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Neighbourhood Watch

Bracing insights into Canada’s always uneasy relationship with our closest friend

He Told Us So

A veteran contrarian on why free trade is failing

Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow

Why don’t Canadians save more of their resource wealth?

Jennifer S. H. Brown

Jennifer S. H. Brown is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Winnipeg. She lives in Denver.

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Jennifer S. H. Brown

A Mother, Wrapped in a Mystery

Transcribing the past December 2020
In the mid-1950s, I was a high schooler living in a big old house in Providence, Rhode Island. My father, Harcourt Brown, a professor of French at Brown University, had a study that overflowed with books. And my adjacent bedroom was in the floodway. So he and my mother, Dorothy Stacey Brown, created an attic suite for me by blending two adjoining rooms into…