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Enough Heat to Melt the Ice

A new generation of novels about hockey finds the action away from the rink

City Limits

That shrinking feeling

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Lars Osberg

Lars Osberg is University Research Professor in the Economics Department of Dalhousie University in Halifax.

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Lars Osberg

What Causes Social Inequality?

From Scandinavia to the Anglosphere, it may come down to choice. April 2011
In Power and Inequality: A Comparative Introduction, Gregg Olsen examines three “Nordic” countries—Finland, Norway and Sweden—and three “Anglo” countries—Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States—through the lens of social inequality. Readers with an allergy to footnotes or definitions or statistics should be warned from the start: this book is not an…

Is It All Quebec’s Fault?

A Maritimes-based polemicist ends up sounding like a western separatist October 2009
Brian Lee Crowley begins Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values by dating the onset of decline in Canada’s work ethic, family life and fertility with great precision—June 22, 1960—because that is the day the Union Nationale government of Quebec was replaced by Jean Lesage’s Liberals, whose “Quiet Revolution” he holds responsible for the unleashing of secular nationalism in…