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Neighbourhood Watch

Bracing insights into Canada’s always uneasy relationship with our closest friend

He Told Us So

A veteran contrarian on why free trade is failing

Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow

Why don’t Canadians save more of their resource wealth?

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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Michael Posner

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 …