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Emission Impossible

On policies and persuasion

Green Guides

Two books to help your garden grow

Ulysses Unbound

Navigating this Age of Appetite

William Watson

William Watson teaches economics at McGill University and writes columns for the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and the Financial Post.

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The Continental Quickstep

Will North America ever feel as integrated as Europe? April 2009
In the introduction to Does North America Exist? Governing the Continent after NAFTA and 9/11, Stephen Clarkson relates how, over the several years he worked on this long investigation of the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement on our continental life together, his “nearest and dearest” took to calling it his…

My Father’s Books

Dealing with a dead parent’s library is a charged, emotional experience May 2007
My father died two years ago, suddenly but not unexpectedly: he was six weeks short of 84. When, a few months later, my mother decided to move in with one of my two sisters and her family, we siblings faced a problem many children of literate members of that generation face, namely, what to do with my father’s…