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A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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23 September 2024

Of Poets, Poetry, Politicians, and Parliament Hill

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Yet another gloriously sunny September weekend, I spent most of it stacking firewood in preparation for winter. The high point came early Sa...
07 April 2018

Thomas D'Arcy McGee: 150 Years

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He has gone from us, and it will be long ere we find such a happy mixture of eloquence and wisdom, wit and earnestness. His was no arti...
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15 June 2014

On Pearson's Pennant and Ezra Levant's Fiction

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"…a distinctive flag which will say to the future: I Stand for      Canada!" L.B. Pearson Ottawa: Liberal Federation of Can...
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06 October 2011

A Record That Speaks for Itself

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Election day in Ontario. If the pollsters are correct, the Liberals may just hold onto power – a near impossibility mere months ago. ...
26 August 2011

Carry On, Brith'ish Business Men!

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This second part of my review of W.G. MacKendrick's The Destiny of the British empire and The U.S.A. now appears, revised and rew...
28 October 2009

Politician Picks Playwright!

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The Greatest Englishman of History Arthur Meighen Toronto: S.B. Gundy/Oxford University Press, 1936 It's been eightee...
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Brian Busby
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
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