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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Mel Watkins

Mel Watkins is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. McGill-Queen’s University Press recently published Staples and Beyond: Selected Writings of Mel Watkins, edited by Hugh Grant and David Wolfe. He remains a political activist, most recently as a member of the Maher Arar Support Committee.

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Mel Watkins

The Past Reframes Itself

A 1960s icon unrepentantly faces down two younger historians April 2007
The 1960s, that memorable decade of the gorgeously good, the basically bad and the truly ugly, which seems like only yesterday to this survivor, has now become history-as-usual. Which means, since history is written by the winners, that those of us who were the unwashed back then risk being taken to the cleaners one more…

Growing Up Communist

A political thinker recalls his unsettling Toronto upbringing in a Stalinist home December 2004