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The Treaties

Ottawa negotiated in bad faith

Making a Scene

Experimental film is ready for its close-up

A More Sentimental Man

Michael Ondaatje’s late style

Terry Cook

Terry Cook is a professor in the archival studies graduate program at the University of Manitoba and an international archival consultant and speaker, as well as a historian. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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Blissful History

How a biographer writes himself December 2011
Michael Bliss turns the spotlight on himself in this incisive memoir. Using skills well honed with his earlier historical biographies, which are scholarly masterpieces and often bestsellers, Bliss deftly situates his own story in post-war Canada. Weaving his private life, politics, social movements, university affairs and his professional career into a unified texture, supported by decades of journal writing where he vented and recorded his…