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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that the federal insistence on clarity has paid off

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

David P. Silcox

David P. Silcox is the president of Sotheby’s Canada and a senior fellow at Massey College.

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David P. Silcox

Lost Opportunity

A Canadian university almost gained the most important archaeological find of the 20th century May 2010
Big and ambitious projects at Canada’s universities are among the less celebrated achievements of our country. What successes our scholars and researchers have given to us and to the world rarely get mentioned in the popular press, let alone held up as points of enduring national pride. Such mammoth undertakings as our own Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Still a Mystery

An encyclopedic look at works inspired by Tom Thomson's life leaves the artist tantalizingly ambiguous December 2004