Literary Review of Canada

George Anderson has served as deputy minister for intergovernmental affairs, as well as for natural resources. Dan Dunsky is the founder of Dunsky Insight. Graham Fraser is the author of René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power. Keith Garebian recently wrote his autobiography, Pieces of My Self. Dave Hazzan is pursuing a doctorate in history at York University. Shannon Hengen is a literary critic in Regina. Michael W. Higgins is a Basilian Distinguished Fellow of Contemporary Catholic Thought at the University of Toronto’s St. Michael’s College. Mary Hunter is an art historian in Montreal and the author of The Face of Medicine. Ruth Jones is one of the magazine’s contributing editors. Richard Joseph is working on his doctorate in English literature at McGill University. Michael Ledger-Lomas is a historian of religion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and a…

George Anderson has served as deputy minister for intergovernmental affairs, as well as for natural resources. Dan Dunsky is the founder of Dunsky Insight. Graham Fraser is the author of René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power. Keith Garebian recently wrote his autobiography, Pieces of My Self. Dave Hazzan is pursuing a doctorate in history at York University. Shannon Hengen is a literary critic in Regina. Michael W. Higgins is a Basilian Distinguished Fellow of Contemporary Catholic Thought at the University of Toronto’s St. Michael’s College. Mary Hunter is an art historian in Montreal and the author of The Face of Medicine. Ruth Jones is one of the magazine’s contributing editors. Richard Joseph is working on his doctorate in English literature at McGill University. Michael Ledger-Lomas is a historian of religion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and a visiting…

PRINCESS ELIZABETH FIRST APPEARED on a Canadian stamp on May 4, 1935, the same day that her father, the Duke of York, not yet the heir apparent, appeared on one of his own. Both stamps, part of a series of six to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of King George V’s ascension to the throne, were designed by Herman Herbert Schwartz, the Nova Scotian who is perhaps best known for his iconic fifty cent Bluenose stamp from 1929. As a princess, Elizabeth graced three additional Canadian stamps before her own ascension to the throne on February 6, 1952, after which she would feature on more than seventy as a queen. Canada Post honoured Elizabeth’s grandson Prince William for the first time in April 2011, two weeks before his wedding to Catherine Middleton.…

PRINCESS ELIZABETH FIRST APPEARED on a Canadian stamp on May 4, 1935, the same day that her father, the Duke of York, not yet the heir apparent, appeared on one of his own. Both stamps, part of a series of six to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of King George V’s ascension to the throne, were designed by Herman Herbert Schwartz, the Nova Scotian who is perhaps best known for his iconic fifty cent Bluenose stamp from 1929. As a princess, Elizabeth graced three additional Canadian stamps before her own ascension to the throne on February 6, 1952, after which she would feature on more than seventy as a queen. Canada Post honoured Elizabeth’s grandson Prince William for the first time in April 2011, two weeks before his wedding to Catherine…

RE: Here Be Dragons by Ron Graham (May) RON GRAHAM’S REVIEW OF BILL MORNEAU’S WHERE to from Here: A Path to Canadian Prosperity is so sharp I wore my chain mail to read it. Graham has perceived the principal actors in a Parliament Hill drama and rendered them powerfully in black and white. Morneau may have taken pride “in his ability to build close relationships”—with such luminaries as Steve Mnuchin and Michael Milken and top finance officials in China and Saudi Arabia—but as finance minister he invested nothing in cultivating relationships within the Liberal caucus or with those whom, one is driven to conclude, he perceived to be beneath him. Often, superstar political candidates don’t understand where real power comes from in a democracy: from the base, not from the top. Joel Henderson RE: Poll Focus by…

RE: Here Be Dragons by Ron Graham (May) RON GRAHAM’S REVIEW OF BILL MORNEAU’S WHERE to from Here: A Path to Canadian Prosperity is so sharp I wore my chain mail to read it. Graham has perceived the principal actors in a Parliament Hill drama and rendered them powerfully in black and white. Morneau may have taken pride “in his ability to build close relationships”—with such luminaries as Steve Mnuchin and Michael Milken and top finance officials in China and Saudi Arabia—but as finance minister he invested nothing in cultivating relationships within the Liberal caucus or with those whom, one is driven to conclude, he perceived to be beneath him. Often, superstar political candidates don’t understand where real power comes from in a democracy: from the base, not from the…