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Power Down

Is this the twilight’s last gleaming?

Who Controls North America?

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

The End of the End

Revisiting a famous declaration

Bruce Whiteman

Bruce Whiteman recently edited Best Canadian Essays 2021.

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Bruce Whiteman

She Liked Short Lines

The lyrical voices of Carol Shields March 2022
For her 1987 novel, Swann: A Mystery, which was reissued as simply Swann and as Mary Swann in foreign markets, Carol Shields composed several poems as representative works of her protagonist. Mary Swann is a poet from the countryside around Kingston, Ontario, who is murdered by her husband, at…