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What Lies Ahead

My mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s

A Tribunal Born of Fear and Hope

How a Canadian judge forced Slobodan Milosevic to face his accusers

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

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…