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Claim Game

The high stakes of fraudulent identity

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

The Canadian Conversation

A Polish journalist’s perspective on residential schools

Michael Posner

Michael Posner is the author of The Last Honest Man: An Oral Biography of Mordecai Richler (McClelland and Stewart, 2005).

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Sentimental Education

A broken-hearted hero searches for a moral compass March 2015
In the prologue to Eric McCormack’s new novel, Cloud, the book’s narrator and protagonist, Harry Steen, recounts a tale that can scarcely be believed. Steen discovers the story by accident. While attending a mining conference in the Mexican town of La Verdad—meaning “the truth”—he kills time one rainy afternoon in a used …