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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

James Eayrs

James Eayrs, former professor at the University of Toronto and professor emeritus at Dalhousie University, is currently writing A Man’s Reach: C.S. Eby in Canada and Meiji Japan.

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James Eayrs

Canada’s Black Chamber

An account of early Canadian code breaking is mostly accurate but very dry. December 2008
Cautious Beginnings: Canadian Foreign Intelligence, 1939–51 is a history of the bureaucracy created by the Canadian government to acquire “foreign intelligence.” Kurt F. Jensen, an intelligence specialist in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade before joining Carleton University’s Department of History, rightly claims that his book, an outgrowth of his Carleton…