Shelter from the Storm
Fathers and sons, architecture as refuge, and a family’s great loss
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Sanity Found
The rapture and regret of leaving Ottawa: part three of Politics as Unusual a memoir
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Darkness Visible
Ego, ambition, lost souls, and nailing the Opposition in Ottawa: part two of Politics as Unusual a memoir
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A Legend is Born
Part one of Politics as Unusual a memoir
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Test of the Heart
This is the story of a heart operation. It’s also the story of a marriage.
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Through Darkness and Light
Exhuming the ghosts of war in England and Greenland
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I have never been to the Arctic—Canadian, Siberian, or any other northern region now being contested because there is something there that non-indigenous populations want, feel entitled to, and, yes, …
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Oasis of Hope
Love, sex, and a mid-life crisis at a Tijuana cancer clinic
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We Want a Black Poem
In search of an interview with James Baldwin, a young Canadian immigrant experiences the intensity of Harlem in the 1960s—and ultimately finds Malcolm X
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Ringo’s Drum Roll
(or, lessons in living on a modest talent)
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