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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Jeff Costen

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Naoko Asano

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Bob Armstrong
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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…