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Open Book: In Ice War Diplomat: Hockey Meets Cold War Politics at the 1972 Summit Series, Gary J. Smith offers behind-the-scenes stories about meetings that allowed the series to happen as well as the often-extraordinary efforts that were needed to sustain it.
Fiction Feature: A young boy in the 1930s has trouble deciding what to give his family for Christmas. He is inspired by his sister to create a handmade gift, but Davy puts his own spin on it.
For a time it had seemed that the only Canadian woman to be officially appointed as a war artist during World War II might not make it overseas at all.
Book Review: James Daschuk’s much-heralded Clearing the Plains is an intricate and well-crafted examination of the historical role of food and disease in the life of First Nations of Western Canada. In a strong first chapter, Daschuk dispenses notions that indigenous sickness and starvation were “new” while gesturing to food security and political autonomy as reasons why these communities flourished for centuries before European contact.
