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Blurred Vision

A novel by Anne Michaels

Solidarity Revisited

What past legal battles tell us about the Canadian workplace today

Clock Watching

The nuclear threat lingers still

David Hornsby

David J. Hornsby hails from Elora, Ontario, and is currently a lecturer in international relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where he researches Canada–South Africa relations. He wishes to thank the participants in the Canada–South Africa Relations Colloquium held in Johannesburg in 2012 for some of the information and ideas expressed in this essay.

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David Hornsby

Keeping the Dream Alive

Canada and South Africa once seemed the closest of allies. What happened? March 2013
If there was ever to be a standard definition of South Africa it would likely read: the Rainbow Nation; the home of Nobel Peace Prize laureates Albert Lituli, Desmond Tutu, F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela; the country that institutionalized a brutal and racist system of division and oppression called apartheid, yet overcame it in a peaceful return to democracy in…