What an aging society will mean for inequality, inflation
A labour shortage will reduce income inequality. But inflation will trend higher
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Category: Books
Windsor bookstore’s highly successful venture into publishing
Biblioasis has recently released two new books, one on baseball, the other on the origins of Covid
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The assassination of Sir Henry Wilson Ireland’s Sarajevo?
Regardless of the British reaction to Wilson’s death, the Irish civil war was likely to happen
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Richard Nixon’s California embarrassment
How did a man with one of the highest profiles in American politics – someone who’d just come within a hairsbreadth of winning the presidency in 1960 – flop so badly in 1962?
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The legend of King Arthur is a gift that keeps on giving
Although it may be a fabrication, the story has powerful resonance
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What path should the Conservatives take?
The battle between Convoy Conservatives and Club Conservatives has led to a ‘new divide’ between people and elites
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Remembering the great comics of yesteryear
When it comes to favourite humour comics, my list is exhaustive. Each strip was a work of art
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Canada’s Fenian years featured some interesting personalities
A plotter, a spy with an overactive libido and a three-time attempted invader all called themselves Fenians
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Some ‘Christians’ deserve our anger and contempt
But filtering our anger through our spirituality becomes a powerful force for good
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Fenians used Canada as an Irish revolutionary pawn
There were five failed armed Fenian incursions into Canada between 1866 and 1871
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Hereditary empires and the struggle with modernity
Hereditary dynasties could not survive the industrial revolution. Well, except for one
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Are we seeing the destruction of democratic capitalism?
More than 100 years after H.G. Wells forecast big changes in the world order, the tide is turning
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