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Walls
I chose this gritty template for Canadian Writers Abroad because during ten years of living outside of Canada I found that I took pictures of walls as much as scenery. I mean not only the walls that...
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Exploration and Empire
For the past two Monday evenings I have fallen asleep in front of the BBC program “Empire.” During “Making Ourselves at Home,” on March 5, host Jeremy Paxman went to various countries of the empire,...
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Place and the Blues
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs. Dempster began at 5:58 o’clock p.m. on the 27th of December, 1908, at which time I was ten year and seven months old. I am able to date the occasion with complete...
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Hot
This is the hottest day in London so far this summer, or in the last seven years. But you know what? Somewhere else in the world it is hotter. Like Ontario. Or Somalia. Here is an excerpt from Margaret...
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The song “Home on the Range” turns up in Isabel Huggan’s essay, “Someday You’ll Be Sorry” in her award-winning collection, Belonging. The song is mentioned as one of several that Huggan’s mother chose...
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Collapse of a Country: A Diplomat’s Memoir of South Sudan, by Nicholas Coghlan (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017) Reviewed by Douglas Scott Proudfoot My former colleague, Nick Coghlan, was in the...
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