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"Around 1600, a shipwrecked English sailor named Andrew Battell fell into the hands of an African people known as the Jaga. Pushed out of their own central African homeland, the Jaga had been fighting their way southwards for decades, and had militarized their culture beyond even Spartan levels. … Read More >
From Saturday’s Globe and Mail
September 22, 2007 —
"CALGARY — Admit it – you’d love to see a federal election. Governments may be boring, but campaigning is so much fun. Sadly, this week’s Quebec by-elections make a quick call for a national vote much less likely. … Read More >
From Vol. 78, No. 8, October 2007 —
"Academic chit-chat has led to a forgotten Toronto-set novel being republished and given new scholarly consideration – it just took a while.
Twelve years ago, Dalhousie University history professor Suzanne Morton came across The Torontonians, by Ontario author Phyllis Brett Young. Published in … Read More >
From Vol. 78, No. 8, October 2007 —
"Harper’s Team is a lively and intriguing firsthand account of Stephen Harper’s rise to power, as well as a valuable historical document that does not pretend to be unbiased. With an infectious excitement about the process, Tom Flanagan, a University of … Read More >
"Win Wimbledon. Swim the English Channel. Walk in space. These three items could very well be on Richard Pound’s ever-dwindling To Do list. Chancellor of McGill, Chairman of the World Anti-doping Agency, partner in the Montreal law firm of Stikeman Elliott and a former Olympic swimmer, … Read More >
An abridged version of Rawi Hage’s recent review of Eid’s Being Arab from the Literary Review of Canada —
"I was at first reluctant to review Paul Eid’s Book Being Arab: Ethnic and Religious Identity Building among Second Generation Youth in Montreal because the book is a study of … Read More >
"Two new memoirs by Montreal survivors make important contributions to the Holocaust canon.
Hungarian-born Hermann Gruenwald’s After Auschwitz: One Man’s Story, as told to Bryan Demchinsky, business editor of the Montreal Gazette, is published by McGiull-Queen’s University Press, while Romanian native Yossi Indig self-published A … Read More >
From the Times Literary Review —
"In 1880, it was decided that the representative of government of Canada in London should be called a High Commissioner. As a result, Nigeria today sends a High Commissioner to New Delhi.
The High Commissioner was initially a business agent concerned with railway financing and … Read More >