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Claim Game

The high stakes of fraudulent identity

Sasha Chabot-Gaspé

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Elaine Coburn

The Canadian Conversation

A Polish journalist’s perspective on residential schools

Magdalena Milosz
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Joshua Nichols

Joshua Nichols is an assistant professor at the School for Public Administration at Dalhousie University and a fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.

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Calling the Lobster Telephone

What surrealism can teach social scientists November 2017
If you were to ask someone what the term “surrealism” means, you might well call to mind images of Salvador Dalí’s melting clocks, René Magritte’s bowler hats, or André Masson’s strange and troubling, almost Boschian, scenes of violence and eroticism. Surrealism’s most common reference points are, after all, to this set of European…

Unsettled

Is multinational, multicultural Canada more civilization than nation-state? July–August 2017
The cover of Peter H. Russell’s new book prominently features a map of Canada, but make no mistake: Russell’s position as author is in fact more akin to the experienced guide than the cartographer, and he is quite open about what he is working to guide us toward. Canada’s Odyssey: A Country Based on Incomplete Conquests is designed to be a corrective to his Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign …