Heroes & headlines: Using literature to understand current events

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Heroes & headlines: Using literature to understand current events

The books go first Premier Doug Ford’s problematic priorities for the people of Ontario. Angela Reitsma Bick This is always how it starts: the books go first. Every dictator, despot and sci-fi villain bans books right off the bat, because books carry ideas and ideas have power, and bad guys never want to share the […]