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Who Do They Think They Are?

When extraordinary writers prove fallible

To Save a Planet

Between despair and disaster

Campfire Confessional

Crushes, counsellors, and s’more

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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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…