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Country Music

Please stand and remove your cynicism

Bountiful Diversity

A leading Québécois scholar’s appreciative look at Canada’s biggest province

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Roger Gibbins

Roger Gibbins is a retired academic and former president of the Canada West Foundation.

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The Rich Kid

Where does Alberta fit in the Canadian family now? May 2005

The Western “Colonies”

Our notion of equal provinces from sea to sea is surprisingly new January–February 2013
In Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark: The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation, Mary Janigan addresses a large and contentious issue—the place of the West in Canada—by exploring the historical struggle of the Prairie provinces to secure ownership of their natural resources on the same constitutional footing enjoyed by the other…