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The Envoy

Mark Carney has a plan

Bubble Weary in Trump's America

A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation

On Familiar Spirits

A senator warns against another witch hunt

David Layton

David Layton is a freelance writer. His latest novel, Kaufmann & Sons, will be published by HarperCollins in the spring of 2016.

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Born to Leave

For generations, migration has been a Chinese way of life May 2015
Unless you’re Native American, you came from someplace else. So said U.S. president Barack Obama in a speech on immigration urging his fellow Americans to consider that, when it comes to new immigrants seeking a better life, “most of us used to be them.” This point should be obvious to Canadians who, like Americans, belong to a country that was founded and forged by waves of immigrants arriving on its…