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Multiple Division

As if high school isn’t hard enough

Grief Observed

A portrait of loss

A Developing Situation

Scenes of the first five waves

Stephen Azzi

Stephen Azzi is associate professor of history at Laurentian University and author of Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999). He was born and raised in British Columbia and, like Alastair Gillespie, considers himself a British Columbian despite living most of his life in Ontario.

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Stephen Azzi

The Patriotic Executive

Alastair Gillespie recounts his struggle to reconcile nationalism with entrepreneurship May 2010
“Canadian nationalism! How old-fashioned can you get?” E.P. Taylor, the legendary Canadian entrepreneur, reflected the view of many businesspeople in his dismissal of nationalism. For the business community, nationalists are unrealistic and hopelessly out of touch. Parochial and xenophobic, they do not understand that their naive proposals to limit trade and investment flows would have destructive effects on the…