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Rye Observations

What we talk about when we talk about Holden

Who Controls North America?

Today, even the U.S. government is just one of many players

Lines of Flight

Finding the tracks of Canada’s missing black history

Bruce Dowbiggin

Bruce Dowbiggin is an award-winning sports journalist based in Calgary and the author of five books, the latest being The Meaning of Puck: How Hockey Explains Modern Canada (Red Deer Press, 2008).

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Svengali on Ice

A sordid drama of family dysfunction, sexual abuse and the national game December 2011
The CBC is said to be perpetually in search of definitive Canadian stories. Perhaps it might consider the sorry tale of former NHL player Mike Danton as a topic for a movie of the week and tell Being Erica to go rest for a spell. If it needs a primer, it can consult Steve Simmons’s book The Lost Dream: The Story of Mike