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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Richard Gwyn

Richard Gwyn wrote a column on national and international affairs for the Toronto Star. He was the author of numerous books, including Nationalism without Walls: The Unbearable Lightness of Being CanadianJohn A: The Man Who Made Us; and Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times.

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Richard Gwyn

Surviving Survivalism

Canada has moved into a new kind of sovereignty; less fretful, more laid-back December 2004
Some time in the last half dozen years, Canadians decided that we had made it as a country. No audible click of consciousness-raising occurred, but by one of the mysterious processes of collective decision making that takes place from time to time in democracies, we simply decided that as a country, a nation-state, a political…