Ian Mcintyre

A death greatly exaggerated

  • The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World

    John Ralston Saul

    Atlantic Books, pp. 309

‘Canada,’ wrote the Toronto journalist Michael Valpy, ‘is the only country in the world where you can buy a book on federal-provincial relations at an airport.’ Things are looking up. Travellers eager to broaden their horizons can now curl up with this extended disquisition on globalisation by the consort of Canada’s outgoing Governor-General.

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