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Citizens of Nowhere

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Every night in Canada, tens of thousands of people sleep outside in one of the coldest climates on earth. They sleep in doorways and ravines, in encampments along riverbeds, in shelters built for emergencies that have become permanent addresses. They are not there because of who they are. They are there because of what we decided.Citizens of Nowhere is a reckoning with one of the most ... Read more

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Every night in Canada, tens of thousands of people sleep outside in one of the coldest climates on earth. They sleep in doorways and ravines, in encampments along riverbeds, in shelters built for emergencies that have become permanent addresses. They are not there because of who they are. They are there because of what we decided.Citizens of Nowhere is a reckoning with one of the most
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The Unravelling

What Canada Lost Along the Way

by Glen Pearson ...

The Unravelling is the story of how Canada made a covenant with its people — and how, over four decades of deliberate political choices dressed as economic necessities, that covenant was broken. Glen Pearson, who grew up in post-war Canada and watched the entire arc unfold in real time, tells this story with the moral seriousness it deserves: tracing the extraordinary post-war achievement of the ... Read more

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The Unravelling is the story of how Canada made a covenant with its people — and how, over four decades of deliberate political choices dressed as economic necessities, that covenant was broken. Glen Pearson, who grew up in post-war Canada and watched the entire arc unfold in real time, tells this story with the moral seriousness it deserves: tracing the extraordinary post-war achievement of the
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The Art of Disappearing

by Glen Pearson ...

When Nora Calloway pays eleven euros for a small oil painting at a Paris flea market — a woman in a yellow dress, her back to the viewer, standing on a Montmartre balcony — she has no idea she is standing at the edge of a sixty-year mystery.The painting, it turns out, may be the work of Yasmine Bouchard: an Algerian-French painter who exhibited twice in Paris in the 1960s to near-total silence, ... Read more

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When Nora Calloway pays eleven euros for a small oil painting at a Paris flea market — a woman in a yellow dress, her back to the viewer, standing on a Montmartre balcony — she has no idea she is standing at the edge of a sixty-year mystery.The painting, it turns out, may be the work of Yasmine Bouchard: an Algerian-French painter who exhibited twice in Paris in the 1960s to near-total silence,
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The Last Signal

by Glen Pearson ...

Dan Costain has built a company worth billions by connecting the world. Synapse reaches two billion people across 190 countries. He has sat in the Oval Office. He has never been unreachable. Then his mother disappears. Donna Costain, 75, has spent twenty-two years working in one of the most remote regions of South Sudan — a place her son has never visited, a life he has never fully understood. ... Read more

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Dan Costain has built a company worth billions by connecting the world. Synapse reaches two billion people across 190 countries. He has sat in the Oval Office. He has never been unreachable. Then his mother disappears. Donna Costain, 75, has spent twenty-two years working in one of the most remote regions of South Sudan — a place her son has never visited, a life he has never fully understood.
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A Future to Build

Canada in the 21st Century

by Glen Pearson ...

Across the essays that follow, there will be proposals foreconomic reform, institutional redesign, democratic innova‐tion, and civic repair. But more than that, there’s an ethic - asense that we cannot build a better Canada without firstbelieving we are still capable of shared purpose.The time is right for this conversation. The global contextdemands it. Democracies around the world are being ... Read more

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Across the essays that follow, there will be proposals foreconomic reform, institutional redesign, democratic innova‐tion, and civic repair. But more than that, there’s an ethic - asense that we cannot build a better Canada without firstbelieving we are still capable of shared purpose.The time is right for this conversation. The global contextdemands it. Democracies around the world are being
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The Line Between Us

by Glen Pearson ...

The towns of Brooke and Haven had co-existed spanning the U.S. - Canada border at Waterton Lake since the early-1800s. The geographical line between was largely indistinguishable in their daily lives, commerce, and social bonds. They had fought wars side-by-side, shopped and worshipped in the same places, and viewed themselves as loyal neighbours.With Donald Trump's election, an almost ... Read more

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The towns of Brooke and Haven had co-existed spanning the U.S. - Canada border at Waterton Lake since the early-1800s. The geographical line between was largely indistinguishable in their daily lives, commerce, and social bonds. They had fought wars side-by-side, shopped and worshipped in the same places, and viewed themselves as loyal neighbours.With Donald Trump's election, an almost
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The Painter's Wounds

by Glen Pearson ...

Virginia Hadley returns to her home in MackinacIsland, suffering from a serious case of PTSD after herhelicopter crashes in Afghanistan. With her parentsin a senior's facility and her life in shambles, she turnsto the painter's canvas once more in search ofhealing.In a remarkable journey involving Sam, an Iraq Warveteran, the island's famous art gallery, the healing ofnature, and the unexpected ... Read more

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Virginia Hadley returns to her home in MackinacIsland, suffering from a serious case of PTSD after herhelicopter crashes in Afghanistan. With her parentsin a senior's facility and her life in shambles, she turnsto the painter's canvas once more in search ofhealing.In a remarkable journey involving Sam, an Iraq Warveteran, the island's famous art gallery, the healing ofnature, and the unexpected
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Liberalism

Studies in Liberalism's Challenge For a New Age

by Glen Pearson ...

As a former member of parliament and a long-time community activist, Glen Pearson brings his experiences to the subject of liberalism and why its vitality is so necessary in modern democratic life. Democracy will become a shell of its former self if the liberal concepts of progressiveness and community can no longer be expanded in the public space. ... Read more

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As a former member of parliament and a long-time community activist, Glen Pearson brings his experiences to the subject of liberalism and why its vitality is so necessary in modern democratic life. Democracy will become a shell of its former self if the liberal concepts of progressiveness and community can no longer be expanded in the public space.
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The Custodians

How Memory Survives Power

by Glen Pearson ...

What happens when a nation begins to forget who it is—and a few quiet people refuse to let that happen?At the centre of this novel is Alexander Thorne, the principled Librarian of the United States Congress, a man shaped by faith, discipline, and an unspoken devotion to history. When a populist administration turns its attention toward erasing inconvenient records and undermining America’s ... Read more

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What happens when a nation begins to forget who it is—and a few quiet people refuse to let that happen?At the centre of this novel is Alexander Thorne, the principled Librarian of the United States Congress, a man shaped by faith, discipline, and an unspoken devotion to history. When a populist administration turns its attention toward erasing inconvenient records and undermining America’s
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Slack Water

by Glen Pearson ...

Hester and Ned Vaughan have been married thirteen months, and for eight of them, Ned has been drowning in plain sight.He came home from the sinking of HMS Courageous unmarked by any wound a doctor could name — no burn, no break, nothing to show for the twenty minutes it took to lose five hundred and nineteen men. But something in him did not come back. He washes at the kitchen sink because he ... Read more

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Hester and Ned Vaughan have been married thirteen months, and for eight of them, Ned has been drowning in plain sight.He came home from the sinking of HMS Courageous unmarked by any wound a doctor could name — no burn, no break, nothing to show for the twenty minutes it took to lose five hundred and nineteen men. But something in him did not come back. He washes at the kitchen sink because he
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Decency

The Quiet Heart of Canadians

by Glen Pearson ...

What does it mean to be a Canadian? What binds communities together, sustains institutions, and preserves the moral integrity of a nation? Decency: The Quiet Heart of Canadian Citizens offers a profound answer: it is decency - the disciplined practice of fairness, care, honesty, and courage.Drawing on centuries of Canadian history, from Indigenous governance and early settlement to modern civic ... Read more

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What does it mean to be a Canadian? What binds communities together, sustains institutions, and preserves the moral integrity of a nation? Decency: The Quiet Heart of Canadian Citizens offers a profound answer: it is decency - the disciplined practice of fairness, care, honesty, and courage.Drawing on centuries of Canadian history, from Indigenous governance and early settlement to modern civic
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The Forge and the Velvet Trap

How Catastrophie Bilds Civilizations - and How Comfort Undoes Them

by Glen Pearson ...

In the spring of 1945, the survivors of the Depression and two world wars sat down and built a world. The welfare state. The United Nations. The Marshall Plan. NATO. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the space of five extraordinary years, a generation educated by catastrophe produced the most ambitious and durable institutional architecture in human history. They built it because they ... Read more

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In the spring of 1945, the survivors of the Depression and two world wars sat down and built a world. The welfare state. The United Nations. The Marshall Plan. NATO. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the space of five extraordinary years, a generation educated by catastrophe produced the most ambitious and durable institutional architecture in human history. They built it because they
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