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  • Citizens of Nowhere

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    Every night in Canada, tens of thousands of people sleep outside in one of the coldest climates on earth. They sleep in doorways and ravines, in encampments along riverbeds, in shelters built for emergencies that have become permanent addresses. They are not there because of who they are. They are there because of what we decided.Citizens of Nowhere is a reckoning with one of the most ... Leer más

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  • The Same Stones

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    Elizabeth Fraser came to Canada from Edinburgh in 1944 and never went back. She raised two daughters, arranged the flowers at the United Church, made the leek soup, and kept, for sixty years, an absolute silence about everything that had come before. Her daughters did not know her parents' names. They did not know she had worked in a munitions factory during the war. They did not know she had a ... Leer más

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  • The Unravelling

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    The Unravelling is the story of how Canada made a covenant with its people — and how, over four decades of deliberate political choices dressed as economic necessities, that covenant was broken. Glen Pearson, who grew up in post-war Canada and watched the entire arc unfold in real time, tells this story with the moral seriousness it deserves: tracing the extraordinary post-war achievement of the ... Leer más

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