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New piece of mine in the LRC |
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A blog about literature, art, history, and philosophy. New piece of mine in the LRC. In the current (April) issue of the. Literary Review of Canada. Which has been hitting newsstands everywhere, I have a one-page review of Daniel Poliquin’s biography of René Lévesque. Which was nominated for both the Charles Taylor Prize ($25 000) and the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize ($25 000). My piece is just 1200 words or so, but it’s a stylistic. Etc; and the book reviewed is quite interesting and written with great.
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Appetite for politics – TICE! |
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A blog about literature, art, history, and philosophy. Appetite for politics – TICE! I’ve spent the day in reflection about my grandfather, and missing him; seeing him everywhere, as it were. As mentioned in my poem below, he was a man who thought about politics and public policy as naturally as most people breathe. Anything. This is basically just political cowardice, the. An example: here’s a completely average Andrew Sullivan roundup post. Crammed to the gills. Willing to attack each other viciously.
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Eight years of rabble.ca - Macleans.ca
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Adnan R. Khan. Adnan R. Khan. Adnan R. Khan. Eight years of rabble.ca. April 24, 2009. To mark rabble.ca’s eighth birthday the website’s publisher Kim Elliott (who is the partner of Vancouver NDP MP Libby), convened a panel at the University of Toronto to discuss What’s Wrong With Canada’s Newspapers? Below is Elliott (left) with rabble.ca board member Duncan Cameron and author/journalist Linda McQuaig who was one of the panelists. The other speaker was author and journalist Peter C. Newman. Et saecla in...
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A blog about literature, art, history, and philosophy. For information about Jack Mitchell’s intellectual activity, please visit his personal website at www.jackmitchell.ca. George Showman's blog. Literary Review of Canada. New York Review of Books. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Follow “”. Get every new post delivered to your Inbox. Build a website with WordPress.com.
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Meditations upon a national sport |
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A blog about literature, art, history, and philosophy. Meditations upon a national sport. A number of Think pieces have been appearing of late about the good old hockey game. In the April issue of the LRC. And have always sucked. Coincidentally with Dornan’s piece, the cover story of the June 2010 issue of. Not yet up online) is “Whose Game Is It? How undignified is it that our National Game, our Pride and Joy, our act of self-definition. On 15 July 2010 10:47 pm. What are you thinking about? You are com...
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JF Simard on the nationalism of accomodation |
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A blog about literature, art, history, and philosophy. JF Simard on the nationalism of accomodation. Rereading my post below about my review of Poliquin, I find it reads as though mine were the only piece in the April issue of the LRC. There’s quite a powerful piece by Christopher Moore. Ian Clark has a wonderfully clinical take-down of Howard Woodhouse’s. Selling Out: Academic Freedom and the Corporate Market. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Email (Address never made public). Create...
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Robert James Gordon Mitchell, 1925-2010 |
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A blog about literature, art, history, and philosophy. Robert James Gordon Mitchell, 1925-2010. My grandfather, Bob Mitchell, died on Saturday night. The interment took place on Thursday on Vancouver Island. The obituary appeared Friday in the Globe. I wrote the following poem as a tribute to a very fine man, whom his grandchildren called “Gramps” my brother Dave read it at the interment. You’re glad to reach the door. Before you knock,. It opens. Gramps was looking out for you. Now here’s a patriotic man.
