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What you may have missed this week at MQUP
U.S. officials accuse Tories of leaking Omar Khadr documents
The Merger Delusion
What else?
Why books bloggers are harming literature
Why book bloggers are critical to literary criticism
HTML5, EPUB 3, … Read More >
The following is excerpted from the upcoming The Merger Delusion: How Swallowing Its Suburbs Made an Even Bigger Mess of Montreal by Peter F. Trent.
And, indeed, this book
is not just about the City of Westmount, my Camelot lost and mostly
regained. Nor is it just about the formation, the reformation, … Read More >
Mary Anne O’Neil, author of From Babel to Pentecost, is today’s guest blogger.
The most prolific
and versatile poet of the mid-twentieth century, Pierre Emmanuel composed verse
for five decades (1938-1984) in an astonishing array of forms, from epics and
love sonnets to patriotic hymn and prayers on subjects as varied as erotic love,
Catholic … Read More >
The following is excerpted from The Star article U.S. officials accuse Tories of leaking Omar Khadr documents
OTTAWA—United States administration officials accuse the federal Conservative government of leaking classified documents about Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr, saying they “are astonished” by the apparent breach.
Maclean’s magazine published a “world exclusive” story this week saying its writer viewed … Read More >
To mark Glenn Gould's 80th birthday, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is having an anniversary concert including a lecture by Georges Leroux, author of Partita for Glenn Gould.
Glenn Gould was a giant of twentieth-century classical music, but one whose … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Guantanamo prisoner held despite being cleared for release
CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid
Foreign aid: More of the same?
Stephen Brown discusses CICA on Radio Canada International
Motivational Dimensions
Omar Khadr, Oh Canada: Vancouver book launch
Author … Read More >
The following is excerpted from the Globe & Mail article The ‘undecided’ can make or break a party
Quebec’s two major polling firms, CROP and Leger Marketing, underestimated Liberal support by five and four points, respectively, because they distributed the undecided proportionally to the decided, even though undecided voters tend to vote for the Liberals.
During … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Stephen Brown's op-ed Foreign aid: More of the same? Stephen Brown is the editor of the recently released Struggling for Effectiveness: CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid
Canada's contributions to reducing global poverty are rarely a priority topic for debate in the House of Commons. Foreign aid is an important tool … Read More >
Stephen Brown, editor of Struggling for Effectiveness: CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid, will be on CBC radio tomorrow morning!
Presenting a range of work by scholars and practitioners, Struggling for Effectiveness offers the most comprehensive examination of CIDA's efforts in over a decade. Contributors … Read More >
The following was excerpted from The Salon article Guantanamo prisoner’s tragic letter: Adnan Latif suffered at the hands of the U.S. government in ways that most people can't begin to comprehend
Adnan Latif was found dead in his cell on September 10, 2012, just a day before the eleventh anniversary of 9/11. He was 32. … Read More >