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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Amanda Perry

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that the federal insistence on clarity has paid off

Sujit Choudhry

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Stephen Marche
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Wesley Wark

Wesley Wark is an expert on intelligence and security issues who teaches at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He served as an expert witness for the defence at the sentencing hearing for Jeffrey Delisle. He is one of the editors of Secret Intelligence: A Reader (Routledge, 2009).

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Wesley Wark

“Spy, Russians, Secrets, Sold”

In the Jeffrey Delisle affair, one thing is certain: baffling incompetence on all sides April 2013
Spy … Russians … secrets … sold … These jumbled linguistic fragments now define the life of ex–sub-lieutenant Jeffrey Delisle, recently sentenced to a 20-year jail term. Delisle was the first Canadian spy case of the new century, joining a short list of major cases from the previous one, headlined by the defection of Igor…

Two Russians in Canada

Western interventions are called to account in this study of the aftermath of war July–August 2008
Here are two books with provenance issues—volumes whose very existence is surrounded by an aura of the unexpected, both with a whiff of unreality. One, The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika, is an account by Canadian journalist Christopher Shulgan of the life and times of a Soviet apparatchik who may or may not have been the invisible pilot of the good ship…

Spying in Lesovia

It took an American scholar to unearth the Gouzenko story. January–February 2006