected Works of Thomas Darwin (1857–1879), by Harry Karlinsky
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Middle Men
A review of Midway, by David Homel, and The Joyful Child, by Norman Ravvin
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Free-Fall Employment
A review of Working Without Commitments: The Health Effects of Precarious Employment, by Wayne Lewchuk, Marlea Clarke and Alice de Wolff
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The Big One
A review of Cascadia’s Fault: The Deadly Earthquake That Will Devastate North America, by Jerry Thompson
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Three Provinces, Three Cultures
A review of Code Politics: Campaigns and Cultures on the Canadian Prairies, by Jared J. Wesley
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An Ongoing Battle
A review of Violence Against Women: Myths, Facts, Controversies, by Walter S. DeKeseredy
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Hollywood Gothic
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Culture-Crossed Lovers
A review of It Is Just That Your House Is So Far Away by Steve Noyes.
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Shooting the Messenger
An essay.
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Dogma's Bulldog
A review of Michael Coren's Why Catholics Are Right.
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Self-destructiveness and the State
A review of W.A. Bogart's Permit But Discourage: Regulating Excessive Consumption and XXL: Obesity and the Limits of Shame, by Neil Seeman and Patrick Luciani.
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Science Fights Back
A review of Media Mediocrity-Waging War Against Science: How the Television Makes Us Stoopid! by Richard Zurawski
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Recapturing Past Glory
A review of Linda Leith's Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis.
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Iceland As Icarus
A review of Daniel Chartter's The End of Iceland’s Innocence: The Image of Iceland in the Foreign Media during the Financial Crisis.
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Avoiding Extremes
A review of Hugh Segal's The Right Balance: Canada's Conservative Tradition.
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Messy, Experimental and Stimulating
A review of Allan C. Hutchinson's Is Eating People Wrong? Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World.
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Grief Observed
A review of Steven Hayward's Don't Be Afraid.
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"Responsibilizing" the Poor
A review of Suzan Ilcan and Anita Lacey's Governing the Poor: Exercises of Poverty Reduction, Practices of Global Aid.
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The Great Compromiser
A review of Andre Pratte's Wilfrid Laurier.
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Man in Locomotion
A review of Marta Braun's Eadweard Muybridge.
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A Compelling Voice
A review of Tony Tremblay's David Adams Richards of the Miramichi: A Biographical Introduction
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Modern Love
A review of Progress, by Michael V. Smith, Subtle Bodies: A Fantasia on Voice, History, and René Crevel, by Peter Dubé, and Pretty, by Greg Kearney
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Here They Come
A review of Gerald Hodge's The Geography of Aging: Preparing Communities for the Surge in Seniors
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Suckered by America
A review of Doing the Continental: A New Canadian-American Relationship, by David Dyment
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Bruno's Brilliant Heresy
A review of Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System, by Ray Jayawardhana
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Discovering a Homeland Abroad
A review of The Defining Decade: Identity, Politics and the Canadian Jewish Community in the 1960s, by Harold Troper.
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An Insider Speaks
A review of Tales from the Back Room: Memories of a Political Insider, by Michael Decter
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Sault Saga
A review of Every Time We Say Goodbye, by Jamie Zeppa.
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In Search of Altruism
A review of Benevolence, by Cynthia Holz
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The Spectre of Bolshevism
A review of Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918–1919, Canada’s First War on Terror, by Daniel Francis
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Adventure and Empathy
A review of A Passion for History: Conversations with Denis Crouzet, by Natalie Zemon Davis.
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A New Vision
A review of Une certaine idée du Québec. Parcours d’un fédéraliste. De la réflexion à l’action, by Benoît Pelletier
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Made in Canada?
A review of Jean Monnet and Canada: Early Travels and the Idea of European Unity, by Trygve Ugland
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Solidarity Revisted
A review of Work on Trial: Canadian Labour Law Struggles, edited by Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker
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A Caribbean Longshot
A review of Internet Gambling Offshore: Caribbean Struggles over Casino Capitalism, by Andrew F. Cooper
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The Frozen Bodies of Edward S. Curtis
A review of The Edward Curtis Project: A Modern Picture Story, by Marie Clements, with photographs by Rita Leistner
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The Sins of the Abbé Groulx
A review of Esther Delsile's The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-semitism and the delirium of extremist right-wing nationalism in French Canada from 1929 to 1939 and Mordecai Richler's Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! Requiem for a Divided Country
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Cloak and Dagger Politics
A review of Castles Made of Sand: A Century of Anglo-American Espionage and Intervention in the Middle East, by André Gerolymatos
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A Dangerous Isolation
A review of Police in Canada: The Real Story, by John Sewell
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A Party Divided
A review of Divided Loyalties: The Liberal Party of Canada, 1984–2008, by Brooke Jeffrey
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The Problem with Neutrality
A review of Suffer the Children unto Me: An Open Enquiry into the Clerical Abuse Scandal, by Michael W. Higgins and Peter Kavanagh
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Official Blackmail
A review of Our Friendly Local Terrorist, by Mary Jo Leddy
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What Causes Social Inequality?
A review of Power and Inequality: A Comparative Introduction, by Gregg M. Olsen
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No One’s Best Friend
A review of Blood on the Stone: Greed, Corruption and War in the Global Diamond Trade, by Ian Smillie
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The Young, the Old, the Now and the Gone
A review of This Cake Is for the Party, by Sarah Selecky, and The Young in Their Country: And Other Stories, by Richard Cumyn
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A Life Worth Living
A review of How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
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Passionate Darwinism
A review of Evolution: The View from the Cottage, by Jean-Pierre Rogel, translated by Nigel Spencer
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The Migrant’s Quest
A review of Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World, by Doug Saunders, and Citizens of Nowhere: From Refugee Camp to Canadian Campus, by Debi Goodwin
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Children As “Weapon Systems”
A review of They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers, by Roméo Dallaire, with Jessica Dee Humphreys
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The Summer of 1990
A review of Oka: A Political Crisis and Its Legacy, by Harry Swain
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The Secret Life of Flowers
A review of The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delaney [begins her life’s work] at 72, by Molly Peacock
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Crime and Punishment
A review of Robert Latimer: A Story of Justice and Mercy, by Gary Bauslaugh
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Life in the Afternoon
A review of Stayin’ Alive: How Canadian Baby Boomers Will Work, Play and Find Meaning in the Second Half of Their Adult Lives, by Michael Adams
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Musical Brilliance
A review of Lois Marshall: A Biography, by James Neufeld
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Is Islam Anti-Semitic?
A review of The Jew Is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism, by Tarek Fatah
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A Mensch for All Seasons
A review of The Frumkiss Family Business, by Michael Wex
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Levitating over the Abyss
A review of Waiting for Joe, by Sandra Birdsell
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Plus ça change…
A review of Solving the People Puzzle: Cultural Intelligence and Special Operations Forces, by Emily Spencer
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Extreme Physics
A review of Einstein Wrote Back: My Life in Physics, by John W. Moffat
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Ocean Battleground
A review of Still Fishin’: The B.C. Fishing Industry Revisited, by Alan Haig-Brown, and The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada: Activism, Policy and Contested Science, by Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews
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Canada As Colonial Power
A review of Todd Gordon’s Imperialist Canada
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A Blitzkrieg of Soccer
A review of Dave Bidini's Home and Away: In Search of Dreams at the Homeless World Cup of Soccer
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Back to the Garden
A review of Clarke Mackey's Random Acts of Culture: Reclaiming Art and Community in the 21st Century
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The Court Jester
A review of Peter C. Newman's Heroes: Canadian Champions, Dark Horses and Icons and Mavericks: Canadian Rebels, Renegades and Anti-Heroes
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Fictional Fetish
A review of Anosh Irani's Dahanu Road
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Dreyfus Domesticated
A review of Kate Taylor's A Man in Uniform
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Split Personality
A review of Bob Rae's Exporting Democracy: The Risks and Rewards of Pursuing a Good Idea
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Northern Treasure
A review of Charlotte Gray's Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike
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In the Citadel’s Shadow
A review of Thomas H. Raddall's Halifax: Warden of the North, Updated edition with new chapters by Stephen Kimber
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A Patient Prophet Speaks
A review of Ken Dryden's Becoming Canada: Our Story, Our Politics, Our Future
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Relentless Implacability
A review of Ken McGoogan's How the Scots Invented Canada
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Fairy Tales for Men
A review of Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin, edited by David Church, and Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin, by William Beard
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Negative Statesmanship
A review of Harperland: The Politics of Control, by Lawrence Martin
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Sex Slaves in Canada
A review of Invisible Chains: Canada’s Underground World of Human Trafficking, by Benjamin Perrin.
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Demythologizing the Fur Trade
A review of Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade, by Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis
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Provocative Idealist
A review of Mordecai: The Life & Times by Charles Foran.
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Intervention or Protection
A review of Mobilizing the Will to Intervene: Leadership to Prevent Mass Atrocities, by Frank Chalk, Roméo Dallaire, Kyle Matthews, Carla Barqueiro and Simon Doyle.
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Through a Windshield Darkly
A review of Breakfast at the Exit Café, by Wayne Grady and Merilyn Simonds.
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Like Father, Like Daughter
A review of The Ghost Brush, by Katherine Govier.
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Feral City
A review of Fauna, by Alissa York.
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News for the World?
A review of Global Journalism Ethics, by Stephen J.A. Ward.
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A Tangled Tale
A review of A Fleeting Empire: Early Stuart Britain and the Merchant Adventurers to Canada, by Andrew D. Nicholls.
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A Battle for Reputation
A review of The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie, by Tim Cook.
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The Rich Are Bad for Your Health
A review of The Trouble with Billionaires, by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks.
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A World Turned Upside Down
A review of Getting Back in the Game: A Foreign Policy Playbook for Canada, by Paul Heinbecker and Open Canada: A Global Positioning Strategy for a Networked Age, by Edward Greenspon
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Green Tycoons
A review of The New Entrepreneurs: Building a Green Economy for the Future, by Andrew Heintzman
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Pills in the Bedroom
A review of Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit from Female Sexual Dysfunction, by Ray Moynihan and Barbara Mintzes
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Talent and Self-Destruction
A review of The English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey, by Robert Morrison
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Courting Foreign Students
A review of Canada’s Universities Go Global, edited by Roopa Desai Trilokekar, Glen A. Jones and Adrian Shubert, and The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World, by Ben Wildavsky
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Holding Court on Shaky Ground
A review of Power: Where Is It?, by Donald J. Savoie
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Healing a Devastated Life
A review of Lily in the Snow, by Yan Li
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
A review of Nox, by Anne Carson
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Dashed Hopes
A review of The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys Through Central Europe's Troubled Past and Uncertain Future, by Anna Porter
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Whose Canada Is This?
A review of The Strange Demise of British Canada: The Liberals and Canadian Nationalism, 1964–1968, by C.P. Champion
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Defining a Good Life
A review of The Four Wall of My Freedom, by Donna Thomson
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The Questions Remain
A review of On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women, by Stevie Cameron
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Proving Its Worth
A review of The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature, edited by Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller
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Canada’s Boswell
A review of Peter Gzowski: A Biography, by R.B. Fleming
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Coming to Gold Mountain
A review of The Year of Finding Memory, by Judy Fong Bates, The Geography of Arrival, by George Sipos, and Alice Street, by Richard Valeriote
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Parsing Pandemics
A review of Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894–1901, by Myron Echenberg, and SARS Unmasked: Risk Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada, by Michael G. Tyshenko, with assistance from Cathy Paterson
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Women at Risk
A review of Lost Girls: Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence, by Nicholas Terpstra
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Storms Are Easy, Marriage Is Hard
A review of The Carnivore, by Mark Sinnett
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Into the Phantom Zone
A review of The Amazing Absorbing Boy, by Rabindranath Maharaj
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A Slippery Debate
A review of Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands, by Ezra Levant
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Ottawa’s Greatest Mandarin
A review of Behind the Scenes: The Life and Work of William Clifford Clark, by Robert A. Wardhaugh
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From Wedding Cake to Music Garden
A review of Creating Memory: A Guide to Outdoor Public Sculpture in Toronto, by John Warkentin
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Wild Painters
A review of Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art by Iris Nowell
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A Classic Victorian Yarn
A review of The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels, by Janet Soskice.
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The Mystery of Cities
A review of The Wealth and Poverty of Regions: Why Cities Matter, by Mario Polèse.
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Miscellany with a Mission
A review of Hooked on Canadian Books: The Good, the Better and the Best Canadian Novels since 1984, by T.F. Rigelhof.
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The Private Option
A review of Public Service, Private Profits: The Political Economy of Public-Private Partnerships in Canada, by John Loxley, with Salim Loxley
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A Body in Uniform
A review of Deathly Deception: The Real Story of Operation Mincemeat, by Denis Smyth
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Rich and Strange
A review of Strange Bedfellows: The Private Lives of Words, by Howard Richler
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Can Sociology Save Us?
A review of The Sense of Sociability: How People Overcome the Forces Pulling Them Apart, by Lorne Tepperman
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Crammed with Crime
A review of The Glass Harmonica, by Russell Wangersky
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From Manners to Manhood
A review of Toby: A Man, by Todd Babiak
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Nature's Cathedral
A review of The Global Forest, by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
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“Pursued by Devils or Tories”
A review of The Lunatic and the Lords, by Richard D. Schneider
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Resurrected Corpses
A review of Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust Survival, by Michael Dorland
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Lincoln’s Prophet
A review of George Fetherling's Walt Whitman’s Secret: A Novel
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Where Have All The Stories Gone?
A review of A Reader on Reading, by Alberto Manguel
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Getting Past “Yes” or “No”
A review of Multicultiphobia, by Phil Ryan
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Bridging the Divide
A review of Donna Kennedy-Glans' Unveiling the Breath: One Woman’s Journey into Understanding Islam and Gender Equality
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Hitting the Road
A literary car-trip across Canada
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The Truth Hurts
A review of The Truth Shows Up: A Reporter’s Fifteen-Year Odyssey Tracking Down the Truth about Mulroney, Schreiber and the Airbus Scandal, by Harvey Cashore
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Art for Whose Sake?
A review of No Culture, No Future, by Simon Brault, translated by Jonathan Kaplansky.
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Urban Solace
A review of Michael Helm's Cities of Refuge
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Servant of the Servants of Distraction
A review of Jack Hodgins' The Master of Happy Endings
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Playing to His Base
A review of Marci McDonald’s The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada, and Tom Warner’s Losing Control: Canada’s Social Conservatives in the Age of Rights
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The Lonely Planet Guide to Microcredit
A review of Saris on Scooters: How Microcredit Is Changing Village India, by Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos
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Darwinists and Divinity
A review of Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science, by Michael Ruse
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Diderot Derivative
A review of Yann Martel's Beatrice and Virgil
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Culture Clash
A review of The Authenticity Hoax: How We Got Lost Finding Ourselves, by Andrew Potter, and More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College Is Crap and Idiots Think They’re Right, by Laura Penny
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The Thinking Man’s Marxist
A review of Why Not Socialism?, by G.A. Cohen
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Untying the Knot
A review of A History of Marriage by Elizabeth Abbott
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Selling Tradition
A review of In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia, by Ian McKay and Robin Bates.
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Football Fables
A review of The World Is a Ball: The Joy, Madness and Meaning of Soccer, by John Doyle
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Dangerous Liaisons
A review of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, by Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile
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An Unpopular PM Revisited
A review of Bennett: The Rebel Who Challenged and Changed a Nation, by John Boyko
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Inventive Evasion
A review of The Breakwater House, by Pascale Quiviger, translated by Lazer Lederhendler
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A Political Pioneer
A review of “Go to School, You’re a Little Black Boy”—The Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander: A Memoir, by Lincoln M. Alexander, with Herb Shoveller
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A Persistent Myth
A review of Pearson’s Peacekeepers: Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force, 1956–67, by Michael Carroll, and Canada, the Congo Crisis and UN Peacekeeping, 1960–64, by Kevin A. Spooner
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Quiet Resilience
A review of Searching for Justice: An Autobiography, by Fred Kaufman
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Smart Bombs and Sex Robots
A review of Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology As We Know It, by Peter Nowak
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A Billion Clips a Day
A review of Watching YouTube: Extraordinary Videos by Ordinary People, by Michael Strangelove
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Hunt for Meaning
A review of A Hunter’s Confession, by David Carpenter
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Lost Opportunity
A review of Canada’s Big Biblical Bargain: How McGill University Bought the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Jason Kalman and Jaqueline S. du Toit
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No Place Like Home
A review of A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future, by Larry Campbell, Neil Boyd and Lori Culbert
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Rescue or Kidnapping?
A review of Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas, by Karen Dubinsky
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A Towering Work of Fiction
A review of Thus Speaks the CN Tower, by Hédi Bouraoui, translated by Elizabeth Sabiston
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Go Ask Alice
A review of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Oleg Lipchenko, and A Is for Alice, by George A. Walker
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The Patriotic Executive
A review of Made in Canada: A Businessman’s Adventures in Politics, by Alastair W. Gillespie, with Irene Sage
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Arrested Development
A review of A.Y. Jackson: The Life of a Landscape Painter, by Wayne Larsen, and The Practice of Her Profession: Florence Carlyle, Canadian Painter in the Age of Impressionism, by Susan Butlin
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The Elected and the Appointed: Round Two
A review of Not Quite Supreme: The Courts and Coordinate Constitutional Interpretation, by Dennis Baker
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Glenn Gould's Manipulations
A review of Glenn Gould's performance of Beethoven's Sonata in F# Major (Op.78),Sonata (Op.106) Hammerklavier, John P.L. Roberts and Ghyslaine Guertin's Glenn Gould: Selected Letters, David Young's Glenn, Glenn Gould's The Solitude Trilogy and Andrew Kazdin's Glenn Gould at Work: Creative Lying.
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A Spy Story Well Told
A review of Our Man in Tehran: Ken Taylor, the CIA and the Iran Hostage Crisis, by Robert Wright
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Opportunity or Temptation?
A review of Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property RIghts by Tom Flanagan, Christopher Alcantara, and André Le Dressay
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A Middling Marvel
A review of Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class: Dreaming in Middletown by Chris McDonald
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Different Pipers, Different Tunes
A review of Selling Out: Academic Freedom and the Corporate Market, by Howard Woodhouse
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Taking On the World
A review of BlackBerry: The Inside Story of Research In Motion, by Rod McQueen
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Quebec's Anti-Hero
A review of René Lévesque, by Daniel Poliquin
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Searching for Clarity
A review of La souveraineté du Québec: Hier, aujourd’hui et demain, by Jacques Parizeau
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Flight from Europe
A review of In a Pale Blue Light, by Lily Poritz Miller
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Battles Foreign and Familial
A review of The Honey Locust, by Jeffrey Round
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The Elected and the Appointed
A review of The Politics of the Charter: The Illusive Promise of Constitutional Rights, by Andrew Petter
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Kowtowing to the Hegemon
A review of In Roosevelt’s Bright Shadow: Presidential Addresses about Canada from Taft to Obama in Honour of FDR’s 1938 Speech at Queen’s University, edited by Arthur Milnes, and At Home and Abroad: The Canada-U.S. Relationship and Canada’s Place in the World, by Patrick Lennox
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Strange Bedfellows
A review of Canadian Maverick: The Life and Times of Ivan C. Rand, by William Kaplan
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Words of an Artist
A review of Solitary Raven: The Essential Writings of Bill Reid, edited by Robert Bringhurst
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The Sexes and the Sciences
A review of The Bold and the Brave: A History of Women in Science and Engineering, by Monique Frize
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A Country Worth Living In
A review of Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship, by Citizenship Canada
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Progressive Fortune Telling
A review of Beyond the Bubble: Imagining a New Canadian Economy, by James Laxer
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The Anguish of Aftermath
A review of The Fallen, by Stephen Finucan
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The Scoop on Peacekeeping
A review of Pale Blue Hope: Death and Life in Asian Peacekeeping, by Ronald Poulton
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American or British Liberty?
A review of Le concept de liberté au Canada à l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776–1838), by Michel Ducharme
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Prismatic Fiction
A review of Waiting for Columbus, by Thomas Trofimuk
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Down on the Farm
A review of Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, by Brian Brett, and The War in the Country: How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future, by Thomas F. Pawlick
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The Race for the Arctic
A review of Who Owns the Arctic? Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North, by Michael Byers
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In Praise of Short Books
A review of The Forgotten Peace: Mediation at Niagara Falls, 1914, by Michael Small, and Fiscal Federalism: A Comparative Introduction, by George Anderson
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Neglectful Disrespect
A review of Bomb Canada: And Other Unkind Remarks in the American Media, by Chantal Allan
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A Pragmatic Manifesto
A review of Jean-François Lisée's Pour une gauche efficace
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Blind Oracles
A review of Florin Diacu's Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe
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Troubling Tactics
A review of Michael R. Marrus's Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s
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The Real Tariq Ramadan
A review of The Theology of Tariq Ramadan: A Catholic Perspective, by Gregory Baum
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The Myth of Chindia
A review of Wendy Dobson's Gravity Shift: How Asia’s New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape the Twenty-First Century
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Quebec’s Abstract Radicals
A review of The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal, 1941–1960, by Roald Nasgaard and Ray Ellenwood
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Blaze of Glory
A review of Off the Chain: An Insider’s History of Snowboarding, by Ross Rebagliati
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Navigating Imperial Rivers
A review of Mohawks on the Nile: Natives among the Canadian Voyageurs in Egypt, 1884–1885, by Carl Benn
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A Woman Who Prevails
A review of Euphoria, by Connie Gault
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Enforcing Terrible Secrets
A review of The Bishop's Man, by Linden MacIntyre
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Studying Supper
A review of What's to Eat? Entrées in Canadian Food History, edited by Nathalie Cooke
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Moral Vision, Empirical Rigour
A review of Measuring the Mosaic: An Intellectual Biography of John Porter, by Rick Helmes-Hayes
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The Not-So-Mighty Dollar
A review of Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirschner's The Future of the Dollar
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A Watery Reading of the Land
A review of Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada, by Allan Casey
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Spies Among Us
A review of Nest of Spies: The Startling Truth about Foreign Agents at Work within Canada’s Borders, by Fabrice de Pierrebourg and Michel Juneau-Katsuya, translated by Ray Conlogue
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Success in the Slums?
A review of Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World, by Jeb Brugmann
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Humanist Conspiracy
A review of A Sudden Terror: The Plot to Murder the Pope in Renaissance Rome, by Anthony F. D’Elia
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Haunted Legacy
A review of Wajdi Mouawad’s Tideline, translated by Shelley Tepperman, and Scorched, translated by Linda Gaboriau
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Grief Transformed
A review of February, by Lisa Moore
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Classical Genius
A review of The Golden Mean, by Annabel Lyon
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The Snowbird's Story
A review of All of Me, by Anne Murray, with Michael Posner
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Why Did He Do It?
A review of Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship, by Denise Chong
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Troubled Brilliance
A review of Bringing Art to Life: A Biography of Alan Jarvis, by Andrew Horrall
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We’re Still Watching
A review of Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968–2000, by John English
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Palace on the Rideau
A review of Sarah Jennings' Art and Politics: The History of the National Arts Centre
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Shopping ’Til We Drop
A review of The Price of a Bargain: The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization, by Gordon Laird
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Prepping for Privilege
A review of The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School, by Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández
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Freedom Redefined
A review of Public Philosophy in a New Key, Volume 1: Democracy and Civic Freedom and Volume 2: Imperialism and Civic Freedom, by James Tully
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The Past As It Ought to Be
A review of The Heart Specialist, by Claire Holden Rothman
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From the Somme to Guernica
A review of Underground, by June Hutton
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Right-Wing Cabals?
A review of Not a Conspiracy Theory: How Business Propaganda Hijacks Democracy, by Donald Gutstein
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Bleak Island
A review of The Blythes Are Quoted, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre
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Lest We Forget
A review of Canadians Fighting the Great War 1914–18, Volume 1: At the Sharp End and Volume 2: Shock Troops, by Tim Cook
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A Dystopia Sketched in Crayon
A review of Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood
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The End of the World As We Know It?
A review of Peter A. Victor's Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster, and Jeff Rubin's Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
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A Millennium of Manners
A review of Benet Davetian’s Civility: A Cultural History
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The Personal and Political Entwined
A review of Karen Connelly's Burmese Lessons: A Love Story
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Is It All Quebec’s Fault?
A review of Brian Lee Crowley’s
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Integration Is a Two-Way Street
A review of Diaspora by Design: Muslim Immigrants in Canada and Beyond, by Haideh Moghissi, Saeed Rahnema, Mark J. Goodman
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Train of Thought
A review of Automatic World, by Struan Sinclair
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Denial and Dignity
A review of Tim Falconer’s That Good Night: Ethicists, Euthanasia and End-of-Life Care
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Deromanticizing Swashbucklers
A review of Terror on the Seas: True Tales of Modern-Day Pirates, by Daniel Sekulich
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Thinking in Groups
A review of How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment, by Michèle Lamont
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Canadians in the Spotlight
A review of Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music … From Hank Snow to The Band, by Jason Schneider
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Vision, Reason, Commitment
A review of Freedom from Want: The Remarkable Success Story of BRAC, the Global Grassroots Organization That’s Winning the Fight Against Poverty, by Ian Smillie
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A Dying Breed
A review of Scott Taylor's Unembedded: Two Decades of Maverick War Reporting and Terry Gould's Murder Without Borders: Dying for the Story in the World's Most Dangerous Places
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No Problem Here
A review of Alice Munro's Too Much Happiness
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A Loaded Anniversary
A review of D. Peter MacLeod's Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham; of Jacques Lacoursière's and Hélène Quimper's Québec ville assiégée; of Joy Carroll's Wolfe and Montcalm: Their Lives, Their Times, and the Fate of a Continent; of Gérard Saint-Martin's Les plaines d'Abraham: L'adieu à la Nouvelle-France?; and of Stephen Manning's Quebec: The Story of Three Sieges.
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Benefits of Empire
A review of Lineages of Despotism and Development: British Colonialism and State Power, by Matthew Lange
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American Dreams?
A review of The Sheikh’s Batmobile: In Pursuit of American Pop Culture in the Muslim World, by Richard Poplak
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Paquet's Labyrinth
A review of Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures: A Plea for Experimentalism, by Gilles Paquet, and Gilles Paquet: Homo hereticus, edited by Caroline Andrew, Ruth Hubbard
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Book-Ending Canada's 20th Century
A review of Stephen Leacock, by Margaret MacMillan, and Mordecai Richler, by M.G. Vassanji
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Tale of a Tortoise
A review of Come, Thou Tortoise, Jessica Grant
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Halfway There
A review of Open and Shut: Why America Has Barack Obama and Canada Has Stephen Harper, by John Ibbitson
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African Reformation
A review of Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria, by Ruth Marshall
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Unsung Hero
A review of Canada’s Voice: The Public Life of John Wendell Holmes, by Adam Chapnick
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Another City
A review of Young Hunting: A Memoir, by Martin Hunter and The Great Adventure: 100 Years at the Arts and Letters Club, by Margaret McBurney
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Our Feudal Immigration Policy
A review of The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality, by Ayelet Shachar
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A Digital Trojan Horse
A review of Sheeple: Caucus Confidential in Stephen Harper's Ottawa, by Garth Turner
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Revisiting a Powerful Myth
A review of The Children’s Crusade: Medieval History, Modern Mythistory by Gary Dickson and Children's Crusade by Murray Schafer
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Unbalanced Thoughts
A review of Peter Russell's and Lorne Sossin's Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis.
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Bad Faith?
A review of David Novak's In Defense of Religious Liberty.
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Pick Your Antidote
Short reviews of ten books past and present.
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Thought in Action
A review of Norman Bethune, by Adrienne Clarkson and “Norman Bethune: trail of Solidarity — La huella solidaria” at the McCord Museum of Canadian History
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Our Problem with Women
A review of Sylvia Bashevkin's Women, Power, Politics: The Hidden Story of Canada's Unfinished Democracy.
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Nous aussi nous souvenons
A review of Ronald Rudin's, Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie: A Historian's Journey Through Public Memory.
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Science and Romance
A review of David Manicom's Anna's Shadow and Robert Carr's Continuums
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A Broken Head
A review of Lee Gowan's Confession
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Trial by Anecdote
A review of Ezra Levant's Shakedown:How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights
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Creating Another Einstein
A review of Howard Burton's First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science
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Misreading Prostitution
A review of Gangs and Girls: Understanding Juvenile Prostitution by Michel Dorais and Patrice Corriveau, and Victor Malarek's The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It
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Eat, Worship, Fear, Coddle
A review of Erika Ritter's The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships.
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Poles Never Play Cricket in Summer
A review of Angus Bell's Batting on the Bosphorus: A Liquor-Fueled Cricket Tour through Eastern Europe
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The Ever-Expanding City
A review of Andrew Sancton's The Limits of Boundaries: Why City-Regions Cannot Be Self-Governing and The Shape of the Suburbs: Understanding Toronto's Sprawl by John Sewell.
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The Road to Hell
A review of Larry Krotz's The Uncertain Business of Doing Good: Outsiders in Africa.
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Voices Unheard
A review of Priscila Uppal's To Whom It May Concern.
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Homage or Hoax?
A review of Anne Michaels' The Winter Vault.
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Tough Times
A review of Joseph Heath's Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism and Jim Stanford's Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism.
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Routing Tokenism
A review of Anthony Stewart's You Must Be a Basketball Player: Rethinking Integration In the University
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"This Dreadful Vice"
A review of James F. Cosgrave and Thomas R. Klassen's Casino State: Legalized Gambling in Canada.
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The Value of the Seas
A review of Alanna Mitchell's Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis.
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Intellectual Sleight of Hand
A review of True Patriot Love: Four Generations in Search of Canada, by Michael Ignatieff
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Distilling Mute Despair
A review of Burma Chronicles, by Guy Delisle
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Realistic Fortune Telling
A review of Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years, by Vaclav Smil
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A Modern Latin American Hero
A review of Edgar J. Dosman's
Life and Times of Raul Prebisch, 1901 - 1986 . -
When Good Drugs Go Bad
A review of Andrea Tone's The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers and Erika Dyck's Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus.
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Beyond Empathy
A review of The Other Sister, by Lola Lemire Tostevin
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Myth and Misadventure
A review of Blackstrap Hawco, by Kenneth J. Harvey
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Mothers with Alzheimer's
A review of Finding Rosa: A Mother with Alzheimer's, A Daughter in Search of the Past, by Caterina Edwards, and Circling My Mother: A Memoir, by Mary Gordon
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Age Brings Knowledge
A review of The Social Behavior of Older Animals, by Anne Innis Dagg
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Green-Tinged Hypocrisy
A review of Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada, by Adria Vasil; David Suzuki's Green Guide, by David Suzuki and David R. Boyd; Almost Green: How I Built an Eco-Shed, Ditched My SUV, Alienated the In-Laws and Changed My Life Forever, by James Glave; The Daily Planet Book of Cool Ideas: Global Warming and What People Are Doing About It, by Jay Ingram; Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs? My Confused, Guilt-Ridden and Stressful Attempt to Raise a Green Family, by Robyn Harding; and Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff, by Fred Pearce
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Living in the Promised Land
A review of Fixing the Future: How Canada's Usually Fractious Governments Worked Together to Rescue the Canada Pension Plan, by Bruce Little
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A Hotel for All Seasons
A review of Isadore Sharp's Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy
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Are We a Métis Nation?
A review of A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada, by John Ralston Saul
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Inside the Wire
A review of Outside the Wire: The War in Afghanistan in the Words of Its Participants, edited by Kevin Patterson and Jane Warren; Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army by Christie Blatchford; Kandahar Tour: The Turning Point in Canada’s Afghan Mission by Lee Windsor, David Charters and Brent Wilson; On Assignment in Afghanistan: Maritimers at War by Chris Lambie (text) and Christian Laforce (photography); Contact Charlie: The Canadian Army, the Taliban and the Battle That Saved Afghanistan by Chris Wattie; and The Long Walk Home: Paul Franklin’s Journey from Afghanistan by Liane Faulder
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Private Thoughts in Public Language
A review of JPod by Douglas Coupland, The Language of Others by Clare Morrall, Daniel Isn’t Talking by Marti Leimbach, Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern, and So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in “Pride and Prejudice” by Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer
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What’s Race Got to Do with It?
A review of Gerard W. Boychuk's National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, Territory and the Roots of Difference
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Frozen Moments
A review of Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers, by Dorothy Harley Eber, and Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane, by Ken McGoogan.
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A Very American Champlain
A review of David Hackett Fischer’s Champlain’s Dream: The Visionary Adventurer Who Made a New World in Canada
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Bitumen: Boon or Blight?
A review of Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, by Andrew Nikiforuk, and Tar Sands Showdown: Canada and the New Politics of Oil in an Age of Climate Change, by Tony Clarke
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An Exercise in Opposites
A review ofFrank Moores: The Time of His Life, by Janice Wells, and An Honourable Calling: Political Memoirs, by Allan Blakeney
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Torrents of Vitriol
A review of Joan Baxter’s Dust from Our Eyes: An Unblinkered Look at Africa.
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The Continental Quickstep
A review of Stephen Clarkson’s Does North America Exist? Governing the Continent after NAFTA and 9/11
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The New Canadian Establishment
A review of Gordon Pitts' Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite
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Dying in Hell
A review of Passchendaele, a film by Paul Gross; of Norman Leach's Passchendaele: Canada’s Triumph and Tragedy on the Fields of Flanders; and of Paul Gross's novel Passchendaele
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George Grant and the Jews
A review of Exiles from Nowhere: The Jews and the Canadian Elite, by Alan Mendelson
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The Legless Castaway
A review of Jerome: Solving the Mystery of Nova Scotia’s Silent Castaway, by Fraser Mooney, Jr.
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Blowing the Whistle
A review of Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation, by Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard
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Violence and Beauty
A review of Patrick Lane’s Red Dog, Red Dog
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Between Two Worlds
A review of Joan Thomas’s Reading by Lightning
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A Stoppage of the Light
A review of In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger’s Memoir, by Charles Wilkins
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Arcadia in Peril
A review of The Weekender Effect: Hyperdevelopment in Mountain Towns, by Robert William Sandford
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Making a Multiversity
A review of Michiel Horn’s The Way Must Be Tried: York University Remembered and John T. Saywell’s Someone to Teach Them: York and the Great University Explosion, 1960–1973
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A Happy Marriage of Convenience
A review of Reconquering Canada: Quebec Federalists Speak Up for Change, edited by André Pratte, translated by Patrick Watson, and Secession and Self: Quebec in Canadian Thought, by Gregory Millard
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Haiti's Fallible Hero
A review of Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment, by Peter Hallward
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Moguls of Winnipeg
A review of Izzy: The Passionate Life and Turbulent Times of Izzy Asper, Canada’s Media Mogul, by Peter C. Newman, and Asper Nation: Canada’s Most Dangerous Media Company, by Marc Edge
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The Life of a Great Man
A review of Lester B. Pearson, by Andrew Cohen
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The Real Citizen Kane
A review of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst, by Kenneth Whyte
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Getting the Real Story
A review of Cecil Rosner’s Behind the Headlines: A History of Investigative Journalism in Canada
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Assisted Living or Assisted Suicide?
A review of Joan Barfoot’s Exit Lines
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Canada's Boer War
A review of The Great Karoo, by Fred Stenson
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Letting Us Off the Hook
A review of The Poverty of Corrupt Nations, by Roy Cullen
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That Old-Time Religion
A review of The Good Steward: The Ernest C. Manning Story, by Brian Brennan
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An Activist's Angry Disposition
A review of Christopher A. Shaw’s Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games
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Rule America?
A review of American Raj: Liberation or Domination? by Eric S. Margolis
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Canada’s Black Chamber
A review of Kurt F. Jensen's Cautious Beginnings: Canadian Foreign Intelligence, 1939–51
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Delicious Canadian Ham
A review of Up Till Now: The Autobiography, by William Shatner with David Fisher and In Spite of Myself: A Memoir, by Christopher Plummer
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Does Technology Make Us Do It?
A review of The End of Ethics in a Technological Society, by Lawrence E. Schmidt with Scott Marratto
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Witty and Wise
A review of My Life as a Dame: The Personal and the Political in the Writings of Christina McCall, by Christina McCall, edited by Stephen Clarkson
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A Different North
A review of Settlers on the Edge: Identity and Modernization on Russia’s Arctic Frontier, by Niobe Thompson
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Compromised Eden
A review of The Darien Gap: Travels in the Rainforest of Panama, by Martin Mitchinson
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Rocks and Hard Places
A review of What They Wanted, by Donna Morrissey
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Singing the European Blues
A review of Josef Škvorecký’s Ordinary Lives
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A Storyteller's Story
A review of Pierre Berton: A Biography, by A.B. McKillop
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Creating a Canadian Pantheon
A review of Nellie McClung, by Charlotte Gray, and Emily Carr, by Lewis DeSoto
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A True Canadian Hero
A review of Maggie Siggins’s Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Story of Louis Riel’s Grandmother
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After the Apology
A review of Where the Pavement Ends: Canada’s Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation, by Marie Wadden
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What Do We Owe?
A review of Margaret Atwood’s Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
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Spiritual Dissent
An online review of Falun Gong and the Future of China, by David Ownby
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An Informed Citizenry?
An online review of Communication in China: Political Economy, Power and Conflict, by Yuezhi Zhao
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The Karaoke Classics
A review of Daniel A. Bell's China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society
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Love-Making through Word-Making
A review of Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie, edited by Victoria Glendinning
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History Etched in Stone
A review of Old Canadian Cemeteries: Places of Memory, by Jane Irwin, photographs by John de Visser
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Beyond the Counting House
A review of The Sum of the Satisfactions: Canada in the Age of National Accounting, by Duncan McDowall
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Eliminating the Caboose
A review of Who Killed the Queen? The Story of a Community Hospital and How to Fix Public Health Care, by Holly Dressel, and Critical to Care: The Invisible Women in Health Services, by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong and Krista Scott-Dixon
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Tabloid Science
A review of The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science, by Sheilla Jones
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The Cree in Crisis
A review of Through Black Spruce, by Joseph Boyden
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Cross-Racial Tragedy
A review of The Retreat, by David Bergen
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Angry Mr. Nice Guy
A review of Hell or High Water: My Life In and Out of Politics, by Paul Martin
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Imperial America
A review of The Perils of Empire: America and Its Imperial Predecessors, by James Laxer, and What Is America? A Short History of the New World Order, by Ronald Wright
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Swiftian Wit and Zen Insight
A review of Thomas Merton: Hermit at the Heart of Things, by J.S. Porter
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Women on the High Seas
A review of Silk Sails: Women of Newfoundland and Their Ships, by Calvin Evans
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Back to the Seventies
An online review of Erratic North: A Vietnam Draft Resister's Life in the Canadian Bush, by Mark Frutkin
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Control-Freak Kingdom
A review of Donald J. Savoie's Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom
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Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief
A review of Jacques Poitras' Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy and David Adams Richards' Lord Beaverbrook
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The Year of Anne
A review of Budge Wilson’s Before Green Gables, Deidre Kessler’s Anne of Green Gables: Stories for Young Readers, Don Harron’s Anne of Green Gables, The Musical: 101 Things You Didn’t Know, Elizabeth Rollins Epperly’s Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery, Irene Gammel’s Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic and Elizabeth Waterston’s Magic Island: The Fictions of L.M. Montgomery
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An Impossible Dream
A review of Loyalists and Layabouts: The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1783–1792, by Stephen Kimber
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Slow-Motion Disaster
A review of The Dirt: Industrial Disease and Conflict at St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, by Rick Rennie
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Avian Games
A review of The Darren Effect, by Libby Creelman
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George Parkin
A review of Parkin: Canada’s Most Famous Forgotten Man, by William Christian
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Casting a Light on Whiteness
A review of Mark Anthony Jarman’s My White Planet
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The Crack Cocaine of Gambling
A review of Terminal Damage: The Politics of VLTs in Atlantic Canada, by Peter McKenna
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Cape Breton Ghost
A review of A.J.B. Johnston’s Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory and the Despair of Louisbourg’s Last Decade
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Political Islam Versus Secularism
A review of Tarek Fatah's Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
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The Dove is Never Free
A review of James Orbinski's An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century and Richard Heinzl's Cambodia Calling: A Memoir from the Frontlines of Humanitarian Aid
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The Noisy Christian Right
A review of Michael Wagner's Standing on Guard for Thee: The Past, Present and Future of Canada’s Christian Right
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Green Menace
A review of The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World’s Freshwaters and Estuaries, by David W. Schindler and Jack R. Vallentyne
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The Innu and the Jesuit
A review of The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert, by Emma Anderson
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One and a Half Cheers
A review of Peter Russell’s Two Cheers for Minority Government: The Evolution of Canadian Parliamentary Democracy
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Circling the Crime
A review of Mary Swan’s The Boys in the Trees
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A Living Past and a Complex Present
A review of Bill Gaston’s The Order of Good Cheer
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Remembering a Magus
A review of Val Ross’s Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic
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Fine-Tuning Trade
A review of the Warwick Commission’s The Multilateral Trade Regime: Which Way Forward?
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Unlearned Lessons
A review of Razing Africville: A Geography of Racism, by Jennifer J. Nelson
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O Captain, My Captain
A review of Stephen Bown's Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
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Are We Being Helpful?
A review of Patricia Marchak’s No Easy Fix: Global Responses to Internal Wars and Crimes Against Humanity
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Closed Off from the World
A review of Daphne Bramham’s The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect
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The Holocaust in Hungary
A review of Joseph Kertes's Gratitude
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Involuntary Immigrants
A review of Uprooted: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867–1917, by Roy Parker, and Searching for Billie, by Freda Jackson
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Demons and Deities
A review of Anne Simpson's Falling.
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Two Russians in Canada
A review of The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika, by Christopher Shulgan, and Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America after the Cold War, by Pete Earley
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Is Canada Anti-American?
A review of American Myths: What Canadians Think They Know About the United States, edited by Rudyard Griffiths
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Reimagining English
A review of The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English, by Mark Abley
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The Hi-Tech Sub-Sahara
A review of Daniel Lak's India Express: The Future of a New Superpower
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Where Books and Business Meet
A review of A History of the Frankfurt Book Fair, by Peter Weidhaas, translated and edited by C.M. Gossage and W.A. Wright
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Politics as Spectacle
A review of Andrew F. Cooper’s Celebrity Diplomacy
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When Women Rule
A review of Blema S. Steinberg's Women in Power: The Personality and Leadership Style of Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher
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"Joga Bonito"
A review of Alan Twigg’s Full-Time: A Soccer Story
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Possessing Anarchist Tendencies
A review of Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, by Michael Petrou
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Do Genetics Really Tell The Tale?
A review of The Sexual Paradox: Extreme Men, Gifted Women and the Real Gender Gap, by Susan Pinker
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Ravines and Reality
A review of The Ravine, by Paul Quarrington
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A Canadian at the Cabaret
A review of I Still Have a Suitcase in Berlin, by Stephen Gerard Malone
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Sharia and Its Discontents
A review of Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics, by Sherene H. Razack
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Uganda's Endless War
A review of Stolen Angels: The Kidnapped Girls of Uganda, by Kathy Cook, and The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted, by Matthew Green
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Mystery and Ambiguity
A review of Sharon Butala's The Girl in Saskatoon: A Meditation on Friendship, Memory and Murder
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Borderline Differences
A review of Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions: Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity in the United States and Canada, by David Rayside
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The Rebel Sibling
A review of John Virtue's Fred Taylor: Brother in the Shadows
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What Does an Indian Look Like?
A review of Mary Jane Miller's Outside Looking In: Viewing First Nations Peoples in Canadian Dramatic Television Series
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W.H.O. is Brock Chisholm?
A review of John Farley's Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization and the Cold War
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Métis Imposter
A review of Donald B. Smith's Honoré Jaxon: Prairie Visionary
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The Ceaseless Search for Justice
A review of Erna Paris' The Sun Climbs Slow: Justice in the Age of Imperial America
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Canada's Most Memorable Poems: The LRC Contributors' List (Part 2)
A special feature
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In Weakness, Strength
A review of Jean Vanier's Our Life Together: A Memoir in Letters
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The Posthumous Richler
A review of Leaving St. Urbain, by Reinhold Kramer
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Not So Different After All
A review of Reginald C. Stuart's Dispersed Relations: Americans and Canadians in Upper North America
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Tales from the Frontier
A review of Measuring Mother Earth: How Joe the Kid Became Tyrrell of the North, by Heather Robertson, and Dark Storm Moving West, by Barbara Belyea
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Space and Place
A review of Asylum, by Andre Alexis
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Passionless Powder Keg
A review of Steven Galloway's The Cellist of Sarajevo
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Bold Prescription for Our Cities
A review of Urban Nation: Why We Need to Give Power Back to the Cities to Make Canada Strong, by Alan Broadbent
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The Golden-Tongued Martyr
A review of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 1: Passion, Reason and Politics, 1825-1857, by David A. Wilson
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Getting The Meatball Recipe Right
A review of Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech, by Craig Silverman
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Autobiographies of the Imagination
A review of The Filled Pen: Selected Non-Fiction, by P.K. Page, and A Dropped Glove in Regent Street: An Autobiography by Other Means, by Don Coles
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A Question of Influence
A review of Northern Spirits: John Watson, George Grant and Charles Taylor—Appropriations of Hegelian Political Thought, by Robert C. Sibley
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The Adventurers Are Back
A review of James Raffan's Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson and the Remarkable Story of the Hudson’s Bay Company and Deirdre Simmons' Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives
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The Burden of Isolation
A review of John Stape’s The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
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Canada’s Most Memorable Poems: The LRC Contributors’ List (Part 1)
A special feature
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Past as Prologue
An online review of John W. Dean's The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers - John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul Goodman, Jane Jacobs, Eric W. Kierans, Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Has Multi-Culturalism Had Its Day?
A review of Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity, by Will Kymlicka
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Phileas Fogg with a Guitar
A review of Dave Bidini’s Around the World in 57½ Gigs
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Show Us The Money
A review of The Politics of Public Money: Spenders, Guardians, Priority Setters and Financial Watchdogs inside the Canadian Government, by David A. Good
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North End Memories
A review of A Glowing Dream: A Memoir, by Roland Penner
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Standing on Guard for Tim's
A review of The Donut: A Canadian History, by Steve Penfold
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Sheer Talent
A review of No Limits: The Amazing Life Story of Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, Canada’s Olympian Skiing Pioneers, by Byron Rempel
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Sentimental Journey from Hell
A review of Finding Home, by Eric Wright
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The Struggle of Memory against Forgetting
A review of Cloud of Bone, by Bernice Morgan
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Asking the Right and Wrong Questions
A review of The World in Canada: Diaspora, Demography and Domestic Politics, edited by David Carment and David Bercuson
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Penicillin of the Mind?
A review of Edward Shorter and David Healey’s Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness
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The Nunavummiut: Politically Engaged Citizens
A review of Nunavut: Rethinking Political Culture, by Ailsa Henderson
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Dystopic Utopia?
A review of Michael Adams' Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph of Canadian Pluralism
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Darwin on My Mind
A review of Ronald de Sousa's Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind
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Risk-Prone Rogers
A review of Caroline Van Hasselt’s High Wire Act: Ted Rogers and the Empire That Debt Built
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The Defender of Stories
A review of Alberto Manguel’s The City of Words
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Home Schooling with a Difference
A review of The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son, by David Gilmour
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Alice in Afghanistan
A review of Janice Gross Stein's and Eugene Lang's The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar
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Pages from the Conservative Handbook
A review of Tom Flanagan’s Harper’s Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power
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Pages from the Liberal Handbook
A review of Warren Kinsella's The War Room: Political Strategies for Business, NGOs and Anyone Who Wants to Win
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Sympathetic, Generous ... and Tough
A review of Elaine Kalman Naves' Robert Weaver: Godfather of Canadian Literature
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Conscience Aside
An online review of John W. Dean's Conservatives Without Conscience and Robert Altemeyer's The Authoritarians
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Your Brain: Flexible or Hard-Wired?
An online review of Norman Doidge's The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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Promoting Democracy Abroad
A review of Advancing Canada’s Role in International Support for Democratic Development Report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development House of Commons, July 2007
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Campus Navel Gazing
A review of James Côté's and Anton Allahar's Ivory Tower Blues: A University System in Crisis and George Fallis' Multiversities, Ideas and Democracy
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Great Disappointments
A special feature
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Out, Damned Spot!
A review of The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History, by Katherine Ashenburg
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Audacious Undertaking
A review of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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The Politics of the Ordinary
A review of Richard Poplak's Ja, No, Man: Growing Up White in Apartheid-Era South Africa
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Fantasy Foreign Policy
A review of Michael Byers' Intent for a Nation: What Is Canada For?
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Clearing the Air on Climate Change
A review of Jeffrey Simpson's, Mark Jaccard's, and Nic Rivers' Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge
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The Wisdom of Bones
A review of Tim Bowling's The Bone Sharps
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The Hypocrisy Game
A review of Rob Beamish's and Ian Ritchie's Fastest, Highest, Strongest: A Critique of High-Performance Sport
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The Rise of the Pyjamahadeen
A review of Michael Keren's Blogosphere: The New Political Arena
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The Post-Celluloid Era
A review of Hervé Fischer's The Decline of the Hollywood Empire
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POW! BLAM! ZOWIE! eh?
A review of John Bell's Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe
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The Inner Frye
A review of Northrop Frye's Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architect of the Spiritual World, Volume 5 and Volume 6, edited by Robert D. Denham, and The "Third Book" Notebooks of Northrop Frye, 1964–1972: The Critical Comedy, Volume 9, edited by Michael Dolzani
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Happy Birthday, C.C.!
A special feature
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Are Interests Really Value Free?
A review of Dreamland: How Canada's Pretend Foreign Policy Has Undermined Sovereignty, by Roy Rempel
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The LRC 100 (Part Two)
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The LRC 100 (Part One)
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The Book Lover's Tale
A review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, by Azar Nafisi
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What's Wrong With Canadian Universities
A selection by Contributing Editor Anthony Westell, originally published in the LRC's September 2002 issue.
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The Advantages of Union
A review of How the Scots Invented the Modern World, by Arthur Herman
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How the Media Promote White Supremacy
A review of Discourses of Domination: Racial Bias in the Canadian English-Language Press, by Frances Henry and Carol Tator
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The Battle for Resources
A review of The Marshal Decision and Native Rights, by Ken Coates, and Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in the Maritimes: The Marshal Decision and Beyond, by Thomas Isaac
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Rediscovering Emily Carr
An excerpt from The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr
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The Diary of a Man Called God
A review of The Diaries of Northrop Frye, 1942–1955, edited by Robert D. Denham
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Two Windows on the Arctic
A review of Gretel Ehrlich’s This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland and Pierre Perrault’s Le Mal du Nord
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The Strange War in Ireland
A review of Grounded in Eire: The Story of Two RAF Fliers Interned in Ireland during World War II, by Ralph Keefer
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Brief Encounters
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An American de Tocqueville in Canada
A review of Why Canadian Unity Matters and Why Americans Care: Democratic Pluralism at Risk, by Charles Doran
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