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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

Lowell Murray

Lowell Murray was appointed to the Senate by Joe Clark in 1979 and served in Brian Mulroney’s Cabinet as Leader of the Government in the Senate and Minister of Federal-Provincial Relations, among other posts. He is a member of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Official Languages.

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Lowell Murray

Born-Again Bilingualism

An anglo journalist charts the ups and downs of Canada’s most contentious public policy June 2006
Graham Fraser has written a book to tell Canadians we still don’t get it, after 40 years of official bilingualism. Three hundred thousand kids are in French immersion but there is little opportunity for them to connect with French Canadians or to continue to develop their embryonic language skills. Students can get into and out of university without French…