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Blame Canada

Alla Myzelev (Guelph): Canadian Architecture and Nationalism: From Vernacular to Deco. From Just Labor, a special section on New Voices in Labour Studies, including Julia R. Woodhall and Alicja Muszynski (Waterloo): Fordism at Work in Canadian Coffee Shops. A mine in the Northwest Territories provided much of the uranium used during the Manhattan Project — unbeknownst to the indigenous people who worked there. David Johnston, Canada’s twenty-eighth Governor General, possesses impeccable credentials and old-fashioned charm — plus he is the government’s secret weapon in restoring the power of the monarchy. A review of Transnational Canadas: Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization by Kit Dobson. The Michael Ignatieff Experiment: The celebrity intellectual decamped from Harvard to join Canada’s political fray in what was supposed to be a sure rise to the top — what went wrong? Modest country, ambitious leader: There must always be working men, men to work with their hands, to be poor, to be industrious, to be unfortunate, to suffer; it is the will of God, and the destiny of the race. Do alternative weeklies have a future? Inside the recent upheaval at a Montreal media institution. An interview with with Richard Gwyn, author of Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times. Five years ago, Justin Ferbey helped his Yukon community become one of Canada’s few self-governing First Nations — that was the easy part. Why pioneers breed like rabbits: Families that colonized the Canadian frontier contributed more genetic material to the modern population than folks who stayed home. Montreal Is Burning: Arcade Fire’s meteoric rise changed a city and redefined a subculture. An article on Toronto as the worst sports city in the world. Pipeline Offence: How TransCanada Corporation changed the game for football fans in Nebraska. Blame Canada: Eric Andrew-Gee on the right-wing menace to our north.