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That Ever Governed Frenzy

Through the eyes of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Michael Wernick

Jeffrey Simpson

Rumble on Parliament Hill

In the ring with Justin Trudeau

Curtis Gillespie

Return of the Robber Barons

Chrystia Freeland asks if we can tell “makers” from “takers” among the new super-rich

Donald J. Johnston
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Nora Gold

Nora Gold is a former social worker and social work professor who worked for many years with the families of children with developmental disabilities and has conducted research in this field. She is currently at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education (CWSE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT), and is the founding editor of the new literary journal, Jewish Fiction .net.

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Defining a Good Life

What is our society’s contract with families of the severely disabled? November 2010
The Four Walls of My Freedom is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book that describes Donna Thomson’s first 21 years mothering a child with cerebral palsy, and it raises some important questions about the fundamental obligations of the state to provide for its most vulnerable citizens. Thomson’s book alternates between descriptions of the day-to-day reality of life with her son…