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The Canadian Conversation

A Polish journalist’s perspective on residential schools

This Story Is Mine

Why I’m finally telling it

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This season’s roster of hockey books

James Laxer

James Laxer is the author of the award-winning Red Diaper Baby: A Boyhood in the Age of McCarthyism (Douglas and McIntyre 2005) and a professor of political science at York University.

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James Laxer

The Rebel Sibling

A Canadian tycoon’s brother grows up a communist and an artist June 2008
As a kid growing up in Toronto in the 1950s, I was well aware, as everyone was, of E.P. Taylor, Canada’s greatest entrepreneur of the era. Photos of Edward Plunket Taylor in a top hat appeared regularly in the Toronto Star and the Telegram. He gave us Don Mills with its curlicue…