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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that the federal insistence on clarity has paid off

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Joan Givner

Joan Givner has written two major biographies, an autobiography, two novels and several collections of short stories. She is the author of the Ellen Fremedon series of children’s books. Her young adult novel, A Girl Called Tennyson, was published in 2010 by Thistledown Press.

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Joan Givner

A Woman Who Prevails

The most formidable Canadian heroine since Hagar Shipley January–February 2010
As she traverses the city of Toronto, Gladdie McConnell, the heroine of Connie Gault’s Euphoria, sees an octagon-shaped building with a cupola on top. It is the cyclorama, that popular 19th-century entertainment in which a panoramic painting on a cylindrical screen revolves around the viewer, placing her in the middle of a historical…