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Language Shaped by Silence

The mind and craft of a deaf writer

Knock on Wood

Solutions don’t always grow in trees

Exclaim!

Pop punk in the key of eh

Jonathan Manthorpe

Jonathan Manthorpe is international affairs columnist for the Vancouver Sun. He is author of Power and the Tories: Ontario Politics, 1943 to the Present (Macmillan, 1974) and The Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan, forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan later this year.

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Jonathan Manthorpe

A Full and Sympathetic Accounting

A new biography draws out the Shakespearean dimensions of a politician’s life and death July–August 2005
The past is indeed a foreign country. They do things differently there. Just how foreign and different the Ontario and Canada of the 1960s and early 1970s were from today comes home in almost every page of Steve Paikin’s latest book. Public Triumph, Private Tragedy: The Double Life of John P. Robarts tells the previously untold story of Ontario’s 17th…