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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Jeff Costen

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Naoko Asano

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Bob Armstrong
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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…