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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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James F. Cosgrave

James F. Cosgrave is a professor of sociology at Trent University Oshawa. He has written extensively on the state’s role in gambling expansion in Canada and is co-editor of Casino State: Legalized Gambling in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2009) and co-author  of Desiring Canada: CBC Contests, Hockey Violence and Other Stately Pleasures (University of Toronto Press, 2013).

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Vices Then and Now

A new book looks at the colourful history of moral regulation in Canada July–August 2014
Vice exerts a perennial interest, -regardless of how and by whom it is defined. In Canada the Good: A Short History of Vice since 1500, an admirably condensed social history of Canadian vices over the past five centuries, York University historian Marcel Martel shows exactly how during this time the definition of vice in Canada has shifted from a discourse centred on sin to one…