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Country Music

Please stand and remove your cynicism

Bountiful Diversity

A leading Québécois scholar’s appreciative look at Canada’s biggest province

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Daniel Poliquin

Daniel Poliquin is a fiction writer, essayist and translator. His latest book was a contribution to Penguin Canada’s series Extraordinary Canadians, a biography of Trudeau’s nemesis René Lévesque, which was nominated for the prestigious Charles Taylor Prize and several others.

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Daniel Poliquin

The Pierre We Hardly Knew

A major new biography sets the record straight on Trudeau's "idle" years January–February 2012
A word to the wise: should you be tempted to enter into a factual argument with Monique and Max Nemni about Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s life and times, make sure you stand on solid ground. Otherwise, they will shame you out of the room, albeit with a smile, because the two are a kind-hearted pair. But you will be toast…