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Multiple Division

As if high school isn’t hard enough

Amanda Perry

Grief Observed

A portrait of loss

Ruth Panofsky

A Developing Situation

Scenes of the first five waves

Mary Hunter
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John Gray

John Gray wrote for a number of newspapers, including the Globe and Mail, for which he was Ottawa bureau chief, national editor, foreign editor, foreign correspondent, and national correspondent. He published Paul Martin: The Power of Ambition in 2003.

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Angry Mister Nice Guy

The last prime minister’s memoir displays contradiction, not candour November 2008
Paul Martin and his friends and acolytes have always insisted that what drives the man is not politics but policy. True, his early years were framed by politics, the child of a famous father whose talent and taste for shaking hands and garnering votes made him almost a caricature. Anybody here from Windsor? On the Sunday mornings when Paul…

A Thoughtful But Conflicted Analyst

A political columnist calls for ambitious new levels of immigration in Canada December 2005
Startlingly, John Ibbitson opens his book with the observation that “sometime, not too long ago, while no one was watching, Canada became the world’s most successful country.” Startling because even the most enthusiastic of those who wave flags are unlikely to be quite so bold. It’s nice, but “the world’s most successful country” is moot.…

Ottawa’s Boy Scout

A praising assessment of the opposition leader leaves out the dark side September 2005
In the normal course of normal events, Stephen Harper might well by now have become prime minister of Canada. It seems so long ago, but in the early days of 2004 Paul Martin and his Liberals had been on the road to a landslide victory when circumstance and incompetence conspired to drive them to the brink of…