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Claim Game

The high stakes of fraudulent identity

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

The Canadian Conversation

A Polish journalist’s perspective on residential schools

Catherine L. Evans

Catherine L. Evans is the author of Unsound Empire: Civilization and Madness in Late-Victorian Law.

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Exhibit B

Breaking down the building blocks January | February 2022
When I was nine, my mother brought home something remarkable. A young woman, I think a graduate student in my father’s lab, followed her into our bathroom. Soon the smell of formaldehyde wafted into the living room. The next day, my mother, wearing a denim button-down shirt with embroidered Looney Tunes characters over the breast…