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The Superpower Next Door

Bully for you — but at what cost?

Love’s Remains

Canada’s poets have left a rich epistolary trail

How the West Was One

Tim Cook’s story of Allied cooperation

Donald J. Johnston

Donald J. Johnston is a founding partner and counsel to Heenan Blaikie LLP, a former secretary general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and former Cabinet minister.

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Return of the Robber Barons

Chrystia Freeland asks if we can tell “makers” from “takers” among the new super-rich March 2013
Thomas Jefferson took pride in the egalitarianism of the fledgling American Republic he helped create, as opposed to the class stratification of English society. “The great mass of our population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth … Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?” By the end of the…