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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

Stephen Schneider

Stephen Schneider is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Saint Mary’s University. He is the author of four books, including his latest, Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada, which was published in 2009 by John Wiley and Sons.

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Stephen Schneider

Our Healthiest Industry?

Organized crime is flourishing in Canada, just as it always has January–February 2010
“Smuggling on the Canadian border.” “Counterfeiting gang caught.” “No escape from bloody mafia.” “Big drug seizure.” “Police hold six men for questioning in gang slaying.” “Canada in the bookies’ web.” We have become more than accustomed to the urgent and incessant headlines about organized crime. In the last year, for instance, we have learned that Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of…