Some readers of this blog will have noticed that the Globe’s front page story yesterday concerned the yet-to-be announced plans of the federal government to add roughly 30 seats to…
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One of the central features of the argument of Fearful Symmetry is that the entry of a vast wave of unilingual French-speaking Quebeckers helped to trigger a vast expansion of…
 We decided not to include many of the graphics in Fearful Symmetry, in part because of the technical difficulties in doing so, and in part because books with lots…
In a stimulating post on her excellent blog, Janet Ajzenstat wrote recently about her opposityion to Ottawa’s use of its spending power. Citing Barry Cooper’s new book, It’s the Regime,…
Two forces have shaped Canada profoundly in the last fifty years: the entry of Boomers into the workforce and the rise of a separatist Quebec nationalism. Large-scale unemployment plus the…