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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

John Hellman

John Hellman, professor of history at McGill University, was a member of the advisory board of the revived Cité Libre and has written several books on the history of personalism.

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Skeleton in Jackboots?

An intellectual historian makes sense of Young Trudeau’s “shocking” papers September 2006
Young Trudeau: 1919–1944, Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, a highly critical account of the youth of a man and written by self-described admiring friends, is as paradoxical as its subject. Max and Monique Nemni befriended Pierre Trudeau after meeting him in the collective effort to resurrect Cité Libre to fight Quebec separatism in…