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Randy Boyagoda
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When the Pope Came to Canada
One year ago, Pope Francis visited Canada to apologize for residential schools. What difference did the trip actually make?
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Summer Service
Every year, Sri Lankan Catholics from all over make a pilgrimage to Ontario’s cottage country
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The life and times of Richard John Neuhaus
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The World According to Škvorecký
With his new novel, the Czech Canadian dissident returns to his past
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How to Get a Head
The birth of a dough boy
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One Hundred Years at Forty
Gabriel García Márquez’s sumptuous and tragic vision of the modern world
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In Paris with Mavis Gallant, Writer
Canada’s great exiled storyteller defies categories and remains an enigma
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