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Dangerous Grounds

Coming soon to a democracy near you

The Collapse of Syria

The story of a nation’s unravelling, one neighbourhood at a time

Trompe Le Toil

The modern conundrum of overwork

Jane Farrow

Jane Farrow is co-author of the Canadian edition of The Book of Lists: The Original Compendium of Curious Information (Knopf), and Wanted Words 1 and 2 (Stoddard). A journalist and former producer for CBC Radio, she was the founding director of Jane’s Walk, a global movement that celebrates Jane Jacobs’s ideas.

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Jane Farrow

The Audacity (and Idiocy) of Hope

Political memoir, like history, is written by the victor. Gloriously, not this one. October 2016
What was Noah Richler thinking, running for the federal NDP in the Toronto-St Paul’s riding, an affluent Liberal stronghold held by Carolyn Bennett for the past 18 years? Richler is a confident and capable radio producer, journalist and writer (although someone should permanently disable his comma key, forcing him to write tighter sentences). And as he himself…