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Poet P.K. Page a role model for women

By Daniel Drolet Sandra Djwa, author of a new biography of P.K. Page, says the Canadian poet is a role model for any young woman contemplating a career in literature. Years before it was fashionable or even common, Page created for herself a...

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First World War shaped values of Canadian children: author

Susan Fisher says writing Boys and Girls in No Man’s Land: English-Canadian Children and the First World War had an unexpected personal benefit: It helped her understand the world in which her parents grew up. Fisher, whose book has won this year’s...

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Humanities in peril/at work

Jean-Marc Mangin Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences There is a well known discourse that humanities are less relevant and a luxury in a globalized, violent and competitive world to prepare young minds to the dog-eat-dog...

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Redeveloping balance: Women after workplace bullying

Elsie Hambrook Guest Contributor Recently, researchers at the University of New Brunswick interviewed 36 women from Atlantic Canada who had been bullied in the workplace. What they learned is surprising. The researchers’ main conclusions, published...