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Neighbourhood Watch

Bracing insights into Canada’s always uneasy relationship with our closest friend

He Told Us So

A veteran contrarian on why free trade is failing

Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow

Why don’t Canadians save more of their resource wealth?

Derek Webster

Derek Webster is the founding editor of Maisonneuve. His latest collection of poetry is National Animal.

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Derek Webster

Mockingbird

November 2014
  I don’t need you to tell me why I’m here or solve the mystery of how I slipped so far and came to, lost in a snickering wood, your trill my sole directive.   No bewigged guardian of the law will ever compliment my patience, or sense of beauty, or your eloquence. Like you I’m playing with a kingless…