John Ralston Saul

Authors at the Literary Review of Canada’s 25th anniversary gala reveal their most beloved literary figures

The philosopher and novelist takes our rapid-fire quiz and suffers no foolish questions

The portrait was paid for by the subject, writes Paul Wells

Christopher Moore reviews John Ralston Saul’s Lafontaine & Baldwin.

With a short introduction from yours truly, our excerpt of John Ralston Saul’s new book, Lafontaine & Baldwin, is now available online. The book is a fascinating and perhaps even important read, especially if, like yours truly, you were mostly unaware of the story.

Even John A. Macdonald would admit that these two guys are the ones who started it all

Today’s announcement of the new Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada’s Immigration System Act (when will the revolt against Overly Wordy and Politically Contrived Names for Acts commence?) is bound to be interpreted, naturally enough, as a bid by the government to crack down on human traffickers who prey on the dreams and desperation of people determined to come to Canada whatever it takes.

After years of toil in a grove in Provence, the former viceregal couple unveil a very fine oil

The Dominion Institute and The Historica Foundation of Canada merged to create Canada’s largest history and citizenship organization: The Historica-Dominion Institute. A reception was held in the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse in Toronto. Below is board member Rick Mercer.

 

 

Adrienne Clarkson is unimpressed.

Rudyard Griffiths, co-founder of the Dominion Institute, held the Toronto launch of his book, Who We Are: A Citizen’s Manifesto at Toronto’s Ultra Supper Club. According to the publisher, the book is “a passionate call for Canadians to take stock and reengage with our country and its values before we falter as a nation.”

“Moreover, when our Hurons go down to the Three Rivers or to Kebek to convey their Beaver skins there, although the whole length of the road is full of rapids and precipices, on which they are frequently wrecked, they nevertheless fear the dangers of water much less than those of fire. For every year the Iroquois now prepare new ambushes for them, and if they take them alive, they wreak on them all the cruelty of their tortures. And this evil is almost without remedy; for, besides the fact that when they are going to trade their furs, they are not equipped for war, the Iroquois now use firearms which they buy from the Flemings, who dwell on their Shores. A single discharge of fifty or sixty arquebuses would be sufficient to cause terror to a thousand Hurons who might be going down in company and make them the prey of a hostile Army lying in wait for them as they pass.”