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What happens when political debates escalate into a culture of arguments, attack ads, and anonymous Internet assaults? A Parliament effectively shut — and shouted — down
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Writer, literary activist, public intellectual, John Ralston Saul is, not accidentally, both a man of the world and an articulate proponent of values he thinks are quintessentially Canadian
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Higher Learning
by Jessa Gamble
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One of the world’s great puppeteers finds renewal — for himself and his art form — in mentorship
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