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In Franklin’s wake PAGE 10 $6.50 Vol. 24, No. 1 January/February 2016 Hugh Segal The future of the Senate How to rejuvenate a torpid chamber ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Jake MacDonald Beaver tales Martin Laflamme Gehry at play Paul Knox Newsprint’s Waterloo PLUS: NON-FICTION Michael Fenn on public-private partnerships + Daniel Joseph on the digital underclass + Valerie Knowles on railroad dreams + Ivor Tossell on civic disobedience + Stuart Thomson on Buck 65 + Michael Dawe on borders and the wild West FICTION Publications Mail Agreement #40032362 Ann Walsmley on Lawrence Hill’s The Illegal + Susan Walker on Dianne Warren’s Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to LRC, Circulation Dept. 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Volume 6 Honorer la vérité, réconcilier pour l’avenir : Sommaire du rapport final de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada McGI L L -QUE E N’S U N I V E R S I TY PR E S S mqup.ca Follow us on Facebook.com/McGillQueens and Twitter.com/Scholarmqup Literary Review of Canada 170 Bloor Street West, Suite 706 Toronto ON M5S 1T9 email: [email protected] reviewcanada.ca T: 416-531-1483 • F: 416-531-1612 Charitable number: 848431490RR0001 Vol. 24, No. 1 • January/February 2016 To donate, visit reviewcanada.ca/support INTERIM EDITOR Mark Lovewell 3 The Pelt Belt 17 Sonnenizio on the Unseen [email protected] A review of Once They Were Hats: In Search of A poem MANAGING EDITOR Michael Stevens the Mighty Beaver, by Frances Backhouse, and Maureen Hynes Beaver, by Rachel Poliquin CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 18 Run, Keita, Run Mohamed Huque, Molly Peacock, Robin Jake MacDonald A review of The Illegal, by Lawrence Hill Roger, Anthony Westell 6 Paper Hanging Ann Walmsley ASSOCIATE EDITOR Judy Stoffman A review of Mass Disruption: Thirty Years on 19 Saskatchewan Journey the Front Lines of a Media Revolution, by John POETRY EDITOR A review of Liberty Street, by Dianne Warren Moira MacDougall Stackhouse, and Crash to Paywall: Canadian Susan Walker Newspapers and the Great Disruption, by Brian COPY EDITOR Madeline Koch Gorman 20 Golden Routes Paul Knox A review of Canadian Pacific: The Golden Age ONLINE EDITORS Diana Kuprel, Jack Mitchell, 8 They’re Still Missing of Travel, by Barry Lane Donald Rickerd, C.M. 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Segal DESIGN 10 Flotsam & Jetsam 24 Kooks and Cretins James Harbeck A review of Franklin’s Lost Ship: The Historic A review of Mayors Gone Bad, by Philip Slayton ADVERTISING/SALES Discovery of HMS Erebus, by John Geiger and Ivor Tossell Michael Wile [email protected] Alanna Mitchell 25 Portrait of a Young Buck Adriana Craciun DIRECTOR, SPECIAL PROJECTS A review of Wicked and Weird: The Amazing Michael Booth 13 Serfing the Net Tales of Buck 65, by Rich Terfry PRODUCER A review of Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in Stuart Thomson Harrison Lowman the Digital Vortex, by Nick Dyer-Witheford 26 Starchitect Saga MARKETING COORDINATOR Daniel Joseph Samantha Dewaele A review of Building Art: The Life and Work Government Inc. of Frank Gehry, by Paul Goldberger, and Frank ADMINISTRATOR 14 Tavia Fedoruk A review of Purchase for Profit: Public-Private Gehry, edited by Aurélien Lemonier and Frédéric PUBLISHER Partnerships and Canada’s Public Health Care Migayrou Helen Walsh System, by Heather Whiteside Martin Laflamme [email protected] Michael Fenn 29 Cross-Border Cowboy BOARD OF DIRECTORS Tom Kierans, O.C., Don McCutchan, Tides A review of The Cowboy Legend: Owen 16 Jack Mintz, C.M., Trina McQueen, O.C. 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