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Language Shaped by Silence

The mind and craft of a deaf writer

Linda Besner

Knock on Wood

Solutions don’t always grow in trees

John Baglow

Exclaim!

Pop punk in the key of eh

Emily Latimer
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Morton Beiser

Morton Beiser is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a senior scientist at the Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement, and has devoted his career to research about immigration and its effects on adults and children.He is author of Strangers at the Gate (University of Toronto Press, 1999), which describes the settlement of the Vietnamese boat people in Canada.

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Morton Beiser

Toronto: Improvised City

The Vietnamese boat people take centre stage in this novel of immigrant themes April 2005
Great cities spin myths. Toronto’s myth is that it is the most multicultural place on earth, a place of disappearing majorities. More than 100,000 immigrants flock to the city every year: despite the myth, they have a hard time trying to fit in. Their children know better. There’s nothing to fit into; the city is all about…