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Please stand and remove your cynicism

John Allemang

Bountiful Diversity

A leading Québécois scholar’s appreciative look at Canada’s biggest province

Barbara Yaffe

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Naoko Asano
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Max Nemni

Max Nemni is a retired professor of political philosophy and Canadian politics at Laval University and co-author, with his wife, Monique Nemni, of the first two volumes of an intellectual biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada (volume 1, Young Trudeau: 1919–1944, and volume 2, Trudeau Transformed: 1944–1965, published by McClelland and Stewart in 2006 and 2011 respectively). They are now working on the third. He wishes to thank Monique for her editorial support and comments.

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The Incrementalist

Stephen Harper is a patient man on a mission: remaking Trudeau’s Canada March 2014
In the very first paragraph of his entertaining and thoroughly researched analysis of Harper’s government, The Longer I’m Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006–, Paul Wells warns the reader: “If all you look at is ‘anger’ or ‘control freak’ or ‘Alberta,’ you’re left with a mystery, because how could an angry control freak from Alberta get anywhere all by himself?” Harper may well be some of these…