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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Jeff Costen

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Naoko Asano

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Bob Armstrong
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Geoffrey Cameron

Geoffrey Cameron is principal researcher with the Baha’i Community of Canada, and a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the co-author of Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future (Princeton University Press, 2011), with Ian Goldin and Meera Balarajan.

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Geoffrey Cameron

A Quiet Exodus

Welcoming Baha'i refugees from Iran was a humanitarian landmark—and an enduring immigration lesson July–August 2013
In 1973, the Trudeau government decided that Canada’s immigration and refugee policies were outdated and in need of revision. Canada’s response to a series of refugee situations—the Czechs in 1968, Asian Ugandans in 1972 and Chileans in 1973—had each required the creation of new regulations, and it was clear that a more general framework was needed to allow for a more flexible and nimble response to humanitarian…