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The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

Richard Poplak

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The fallacy of an empty continent

Elaine Coburn

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From a land of oil, true enough

Amanda Perry
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Edward Grabb

Edward Grabb is a professor of sociology at the University of Western Ontario. His main areas of interest are in social inequality and comparative sociology, including comparisons of Canada and the United States. His books include Theories of Social Inequality: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives (Harcourt, 2007), Regions Apart: The Four Societies of Canada and the United States (Oxford University Press, 2005), co-authored with James Curtis, and Social Inequality in Canada: Patterns, Problems, Policies (Pearson, 2004), co-edited with James Curtis and Neil Guppy.

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Edward Grabb

Not So Different After All

The striking commonality between (some) Americans and (some) Canadians May 2008
In recent years, a growing number of books have been written that consider the long- standing and often complex relationship between Canada and the United States. These volumes have ranged from more academic treatments, such as John McDougall’s Drifting Together: The Political Economy of Canada-U.S. Integration, to more popular accounts, such as Jeffrey Simpson’s Star-Spangled Canadians: Canadians Living the American Dream or Michael Adams’s Fire and Ice: The United States and Canada and the Myth of Converging Values…