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Excerpted from The Montreal Review of Books' The Mile End Café feature "Too Sexy for the Canon" by Peter Dubé.
There are ways in which biographies, interesting ones at any rate, act as reference points; for better or worse, they turn a … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP
Interview with Sean Mills, author of The Empire Within (French video)
In honour of the late Jack Layton
Plato never believed in platonic love
Georges and Pauline Vanier: Portrait of a Couple
This Was My Brother
What else?
Marginalia: … Read More >
Few figures have had as lasting an influence on Canadian institutions, history, politics, and culture as Georges and Pauline Vanier. Georges (1888-1967), a decorated military officer, became a professional diplomat, the first Canadian ambassador to France, and the first French-Canadian governor general of Canada. Pauline (1898-1991), a respected humanitarian, Privy Council member, and university chancellor, … Read More >
Plato never believed in platonic love, according to an academic who has unlocked the secret codes of the ancient Greek philosopher’s writing.
Despite giving his name to the notion that spiritual love without sex is the highest form of romance, Plato in fact celebrated eroticism and advocated a middle path, avoiding … Read More >
“Courage my friends, ‘tis never too late to build a better world.” This optimistic exhortation was given to us by “The Greatest Canadian” (in a CBC contest), Tommy Douglas, and it hangs on the wall of my parliamentary office.
Is this the statement of an idealist? Although Douglas would have said he was not a philosopher, … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP
John Glassco: A legend of his own creation
Alan Jarvis sculpts Peter Ustinov
Bethune Confronts the Horrors of the Spanish Civil War – a book excerpt
Symbols Matter – Canadian Forces Edition
How does civilization produce genocides?
What … Read More >
Excerpted from The Globe and Mail article “A legend of his own creation” by Keith Garebian.
In middle age, he was a martini-sipping, balding dandy who was really a self-transforming fabulist with an elegant literary style, an English writer from Quebec who claimed to have written the acclaimed Memoirs of Montparnasse … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP…
New website for Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune
Government's shifting role
Flawed Beauty in the Gemstones Business
On Canadian cuisine: a recipe for a terrible day
What else?
Bringing brings books to the homeless – by … Read More >
Excerpted from The Toronto Star article “Is less really more when it comes to government?” by Olivia Ward.
“When you look at Canada and the U.S., it isn’t that government is getting smaller, but it’s doing different things,” says economics professor Thomas Naylor of McGill University. “Instead of redistributing … Read More >
Authors Roderick and Sharon Stewart have unveiled a new website about their recently released biography Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune.
The new website houses a collection of photography relating to the research and development of Phoenix, a video library of Phoenix related events as … Read More >